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Newspaper

Pella Chronicle

Location

Pella, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1956

Page

9

Christian High Opens 1956 Basketball Season Friday

Christian High announces the 1956 basketball season opener with Monroe on Friday. The girls start with a full first unit and six returning players. The probable boys lineup includes Gordon Schultze at center, Stan Pethoven and Kenny Rouw at guard, Marion Van Seelen and Gerald Bos or Andy Bandstra at forward, Bandstra sidelined about three weeks with multiple injuries.

Monroe Gordon Schultze Stan Pethoven Kenny Rouw Marion van Seelen Gerald Bos Andy Bandstra

Senior Class Presents Comedy Sulphur and Molasses

Ned Albert's most successful play Sulphur and Molasses will be staged November 29 and 30 in Glenville. The Farweather family and Dr Crosby Benson figure in a humorous plot about medical quackery and local conflict. The cast includes Byron Bossenbroek Donna De Ruiter Janice Wielard Bill Nibbelink Irene Bosveld Rosalie Engbers Lola De Zwarte Arvin Vander Wilt Lavonne De Kock Bob De Jong Jean Beekhuizen Sharon Bakker and others.

Ned Albert Mr. Albert Lance Fairweather Byron Bossenbroek Irene Bosveld Fairweathers Malina Waters Rosalie Engbers Spratt Lola de Zwarte Jean Beekhuizen Dorothy Goodhue Sharon Bakker Dr. Benson

Familiar Scenes From a School Day

Readable fragments describe students Doris Ustermarkt and Janice Vander Wal begging candy from Clarence Vanden Heuvel at noon. Biology students collect leaves and insects while Kathryn Plate wears a chain on her ankle.

Doris Ustermarkt Janice Vander Wal Clarence Vanden Heuvel Kathryn Plate Gerry Veldhuizen Ron van Zemeren Mr. Kleinhuizen Ronald van Weelden Mr. Dieleman Bill Nibbelink Donna Blocker Bob de Ruiter Mr. Boertje Boat

Sick List Cards Two Students Absent From Classes

Ila Joyce Van Gorp has been ill for about six weeks with a fever from a virus infection and cannot attend school. Billie Van Ee has been laid up due to a car accident and is also unable to attend classes.

Ila Joyce van Gorp Billie van Ee

Choir Activities At Pella Church Rally Night

The choir led by Mr. Lloyd Kleinhuizen performed at the First Christian Reformed Church in Pella on October 26. They sang The Lord's Prayer Beautiful Savior and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God in a Reform rally setting.

Lloyd Kleinhuizen Pella First Christian Reformed Church

Senior Class Hay Ride Sees Cold Trip and Warm Ending

On October 25 1956 the Senior Class invited Juniors to a hay ride. Students met at 7 00 and left at 7 10 using four wagons and two tractors driven by Marion Van Soelen and Andy Bandstra both Seniors with Mr Weld house as chaperone. The group rode east of Pella to Peoria returned for a Wiener roast and hot chocolate and enjoyed the trip despite cold weather.

Marion van Soelen Andy Bandstra Mr. Weldhouse Pella Peoria

Chapel talk and school appeal at Christian High

A chapel program featured Rev. Elderaveld praising the privilege of attending Christian High School where God is discussed in every subject. The piece notes students should thank God daily and recalls a study hall moment when several girls rushed to seats just before the bell. The anecdote ends with a joking challenge to try for the hundred yard dash.

Elderaveld S Christian High School Tiedeli Barbara Ver Meer Geraldine Veldhuizen Sharon Bakker Mr. de Jong

Stock Show Opens Nov 23 In Chicago

Chicago Nov 2 The International Livestock Exposition and Horse Show opens November 23 at the amphitheatre yard complex, the continent largest show. More than 10 000 top farm animals compete for 100 000 in cash prizes with carcass judging and live auctions of prime beef pork and lamb carcasses on Tuesday November 27 before 10 000 spectators. Farm youth participate in the first two days as a national 4 H Livestock Judging Contest begins Friday.

Chicago

International Horse Show adds Royal Mounted Police Ride

November 28 and the Junior Livestock Feeding Contest will be held on November 24 with beef cattle exhibited by farm boys and girls. The Exposition's Collegiate Livestock Judging Contest will feature agricultural students testing their livestock judging skills. The International Horse Show will spotlight a world famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride with 86 riders in scarlet coats on matching black horses in 14 performances. New jumping courses promise added spectacle and color to each show.

Sale Army Farm Sully League Guernsey Massey-Harris Farm Machinery Massey-Harris Royal’ Canadian “Mounted Police Chicago

Iowa Second in Nation in Cash Receipts From Farming

Iowa again ranks second in the nation for cash receipts from farming in 1955 with $2,145,039,000, and next-to-top in cash receipts from farm marketings at $2,137,603,000, per the Iowa Development Commission. The commission notes The Farm Income Situation published recently by the Agricultural.

Iowa Iowa Development Commission Hawkeye State

Iowa Tops in Livestock Receipts in USDA Claim

The Marketing Service of the U S Department of Agriculture states Iowa ranks first nationwide for cash receipts from livestock and livestock products and sixth for receipts from crops. A farming tip urges weed control in windbreaks by mowing as no chemical is selective enough to protect trees, implying a weed problem near shelterbelts.

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