Garden Club Plans Holiday Tour Of Seven Pella Homes
The Pella Garden Club schedules a Holiday Tour of Homes on December 19 from 1 30 to 5 30 pm visiting seven member homes decorated for Christmas by owners with club co hosts. Tickets cost 1 25 and are sold at local shops or by members.
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Pella Garden Club
Garden Club
Selink
N. Main Street
Paul V. Farrer
Lincoln Street
Robert Menning
Broadway
William van Tuyl
Northwest Drive
Gene van Zee
A. D. Lubbers
Lubbers
Ideal Pharmacy
Bausch and Lomb Science Award to Peter Keuning
The Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award honors top science scholars in U S secondary schools. Peter Keuning of Pella Christian High School is named the 1964 winner. The bronze medal is presented at graduation in over 8,500 schools since 1933, with 170,000 winners to date. Winners may compete for science scholarships at the University of Rochester, with four-year stipends totaling about 50,000 dollars.
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Peter Keuning
Paul de Jong
Pella Christian High School
Bausch & Lomb
University of Rochester
Bausch & Lamb
Schools and Public Offices Close for Day of Mourning
All Pella schools including Central College dismissed classes for a national day of mourning. Public offices closed the entire day except police headquarters remained open.
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Pella
Central College
Christmas Musical at Pella High Dec 12
Pella Community High School vocal music department will stage its annual Christmas Musical on December 12 at 7 30 p m in the junior high auditorium The program titled There Shown a Star blends art and music with stage design by Mary Van Nimwegen The event features boys and girls glee clubs choruses small groups and soloists Pat-Tons are invited to save the date.
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Pella Community High School
Anne Tysseling
Mary van Nimwegen
Pat- Tons
Festive Bazaar and Supper on Campus Saturday
The Women's Auxiliary of Central College hosts a Christmas Bazaar and Fellowship Supper on Graham Hall campus. Bazaar items and decorations go on sale at 3:00 p.m. in the lower lounge, with a 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. fellowship supper in the dining hall. Al De Wild offers 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. photo sessions for families and individuals.
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Women's Auxiliary
Central College
Graham Hall
al de Wild
Christmad
Heavy Hardware For Red Rock Dam On Des Moines River
Heavy equipment and iron work assembled for Red Rock Dam project by U S Army Corps of Engineers at Red Rock Dam near Des Moines. Foreground shows a hydraulic ram housing cylinder and air release valves essential to 14 conduit gates. Twelve ton gate frames and leaves appear at upper left, with hundreds of tons of steel staged for future installation.
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Ed Spuehler
St. Louis
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Red Rock Dam
Des Moines
Army basketball standout at Fort Riley leads team
Pvt. Marvin L. Van Haaften, a 1963 Pella Christian grad, stars for the Fourth United States Cavalry basketball team at Ft. Riley, Kansas. He tops the squad in scoring and rebounding with about 30 points and 28 rebounds per game after enlisting July 5, 1963 and completing basic training.
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Marvin L. van Haaften
Pella Christian High School
United States Cavalry
Ft. Riley
Kansas
van Haaften
Pella
Leighton Airman Earns Honor Graduate Award
Airman 3-C Robert L. Van der Wilt, son of Mr and Mrs G W Vander Wilt of Leighton, received an honor graduate certificate at Amarillo Technical Training Center. The certificate honors his outstanding jet aircraft mechanic course work and places him among the upper seven percent of his class. Col Dudley E Faver praised his effort in a commendation letter.
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Robert L. Vander Wilt
G. W. Vander Wilt
Leighton
Robert M. Moorehead
Air National Guard
Amarillo
Texas
Vander Wilt
Dudley E. Faver
Usaf Technical School
Col. Faver
Soldier Training Moves to Fort Riley Assignment
Training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri is noted for a service member who is now a senior radio repairman assigned to Troop C First Recon Squadron Fourth Cavalry at Fort Riley.
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Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo
First Recon
Fourth Cavalry
Fort Riley
Valley Tigers rout Pella Little Dutch 69 to 39 at home
Valley High blazed to a 19-10 opening lead and rolled to a 69-39 win over Pella as the Little Dutch shot poorly. Jim Odea Jed led Valley with 23 points while Tom Shively and Curt Reams added 16 and 14. Pella’s Ken Nollen led scoring with 13 points.
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West Des Moines
Valley Highlagers
Pella Little Dutch
Valley
Pella
Tigers
Ken Nollen
Bill van Zante
Larry Aldridge
Harvey Vander Weide
Jim Odea
Jed Valley
Tom Shively
Curt Reams
Jaycees Plan Yale Lighting Contest In Pella
The Pella Jaycees approve a Christmas lighting contest to be held next month with cash prizes for best decorations. A co sponsor is being sought. Judges will tour the city December 20 between 7 and 10 PM to assess originality and beauty. Contestants must submit an entry blank in upcoming Chronicle issues.
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Pella Jaycees
Posea
The
Jaycees
Chronicle
Kennedy Assassination Reachs Small-Town Pella
Grief sweeps the community as President John F. Kennedy is killed in Dallas. Citizens react with shock, prayers, and solemn observances, while Oswald is captured and later killed. Memorial services honor the late president and a national day of mourning is observed.
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John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Texas
Kennedy
Pella
John B. Connally
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lee Harvey Oswald
Fort Worth
Oswald
Monnay
A Kennedy
Pella Ministerial Association
First Reformed Church
Central College
van Veen-Van Hemert Legion
Legion
Avennedy
Presidents slain in office at zero-numbered intervals
The article notes a sequence of presidents elected in zero-numbered years who were assassinated or died in office. It lists Lincoln Garfield McKinley Harding Roosevelt Kennedy and details their deaths including Booth Guiteau an anarchist and a Dallas sniper year by year.
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Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Charles J. Guiteau
Buffalo
N.Y
Dallas
Tex
Thanksgiving Delivery Delay Noted for Chronicle
The Chronicle will publish Thursday November 28 one day late due to Thanksgiving. Mail delivery will reach readers Friday, while newsstand copies go on sale at the regular time Wednesday evening. Deadlines stay the same: display ads by 4 p.m. Tuesday and news plus classified ads by 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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