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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1962
Page
1
The Commercial Club honored Tripoli High School’s baseball team after a Friday evening game at WaTesy Park. Local officials lauded the players for their season performance and teamwork during the ceremony.
Kenneth Stumme of Waverly spends six weeks at Kingbrook State Park attending the Iowa Teach Conservation Camp sponsored by the State Conservation Commission and the Department of Public Instruction. About 150 Iowa teachers join in a 13th outdoor school with three three week sessions and field trips totaling about 1000 miles. Stumme, son of Mr and Mrs Wald Stumme of Tripoli, will be there June 10 to July 21.
Sixty junior high pupils from Iowa and the state participate in an accelerated science and mathematics program at the State College Iowa Price Laboratory School. Eighth and ninth graders engage in eight weeks of study with labs field trips and lectures in biology chemistry physics geology astronomy and meteorology. Participants include Nis E Marshall Wilharm.
The Nool Commercial Club will observe its annual meeting Monday evening at Wapsie Sportsmen's Club with a steak dinner via reservations by July 16. Members not contacted should call Ray Bunger to reserve. A World War I veterans potluck dinner is set for Cedar River Park on Thursday, July 12 at 6 30.
Tripoli's Poultry and Egg days promo opens Thursday with a $340 prize package. Six prizes include a 1962 Frigidaire clothes dryer, Sunbeam mixer, two rockers, a $25 US savings bond, and a GE clock radio. Entries by July 14 require an entry form and photo to The Tripoli Leader. no entry fee.
The third Iowa congressional district board meeting of the National Farmers Organization was held at the First National Bank club rooms in Waverly with 75 county board members present. Speakers discussed expanded corn exports, Public Law 480 shipments to India and Pakistan, and NF0 day at the State Fair.
June report from Iowa DHS shows Bremer County with 152 old age assistance recipients totaling 10,239 dollars. Aid to dependent children numbered 22 with an average of 149.09 per case. Six blind recipients received 620 dollars. disability grants totaled 332 dollars averaging 83 per recipient. Total Bremer residents received 14,471 dollars. four programs spent 3,964,003 dollars for June, down 52,788 from May.
Funeral services for Carl Grebien, 76, Waterloo, were held this morning at 10 o'clock in St. Joseph's Catholic church. Mr. Grebien died Monday morning. Surviving are two daughters Ruth Butcher of Dallas Texas and Homer Gorden of Lincoln Nebraska, six grandchildren, one brother Will Grebien of Tripoli, and two sisters Pauline Koch of Tripoli and Bertha Peters of Denver.
The Missionary Society of Grace Lutheran church will sponsor an ice cream social at North Park on Tuesday July 17. Serving begins at 5 30 p m. Menu includes potato salad chips baked beans maid rites ham sandwiches cake ice cream coffee and Kool Aid. If rain the event moves to the church parlors.
Homer Nevermann returned to Seattle and Carroll Nevermann left for Wichita Kansas after a two week stay with their parents Mr and Mrs H H Nevermann at the home. Mr Nevermann came home Saturday from Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo and can use a wheelchair part of the time. Mrs Clara Seeger Sumner is helping with chores at the Nevermann home.
The St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Ladies Aid will host a chicken and ham supper on Wednesday September 5. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach with a long-standing local charity emphasis.
Attendees at the meeting included Marlin Menzel grain board chairman Harvey Iserman board member and Mr and Mrs Helmuth Brase publicity chairman from Bremer county. The note lists participants among farmers and board members invited to the session.
Arthur Graening of Waverly was bound over to Bremer county district court on a $300 bond after waiving a preliminary hearing. Six Artesian Cooperative Creamery members accuse him of embezzling $510.46 in creamery funds. restitution reportedly has been made.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 30 PM at Rettig Funeral Home for Ethel Griffin 78 who died Monday at St Josephs hospital New Hampton after three weeks hospitalization Rev E F Puhlimann to officiate burial in Fremont cemetery She was born January 1 1884 in Tripoli vicinity to John Chadwick and Ellen Watts Chadwick and lived on a farm in Leroy township Survived by several nieces and nephews.
