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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1959
Page
4
A Miss M Haskins quote recalls King George VI's 1939 message urging faith over certainty. The remark links the new year to risk and reassurance, emphasizing that divine guidance is safer than a known path and provides hope amid uncertainty.
The Iowa Highway Commission plans to place No Passing Zone signs to the left of roads where the yellow line starts at the pavement center. Signs aid visibility when lines are obscured by traffic and snow. The commentary links road safety to citizen responsibility and democracy.
The mayors of Los Angeles and Detroit clash over smog. California blames cars for polluted air while Detroit officials propose moving mountains to improve airflow. Health authorities warn of serious health risks from polluted air and call for a solution. Engineers are urged to revive steam car research to reduce exhaust reliance.
A collage of editorial notes praises Iowa climate’s brief mercy and recalls childhood riverbank winters. It cites Charles F. Kettering on stumbling toward invention and a Forest Service tribute to weekly newspapers as vital community windows with rising circulations and deep reader engagement.
The 1958 debate over James Hoffa's threat to organize the New York City police and possibly other police forces drew swift official rebuke. Critics warned of dangers to public safety and civil order, citing past labor confrontations and urging resistance to union overreach.
A retrospective column highlights notable items from The Chronicle published ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years ago. It revisits headlines, notable figures, community events, and evolving local interests across decades.
Front page box details a Central College versus Highland Park basketball game with a social to follow and 25 cent admission. It notes Pella Overalls stock increase to 25000 dollars, a committee revised incorporation, and a push to sell locally to employ labor. Weather, rail delays, and local obituaries, travel, and personal notes fill the issue with multiple short items.
George Gaass trips to Oskaloosa New Sharon Grinnell and Newton. Peter Baer travels to Eddyville to take cigar orders. John Van Nieuwenhuizen advertises a January 19 horse sale near Franklin Street livery stable. Demand for good horses high with a white face prized. A D 8 ad promotes Peroxide Soap as skin bleach. Arlo Van Houweling offers land payment services as a real estate agent.
A retrospective column recalls J B Vriezelaar Otley businessman and supervisor at 61, local sports efforts by Pella Tiger alumni, Red Cross thanks for Cotton Hall hospital, Roosevelt death proclamation, Lt Mills and Van Houten postings, illness of James Leon, Peter Constantine MIA concerns, service discharges and naval leaves, Lola De Cook bus service critique, Ray Vander Wal to Kentucky crew, Dr Wormhoudt furlough, Iowa car owners 300000 license fee move to county courthouses plan with 22 clerks in state office.
30 years ago Ira Curtis suspected a Pella guest left a suitcase for later pickup containing nine quarts of whisky and brandy. A deputy guarded the bag. the owner fled town unseen. Local social worker Miss Graham started a no-charge job service, Assessor Jake Plender announced radio taxed sets valued at $10 each, Rock Island Railway modernized engines, and a blizzard halted trains while Des Moines snow clearance claimed a fatality involving Dennis Rillihan.
An editorial notes local Pella businessmen were being solicited to support the County YMC A. The piece argues the YMCA cannot provide new local services and fears the local movement may soon die.
Law officers suspect the jail in Washington Iowa is choked with hobos seeking food and warmth as cold weather drives demand. In local sports, high school basketball scores are low with Monroe defeating Polla 12 to 11 and Knoxville 28 to 19.
A century old montage notes Henry Hackert of Leighton with twelve silver fox pelts from a twenty-year-old issue. He kept 150 foxes, selling pelts and breeding stock, while various local items are listed including sporting praise for Loupee Menning Wagamon, a 36 to 80 loss to a semi pro team in Sigourney Iowa, a custodian Dick Diekema’s classroom sign, a January storm, city council water softeners, a Tulip Time movie by John Dickerson, a J C Penney transfer, lime quarrying by Ralph Grundman farm, Elmer Pahre’s house fire, Dykstra brothers Porto Rico juice canning and Arizona lumber work, road widening near Pella Knoxville, and a drawing by Stan Verploeg in The School Chronicle.
Ten years back on January 6 1949 Cornell College defeated Central 47 to 33 in a basketball tournament at Central College with Grinnell Coe Bergman and Brown as top Central scorers and Schultz shining in the final. Also noted are Sgt Harold Goad funeral plans burial in Oskaloosa, Pella Christmas lights praised, Rev R J Vanden Berg moving to New Jersey mission post, Central College sport code reprint, Justice Jackson quote on Russia, Iowa fish removal 1948, county assessor staff additions, and a new county property appraisal method by an Ohio firm.
The Iowa Department of Health reports fluoridation of public water is safe and effective. By last summer about 860000 Iowans in 28 communities benefited, with decay-free months rising over 100 percent in 5 to 8 year olds. Cedar Rapids 6 year olds saw an 82 percent drop in decayed teeth. costs ranged from 9.6 to 18.2 cents per person annually, and no ill effects have been reported.
The obituary mentions Mr and Mrs John A Klyn and their 62 year old relative. It also notes the death of Henry Hospers aged 52 in Chicago from a heart ailment.
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