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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1950
Page
3
Thought of the Week urges defending the best system of decency the world has seen and challenging opponents to offer a better alternative. An ad sponsored by Warner & Sawsey promotes loyalty to democracy and living it, not just defending it, warning against propaganda and coercion.
Driving on ice pavement especially in town is risky. Archi H. Easton of Wisconsin University offers simple rules from careful study: do not slam the brakes, ease gas and brake smoothly as wheels spin, drive well below possible speed on crowned or windy roads, and understand that a bad skid or spin may be unrecoverable even for experts.
An Ames column condemns rash publicaries who slander figures like Harry Hopkins and praises cautious media ethics. It notes wartime secrecy myths, TV growth projections, and Iowa Farm Bureau politics influencing 1950 elections. The piece argues farmers remain politically active, wary of insider influence.
About a dozen sets are in operation now and owners enjoy them. By end of 1950 hundreds of sets may be here. Radio technicians should prepare their service skills as intelligent sales and service look to be a good business as 1950 progresses.
The Batesville Daily News notes give away programs are fading from popularity as FCC ban questions loom and court tests approach. It cites Greenfield Free Press on law enforcement cooperation and citizens’ duty, then references Chicago Daily News on Attlee’s austerity and England’s shift from welfare promises to production.
In February 1910 two northern Michigan towns favor creosote wood blocks over brick for paving. The issue notes local industry shifts, poultry records, a barber shop opening, YMCA baseball plans, and bonds advertised by County Treasurer Ed McCoy. It also covers high school events, college notes, seed corn testing campaigns, and community notices including a G.A.R. box supper for a monument fund.
A mosaic of local news items includes the accidental death of Mrs. R G McDuff near Monroe from a shotgun accident while her husband cleaned a gun. Pella High basketball beat Penn Academy 24 to 20 with stars Van der Ploeg and Vanden Oever, plus Lautenbach Klein and De Haan. Local safe robbery at Sully Bank, two deaths from disease, and marriages of Jack Melton to Kate Roorda and James St Vander Waal to Christine Ter Louw. Other notes cover farm contracts, fire losses, flu cases, and community events at Osceola and Des Moines.
February 13 1930 Chamber of Commerce session debated electric light and power rates seen as too high. Critics condemned transferring profits to the water department. Arie Schilder urged a municipal swimming pool. Downtown chase ended with Officer Dennis knocked unconscious after a car pass, treated by Dr. Fox. driver fined 500 for DWI. Central College beat Simpson 43 30. Pella students excel in subcounty declamation. Central defeated Dubuque by 50 25 with Muyskens Neifert top scorers. Firestone ad livened O P Tire Co full page. Dollar Days set by Chamber starting February 11 and 15.
Washington columnists forecast a Truman offensive against the Farm Bureau to attack its influence on rural counties. Tom Stokes notes the plan would abrogate the Bureau's privilege of nominating county agents, linking national policy to Hardin County's 1,600 Farm Bureau members and local impact.
A long town story recalls a tractor pulled bobsled run at the Earl Black home north of town. Gary Vogelaar, driver, continued after the sled broke, earning the nickname One Way Vogelaar. Eva Welle travels to Milwaukee to visit her son Lester after illness. Congressmen C. C. Dowell of Des Moines dies at 76, after twenty three years in Washington.
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