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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1958
Page
3
A brief musing on keeping an open mind and curiosity in every encounter. It notes how much can be learned by studying and exploring, and finds pleasure in discovering what was not known before. It celebrates ongoing lifelong adventure through life.
The Dyers Products Company of Canton Ohio plans a small motor car styled like a 1903 runabout called The Surrey. It features wood spoke wheels buggy springs a tiller and optional spare seat with fringe top. Powered by a 4.8 hp engine it aims for 30 mph cruising 35 mph top and 60 miles per gallon. Price is 1095 assembled or 900 kit. Delivery through dealers with strong sales expectations. Toot Toot.
Citizens praise new aluminum street signs for legibility with a slogan neat but not gaudy. Authorities ask residents to report defaced or broken signs promptly to help police catch culprits who damaged them.
The article notes Congress may approve a higher grant to Social Security recipients and argues the deeper change is needed. It states many recipients, especially those with no savings and renting, rely on payments as a poverty guarantee and seek work if able, while current law allows earnings up to 1200 dollars.
A collection of editorial snippets critiques small town life contrasts with big cities, American versus foreign small cars, inflation worries, and Nebraska and Iowa highway welcome markers. It notes efforts to improve travel welcome signs and laments design and placement of state borders and signage.
The author argues idleness harms workers and the Social Security law aims to reduce elder labor market participation. They contend a $1200 annual cap targets the needy and suggest raising it to $1800, asserting that those with property or savings are unaffected and earnings restrictions lack justification. Congress should raise the cap.
Sheriff Loren Jarman urges extended vacationers to leave an itinerary with his office for quick contact in emergencies. Pella residents note police patrols and suggest informing officers before travel to improve watchfulness and deter prowlers, since no town is immune to break ins.
Items of interest from The Chronicle memory lane recapping notable events from 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. The column highlights community milestones, anniversaries, and turning points with concise notes and period tone.
A front page column highlights the retirement of Judge W J Curt a longtime Pella resident educated at Central College and trained at his father's law office admitted to the bar in Knoxville The piece also notes a 50 year span with personal notes on local residents including Margaret Boonstra and Charles Thomassen weddings and various town happenings. It mentions Knoxville baseball’s visit to Pella a 14 to 1 score and a notable one handed catch by Ira Van Cleave plus Pete Bloem’s pitching. Other items include obituaries church move ins and local industry projects and a tuberculosis feature noting the disease as The Great White Plague with 2000 Iowa deaths annually and over $1 million in losses.
Ford Motor Company Detroit Department H sought a representative to sell Ford automobiles in Pella and vicinity. A live wire could clear $2,000 per year. Professor and Mrs. Henry Cox went to Iowa City for the dedication of St Mary’s Church new building. I M Fisk laid 150 rods of tile daily with a traveling auto capstan and forecast a future rate of a mile of tile daily once improved.
Two accidental deaths were recorded including Robert Elwood by a falling pole during windmill dismantling and Dirk De Jong of Otley after a horse kick. War notes include the U S nursing quota and enlistment updates. Local fire destroys a barn, and Captain Springer reports troops unscathed in France. Community notes cover banking scams, farmers’ rights, highway contracts, and local humor in Kuyper’s Korner.
Obituary note records the death of John Van Houweling aged 86 who lived with his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs C J Van Gorp. Also notes local events including road surfacing plans between Oskaloosa and Albia and school advertising to attract 100 more Pella High students.
Twenty years ago the Harvest Time edition carried sixteen pages with two color cover. Pella Historical Society named William D. Van Sittert president, Lon Wormhoudt vice president, Tunis Kempkes treasurer, and Hugo Kuyper secretary. News mentions a mine accident injuring Pete Doorebal, a cornet duet by Virgil Vander Linden and Carroll Hollebrands, boys at John Den Hartog’s store with watermelons, a farm threshing story near Galesburg, engineer Art Cummings happy with his engine, and horses watched for sleeping sickness. A Knoxville woman received a ten year sentence for embezzlement with a newborn baby. Five Pella Boy Scouts set up an all night event.
In a rural scene, Max Kuik Stan Verploegh Jack Sixsmith Harold Hayes and Charles Lautenbach gathered in the woods to cook a meal their leader was Robert Ruby Jimmy Kempkes was with them but did not appear. Dr Carl Aschenbrenner calm friends saying government growth and supervision are natural and three newspapers are too many for Pella.
Ten years ago Mrs Arnold Schippers and Mrs Lee Farmer were photographed aboard a Larson Lake boat in Ontario with a 26 lb northern pike as husbands helped land it. The group vacationed in Canada. Supt Buerkens reported rising school costs and reasons. Don Bell farm in Warren County hosted field day results. Plow terrace contest set for Otley August 12 near John Vanden Board farm. Heavy rains swelled basements in Ft. Madison. floods forecast in Skunk and Des Moines valleys. Langerak and Vander Ploeg studying medicine at Brooke Army Medical Center. Elmer De Winter married Carrie Van Wyk in Newburgh, she to teach in Pella Junior High. Recent marriages noted: Ver Meer with Vogelaar, Klein with De Ronde, Menninga with Van Dusseldorp. Cattle numbers decline. Beresford argues against curtailing production. Esther Beerends and Bill Kilpatrick were vocal soloists with the Pella band.
Prince William County residents are urged to attend a public hearing at the Manassas court house at 3:00 p.m. on a proposed comprehensive zoning ordinance. The article explains zoning aims to guide orderly growth, protect the public good, limit land use for neighbors, and balance personal freedom with community welfare.
A benefit event to aid Lynnville Public Library is planned with a hymn sing in Garden Square. The Third Reformed Senior Christian Endeavor sponsors the sing led by Edith Le Cocq.
Three hundred gallons of gas were spilled when a gasoline truck and a car backed from a driveway in Storm Lake. A broken faucet on the truck allowed fuel to run onto the street. Firefighters flushed the gasoline down the storm sewer.
Town storage data as of July 1 show a record 693,494,000 bushels of corn on hand, up 19 percent from 497,922,000 a year earlier. Off farm positions including government bins and related outlets totaled 330,675,000 bushels, a 27 percent rise from last year.
In 1848 the Mormon Frontier Guardian paper was established at Council Bluffs, marking the first newspaper published in western Iowa.
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