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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1956
Page
7
A reflective note urges kindness through smiles and approachable demeanor. It links friendly expression, attire, and manners to making or losing potential friendships, stressing that a pleasant appearance reinforces a positive impression.
Iowa sunshine on Groundhog Day prompts six more weeks of winter while Punxsutawney and Sun Prairie echo similar forecasts. A Pella Scout earns bread by honest work, sparking bids for Boy Scout Week as national debates on highway upgrades and a Soviet US friendship treaty unfold amid cautious U.N. diplomacy.
A drive through Iowa's highway critique shows local apologists undercutting the state program. Russell Lundy, chairman of the Iowa Highway Commission, says some Iowa towns complain, calling roads cowpaths, while he completes an eight thousand mile tour assessing national standards.
The piece urges lower speed limits on Iowa roads to reduce auto accidents, noting hills and poor sightlines make high speeds unsafe. It contrasts safer yet powerful cars with old road design, then pivots to a winter travel mood and climate musings across the country, concluding with a wry note about northwest Iowa.
Items of interest from The Chronicle highlight bygone events and notable moments. This memory column surveys past stories, recalling people, places, dates, and outcomes that shaped the community’s history.
Fifty years ago R R Beard H P Scholte and K Verhey attended a City Council session where Verhey urged selecting a larger lot for the Carnegie Library near the Siebertje Vier sen property and the council planned to approach Miss Viersen about a trade. A town basketball win over Central College 33 to 17 was noted at the Y M C A Auditorium. An ordinance 63 set four foot cement walks on cinder foundations. The Iowa Senate passed a drag law favoring nearby farmers with pay caps. Other items: Bousquet moving to Vander Meulen home, dynamo repairs in Chicago, Blommers brothers bruised in a game, Waechter property sale at 925 dollars, Sears occupant, Central College beat Pella 43 14 for charity, Central girls lost to Ottumwa 16 9, North Porterville rural school fire, rainmaker Hatfield’s California job with a $10 000 fee, Sipe selling home and planning move to Monroe, and suffrage talk by Flora Dunlap in Pella.
An Iowa and Missouri good roads enthusiasm meeting effected the south end organization of the Daniel Boone Trail, marking a milestone in cross state cooperation for improved routes and regional access.
The public expresses well wishes for Dwight D. Eisenhower, praising his humanity and resilience beyond politics. It notes his illness and recovery reveal qualities that make him a trusted neighbor and mid century American, embodying courage, patience and goodwill for peace and brotherhood.
In a Chronicle issue, Emerson Hough’s The Broken Coin is featured as a film scenario by Grace Cunard while the community reports progress on a new high school building. Thirty years earlier Central’s basketball beat Buena Vista and narrowly lost to Graceland. Pella High topped Monroe. The White Pole Road was limited to Des Moines to Bloomfield, with Iowa Good Roads blamed for the downgrade. Mayor L. M. Donai of Boyden and Reverend Bernie Mulder’s installation mark local governance. Cars, prices, and a large Pellacora exhibit headline a busy period, along with Tulip Time plans, a second theme song, and plans for May 1936 celebrations.
Twenty years ago Tulip Time launched its first theme song Kom Oude Kennis Zing Mee with home piano and singing. A contest sought a new theme while a record blizzard stranded traffic with six foot drifts and twelve foot highs on Highway 163. Schools closed and coal ran low as Dr J J Sybenga earned a special mention after wading through deep snow.
Ten years ago in Lynnville a Tuesday fire wiped out the Jack Sprat grocery, Hartsock Cafe, and Itsock home, with losses pegged at 25000 dollars. In Pella, Little Dutchmen defeated Knoxville High 38 to 30 in the county tourney final at the Pella gym, with stars Van Gorp and teammates Van der Ploeg McGee Rouw and Gaass. The packed gym buzzed as subsidies on dairy feed beef and sheep were noted and lime orders were arranged by the County ACA Committee chaired by Clarence Sweem.
Report notes Harold Haverkamp, recently released from service, to join Hope College as associate in psychology. Also mentions Heerema promoted to Captain on terminal leave, Pvt Max Schakel home on Marine furlough, and Vander Zyls from Itgerland visiting. aviation editor in LA reflects on disarmament talks while Netherland letters in gratitude for aid arrive from Pella.
Estimated hay on farms January 1 reaches 6,082,000 tons, eight percent below the January 1, 1955 level but fifteen percent above the early year average. The figures indicate a tighter supply compared with last year yet a stronger start than the long term average.
Peter Tusseling recounts the formation of the Marion County Mutual Insurance Association in 1923 after talks at the State Farm Bureau. The effort secured local support, initial funding, and a charter requirement of $50,000 in coverage, growing to substantial policy totals and reserves by 1956.
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