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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1954
Page
15
A public safety note urges removing doors or latch hardware from abandoned iceboxes and old refrigerators to prevent child suffocation. Naomi Shank cites 60 years and 91 child deaths, recommends deleting latches or removing entire doors, and urges community campaigns with dealers and periodic trips to dumps involving children in safety drills.
Iowa City reports a 40 percent rise in building activity for January–June 1964 versus the same period in 1963. Commercial contracts up 61.7 percent. public buildings up 17.1 percent. Farm prices fall sharply. meat and poultry prices slump. bank debits rise 5.9 percent year to year. Featured digest article discusses toll roads and turnpikes by Bunke of SUI.
The June issue of The Palimpsest, titled Some Iowa Lutheran Centennials, traces Lutheran contributions from Martin Luther era to 1954 mission churches in Iowa. It covers emigration in the 1850s, Dubuque as a key West gateway, Wartburg Seminary and College origins, Jacob Scherer’s missions, formation of Iowa synods, language education, and later shifts to public schooling, with membership totals for United Lutheran Synod and American Lutheran Church.
Iowa farmers saw a general drop in prices in the July 15 index with the all farm products index down eight points or 3 percent. Livestock and livestock products fell seven points driven by meat animals and poultry eggs, while the dairy product index rose slightly.
The annual season for unlimited trapping of Town motorists has begun and will run through corn harvest. A simple trap at rural intersections uses corn, weeds, and low branches to blind drivers, causing crashes when two cars meet. It relies on motorists ignoring limited visibility and colliding at blind corners.
The text warns that most motorists trapped in blind intersections live within a few miles of the accident site. Drivers know the danger yet tend to forget or ignore the trap, and some who deem them unsafe propose removing them by cutting the corn in the intersections.
A description notes the subject positions themselves as being above the ears and retreating back from the corner for roughly 100 feet, indicating a measured stance or distance in the scene. The fragment suggests a spatial setup or range in a local report or sports account.
Mr and Mrs Donald Williams of Decorah fished an afternoon off Jeffs Landing near Prairie du Chien and brought in about 60 fish of various varieties.
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