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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1956
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is a weekly newspaper in Tripoli Iowa established in 1894 and serving Bremer County. It is published Wednesdays with William A Buckley as publisher and lists subscription rates of 3.00 per year in Iowa and 3.50 elsewhere.
Bremer county ASC outlines four options for Iowa farmers under the 1956 soil bank and price support. Choices include sticking to allotments, placing 15 percent of base acreage in reserve or conservation, or noncompliance with a $1.25 bushel rate. contracts run 3 to 15 years for conservation land. Farmers may clip or plow under plantings to qualify for the higher $1.50 rate.
Iowa Department of Social Welfare reports May welfare expenditures in Bremer County totaling 14,709.50. Old age assistance reaches 11,993 across 207 cases at 57.94 per case. Needy blind receives 189.50 for three cases at 63.17 each. Aid to dependent children totals 2,527 for 24 cases involving 95 recipients at 105.29 per case.
Kenneth Westendorf 23 Fairbank and Shirley Ganske 17 Tri poli. Harold W. Carr 23 Cedar Falls and Delores Myszka 19 Cedar Falls. Roger Wiegmann 21 Waverly and Janet Platte 19 Waverly. Don L. Hagemann 22 Waverly and Sandra Zahn 19 Waverly.
Seven fox cubs and their mother were bagged by Dick Merrill and Glen Berhends near Monticello. The cubs were found in a sand hill den as Berhends watched an oat field.
The article argues TVA is a costly government venture, with Illinois bearing about 148.8 million dollars of the 1.95 billion national appropriation. It cites Kiplinger data placing Tennessee low in southern business growth and notes southern states prospering without TVA through free enterprise. It mentions Tennessee residents fearing progress is hindered by socialism.
Iowa State College economist Francis Kutish explains that lamb price gains come from tighter supply and a shift from old to new crop, with Chicago lambs hitting 30 dollars as spring stock tightens. Hog prices rise from stronger marketings in Iowa and southern Minnesota, with outlook for six to eight weeks and higher prices later in fall.
Six Bremer County Extension Council members and staff visited Iowa State College on May 28 to learn about farm and home economics resources for the district. The group joined more than 1,300 council members at Ames to explore extension services and research aids for farmers and homemakers. Ethel Zipse stated the information will strengthen next year’s extension program and noted plans to use swine testing, agronomy, and veterinary diagnostic resources in district programming.
At the May 21 meeting at Mrs. Ray Nieman’s home the Franklin Goal Getters planned Rally day entertainment and a June Farm Bureau program. Judy Cordes was chosen as campaign speaker for Sharon Leistikow, the county candidate, and Imogene Heineman was named usher. Leistikow was chosen “better groomed girl.”
At a special meeting 4-H club DO-R-Best met June 7 at Mrs. Carl Racimann home with 14 members, two leaders and a visitor. Demonstrations included Potato Salad by Joan Meier and Janet Wittenburg and Pie Fillings by Carol Remley. Royce Leggett spoke on Dairy Feeding. Recreation and refreshments followed. The Douglas Rockets met at Horton Hall with eight members, two visitors, a leader and four fathers present. A club tour was planned for June 29 and next meeting will be at Lloyd Scharnhorst home on July 18.
Eight Bremer county boys attended the 4-H Boys Short Course and state convention in Ames last week. Participants were Elston Bull Waverly Gordon Happel Readlyn Kermit Pothast Waverly Kenneth Saunder Janesville Allen Kuethe Sumner Charles Lillibridge Waverly Ron Leistkow Fairbank and county 4-H president Fred Thoms Waverly. David Breeze county youth assistant accompanied the group.
The 1955 corn production in Bremer County totaling 604 449 bushels was placed under government price support by May 31. Albert Brandt, chairman of the county ASC, reports 421 loans on 518 149 bushels and 61 purchase agreements covering 85 300 bushels, compared with 1954 figures. Only corn grown under acreage allotments qualified for support in both years.
In Bremer County District Court A C McClurg and Co files a new case against E A Dettmering doing business as Readlyn Hardware Law. The filing sets the stage for dispute over civil claims and remedies. The parties involved include A C McClurg & Co and E A Dettmering Readlyn Hardware Law.
In Sioux Rapids Mrs Matilda Steen marked her 99th birthday recently. Friends and family joined the celebration noting her long life in the community and her memories of local events.
Legal transfers list including Floyd Sargent to Chris F Hirsch for undivided 14 interest in multiple lots at Deanville now Plainfield, and several other conveyances among L J Carver, James Morrill, W J Boorom, Domenic Fedrizzi, Mayme Maurer, Floyd Bowdish, Elmer Thurm, Marie Steffa to Bremer County Iowa, with small monetary amounts and easement notes in section 33 91 13 and surrounding townships, with revenue totaling per entry.
Fragmented OCR lists revenue and land descriptions across multiple sections including 30 93 14 32 93 14 and 29 93 14. Mentions Lana and Jeffer Ock Plainfield areas with revenues from various sw and se portions, school taxes, and parcels in blocks 33 and 39.
An unclear report describes a man in a car involved with a refrigerating unit. He inhaled sulfur dioxide and was rushed to a hospital with injuries. Details are fragmented and names are unreadable.
Roy Hinkel of Pisgay was seriously burned while directing cleanup on a paving project at Marion Hill. A crane using gasoline caught fire, injuring him with burns covering about 35 percent of his body.
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