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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1963
Page
2
An editorial discusses the burden of hard choices facing city government. It notes condemnations for dwelling conditions and messy properties, arguing council actions aim at community benefit though they may offend property owners or business interests.
A blaze at the Waechter Lumber Co on South Main Street Saturday morning April 4 gutted the building. The origin and cause were unknown. losses estimated around 100000 dollars. Local flood relief efforts included a Washington reception for Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Tulip Time publicity tour featured Dutch costumed volunteers. Wiggert Langerak injured in a dynamite accident at the Langerak farm near Pella, with one eye lost and multiple fractures. he is expected to recover. Three Pella men joined eleven Marion County Selective Service draftees for April 15 service. PFT Bernard W. Vos, age 21, reported killed in action in Korea March 30. survived by wife Dora Dunnink and parents.
Twenty years ago Pella prepared for a city blackout with mayor Frank Frush warning of a planned trial event and no warning. The Pella rea line would feed 106 homes along 53 miles of poles before materials froze in a wartime halt. A Service Flag at the Pella National Bank listed 323 men in active service.
Fire and smoke damaged the G. Van Vliet home on West Washington Street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Renaud and Mrs. Van Vliet resided there as building was reported in early April.
The note recalls C H Vander Meulen of Claiborne Parish Louisiana publishing in Knickerbocker Weekly about Pella’s Weekblad, a Holland language newspaper. The magazine piece titled The Passing of an Old Landmark credited van der Meulen as editor of the newspaper.
Four decades ago Ames experts planned to visit Peter Tysseling and Peter Van Gorp farms to demonstrate spraying and pruning on fruit trees and to cull poultry. The Farm Bureau arranged the demonstrations. Other items note a grass fire at Will P Fowler’s home and a wedding of Jeanette Vriezelaar to Louis Van Roekel. The legislature appropriated 50000 for private and denominational school teacher prep, stirring editorials opposing aid to religious institutions. The county agent planned pig clubs for youths to earn camping at Knoxville Fair. A Ku Klux Klan visit to an Ogden Utah Baptist church left a donated purse for Dr. L A Garrison.
An April 17, 1913 blurb notes a livestock show on Central College campus with animals including a driving horse owned by Harry De Cook a North Pella cow Rhode Island Reds a black duck and a white duck The campus bell had rung the night before to inaugurate the event The piece also mentions business moves in Osceola and Pelia with Keokuk and Des Moines Rock Island lines electric franchise talks and Oskaloosa Buxton interurban plans plus reelections for Pelia high teachers Mamie Zaelke Wilma Lawrence Carrie De Haan and Ella Watt
Supt Flush gains further tenure assurances per a school board report while Holdsworth & Company of Sully sell Jackson Richmond and Empire automobiles from the Ever Ready garage in Pel a. Smallpox spreads to several homes and exposed individuals are urged to vaccinate immediately. The City Council fixes street commissioner pay at 2.00 per day up to 400 per year. Wages set at 22 cents per hour for mason and helper, 55 cents for man and team, 3.50 per day for man, cement work wages.
A historical note states a proposal set at 10 cents per square foot for intersections and 14 cents for crossings, outlining a pricing framework likely tied to street or roadway work and municipal budgeting.
A leading women s undergarment maker becomes the first U.S. firm to advertise in a Soviet Russian trade paper for retail personnel. A Kansas City firm, successful in mail order blue jeans in Europe, plans a Belgium factory to produce cowboy type garments as strawberry crop prospects tighten prices.
Learn to operate over the road semi trucks and earn up to ten thousand per job as a qualified operator. New class starting soon with low tuition and free job placement assistance. tails write Interstate Training 255 Jewett Building Des Moines Iowa.
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