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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1952
Page
5
President Finley urged graduates to pursue quality in education and judgment. He warned against emotional, pugnacious storms and urged balance in ideas and actions, noting education extends beyond university walls.
W A Blees predicts television can disrupt government by empowering the people and boosting voter turnout. The piece recounts honors for Pueblo custodian George Willis Spann, praised for 35 years of service and community influence, plus Iowa ministers’ pulpit campaigning and a conference on child development and arts education urging music to shape behavior and parental involvement.
Chester C. Yeaman of Sioux City charges Iowa ministers violated church and state separation by backing Attorney General Robert Larson from the pulpit before the primary. Yeaman, trailing Larson, cites readers recalling churches campaigning for his opponent and questions how many ministers participated.
Editorial notes aim for a quieter life away from sensational reports. It argues many people know little of global troubles and suggests returning to home comforts, with humor about sore feet as relief. It contrasts happiness with simple, honest living and cautions against ambition.
The Chronicle presents notices from ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years ago. This feature highlights remembered events, notable names, dates, and locales that shaped local history. It recaps community milestones, civic moments, and social happenings from earlier editions.
Four residents including Henry Den Hart Heemstra Case Dieleman and W G Vander Ploeg purchase Overland Ford Oakland touring cars. A country road confrontation between a local driver and a farmer ended in a whip clash, prompting calls for courtesy and fair road sharing. The issue notes sales, deaths of Dr Heerke H Viersen and Ellsworth Wheeler, local visits, church events, and business ads including Kuyper Lumber and a Fairbanks Morse engine.
Hazel Myers of Pleasantville named prettiest girl in Marion County and will compete in district and state contests. Ford Motor Company flags record sales with 5,709 cars per day and 652,261 in six months. Cotton Blossom Singers from Piney Woods School set to perform at Second Reformed Church. Local support flows to a school for colored people. Pella Legion blanks Ankeny 1 0 in ten innings as Lankelma homers. Pella then beats Milo 6 1 with De Haan pitching amid crowd disorder. Will McAdoo of Okmulgee visits, seeks Oklahoma legislature seat. Coal mining for threshing denied. wood-cutting proposed instead. Donald Mair to become Oakville principal. Boy Scouts auction furniture with 25 percent to donors. leather puttees sought for officers. Gardner car demo in upside-down display by White Way Auto.
Twenty years ago in July 1982 four youths infiltrated the water tower at South Pella. Mayor T. G. Fultz fined them by requiring two weeks of home confinement after the trapdoor descent. Names listed include John Koelman Peter George Ganss Wilbur Jacobs and Paul Van Vliet. The incident drew national press attention.
A Walter Butt portrait in Navy uniform shows him as Coxswain on the U S S Denabola. Local men Warren Schreiner William Hagen John Van Roekel and Jacob De Haan enrolled in Civilian Pilot Training. Don Vriezelaar to receive wings as bombardier second lieutenant in army air force. Gary Schiebout reports his car stolen from West Washington Street found a mile southwest with tires removed. Grimes Canning seeks workers for tomato pack with permits for girls and young men. New farmer groups north of the Des Moines river sign up amid local canning drive.
Freedom of Enterprise: eight private Kentucky colleges join the Kentucky Independent Foundation to solicit corporate gifts for operating expenses. The group includes Union, Transylvania, Kentucky Wesleyan, Villa Madonna, Georgetown, Centre, Berea, and Bellarmine. They advocate private colleges as free enterprise in education, arguing public funding undercuts leadership, with Centres and Transylvania cited as evidence of notable graduates.
The column lists Marion County topics including Francis Dykstra taking a director post at Yamamoko in New York and work in Chicago, a fire at the Lane Schakel home, Gezel brothers in military service in Mobile Alabama and Ireland, Clarence Langerak training for the Air Force, John Gezel welding in Hayden Lake Idaho, Stan Lillard at Remington Rand, and John Walraven buying the Van Essen farm for $56 per acre with tenants Govert Kam erik. Mayor Frush busy in court as youths face car stunts on Pella streets near the pool.
A vintage ad invites savings with 3 percent returns and insured accounts up to 10,000 by United G nt. It notes Fed Home Loan Bank membership, easy mail opening, prompt access, and an anticipated 8 percent dividend, with withdrawal card and book mailed to Polk County Federal Savings & Loan Assn.
Iowa State College extension horticulturist Ben Vance says the common garden hoe remains the best method to kill garden weeds as modern chemicals can harm most vegetables. Cut weeds at the ground surface breaking the crust.
Earle Raun entomologist at Iowa State College says one lindane treatment used early this summer will protect livestock from ticks for several weeks.
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