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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1952
Page
3
The Thought of the Week urges admitting error as a sign of strength and warns against stubbornness. Atomic power advances with steam and electricity from Harwell, Arco, and Oak Ridge reactors, seen as a commercial, multi million dollar step toward competing with hydro and steam plants.
Two synthetic compounds marsilide and rimifon from Roche laboratories Nutley New Jersey were given to tuberculosis patients at Seaview Hospital New York and tested further at Veterans Hospital and Trudeau Society Hospital in Saranac New York. Results were described as startling and the drugs are cheap and easy to take as pills.
The piece argues Social Security should pay at sixty five with no earning limits, calling current rules unfair. It notes segregation turmoil in Cairo Illinois and a Black veteran honored with the Medal of Honor, praising merit and national unity, and applauds Senator Gillette for delaying a study trip as a prudent business decision.
The Oskaloosa Junior Chamber of Commerce dropped its Outstanding Citizen Award due to little interest, while Pella’s Kiwanis Club revived a similar prize after years. The piece argues awards should remain available and be given only when citizens demonstrate meritorious service, preserving credibility and avoiding a popularity contest.
A Silently voiced opinion piece argues that Ike will seek the Republican nomination only if drafted, with party fears of Taft winning. It contrasts Universal Military Training plans with current drafts, urging Congress to drop UMT, and calls for a 1962 focus on restoring faith, integrity, and anti corruption in government.
A brisk look at notable items from The Chronicle archives spanning ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years ago. Highlights include local events, personalities, and milestones that shaped the community’s memory and historic record.
Forty years ago the April 4 1912 council set pay for graders and laborers at 4.00 and 1.75 per day. Sixty or more water meters had been installed, while a Canadian Garden City Feeder Co stock list named P. H. Van Gorp and others. Eighteen hundred Hollanders entered the U S. few came to Pella, many to Sioux County and South Dakota. Charlies on road dragging and seed corn exhibits drew crowds. Notables included Cornelius Kraay J B Sexton and Edith Gezel wedding. Pella organized a baseball team and local business moved. A bank paid six percent dividend and a Hollander sought work after selling a Cyphers Incubators agency. Humorous Sioux Center tale urged bring a Psalm Book.
Leona Berg, Bess Berg, Margaret Grundman, Adele Van Drimmelin, Janet Hospers, and Bess De Vries called on friends at Leighton during an informal gathering.
The 39th Iowa General Assembly had enacted a pure seed labeling law. Community notes mention Patriotic Day at the Baptist Church and B Y P U services. Names linked to the event include Katharine Cochran e Lenora Ballengee Magdalene Kuyper Lucile Cochran e Mary Crew Henry Huizenga James Mowe and Fred Lautenbach. The Apollo Club of Newton under Elias Blum performed in Pella and Central College glee club members met President Warren G Harding. A Central College president’s relative died in a Jamaica surf shark attack. Public celebrations were planned for Pella’s 75th anniversary in August 1922, and highway boosters urged. Boy Scouts camped at Thunder Creek, Herman Vander Meulen planned for the Pelican yearbook, Way Down East was shown in Oskaloosa, and the Ver Steeg home near the square was offered for sale after a fire. Iowa State College students Harry Neyenesch Clarence Buerkens George Kaldenberg and Bob Lautenbach visited home.
The Pella community report lists plans for a mule demonstration at Knoxville Veterans hospital farm assisted by M D Textrum and J M Snyder, Hotel Pella sale to J D Wilcox from June 1932, Penney Store marking 80th anniversary with April bargains, an April Fool Supper at Elmwood Inn, amputation plans for J J Sprando, neighbors visiting, Pasadena Majors defeating Central Wonder Team 35 to 31 in a post season game, plus local remarks on Mrs Ellsworth Richardson Farm Bureau work, Mrs Leonora Scholte birthday, Mr and Mrs Henry Cox visiting relatives, and Gilbert Van Dusseldorp fracturing an arm cranking a car.
The notice recalls Billy Benitema dying at 72 after a coal truck fall and possible stroke. Front page images show Phillip Oliver, Lila Van Vliet, and costumed Central College students. It notes rubber salvage drive by Leon Henderson, tire price ceilings, and Tulip Festival queen campaign in The Chronicle.
The article argues religion and its precepts are essential to a strong democracy and that the Boy Scouts of America, through its National Council resolutions, must model and teach religious faith. It highlights duty to God, reverence, and respect for others, urging leaders to lead by example to foster youths' spiritual life and religious tolerance.
The society page features a photo of Mr and Mrs Paul Zylstra celebrating sixty years of marriage. An ad promotes Peter Heerma's Tulip Cafe with a first opening date of April 1 and grand opening April 4. Glenn Koopman appears in the issue after a year at Fort Bragg.
Twenty years ago Oscar Brison, aged 63 and blind, had left Pella for Des Moines after long residence there. The choral festival at Pella High drew several school groups and was open to the public. Harry Linn, noted horseman and field secretary for the Iowa Horse…
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