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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1962
Page
1
Tripoli officials announce all stores will close Friday from 12 noon to allow employers and employees to attend Good Friday services. Community schools will be closed all day Friday and classes dismissed at 3 p m Thursday per School Superintendent Howard Pigg.
Denver funeral notices state Lemuel W. Hickman 71 died Tuesday of a heart attack. Services were held at Kearns-Dykeman chapel Waterloo with Rev. David Moore officiating. Burial at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Hickman born October 3, 1890 in Stahl Missouri. married Alice M. Wiegand October 3, 1925. World War I veteran and former Cash Motor Co. service manager. Survivors: Alice and brothers Arthur Hickman Santa Clara and Ora Hickman Waterloo.
The Tripoli post office announces an examination for clerk positions with a starting pay of 2.14 dollars per hour. Benefits include yearly raises, vacation, sick leave, insurance, retirement, and other benefits. Applications are available at the Tripoli post office.
Doyle Adams marsh custodian is pictured pointing to a washout over seven feet deep and about 25 feet wide. A repair agreement between the State Conservation Commission and Bremer County on a cooperative basis calls for a 48 inch culvert. If conditions allow, the road should reopen in late May.
The box score shows Dunkerton yielding 10 hits to Waterloo Panthers while allowing seven runs. Key players listed include Duane, Schumacher, Klein, Robding, Gargi er, and Lietz with several others named. the game ended with hospital entries and a reference to Moria Hospital after the Waterloo event.
Thirty-one members attended the regular monthly meeting of the Tripoli Commercial Club. The group planned a May car safety check with a committee named George W. Barnes chairman Dan Mast and Robert Ambrose to arrange a date. Members were invited to volunteer. Recreation followed adjournment.
Bremer County Board of Supervisors announce the sale of used pipe culverts at the Buck Creek highway shed site. Various sizes of culverts will be sold at public auction, Saturday, April 28, at 10:00 a.m., at the shed site, two miles south and six miles east of Tripoli. Terms are cash and all sale final.
Readlyn Savings Bank, Readlyn, publishes its call statement in this issue of the Lender reporting condition at the close of business March 26. Total assets are listed at 1,511,1859.24 and total liabilities at 1,340,343.06. Capital accounts include common stock par value 50,000.00, surplus 50,000.00 and undivided profits 71,516.18.
Committeemen and den mothers of the Cub Scout pack will meet Wednesday evening April 18 at 7 in the Town Hall. Webelos den meets Monday evening April 23 at 6 30 in the Town Hall, followed by the Cub Scout pack meeting at 7 30 the same evening.
P. L. Crittenden was released Tuesday after a stay at Scholtz Memorial Hospital Waterloo where he had been a patient since Thursday.
License examiners will be at the Tripoli Town Hall Saturday April 21 from 8 30 until noon This affords residents of the area a chance to obtain a new license or renew an existing one The licensing team will not return until May 19
Two Tripoli area students at LS.U. were named to the Dean's List for winter quarter. To qualify, students must earn at least 15 credit hours with a 3.5 GPA. Named are Donald R. Dohrmann, economics, son of Raymond H. Dohrmann, and Paul E. Lahmann, agricultural business, son of E. H. Lahmann.
Tripoli Community School senior band reheated under Wartburg college director Robert E. Lee in the high school auditorium Tuesday evening. Lee worked with the band giving advice to polish pieces for the state music contest this spring. His enthusiasm and vitality made the evening engaging for students.
The Tripoli Woman's Club will meet Tuesday evening April 24 at 7 30 p m at the Town Hall. It marks the annual senior girls courtesy with roll call My Hit Tune of the Month. Juanita Opheim and Sally Carmichael lead the program with hostesses Delpha Frese Mona Campbell Pat Steinhart Carolyn Krumm Miranda Lauck and Marion Tucker assisting.
Mrs Bert Bock entered Allen Memorial hospital Saturday evening for observation.
Mrs Maude Kiefer, mother of Mrs Alfred Koch, left Sumner hospital and returned home Friday after treatment.
Conservation Commission begins stocking on area trout streams delayed slightly by late spring and road conditions. Most fish are 10 to 12 inches with some four pound brood stock mixed in. Spring branches at Manchesters hatchery and Backbone State Park streams already stocked. Fishery men note trout exist year round and urge anglers to obtain new licenses and trout stamps before heading out.
Fifty mothers attended the last Kindergarten Mothers meeting at West Grade School cafeteria. Children’s Easter artworks on display included oatmeal bunny boxes and paper plate bonnets. Guest speaker Wayne Keenan urged acceptance and individualized praise for each child, while group singing and hostess help rounded out the evening.
A 20-member Bremer county leaders group is invited to join with nearby counties for an April 23 educational meeting in Charles City on Farm Policy Realistic Alternatives. Gene Vincent and Wallace Ogg will lead discussions on current farm status and four policy options including continuation, supply management, land retirements, and free prices.
