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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1957
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader editorial notes it is entered as second class mail in Tripoli Iowa under the 1879 act. Published every Wednesday. Established since 1894. Official newspaper of Tripoli and Bremer County. Publisher: William A Buckley. Subscriptions: 3.00 yearly in Iowa, 3.50 elsewhere in advance.
A senator's labor practices hearing is cited as proof that working people lack influence in unions. The piece attacks big labor leaders as racketeers and fascists, urging anti monopoly action and labor clean up to empower union members and hinting at future farmer union collaboration.
4 H club reports July achievement show with 36 entries sixty blues and reds awarded. Style revue guests and future picnic planned at New Hampton park August 18. Sue Sowers and Kathy Kuethe earned blue for Zip py Zippers demo. next meetings set September 9 and officer election.
Extension offers residents sign up for workshop training courses on community meals clothing makeovers and re upholstering. Courses may run one or more sessions in Bremer county with 12 to 20 participants per workshop. No fee due to tax money support. participants provide their own cloth and materials for re upholstering.
Iowa State college training is available in your county through SCHOOLS. Interested individuals should notify the Extension office in Tripoli or Pearl E Pardee county extension home economist before September 1.
Regulations for 1957 58 hunting seasons were announced with little change from 1956 57. Open dates vary by Saturday starts near old dates. Pheasants Bremer county long zone Nov 9 Dec 2. Quail long zone Nov 2 Dec 16 and short zone Nov 2 16. Squirrel Sept 14 Nov 15. Rabbit Sept 14 Jan 31 1958. Raccoon Oct 26 Feb 10 1958 with no daily bag or possession limits.
Oscar Watters of Fulton grew an extraordinary oriental radish in his garden measuring 38 inches long and weighing five pounds. The remarkable specimen demonstrates exceptional root size from a home plot.
Bremer county officials announce 1957 corn price support at 1.30 dollars per bushel under county ASC, with Iowa ranges from 1.27 to 1.35 and a national average of 1.36. Previous 1956 rates varied by county, Bremer at 1.44, non compliance receive no separate 1957 provision, and other 1957 crops listed with fixed rates.
Joy Eichmann of Tripoli and Bertha Ann Bockhaus of Fr ederika have been accepted for enrollment at Iowa State Teachers College for the fall semester starting September 9.
Joy Eichmann daughter of C C and wife will study elementary education at Teachers College after graduating from Tripoli High. She starred in band glee club mixed chorus basketball and drama and was Homecoming Queen. Berth Ann Bockhaus daughter of Lawrence and Frederika parents graduates from Frederika High and will major in elementary education. She engaged in vocal music student council basketball softball girls glee club and mixed chorus. She edited the annual and held student leadership roles while earning citizenship and Danforth Foundation awards.
Dale Herman Rodenbeck 23 of Shell Rock weds Lou Ann Muh lenhaupt 21 of Waverly Ronald H. Warner 28 of Tripoli weds Patricia Chapin 21 of Tripoli Verlyse E. Pollow 21 of Sumner weds Marilyn Larson 20 of West Union Glenn Martin Yearous 30 of Elgin weds Claudine Arvid Block 18 of Sumner
Brattleboro Vermont Holstein Friesian Association of America reports a registered Holstein cow owned by Werner Schlichting Tripoli completed an official production record. The cow Tripo Follie Transmitter Blood milked twice daily for 365 days yielding 13139 pounds of milk and 561 pounds of butterfat as a two year old. Iowa State College supervised the weighing and testing of production.
An apple tree that was blown down and presumed dead near Frank Strover's Grin property has begun producing apples again, surprising locals and renewing attention to the site.
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