Tripoli Boy Scouts attended Camp Ingawanis near Waverly last week. Participants included Dennis and Richard Juel, Carl Krumm, Lavern Boeckmann Jr, Barry Fink, Leroy Boevers, Dick Magnall and David Lahmann with Boevers serving as senior patrol leader. Merit badges earned included canoeing and cooking for Magnall, cooking, swimming and pioneering for Juel, canoeing for Boevers, canoeing and life saving for Krumm, and canoeing for Richard Juel. Four scouts—Krumm, Boevers, Lahmann and Juel—completed the one mile swim.
Bremer county hosts a Cedar Valley Mental Health Society meeting on Wednesday July 18 at 8 o'clock in Tripoli Town Hall. All townships are invited to send representatives or attend. Social workers present a program and a half hour movie explaining the society first steps and need for a mental health center in Bremer county led by central committee head Dr H W Rather of Waverly. Bremer County American Legion Auxiliary president Mrs Donald Scherf of Waverly will lead September membership drive.
Mr and Mrs Robert Werning of Cedar Rapids Mary and John visited the L H Fink home Monday afternoon. The visit was tied to the burial of Henry Bockhaus formerly of Tripoli now in Minneapolis at Fremont cemetery Monday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Ray Bunger visited Mrs Emma Selck Sunday at Allen Memorial hospital in Waterloo.
Candidates seeking conservation officer jobs in parks or enforcement may request forms and information from the State Conservation Commission at East 7th and Court in Des Moines. The preliminary exam, an IQ and attitude test, will be in early fall and require ages 22 to 38, a high school diploma, and Iowa residency for two years. Top 20 to 25 passers attend a three day Camp Dodge training, then are ranked for openings as they arise.
Readlyn defeated Tripoli's Red Sox 4-0 in Cedar Valley league play, dropping Readlyn into fifth. Winning pitcher Richard Gruber flirted with a no-hitter, losing on a bunt single in the ninth by Claire Duecker. Readlyn's Gruber fanned three, walked four. Everding lasted longer, fanning four. Greene beat Fredericksburg 8-5. Fredericksburg had a 3-0 lead, then Readlyn and Greene totals listed. Next Sunday schedule: Janesville at Fredericksburg, Greene at Readlyn, Tripoli at Waterloo. Cedar Valley standings show Greene 3-1, Readlyn 3-1, Fredericksburg 3-2, Janesville 2-2, Tripoli 2-3, Waterloo 0-4. Clarence Goodenbour of Waterloo returned home after two weeks at St. Francis hospital.
Farmers Savings Bank team results show American Savings Bank defeating Tripoli Mercantile 8 to 6. Pencil Pushers beat Has Beens 7 to 4.
The men’s league results list UCC over Grace Lutheran 12 to 6 and Douglas beating Frederika 22 to 9. Upcoming games run from July 11 to July 22 with girls boys and men divisions including UCC Crane Creek Frederika Grace Lutheran Mercantile Farmers Savings Bank Readlyn Sumner and Boosters matchups plus an All Star Games event on Sunday July 22.
4-H clubs from multiple groups will present demonstrations at Tripoli High School next Tuesday July 17. The program features home furnishing projects and related 4-H topics by 20 clubs and 40 plus demonstrators, including teams and individuals with titles such as Clutter Can Be Canned, Chair Seats Neat, Imagination a Key to a Pretty Table, Flower Fashions, Perk Up with Pictures, Cush ion Cover-up, Load Aim Shoot, Lap-No Gap, Tack It Dont Stack It, Neat Bed for Weary Head, Accents for Your Room, Recipes for Cleaning, Cleaning and Storing Paint Brushes, Finishing Wood, Color Magic, Wood and Tin, and more. Open to all interested in 4-H activities.
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