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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1962
Page
6
Frederika residents shared birthday celebrations and gatherings across towns. Mrs. Ella McDonald celebrated a birthday in Fayette with Hazel Ager Bowers Thompson Sherman and others. Rosella Bockhaus attended showers and planned nuptials with Darwin Hoffman. Scout trips, weddings, and family visits filled a busy week with many names and places noted.
Mrs Roy Schmudlach and friends visited Fredericksburg homes on Thursday and called on relatives in town en route home. They attended the W.S.C.S. with Mrs Clary. Several families from Waverly New Hampton and Tripoli visited relatives nearby, sharing Sunday calls and gatherings.
A sequence of brief notices records baptisms at Waterloo and visits across towns. Chester and Ada Pals attend a baptism in Waterloo. Herman Schwann visits New Hampton and Elk Point. George Weigens hosts Waucoma relatives. Donnelly and James Fairbank visit Ada McConkey. Ed Weidler and Albert Rieck host and attend gatherings. 39th Diner reunion at Sumner park. barn work after wind damage at Robert Schmidt farm. births announced as Alfred Specht and wife welcome a daughter at Sumner hospital.
The 24th Westendorf reunion was held Sunday in Riverside Park Waverly with about 50 attendees at the picnic dinner. The 1963 committee includes Elmer and Hazel Buls Ed and Irene Heideman and Walter and Mary Eckerman and the next reunion is set for the first Sunday in July at Denver Park.
A State University of Iowa study shows most of Iowa's district court judges and county attorneys believe the press does an adequate job reporting court news. However over half feel reporters are only sometimes well informed about legal procedures. Rod Gelatt led the study for SUI's school of journalism.
Airman 1st Class Donald Poock, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Poock, returned home after discharge from the Air Force on June 26. He served four years, two and a half in Berlin with 6912 Radio Service Mobile. Mrs Herman Thoms recovered from surgery at Allen Memorial hospital. Mr and Mrs Earl Rommel and Connie visited relatives in Marshalltown Adair Casey and Greenfield and attended Mrs Rommel’s 25th graduation reunion in Greenfield. Laura Fairweather of Davenport visited her brother and his wife. Mrs Sarah Hueser returned from Allen Memorial hospital. Mrs Lizzie Leistikow stayed with her sons Richard and Leonard in Waterloo. Dr E N Osnes and Dr Guernsey visited Readlyn friends. Osnes left for West Covina Cal. Ernest Hesse and wife of Oregon returned home after visiting Readlyn.
Rep Richard Stephens Ains worth Republican and bureau chairman said the interim committee granted the Legislative Research Bureau only a seven month budget. He wrote to Sen John Shoeman Atlantic Republican ahead of the January 31 1963 funding deadline. The committee allocated 50000 for July 1 1962 to January 31 1963 and left future funding to the full legislature.
Mrs Nellie Lamb of What Cheer celebrated her 100th birthday joined by family as one of six children.
Denver and Cedar Falls families gathered for birthdays and gatherings as relatives visited from multiple towns. A birth announced at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo named Kimberly Ann Guenther, with Gerald Guenther as paternal grandfather, and other locals attended social and medical events across Waverly, Jesup, Cedar Falls, and El Paso Texas.
President Kennedy nominated Edward J. McManus of Keokuk and William C. Hanson of Jefferson for federal judgeships in Iowa. No confirmation difficulty expected for either nominee. Hanson holds the roving judgeship created early in 1961 and has served since. McManus would succeed Judge Henry N. Graven, who retired in the northern district.
If Mc Manus is named to the northern district bench, momentum shifts toward relocating to Cedar Rapids. The potential appointment could influence regional staffing and judicial coverage.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a life tenure judgeship and an annual salary of 500 currency units. The text is incomplete with missing names and context, but indicates a formal appointment or salary figure related to a judgeship.
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