Newspaper Staff Roster Listing Editors and Writers
A partial staff directory lists roles and names including Casey as staff advisor Biermann as editor Engle as assistant editor Heide as senior news Kuethe as man and others. It names junior Patsy Chapin sophomores Betty Snelling freshmen Delores Bock and Mary Droste as editors for grade and features writers Hay Hoppenworth Pinch Bock Colburn Drape Schultz Buenger and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Casey
Valerie Biermann
Lowell Engle
Donna Heideman
Donna Kuethe
Patsy Chapin
Betty Snelling
Delores Bock
Mary Droste
Shirley Hay
Eldon Hoppenworth
Chuck Pinch
Alfred Bock
Cheryl Colburn
Eugene Drape
Velma Schultz
Eugene Buenger
Lowell Eagle
Barbara Hesse
Alice Heine
Beverly Mueller
Betty Bodermann
Loraine Rettig
Lillian Fuchs
Editorial on Spring Inspires Action and Hope
Spring is praised as the loveliest season following winter with warmth and sunshine. The piece urges immediate, constructive effort when inspiration strikes, noting a shared, uplifting mood and collective ambition to do good.
Senior Marion Lahmann Named Tripoli High’s Shortest Star
Marion Lahmann, five foot one, tops the senior class as the standout student musician and director. She majors in chemistry and plans one year of college after extensive activity in band glee club student conducting sextet and newspaper. The senior play Dad Steps Out thrilled audiences Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Lahmann
Tripoli High
Marion
Winton
Janie Parker
Mississippi
Louisiana
Music Notes from Monona Concert Preparations
Last Monday at 3 15 a man from KWWL recorded performances aired at 9 00 Thursday on the radio. No band Monday night due to practice and recording. The band played Storm King Gypsy Baron Sunset Soliloquy Rhythmoods for the session. Girls glee club will sing Green Cathedral Celtic Lullaby. Boys glee club will sing Long Day Closes Go Down Moses. Glee clubs and band head to a contest in Monona on May 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KWWL
Moses
Monona
Tripoli Drops Home Opener to Waverly 8 3
Last Thursday Tripoli lost its first baseball game to Waverly 8 to 3. Waverly pitcher battled control but consistently escaped trouble. Tripoli plans to play at Denver on Wednesday, April 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli
Waverly
Denver
Iowa FFA Convention Attendees Share Stage and Parades
In Cedar Rapids April 17 to 19 the Iowa FFA convention featured local chapter members Eldon Hoppenworth Eugene Buenger Melvin Schwartz Carl Beisner and advisor Mr Swanson The delegates Hoppenworth Buenger Schwartz The band of 110 Iowa members The chorus of 109 performed at sessions Friday and Saturday A radio broadcast from WHO showcased the band and choir The governor William Beardsley and Jessie Parker spoke The group visited Eastern Iowa Artificial Breeding Association and Farmers Hybrid Hog farm En route home and the next national convention is planned for Kansas City in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.F.A
Cedar Rapids
Eldon Hoppenworth
Eugene Buenger
Melvin Schwartz
Carl Beisner
Eugene Drape
Swanson
Iowa
The
Cancer Society
WHO
Jessie Parker
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Grade School News Flashes Highlights April Activities
First graders finish writing workbooks and will practice words and sentences the rest of the year. Birthdays celebrated with candy bars include Lois Ladage on April 22 and Connie Heinemann. Several students earned party treats and blocks for correct math papers. Measles caused absences for Sandra Bang Karen Ladage and Gerald Wagner. Jim Block returns. The class studied nursery rhymes drew umbrella girls and read Big Leaguer. Shakespeare and Lamb prose were read and ten year projection essays written. The whole class again achieved one hundred percent in spelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Ladage
Connie Heinemann
Robert Kuker
David Block
Miss Cook
Ronnie Henninger
Sandra Bang
Karen Ladage
Gerald Wagner
Jim Block
Shakespeare
Mary
Charles Lamb
High School Chatter and Des Moines Skip Day
A lively high school column notes senior trip to Des Moines with Capitol visits and shopping at Younkers. It mentions class activities from algebra to literature, a frog legs menu joke for the juniors, and recent farm births near Algona and Woden as Iowa welcomes spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Capitol
House
Senate
Younkers
Waterloo
Bishops
Algona
E. M. Huber
Woden
Jelle Tjaden
Iowa
Fifty Years Honored for Rev Donnely in Farley
Rev. P. E. Donnely marked 50 years since his ordination on April 4, 1903. In Hamilton County, Rev. E. M. Yecha of Minot, South Dakota, became the first traffic fatality of 1952, dying on Easter Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farley
P. E. Donnely
E. M. Yecha
Minot
S. D
Hamilton County
Bowling League Title Won by Kramer Keglers at New Hampton
Kramer Keglers clinched the Wapsie league championship at New Hampton bowling alley after a season-ending double header. They entered the final two games ahead by nine, added six more points to break even with Schueth's Hardware, and took four points from Elmo Jim Kane who rolled a 634 series with 220 235 and 179 games. Box scores follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kramer Keglers
New Hampton
Schueth
Elmo
Jim Kane
Students urged to enter drive for good citizenship
Grade and high school students in Bremer county are invited to join a state-wide Good Citizenship Drive directed by the Bremer County Farm Bureau women's committee. Two contests, a letter writing entry and a poster contest, aim to motivate at least three-fourths of eligible voters to the June primary. County judging panel includes Miss Mildred Smith and others. State contest offers all-expense trips to Des Moines for top writers and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremer County
Mildred Smith
L. V. Ormston
Wm. H. Heffernan
Chester Pals
Verne Engstrom
Kenneth Arns
Des Moines
Farm Bureau
Ionia
Harlem Globetrotters Film at Tripoli Theatre May 4 5
The Harlem Globetrotters film featuring Thomas Gomez Dorothy Dandridge Bill Walker and the team comes to Tripoli Theatre Sunday and Monday May 4 5 with a matinee at 2:00 p.m. The story follows Roy Townsend an All American college star who quits school to join the Globetrotters amid team tensions and a pivotal Celtics game ending in a return match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Globetrotters
Thomas Gomez
Dorothy Dandridge
Bill Walker
Tripoli Theatre
Globetrotters
Roy Townsend
Trotters
Abe Saperstein
Townsend
Saperstein
Celtics
Stolen Car Turns To Wedding Day Ordeal For Patrolman
A patrolman recalls stopping a familiar stolen car on the highway and arresting two youths, a bride and groom, whose car had been reported stolen earlier that day. The incident nearly turned dangerous as the officer drew his weapon to prevent a panic, saving them from possible harm. The story involves actor Billy Brown as Roy Townsend and Bill Walker as a college professor in a stage production, per reporter Bob Hullihan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend
Bill Walker
Roy Townsend
Billy Brown
The
Trotters
Kept Fires At Luther College Chief Fireman Relieved
Frank Russell, Luther College Decorah chief fireman, has kept fires burning continuously for 39 years as of November 1973, marking decades of service in the college plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther College
Decorah
Frank Russell
Russell
Luther
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HI Lites Staff
Editorial
Dennis Bergmann
Mississippi River
Mary Susan Bennett
Billy Joe Kehe
Stanley
Kramer
Tremaine
Peacock
Fink
Kane
Elma Kramer
ATL
Pantin
teaeeMllly
Windlok
Hasbrouck
Raymond Loewy
Owa
Bob Hullihan
DR. F. M. Root
Optometrist
Cedar Falls
Main ST
Ays
Fliger’s Bakery
Tripoli, Iowa
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