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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1966
Page
4
Memorial day weekend tragedy near Davenport spurs state parks chief Joe Brill to urge campers to never burn inside tents or trailers. He warns against closing openings, stresses keeping a window or flap open when using gas stoves, and cautions about charcoal combustion and misadjusted heaters.
Iowa Republicans push to repeal levies on household goods livestock farm machinery grain and inventories. They propose replacing revenue with federal income tax sharing and creating an independent state board of review with state hired attorneys for the tax commission.
A king-size mushroom 8% inches high and 12 inches around weighed one pound was found by Bob Hoover of Bloomfield this spring. Another mushroom, a clump of 16 to one foot, was found by T. J. Weller near DeWitt.
The Sumner area reports the death of 15 year old Connie Ray Volker after brain surgery, with funeral services at United Presbyterian church Reinbeck and burial in Hudson. Columbia University pastor Rev. Richard Banzhaf returns to New York for further study after a year at Sumner’s Buck Creek church. Officers elected for Sumner United Fund, Inc. include President Kenneth Karsten and Vice President Charles Anderson. Committal rites for Mrs. Del Granger, former Sumner resident, follow services in Mason City. The Barth reunion draws 77 attendees from multiple states. Various social visits and local events fill the community notices alongside births and civic announcements.
Friday through Sunday visits mark observances and gatherings. KE Thurm and family hosted in Fairbank Oelwein Readlyn with various relatives. CS Donald Priebe on leave from the Navy plans a June report for duty in Norfolk aboard the US County with a San Juan cruise.
The state board of control plans to merge treatment sites for the mentally ill and mentally retarded. Mentally retarded patients would move from hospital schools to Mount Pleasant and other facilities as Woodward reduces capacity. The board may sell up to six institutions, including Glenwood and Woodward, to consolidate services.
In July the subject completed three years of enlistment. The annual Circle of Safety check inspected about 1100 vehicles, roughly 500 fewer than the goal.
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