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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
4
Plain Talk From Eisenhower on Business Recovery
President Eisenhower voiced optimism after more than two thousand American Management Association members met to map steps to ease the recession. He urged government as a minority partner and urged firms to innovate, improve value, and cut costs to profit from volume while warning against shifting costs to consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
American Management Association
Ike
John Q
Foresee Building Boom Amid Rising Home Prices
The Practical Builder forecasts ongoing home price rises despite recession and a coming building boom. It argues buyers now gain from liberal terms and low down payments, claiming a $16,000 home could reach $25,000 when paid off. The piece urges hesitant buyers to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Practical Builder
How Deep the Recession In 1930s idle jobs rose to thirty percent
The article compares current unemployment with the Great Depression era, noting seven percent joblessness today versus about 30 percent at the worst point of the 1930s. It uses historical context to illustrate recession depth and postwar improvements.
Editorial on juvenile accountability and public shaming
Sheriff Ken Jones relays a cautionary tale about a boy raised with permissive discipline and growing delinquency. The Rock Rapids Reporter argues publicity deters crime by revealing juveniles’ names, noting Rapid City’s push to publish juvenile names as a deterrent and urging broader adoption to curb juvenile delinquency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Rapids
Rapid City
South Dakota
Unemployment and TV's Whodunit Appeal in LA Report
Surveys show idle workers 3 to 4 percent of the workforce, marking a solvable unemployment problem. Yet compared to peak prosperity, idle numbers seem large, while against hard times they appear modest. A Los Angeles NABRT report lists weekly crimes and warns heavy violence on TV before 9 pm, largely unaid public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
National Association For Better Radio
Back Through Memory Lane of The Chronicle
Items of interest from The Chronicle recalling events from 10 20 30 40 and 50 years ago. A compact look back at notable happenings, figures, and local milestones across decades featuring era specific people and places.
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Chronicle
Central's Van Cleave Wins Philo Cup in Local Meet
Fifty years ago LRA Van Cleave, a versatile Central athlete, captured the Philo Cup at the school field meet. The event drew about twenty two and a half competitors including Kempires, Will Piete Porter, Mary PhillII Houser, and Robert. Graduates named include Henry W. Pietenpol, Joseph W. Clark, Takebayashi, George Buitsell, Vernon Curris, Stella, Anna Dickerman, Gertrude Geze, Cornelia Musselman, Lyman Van Houten. Commencement for high school grads had been held with Bernie Vander Linden and Dave Vander Ploeg delivering orations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lra van Cleave
Central
W Kempires
Will Piete Porter
Philli Houser
Robert
Postuotes
Henry W. Pietenpol
Joseph W. Clark
Chotaro ‘Takebayashi
George Buitsell
Vernon Curris
Stella
Anna Dickerman
Gertrude Geze
Cornelia Musselman
William ‘Te Louw
Lyman van Houten
Academy
Commercial Department
Bernie Vander Linden
Dave Vander Ploeg
Central College notes and campus incidents
Dorothy Hynes led the class will reading while Louise Gaass played a piano solo and Laura Kramer narrated. A Central College tennis match vs Drake was canceled due to a flooded court as aggressive owls attacked strolling couples. a male student was bitten and killed seven birds. Hetty Keen, heiress, moved to a Plaza Hotel suite and planned $300 in beauty treatments. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Bousquet and Emma visited Princeton with Miss Anna Thompson. Waterloo Pella Southwestern Railway reassessed the Poll a to Grinnell route to reduce fills and trestles costs as finances dominated concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Hynes
Louise Gaass
Laura Kramer
Freda Reuvers
Theresa Sheehy
Helene Bootsma
Minnie’ van Niewaal
Henrietta Brunia
Central College
Drake University
Hetty Keen
Hoboken
Plaza Hotel
P. H. Bousquet
Emma
Princeton
N. J
Anna Thompson
Japan
Four decades memories and town notes from Pella
A Jumbled column recounts past events and people in Pella including Leona Berg spraining her arm, Charley Croll resigning at the Johnson and Ver ought Cafe, Joe Porter replacing him, and rail trips by C F Dykstra. It recalls local fare and prices, civic fuss, school trips, fines for car antics, river floods, bank leadership changes, a welding of war effort sentiments, and the upcoming Pella Chautauqua with Bryan to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Central College
L. A. Garrison
Eddyville
Garrison
Odd Bit
Lyman van Houten
Reunion and town notes in 1928 Will Clark home gathering
