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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
6
New water free carpet cleaner promises instant foot traffic ready use. Rentals from Rettig Furniture and Tri Poli Hardware advertise $1 with phone numbers 882 4285 and 882 3303. Also listings for a like new spinet piano, used condition, and unclaimed freight sewing machines at $37 each with monthly payments.
Burton C. Stumme and Mrs Reinhart Sievers express sincere thanks to friends relatives and neighbors for cards gifts flowers and visits during hospital stays and after. They acknowledge Rev F W Meyer Rev Hattendorf and Rev Hodges for prayers and visits and praise medical staff for care.
Iowa farmers with corn root worm problems may need two insecticide treatments. Experts note resistance to Aldrin and Heptachlor, urging planter and lay-by applications with products including Dasanit Bux-10 Thimet Dyfonate Diazinon Sevin Parathion Dyfonate and Diazinon.
Bremer County Iowa Board of Supervisors in regular session grants a class B beer license for Gloria M Curtis trading as Bremer Tap Bremer Town and a cigarette license for Gerald A Peterson trading as Waverly Drive In Theatre. The board adopts a weed destruction order directing landowners to remove noxious weeds by deadlines and to fund enforcement via real estate assessments.
A Rock Rapids lodge meeting honored the eldest member Oscar Rockhill as the longest serving. Present were Oscar Rockhill age 100 and several generations including Robert and Les Rockhill from Marshalltown and Larchwood plus Milton Rockhill and Lawrence Rockhill from Rock Rapids.
Dawson Hunt of Belle Plaine retires as Belle Plaine depot agent after nearly five decades with the Chicago and North Western Railroad. The longtime employee began his service in the early years of the company and concludes a distinguished career.
Ruth M Tillmanns daughter of Mrs Waverly Tillmanns became Mrs Dale F Wehling son of Clarence Wehling Readlyn March 8 in St Luke s Lutheran Oakridge Oregon The double ring ceremony was conducted by Pastor Frederick Weise Bride wore a white street length dress and carried yellow daffodils and white carnations Maid of honor was Jusanna Simonson Charles Svendson was best man A reception followed in Fellowship Hall After a wedding trip to San Francisco the couple will live in Oakridge where the bridegroom teaches sophomore English and the bride teaches sixth grade
William Mooney of Waverly was elected to the board of the new Iowa Alcoholism Foundation at a Des Moines meeting. Dr. Leo Sedlacek of Cedar Rapids was named president. The IAF aims to educate the public and assist businesses, labor, farm groups, and youth. Servicemen discharged from active duty gain 180 days of free extended National Servicemen's Life Insurance and may apply for private life insurance at standard rates during this period through 500+ insurers.
University of Iowa president Howard R. Bowen proposes a new King scholar program at Iowa City with a fund of 50 000 dollars annually to aid minority students. The plan envisions 5 to 50 recipients named Martin Luther King scholars, with costs shared by students, faculty, and townspeople.
University officials note that 160 of 177 enrolled students at the University of Iowa are Negroes. Dr. Bowen calls for strengthening the university’s civil aid program and student exchanges with two Tennessee colleges, Le and Rust.
The PI Sentinel issue notes multiple aged papers found in the Merrill home attic. Among items are references to early volumes including February 3 AMON and a 1860s New York Herald fragment bearing President Lincoln’s signature line.
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