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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1954
Page
6
Local items report two Pella boys enlisting in the Navy in Des Moines. Other notes list hospital visits births in Mahaska Oskaloosa and nearby towns, car registrations and a nurse completing Bellevue training. Also a reader recalls a 1865 New York Herald issue detailing Lincoln assassination and Civil War events.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Vander Linden of Des Moines visited the Bernie Vander Linden home. Mr and Mrs H P Van Rees traveled to Charles City on April 7 to see son Earl Van Rees and family, returning Sunday. Pfc Fred Lautenbach on a three day army pass from Fort Riley, Kansas stayed with his mother. Earl Pohlman and friends spent the weekend in Jefferson City Missouri. Forrest Kohrt of Knoxville and Marion County Extension Director will attend a farewell pot-luck at Memorial Hall in Knoxville as he accepts a position in Cherokee County. Harold Pals family from Denver visited April 8 through 12 after picking up a Buick in Flint Michigan.
On April 13 Mrs. Ella Johnson celebrated her 81st birthday at the Home for the Aged. Visitors included Mrs. John Langstraat, Mrs. Earl Van Wyk, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pol and family, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Pol and baby, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kuiper. Others visited, including Mrs. M. Popma who traveled to Grand Rapids to see her son Louis and family. Merlin Elscott, in service, will soon transfer to Berlin. The Van Wyk families and children from Otley visited Gerri Van Wyk.
A humorous rustle through highway lore centers on Screaming Brake and Crushed Grill birds seen along Iowa roads in spring. It references Crumpled Fender, Blooming Idiot plants, traffic police displays, and the Foolish Passer, all presented in a playful poetic tone about observing nature while driving.
Iowa State College plant pathologist Arden Sherf warns late frosts aggravate leaf spot on sycamores and can affect oaks elms and maples in cool wet springs. The fungus overwinters in dead leaves and attacks new growth, brown or blackening veins, with potential early defoliation followed by a second flush. Sherf advises Bordeaux mixture or liquid Puratized spray as control.
The article advises mixing one pint per 100 gallons of water and applying when leaves begin to open, with a second spray two weeks later. Delaying until damage appears allows the disease to establish. Upper-tree reach may require a custom sprayer. Bordeaux or Paratized sprays control black leaf spot, a fungal disease, which heavily infested elms in summer 1961.
Nearly 1000 Iowa towns join Plant Iowa Week to beautify states roadsides and parks by planting trees, shrubs, and multiflora roses. About 900 mayors and 700 chamber presidents were asked to organize programs for April 11 to 17, proclaimed by Governor Beardsley. The effort is backed by Izaak Walton League, Boy Scouts, 4-H, FFA, and civic groups and links to the national Plant America program continuing through summer and fall.
Town fur prices for the past season declined along with national trends. Midwestern pelts dropped, with about 40,000 fewer pelts reaching markets. The muskrat average fell to 69 cents from 1.13 dollars the prior season.
The state recorded 86,451 pelts sold for 231,461 dollars with mink leading value at 80,459 pelts totaling 380,891 dollars. The average price paid for mink was 18.49 dollars this season, compared with 16.40 dollars in 1952-8.
John Jacob Astor of New York lived from 1768 to 1848 and was likely the wealthiest man in the United States during his era.
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