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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
6
The town crier muses that August marks the start of fall teaching plans. He notes some hours for the school year are already booked and warns against asking a music teacher how many pupils he has or what salary he earns, comparing it to intruding on privacy.
A rambly town column notes everyday scenes from downtown for readers. It mentions Ideal Pharmacy offering free public services for car trouble, a glitch with an Atomic Bomb, and friendly clerks handling it calmly. It weaves in observations about a sagging sidewalk once serving as a town pump, old wells, and historic homes, ending with a reflective stanza on kindness and life’s journeys.
Big car auto racing will be a feature at the Southern Iowa Fair in Oskaloosa with top dirt track drivers from the Racing Corporation of America. Races are scheduled for Friday, August 9, 1946, as war refinements in equipment and fuel promise new thrills and younger racers return from service join seasoned veterans. The event aims to deliver keen competition and cash prizes as the Knights of the Roaring Road battle for glory.
Farmers planning new or enlarged electrical service should ensure wiring can handle the load, say Town State College engineers. They explain voltage and amperes and warn undersized wires reduce voltage, lowering appliance performance and heating efficiency. If voltage drops 5 to 10 percent when equipment runs, the feeder wire may be too small.
Mrs. Jack Miller of Hampton caught a twenty one pound northern pike in a gravel pit near her home while fishing with worm bait. After a fifteen minute battle she netted the big fish, noting the pike’s teeth as she phoned her husband.
The giant black sturgeon known as Old Oscar will appear at the Conservation Commission Fish and Game Exhibit during the State Fair. Oscar, aging forty six, has gained twenty pounds since the last fair and now weighs 110 pounds, central to exhibit attraction. Superintendent E BR Speaker has approved a final week display in the fair grounds aquarium.
The first open season on protected game begins August 1 making cottontail and jackrabbit hunting legal statewide. The daily bag limit is ten with no possession limit. Past season rabbit populations were generally high with an upward trend since 1940 and an estimated 2,400,000 rabbits taken by hunters. Heavy hunting typically starts after the first general snow.
Large white birds are American egrets seen along Iowa streams and ponds, not storks as some claimed. These are this year’s juvenile birds migrating north from nesting grounds to feed before returning south for winter, with the population recovering after years of rarity.
The record notes a mid July timing for a yearly event and states egrets do not nest in Iowa currently, with a historical reference to 1942 indicating a shift or exception to the nesting pattern.
A large egret colony was discovered along the Mississippi River bottoms near Sadula. The rookery has since been abandoned.
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