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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1964
Page
2
Calendar items list December dates for public services conference at 8 pm Amvets Building Waverly skating party December 14 7 30 pm Rollerdrome Cedar Falls music appreciation study for senior 4-H members December 16 7 30 pm Kermit Hildahi home Tripoli.
Wool growers must finish all wool and lamb marketings by December 31 to qualify for 1964 marketing year payments. If settled late, eligibility shifts to the 1965 year with payments in spring 1966. Applications for 1964 payments are due at the ASCS County Office by January 1965.
Gene Vincent, Bremer County extension director, stresses good balanced swine rations to control costs, noting feed accounts for 65 to 70 percent of hog production expenses. Publications from the Bremer County Extension office offer feeding guidance for all pig ages and urge swine raisers to pick them up.
Gen. John D. Ryan a 48 year old native Iowan becomes commander of the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha succeeding Gen. Thomas Power. The first train arrived at Washington from Baltimore on August 25, 1835.
Fraternity of Boy Scouts from Troop 100 spent Friday night and Saturday morning at Waverly Scout Camp. Town Hall awards on December 7 honored Paul Carroll for life, MB, and personal finance. Duane Waterman for citizenship. Steven Drape for second class. Larry Leuenberger for home repairs and farm mechanics. Other items note attendances, baptisms, funerals, visits, and family events in Sumner, Nashua, Waterloo, Tripoli, and New Hampton.
Details of November meetings for Maxfield Merry Maids and Maxfield Rangers plus other 4-H clubs. Christmas party planned for December 15 at Audrey and Glenda Moeller homes with caroling and fund donations to Christmas Seal Fund. New member Gloria Milius welcomed. club earned $104 at fair. November activities included taking parents to Oberliei's in Waverly. December meeting set for Mark Huebner home with talks by Loren Foelske and Harvey Matthias.
The report records Ernest Nuss Sr and family activities in Sumner with extended visits and a fall causing a broken arm for Ernest Nuss Sr. Donald Bergmann and Barbara Evansdale hosted luncheon guests of Clarence Bergmann and Norbert Meighan. Dan Lang hosted overnight guests in Waukegan after business in Chicago.
Tripoli Community School outlines a week of lunches featuring chicken soup with crackers on Monday, pork and gravy on Tuesday, beef and spaghetti on Wednesday, Maid rites on Thursday, and fish sticks on Friday. Each day includes vegetables, fruit or dessert, bread or butter, and milk.
The Sumner Sparklers held their November meeting led by president Maurine Platte. Members planned a mothers supper and corsages for the Christmas party, awarded pins for service years, and distributed tickets to attending mothers.
The Tens N Teens 4 H Club met at the Burrow home with thirteen members present. A program was planned for Bremer County Home on November 15 with all parents invited, and a December 9 Christmas party was set with a one dollar gift. After the meeting fair checks were distributed and Connie Kingery demonstrated a Coffee Cake.
Club leaders discuss a basketball team and appoint Roger Foelske to write to clubs about games. The next meeting, at Rodney Sassmann’s home, will hold a Christmas party with a one dollar gift limit. Afterward, a leader showed movies from the club projects at the fair.
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