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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
3
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The Chronicle urges the value of public schools as the foundation of citizenship amid wartime. It warns that school dropouts risk long-term unemployment and lower earnings, urging parents and youth to return to education this fall. It notes England’s new free three-stage national system and discusses postwar land use plans by the U S Department of Agriculture, including breaking up good land for farming.
The article argues Wickard’s farm policy ideas favor family sized farms as the nation’s foundation, proposing price based on earning capacity, land conservation aid, and converting wartime nitrogen plants to fertilizer. It also warns against sub-marginal land sales and critiques overemphasis on security, urging ongoing striving and competition for progress.
Editorial excerpt notes a 1930s barber quartet club founded by Owen C. Cash with broad reach in US and Canada, but jokes about joining rules. It also warns that collapse of European demand would depress farm income, leave wage earners jobless, and collapse farm prices without parity guarantees. It urges farmers to pay debts, buy war bonds, insurance, and avoid new investments as a safety measure.
A full page of the Lake Prairie District Fair ads recalls vaudeville acts clowns horses and a trained dog show plus auctions, exhibits and real estate notes. Reports detail school teachers, a large oat yield in Gilby, real estate ads, and a host of local people visiting Chicago Des Moines and Pendulum towns as the fair nears its Labor Day schedule. The Pella Meteors beat the Newton One Minute Boys in a local game.
Lankema pitched as Aschenbrenner and H Kuyper hit homers to power a 5 to 1 victory. The strong offense supported the pitcher in a decisive win.
Twenty years ago on September 11 1921 the Pella Canning Co corn pack began as fears of frost loomed. News covers a Scholte Grove reform meeting after harvest and a Boone visitor taking over a dry cleaning business. The column notes marriages visits and local theater shows plus a petition for a Bovine Tuberculosis program, markets for hogs corn wheat oats and cream, and Hoover era political commentary.
A Donkey Baseball at Pool Park benefits kittenball league proceeds. Christian Reformed Churches mark the 100th anniversary of their 1884 split from the Netherlands Reformed Church. Dominic Scholte linked to Pella’s origins. Dick De Haas reports 450 feet of water wells on his farm, little water found. Grimes Canning Plant meat canning project to hire eighty, cattle from drought-affected farmers. Three heavy rain showers totaling two inches, crops already burned. County relief workers protest 80 cents an hour wage, demand higher pay and threaten vacancies. Sheriff
The report to the County Board notes 2674 country school pupils and wide cost variation per pupil across districts. It suggests some rural schools should consolidate or send children to other schools due to teacher shortages and budget pressures. Tracy plans to leave Marion County for Des Moines. successor not yet chosen.
Workmen demolished an old log cabin at the west end of Independence Street. Anne De Bruyn Sr died this year after fifty two years. The house sold at public auction on August 12 to A Geurts who plans to build a new home there.
The OPA revises staple work clothing prices effective August 26. Average sanforized chambray work shirt prices in independent stores will drop about 10 cents, while other garment prices stay near current levels or lower than recent months. The agency says the revisions will hold the line on the cost of living.
Grundman pledged to protect workers from molestation. The federal government bought 1000 cattle daily from farmers to be canned in many Iowa towns. Northern Iowa farmers with ample feed drove livestock from the south to care for them. Ames men helped arrange these matters. Professor William Van der Lugt visited Central College to teach psychology.
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