Truck rams Des Moines River bridge near Pella Knoxvi
A truck carrying seven tons of coal broke through the guard rail on the old Des Moines river bridge on the Pella Knoxville road Friday afternoon and hung 30 feet above the water for about two hours. The driver N D Shinn 36 of Knoxville escaped unharmed. Two wreckers pulled the truck back onto the span after light traffic was allowed. The coal was unloaded to ease weight before the vehicle was recovered. Beard Coal Co mine at Flagler shipped the load to the Pella light plant. Damage to the truck estimated at 1000 dollars. bridge damage not serious.
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Des Moines River
Pella-Knoxville
Des Moines
Shinn
Beard Coal Co
Flagler
Pella
J. H. Shinn, Jr
Brige
Knoxville
Chronicle News
Chamber Sets October 5 Meeting for Pella Chamber
The Pella Chamber of Commerce will hold its quarterly meeting on Tuesday evening October 5 at 6 30 PM at the Pella Country Club. Roger Daven, meetings chairman, plans an industrial recognition program. All chamber members and prospective members are urged to attend and call the Chamber office to confirm.
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Pella
Chamber
Correction on donation error and Van Zee service note
A Thursday Chronicle correction clarifies that James Murray Cox was not a colonel but captain of the Pel la unit of the Iowa militia. The article also reports Marine Lance Corporal Thomas G. Van Zee of 733 Franklin St in Pella Iowa reporting for duty September 13 at Norfolk Virginia with the Fleet Marine Force Atlantic and assignments with Headquarters Service Battalion Military Police Company. Van Zee attended Pella High School before enlisting in 1962.
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Thursday Chronicle
Hattie Cox
Main St
Central College
James Murray Cox
Championship
Iowa
Pella
Norfolk
Marine
Thomas G. van Zee
John F. van Zee
Franklin St
Headquar
Ters
Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic
Headquarters & Service Battalion
Military Police Company
van Zee
Pella High School
Pella Mayor Named Chairman of League Education Committee
Pella mayor Richard Babe Tuseling has been named chairman of the League of Town Municipalities Committee on municipal education by League president Darrell Johnson. The league has seven key committees guiding study and policy making for the organization.
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Richard
Babe) Tusseling
Pella
League of Town Municipalities
League
Darrell Johnson
Pilot Mound
Poortinga Becomes Honors Graduate At Sheppard AFB
Airman Third Class Gene A. Poortinga, son of Mr and Mrs Francis G Poortinga of R A 1 Pella Iowa, graduated with honors from a U S Air Force jet engine mechanics training course at Sheppard AFB Texas. He will return to his Iowa Air National Guard unit in Des Moines after training and is a graduate of Pella High School.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Gene A. Poortinga
Francis G. Poortinga
Pella
Iowa
U. S. Air Force
Sheppard Afb
Poortinga
Iowa Air National Guard
Des Moines
Pella High School
Community events list for Pella area October schedule
A dense roster of local meetings and activities for October in Pella. Highlights include municipal election filing deadlines, TTT Society at Esther Ver. Ploeg’s home, a Crop meeting at Trinity Reformed Church to plan the 1965 drive, Chamber of Commerce gatherings at the Country Club, Bible Prophetic Crusades at the Church of the Open Bible, newcomer coffee at Harris Nieuwsma home, Porter Grove Cemetery Association annual meeting, Fortnightly Literary Society at Mrs. John Klein, and fall conferences of the Women’s Classical Union at Third Reformed Church with sessions on October 11 and 13.
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TTT Society
Esther Ver
Church of the Open Bible
Pella
Chamber of Commerce
Country Club
Thurs
Literary Society
John Klein
Will van Sittert
Recreation Commission
Women’s Classical Union of
Third Reformed Church
Harold de Roo
Russell Redeker
Meet Your Correspondent Mrs Samson of Reasnor
Kathryn Mae Henken Samson of Reasnor writes the Newton News for the Pella Chronicle. A mother of five and active homemaker, she manages farm duties, remodeling, sewing, music, and church duties while also serving as Mount Hope Homemakers president. Born February 16, 1929 in Mitchellville, she grew up on farms and moved to Pella, then Prairie City before marriage in 1949.
