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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1964
Page
6
Classified note mentions a ground floor apartment for rent including basement and garage with contact phone 139-W in Tripoli. Historical asides reference Lend Lease signing in 1941 and notes on Illinois state constitution adoption in 1818. Also mentions Noah Webster dictionary 1828 and food and botany facts about broccoli leaves and sage palms.
A collection of thanks from several families and individuals. Louis Bahe thanks friends and Rev Puhlmann for visits during his accident. George and Ed Drewis express gratitude for cards gifts and open house for their 25th anniversary. Ed Weihe thanks attendees and caregivers for support. Mrs August Hunemuller and William Propp also acknowledge kindness during illness and death.
Dr. Garnett Heyns, co author of the Iowa prison report, denied the whitewash label amid Republican charges. He called the accusation an aspersion on his integrity. Attorney General Evan Hultman, a GOP governor candidate, labeled the report a failure of Gov. Hughes program, while countering that Hughes did not establish the current system. Monterrey nicknamed the Pittsburgh of Mexico. Confederate dollars traded at two cents in gold near the Civil War era.
Representatives’ vacancies opened by Scott Swisher’s resignation from Iowa City amid a six month federal tax term, Katherine Falvey’s move to Charles City after marriage, and George Paul’s resignation from Poweshiek to join the state board of parole, with vacancies set by Gov. Hughes.
Virgil Bolstad of Lake Mills uncovered a semi petrified skull and jawbones of a giant male buffalo while checking his Elk Creek game reserve trap line east of Lake Mills. Dr Gene Kloglan of Iowa State University estimated the remains over 500 years old, from a bull bison likely weighing about 249 pounds.
Gov Harold Hughes calls the 14th Iowa special session for 10 a.m. February 24 to address reapportionment after a federal court panel ordered redistricting. The session aims to keep government running and may seek enabling legislation to secure $4 million annually for higher education, with special elections set for February 18 in Johnson Monroe and Poweshiek counties to fill vacancies in the Iowa House.
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