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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1955
Page
5
A town seeks steady good deeds building reputation through repeated acts and community service. It urges immediate planting of tulips to develop roots before frost, promising personal satisfaction and civic pride in May 1956.
Town readers are reminded that garbage collection has replaced curbside dumping and burying. A truck now handles disposal, with container cleaning and spraying. The service costs money but is widely praised as a relief and well executed by a small levy.
The article argues for shifting farm conservation subsidies from temporary measures to permanent practices like terraces ponds and erosion controls. It notes Iowa receivers mostly benefit from temporary payments but urges increased federal support for permanent work, with 50 percent cost share now and 60 percent next year. It concludes farmers should influence the policy as the time approaches.
Motorists who bought new cars since last spring should heed a winter safety tip. High compression motors and surging power can hazard icy roads, and power brakes can cause skids if pressed hard. Brakes should be gently pumped with pressure released rapidly, and accelerator input on ice can also cause loss of control. November is safe driving month and December 1st will be Safe Driving Day.
Editors weigh farm policy debates and surpluses while urging smarter solutions. The piece criticizes gutter politics and calls for issue focus over personalities, noting voters’ role in elevating campaigns and rejecting appeals to basest instincts.
Fifty years ago the mayor ordered a man caught buying liquor for another off the blacklist for 18 months and another for six months. Pella High beat Albia 11 to 0 on Contal College field with stars Bousquet Kruidenier Carson and others. Knoxville managed one first down. Wedding attendees Helene Kruidenier and Elizabeth Kruidenier attended Bessie Vander Meulen and Gradus Hagens’ wedding. Hagens starting a Casper Wyoming law practice. Monroe high players saw little action in a rain soaked 57 to 0 loss to Pella High. Marion County Institute showings listed along with agricultural and baby shows. Central defeated Simpson 29 to 0 with Ree Johnson Barton and Van Cleave prominent. Gauss refereed, De Reus and De Gooyer enjoyed camp days on the Skunk River. Scholte to seek warmer clime. Reverend Vander Werf of Holland, Michigan to take over First Reformed Church.
Gloom spread at Central College as Parsons College routed the Dutchmen 60 to 0 in Fairfield. Central managed one first down while Parsons did not punt, with Todd celebrating his birthday and the 48th wedding anniversary of himself and his wife. A large steam ditching machine worked on Broadway for a sewer project with 30 men employed to lay 2200 feet of sewer. Federated Club women staged a musical at the Opera House. Coming to
The Central College auditorium will feature humorist Lou J. Beauchamp in a Chautauqua style program on the sunny side of life. Other notes include a buggy accident injuring Chet Huckabee, car sales reported by White Way Auto Co, and travelogues by Lieut. Noordwal of Amsterdam. A 200 acre Jelsma farm near Prairie City sold for 167.50 an acre to Elmer Whitted, the Mahaska County Fair to be revived with $30,000 in stock for grounds and buildings, and aviation fatalities tied to Rolly Inman with recovery of a crashed plane near Waterloo.
Thirty years ago death recorded for J M Cox retired railway station agent and band director described as Pella's best known citizen of the era. Age eighty, born in Ohio in 1845, came to Pella in 1852, Civil War veteran, served Rock Island Railway from 1866, station agent in Bonaparte Prairie City Des Moines, returned to Pella in 1874 for forty years. He organized Cox's Light Infantry Band later the CRI and P Band. Retired 1914.
Twenty years ago employees of the Rosscreen Company held a surprise party in the factory main room for P. H. Kuyper to mark the tenth anniversary. About 150 people attended, including friends, with a planned Consumers Cooperative Association meeting set for November 27 at the Legion Hall where Tom De Witt would speak.
Otley resident Engbers won a prize at a corn show and George Heeren supervised the Tulip Time project. Fifty college boys were recruited to assist in building a Model Dutch Village to be exhibited at Tulip Time in 1936.
Ten years ago Central tied up a 1945 season with a conference crown by winning seven games after opening with a loss to Iowa State Teachers. They posted 209 points to 77 for opponents, with veterans Ronwell Lowe De Witt bolstering the squad. The Kiwanis Club announced a Community Service Award and urged citizen nominations. Armistice Day remarks by Chaplain C Lepeltak focused on peace, while local farming outlook warned of livestock market shifts as wartime demand eased. Lt Verle Ver Dught visited home from Minneapolis and Cpl Gerrit Kuiken faced charges at Ft Leavenworth. The season closed 26 0 over Macomb Teachers.
The piece argues that as cars gain horsepower beyond 200 to 300, safety innovations must evolve. It discusses belts, door latches, padded boards, shatter proof mirrors, and rear seats with headrests, and proposes stronger protection for the driver’s death seat. It notes rising driver numbers and highway speeds, urging space-age armor akin to pilots or divers.
Steve Ballant of Manchester became a smoke casualty when his car interior caught fire recently. In trying to rescue his fishing gear he inhaled smoke and collapsed.
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