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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1965
Page
1
Community discussion centers on a proposed gymnasium for the Jamil School District and a statewide 1500 student minimum bill. Voters are urged to contact legislators before February 23, vote on merit, and avoid relying on hearsay while stressing physical education for all students.
A Rock Valley reader argues against pressuring a yes vote for the school auditorium gym bond. He compares cost per student across West Sioux Hawarden Teeton Sioux Center and Rock Valley, emphasizing local taxation and the value of a community building over a centralized reorganization.
Sipma Electric runs its eleventh annual Anniversary Sale February 4 to 15 offering a free 7 ft pool table with major appliance purchase. Rock Valley Furniture giveaways include a free quarter beef matching the store number plus several hams. To win you must present the full-page Bee ad with coupon number.
The Sioux county chapter of the American Cancer Society will hold a meeting at 7 pm Tuesday Feb 9 in the Rock Valley city hall. All interested people may attend and a film titled The Other City will be shown. New town and township chairmen and volunteers are especially invited. lunch will be served.
Rotarians met at noon to discuss improving life for guests at Valley Manor nursing home. Next week Ethel McKeegan will report on Getting the Most Out of Your Community.
Dennis Hamann Linda Schelhaas Doris Keck and Douglas De Graaf will represent Rock Valley High School at the Northwest Iowa Choral Festival in Cherokee on Saturday February 15. Allan Starga will direct one of nine numbers at the Washington high school concert starting at 4 00 p m Don Jones will be guest director.
The Rock Valley Rockets beat Akron 85 to 63 to open a small window with West Sioux and West Lyon left as obstacles to the conference crown. Starters led by Ray Po and Kaufman dominated, with Van Beek top scorer at 16 and Kaufman close behind with 15 as the junior varsity added a solid 56 to 39 win.
Telewriter math students and adult participants are asked to report one half hour early on Monday February 8 to complete prelim routing before class. Bring a lap board or clip board or a heavy magazine to write on as there are not enough desk chairs. Report by 7 30 p m for the first meeting.
The Sioux Settlers will hold a gathering Wednesday February 10 at 1 30 in the home of Mrs Alfred Clausen with Mrs John Scholten as co host.
The Le Mars conference of the American Lutheran church women meets Monday February 8 at 10 30 a m at Christ Lutheran Church Le Mars. Plans for the spring convention on May 7 at MorningSide Lutheran Church Sioux City will be formulated along with other reports.
A party of 31 from the First Reformed Church visited Northwestern College in Orange City on Tuesday. Rev Henry Poppen acted as trustee host and, after chapel led by Poppen, Kersbergen, and Jounstra, toured classrooms dormitories and the Ratmaker Library following a coffee klatch.
Rocky Valley president of the Town Synod R. Gy. FB left Tuesday morning by plane from Sion City to attend the annual central youth committee meeting in Philadelphia Pa. and will be returning Thursday night. The committee plans the youth program conventions and organization of the Reformed Church in America.
Rock Valley grapplers finish third at the Hawarden sectional with 40 points as West Sioux tops with 94. Seven schools competed. Three Rock Valley wrestlers Earl De Bey John Van Berkum and Benny Groeneweg placed second in their divisions and advance to the district tournament at Audubon.
Northwestern Bell announces reduced rates for interstate long distance calls starting Feb 1. Nighttime and Sunday rates drop, with Station-to-station calls to distant states capped at 90 cents for a three minute call from Rock Valley. Weekend evenings extend lowest rates through Saturday 8 pm.
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold their regular meeting in the VFW hall Tuesday February 9 at 8 pm. Our Savior's Lutheran church members are reminded of communion services at 8 30 am Sunday February 7.
The Rock Valley Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter will hold a meeting in the third week of March with representatives from local groups to gauge interest in constructing a clinic building. Organiza tions will be notified and more publicity will follow.
Western Christian high will hold its second annual Homecoming day on Friday February 5. Activities begin 1 15 pm with an alumni chapel led by Harvey De Jager. A performance of HM Pinafore and other numbers will be presented. Supper is served 5 6 pm. Floats display parade is led by student Chief and Princess. evening game against LeMars Gehlen.
Pioneer Methodist church held its first service in the new building Sunday with 274 attendees. A short ceremony placed altar equipment, Bible, candlesticks and cross as Mrs Ed De Haas sang a solo and the choir provided music. Rev Mervin Nelson serves as pastor. the church, organized in 1883, celebrated its 75th anniversary during the event.
A Thursday afternoon substation outage at Fort Randall South Dakota cut power across IPS and neighboring grids, affecting South Dakota Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and other states. Standby plants restored service. Rock Valley outage lasted about 55 minutes. Gas pressure risks rose as furnaces started simultaneously during restoration.
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