Mrs Virgil Lampe and Mrs Wm Schlichting attended the wedding of Barbara Burman to Karl Webster at Waverly on Saturday.
Ray H. Fink and Fred C. Fink attended the dedication at the Cedar Hill post office on Sunday.
Forty two high school students from the Tripoli Community school will give a recital open to the public on Wednesday evening, April 25, at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium. This will be a dress rehearsal for the state solo and small group contest on April 28 at Osage.
Bremer Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee reminds farmers that Monday April 30 is the last day to file applications for payments for the 1961 wool marketing year. Payments cover shorn wool and unshorn lambs marketed by March 31. later marketings qualify for 1962 year payments. Applications require sales records and must be filed at the ASCS county office in Waverly. Also notes that payment rates will be announced once a national average price is determined. Summer payments will follow.
The Salvation Army plans its annual drive in Frederika led by local chairman Truman T. Stabr with F. D. Rewoldt and Lester Buenger on the committee. Contributions fund State and Inter-State Services including care for unmarried mothers, alcoholism rehab, parole work, missing person locating, services for servicemen, summer camps for needy families, and homemaker aid. A portion stays for local urgent needs.
Four youths were received into communicant membership at St John Evangelical Reformed Church Siegel during the 10 o'clock Sunday service. Named are Richard Buhrow David Drape William Kappmeyer and Allen Mueller. Rev. W D Weidler serves as pastor.
Wapsie Sportsmen's Club will hold their regular meeting Tuesday evening April 24 in the Tripoli Town Hall. Guest A. R. Linde of Swea City, a farm implement dealer, will provide the evening entertainment with colored motion pictures from a Canadian fishing trip and a recent film on Mexican bullfighting.
Al'c Lawrence C. Gundel, son of Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Gundel, departed Saturday for overseas duty in Spain. Mrs. Lawrence Gundel will visit the Rev. Gundel home this week before flying Sunday to join her husband in Spain.
Tom Manson son of Mr and Mrs Carroll Manson received the Iowa Farmer degree at the 34th annual Iowa FFA convention in Waterloo He is president of the Tripoli FFA chapter and a Tripoli High School junior The degree honors 200 outstanding members from 130 vocational agriculture departments in the state with only about two percent of 10018 active FFA members eligible.
The ALCW of the Waterloo conference will hold a spring rally at St. Peter's Lutheran church in Greene Tuesday. About 500 people are expected to attend the 9:30 a.m. event with Rev. Marcus Reitz delivering a missionary talk and Mrs. George Rausch, district president, speaking. In the afternoon, Mrs. George Palleson will present Is Your Lamp Really Lit as the rally theme A Lamp Unto My Feet.
Announcement of the approaching marriage of Joyce Boderman and James Block set for Saturday evening May 12 at 7:30 in St John’s Lutheran church Spring Fountain. The bride elect is the daughter of Walter Boderman Sumner and the groom is the son of Lawrence J Block Tripoli.
Denver Community School's senior class presents "Which Shall He Marry" at 8 p.m. April 27 and 28 in the high school auditorium. Cast includes Nancy Bernthal, Patricia Platte, Diane Meier, Evan Wedemeier, Marilyn Meier, Mary Gleason, Kathy Kalainoff, Ron Milius, and others. Connie May serves as student director.
A Friday evening mixed shower was hosted at the Ruben Schnurstein home near Frederika honoring Joyce Schnurstein. Hostesses were Mrs. Darrell Neuendorf Mrs. Paul Tiedt and Mrs. Max Steege with 22 ladies in attendance. Joyce Schnurstein will wed Danny Drewis of Tripoli on Sunday May 6.
Tripoli merchants sponsor a Saturday Easter promotion offering twenty five de luxe canned hams to adults and Easter treats for kids. Drawings at 3 p.m. April 21 at the American Savings Bank corner require signed tickets deposited by 2:45 p.m. Winners must be present. one prize per family. Kids under 12 join an Easter egg hunt at Town Hall at 2 p.m. with free treats and lucky numbers posted in store windows.
Denver Community School opens its 1962 63 kindergarten roundup on Thursday April 26 in the district to enroll children who will be five by Oct 15 1962. Health checkups explained by Mrs Selma Carroll and birth certificates required. A birth record confirms age and late entrants may register. A to M enroll in morning N to Z in afternoon. current students will not attend.
Anchorage Alaska serviceman Lavern W Lobeck arrived Wednesday for a 30 day leave to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Carl Lobeck.
Rodney Quass son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Quass fractured his right arm Tuesday evening while roller skating.
Judy Kiefer formerly of Cedar Falls is employed in the office of Dr. V. G. Goebel. The move places her at a local medical practice and expands the office staffing.
Dari-Ette will open on Tuesday April 24 at 11 a.m. and operate daily Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m. A noon opening is planned on Sundays and the business will stay open every evening.
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