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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1956
Page
5
Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker welcomed sixty Hungarian refugees to McGuire Air Force Base on November 21. Thirty-five men, twenty-five women, and eleven children were among the arrivals. The greeting ended with a blessing for peace. The women cried as the welcome finished. Safe haven America during the holiday season.
Governor elect Hershel Loveless signals support for a workable liquor measure, but the editorial cautions no mandate to liberalize Iowa liquor laws. It notes tax projections from liquor sales and predicts the State Liquor Store system will endure, while contrasting national reaction to the Suez crisis and urging calmer diplomacy.
An Iowa diary contrasts Khrushchev’s Moscow visit with American ideals. The piece recalls a Soviet leader’s chilling threats and blasphemous quips, urging readers to beware a brutal regime while applauding the gentler tone of the White House.
Dr Irving P Krick of Denver told the Hybrid Seed Corn Conference in Chicago that cloud seeding yielded 100 to 175 percent normal rainfall in drought Iowa last summer helping the corn crop. He said continued seeding will raise soil moisture this winter and cited Marion and Pella areas where rainfall prevented likely failures. At 5 to 10 cents an acre the seeding service proved cheap insurance and worthwhile.
Editorials and letters discuss obituaries as credentials, retirement boredom, and the lure of avoiding obits. Sigourney Review highlights Iowa highway deaths, praising Minnesota and Washington for tougher enforcement. Governor Langlie urged cities to enforce laws. Nebraska fines speeders to curb fatal crashes.
Items from The Chronicle recalling happenings from 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. The page highlights notable names, events, places, and dates as remembered by readers and staff, offering a concise stroll through local history and archival contrasts.
Fifty years ago the Pella council discussed relocating the fire bell to a central site and purchasing a magnetic alarm system with ward boxes to cut delays. The decision was deferred as plans to study municipal light plants and other civic measures continued. A curfew for under 16 was approved amid boisterous street conduct.
Forty years ago commercial associations across Iowa towns put up steel post signs marking the Daniel Boone trail from Canada to the Gulf. A Holland-born youth Anthon Smits lost two fingers in a buza saw at George Heeren shop. Marie Kaiser soprano demonstrated the Edison phonograph at Van der Linden Drug Store. The Puritan Drag Co. took Brunswick phonograph agency. A one act comedy July 4th played at the Opera House with Federated Club sponsors. The spectacle was directed by Clorine Dysart Don Waechter Fay Lankelma Eleanor Thompson and Professor
Brouwer cited for good parts work while Van Wely and Schilder bought the building housing their meat market from S H Viernen. George Liter cut three fingers on a farm corn shredder east of town. The Star Auto Co sold a Willys Knights to George Engbers and Fords to several locals. Ever Ready Auto Co sold Dodges to John Ver Ploeg and Jacob W Van Gorp. Ng Poon Chew, a Chinese journalist, to lecture at Central College auditorium in the Lecture Course.
Thirty years ago contracts were let for paving 3.4 miles of No 24 west toward Knoxville and 3 miles of the New Sharon road from Oskaloosa. Bert Van Haaften’s Dodge sedan burned after hitting a straw filled mudhole on a detour near Pella. A new electric cancelling mile was set up in the post office to replace the old hand equipment, capable of clearing 400 pieces per minute. Weather was severe with rain sleet hindering corn picking, ice encasing the town clock, and roads plagued by skidding. About two miles of the Pella Oskaloosa highway would be planked over the grade until spring pave resumed.
Twenty years ago the front page showed Santa Claus as St Nicholas visited Pella with Burgemeester Tom' Fultz Rudy Schilder as Zwarte Piet and William Van Dort town crier handing out cookies to children during a blinding snowstorm. The Chronicle urged funds for Ted King a blind man’s used truck to replace his worn vehicle. Ted collected waste paper for his pension as aid strained. Rosscreen Company planned a new plant addition opening December 22. Orville Foster’s famous band would play with refreshments served.
Arie Schilder runs a meat market display board tracking scores in baseball football and basketball plus a sports events calendar. He bought out partner Luke Vander Linden. Four residents rode the first Rock Island train to Pella and onward to Keokuk. Ernie Schippers placed third in the State Oratorical Contest at Simpson College winning $20. Dr Bernie Mulder, former pastor of Pella and Grand Rapids churches, resigns to edit two religious magazines The Intelligencer Leader and The Religious Digest.
Ten years earlier on December 5 1946 Colleen Renaud was named the winner of the D A R award by Pella High School faculty.
In Maron County ten acre plots yielded 184 bushels per acre as part of farm records. Town leaders include P. All Town Conference members and water softening service startup at Jefferson City. A football banquet hosted by Rotary Kiwanis featured Jimmie Kempes receiving the Schilder Blanket. Weddings noted for Elva Vander Waal Ray Doorenbos Anita Jean Leon Herschel Dingeman. Slobe opens modern self serve grocery on Garden Square December 6 after converting the store.
In September 1812 a force of 200 Winnebago and Sauk fighters in British uniforms attacked Ft. Madison but failed to overrun it. The following year reinforcements failed to appear, prompting American troops to dig a trench to the river, burn the fort, and escape by boat to St Louis.
A harsh, fragmented reminiscence describes illness in court, with resignations and feelings of betrayal. The narrator recalls weakness, a bench, and a claim that judges and lawyers will seek to break him, amid tense courtroom scenes and strained nerves.
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