Tripoli Dominates Shell Rock 21 11 Cedar Valley Leagues
Tripoli slugger spree fuels a 21 11 Cedar Valley league win over Shell Rock as Gordie Niemeyer and Ray Fink lead with multiple hits. Sumner defeats Waverly 8 0 to extend lead, Denver tops Readlyn 13 1, Fairbank edges Fredericksburg 6 2 with Peaches Rechkemmer hitting a grand slam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waverly
Shell Rock
Readlyn
Sumner
Tripoli
Fairbank
Fredericksburg
Denver
Gordie Niemeyer
Ray Fink
Herb Biesterfelt
Bob Selck
R. H.E. Shell Rock
Wallis
Savage
Mullins
Powell
Ralph Fink
Bob Walters
Virgil Bruns
Peaches Rechkemmer
R. H.E. Fairbank
F’burg
Corcorran
Kleitch
Schmudlach
Bose and Purdy
League
W. L. Pet. Sumner
Shell Rock Waverly
Tripoli Teen Timers Plan Workshop Day
Fourteen members and two visitors attended the Tripoli 4 H Club meeting at Suzanne Niemeyer home on July 16. The group planned a workshop day for July 23 and viewed Village Square by Maurice de Vilaminck as a picture study. Joy Eichmann and Janet Chapin led a flower arrangement demo, Sherrie Sauerbrei demonstrated a waste basket for a room, and Carla Bremer demonstrated making a quilt protector. Noted in the report are the funeral attendees for Henry Blume in Sumner. An aviator earns Ace status after shooting down five enemy planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli
Suzanne Niemeyer
Maurice de Vilaminck
Joy Eichmann
Janet Chapin
Sherrie Sauerbrei
Carla Bremer
Betty Lou Nerge
Local social notes from Pinhook and nearby towns
Pinhook residents and neighbors share visits and birthdays. Sharon Wendling visits relatives in Oelwein while Roy and Milton Gaede, Bob Fagenbaum, Bruce Pals, Clyde Van Brocklin, and others are seen at area homes and camps. A horse accident injures Milton Gaede. he recovers at Sumner hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon Wendling
Oelwein
Leo McDonough
Roy Gaede
Will Grahiman
Fredericksburg
Clyde van Brocklin
Waterloo
Howard van Brocklin
Clyde McConkey
Bud
Lucille Dilley
Albert Rieck
Allen Rieck
Tripoli
Larry Seery
New Hampton
Ray Buskirk
Bruce Pals
Mason City
Kenny Seery
Ethel Griffin
Ronnie
Milton
Les Gaede
Here
Sumner Hospital
Bob Fagenbaum
John Fagenbaum
Ernest Bahlmann
L. Bahlmann
Mary Ellen Meyer
Harry McConkey
Robi. Smith
Charles Boyle
Elma
Emil Matthias
Wilma O'Connell
Waverly VFW Plan for SickRoom Equipment Drive
The Waverly VFW Post No. 2208 announces an annual magazine subscription campaign to fund portable sick room equipment for home patients. Proceeds will buy adjustable beds and walkers, with prior purchases including a portable respirator and inhalation devices for temporary, no charge community use in Waverly and nearby areas under VFW direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Joe W. Cretzmeyer
Waverly
A. W. Rierson
Bremer
Denver
Frederika
Janesville
Plainfield
Readlyn
Sumner
Tripoli
Landing Mats Sold By West Coast Junk Dealer Probe
An Iowa reader exposed a 1947 Navy sale of landing mats at Attu for 67 cents per ton, later resold for 30 to 35 dollars, netting about 134,540 dollars. Investigators note more mats and higher prices in later sales, with legal questions under the Surplus Property Act and calls for tighter control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Towan
Korea
Department of Defense
General Services Administration
Navy
Attu
