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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1952
Page
5
The passage reflects on Christmas as a season that reveals others' needs and prompts generous impulses. It cites Dickens and stresses a timely reminder to be kind, forgiving, and charitable as the year ends.
The piece thanks readers advertisers country correspondents and contributors for 1962. It emphasizes a country newspaper mirrors community spirit and relies on goodwill. It wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
RCA scientists demonstrated a portable television weighing 27 pounds that runs on batteries and uses only one tube. The set replaces tubes with transistors in a germanium device, amplifying signals about 100 times. It can operate without external electricity and aims for mass production within the year at about half the price of current sets.
Readers recall Truman and Stevenson charges that newspapers favor candidates. Sigma Delta Chi votes at Denver for a comprehensive 1952 campaign coverage survey, while Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star denounces the idea as unnecessary. He says a paper proves itself by community trust, not surveys.
Industrial News Review reports rain-making contracts covering about 200 million acres in fourteen western states and Mexico. Clients include city water supplies, power plants, forest protection, and log drives. Noted successes include a five million dollar rain for crops in Connecticut and a lumber company payment for a forest fire extinguishing rain. Methods use dry ice crystals from airplanes or silver iodide from hilltop generators. Public debate remains on effectiveness as regions in arid zones invest rapidly.
W D Knox editor of Hoard's Dairyman praised the Farm Bureau at a Seattle convention. He called the Bureau a strong independent core of rational thought and warned that without it American farmers might face socialist agriculture. He urged balanced policy critique and voiced satisfaction with Bureau positions.
A compilation of editorial excerpts arguing for respect toward ancestors’ thrift while pondering how future generations will judge this one. It questions who is at fault for delinquent youth, urges parental self reflection, and critiques postwar tax and road funding policies. It quotes local papers and national business views on social responsibility and policy.
Items of interest from The Chronicle recalling past events. This column looks back at notable happenings from 10, 20, 30, and 40 years ago, highlighting people, places, and moments that shaped the community's history.
A historical item recalls Miss Veda Tice, a Vander Pol store clerk, suffering a painful finger injury from jagged glass in a display case. She fainted but recovered and went home for the rest of the day.
Evangelistic services at the Baptist Church with Reverend William Peiffer of Columbus, Ohio. Sara Langstraat wed Ray Stureman and they'll move to Pasadena. Howell station bootlegging raid nabbed leggers. A young man jailed for vandalism and questioned sanity. John Robus injured at the coal chute, spinal injuries with slim recovery prospects. Sarah Welch Nossaman diary excerpt begins. Wallace McKee named Marion County new agent after Iowa State College honors. Excelsior Club stage play The Pennant with listed cast. Bessie Vander Ploeg praised for talent. Des Moines company launches bus line from Pella to Des Moines with convenient timings.
Twenty years ago the steam laundry building north of the Lincoln school lot was being dismantled after Jacob Kulken bought the lumber for a house. The piece notes former owner John Wisse, who ran the laundry until 1929, and then catalogs local high school activities, honors, and community events including basketball, oratorical contests, a painter convention, and church notices. It mentions fire damage at Fred Van Rheenen store, egg prices, corn and hog prices, and mission work notes from Leona Vander Linden and families connected to Pella and Iowa City churches.
Front page photo featured Pvt Sam Menninga and French colonial troops in North Africa. Le Gion Post led a scrap drive raising 190 dollars for gifts to service members. Central College and Loras College basketball details include a 45 28 win for Loras over Central and scoring leaders Sadowski and Kunnert with eight baskets each.
The item catalogs local commerce including the Dexter double tub washer at Van Zante Brothers Hardware Store and Nine cent sale by John Ulrich of Right Price Store. It mentions WOO Davenport radio program reprints, Palmer School of Chiropractic operation, Jacob Kuiken buying a corner house, Bell Clothing House sweater coats at $2, corn at 60 cents per bushel, Pella market hogs $7.00 to $7.50.
A Christmas meditation urges peace amid global hate and war. It cites biblical verses about brotherly love and forgiveness, contrasts past wars, and questions the ease of loving enemies. The piece suggests choosing peace as a lasting value beyond December 26.
Eugene Francis of Iowa State College Extension advises that sheep require little warmth but must stay dry during winter. He emphasizes shelter and dry bedding to prevent exposure and illness in flocks.
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