Thirty years ago the McAdoo family reunion at Will Clark home drew 97 members and visitors for a noon picnic. Rev G N Biglow gave a commencement address to 33 high school graduates included Van Arkel and Vander Ploeg. Delegates backed a junior college in Orange City and Central States Electric proposed gas in Pella. A windstorm damaged a Fred Calhoun roof. a large bull snake wandered downtown and met its end in a Hollebrands Ford. The Blue Moon Cafe changed hands, a rural fire truck was proposed, and a pageant on Three Hundred Years of Reformed Church History was planned for the college athletic field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Will Clark
G. N. Biglow
Adel, In
Gerald van Arkel
Hector Bevan
Alfred Vander Ploeg
Martha’ In't Veld
Mary Liggett
Pearl Shinn
Ruth Vliet
Myron Nollen
Robert Goedhart
Louis Bosveld
Robert Crum
Don Dykstra
Doni Douwstra
Ray van Brogen
Reformed Church Synod
New York
Orange City
Central of
Pella
Blue Moon Cafe
Decorah
Sam de Cook
Sam
Walter Johnson
F. M. Bailey
Tunis Kempkes
Pella Businessmen Ride Ford Plane to Sigourney in 20 Years Ago Feature
Twenty years ago Pella businessmen traveled to Sigourney to board a Ford tri motor plane that carried twelve passengers. L W Hartley of The Chronicle staff joined the group to photograph the flight. Primary election turnout was light in Pella and Marion County with W A nominated for county supervisor on the Democratic ticket. Women of the Federated Club planned a Saturday tag day to raise funds for West Market Park playground equipment, with children selling tags. Maxine Robertus recovers from blood poisoning linked to a Tulip Time injury. Aalbers farm visit showed nine of thirteen horses tilling fields and consideration of a tractor purchase, plus a large eight foot high rock in a field. Mayor T G Fultz pictured in his rose garden. his garden bloomed as he defeated Arno Bogaard on North Main. Park Board urged more West Park lighting. three thousand gallons of oil used to curb street dust near the pool. Dirk Van Zante marked his eighth birthday with a party as friends posed. Death noted for Albert K Dykstra, 77, who came to Pella from Friesland 45 years ago. Architect John Lautenbach of New York City visited Pella for two weeks before returning home.
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Roy van Skike
Frank den Adel
Russell van Zante
Harry Awtry
Rahe Army School
Kansas City
Fatty” van Maren
van Maren
H. J. Vanden Berg
Des Moines
Skunk
Howell Station
G. H. Wormhoudt
Citizens National Bank
B. H. van Spanckeren
Bert Roelofsen
Martin Klein
Bert
Pella
Sigourney
L. W. Hartley
Chronicle
Marion County
W. A
Board of Supervisors
Democratic
Federated Club
West Market Park
Maxine Robertus
Gerrit Aalbers
Otley
Aalbers
T. G. Fultz
Butt
Arno Bogaard
North Main
West Park
Dirk van Zante
D. C. van Zante
Albert K. Dykstra
Friesland
John Lautenbach
New York City
Beardsley Upsets Iowa Governor Blue in 1948 Republican Primary
Ten years ago a substantial plurality backed William Beardsley over Governor Robert Blue in the Iowa GOP primary, an upset noted in this issue. The rest of the item covers local concerns: Tulip Time folk games planned downtown, a Ky to Calif speaker praising Kentucky mountains, summer social security card reminders, flood losses for Matthew Kempkes’s daughters, coal production leaders Marion and Mahaska counties, James Ruthven named Industrial Arts instructor at Pella High from Eddyville, land strip mining by John R. Van Gorp, a costly $160 per acre restoration, Mason Olcott Jr joining a church caravan to Ohio with his father teaching at Penn summer school, a note on Dr. Mason Olcott’s Central College ties, a tribute letter about Miss Ai Sodeyama, and a reflection on secrecy about one’s opinion of self.
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William Beardsley
Robert Blue
Iowa
Nick Gosselink
Kentucky
California
Leo Smith
Des Moines S. 8
Matthew Kempkes
Washington
Oregon
Marion County
Towa
Mahaska
James Ruthven
Pella High School
Eddyville
John R. van Gorp
Mason Olcott, Jr
Ohio
Reformed Church
Mason Olcott
University of Pennsylvania
Olcott
Central College
Marjorie Baron
Boulder
Colorado
Ai Sodeyama
Pella
Getty Says Anti American Feelings Abroad Are Hokum
In response to Nixon’s Europe trip and rising anti American publicity, J Paul Getty rejects claims of global hostility. He argues most fears are sensational and that Europeans seek a better life, not politics, noting his own travels show no jeers or insults toward Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
South America
Americana
Europe
Fisenhower
J. Paul Getty
Getty
John Q
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Waterloo, Pella
Marion County Fairgrounds
Knoxville
By Jerry Marcus
The
Travelers Safety Service
First Reformed Church
Newton
William Jennings Bryan
H. F. Johnson
Blummers
Robert McIntire
McIntire
Camp Dodge
James Verhey
Harry van Hemert
Gray Bull
Wyoming
A. N. Kuyper
Peter Kuyper
Lewis
Bob Kuyper
Lois Grooters
Pat Ulrich
Lake Mills Graphic
Balkans
Middle East
van Dyk - Duven Funeral Home
Chevrolet
Fisher
White Way Auto Company
Main Street
Mayfair
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