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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1957
Page
11
The American Legion ladies and parents funded and opened a recreation center in Pella Hall for local high and junior high students. Fridays offer basement games like ping pong and scrabble, upstairs skating, dancing with parent instruction, and refreshments from school groups. The program fills a long held need and invites continued support.
A school column records student highlights including three new goldfish in Mr Stults room named Eddie C tor Elvis and Marge. It notes jokes about cheap money and a Rainmaker play cast praise, plus anecdotes about misbehaviors, measles jokes, locker mishaps, and band concert effort.
A list of staff positions and names appears, naming co editors assistant editor typing editors sports editor and reporters including Sarah Davis Marge Gontolink Kay Kuiper Kay McDonald Janice Mol Jerry Ulrich Connie Vander Meu sen Nancy De Cook Evelyn Dykstra Cub Reporters Charlotte Burton Mary Dieleman Linda Glen dening Willene Tysseling Vivian Van Steenis Marilyn aven Phyllis Walraven Bob Slykhuis Charles Slyk Jerry Bogaards Mark De Cook.
Players passed around two bottles of pop on the bus to Centerville and one spill stained a rider. Quiet bumps on heads from roof dusting labeled players like Bob V. W. Phil V. B. Jack B. Bob S. and Jerry A. Butch S. called football plays as the huddle dissolved. the B squad struggled for rebounds, forcing Borgman to stop drills as baskets kept being hit and questions rose about what happened.
Advice on cultivating courtesy and personality to boost popularity and career potential. Encourages practicing politeness, studying jazz figures, and developing fashion interests. Emphasizes self-improvement through reading, learning, and social acceptability.
A column style Q and A features playful exchanges with Puppybreath The Ans Man. The reader asks about secrets, social blunders, and odd anecdotes including elderly Aunt Sophie, a rustic old fashioned gathering, and humorous farming mishaps. The piece ends with a macabre London tale about a boy who cut his mother’s heart out.
In a murky exchange the speaker questions a supposed tea tray claim and suggests a silver platter instead. The dialogue references Robert K Brown and Alice in Wonderland with playful mishearings and a closing remark about Walter Puppybreath.
Miss Mertz from St Louis County Missouri joins Pellach High as the new Home Ec instructor after completing Missouri University Columbia last February. She formerly considered nursing and enjoys tennis. Marilyn Aalbers, a Monroe resident, starts as a second semester sophomore with basketball interests and a fondness for Afton T. Audrey Pressley travels from Mia Florida to Pella, enjoys swimming and baseball, and is a Elvis fan adjusting to a small school.
Chester Sherwood of Wilton Junction shot a 12 gauge blast bringing down two foxes in one shot on a hunting trip. He spotted the animals from a hill and fired once, capturing both pelts.
In a small town a man buys a wedding gift, a silver tray, feeling aged and anxious about future milestones. He debates returning it, drives away, and—unable to stop at a stop sign—suffers a fatal crash when the tray falls to the pavement.
Town State College agronomist Lloyd Dumenil advises farmers planning 1957 fertilizer programs to consider drought. He says proper use pays over years, drought raises risk but most seasons favor corn in Iowa and residual effects in year two or three can recoup costs, thus reducing drought risk.
Du Menil notes responses to crop fertilizer under drought years vary from yield gains to losses. He advises reducing rates when subsoil moisture is low at season start and suggests hedging with lower fertilizer applications and smaller stand densities. Actual outcomes depend on summer rainfall and distribution.
The 1956 Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service data show red clover, sweet clover, timothy, and blue grass seed outputs down from 1955, while smooth bromegrass rises. Red clover yields 54 lb per acre from 36,000 acres, far below 1955 and the ten year average. Sweet clover, timothy seed outputs also fall, with red clover and timothy showing notably reduced yields and acreage.
The report shows 1965 and 1966 yields for crops including smooth brome grass seed and bluegrass seed in Iowa. Production figures compare with earlier years, noting 1956 as a peak year for bluegrass and significant fluctuations in brome grass seed across acres and yields, with ten year averages referenced for context.
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