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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1963
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is the official newspaper of Tripoli Iowa and Bremer County. Published weekly on Wednesdays since 1894. William A Buckley publisher and Robert J Sassman editor. Subscription rates are 3.50 per year in Iowa and 4.50 elsewhere, prepaid.
March 7 4 H leader recognition banquet 7 p m Tripoli Town Hall March 11 Family Living County Committee meeting 1 30 p m County Extension office Tripoli March 13 First day of Farm and Home Management school 10 a m Tripoli Town Hall
Tripoli Booster's February meeting at Larry Ormston's home focused on next year's fair ideas and scheduling two more basketball games. Members voted to present a gift to Gary Gienau and Vernon Wikner spoke on nutrition school takeaways.
State Safety Commissioner Carl Pesch announced a March campaign using unmarked patrol cars to follow school buses and catch drivers who fail to stop for halted buses. The law requires traffic from both directions to stop when a bus shows lights and stop arm.
Farm economist J William Uhrig of Iowa State University warns heavy weight cattle feeding is questionable under current markets. Choice fed cattle prices have fallen over four dollars since November and mid February levels were the lowest since 1961. Hog prices are expected to decline further as hog production grows faster than population with slaughter gains likely from March to June.
Bremer County youths join 4-H members nationwide for National 4-H Week with 11 clubs in the county hosting activities from March 29. Window displays radio appearances and a March 7 banquet at Tripoli Town Hall honor 70 local volunteers with speaker John Coverdale.
Gov Hughes names Melvin Wolff Waterloo attorney and Mrs Joseph Rosenfield Des Moines to the State Board of Regents. Wolff 39 a former state senator and Democrat was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor last fall. Rosenfield first joined the board in 1957.
A Suffolk ewe on the Elmer Goodwin farm near Glidden delivered quintuplets. Four lambs are healthy and robust, while the fifth did not survive. Quintuplets are exceptionally rare in lambs, highlighting the unusual birth on the local farm.
The Town House defeated a bill 62 to 38 that would force publication of property valuations every four years and annual notices of valuations showing a change over $2,000. Each property owner would pay 50 cents to cover publication costs, and the valuation would appear in local newspapers.
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