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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1954
Page
3
The column notes a midweek mood of fatigue and recession talk, urging persistence. It frames the downturn as familiar and urges readers to stay active and ignore pessimists, keeping busy to weather the low point.
The piece notes days lengthening after the solstice and winter’s end is near. It compares the seed catalog to a harbinger of spring, with colorful pictures of flowers and produce, signaling a shift in mood from winter gloom to renewal. It urges bringing on seed catalogs to spark change in perspective.
A Chronicle of the Heartbreak issue features stark images from a December 30 highway 163 west crash. Blankets cover a boy’s body while others shield the injured until hospital transfer. Blood, broken glass, twisted metal and scattered toys fill the scene as a strong man sobs, urging careful driving to avoid the reaper riding beside you.
UNICEF reports two thirds of cooperating communities contributed to a Halloween collection totaling 90000 dollars. The funds would supply a cup of milk daily for a week for 800000 children. 47 states participated with Melrose Massachusetts giving 1842 dollars as the largest single gift. In Pella the Association of University Women sponsored the project with about 500 dollars raised. A quoted Ames Iowa child ends the story with a hopeful remark.
A New York state senate and house committee exposed several well known charitable fund raising projects as frauds amid claims that most funds go to promotion and salaries. The panel urged strict accounting and possible new legislation to ensure gifts aid the charities. The March of Dimes and the Red Cross were cleared of suspicion.
Editorial notes the importance of a winning football team at Towa State College but stresses scholar ship and alumni achievement. It contrasts football hype with broader campus reputation and cites a Waverly fraud case to warn readers about trusting local merchants, urging vigilance to protect hometown merchants and service.
The First and Second Reformed Churches announce that missionary A Oltmans of the First Reformed Church will speak at services this coming Sunday. Alumni presented a 60 foot flag pole to Central College set up near the College Auditorium. Will Verploegh and Andrew Ver Steeg sustained injuries in separate accidents. Pellax High beat Colfax 27 to 17 with players listed. Cotton Hall dormitory quarantined due to smallpox. twenty residents housed awaiting updates as town endures a smallpox epidemic.
A long editorial on the U S Senate stance against Woodrow Wilsons League of Nations is noted with Editor W A Young supporting the League. Local item Peter George Gaass fell from a tricycle injuring neck and chin requiring stitches. Alice Vander Heiden returned from Des Moines ill with pneumonia and showed slight improvement. The towns two banks advertised National Thrift Week in Benjamin Franklin tribute. Central College basketball lost to Simpson 26 to 21 with Boeyink Van Doorninck Hoeven Moogeveen Rowland and Butt playing. Boeyink scored three baskets. Pella Produce plans to store one thousand tons ice nine inches thick. Mrs Kate Beard attended her brother Johns funeral.
The text notes a person traveled to Newton to visit her brother Dr. H. F. Keables before heading to Florida for the winter. It also mentions A. B. Van Donselaar inviting bids to hire a manager for the Farmers Cooperative Exchange, a position already filled in 1924.
A Lake Prairie Township meeting of farmers was scheduled for the Pella High School auditorium on January 11, 1934, marking a community gathering to discuss local agricultural concerns and cooperative efforts.
State leaders were set to discuss the Corn-Hog Program at a meeting to be held at the Memorial Union of Iowa State College. Figures cited by Reuben Schakel showed hog prices rising from 3.05 in 1933 to later years, with poultry prices dropping from 8.5 to 6.9. Rainfall across 1931 to 1933 was well below the 36 inch average for Pella, noted by John Pos.
In a close basketball contest Drake defeated Des Moines 34 to 32. Central led 20 to 16 at halftime. The scene involved Seeco family relocation and aviation cadets contributing to a soil erosion project through tree planting funding.
Ten years ago Marion County scheduled an election to fill the State Representative seat held by incumbent Carroll Johnson who had re entered the race, with candidates to be listed and a polling date set.
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