Aleutians
Seattle
Congress
Israel
Dole
U. S. Treasury
U. S
Treasury
PMA Elections Nominees by Township Listed
Nominees named by township in the PMA election slate show candidates in Dayton Douglas Franklin Frederika Fremont Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Leroy Maxfield Polk Sumner Warren Washington and Willard Geuther districts. The compiled list names each candidate per township in a formal nominating committee process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
F. Waylord Ambrose
George W. Buenzow
Wilbert W. Buhr
Harvey E. Guenther
Reinhard Judisch
Bernhardt Kasemeier
John C. Kasemeier
Ernest J. Nuss
Erwin Platte
Waylord Rieck
Douglas
Leland R. Alcock
Edgar L. Bergmann
Erwin F. Bock
Stanley C. Bockhaus
Herman F. Bahilmann
Lawrence J. Bahlmann
Marvin W. Harms
Arthur L. Kelling
Herbert Miller
Randolph Schwarze
Carl H. Struck
Roy L. Volker
Dean Wiltse
Fremont
Paul Bunger
Myron E. Chapin
Everett L. Engle
Clarence W. Johnson
Alfred Koch
William E. Mueller
Chris F. Peterson
Lavern J. Schmidt
Arnold Stromer
Arnold Zander
Jackson
H. William Burman
Elston W. Chapin
Russell K. Loveland
William S. Ragsdale
Floyd E. Robinson
Roland R. Smith
Henry van Allen
Roger A. Whitney
Jesse H. Young
Paul H. Zwanziger
Jefferson
Albert Brandt
Fred M. Ebaugh
Albert H. Gielau
Waldo Gleason
Lorenz Groening
Everett Hildebrandt
Ernst J. Huck
Elmer J. Matthias
Albert Mohling
Wallace W. Stokes
Lafayette
Gordon W. Foster
John Gambaiani
Virgil Graeser
John M. Jennings
Clarence W. Kock
Sherwin Lindner
Virgil S. Napiecek
Ralph A. Peterson
Clayton Repp
Dale Swinton
LEROY
James M. Eveland
Leonard H. Hencken
Leslie W
Third District invites applicants for West Point or Annapolis
Rep H R Gross invites young men aged 17 to 21 in the Third Iowa District to seek public appointments to West Point or Annapolis. Applications must be sent to the House Office Building Washington DC. The officer promises equal opportunity for all Third District applicants next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
West Point
Annapolis
Iowa
H. R. Gross
Washington, D. C
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Marvin Buhr
Anderson
Bob Topp
R. H.E. Sumner
Buhr
Reimler
Olson and
Jaschen
Miller
R. H.E. Denver
Holm and Wooldick
Kuethe
Rommel
Koschmeder
Will Blume
August Kelling
Henry Blume
Pinhook
Waverly Vfw Post
West Coast
PMA
Huck
Gustav H. Laube
John H. Mohlis, Jr
Edmund F. Ommen
Robert L. Rathbone
Fred W. Thies
Maxfield
E. W. Bruns
Albert Ganske
W. C. Hagenow
Werner Kuhlman
Fred Matthias
William E. Meyerhoff
Wilson C. Milius
Herbert Otto
A. H. Schumaker
Raymond Thoms
Polk
Ralph S. Carpenter
Allen D. Cassidy
Leonard T. Colburn
John F. Dirksen
Wyatt B. Ebert
Calvin K. Kelly
Harold R. Nieman
Elmer L. Shipp
Eugene L. White
Perry L. Young
Edwin C. Brase
Harry H. Buhr
Neil L. Poxty
W. Kleppe
Carl
Meierert Meier
Bernhardf
Clayton E. O'Brien
Eldon
A Koerster
Kenneth M. Sower
Warren
A. Besenburg
Raymond F Buch
John H. Eick
Ivan G. Epley
R. Koch
Henry J Pothast
Henry F Redies
W. Schmidt
Edwin F Wente Washington Willard Alan
Henry W. Busch, Jr
Geuther
Armour
Heidt
6Bert Miller
Maryin R Mung
Samuel R. Reiter
Verne
E Re Ler
Robert Scully
Gordon Shipman
Gronner’s
Sumner, Iowa
Charmin
Golden Valley
California
Northwest
Swift’s
Butter-Nut
Etry
Dale Ae Haha
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