Inside Red Russia and a Christmas Message
A Christmas greeting from The Chronicle staff wishing readers a Merry Christmas. The article shares Russ Potter’s travelogue Inside Red Russia shown December 12, portraying ordinary Russians as content, similar to Americans, with lower living standards but no propaganda. It argues Americans should reassess views of Russians and their science and weapons.
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Russ Potter
Red Russia
Stalin
Kremlin
Soviet Russia
Potter
State Department
Russia
Red
Editorial on Sputnik State of U S Satellite Effort
Carl Hamilton of the Iowa Falls Citizen argues the United States looked foolish over the Sputnik affair. He says the Soviets achieved a landmark, and the U S should have calmly pursued its own satellite program without childish reactions.
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Florida
Carl Hamilton
Iowa Falls
Sputnik
Christmas Card Racket Reported In Pella Homes
A wave of unsolicited Christmas cards mailed to many Pella housewives continues yearly. Women receive cards they did not order and some ship them back or ignore the issue, while the senders persist. The practice appears profitable to the manipulators despite the annoyance.
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Pella
Editorial Roundup on Roads Seats and Communist Decline
A compilation of opinions from Ford executives urging universal seat belts to cut fatalities and severe injuries, Waterloo Courier opposing wider highway lanes, The Church Herald noting dwindling American Communist Party membership, Sigourney Review critiquing inflation and labor costs, and a nostalgic lament on modern economic complexity and ancient threats.
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Alex L. Haynes
Ford Motor Co
Unordered goods advice from Boston BBB
The Boston Better Business Bureau advises that you are not obligated to purchase or return unordered merchandise. Keep it briefly in case the sender requests its return, do not use it, then discard it.
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Boston
Better Business Bureau
Iowa plans state wide testing for scholarships
Hancher, president of Iowa ity and head of the Iowa College Presidents Association, announced to the state board of regents a plan for a state wide testing program for high school students seeking scholarships. Tests will be given at seventy locations in Iowa on April 1 and 2, 1958, measuring mental ability English composition reading comprehension and mathematics. High scorers may state a college preference and the chosen school will award scholarships. Central of Pella is among twenty colleges subscribing.
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Hancher
Iowaity
Iowa College Presidents Association
State Board of Regents
Iowa
Authoriss
Central of
Pella
Back Through Memory Lane reminiscences feature Chronicle dates
Items of interest from The Chronicle traverse decades with snippets from 10, 20, 30, 40, and 60 years ago. Readers recall local events, people, and milestones that shaped the community, offered in brief archival glimpses and period flavor.
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Chronicle
50 Years Ago Santa Sleigh Cover Glows In Colorful Display
The issue notes a multi colored cover and back with Santa in a sleigh drawn by four reindeer. It records the death of Robert K. Lounsberry at age 61, who lived in Pella nine years after moving from Mahaska County. A reception for Histeddford contestants at Albia on the college campus featured Cox as chairman with Shure at piano, Vander Zyl on Christmas song, De Reus on violin, and Laura Kramer in reading to form a Social Union.
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Santa
Spectato
Robert K. Lounsberry
Pella
Mahaska County
Histeddford
Albia
Cox
Professors Shure
Bess Vander Zyl
Cox and Roux
Central
Harry de Reus
Laura Kramer
Messrs
Moasdam and Wheeler
Fairfield
Iowa
Fine horses shine at show and local news mix
Ten horses shown at the Chicago Livestock Show won ten ribbons for fine stock. George Thomassen offered a frame house on South Main Street for sale. Several local residents were elected directors of the 1. I District Pair Association. Church and college groups organized fund drives and project pledges. Flora Kester resigned to marry A Bly of Des Moines.
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Chicago
George Thomassen
Flora Kester
Knoxville
A. Bly
Des Moines
Burlington Railway
Ottumws
Post-Christmas Sale Ad In Color On Back Page
Jim Vander Pol bought the back page of the issue for an advertisement about his post Christmas sale in color. The weather was cold but croquet had been played on the court behind the Van Niewaal and A N Vander Linden stores. Comment noted the games were warm.
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Jim Vander Pol
van Niewaal
A. N. Vander Linden
40 Years Ago At Il Fennema Mine West Of Town
Items from the Pella area include Aric Van Rees injured in a fall at the Il Fennema mine six miles west of town, while ready for army duty. Local students excel in declamation and basketball with Pella High winning 26 24 over Monroe and 36 22 against Central College. Other notes mention a Christmas story hour, family visits, a coal mine purchase near Colfax, a wedding, and local promotions for new Dodge cars with four wheel hydraulic brakes. The Wings film arrival rounds out the Des Moines theatre scene.
