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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1955
Page
1
A Lake area local notes column compiles visitors, hospital entries, births, and travel. It highlights Maurice Bird from Stratford on Avon and a photo of the Afsluitdijk, plus community updates from Oskaloosa and Pella about hospitalizations, visitors, vacations, naval assignments, and family arrivals and departures.
The article describes a seasonal trapping method at rural intersections using tall corn and overhanging weeds to create blind corners that obscure oncoming traffic. It notes drivers near the trap often crash when another car enters simultaneously and warns that many trapped motorists live nearby and may ignore the danger or destroy the trap by cutting corn.
The Iowa State Highway Commission plans a major 80 mile highway modernization project stretching from Prairie City to Oskaloosa on 163 and from Oskaloosa to the Wapello county line and US 62 to be let in Ames next month. Sen. C Emory Stewart received word on July 19 from Robert Beck, new highway board member, that Governor Hoegh ordered widened pavements to 24 feet nationwide, signaling likely expansion of 163 and US 63 through Oskaloosa. The project will widen lanes, round square corners, and upgrade bridges and culverts, with details pending.
Exhibit Iowa recounts Brydolf describing wartime boot theft from a dead Mexican officer with the claim that the fallen soldier did not need them. He later served in the Civil War as a lieutenant colonel and died in Burlington in 1897.
Commissioner Beck told Senator Stewart the highway commission is weighing blacktopping highway 146 north from New Sharon through Sully and Lyle. No permanent surfacing action will be taken before 1956, and the commission will discuss the project with Stewart at Clear Lake's Governor Day program on the 30th and 31st. Stewart and Rep John Gray joined delegations from New Sharon Lynnville Scarsboro Sully and Oskaloosa in Des Moines to press for 146 surfacing.
Fabian Brydolf, a Swedish immigrant from Burlington, enlisted in 1847 with Iowa’s sole company in Mexico. He served under General Winfield Scott, witnessing the advance to Mexico City and the 1847 surrender, as chronicled in the Iowa Journal of History edited by George H. May.
Near Britt the Erin No. 9 school founded in 1888 has been abandoned. A final reunion on the school grounds drew over 250 attendees as the community marks the closing of the historic rural school.
Farm economist Earl Heady of Iowa State College argues that the trend toward vanishing family-size farms may not accelerate. He notes a 240 acre Town farm operated as a one-family unit with 40 horsepower and equipment is already large enough to capture most cost reductions of larger operations, regardless of production techniques.
The power combination used shows per unit production costs decline rapidly as farm size rises from 80 to 200 acres, then level off. Variable costs per acre stay nearly constant, so the large-farm advantage is modest. The quick drop in unit costs up to 200 acres comes from spreading fixed overhead.
Heady notes that costs per $100 of crop product differ little between 320 and 200 acre farms, at about $2.57. The gap widens to $10.74 when comparing 200-acre and 80-acre farms, while many live sales arguments are muted by dead words.
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