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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1962
Page
3
City council hires A J Muth for six months at one dollar a month to manage the light plant as expenses lag. Dr Elbert Warren arrives to coach at Central College. High school facilities are criticized while a pageant honors the 75th anniversary with balloon ascensions and rides. Community notices include marriages, a phonograph demo, visiting Texans, and a plea to support Pella baked goods.
Pella marked its 75th anniversary with a two day parade featuring a prominent display by the Legion Post. A sham battle by ex service men thrilled crowds with loud noise and public participation.
In September 1932 Pella golfers, including Harry Boland Willard De Winter Joe Shinn Art De Winter and Marion Vanden Dever, traveled to Des Moines to see Gene Sarazen perform an exhibition. Reverend G Mehning declined a call to Kalamazoo’s Fourth Reformed Church after six years in service.
Legion Post members drive scrap metal pickups on curbs as part of the drive. Contour plowing contest planned at Maytag farm near Newton with many Pella area farmers attending. Front page photos show Grimes Canning Co. operations. Over 100 employed at factory and field. Over 100 freshmen enrolled at Central College pictured at a Jordan fall dinner. Ralph S. Grundman elected chairman of the Soils District board. Coach Lloyd Gnagg drills high school grid players for first game at Chariton Sept. 18 after a 32 0 loss to Newton. In 1941 they beat Chariton ENROLLMENT at Central.
College football practice begins with new players Klootwyk Kempkes De Beer and Tait reporting. Drake to be the opening opponent. Max Kuyk enlists in the Navy at Des Moines as a 19 year old sophomore in a V program. Gerald Babe Van Arkel also enlists to report in October as a chief petty officer, to assist in physical education under Gene Tunney.
Ten years ago five Pella men were listed for armed service induction: Donald L. DeCook Harry Weyers Donald R. Stursma John Gosselink and Daryl E. Walker. The Dome at Central College Observatory was pictured being moved, with Dr. H W Pietenpol supervising, and it was noted the Beard telescope would serve KuiF Stadium more than the library towers. Families attended a Pool Park picnic, with out of town guests Mrs Fred Heerema and Mrs Charles Vander Ploeg. Freshman enrollment at Central College rose nearly 23 percent over 1951 and almost matched 1950. Betty Van Zee and Herb Vander Waal announced plans to marry October 10.
Private Wilbur J. Veenstra of Co C 102nd Infantry Regiment 43rd Infantry Division serves in Germany with the unit. Private Harold Van Maanen of Battery C 85th AAA Gun Battalion stationed on Okinawa. Private First Class Robert L. Van Zante discharged from the U S Army and home after serving in Germany. Don and Dale Van Wyk of the Navy Construction Battalion Sea Bees on the Pacific theater heading to land on the West Coast around Oct 1. They spent a year in the Philippine Islands where Sea Bees built an air field.
Vance Crosby of Knoxville is named chairman of Marion County Dollars For Democrats campaign. He vows an all out effort to reach every Democrat in the county. Packets will be distributed to precinct committeewomen soon as the sole major fund raising of the year. Workers will gather household information during solicitation.
Mrs Yella W Minenga nee Maude De Bruyn aged 61 died September 6 at Pella Community Hospital after a life in the Galesburg area Born August 30 1901 near Galesburg Iowa she married Yelda W Minehga February 16 1923 in Des Moines They had three children survivors include husband Carroll Des Moines Mildred Hubbard and four grandchildren officiating minister Rev George C Muyskens with services held September 8 in Galesburg Christian church Burial followed in Hew-
John Van Der Veer 84 died Sunday September 9 1962 at Tower Park Nursing Home Oskaloosa Iowa Born July 22 1878 in The Netherlands he came to the United States at age 11 and lived in Pella the past 12 years at the Home for the Aged Surviving are one brother Conrad of Pella three sisters Mrs Lena Goemaat Mrs Henry Maggie Visser and Mrs Gerrit Johanna Samson all of Newton Preceding in death were his parents and two brothers Casket bearers included Jacob C Engle Clarence Van Der Veer Abe Goemaat Conrad Samson and Engle H Visser Funeral services were Tuesday September 11 at Garden Chapel Funeral Home with Rev John A De Kruyter officiating Interment was in Graceland Cemetery Pella
Graveside services for the stillborn infant son of Mr and Mrs H Dean Boyd of Route 5 Oskaloosa were conducted at a local cemetery. The brief notice notes the family’s address and the infant’s passing, with no further details provided.
The infant born August 19 at Pella Community Hospital to H Dean Boyd and K Fay McCombs Boyd. Surviving are parents, sister Patricia Jean, maternal grandparents Paul and Mrs McCombs of Tracy, paternal grandparents Harland and Mrs Boyd of Rt. 5 Oskaloosa. Rev Frank Greenwood conducted the service arranged by Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home.
Field men from the State Conservation Commission report blue-wing teal gathering in northern sloughs and marsh areas as shorebirds increase and songbirds like swallows begin their southward migration, signaling the end of summer.
Walter Holmes, longtime cashier at the C. B. & Q. railroad freight house in Chariton, retires after four years of service following a career with the railroad since 1914.
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