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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
3
A brief entry notes Aly and Sadler Publishing Co located at 725 Main Street in Pella. The fragment mentions a street name and company, with no further details or dates.
A reflection on the atomic energy breakthrough and its political and moral implications. Critics warn of war’s barbarism and urge outlawing conflict. Patton’s cantankerous fame illustrates how words shape leadership and public trust amid global tension. Nearby, corn borer damage prompts collective farmer action and interfield cooperation for control. Read about radio alcohol advertising pressures and dry laws shaping public policy.
A reader voices concern over broad liquor advertising on airwaves and anti integration protests at Constitution Hall. The piece links race prejudice to arts access, notes strikes and decentralization trends, and argues Iowa towns offer welcoming sites for new industries amid nationwide labor shifts and regional competition.
A fragment from Ames Milepost calls for balanced control of labor and management to set fair wage and profit shares. It advocates decisive actions on wages and prices to prevent ongoing unrest and public costs from labor demands and management resistance.
Oct 1 column recalls a tax shortfall in Marion County and a call for investigation into who was responsible. Farmers discuss the corn hog program while voters consider a $32,000 high school modernization bond. WPA grant covers rest. Tulip Festival prep, patent news, bakery accident injures Peter De Boer, and football scores from Central College and Pella High. Train exposure to diphtheria figures and local theater plans near, with car displays and a Dante’s Inferno showing.
Twenty years ago Central College football was crushed 38 to 0 at Coe in Cedar Rapids. Glen Neifert, Lee Lautenbach, and Glen Kerr were injured, Pence famed for a long drop kick at Coe. Opening of A. B. Van Houweling garage planned, Dodge Bros show to tour with 500 Dodge Cars, Rev. Wesselink inaugurated Nov 4, Legion rabbit hunt Armistice Day, Central vs Penn at Oskaloosa slated, early snow and record cold hit Oct 27, Halloween parade planned.
A front page appeal calls volunteers with skin for grafts to heal Huip Breuklander burned in a car gas tank explosion. Citizens farmers and merchants assist by organizing road work north of the Mathes bridge while merchants solicit contributions for the project.
Writers in the great newspaper feared Japan and China would seek a place in the sun as Germany did in the First World War. Y Neels visited his parents. A large crowd gathered in town after good weather the prior Saturday. John Grundman traveled to Sauk Center to buy carloads of potatoes. Premature frost caused soft crops but a week of dry wind aided feed plans. Smorenberg and Kaldenberg fell from a roof. both suffered only bruises. A Ver Meer barn burned. others had burned months before. Knoxville citizens voted 49 yes and something like 5 no to the commission form of government, with costs cited at about 3000 more than the old system. Omaha Symphony, Henry Cox in a concert for the Nebraska State Teachers Association, touted as the nation’s largest with over a hundred pieces.
A large explosion at the powder magazine near Oskaloosa on January 5 1882 destroyed homes and ch arred ruins across the town. Three boys died amid debris while many were injured. Venn College suffered damage and schools closed for a week. The incident is recounted by Phil Hoffman in The Palimpsest.
The speech to the Southern Conference of Teamsters in Memphis in November 1943 warns against mass strikes amid wartime to peacetime transition. It argues strikes could wreck the economy, invite harsh labor laws, and alienate war veterans returning home. It calls for leadership with clear heads to aid national reconversion and preserve vital industry.
WM. Difleman of Sully Iowa promotes insurance on farm and city property and bail on crops and autos. He urges starting savings accounts with life insurance, ensuring income in old age. Calls to 60 or letters to P O Box 146, Sully, Iowa, for a call.
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