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Arthur Samson
Reasnor
Newton
Pella Chronicle
Jim
Kathy
Ruth Ann
Craig
David
Kathryn
Christian Reformed Church of Newton
Ladies Aid of the Church
Ladies Bible Hour
Mount Hope Homemakers Club
Kathryn Mae Henken
Mitchellville
Pella
Prairie City
Arthur
Reasner
Newton News
Appreciation supper honors good neighbor deeds in Otley
An appreciation supper was held September 24 at Pel la Country Club for 83 neighbors relatives and friends who helped Gerrit J Sneller of Otley after an accident last November. The event noted his release from medical care and honored those who plowed planted and performed chores while he was hospitalized. Funeral services for Julia A Macy lifelong Lynnville resident will be held October 5 with multiple pastors officiating. Burial is in Woodland Cemetery Lynnville Hardin Funeral Home assisting.
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Pella Country Club
Gerrit J. Sneller
Otley
Gerrit
Third Reformed Church
Bill Grootveld
Tunis Sterk
Ernest Boat
Norman van Zante
Albert Ver Meer
Rodney Verwers
Allen Sneller
Stanley Sneller
Howard Macy
Lynnville
Julia A. Macy
Nelson Manor
Newton
Charles O. Whitely
Peter Schu Jer
Wm. Oberlander
Hardin Funeral Home
Woodland Cemetery
Central College enrollment hits all time high at 865
Central College Pella reports 865 students for fall term, up 165 from last year. Freshmen total 371, largest class in history, with 357来自 Iowa and 28 other states including New Jersey and Illinois. Foreign students total 20. 27 religious affiliations represented.
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Pella
Central College
Wilma Rempe
Central
Iowa
New Jersey
Illinois
New York
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
California
Colorado
Ameri‘epenep “Eulog ‘Colregues
Costa Rica
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Japan
Kuwait
Macao
Netherlands
Nigeria
Taiwan
Vietnam
Kenya
Reformed Church In
America
Women's Classical Union Fall Conference at Third Reformed Church
The Women's Classical Union of Pella plans its Fall Conference at Third Reformed Church on Oct 13 with sessions at 10 a.m. and 1 15 p.m. Rev Harold De Roo will speak in the morning and Dr Russell Redeker in the afternoon. Mrs Henry Monster will preside with union officers to be elected in the morning.
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Women's Classical Union of
Pella
Third Reformed Church
Harold de Roo
Russell Redeker
Board of North American Missions
Redeker
Central College
Henry Monster
Cornice de Bruin
Funcnes
USO drive appeal urged for Pella area support
Pella area chairman P I Kuyper reports 2905 letters sent September 16 for USO fundraising with only 240 contributions received by October 2. With 222 Marion County boys in service, the drive urges residents to drop small checks or dollar bills in the postage-paid envelope to Kuyper at Rolscreen Company, Pella, to help meet the quota and support new USO centers in Vietnam.
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Pella
USO
United Service Organization
P. H. Kuyper
Pella Area
Marion County
Defense Department
Addi
Viet Nam
P. If. Kuyper
c/o
Four Pella Students Enroll at Centerville Community College
Four students from Pella are enrolled at Centerville Community College. They are Vernon Meinders, Dennis Nicunsina, Fred Sel, and Kenneth Vandevoort.
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Pella
Centerville Community College
Vernon Meinders
Dennis Nicunsina
Fred Sel
Kenneth Vandevoort
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N. D. (Junior) Shinn
van Cleave Story
Norfolk, Va
Gene Poortinga
What
S Up
Christian Reformed Church of
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Julia Macy
She
James and
Jane Whitlock
Gerrit Sneller
Cathy Sneller
Keith Vander Waal
Mia
Bill Vanden Dever
Larry Bandstra
Kenneth Sneller
Glenda
CUI
Cockleburr
Prairie City High School
B. C. Berg School
Samsons
Women’s Classical Union
Four Pellans
Centerville College
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