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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1946
Page
3
Entry notes that mail is entered at the Pella Iowa post office as second class matter indicating a newspaper or periodical filing with the postal service.
The piece urges graduates to continue learning beyond the classroom, citing Newton D. Baker on education, and contrasts it with unsettling vandalism in public spaces at Pella. It also notes farmers using late planting and edge-row corn to outsmart corn borers, a method aiding infestation control.
A Chicago report notes fifty theaters host children shows on Saturday mornings with cartoons and newsreels, praised for parental support and local volunteers. The piece also includes Eric Johnston urging a modern, humane capitalism, arguing against petrified dogmas and for worker voice, profit sharing, and adaptable industry.
The scene recalls the 1933 Berlin book burnings where Nazi mobs lit pyres near the University of Berlin while speeches and chants praised destruction. The piece argues that burning books symbolized nihilism enabling later atrocities, and contends ideologies and freedoms endure despite such attempts.
A collection of brief editorial notes from Oskaloosa and Shenandoah columns. Topics include a sugar free cookbook idea for housewives, U S lending causing international tension, a Benn-ington College radio culture critique, Iowa postwar industry growth with 52 new plants, a Shenandoah piece on government black market pricing, and a Sioux City Journal stance on labor capital rights and the need for fair wage and price adjustments.
A 1936 district report highlights a 2 percent mill tax levy plan for a three year period to cover a ten thousand dollar high school deficit. Memorial Day photos show the firing squad, Legion men, and students with Wil iam Rathke as state commander. Senior class and eighth grade pupils with teacher Dora Bootsma appear in pictures. Marion County relief rolls drop to sixty seven families from nine hundred the year before. The Pella Theatre features Captain January with Shirley Temple, while Oskaloosa lists Freddie Bartholomew as star. Betty Blommers wed Herbert Klausen at the Blommers home. First band concert of the season set for Saturday directed by Hugo Kuyper. Pauline Palmquist gravely ill with spinal meningitis. Tulip bulb orders urged as the second Festival proves successful and more plantings are planned.
The 1926 primary in Pella shows Brookhart with 267 votes to Cummins 69 for Iowa Senate. Obituary notes D S Huber died at age 90, tracing his life from Johnstown to Van Buren and Pella. Gypsy princesses were fined for cash register theft near Oskaloosa while local residents planned croquet at Rock Island Depot. A Rock Island excursion to Keokuk was advertised for July 11 with fare 3.65 round trip.
Report notes Otley ran a first woman candidate for assessor but the result was not given. Visiting families from Pella include Mr and Mrs Ike LeCocq and Mr and Mrs Everett LeCoca. Everett planned summer work at Star Auto Co garage. Elders headed to Detroit to visit son Marion. A medicine show toured town earlier. Chiropractor J G Hull touted a Neurocalometer machine for diagnosing disease by electric methods. The device supposedly pinpointed spinal trouble.
Thirty years back in Pella on June 8 1916 the City Council approved the sewer addition and ordered a $10 263 68 payment to the contractor. Debates over a Sunday curbing ordinance continued as crime including a fatal street shooting near Fifield was reported. Commencement planned for Central College with five men and four women to receive degrees. Community notes include church moves, college faculty changes, local scholarships, high school graduations and marriages. A new church building committee toured Newton and the Birth of a Nation shown in Des Moines drew visiting interest. Mrs Charles T Chapin died in Granville Ohio.
The Voice of the Public from Knox ville Iowa dated May 18 1946 thanks the Pella Chronicle for its support of Hospital Day. Nearly 300 people from Pella registered that day and praise is given for the Pella High School Band which performed in the afternoon. The letter is signed by Colonel J G Cullins Manager Medical Corps.
A Wichita Kansas poem portrays days as silent figures bringing matchless gifts. It urges timely use of gifts and warns that neglected days pass treasures to others. The verse cites Pliny A Wiley as the author and presents a reflective, moral note about seizing opportunity.
Mrs. Millie Davis of Knoxville known as The Comfort Lady has sent quilts to aid Red Cross relief. A Dutch letter from Voorburg thanks the donor for clothing and shoes for seven children, noting items fit various family members and expressing ongoing gratitude and friendship.
The piece outlines three basic life insurance types: term, whole life, and endowment, noting term insurance as temporary and increasing cost with age. It explains term contracts, face value payouts on death within term, and optional features like conversion and renewal clauses.
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