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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1955
Page
6
The Tripoli Leader is the official town and Bremer County Iowa newspaper published weekly since 1894. William A Buckley publishes it with subscriptions of 3.00 per year in Iowa and 3.50 per year elsewhere.
Local church calendar lists Sunday school at 9 00 with worship at 10 00 and sermons Mind Heart and Health. Also says infant baptism for Kevin Joel Kirchhoff and a July 29 building meeting led by Oswald Thorson with hymnals purchase urged by Aug 1. Includes Luther League and Grace Lutheran activities across multiple dates and venues.
Four new Iowa highway commissioners will take office July 1 after appointments by Governor Hoegh. Among the newcomers none have senate experience, unlike three outgoing Republicans who served in the Iowa Senate. Democrats Emery Loomis and Mel Graham holdover on the panel also have legislative backgrounds. The reshaped board includes Robert Beck and Chris Larsen alongside the latest appointees.
The Iowa tax commission notes the 1955 legislature will add about 3% million to the general fund from a new tax on beer and cigarettes at 2.5 cents. Effective July 1, the tax applies in the safe sales bracket, with beer priced 10 cents taxed and 15 cents taxed for a 12 ounce bottle. Governor Hoegh opposes property taxes for state revenue and urges taxes based on ability to pay. Frank L. Engel of Davenport is sworn in to the Iowa employment security commission for a six year term starting July 1.
Jean Seberg of Marshalltown served as lieutenant governor in the report. Local camp elections focus on selecting the city’s chief executive, shaping leadership for the upcoming term.
During the first half of 1955 Bremer County purchases of United States savings bonds reached 78 percent of the annual quota, totaling $1,029,624. Iowa as a whole reached 62 percent of its 1955 goal with $100,659,536 in six months, and neighboring Butler County reported $672,679 at 65 percent.
In Chickasaw and Fayette results percentages stand at 69 and 71 respectively. At Lamont Roscoe Sinco washed his car on a farm when it rolled downhill into a pond and disappeared from sight.
Law officers at Laurens search for vandals who toppled cemetery monuments for the second time in a year.
Nate Steinberg ends a 42 year tenure in Onawa selling his retail business begun in 1914 by a Polish immigrant, marking a long era in local commerce.
Pvt Paul E Lahmann son of Mr and Mrs Erhardt H Lahmann Tripoli recently graduated from the engineer equipment repair course at the Engineer School Fort Belvoir He entered the Army in December 1954 and completed basic training at Camp Chaffee Ark The 19 year old soldier is a 1954 graduate of Tripoli High.
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