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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1957
Page
4
A new class of 44 Iowa youths begins a one month Camp Dodge training for highway patrol vacancies. Of the group 37 will be hired on graduation, while the rest wait on a second list. Trainees live at camp with subsistence, quarters, training clothes and $100 monthly.
Iowa supplied over 8 percent of the nation’s 61 billion eggs with more than five billion eggs produced. Hawkeye hens averaged 418 million eggs monthly and 13 million daily, while Iowa households consumed about 309 million eggs and over four and a half billion were sold, yielding over 133 million dollars.
Sunday evening guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sassman celebrated Rebecca Sassman’s second birthday with Laverne Nacke Carol Ann Sumner Walter Peters and others. Monday evening visitors included Betty Richmann Jose Vega and family and John Sassmann. Friday evening relatives and neighbors gathered at the Paul Judisch home to honor Cpl Donald P Judisch on leave with Emilia Sommerfelt and several other families present.
Mrs Emelia Sommerfelt hosted relatives including Arnold Judisch Ervin Judisch Reinhard Judisch Wilbert Brase Russell Watts Harvey Hildebrandt and families at a Sunday picnic dinner. Also present were Wilbert Frahm Paul Harmening Harold Sommerfelt J J Sommerfelt Louis Weltzin and families with Frank Foster and family as afternoon guests. Donald returned to Camp Pendleton California Tuesday.
Infant Dan Lee Sauerbrei was baptized Sunday morning at Grace Lutheran Church by Rev. William F. Goetz. Sponsors named Harold Kuethe Floyd Sauerbrei and G. R. Rettig. Hosts, dinner guests included Harold Kuethe Wendall, Floyd Sauerbrei, G. R. Rettig, Richard, Mary Louise, Leo Sauerbrei and Dan Lee.
A special meeting of the publicity and public relations committee of the Bartels Home for the Aged at Waverly is set for tonight at 8. Rev. William F. Goetz of Grace Lutheran Tripoli chairs the gathering. Members include Mrs. James Hansen Sumner Ed Meyer and William Tofte with Supt. Sig H. Sandrock as advisory.
The Taipo area recorded a season high mercury of 94 degrees on Sunday with a muggy day forecast. Weather summary shows July 3 to 9 readings with rain amounts ranging from 0.70 to 0.42 inches on several days as C. W. Ryan notes in local weather report.
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