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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1976
Page
1
September marks school time and athletics across junior and senior high. The program, though sometimes criticized for emphasis, remains integral to education. Community backing honors players’ hard work, including non starters, and emphasizes learning through effort over winning.
Red Rock Lake association sponsors a weekend of family days with diverse activities at Red Rock Lake. The event showcases the lake as a recreational and economic asset despite silting and fluctuating water levels that limit boat access at times.
The Chronicle invites readers to submit letters expressing opinions on community issues. Letters must be signed by real people, and the paper reserves the right to shorten letters to fit space constraints.
Ten year items note state rules forcing school districts to join a high school district affecting Else and Pleasant Ridge students. An open house is planned in New Sharon for North Mahaska junior and senior high. 25 years ago Central College begins its 99th year on September 6. a furlough end marks a family visit to Fort Benning. 50 years ago Labor Day mail delivery ends, train fares draw few riders to the state fair, and heat is blamed while coal bills are joked about. 70 years ago a band benefit social ends with fireworks, Bert Baron returns from Omaha after tennis.
The Iowa General Assembly funded a three million dollar, three year effort to test cleansing shallow strip mined coal for environmental standards, reduce sulphur by up to 8 percent and ash by about half, and demonstrate strip mined land restoration near Oskaloosa. The on campus plant in Ames treats Iowa coal to meet standards, using float sink and concentration table methods, with portable capacity around 70 tons per hour and progress from 50,000 tons mined for cleanup.
Three Pella area girls will graduate from DMACC at summer commencement in Veterans auditorium Des Moines at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. A total of 365 will graduate. Twila Vos of Pella earns medical secretary training, Patricia Pendroy of Monroe earns practical nursing, and Lois Poortinga of Monroe earns medical secretary training.
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