Social News Highlights From Local Households
Mrs. Peter Duinink travels with family between San Francisco Pomona and Denver visiting relatives. Dr. Myron Bos and family visited Macatine Iowa to see Mrs. Bos Mn Ralph Bierman. Mrs. Carrie Muilenberg takes a vacation from Central States Electric Co. gas office. Fulton Illinois visitors Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dyke with children accompanied to Fulton. De Jong family returned Sunday. Des Moines visitors Mr. and Mrs. Gelmer Dybhof with Nancy Boot. Leon Meulpolder moved his real estate office to the Menninga Insurance Office. Ben Kuik Dick Van Zante and Worp Borgman joined Gary Vogelaar for Chicago trip to see Pontiac dealer showings and big league games.
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Peter Duinink
Robert Andrews
San Francisco
Clara Owens
Pomona California
Irene Curtis
Denver
Colorado
Myron Bos
Paula
Macatine
Iowa
Bos
Ralph Bierman
Martin Dyke
Fulton, Ilinois
Charles de Jong
Ben Kuik
Dick van Zante
Worp Borgman
Gary Vogelaar
Chicago
Mr. Vogelaar
Freshmen enrollments and local notices from Pella area colleges
Paul Buwalda of Pella enrolls at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College Kirksville Missouri as a freshman. J C Toom and Floyd Shotwell also enroll as freshmen at Kirksville. Various hospital admissions dismissions and travel plans involve Mercy Hospital Oskaloosa Mahaska County and local residents. Two Holland couples arrive in Pella, one moving to Sunnyvale California, and Kansas City and Chicago trips noted along with motor trip plans to Colorado.
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Paul Buwalda
Pella
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College
Kirksville
Knoxville
J. C. Toom
Floyd Shot
Leora Quinn
Denver University
Denver
Colorado
Notlorado University
Boulder
Bethesda Sanitarium
Miss Quinn
Alpha Chi Omega
William Huyser
Mercy Hospital
Oskaloosa
Gerald Bogaards
Leighton
Mahaska Hospital
Holland
Ottumwa
Wim Kroes
Appeldoorn
Netherlands
Washington Street
Kroes
Marie Rozendaal
Jan Kuitwaard
West Second Street
Mr. Kuitwaard
Central College
Customan
Bunche to Dedicate Simpson Carver Science Hall
Ralph Bunche will speak at Simpson College Indianola Iowa on October 6 for the dedication of Carver Science Hall during a Christian Liberal Arts Festival convocation. The ceremony features Wallace Remmers Barbarka Ensley and Cowles with Bunche discussing The World Significance of the Carver Story and The Education of a Scientist.
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Ralph Bunche
Simpson
Indianola
Ian Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
Simpson College
Iowa
Carver Science Hall
George Washington Carver
Bunche
The
Voice of America
Boston University
Walter E. Remmers
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
New York
N. Y
Clifford J. Barbarka
Chicago
Remmer
Barbarka
F. Gerald Ensley
Iowa Area
Methodist Church
May Exchange Soil Bank Certificates For Corn or Wheat
The Agriculture Department says soil bank certificates earned by farmers for reducing wheat, corn, and rice acreage may be exchanged for government grains at 105 percent of cash value or redeemed in cash at 100 percent. Corn and rice certificates cannot be exchanged for wheat or corn respectively, and grading prices use current county support rates. Exchanges will occur through CCC storage facilities, with grain delivery at local warehouses. harvest periods limit availability.
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Soil Bank
United States Department of Agriculture
First Soil Bank
Marion
Mer-rill L. Robuck
Chaiman
ASC Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Secretary of Agriculture
County Education Council Meets at Courthouse
The Marion County Education Association held a regular meeting September 20, 1956 at 7 30 p m in the Courthouse. President Marvin Van Sickle led. Secretary reported and adopted, treasurer Clara Cotter said balance 151 67 and proposed budget. A sales agency offer from Instructor magazine was read but no action taken. Dr Gordon Rhum of LT College accepted to speak at October dinner in Knoxville on October 18.
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Marion County Education Association
Marvin van Sickle
Clara Cotter
Gordon Rhum
L.T. College
Knoxville
Candidates discuss education policy at state eve talks
G T Clark and Elmer Ver Meer spoke on legislative policy for schools. Marvin Van Sickle summarized NEA convention highlights, with a plan to finish the report at the November meeting. C S Thomas elected Public Relations Chairman replacing Charles Wellington who resigned due to business conflicts. A get acquainted party followed, with group singing directed by Aline Martinek and refreshments by Clara Cotter and Bessie Kenney.
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G. T. Clark
Elmer Ver Meer
Marvin van Sickle
N.E.A
C. S. Thomas
Charles Wellington
Aline Martinek
Clara Cotter
Bessie Kenney
Iowa Hog Marketing Intentions in Sept Oct 1955
Iowa farmers expect hogs marketed for slaughter in Sept and Oct totaling about 8.17 million head, down 6 percent from last year’s 3.373 million Sept-Oct slaughter total but up 12 percent from the 1950-54 five-year average. September sales could reach around 1.41 million head, near a prior high, while October prospects total about 1.76 million, about 12 percent above the 5-year Oct average and 10 percent below last year’s peak. Cattle and calves slaughtered in August reach about 300,000 head, 19 percent below last year.
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Iowa
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Farm Commodity Price Index Dips One Percent
Iowa farm prices in mid-September show the overall index at 243 percent of the 1910-14 base, down 1 percent from mid-August, with declines in hogs calves and chickens offsetting gains in beef cattle milk and eggs. Grains and hay also fell, with corn oats and soybeans down, wheat up, and hay down.
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Iowa
Iowa Co-operative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
August head sales rise above six-year average
The August head count reached 372,000, up 12 percent from last year and above the six-year average of 267,000, signaling stronger demand than typical for the period.
Oskaloosa Office To Observe Employ Handicapped Week
The Oskaloosa office of the Iowa State Employment Service joins nationwide observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week begun by Congress in 1945 to highlight and expand employment for physically handicapped workers. Studies show handicapped workers, when matched to jobs, are often more stable versatile and careful. the office cites unified referral based on job ability rather than separate files.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa
Emplo
Congress
Public Employment Service Office
Ed Joneson Ends 42 Year CB&O Railroad Career
Engineer Ed Joneson, with the CB and O railroad, recently completed a 42 year career. He is 70 years old and stepping away from active service.
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Ed_Joneson
Cb&o
Joneson
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