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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1954
Page
5
A brief feature notes the week of Tulip Time festivities and community activities centered on doorstep events and local gatherings. It highlights neighborhood participation and the seasonal celebration's arrival with anticipation from residents.
A Cedar Rapids- Marion area appeal urges readers to volunteer for Tulip Time, noting volunteer shortages despite the festival's community role. The report also highlights reactions to the McCarthy era hearings, and a Cedar Rapids Marion Council of Churches Family Life Clinic featuring Dr. David Fulcomer who stresses focusing on youths strengths to counter insecurity and disciplinary pressures.
New York state senate subcommittee explored whether comic books are harmful to children. Witnesses debated crime and horror content versus normal child impact, with Dr Frederic Wertham arguing normal children are affected while Richard Clendennon cited experts on danger to disturbed youths. William Gaines defended taste and warned against publisher censorship. A Hartford Courant probe after a brutal 11 year old girl’s murder linked child reading to crime. the paper urged parental guidance over censorship, noting content dangers and a public cleanup.
A trio of Iowa editorials criticizes public attention to opinion, highway safety quotes, and voter illiteracy about primary candidates. The Globe-Gazette notes yawns as a rare honest reply during conversations, while Star-Clipper praises a Minnesota executive’s highway safety remark about over 65 mph turning driving into aiming. Algona Advance laments voters’ lack of understanding of ballot candidates for governor and other state offices.
An Indianola Record Herald-Tribune summary of a National Underwriter editorial argues highway safety hinges on changing driver attitudes. It cites impatience, overconfidence, stubbornness, and anger as causes of nine in ten accidents, and notes New York City driver education shows little attitude change without long term indoctrination to mature drivers.
Forty years ago New Sharon boys traveled to Pella by car for a baseball game, and Pella won 10 to 1. The report uses humor naming players by nicknames Ace, Poodle, Hennie, Hattie, Fleet, and Buck. The piece also notes yearbook staff, Central College hires, a Yankee Robinson show in town, a water fee dispute over elephant watering, a fatality of Kommer Van Stigt, and local events from a lively community page.
A rain soaked finale saw Moines lose six to one as boiler flooding at Buerkens Mfg Co. prompted repairs. A. Waechter began building a new home at Broadway and University Street on land bought from Mrs. Vander Kamp. Local commerce notes include Payne Investment Co promoting colonization with John Nieburg as agent and a 1923 income claim of $1000 per acre. The era’s attention drawing film The Whipping Boss drew American Legion sponsorship for a national showing with a Pella Post event at the Alamo Theater.
The issue mixes heavy advertising with local notes from Pella. It highlights Memorial Day reminders by merchants, lists twenty four Pella high school graduates for May 29 exercises including Esther Kuyper and Logan Hendricks, and recounts incidents such as theft of Dr H C Payne s Ford and a near miss when Frank Vanden Berg s rabbit shooting exploded a cartridge. It also mentions Jay Kempkes taking a coaching role in Everett Washington and Pete Sels injuring himself painting at a canning factory. An eighth line story notes Central College beating Still College in a drizzle. An advertisement promotes the Hollandale settlement in Minnesota.
A front page cartoon by Ed Le Cocq lauds trading at home for community prosperity. Thirty-nine Pella High graduates are listed for commencement exercises, including Joe Van Arkel Nick Ver Meer George Vande Noord Ralph Menning Lucille Hollebrands Bernice Carter Margaret Vande Kieft Gracie Vande Voort Robert Klein and Logan Vander Zyl. In Des Moines the Commercial contest sees Pella High novices win team speed and place fourth in team accuracy.
The article notes a third place in the amateur season with Jackson second and the Slobe Brothers as sponsors for a cooking school at Ion Hall with Blair Milling and Samuel Mahon companies. It mentions Cordova thieves struck Herman Sneller farm corn crib and a Chamber of Commerce meeting about scrip and tax stamps.
Martha Van Berkum was crowned Tulip Time queen for 1944 with Georgia Van Berkum Phyl Phyllis Van Ee Margaret De Wit and Francene De Prenger as attendants. Rudy Schilder was honored posthumously after a plane crash near Winona Arizona.
A May leading magazine feature quotes Sir Thom Desmond, chair of New York state aging committee, arguing compulsory retirement wastes billions and harms national security. He calls for outlawing retirement at 65 and views a longer, productive lifespan as a social value.
Pvt Edward Wormhoudt wounded in Italy on February 13 he enlisted from Burlington in 1943 and served overseas since October 1943. 1st Lt Junior Hull home on furlough then reassigned at Casper Wyoming flew with Flying Tigers in China Burma and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with one cluster. Dr Herman Stuart reports YMCA work at Calcutta while Carroll Hollebrands travels to Calcutta to buy musical instruments for a band in Gaya India. Montgomery Ward plant seized and President Sewall Avery expelled by government officers amid debate that FDR exceeded authority. Citizens urged to stock coal for next winter to keep miners at work year round.
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