Ames Park Committee Hears Tennis Court Plans
The Ames Park Committee met with Ames Architect Burl Parks from Iowa State University to discuss a proposed double tennis court and basketball area at Southtown Park. Parks recommended locating west of the old football field to avoid crowding the main hub and suggested economical ice rink options with curb costs. The committee adjourned to plan further.
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Tennis Court
Ames
Vans
Woman's Club
Sportsmen's Club
Commercial Club
Burl Parks
Iowa State University
Tripolisisting
Sevious
Parks
Southpark
Park Committee
Merc's Southpaws Tie For Second At Courier Tourney
The Mercantile Southpaws finished in a three way tie for second place in the Waterloo Courier tourney of champions, behind Cedar Falls in the men’s division. Their 3,021 handicap series, with team members E. J. Fink, Lloyd Kingery, Virgil Lampe, Robert Fink and Wes Bockhaus, will be decided by a bowl-off at the Tavern on the Green in Waterloo. The event also crowned Greene and Cedar Falls champions in women’s and men’s divisions respectively, with top teams slated for trophy presentation at Friday’s banquet.
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Tripoli
Waterloo Courier
Waterloo
Mercantile Southpaws
E. J. Fink
Lloyd Kingery
Virgil Lampe
Robert Fink
Wes Bockhaus
Green
Cedar Falls
Greene
Town Council Revises Summer Recreation Program Fee
Tripoli town council held a special session to revise charges for the summer recreation program. Baseball participants will not pay the $3 registration. crafts and arts remain at $3. Those who paid for baseball will be refunded.
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Tripoli
Businessmen's Bike Promotion Climax May 29 in Tripoli
Tripoli merchants run a bicycle promotion for children 12 and under entering its second week. Shoppers collect 25 tickets for a registration blank, with several prizes including five bicycles in a Friday drawing at 3 30 p m at the American Savings Bank corner. Registration blanks available at Rettig Furniture or Farmers Store. Only one prize per child, with no sponsor family eligibility. multiple children can win.
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Tripoli
American Savings Bank
Rettig Furniture Or Farmers Store
American Legion Announces Poppy Week in May
The American Legion Auxiliary sets Poppy Week from May 23 to 30 with the theme A Poppy Over Every Heart to honor Memorial Day. Proceeds from Poppy Day sales fund veteran rehabilitation and child welfare programs. Local unit will sell poppies Saturday led by Mrs G R Rettig, with Poppy posters by fifth and sixth graders displayed in store windows during the week.
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American Legion Auxiliary
G. R. Rettig
Tripoli
County Court House Adopts Saturday Closure Schedule
Bremer county court house in Waverly will open 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. CDT. Beginning June 1 all offices will remain closed on Saturdays.
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County Court House
Bremer County Court House
Waverly
Believe 87 Percent of Corn Borers Survive Winter
Over winter survival rate of European corn borers in Iowa reaches eighty seven percent per spring survey led by Dr. Wilfred S. Craig state entomologist. Higher live borers promise more damage this season if weather favors borers.
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Iowa
Wilfred S. Craig
Memorial Day Speaker for Tripoli Program
Waverly attorney Ivan J. Ackerman will be the principal speaker at the Memorial Day program on May 30 at Tripoli Town Hall. Ackerman, with Wm. H. Engelbrecht in Waverly and Tripoli, was born on a Butler county farm near Allison. He earned bachelor and law degrees from the State University of Iowa and is Phi Beta Kappa, ranking in the top two percent of his law class.
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Tripoli
Tripoli Town Hall
Ivan J. Ackerman
Waverly
Ackerman
Wm. H. Engelbrecht
Allison
Butler County
The
State University of
Iowa
Phi Beta Kappa
Tripoli Commercial Club
To Conduct a Voluntary Car Safety Check
Area motorists will be given an opportunity to make our highways safer by taking part in the voluntary vehicle safety check to be conducted in Tripoli Saturday between the hours announced.
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Tripoli
Tripoli conducts courtesy safety checks and Lite-a-Bike program
On South Main Street near Tripoli Grade School volunteers run from 9 a m to 8 p m offering courtesy safety checks with no tickets issued. A safety sticker will be applied to vehicles meeting standards while a Lite-a-Bike program retrofits bicycles with reflective Scotchlite at seven points.
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South Main Street
Tripoli
Duane Holm
Mercantile Hosts Meat Cutting Class For Home Economics
Werner Braatz and Wm. A. Kuker of Tripoli Mercantile led a meat cutting class for Tripoli High School home economics students and instructor Mrs. LaCoste. About 35 guests, including students' mothers, watched wholesale and retail cuts of beef and pork demonstrated. The session covered cuts, specialty meats, nutritive aspects, and cooking habits, ending with a Q and A.
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Mercantile
Werner Braatz
Wm. A. Kuker
Tripoli Mercantile
Tripoli High School
LaCoste
Four THS Graduates Earn Scholarships and Grants
Four seniors at THS received four college scholarships and related aid. David Block and his mother Mr. Eye Block are tied to Wartburg College where he will join the track team. Arlen Boie and his family plan to attend Coe College with a $1100 scholarship, plus a $1000 loan. Doug Kohawks will study and play football and basketball at Coe. Michael Fink earns $900 scholarship plus a $500 work grant at Coe, and Duane Hahn gets $460 scholarship at State College of Iowa Cedar Falls with track tryouts.
