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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1963
Page
4
WANTED HAD TO MAKE ON shares or to buy by the base. Phone 31 F22 Robert Kammer er Tripoli. WANTED TO RENT 3 BED room home with option to purchase. Inquire at Tripoli Leader.
In Decorah, Charlie and Mike are noted as popular visors. The piece mentions Richard Juve and his 11-year-old son, describing a group led by a leash as they walk, reflecting an unusual street scene.
Expressions of gratitude from families for cards memorials visits and support after the loss of a baby daughter and sister and after hospital stays and illness. Readers thank doctors staff Rev Thalacker and Rev Arnold Thalacker for care prayers and comfort. Louis Boevers and family Jerry Drewelow and Ricky Herman Hagenow.
Iowa truckers face a conflict after the legislature raised the length cap to 60 feet for certain combinations but restricts trucks over 50 feet on paved roads under 22 feet wide. No statewide routes meet the width, prompting calls for highway commission emergency permission to allow 60 foot trucks on narrower gaps.
The highway commission plans to salt more than half the state primary road system next winter. It adds 1,700 miles to the salting program bringing total miles to 5,536. Estimated annual cost for the expansion is $360,000. An unrelated line notes Americans wager $15 billion yearly while bread spending is $4 billion.
In the 1930s Iowa state mental health hospitals housed over 6,700 patients. Now about 3,000 are confined across four facilities in Cherokee Clarinda Independence and Mount Pleasant. For the year ending June 30 admissions reached 3,970 while discharges totaled 4,001. The average stay dropped from more than five years to under one year.
Fisherman Gilbert Schrepfer of Farmington caught a 14 pound flathead catfish on the Des Moines river using rod and reel. The sizeable catch surprised local anglers and highlighted river fishing prowess.
Benjamin Baer, director of state correctional institutions, asks for seven juvenile parole agents and two supervisors to handle an overload. Parolees at Eldora and Mitchellville rose from 444 to over 600, with continued growth expected. He seeks a $100,000 annual increase to fund the hires. The interim budget committee may be urged to approve the addition. Travisone, Eldora Boys school superintendent, proposes optional parental contributions to defray costs, estimating one third of parents can pay.
Preliminary reports from the State Conservation Commission show high blue-wing teal production on Iowa marshes with 1141 birds banded in north central sites such as Ventura East Twin Eagle Lake Myrie Slough Harmon Lake and Silver Lake Worth County. Over 75 percent were blue-wing teal and other waterfowl included pintail mallard ruddy duck green teal and ringneck wood duck. Coot abundance is down due to vegetation and nest disruption. The Lakes region banding crews expect to finish the annual program soon.
A brief note describes fish acting as living parents and providing good care to their offspring. The observation highlights parental behavior and nurturing in aquatic species.
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