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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1963
Page
6
The Pella Chronicle argues farming ranks high in hazards and calls National Farm Safety Week a reminder that work safety lags behind other industries. It urges farmers to adopt proven safety methods, replace bad habits, and maintain year round accident prevention. It also notes home remodeling loans and budget-friendly financing as ways to stretch living space.
The Marshall Canning Co at Pella switched from tomato juice to processing Snow Crop fruit concentrate for Hi C orange and grape drinks, promising year round employment for about thirty to forty workers. Local notes record new meat dairy display at Farmers' Union, Trinity Reform Church efforts in Pella, park picnic table funding by twenty two firms, a Lake Prairie township fire at Evert De Vries farm, and the city budget seeking $90 082 in taxes for 1954 along with a list of local vacationing residents.
Women in Sun Swimming project support for Navy Airmen reported by local groups. Council, school and church memos mention a petition to back cadets, with plans to present at the next meeting. Two girls were injured in separate accidents, Norma Jean Hagan struck by a truck and Marilyn Winegar fatally burned amid a chicken house spraying incident.
Mayor F M Frush urged Pella residents to collect scrap for metal needs in the war. A rock contract for Highway 14 across Marion county was awarded to H C Young of Monroe for 20.7 miles at 7682 dollars. Propaganda photos showed a man relaxing in his yard during wartime gas rationing. Eleven boys posed with Dave De Cook at the canning plant after weeding 223 acres of tomatoes. Names included Peter Van Gorp Peter Rus Wilbur Van Dusseldorp Dean Sadler Allen Vander Ark Warren Verploegh Charles Vander Ploeg Juline Palmquis Gordon Nesbit Harry Vander Ploeg and Mark Vander Ploeg. In Soldiers column, Pvt Vernon Bobitt Ensign Paul J Voskull Ensign Dale J Mincer and Cpl Glenn Armstrong were noted, with Armstrong ill at Camp Phillips. Gerrit Klyn, a World War I vet, died after illness. Standard Oil Co advertised its red gasoline shade and claimed higher anti-knock quality for its super fuel.
Ed Van Zante named postmaster succeeding Louis F. Bousquet who served through three Republican administrations. Van Zante, a hardware dealer, appears in a crowded 1930s era notice that also mentions JOE STIENTIES opening a Gamble Store Agency near Garden Square and prior Standard Oil Station work. The item notes rural mail carriers meeting in Fairfield and Pella, a salary cut of 200 dollars to the president, and a Roosevelt era industrial act setting forty hour weeks and wage controls. Additional ads feature Van Den Berg Electric promoting Frigidaire at 96 dollars plus freight and JOE STIENTIES offering white house paint at 1.65 per gallon, with other car and paint mentions and references to Gerrit Vander Wilt.
1923 notice lists Royal Candy Co. owners expanding their ice cream facility to the best equipped in southern Iowa. Other items note De Cook and Van Zante at Ft. Des Moines camp, junk dealer Ben Hyman injured in a car mishap, thefts from Arie Klyn garage, Cadillac bus from Pella inviting Sunday park trips, storm sewer work on Independence street, Van Zee family vacation to Colorado, De Haan family visit to Denver, and a new law imposing $1000 fine or one year jail for intoxicated drivers effective July 4.
The City Council of Pelle Iowa will meet August 6 1963 at 7 30 P M at City Hall. Taxpayers will be heard for or against the estimates of expenditures for 1964. A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements will be available at the hearing.
A semi pro team from Waukee defeated the Meteors in Pella 4 to 3. Zettiger of Storm Lake pitched for the visitors with De Reus catching. Zondervan started for Pella with Gale behind the plate.
Automobile guests traveled from Davenport to Council Bluffs for the Great White Way picnic in Pella. Estimates put town cars between 700 and 1500. Oddities included Oskaloosa’s Orrin Schee’s motor truck float with twenty five white-clad beauties blowing tin horns. The total value of white cars reached about 150000. Concessions in Garden Square blamed dull business on crowd size and cool weather. Civil War veteran R C Payne shared impressions from Gettysburg reunion. Fifty five thousand veterans attended. H J Vanden Berg went to Lavine Montana to view land for sale.
Pella defeats Indianola 6 to 5 on Friday as Wooderson walked ten and allowed one hit while Hiemstra fanned seven for Pella. Indianola tallied in each of the first two innings, but Pella surged with six runs late.
Rolscreen clinched at least a first place tie with an 13 to 1 win over Kiwanis. Vander Linden no hit through seven, Muilenberg homered, Klimstra and Vander Linden doubled, Schippp ers fanned 13 as Rolscreen surged to the victory and a playoff Thursday.
Sybenga Studio credits were inadvertently omitted in wedding pictures of Mr and Mrs Delbert Hol and Mr and Mrs James R Veldhuizen appearing in recent Chronicle issues, prompting a correction.
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