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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1965
Page
6
A retrospective column lists residents purchasing cars, building homes, and marrying in Bremer and surrounding communities. It records local deaths, weddings, anniversaries, a key fire, and market prices from 55 and 25 years prior, with numerous named towns and families.
A group of varsity football players at the University of Town will join medical research next fall to help scientists study knee stability. They, along with three other groups, will act as test subjects to develop a standard knee stability measurement and assess effects of experimental procedures on stability. One outcome could be a method to determine if athletes are eligible to participate in collegiate athletics.
The O Connell reunion gathered 43 members Sunday at Tripoli South Park with Mrs Earl O Connell of Fredericksburg elected chairman for 1966. Visitors and relatives from multiple towns joined Sunday dinners and social calls across Fredericksburg Evansdale Lawler Tripoli Frederika Denver Cresco Sumner New Hampton Alto Vista and other areas. The piece also notes a 30th anniversary for the Sweeneys and a historical line about the U S share of the U N budget being 33 1 3 percent in 1953.
The late Rev. William F. Goetz and John Jorgensen were united in marriage in a double ring ceremony at Wartburg Seminary Chapel in Dubuque on June 7. Rev. Richard Baur officiated the vows.
Fourteen girls from Troop 126 and eight from Troop 22 formed Unit No. 5 at Camp Saca jawea for a June 21 25 day camp directed by Mrs. Opal Lampe. Leaders included Donna Prestien LaDonna Hubbard and Mary Walter with aides Mildred Kurtt Wilma Steege and Pat Kurtt. Activities ranged from nature hikes leaf prints and outdoor cooking to archery with Jolyn Steege named champion.
Workmen excavating a water storage reservoir beneath the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. parking lot at Fort Madison have uncovered the remains of a stone foundation thought to have supported a block house. Fort Madison, established in 1808 after an 1804 treaty, was manned by soldiers.
Philip Riley, 39, son of the late Judge William F. Riley, is sworn in as U S District Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. He was appointed temporarily by Judges Roy Stephenson and William Hanson, replacing Donald Wine who resigned to enter private practice in Des Moines. a permanent appointment by President Johnson awaits.
Washington DC naval leave for Vin Heath brother of Dale Heath noted. Alan Richard Leisinger baptized June 20 at St Peter Lutheran with Rev David Johnson presiding. Sponsors Ronald Foelske Rosalie Leisigner Lawrence Knief. Westendorf family reunion planned for July 4 in Denver City Park with picnic potluck and committee supplied coffee and ice cream.
Four Iowans filed suit in Polk county asking subdistricting for counties electing more than one state representative. Judge Perkins sustained a motion by the attorney general, effectively placing reapportionment of the Iowa legislature in federal hands. Appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court is pending.
Republican State Chairman Robert Ray accuses Democrats of name calling to cover up last legislature's failures while defending measures viewed as beneficial for Iowa. Lex Hawkins counters that Republicans hide double-talk and distort the budget and property tax actions. The piece notes the Idaho territorial legislature met in 1863 at Lewiston.
The 108 member Iowa delegation led by Harold Hughes met with President Johnson at the White House before a three week Europe trade mission. Johnson praised Iowa farmers for corn used in foreign aid in Southeast Asia and joked about Gov. Hughes’s dog causing chaos in Des Moines.
The Iowa Good Roads Association executive committee asks Governor Harold Hughes to veto the big truck bill. The measure, approved by both houses, would remove fixed weight and width limits and let the highway commission issue special permits at its discretion.
Fragmentary text shows an association urging a constitutional change while the Roy way commission may impose limits. The governor and attorney general face a ruling on the bill's constitutionality.
About 50 men disguised as Indians boarded the British vessel Boston on December 16 1773 and heaved chests of tea overboard in a bold act of colonial protest.
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