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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1950
Page
7
Dr Norman Vincent Peale contrasts past fierce pursuit of liberty with current desire for security. He warns Americans to vote next Tuesday not for self interest or factional directives but for the public good, urging thoughtful participation in the national election.
In Glenwood and Hedrick, farmers advertise farms for sale at one hundred eighty acres at one hundred dollars per acre and four hundred fifty dollars per acre for well improved land. A Wichita-like sentiment questions polls as memory serves from 1948, while Overbrook Kansas wins a three thousand three hundred prize for a National Federation of Women's Clubs betterment effort. The piece highlights a library, church organ, park improvements, Main Street renewal, and youth programs led by women, noting the value of partnerships and community action.
Eight thousand boys from two hundred fifty thousand vocational agriculture students attended the national FFA gathering in Kansas City Missouri. A 21 year old Fort Davis junior from Quine Florida earned the top $1000 award and showed $45000 profits from farming started in eighth grade. He owns cattle land and crops and expands with family partnerships and leases. Regional Star Farmer awards went to Paul Crawford Budd Om and Roland Turnow. Many earned the Master Farmer degree for solid establishment after schooling. Vocational agriculture education is free at Pella.
Boston researchers Drs. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck conducted a ten year study of five hundred delinquent and five hundred non delinquent boys in institutions to draw conclusions for their book Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. The strongest influence on a child is the family circle, and love and security deter misbehavior while lack of love erodes roots and moral direction.
A compilation of editorials and quotes critiques postwar economic strain and defense excess. It argues non defense extravagance risks sabotaging the national economy and military, questions welfare state aims, and urges UN aid to Korea with food and reconstruction instead of further conflict.
A strong call to work and save to fund expansion of production facilities, sustain a sound economy, and support national defense against aggression. The message emphasizes that money for defense and growth must come from labor and savings, urging productive effort.
40 Years Ago items report canaries at Van der Ploeg's Bakery Hartz Mountain birds. Sauk Center land sales at 12 dollars per acre and farms 20 to 30 per acre. local banking group forming. 1911 almanac and Word and Works available from Hicks in St. Louis. marriage recorded Bessie Dearinger Neal VanderWerff near Galesburg. robberies at Harvey store. death of Frank M. Barker. obituary notes of early printer from Pella Harbor area. fire in Monroe at 20 000 with call for fire engine. sewer project, bicycle accident. Harvey gas light manager. Thanksgiving turkey dinner. dry weather wells dried. Pella Tigers score at Indianola unknown. county clerk Bert Kersbergen planning move to California. Marion County payouts noted.
A column recalls Henry Gezel’s near miss when a poultry storage wall collapsed in Oskaloosa. Stories mention H J Rhynsburger founding the Iowa Produce Dealers in 1894, a Lake Prairie District Fair sale netting about 16000 dollars, and a Legion memorial fund. Dr. Alex Guthrie's death in Neosho, and a vaccination talk by F K Stouder of Iowa State College are noted along with the Van Baale and Lubberden wedding dated November 24.
The issue recalls 20 years ago with low holiday advertising as grim farming moods hit Iowa. It records the death of Mrs. George Ramsey in Oskaloosa, bridge work on the Des Moines River at Bellefountaine, and the Gar den City Feeder Co move to Peoria. Coal miners face dire straits. Community Welfare League funds relief. Reuben Schakel returns to Pella. McKeever sells Otley drug store. Farm Bureau urges road work. live Pella Parent-Teachers' Association proposed. Two Vans lists health shoes at 3.98. Ed Grant opens photography studio in Van der Linden building as Chronicle highlights low prices.
A report notes a 550.20 bounty on gophers with a sighting comment about gopher raisers. Joe Hewitt becomes Rock Island railway messenger boy. Dr T G Fuitz refereed a Kirkville football game calling it pleasant and profitable. Charles F Dykstra visited Pella and Keosauqua where he served as Rock Island agent. Keables Drug Store buys bankrupt salvage stock for a giant bargain sale.
Front page squawk alleges referees and umpires stole the Bussey game, with outmoded tricks used to favor Bussey and foul play suspected against the Pella boys. Market notes show corn 45 to 60 cents, hogs 8 dollars per cwt, oats 35 cents. Eugene Dennis receives 60 dollar Y M C A scholarship for a Chicago decorating course.
Ten years ago Mayor Fultz and Police Chief De Hoog devised a scheme to curb lodging requests by making dismissed vagrants sweep the streets each morning before breakfast. A photo showed four bums at work. Local businessmen offered $100 prizes for the best corn at a December 14 Legion Hall show. The Fraunfelders, a Swiss family, were set to perform yodeling and music in Pellla at Douwstra Chapel. John Boot became president of the Adult Farmers' Night School at the high school Agriculture room, with George Vande Voort as vice president, Jacob De Taan secretary, and Harold Veenstra treasurer. Attendance was excellent. Director Robert Ruby's high school band delivered a fine concert, with Orleath Vogelaar on flute and four girls noted.
Paul Bellanyi, displaced from Yugoslavia, spoke at Anamosa Rotary about finding a home in Iowa. He contrasted government seizure of his farm with U.S. liberties, praising the American way of life and urging officials to maximize tax dollar value while accepting taxes that sustain national defense and public services.
A clarinet quartette with Anne Langerak Arvena Huyser Joy Hackert and Phyllis Ver Ploeg and a brass sextet by Semon Sandven M Den Adel Max Kuyk James Kempkes Carl Vander Linden and Charles Lautenbach have been organized. The Legion Post plans public forums with six civic groups.
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