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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1951
Page
5
Wilford A. Peterson argues editors should provoke public thought and not simply flatter readers. A mildly corrective editorial stance exposes truths, warning that blanket kindness masks ignorance and hinders community progress.
A photo shows Mrs Helen att receiving a citation from Secretary Charles Wilson for refusing a bribe offered to issue an export license. The piece contrasts this honest act with broader calls in Congress to relax controls and questions public morality, citing opinions by Learned Hand and Rep Bennett on ethics in government.
Citizens receive a letter from Historical Society officers outlining a tulip program for streets and lanes. With no funds yet, they appeal to prominent local donors and general townsfolk, urging collective support to purchase bulbs from the Netherlands for fall planting.
Delegates at the National Education Association annual session in San F recently backed moderation in education amid controversy over Pasadena’s progressive schools. Critics argued the program aimed to mold children and sidelined parental input. others claimed leftist theories and lax discipline. Ted Bassi of California urged common sense, saying public schools belong to all people and Pasadena showed civic oversight.
The piece criticizes high meat prices and defends simple living, arguing supply and demand myths, praising past families for hard work, and lamenting modern knowledge about calories and food processing. It questions progress rhetoric while lauding earlier generations and their restraint.
A Pella area column recalls a week long Henry Renaud camp by the Skunk River with locals Nelle Johnson Lottie Boyd Madge Vander Zyl Lyda Grundman Dave Renaud Tennis Klein George Boyd and Harry Boland. The ice Club hosted a lawn party on J Wilson and John Studenrauch lawns. A Bert Stegeman home gasoline stove fire was quickly out. Verploegh sought surplus apples for canning. Local weather tales and a First Reformed Sunday School picnic are noted. Teacher salaries on front page show Frash 1500 monthly Matnie Zackhe and T. Conger 65 per month. Autoists criticize bridge conditions between Vella and Oskaloosa amid Pell railway talk. City Council hires Re p Muth as electric plant superintendent starting Sept 1 with 126 monthly pay. A boy spanks melons thieves, two Pella merchants fight and pay fines. A Sunday ball game sees Pella defeat Flagler 5 4 amid on field brawls. Renaud visited from Howell SD, William Miller’s merry go round opens Broadway corner. Gerrit Stegeman returns from Miller SD. Local ads note Castoria and other remedies, Arie Van Houweling promotes land buyers to Hale County Texas at 16 to 80 per acre.
A 30 year look recalls Miss Cornelia Rhynsburger resigning as librarian to take a Muscatine post. Miss Agnes Bousquet named manager with Catherine De Koning as assistant. Des Moines University president J W Million met Central College’s M J Hoffman on business. J Van Hinte, Amsterdam high school teacher, seeks data for a Dutch American history project. Sixty Iowa towns elect Bible courses. Prof D Sands Wright notes 40 high schools already offer them. Chamber of Commerce accepts Farm Bureau invitation for Ver Meer’s Grove picnic. merchants to close for the day. Reunion plans emerge for 10,000 veterans of WWI’s 88th Division at Camp Dodge, Cantonment slated for dismantling in six months. Oskaloosa revival minister accused soldiers of patriotism slurs. mob tarred and feathered him after services. his wife sought mercy and departure. A Legion team from Chicago beat Pella 3 to 1. Paul Ver Steg pitched well, with Lankelma, Knox and Van Arkel contributing. Dr and Mrs Fred Aschenbrnner of Covina visit Pel la’s Dr Carl Aschenbrin. Rev A Bakker and family leave Bethany Church after a call to a Sanborn, Iowa church.
Harold Klein narrowly escaped as he was shocked while fitting a wire guard on an electric light at the Ideal Pharmacy. He collapsed unconscious on a wet basement floor but sustained only minor injuries. The issue promotes Tanlac and Victoria as popular remedies in 1921.
Twenty years ago three car crashes were reported with a Mahaska Bottling Works truck injuring a Rhynsburger Produce Co. vehicle and a sheep transporter colliding with a car driven by a Waterloo woman injuring her knee, while a Knoxville man King died stepping from a car near Knoxville Lee. A Gilderbloom corn picker was seen in a shack in Oskaloosa and eyed for relocation to Pella’s Stacker Company buildings. Community events included Kool Tourist Park reunions, KFJB radio promos for Ulrich Meat Market and Pella bologna, Woodrow Washing Machines distribution via Adams Co. of Waterloo and Chandler Pump sales, Eddie Cantor’s Whoopee at the Pella theatre, a Ford yard fire at West Second Street, the Farmers Union picnic at Grandman’s Grove with speakers Glen Miller and E. G. Dunn, vacationing Miss Martha Firth and friends at Clear Lake, a Ottumwa dip at municipal pool, and local gatherings around C. T H. McDowell visit.
Front page photo shows Nicholas Van Gorp at Camp Polk Louisiana where he serves in a machine gun unit. Will Van Hemert elected vice commander at the Des Moines state Legion convention. Bill Slickers pitched the game as Atlantic defeated Pella 5 to 4 in the first round at Pool Park with Liter’s Sedrel’s Rossereen Reasner Killduff Iowa Pipe Tile Newton Mobilgas and Oskaloosa Eagles in contention.
The piece argues for strong support of small colleges like Iowa Wesleyan Parsons Simpson and Penn to supplement primary schooling. It urges donations from all income levels to sustain and expand postsecondary opportunities, noting inflation military deferrals and budget cuts strain private institutions. It stresses higher education as essential for public welfare and citizenship.
Citizens urged better road between Pella and Knoxville before the Board of Supervisors, with no commitments made. Martin Heerema to sing at the band concert. Galesburg goodwill concert noted. Tomato harvest and rain favoring crops. August 20 chicken dinner planned at Pool Park. Henry Pethoven and Dwight Daugherty pictured from REA Line. loans approved for line extension totaling 133,000. Farm feature on Adrian De Young. Egg nest found by Joe Woods revealing a shellless miniature bull snake. Mrs. Murray Nesbit named president of Sixth District Legion Auxiliary. T. D. Reintema built a grain transfer machine. Future Farmer images include Stanton Metcalf and Dale Hoksbergen.
Two months elapsed before English developments reached colonial shores. Report notes the lag in transmission from Britain to American settlements and the impact on local readers. The item frames overseas events as distant yet important, affecting public awareness and timely understanding.
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