Last day of August 1963 brings dreary weekend mood
A reader reflects on the seasonal shift from summer to September and urges kindness to shut ins during winter. She describes crocheted braided rugs she finished after five years, inspired by Gladys Wagner of Des Moines, and visits to the Wagner home with its antique 19th century ambiance and a stove, fireplace, muskets, and clocks. Mrs. Wagner shared a mixed vegetable supper recipe.
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Gladys Wagner
Des Moines
Wagner
Dresed
God's Judgment in Stone and a New Mexico Barber
Roy Caryl of Rutland retires after 62 years as a barber, still charging 50 cents for a haircut. The piece reflects on God's judgment seen in the mountains and canyons near Rehoboth New Mexico, arguing Genesis deluge and creation themes, and urges belief in biblical re-creation.
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Rehoboth
New Mexico
Roy Caryl
Rutland
Modern Math Get With the Right Set
A how to on sets explains their role in new mathematics. It describes sets as collections of items and notes they can be infinite or empty. The piece covers braces, three operations intersection union and complementation and warns against counting on fingers. It highlights binary numbers with two states and the shift from tens to twos in computing.
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Congress
Era Mathematics Engages Pella Teachers In New Approach
Pella Community teachers across elementary and secondary levels pursued summer courses on the new mathematics method. A faculty panel led a pre school workshop session in late August. The updated curriculum relies on topics like sets Venn diagrams Boolean algebra non Euclidean geometry and probability field thinking, making parental homework help largely impractical for now.
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Pella
Louis Van Roekels Visit Area Expanded
Mr and Mrs Louis A Van Roekel of Redlands California arrived Friday for a three week visit in this area also in Monroe and Otley. They have a mobil home parked at Van Gorp Trailer Park. They visited Mrs Mary Van Der Ploeg in Monroe. Other relatives gathered for Lorences birthday at the Van Dusseldorp home in Pella with Em ma Vans and Govert Kamerick attending. Dr and Mrs Robert Pennington and family of Monroe were dinner guests in the Vriezelaar home.
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Louis A van Roekel
Redlands
Calif
Monroe
Otley
Mobil
van Gorp
Mary van der Ploeg
Simon van Dusseldorp
Ellen
Kemstra
Hendreka Vanen
Lorence van Dusseldorp
Pella
Lorences
Emma Vans
Govert Kamerick
Robert Pennington
John Vriezelaar
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Aunt Fran
Wyler
Modern Jewelers
Northwest Corner Square
Knoxville
Farmers’ Co-op Exch
Pelia Chamber of Commerce
God
Jesus Christ
Oskalovsa
LCS Et Ae Catol
Eugene Ballard
Mitchellville
Ladies of
Ford
Dearborn
Cleo N. Ballard
Farmers Savings Bank
Mitchelivite
Kirk, Earl & Bill Shields
Raymond M. Uhi
Avetteneers
Newton
THE
Louis van Roekels
H. W. Vriezelaar
Polk County Federal Savings and Loan Association
7Th and High
Michaels Stern, Capps, Curlee and
Sewell
By Stevens
VNA
Haggar
Haggar Imperial
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