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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1950
Page
3
A squib from Let's Face It urges elders to guide youth by example as aging prompts wiser living. It counsels patience, education, and avoiding debt, stressing practical living wisdom drawn from experience.
A Sioux Court meeting discussed an emergency stop light for cars with a larger illuminated sign reading stop. The device would activate at the post and aid drivers when the car ahead swerves into a driveway or when a vehicle exits a farm driveway, reducing rear collisions.
On Wednesday September 6 at Clyde Milner farm near Antville a plowing match showcases four year soil conservation work. The event demonstrates rehabilitation of a run down farm and the added land value from proper use, with newspapers and radio promising to tell the tale. Seeing is believed and the lesson is to act.
An automobile tour reveals rapid postwar home growth with new houses rising near centers yet scarce near schools and churches. The piece urges civic planning to guide outlying development, noting potential areas like Schulte Heights and urging collaboration among real estate, architects, builders, industry, schools, and city authorities for orderly, attractive expansion.
A Colorado Supreme Court decision holds the states unfair pricing act unconstitutional. It struck down below cost pricing bans regardless of motive and barred presuming criminal intent. The ruling centers on a challenge by a food chain and provoked mixed reactions among merchants and business interests statewide.
A nostalgic piece celebrates local tree planting by the Nixon lineage led by E. H. Nixon of Ohio with seeds saved a century ago. It notes his Canton neighborhood effort to plant apples, acorns, hazelnuts and thirty varieties, improving soils, providing shade and recreation while recalling lost walnut and hazelnut trees from local banks and hills.
A column argues Washington voices downplay wartime mobilization fears while urging a 50 mph night and 60 mph day speed limit to save lives after a week of highway deaths. It contrasts public response to war with traffic safety, notes hillside erosion, and stresses vegetation to protect waterways, critiquing human alteration of nature.
The text asserts Labor Day as a universal celebration of the American right to work and enjoy personal freedom outside strict regimented control, stressing independence and individual choice in how people spend the holiday.
Front page highlights Home Coming Week plans running October 3 to 8 with Old Settlers Day events. Mentions Ella Crosby offering to buy hair and make switches, local figures from Ruth Thomas to Helen Rietveld, moves of teachers and pastors, and community notices including a death and local business notes.
Thirty years ago man Van Houten led Wyoming vocational education and served as associate director at Town State Teachers' College. He spoke of military service and Cham ber of Commerce work after discharge. Other items recount cooperative meeting near Knoxville, women's club addresses, and a failed effort to fund a community building memorial. A letter from Leona Vander Linden from Formosa mentions missionaries, improved roads, and travel plans to Seoul.
Twenty years ago Pella merchants backed a fall festival with two big bargain days. Knoxville beat Pella 28 to 0 as key players Goedhart and Ulrich were out injured. The town featured a new Shell station at Oskaloosa and East Third built by Hackett and Liter, plus Legion Post activity, mission field lectures by Rev Van Kersen, and a film showing of The Unholy with multiple voices. The Farmers Cooperative Creamery at Sully opened to the public drawing over a thousand visitors, and Des Moines Tribune reporter Priscilla Wayne praised Pella for its cleanliness and flowers on a southeastern Iowa tour noting windmills and quaint entrances.
Mary Helen Vander Lind and the G A R Circle led a race order while the Leans defeated the Fats 7 to 5 in a ball game, drawing merchants out of stores to watch. Artie Bloem pitched for the Fats and H Van Rees for the Leans as L Popma touts the Sunny Monday washing machine by Dexter with a horizontal flywheel. Old Settler meeting speakers announced for Home Coming Week include A Van Stigt, Verenius Cole, and John Nollen with plans for the afternoon event.
Cattle drove back to pasture in progress report. Reverend A C Droz and Jann y relocate to Pella with Droz to lead Pella Baptist Church. Bogard family lot sold at auction for 2040 dollars to Henry Dieleman. Edmond returns from Boston after National Dental Convention. Clyde Herring, Democratic candidate for governor, to address high school auditorium. message highlights Herring praise.
Ten years ago September 26 1940 Central won 28 to 20 as Bud Bonwell ran for ten yards. A.A. Rockwell led a new flag waving section at the college band. The music department planned to present Haydn The Creation in late October. A War Department release noted river flood control surveys on Des Moines River and potential dams at Red Rock or Howell station with a public hearing in Des Moines.
The editor of the Littleton Independent received the Crossman Editorial Writing Trophy before about 200 colleagues last Saturday. He credits Littleton advertisers and businessmen for a free press, praising his publisher for trust and open discussion. He notes a shift toward trusteeship in journalism and the value of a warm, sympathetic environment for editorials.
The Pella barrow show was planned alongside the Horse Mule and Pony Show with a poultry sale also featured. Jerry Carpenter returned home from Oskaloosa Hospital after polio. he will stay in a cast eight weeks. Construction began on a new office for Dr J J Subengga on Garden Square’s north block. Two pals of George Carson caused an accident, one squatting behind him and the other pushing his chest, Carson broke an arm. Freda Swank married Gerald Vanden Berg of Sioux Center. they posed near Second Reformed Church. Farmers urged to promote soils district petitions for state approval, highlighting soil saving farming and district benefits with federal aid. Central’s Homecoming will be titled Tons of Mane with leading players listed. play directed by Prof. Clark who recently joined Central.
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