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Tripoli
Gradua
Nee Ee
Eye
Itgil Block
Saad
Wartburg College
Cman
Arlen Boie Hosenkmann
Ee Coe College
de Sant
Tripoli Community School Final Week Schedule Announced
Superintendent How ard Pigg announced that next Monday and Tuesday will be the final days of the term at Tripoli Community Schools. School will close at 3 p.m. in Tripoli and 3:20 p.m. in Frederika on May 25, with Tuesday’s closing at 2 p.m. in Tripoli and 2:20 p.m. in Frederika.
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Howard Pigg
Tripoli Community Schools
Tripoli
Frederika
Pigg
Tripoli Woman's Club Plans May Breakfast Meeting
The Tripoli Woman's Club will host a May breakfast this Saturday at 8 o'clock. Officers will be installed at the meeting, with hostesses Mrs. Ronald Warner and Mrs. K. A. Chapin assisting.
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Tripoli
Bag Pickup by Scouts for Goodwill Saturday
Boy Scouts will collect Goodwill bags Saturday morning. Please have bags out by 9 o'clock.
Final Rites Held Saturday for Mrs. Bernice Sells
Mrs Bernice Sells 54 died May 13 at Allen Memorial Hospital Water loo after a week as patient. Funeral Saturday at Kaiser Carson chapel Waverly Rev Lloyd Bair officiated. Interment Oakland cemetery Janesville. Survived by parents Carl and Mrs Murphy Janesville son Duane Donlon Horton daughter Mrs Wm Teeter Waverly three grandchildren. She had worked at Frederika telephone office and post office.
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Frederika
Bernice Sells
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Waverly
Kaiser-Carson Funeral
Lloyd Bair
Clarence Bacimann
Keith Carroll
Irl Haynes
Lawrence Schortau
Walter Schwerin
Clark W. Stufflebeam
Oakland Cemetery
Janesville
Carl Murphy
Duane Donlon
Horton
Wm. Teeter
Sells
Tripoli High School to Graduate 44 Friday
The Tripoli Community High School class of 1964 will graduate Friday at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Dr. Eugene E. Garbee will address the group on Yes Sir It Is Wonderful, with musical numbers by the boys quartet and an Alma Mater song.
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Tripoli
U.S.A
Tripoli Community High School
Catherine Hurmence
G. J. Gundel
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Grane Creek
Ivy
Eugene E. Garbee
Howard Pigg
Garbee
Sigg
America
Midwest
Robert Campbell
Tripoli High School
Leland Alcock
Board of Education
E. F. Puhlmann
Faith United Church of Christ
Kathy Hagedorn
Wanda Haynes
Keith Heffernan
Connie Heinemann
Laura Hurmence
Ben Kehe
Marlys Kelsey
Retha Klein
Elaine Klenzmann
Sheryl Magnall
Judy Meier
Kathryn Miller
Iva Mowatt
Nancy Mueller
Merna Niemeyer
Larry Rosel
Gary Schnurstein
Margene Schuldt
Eileen Sievers
Marian Stumme
Mary Jean Thies
James
THS Baseball Team Ends Good Season With Pair of Wins
Tripoli Panther baseball closed the season with a 10 9 win over Turkey Valley Monday afternoon and an 8 4 victory over Denver Friday. They finished 5 4 with a .290 batting average and 60 runs to 53 against. Alan Alcock led hitting at .533 and Doug Boeckmann had four pitching wins. Coach Ron Donn praised the squad’s hitting as key to the season.
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THS
Tripoli Panther
Turkey Valley Boys
Denver
Panthers
Alan Alcock
Doug Boeckmann
Sam Kehe
Ron Donn
Weather readings: six o'clock daily except Tuesday
The weekly weather report notes readings taken at 6 p m each day except Tuesday with an additional noon check on the listed days. It records temperature, wind, and precipitation notes for the period covered by the tally.
Malfunction Triggers Gas Explosion at Tripoli Creamery
An explosion of unusual origin damaged the boiler at Tripoli Cooperative Creamery Co on Sunday afternoon, about 500 dollars, caused by a malfunctioning ignition system. Boiler water leak doused the gas flame briefly, allowing gas to accumulate before safety switches acted. No injuries. L G Reed was in the neighboring room.
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Tripoli Cooperative Creamery Co
Dale Trent
L. G. Reed
Bremer County Retail Sales Dip in Final Quarter 1963
Retail sales across Bremer county fell to 6,429,200 in Oct Nov Dec 1963 from 6,637,637 in the same period 1962, a drop of 208,437. Tripoli and Waverly showed decreases while Sumner posted an increase. other towns also declined in total.
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Bremer County
Sumner
Town Tax Commission
Tripoli
Verly
Waverly
Dente Wwomwates
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Gene Vincent
West End
Merc
United Church of Christ
Farmer Store
Tripoli Cafe
Rock Island Produce
Moeller Construction
Warner Electric
Phylli Clippers
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
L. L. Moeller
Howard Holm
Virgil
Michael Fink
Duane Hahn
Tripoli Community School
Dr. Garbee
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Billings, Mo
Southwest Missouri State College
Springfield
George Peabody College
Nash
Duane Krueger
Harold Nolting
2Nd St
H Kehe
Wikner
C Boeckmann
If Alcock
Dietz
Juel
Kuhrt
Kerr
Bull
Turkey
Val
Kehe
P Alcock
Lf Buls
If Weidler
Rf McLavey
Kenneth Freyholtz
Tripoli Park
South Park
Arnold Thalacker
Melvin Krumm
Robert Kuhrt
L. J. Magnall
Fred Smith
J. M. Haydon
Max. Min. Pr
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