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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1950
Page
3
A short column advocates listening to experts and leaders to gain knowledge. It argues no one can absorb all knowledge, but by listening through press radio and books one may come to know something. It cites a famous quote about a good listener becoming knowledgeable over time.
The new AMA president Dr Elmer Henderson of Louisville urges against socialized medicine in San Francisco at the House of Delegates opening. He argues government plans threaten liberty and promotes voluntary prepaid plans, while warning against mass state employment of doctors. The piece notes public reaction to demonstrations by Legion members in Hartley Iowa and discusses how to counter communism through law and citizenship, not publicity stunts.
The piece argues federal permits for slot machines enable local laxity, urging strong federal action. Iowa's situation is cited, with Attorney General Larson to monitor licensing after July and press for enforcement. It warns that a permit is a license to violate state law, predicting crackdowns and警方 cooperation.
An editorial from the Grinnell Herald-Register argues meters could have avoided curb crowding if local businesses had yielded downtown space to shoppers. It notes drivers parked at will, shoppers struggled, and praises metered incentives as a path to preserved goodwill and broader trade, urging imitation by nearby towns.
A Centralia Kansas Journal reflects on editorials and the paper's soul. Readers across towns praise an editor's column as giving a newspaper its human personality, noting the editor's voice adds life to local reporting. The Toledo Chronicle muses on hay making odors and farm labor.
Forty years ago in Pella Henry Vanden Dever welcomed a baby boy on August 2 Henry would recover. Hankey Burgraaf ill with typhoid. doctors from Des Moines assisted Dr Bos in removing gall stones from Mrs C Kooyman sixty stones removed. Sign boards damaged warning “Better Watch Out.” George Ramsey sold seven pianos in July. City Council hired William Schreiner as water works engineer raising pay to 60 dollars monthly. Henry Ver Hey hired as sewer inspector at 2 dollars a day. Carnival sale advertised by Y Nieuland store owner Van Nieuwall. Ladies of G A R Circle promoting a piano prize with sales coupons. Pete Vanden Berge and Fred Cummings had a depot driving mishap. Reerink boy broke an arm falling on the farm. Dekker and Onstink went to Eddyville for fence posts. Charley Dykstra traded potatoes to Jim Croll for six dollars plus snow removal. Subscribe for The Chronicle. Howerton of Oskaloosa notes locals invest in property in Pella.
Des Moines visitor Caroline De Haan chatted with locals about government ideas while Herman Bouma toured Eddyville for real estate plums. Ray Bousquet spoke with Ira Van Cleave in Oskaloosa. Westerhof and Sherman touted farm sales in Sully with prices from 90 to 142.50 per acre. Nick Boland advertised Highmore land in South Dakota. Bart Stegeman listed Hand County and Miller area parcels. Interest in land remained keen in Pella.
Concrete footings begun for Central College gym and chapel with an immense floor size. Victory Medal blanks distributed at Legion, Commander Mark McWilliams to Cedar Rapids for convention. Typhoid plague empties public gatherings as over forty five ill and two deaths, Pella water deemed contaminated, milk bottles spreading germs. Chautauqua participants listed, including Florence Van der Ploeg and Bernice Blom mers. Visitors B. Smith family and pastor Rev Smith moving to Wichita, and George Baitsell family from New Haven are noted.
Visiting in the Geo F Sadler home, teaching at Yale University. R R Beard spent two weeks at Mayo Hospital in Rochester for medical treatment. Star Auto Co promoted a power farming day at Ames featuring a Fordson tractor in a 100 acre field. Hogs sold for 12.50 to 14.76 per cwt in Pel in, corn at 1.25 per bushel, oats 0.85, eggs 0.36 per dozen, and cream 0.64 per lb. Bill Schreiner, water works superintendent, sought laborers to trench for water pipes. Marion County Sunday School convention to be held at Fifield with Rev HL Van Dellen and F J Evans speaking.
A front page feature showcased Mr. and Mrs. Ernest De Cook chasing chicken thieves near Leighton to near Pella with Mrs De Cook firing at a car tires. Rev William Goulooze led a new Prairie City church project set for dedication August 12. Notes on a municipal pool push, Ottumwa swimmers in Pella, tearoom and miniature golf venture by Dr and Mrs J C Mitten, a Colo rado trip by Ver Meer families, and Jean Van Gorp wed Ray De Haan at the Van Gorp home. Natural gas expansion toward Pella eyed for twelve miles away.
Ten years ago attendance at the municipal pool neared the 1937 record with Don Nutting as manager. A four inch rain ended a longer drought. Gardens suffered, chinch bugs infested corn, and a model airplane contest drew twenty entrants at Pool Park with prizes. Petitions circulated for a Marion County Soils District with six hundred signers.
Dr. Harry J. Carman, dean of Columbia College, outlined ten "commandments" for 20th century youth at Pace College June 23. The rules urge quality, knowledge, responsibility, integrity, self-reliance, courage, clear thinking, faith in humanity, and serving others, tied to a sermon on the Mount. Carman also warned that world peace hinges on improving living standards and rejecting ideologies that deny freedom.
The article highlights strong interest in a rural movement led by Justice Benson of the Soil Conservation Service and County Agent Walter Brown. Townspeople were borrowing from the FHA, totaling about one million dollars in six months for home improvements. It notes a new Christian High School planned in Pella, a large house purchased on North Main Street for the project, and a 649 relief cases count in Marion County. Also covered are a murder trial for Matt Melia, farm photos of threshing on the Van Veen farm, a lightning strike repair on John Geurts’ North Main Street home, Juliana’s radio address from Quebec about Holland’s invasion, and FFA project calves by Vander Linden and Visser, plus local recreation facilities.
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