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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is the official Town of Tripoli and Bremer County newspaper published weekly on Wednesdays. Established 1894 with William A. Buckley as publisher. Subscriptions are 3.00 per year in Iowa and 3.50 per year elsewhere.
Bremer county farmers may file applications for 1956 ACP cost sharing at scheduled township meetings arranged by the county ASC committee. Meetings span December in Dayton Douglas Franklin Frederika Fremont Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Leroy Maxfield Polk Sumner Warren Washington with details plus eligibility and early filing emphasized.
Pvt Paul V Bremer son of Mr and Mrs Paul A Bremer Tripoli is taking part in Exercise Sage Brush at Fort Polk Louisiana the largest joint Army Air Force maneuver since World War II. About 110000 Army troops test atomic bacteriological chemical and electronic warfare concepts. The exercise ends December 15. Bremer a graves registration specialist with the 597th Quartermaster Company is stationed at Fort Lee Virginia and entered the Army last February.
The remark notes George Washington as possibly the nation's wealthiest president, with Herbert Hoover as a possible exception. It frames the comparison around personal fortunes and historical context, implying Washington's significant wealth relative to his successors.
Bremer county farmers are placing substantial 1955 grain under government price support according to ASC chair James M. Eveland. By Nov 15, 1955 corn loans reached 168 359 bushels, compared with 7 937 bushels of 1954 corn on that date. Other 1955 crops under loan include barley 141 bushels, oats 26 175 bushels, and soybeans 13 701 bushels.
The report notes compilation of a wheat acreage allotment for a farmer. It states there are no allotment compliance requirements for price support on barley oats grain sorghum rye soybeans and flaxseed recorded in agricultural program documentation.
Interstate Power starts next week on a $5.4 million addition to its Lansing electric generating plant. Cunningham Brothers, Inc. of Beloit has the general contract and will move personnel and equipment to the site. The structure will rise 100 feet, 50 feet wide, and 142 feet long, with completion planned for September 1957.
The Lansing plant adds a 33 000 KW turbine generator a new boiler and two coal pulverizers with a 161 KW switchyard. When the third unit comes online total output reaches 63 000 KW enough for over 135 000 people and interconnection with Interstate Power’s four major plants serving more than 100 000 customers.
Readlyn High School announced twenty two students on the honor roll for the second six weeks. Seniors Carol Jane Handrich Joyce Piehl Herman Rinkleff. Juniors Diane Buhr Mary Huebner Shirley Lobeck Donald Meyerhoff Janice Schuldt Roger Thurm. Sophomores Eloyce Ferris Ronald Leistikow Shirley Osrogge Marilyn Peterson Donald Poock Gloria Poock Mary Steinbronn Carol Tiedt. Freshmen Karen Hagenow Sharon Leistikow Myrna Lockard Larry Oltrogge Virginia Sauerbrei.
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