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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1954
Page
3
Eisenhower warns against unfounded charges and wholesale condemnation after the McCarthy hearings. He says dishonesty and disloyal subversion are unAmerican and that honest dissent is possible, while witch hunts breed liars.
In Iowa campus pages a Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta pledge $30 monthly to Polish refugee Wieslawa Dolinska and Oh Soon Ja of Korea, while Sigma Nu volunteers at Iowa State College visit Woodward to aid children. Mayor Klein analyzes Pella dump issues and a proposed 1955 plan to relocate and repurpose the site into park space, urging citizens to cooperate and follow posted guidance.
Dr Walter L Bierring of the State Board of Health spoke on aging at his 86th birthday, noting Iowa’s rising number of seniors and urging creative work, moderation in all life areas, diet control, and purposeful living to maintain health and happiness in retirement.
The piece argues atomic energy extends beyond bombs towards peaceful uses. It highlights disease-free oats, 30 percent peanut yield gains, and Brookhaven hybrid corn aims for disease resistance and taller yield. Industry seeks power plants, costs near coal, and bold research promising vast horizons. The era is framed as transformative and urgent.
Editorial comment from Jewell County Record notes lessons of staying watchful and quiet for wisdom. Augusta Daily Gazette shares business outlook tip from a sales manager about knocking apples off circles. Indianola Tribune explains White Breast Creek rises through Clarke Lucas Warren and Marion counties and its Sauk Fox naming origin related to a bear with a white breast.
Forty years ago a bolt hit the cu alo atop Old Central Hall on the college campus, starting a blaze that firefighters fought from edge of roof. The cupola suffered heavy damage and the bell cracked while the building was saved.
About 350 people toured the Howell pumping station as City Council showcased new equipment including two Dayton Doud centrifugal pumps driven by 100 horsepower motors. The day included Saturday trade entertainment with trapeze acts, merchant prizes, and two downtown accidents. An excursion planned by the Rock Island railway offered a $3.05 fare to Keokuk with a steamboat ride. Death noted was D G Gosselink, longtime shoe merchant and school board secretary.
Twenty years ago in Sully Mr and Mrs Jal Roozeboom received three letters demanding ransoms for their son. Initial demand was 600 dollars, later raised to 1500. Jasper County sheriff investigated and kept the Roozeboom home under watch.
The text notes drouth damage to cotton with looming acreage limits for next year. It mentions Henry Scholten as a CP A in Sioux Falls, his education, and marriage. It also covers a stratosphere balloon incident in South Dakota, corn hog program doubts, farm farrowing drops, a grocery store anniversary sale, a burn accident from gasoline, Democratic state convention sentiments, and visits by Verploeghs to the Abe Verploegh home.
Ten years ago the fifth war loan lagged as Pella neared a shortfall of 01,146.25 toward a half million quota. Rumors said paratrooper Mark Thoas of the 82nd Airborne was missing in action, with letters from Monk Klootwyk in England claiming information from Normandy vets. Mr and Mrs Thomas awaited word while a historic locust tree near H P Van Gorp house stood torn after a wind. Paul Scholte milked a cow as Beard's Grove housed Chautauqua ticket booths. Congress member Paul Cunningham planned a Des Moines visit to discuss GI Bill provisions for education and trades, and Gerrit Popma of New York urged Rotary men that installment buying was popular.
Taxpayers will have a chance in March to review expenditure estimates and tax levy proposals at budget hearings. They may appeal if boards refuse to comply, needing signatures from 0.25 percent of governor voters or at least ten taxpayers, with appeals filed at the county auditor before the first Tuesday in September.
The county notes mass production and lower prices after banks approved installment buying. A Marion County Soils District farm tour, led by Clay Barnett, featured four photos from the Dick Kuiper farm near Otley with Congressman Paul Cunningham. Captain C B Caldwell, home on furlough, visited Beardstown before reassignment to Miami. Lester Vander Wilt from Ames urges a memorial hospital in Pelta.
George Ramsey remained active as a piano tuner beyond his early years. A contemporary comment predicted he would likely continue tuning for another fifty years.
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