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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1969
Page
2
D Dolores Harrington, freelance journalist and Sioux Falls media figure, is named public relations director at McKennan Hospital. She will prepare press materials and health feature articles, edit departmental publications, and supervise in service communications.
Local police officers, Bi Iwen and Bill Xersbergen, are attending a state law officers short course at Camp Dodge near Des Moines. The program spans several weeks and covers procedures and issues facing Iowa officers.
Private First Class Kenneth D. Oostenink, 20, son of Hull residents Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oostenink, serves as rifleman in the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, Vietnam. Separately, sp/4 David L. Van Berkum, son of Rock Valley residents Mr. and Mrs. Luke Van Berkum, recently returned to An Khe after a Taipei leave and faces discharge in February following 14 months in Vietnam.
Seven of last Friday’s ballot winners will form the 1969 Tulip Festival Court for Orange City with May 15 to 17 events. The pageant February 1 at Municipal Auditorium will choose the Tulip Queen from this court as a panel of judges and audience votes decide. Town Cries Gerard Kalsbeek will host and introduce candidates and acts. The festival attracts about sixty five thousand visitors annually.
The Rock Valley Rotary Club featured Rev. John Engbers presenting on church architecture with slides covering Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant denominations and stressing Reformed practice. Arthur Bergsma hosted a German exchange student from Felrman island who compared West German and American government and noted anti communism there and doubts about capitalism.
Dick Gregory, noted comedian and author, will open a two day symposium on race relations at Northwestern College Orange City with an 8:00 p.m. lecture in the College Auditorium. A 10:30 a.m. convocation on January 31 will feature Bil Pannell, Ozzie L. Edwards, and Rev. A J Downing, followed by small group discussions and an open forum.
Jaminson Jr. phoned home Monday to say that he was leaving on a round about trip to join his carrier The John Hancock off the coast of Viet Nam. Flying by Military Air Transport he will stop first at Alaska, then Hawaii, The Phillipines and finally to Viet Nam. Wilson is a Naval Airman. His address is ATRAN James Wilson Attack Squadron 164 % Pleet PO San Francisco, Calif 96601.
Driver urges entering freeways at traffic speed to match flow and avoid hazards. The message emphasizes maintaining pace with vehicles already on the road to reduce crash risk.
Sonyja Fay Medalen is listed as Rock Valley’s first baby of 1969. Born at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday January 14 at McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls weighing 6 pounds 1 ounce. Parents Dennis and Mrs Medalen, father employed at Roorda Machine Works since 1960. Baby required full blood transfusion due to an A H Factor in parental blood court report notes. Baby to remain in hospital for another week. family has three other children, one previously needing transfusion.
A concise aphorism notes that many skilled lawyers enjoy comfortable success yet end with modest means. It contrasts hard work with financial outcomes, suggesting professional integrity and sacrifice shape a lawyer’s lasting legacy.
Private First Class Michall C. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence T. Miller of Rock Valley, arrived in San Diego aboard the guided missile light cruiser Providence after a two year Western Pacific deployment as flagship for Commander U S Seventh Fleet. The ship saw combat off Vietnam, firing over 1500 naval gunfire missions, earned the Navy Unit Commendation, and was named Top Gun in its cruiser class. A mounted enemy rocket launcher captured near Saigon was presented as a trophy. Providence will soon serve as flagship for Commander U S First Fleet.
The idea suggests ego expands without input, yet true growth requires nourishment of experience, feedback, and reflection. Without that sustenance, ego may inflate unrealistically while real progress stalls.
Final tabulations for the United Appeal Drive in Rock Valley and Townships total $4 779 50 with contributions listed by area and designation. Town of Rock Valley $3298 50 Garfield $440 00 Rock $603 00 Sioux $282 Spurlers 3186. Designated gifts include Crop $282 25 Polio and Birth Defects $330 95 Salvation Army $250 25 Sioux County Retarded $309 00 Florence Crittenton home $920 76 Iowa Children's and Family Services $105 10 Iowa Society for Crippled Children and Adults $274 2 Scouts $297 75 Hope Haven $1806 75 USD $296 25 Undesignated $499 00 Write in Cancer $22 00 Heart $31 00.
The Sioux County NFO elected officers for 1969 at the annual meeting. Howard Sandhule of Sioux Center was named president, Joe Friedmann of Alton vice president, Mrs. William Schemmel of Granville secretary, and Merle Vande Brake of Maurice treasurer. Meat dairy and grain boards were also chosen. The group noted progress in 1968 as prices rise and announced a sausage feed at Spalding gym in Granville on January 30, with speaker John Kuch from Tucota county Michigan.
Rural Iowa towns including Rock Valley resist the Great Plains School Reorganization Plan which would reduce to about 80 high schools with around 3800 pupils each. Local leaders like Norris Onley of Marathon spoke as area residents prepared a seminar to study the plan amid a statewide push by the federal Department of Public Instruction.
George Parker found a crawling nightcrawler stuck on a slab of ice near his Rock Valley home. He placed it in his planter to preserve proof before critics claim it. Inside the house the creature curled into a pretzel, a quirky winter moment.
Rock Valley's Boy Scouts will hold the periodical Awards Night at 7 30 p m in the old gym. Gen Keizer Scomuminster says scouts will receive medals for their accomplishments during the big evening on Wednesday January 29.
Fire Control Technician Seaman Arlyn C. Van Berkum of Rock Valley is authorized to wear the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon. He earned it during ceremonies aboard the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul in San Diego after the ship earned the award for meritorious service during its 1988 Vietnam coast deployment with over 1 300 missions and hundreds of destroyed or damaged targets.
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