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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1967
Page
2
The May Do-R Best 4-H meeting at Barbie Bahlmann home featured a discussion on Woodward Home for retarded children and a plan for May 16 grooming. Patti Winkelman spoke on Better Grooming Score. Vicki Mueller and Diane Jones demonstrated Tips for Waitresses.
Dale Shires County Extension Director reports U S Department of Agriculture data showing first half marketing year corn use fell short of expectations. Total corn stocks reach 2 704 million bushels, about six percent below last year.
The article outlines advantages such as better space use privacy and separation of living sleeping and recreation areas, while noting downsides including constant stair climbing higher construction difficulty and limited mass production benefits. It also mentions available county extension bulletins and adds a curious fact about a blue whale’s horsepower at a slow swim.
Mother's day dinner guests in the Clarence Ganske home include KNITTEL Rudolph Busch and family as well as the Gansk es and Thurm group. Confirmations at Dysart Sunday followed by dinner at Robert Knapp home honoring Kevin. Various visits to Lutheran Nursing Home Strawberry Point and local homes mark a quiet week in Clarksville Waterloo and surrounding areas.
ISU Extension horticulturist Ben Vance notes a strange winter with varied plant injury. Roses and many perennials fared well while evergreens and established trees suffered. yews exposed to southwest sun burned badly. The article advises pruning dead twigs and lightly fertilizing this spring.
During dry spells water deeply but not too often to avoid root oxygen deprivation. Apply about an inch of water weekly to ten days and prune hedges like Tatarian honeysuckles privet spirea and Alpine currant nearly to ground level leaving two to three inches of wood. Fertilizer helps recovery and light watering during dry periods speeds the rebound.
Lynn Dachenbach and his brother Lee met in Viet Nam after a year apart. They recorded a tape during the visit and mailed it to their parents. Lee serves in a signal corps company while Lynn cooks for the 394th Transportation Unit.
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