Local notes highlight servicemen and community life in Pella
Lt Billy Core, formerly at Central now in Knoxville, spoke to the Rotary about Pacific bombing preparations. Local residents share Memorial Day visits, surgeries, marriages, and wartime service updates, including the return of Gene Wormhoudt from the Pacific and Sgt John Vander Ploeg arriving in the States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Core
Central
Knoxville
Billy
Nick Vander Ploeg
Sgt
John
Bud
Vander Ploeg
States
County board claims for livestock losses in 1944
County boards across the Towns paid 191,302 dollars in claims for losses from stray dogs wolves and similar predatory animals in 1944. Gilta or sows bred for fall farrowing should be separated from fattening hogs. If possible they should graze on legume pastures and be hand fed to control weight.
Acquaint Yourself With Your Vacuum Cleaner
A user guide explains testing brush height adjusting belts and seals. It advises holding the cleaner nozzle up testing with cardboard to check bristle clearance and emphasizes proper belt care and safe handling to preserve components.
Frost Harmed Early Potatoes Only a Little
In Ames expert Prof Fitch reports frost damage to early potatoes is limited. He notes that freezing down mainly reduces crop when plants are small or late and that fully closed rows with moist ground protect beneath leaves from freezing to 24 degrees F, sparing larger plants from frost injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. van Niewaal
Pella Prour
C. L. Fiteh
Istant Sion
Ames
Athority
Prof. Fitch
Commencement Honors Granted Amid Soldier Enlistments
Sixteen seniors earned degrees and twelve two year graduates received certificates while fifty five class members who joined four years ago serve in the armed forces. Three honorary degrees were awarded to Dr George Baitsell Cherick Hansen and Dr Irwin J Lubbers. The event closed with a luncheon and musical tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Simmelink
Amy Kell
Anna Ruth Roorda
Marcia Ver Steeg
George Baitsell
Cherick Hansen
W. T. Grant Company
New York City
Irwin J. Lubbers
Central College
Hope College
Holland
Michigan
Jordan Hall
Lubbers
Lnellie
Central College to Lose Dr Irwin Lubbers as President
After eleven years at Central College in Pella, Dr Irwin Lubbers is resigning to become president of Hope College in Holland Michigan. Trustees praised his leadership guiding endowment, enrollment, and campus building campaigns. He will depart August 1 and the board awarded him a Doctor of Laws degree, with plans to continue support for Central College and the Reformed Church education mission.
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Jhout
Cen- College
Collesce
Central College
Irwin de Lubbers
Col Lege
Hope College
Holland
Michigan
Manf
Prustees
Lubbers
Dr. Lubbers
Tayder
Cetral
Reformed Church In
America
Gail
Church Herald
der Mitarbeiter
Pell Chronicle
RJ. Vanden Berg
Board of ‘Trusstees
Central Coltege
Wisconsin
India
Mulder
National Committee On Christian
Association of American Colleges
R. J. Vanden Berg
A. Haverkamp
George Guass
Associated Press
Irwin Lubbers
Hope Vilege
Ehuul
Lubbeca
Ceres
Central
Board of Trustees
Willard Dayton Brown
Board of Education of the Reformed Church In America
Irwin J. Lub
Seeprinlianeen Oe Press
Wide Machines Help in Corn Cultivation Time
The article discusses wide cultivators and hoes for corn, noting how two cultivations after weeding can control weeds and save labor. It covers crust breaking issues, timing as corn reaches about six leaves, and using sweep shovels if soil crusts hinder passage. It also mentions two-cultivation strategies and a nod to investing bonds as future planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fares Caer
Pere Maly
Stan
Tye
Tom
Hagersen
Savion
Santstines
Owl
Tee Tits
Ahern
Ives
Safetygram On U S Disasters Affects Building Safety
The note argues major U S catastrophes since 1865 killed fewer than 25 000 people yet public fear rises with sensational headlines. It cites the Boston nightclub blaze in 1942 as prompting a wave of inspections leading to fire taps removal and safer buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago
Galveston
Boston
142
Personal Safety Campaign Urged By Fred Braun
The piece notes a high toll from everyday accidents with 90 000 to 100 000 deaths annually and 94 000 deaths in a year noted as 194th. It urges readers to start a Personal Safety Campaign to drive carefully and protect life and health. The text also comments on the Safety Language masking thought and a domestic dispute reference involving a husband and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oth
Fred Braun
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