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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
2
Dr H H Kramer, seriously ill, has returned home and is recovering. Relatives and friends from Michigan Idaho and Colorado visited in recent weekends, including Zylstra and Vander Wilt families. Local residents travel for visits, schooling, and weddings, with many coming from Ames Grinnell Sioux Center and Des Moines.
Advice from Miss Fannie Gannon Iowa State College extension home management specialist on choosing paint brushes storing brushes and following manufacturer directions. Emphasizes floor woodwork and furniture colors brush sizes for walls trim and windows along with care tips linseed oil varnish turpentine and storage notes. Recommends painting on bright dry days and avoiding damp conditions for best results.
Large feed cattle on the hoof in the Corn Belt and softer meat demand hint at lower fat cattle prices. Good and choice beef steers eased from mid-March to mid-May while lower grades held steady. In late May all slaughter steers fell, good stock down about 50 to 100 cents. Marketings rose for grain-fed cattle, but total slaughter likely stays below last year.
Local note from a Town Crier column promoting community involvement in school bands and dandelion control. Mentions Bill Wallace of Oskaloosa celebrating his ninth birthday and regular piano lessons in Pella. Encourages 25 cent memberships for band support, thanks to Gertrude Varenkamp Lautenbach as treasurer. References Yale student George Baitsell visiting in June and Tulip Time postcards selling well.
Economists note 1938 cattle weights edged up from the previous year while drouth threatens reductions in West herd sizes. Liquidity may rise in Texas if drought persists, altering summer marketings. Fat cattle prices hold firm unless drought or sharp declines occur, with feeders and stockers still above last year.
The Iowa Safety Council awards first prize to Chas ctstane of Casey for an essay proposing highway safety reforms. It argues crashes come from driver, pedestrian, and cyclist carelessness despite mechanical and road issues, and urges education as a remedy to curb deadly accidents. The piece highlights psychology teaching the value of desire to change behavior.
A writer urges making traffic safety a required high school subject with credit toward graduation. He argues education can spark a strong desire to prevent auto accidents, even if it means sacrificing another topic due to crowded curricula. The plea stresses the importance of instruction over passive awareness.
Former Judge and Attorney of Berlin, Germany served as founder and minister of the First Hebrew Christian Synagogue of Los Angeles, shaping early diaspora religious leadership in Los Angeles city.
A discussion on highway danger argues schools should require traffic safety studies for graduates. It cites 12 percent lifetime risk of death or injury, urges character training and law respect, and stresses education as a quicker path to safer streets, with a call for legislative action.
From the Iowa University Psychological Department a story of an adopted boy Ted Thatcher and his path through temptation in a new family. Doris and Joey are wary at first but accept him. Fanny, a former teacher, tutors him at home and plans for him to start school with peers next fall. One night, three weeks after he
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