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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1962
Page
3
An 8th graders and 7th graders received letters at a Webster building pot luck. Max Vander Pol hosted as toastmaster. Coach Sabus handed out awards to Dutch names among the junior high players and listed the letter recipients amid a busy school social scene.
Twenty years ago in Pella May events featured Princess Juliana visit and Central College commencement. Local nominations for theater awards, a canning plant job plan, a music festival at the high school, a fire camp cabin project, and personnel moves including Par-dekooper and Ver Steeg families are noted along with marriages and a senior class reception.
Forty years ago the canning factory planned pumpkins and sworn. The Women’s Federated Club elected new officers: President Mrs Dick P Van Gorp Vice President Mrs Jas V Lankelma Treasurer Mrs G H Waechter and Mrs Veda McKinney as Secretaries. The club spent 363 dollars for a pergola in South Park. Jake Swank family near Pel la suffered food poisoning from wienerwash but all recovered. Mrs Dan Hoogensicker and children visited relatives in Des Moines. Miss Jane Gosselink visited Leighton. Miss Dena Ver-Steeg wrote about the Shakespeare Dickens Sophomore English class picnic. Central Park improvement work progressed with walks completed and bandstand near start. Beatrice Spyker and Dr John B Synhorst engagement announced. Director Crawford of the school band had a parade to show townspeople their talents.
The report lists civic aims including eradicating a weed and installing a drinking fountain for horses at the southeast square corner. It notes Frank De Wit visiting Prairie City, Bernie Vander Lind earning a pharmacy certificate, a buggy accident with minor injuries, Martin De Wit starting barber work, Rene Vanser Linden and Ray moving to Pella, a cement crossing project, and men’s shoe prices from three to five dollars.
A May 17 open house in Leighton showcases the new brick school built on the former Henry Rempe Farm with four classrooms modern heating lighting and facilities. The event marks Leighton’s transition from older school sites to the present structure completed after 1959, with guides available from 7 to 9 am and coffee served.
Five Central College students join a two day Weekend Conversation on Missions at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City Kansas. Sponsored by World Missions National Student Federation, the event connects attendees with mentors in church mission work. Attendees include Velma Spring Lake Carol Boerelyn Eugene Meerdink Arlan De Kock and Virgil Beukelman.
WM. VAN HOUWELING received a drain layers license as plans emerged for a dumping ground near the cemetery. A writer noted the uptown crossing lacked a gutter and warned gutters are costly and ineffective in heavy rain. TENPEOPLE bought cars from Star Auto Co. in 1912.
Mr and Mrs Walter Vander Leest announce the engagement of their daughter Sandra Kay to Daniel Royce Vandé Krol son of Mrs Edna Varide all of Bully Mrs Vander Leest is senior at Lynnville Sully high school Her fiancé a 1961 graduate of Lynnville Sully high school is now employed as a painter No date has been set for the wedding
The women of the Pella Classis of The Reformed Church visit Central College campus Tuesday for the 3 p.m. presentation of The New Pilgrim a religious play directed by Maurice Birdsall professor of speech and drama. A tea follows at 4 p.m. in Graham Hall.
Mrs. Frank Hill of Alia cultivates a collection exceeding 500 named African violet varieties and holds over 400 slips that will soon bloom into mature plants, highlighting a deep hobby in horticulture.
In a fragmentary OCR excerpt Leona Louw and Sophia Ann Swank appear. Florence mee nd wees delivers a prayer as a closing moment with a phrase about a holy life making the deepest impression. The text mentions houses and horns but lacks full context.
A radiologist explains arthritis, focusing on rheumatoid arthritis, its progression, sausage finger deformity, joints most affected, lack of a definitive cure, and the aim to bolster patient resistance and health with treatments like aspirin. The piece notes the unknown cause and the broad involvement of the body beyond joints.
President Ken Williams led the pledge at the Go-Getters May meeting as candidates for county offices were announced. A county wide youth party was set for May 14 at Hy-Vee Roller Rink. The program featured talks by Bill Moore on connecting a microphone to a radio and a discussion on rheumatoid arthritis and radiology.
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