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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1950
Page
3
The piece attacks a quote on class struggle as an outright Communist lie. It claims the author is one of eleven convicts for sedition in Judge Medina's court, the head of the party in the United States, and asserts American merit can propel an office boy to become a capitalist from the start.
Vice President Barkley opened the Senate and waited for a speech but none came for twenty minutes. Then Senator Johnson of North Carolina entered with a prepared address and the chamber settled into normalcy as the room relaxed.
New Delhi reports that four million Indians gain constitutional rights abolishing untouchability in the Republic’s new charter. The move ends caste stigma and allows unclean communities to worship enter temples and share public life as equals. The piece notes the historical ignorance of untouchability and praises universal dignity and basic freedoms tied to birth in a free nation.
Opinion piece argues Cold War anxiety rises as Dr Klaus Fuchs admits sharing atomic secrets with Russia. It notes divisions in U S opinion between appeasement fears and faith in government, praising Sen Bourke Hickenlooper for exposing secrecy leaks and urging calm, resolute public resolve.
A Christian Science Monitor correspondent reports that Russia banned Bible shipments in 1947 but prior to the ban the society supplied 10,000 Bibles 10,000 testaments 200000 Scripture portions and 1500 Greek testaments. Bibles are now sent to Austria France and Western Germany by letter requests and relief agencies amid debate on Soviet fear of the Good Book. The society plans to resume shipments if the ban ends and questions why the Soviets fear Western imperialism or see the Bible as a threat.
Dr. Arthur Harmount Graves of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station found a Washington area American chestnut that resisted the blight. He crossed it with blight resistant Oriental varieties to create a forest planting stable tree, 11 years old and 21 feet tall, with fifty other crosses promising. Nurseries already list blight resistant chestnuts and more will follow. Planting a chestnut tree could restore the old tradition, providing nuts and shade for families and communities.
A columnist laments a hometown figure rising to prominence, calling him aloof and unapproachable. The piece questions motives behind social mobility and mocks model ideals as hollow while noting broader debates over road funding and tax fairness in the state.
A reflective piece on PTA meetings and parental duties argues that education for parenting is crucial. The author notes jokes about attendance but contends every parent should attend at least occasionally to grasp the impact of daily family decisions on children. He contrasts formal schooling with family life lessons.
The item lists G H Wormhoudt contracting to erect a post office building on Garden Square adjacent to Wormhoudt Furniture. Monuments by Don aldson Brimmer via a site old building. nursing student Louise Gaass heads to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. land seekers Vander Wal Goedhart Vander Kamp tour Colorado visiting Mr Vogelaar at Montrose. Meat firm Pos and Company ships hogs to Des Moines at 10.25 per cwt totaling 2450.00. Local politics note Ordinance 89 for sewage system printed. Monument fund aims for 300 with 100 raised. garden square project. Illness of Mrs IL De Booy in West Pella. Des Moines and Newton residents summoned. 250 votes in school election with Van Sittert Vander Vineg directors and Cole treasurer. Pella mercial Association to meet. Luca locals visiting Eddyville. Prairie City duck-hunt joins. K Vroom reports 12 rats in one day. Various locals attend events, auto purchase from Star Auto, baby six at Alex De Boer home, Buerkens Wagon Factory buys timber, Hamilton building six-room house, CE officers at Grinnell.
Mr and Mrs Henry Cox of Omaha visited the J M Cox home. Charley Dillon traveled to Omaha for a serious surgical operation. Miss Alicia Hasselman announced a millinery department opening at the Jim Vander Pol Store with Mrs M Thomassen assisting. The Boland Land Company urged Pella investors to Hyde County South Dakota to buy land, mentioning a Holland colony and a church established there.
Thirty years earlier Fred Lankelma sustained painful burns while fighting a fire at the Pella Motor Co garage where a new Overland was badly damaged and a used car suffered minor damage. Chemicals were used to extinguish the blaze. The note also records local events and other items of community news from the same period.
A 1940 issue notes Chamber banquet crowd for Night School grads with Harry Linn as speaker. High school band in new uniforms. a Community Auction is planned. Proposals to build a Central Park stage and towers for Tulip Time are discussed, with Are John Lauten assisting the Time Committee dinner at Tulip Cafe.
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