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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1962
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is designated as second class mail in Tripoli Iowa under the 1879 act. Published weekly every Wednesday, established in 1894. Official newspaper of Tripoli and Bremer County. Publisher William A Buckley. Editor Robert J Sassman. Subscriptions: 3.50 yearly in Iowa, 4.50 elsewhere, prepaid.
Bremer County Extension lists events including a Jan 10 mother daughter 4 H party at Tripoli Town Hall from 7 30 to 9 30 p m a Jan 16 annual meeting of the Bremer Butler Dairy Herd Improvement Co op at noon in the State Bank basement Waverly and a Jan 18 and 25 Farm and Home Management School at Tripoli Town Hall from 9 30 a m to 3 p m
Readlynettes 4-H members shared illustrated talks on building color schemes, room fixtures, and emphasis for sparkle. Christmas carols were led by Kathy Meier and Barbara Stahlhut as the club planned future activities and noted book-reading requirements for the year.
Farm Economist Marvin Skadberg explains the European common market of France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, its goals for a unified policy, and potential effects on Iowa agriculture and US exports if Britain and possibly Denmark Ireland follow. The United States faces protectionist shifts that could reduce US agricultural access as member nations price US products out of markets.
Local residents from Readlyn to Sumner and Waverly entertained and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Names included Clarence Johnson, Miriam French, E J Nargang, A W French, C C Clary, Harold Mueller, Dennison Leitch, Alvin Hahn, Fred Hansen, W H Sassmann, John Hildebrandt, Arlin Nuss, Alfred Nuss, Wayne Bravener, Oren Ynnecker, Ruth Drewis, Roy Lease, Owen Edson, Lyle Wyant, Elmer Matthias, Ronald Buhr, Harvey Hildebrandt, and many others.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture L B Liddy announced a cooperative effort to ship 125 meat type hogs to South Korea to aid 4 H Club members in improving hog strains. Keith Gaston chairs the group arranging 65 gifts and 60 boats financed by the Iowa County Officers Association with Gov. Erbe and Adjutant General Junior Miller assisting transport arrangements.
A belated Christmas supper was held at the Ruehs home with guests including the Schwemms, Bergmanns, Neiderts, Clarys, Ager, and Bowers families. Festivities included a birthday observance for Mrs. Clary and a dinner with relatives in New Hampton and trips to Pennsylvania and California.
Fremont residents hosted a housewarming for Mr and Mrs Louis Gienau and sons with many neighbors attending including the Peters Hackbarth Dancer Towne Rathe Woodcock Dancer Westendorf Moeller Mixdorf Wikner and others. Various relatives and friends visited Cedar Falls Sartori hospital and multiple homes in Charles City Sumner Waterloo Waverly Readlyn Parkersburg and Bremer during the weekend for birthdays dinners and social visits.
Mrs Effie Alcock and Wm Burrow hosted New Year’s guests. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Wede Meyer welcomed a son on Dec 30 at Allen Memorial Waterloo. Mrs Wedemeier is the former Carol Sievers. Several others, including Mrs Bernice Sells and Mrs Carl Abbas, were patients at Allen Memorial. Additional guests listed: Joe Dean and Rhonda Oelwein. Effie Wagner. the French family. the Feuchtwanger and Ager families. Wesley Mahlstedt and Cedar Falls relatives. Harold Ager.
State Safety Commissioner Carl Pesch asked the Iowa Executive Council to approve state participation in a Cornell University sponsored accident research program. Most research costs would be paid by Cornell, with about 20 states taking part to find specific causes of injuries in auto accidents. The council deferred action for a week. Delaware has the lowest altitude and Colorado the highest in the United States.
Herbert Hoover of Oskaloosa announces he will oppose B Hickenlooper in next year’s Republican primary for U S Senate. The 38 year old farmer is a fourth cousin twice removed of former President Herbert Hoover.
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