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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1951
Page
5
In New York City the Mayday parade drew about 6,200 marchers and 13,000 spectators amid light rain. The Arthur parade reportedly drew a much larger crowd, with estimates ranging from five hundred thousand to half a million, highlighting a sharp contrast in public attention between the two events.
An ad notes caps are back with a conservative model and bold colors and extreme shapes. Separately, Gov Beardsley approves Howell dam plans, with changes by the Iowa Natural Resources Council and Army engineers to Saylorville project. Tulip Time helps community spirit through radio and press support, affirming Pella’s festival as wholesome entertainment.
Residents of a South Pella block report deliberate wheel damage to tulip beds by a car driving along the curb end to end. They demand accountability and urge filing complaints with authorities to pressure action, trusting local leadership to address the harm.
Lews State College has been named the recipient of Ford Foundation funded grants totaling 260000 dollars. Three million dollar Fund for Adult Education created recently supports 180000 for experimental television programs and 80000 for equipment loans including kinescope gear to record and distribute programs for study and evaluation to other stations. Town State College faced sharp criticism earlier.
A composite editorial cites calls to debate draft, defense spending, and national policy. It argues citizens must scrutinize nondefense expenditures, supports Hoover commission ideas, and urges taxpayers to stay informed to prevent waste and dishonesty in government. It notes past Polk County publishing cuts and officials' indictments.
The Lessissiture backs television venture with a grant to support education oriented efforts at WOLTV. Dr. Charles Priley and WOT Realworth cited for recognition. Tom Purcell notes in Hampton Chronicle about parking meters influencing street usage and the council stance on public parking.
Matthew DeWit traveled from New Sharon to spend the weekend in Pella and praised the town as a Sharon booster while noting Pella girls appear nicer than neighboring towns. Miss Glenere Grundman gave a fine reading of Enoch Arden at College auditorium. Carrie Cox accompanied with piano for a Strauss setting. Washington's baseball team is seen as waiting for next year. An ad touts a Chicago company promising to cure goitre with Goitrene, claiming lumps would disappear.
General Weaver dedicated the soldiers monument at Garden Square with five thousand attendees. May Mayor Gesman accepted with a lengthy address. Pella High lost to Penn Academy of Oskaloosa 7 to 0 as Lanky was hurt sliding into second, then replaced by Boyd and Vehu. Blythe Gophers beat the Pella Meteors 7 to 6 on the college field with Bloom pitching five innings.
A 20 year old Pella edition celebrated the gay nineties with old photographs and nearly a hundred contributors. It recalls Harry and Jim Downing, the widow Downing, and family ties to Fort Dodge and Des Moines businesses. The issue mentions a midget band from Madison Iowa, Ruby Holman’s corsetry event, a boxcar bum story, the Pella Independents beating Beacon 2 to 1, Rev. Bernie Mulder receiving a doctor of divinity, a planned sewage plant at 41 500 dollars, and Iowa's literacy notes.
Fred Ulrich visited Den to see his ill son George in a sanitarium. An Edison records concert was held for college students with Professor Sadler explaining music analysis. Theodore Le Cocq conducted Memorial Day flowers at Oakwood Cemetery for brother Louis, who died in a mishap at the Indianapolis Speedway 500. Mrs. Carrie Halbert traveled to Ottawa Kansas for serno u exercises by her children Verna and a graduation.
Ten years ago the issue ran twelve pages with a lead urging immediate opening of the swing pool as youths sought riverside recreation. Farmers were invited to tour the English Creek Watershed southwest of Knoxville to inspect conservation work by the Soils Conservation Service and CCC. Frank Miles, editor of the Town Legionaire, was Memorial Day speaker. a front page caption praised him as the best Memorial Day speaker ever heard in Pella.
Albany proclaims Moses Day to mark Grandma Moses turning ninety as she attends the city event, opening a 60 painting exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art and hosting a birthday banquet where she blows out 90 candles. A Truman telegram wishes her spring and eternal sunshine, praising the artist’s simple, heartfelt art over modern pretensions.
The issue features a marriage announcement for Jane Van Sittert and Warren Glen Van Sittert from Pray, with their Society page photo. It also notes a Spirit Lake fishing party invited by Don Dykstra of Itherville, a May 29 date, and a Marion County Soils District map formed since January 1941 north of the Des Moines River. Letters from Connie Rietveld and Philip Bevan at Camp Claiborne appear with a photo of Elmer Van Zee at Ft. Sill, Sally Ver Dught’s fifth birthday party, Vernon Bobbitt earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Iowa University, planning summer study toward a master’s, and a prior visit to New York with Mary Reed, former Central College librarian.
In a recent trial at Town State College, drilling oats with an alfalfa-brome mixture produced thicker stands of alfalfa and brome than broadcasting. The result highlights potential benefits of precise seeding methods for legume and grass mixtures.
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