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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1957
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader, established 1894 and official newspaper of Tripoli and Bremer County Iowa, is published weekly on Wednesdays. Publisher William A Buckley sets rates at $3.00 per year in advance within Iowa and $3.50 elsewhere. Entered as second class mail under the March 8 1879 act.
The Tripoli Town Council should tax itinerant retailers who sell on local streets to finance curb and gutter and street improvements. Milk, dry cleaning, and food trucks plus peddlers on weekly routes benefit from streets but pay no local taxes, competing with taxed merchants. A license fee would spread the tax load, deter shoddy merchandise, and require financial responsibility, potentially determining whether the street program proceeds.
The 1957 Iowa legislature ended and critics will quickly weigh in. The piece argues lawmakers are ordinary citizens, not saints or sinners, serving as representatives. Change comes slowly in a conservative state, with reapportionment and tax reform coming when the majority desires it. If you oppose your legislator, vote them out. if you agree, vote for them.
Bremer County Extension Director cites April 1 cattle on feed report showing longer feeding times this year. Iowa State College economist Francis A. Kutish expects June market activity with potential heavier grass fed cattle this fall if western moisture remains good. He warns against marketing all at once and urges steady selling over 65 days. Egg hatch for laying flock replacement dropped 23 percent in March and 25 percent for the first three months of 1957, yet Kutish says this will help keep egg prices strong next winter. Turkey hatch remains at a record pace though growth slows. three month totals up 12 percent with varied breed increases and a hopeful sign of fewer incubating eggs on April 1.
Iowa tops the nation in chicken production and gross income from chickens per a U S Department of Agriculture report via the Iowa Development Commission. Last year Iowa farmers produced over 33 percent of all U S chickens, with cash receipts and consumption totaling 17 874 000 dollars. The commission notes Iowa raised more than eight percent of U S chickens, up 13 percent from 1955, which would have fed every man woman and child in the country if spread as a dinner.
Ware Iowa residents gathered to applaud Carl Hatteburg the Ware Consolidated School bus driver who completed 26 years and 180000 miles without an accident. He received a framed school award a trophy letters from State Safety Commissioner Clinton Moyer and Superintendent J C Wright and warm community thanks at a school tribute night.
For more than 18 years the Ware community honored school bus driver Carl Hatteburg noting his first such recognition in memory. His passengers now include grandchildren of those he first delivered, the route has evolved from mud to gravel roads, and his safety record remains outstanding.
Iowa supplied over eight percent of the nation's sixty-one million eggs, totaling more than five billion eggs for the year. Hawkeye hens averaged about 418 million eggs monthly, with roughly thirteen million daily. Domestic consumption neared 309 million eggs in Iowa homes, and sales topped four and a half billion eggs, generating about $133 million in gross income. Mr and Mrs Bert Popham of North English marked sixty years of marriage in February.
Welfare payments in Bremer county rose above $16,000 during April. Total payments for old age assistance aid to the needy blind and aid to dependent children were $16 021.50. There were 208 cases of old age assistance in the county totaling $14 058.50 an average of $67.59 per case. Three cases of aid to needy blind received $208.50 an average of $69.50 each. Aid to dependent children totaled $1 754.50 to 15 cases involving 55 recipients averaging $116.97 per case or $31.90 per recipient.
Cliff Iverson and Doyle Gordon visited junior feeder projects Friday afternoon. Eleven Bremer county 4-H boys are carrying this feeding project this year. Cliff and Doyle reported the projects look exceptionally good for this time of year. Most of the cattle have been on full feed since January 1.
A sirocco is a hot dry wind from the Mediterranean region that brings warm air and dust to affected areas. It originates over the desert and Africa and can affect weather patterns and humidity levels in nearby regions.
Tripoli 4 H Teen Timers will meet Thursday evening at Tripoli Town Hall at 7 30. A large limb blew down from a tree on the Waldo Widemann farm near Stratford and a rake head was found buried in the limb, the tines entwined by years of growth.
A barn fire east of Clear Lake destroyed the Max Smith farm barn and three show calves each about 600 pounds. Total damage from the blaze exceeded $10,000.
Alvin Roberts has retired from hauling in Audubon after 59 years serving the community. He began his business as a youngster with his father who bought the first truck in Audubon County.
A rabid squirrel threatened Lloyd Rockholz near Adair prompting residents to watch for dogs and other animals. The animal reportedly charged and climbed a tree before authorities responded. infection concerns were raised among local residents.
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