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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1950
Page
3
A county newspaper excerpt cites Elbert Hubbard on influencing future times and honoring the men and women who founded the community. It asserts leaders mold thought and character by upholding truth and right, honoring the Fathers who built the town over a century ago and urging continued fidelity to their ideals.
At Jidda Prince Mansur, Saudi defense minister and king’s son, dined with Admiral Conelly aboard the U S Roanoke. After lunch the helicopter flew him to his palace four miles away. He did not know the Arabian Nights magic words Open Sesame or Abra cadabra.
O John Rogge former assistant U S attorney general and policy maker for Henry Wallace’s Progressive party spoke before Russia’s supreme parliament as vice-president of the World Committee of Peace Partisans. He criticized United States policy and praised Soviet life urging a rethink of war aims.
Spring signals come with flowers and seeds on display though few buyers due to cold earth. Tulip Time nears as gardeners plan plantings and choose fruit or shade trees. Americans fear overmilitarization. Hoover opposes a national police force while Eisenhower warns against an armed police state and urges keeping freedoms alongside defense.
The piece notes the uproar over using a helicopter to seed strip mine culm piles near Pershing in Marion County. It recalls a past legislative debate and a law aimed at leveling such mounds, which has not been enforced. The author questions whether this aerial reclamation truly solves the broader issue.
The author condemns strip mining as ruinous and urges real land rehabilitation. Seeding alone after leveling is inadequate and meaningless unless full compliance with the law occurs. The piece laments vast scars across the landscape and calls for sincere efforts to restore usefulness and natural beauty.
A collage of columns and editorials arguing about parking scarcity in small towns, praising the Midwest, and noting Iowa pride. Reflections on poultry garden yields and the need for a vociferous Chamber of Commerce. Des Moines Tribune feature mentions mechanical scare owls on a bank building and Grinnell residents debating solutions to bird problems.
A Bulletin of local notes reports Ben Blommers injured at a George Heeren shop by a power saw. Central College loses 2–0 to Highland Park College with Ray Bousquet praised for center field play. Pete Van Rees severely injured laying drain tile. amputation needed. Jack Eldridge arrives in Des Moines on footbound from Boston to San Francisco, aiming July 2. Herman Rietveld travels to Canada to buy land. Wally Fowler returns from Des Moines with new car. Various land deals, weddings, illnesses, and local trades described, including bloom’s and local business moves.
Local notes recount Libbie Cox and Hattie Cox attending Des Moines performances of What Every Woman Knows starring Maude Adams, plus plays by Goldsmith and Shaw at Central College. The community promotes a baseball team for the season, plans a gym and chapel for Central College, and reports on high school sports, a farm accident, and a telephone convention visit.
Twenty years ago in Prairie City a mill explosion killed Peter Wagaman aged 68, a Pella native. The report notes his death, his origins, and recalls his life before the disaster.
Ten years ago Miss Leona Schilder was Tulip Queen with attendants Margie Veenman Martha Van Berkum Helen Klyn and Virginia Kempkes. A Tulip Time Center tower drawing by artist architect John Lautenbach appeared on the front page. John and Charley Lautenbach reviewed blueprints for the tower. Lee Vriezelaar was opening a grocery on the east side of Garden Square. Gary Schiebout bought the Van Gorp Tire Shop in Pella. The Pella Gun Club promoted a shoot on the old golf club grounds one mile north of Pella with fifty renewing members. Six hundred seventy three seats had been subscribed for in the new Douwstra Chapel and 116 more were needed. Rotarians from Pella helped install officers in a new Knoxville club. Indianola Club sponsored. A photo shows Don Menning, tossing the discus a 126 feet 1 inch for a new Iowa Conference mark at Simpson College Indianola Ed tubrex cleared 5 ft 10 1 8 in high jump and La Vern Barton threw shot 42 ft 1 1 2 in, both new marks. Dr Hf Lubbers of Central College announced Herbert Van Wyk would chair Bible at the college in the fall. He was pursuing a New York University PhD at the time.
Inmates at Connecticut State Prison denounce radio crime programming critiquing its glorification of violence. They say shows labeled 16,000 Murders a Month mold youth into criminals, urging sponsors and producers to curb sensational depictions as inmates repay their debt to society.
Mrs. Vande Geest returns home after leg amputation at Lutheran Hospital Des Moines. Pella residents report Dust Bowl erosion and dire conditions in Oklahoma and Texas. Penn defeats Central 5 to 4 after a dugout dispute as players walk off. A new road cutoff near town edges Knoxville road and Van Houweling farm.
The state of Wyoming, claiming the greatest reclamation project in the U S, is rapidly developing into a major producing state. It hosts vast cattle and sheep grazing on its prairies and ranches, a valuable wool clip, and rising dairy farming activity.
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