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Aric van Rees
Il Fennema
Freda Carpenter
Magdalene Kuyper
Leona Reuvers
Pella High
Monroe
Pella
Otto Mathes
Des Moines
Pella Tigers
Central College
Central
Vander Linden
Renaud
Lynhorst
van Rees
Monrée
Chet Huckaby
Rube
Fred Scheffers
Colfax
Ing
William van Vork
Dillon
Irene Grandin
Karl C. Kettering
Kettering
Kansas City University
John W. Vander Linden
John Branshart
Fay Mathews
John Lanschuit
The
Chronicle
John W. Young
Coatsville
Illinois
Young
Main
Oskaloosa
Peter van Zante
A. B. van Houweling
Dodge
Wings
Charles Rogers
Richard Arlan
Clara Bow
Marion County Farm Bureau elects Hollowell president
The Marion County Farm Bureau annual dinner in Knoxville re elected W A Hollowell as president. In a separate notice Charley Dillon died at 58 after a heart failure while driving to work at Buerkens Manufacturing plant. his Ford veered onto the curb in Garden Square. A Nash Finch salesman witnessed the vehicle leave the curb but did not react.
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W. A. Hollowell
Melcher
Marion County Farm Bureau
Knoxville
Charley Dillon
Heart Fa Ure
Buerkens Mfg. Co
Ford
Garden Square
Nash-Finch Company
Pella Friendly City Cover Highlights 20 Years Ago
An ornate green and black cover Spars Christmas imagery and slogan Pella The Friendly City. Knoxville to get a new post office site chosen. A Knoxville high school projector bought. Marion County 672 receive old age assistance averaging $19. Community program honors new citizens with speaker George Mahoney. Nine people named for distinguished work in test prep. Dutchmen beat Knoxville 21 to 20 with last basket by Gene Stientjes. Federated Club women prepare needy baskets. county relief board members named. Baptist Church noted.
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Santa
Pella
Knoxville
Marion County
George Mahoney
Des Moines
Mary Spencer
Marie de Penning
Dorothy Pethoven
Henrietta Sels
William van Maaren
Alice van Nimwegen
Nellie Ver Meer
Pella High
Bob Menning
Gene Stientjes
Federated Club
Harry Sixsmith
W. A. Butts
Peter Visser
Bussey
County Relief Board
Y. T. van Ni Waal
E. V. Goad
Baptist Church
Rotary and Kiwanis hear dam plans on Des Moines River sites
Col William Leaf of the Army Engineers outlines possible dam locations at Red Rock and Howell as Rotary and Kiwanis host a point meeting. Death: Earle Vander Zyl, 20, killed in a crash near Oskaloosa Street with passengers hospitalized. Little Dutchmen lose to Des Moines Tech 39 33. Henry Brouwer dies in car overturn near Otley en route to Monroe. Wayne Schakel and Jerry Carpenter home on vacation. John De Groot and Mrs De Groot of The Hague visit Henry Cox. Robert Lautenbach heads to Berea for a folk dance school. Maurice Mineart in Garden Square as Santa for merchants.
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Rotary and
Kiwanis
William Leaf
Army Engineers
Des Moines River
Red Rock
Howell
Earle Vander Zyl
Simon H. Vander Zyl
Earle
Hundson
Oskaloosa Street
Tom Grundman
Don Andrews
Herbert Vander Waal
Andrew
Vander Waal
Grundman
Des Moines Tech
Weyers
Pippel
Prins
Otley
Henry Brouwer
Monroe
Wayne Schakel
Jerry Carpenter
Iowa University
John de Groot
the Hague
Holland
Henry Cox
Calfornia
Community Notes Highlight Local Church and Civic Activities
Rev Paul J. Christensen is welcomed as pastor with his family pictured. mural planning at the new post office lobby involves Professor Vernon Bobbitt and Mr Boyd. Boy Scouts Irwin Lubbers Jr. and Gene Wormhoudt present a white enameled cane inscribed for Ted King. WHO radio plans a January program honoring Pella as Hugo Kuyper mobilizes seventy-costumed participants.
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Comed
Paul J. Christensen
Vernon Bobbitt
Central College Art Department
Boyd
Irwin Lubbers Jr
Gene Wormhoudt
Boy Scouts of
Troop No. 72
Ted King
Lon Wormhoudt
Radio Who
Des Moines
Pella
Hugo Kuyper
Chamber of Commerce
Six virtues of newspaper advertising from Missouri speech
Frank Rucker of the University of Missouri outlined six advantages of newspaper advertising at the Missouri Press Association Convention. The points are neigh borliness, merchandisability, flexibility, personality, Retentiveness, and economy, highlighting newspapers' unique reach and cost efficiency for ads.
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Frank Rucker
University of Missouri
Columbia
Missouri Press Association
H.R
Engineer Urges Unified Support for Des Moines River Dam
Colonel William Leaf of the Army Engineer warned Rotary and Kiwanis groups that broad public backing is needed for a Des Moines River flood control dam. He said Congress would likely oppose the project amid regional division on the issue.
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William Leaf
Rotary
Kiwanis
The
Des
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