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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1968
Page
1
County residents cast ballots Tuesday in a Republican sweep with Gross securing an easy 3rd District win. Nixon edged Humphrey in a razor thin national contest as Illinois tipped the scale to give Nixon the needed 270 electoral votes.
The 4 H awards event will be held at the Riviera in Janesville on November 7 to honor outstanding members across county achievement, leadership, agriculture and home economics. Awards will include trips and recognize leaders, sponsors and friends for efforts across various project areas.
Dr. W. B. Weeber will be out of town Monday Tuesday and Wednesday November 11 12 13 to attend clinical conferences in Rochester Minnesota.
Ambulance driver training will be held at Tripoli Town Hall on Saturdays November 9 and 16 at 1 p m. Clarence Wickham Waverly police chief leads with J M Haydon and Pat Brogan Tripoli town marshal assisting. The course teaches first aid and is open to renew Red Cross cards.
Dixon R. Bunger son of Mr and Mrs Raymond H Bunger has been promoted to first lieutenant while stationed at Iraklion Air Station Crete Greece. He and his wife former Rachel Zummak Jesup have lived in Crete since April after transfer from Keesler Technical Training Center Mississippi where he graduated as a communications officer.
Denver Town Clerk Henry Abbas Jr resigns effective November 30 after serving since May 1963. He will enter private business fulltime in income tax accounting and bookkeeping with his wife, a venture run parttime since 1958.
Friends and neighbors organized a corn picking bee at the Adolph Mohling farm on Saturday November 2 with 17 men aiding the harvest. Participants listed include Ed McNamee Victor Nacke Robert Schmidt Virgil Bull Wilbert Meyer Jack Snyder Phil Snyder Clarence Forberg Joe Miller Harold Leisinger Robert Osborn Mervyn Ormston Eugene Stahlhut Fred Thies Dennis Kirchhoff George LeGore and Gerald Mohling. Mohling could not harvest the crop due to recent surgery.
On Oct 25 Larry Leuenberger soloed in a 172 Cessna and earned his pilot license at age 16. He is the first 16 year old solo student of his father, a government rated flight instructor, who has trained over 100 students. The junior Tripoli Community student lives half a mile south of Frederika and flies the family aircraft.
Tripoli Jaycees sponsor a hunters breakfast at Town Hall Saturday from 6:00 to 11:00 a. m. to mark pheasant season opening. It is the fourth annual event with a prize drawing at 11:00. Four prizes include a 22 automatic rifle with scope a 410 shotgun a food blender and an AM FM clock radio.
Wapsie Valley topped Tripoli 33 6 in the final football game of the season at Wapsie Valley. Tripoli struggled with turnovers five fumbles four lost and injuries hampering their push. The Panthers scored late in the second quarter on an 11 yard pass to Tom Green after a long drive. Wapsie Valley opened the scoring early in the second quarter and added three more scores in the fourth quarter for the win.
American Education Week runs Nov 10 to 16 with Friday parent teacher conferences at the high school and grades. No school Friday. NEA American Legion NCPT Parents and Teachers and US Office of Education sponsor theme America Has a Good Thing Going for It Its Schools. Denver defeated Fredericksburg 65 to 19.
A car-truck collision four miles west of Tripoli at highways 63 and 93 at about 11:00 p m Monday sent two people to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo in critical condition. Russell Ohrt 48 of Garrison driver of the bread truck and Larry Neith 20 of Evansdale driver of the auto were hospitalized with head injuries and a fractured skull respectively. A Waterloo girl riding in the Neith car was treated and released. The bread truck was northbound on 63 while the Neith auto came west on 93.
Iowa's 1968 pheasant hunting season runs from November 9 to December 31 with daily hours 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. The bag limit is three roosters per day with six in possession, excluding a southeast Iowa area bounded by Highways 60 92 218 and 34. Strong statewide prospects follow a good winter and spring nesting season, with top populations in the west central and southwest regions and good activity in the east central area.
The Iowa Department of Social Services reports Bremer county October welfare totals. Old age assistance paid $16,041 to 142 people with five new and two closed cases. Aid to dependent children covered 201 beneficiaries across 46 cases, totaling $8,567 with four new cases. Aid to the blind issued $210 to two recipients and aid to the disabled $526 with seven cases, two closed. Overall October welfare payments reached $25,344 for 352 residents assisted.
The Tripoli Community Chest drive enters its second week with $103.50 collected as of Tuesday morning. Campaign chairman David Ray notes area captains have not yet submitted their totals. The goal is $2,480 benefiting groups including the Tripoli Red Cross Boy Scouts Cub Scouts Wapsie Area Scout Council Salvation Army Bremer County Retarded Children Iowa Association for Mental Health and others. Residents are urged to contribute as this drive combines 13 solicitations into one.
Denver elementary schedules Friday, November 8 parent teacher conferences with 20 minute sessions for each student’s progress in the first nine weeks. High school parents are asked to visit teachers with last names A through M in the morning and N through Z in the afternoon to reduce congestion.
Tripoli Music Mothers plan an 8:00 p m gathering tonight in the high school home economics room.
The Weather Observer J M Haydon reports daily readings taken at 6 p m except Tuesday and noon for the week. Observations detail temperature, pressure and humidity levels with note of notable shifts in late week conditions.
The first annual stockholder meeting of Tripoli Area Recreation Inc. will be held Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8:00 p.m. in Tripoli Town Hall. Officers will be elected and a progress report given on the planned Tripoli golf course. A club house sketch and possible course layout will be shown. The board has negotiated an option on the west portion of Sweet farm. All stockholders urged to attend.
American Savings Bank and county banks close on Monday November 11 for Veterans Day observance. Limited service applies as Ray H. Fink notes. star route mail runs but no rural delivery or counter service. Evening mill will be dispatched as usual.
Bremer County may not sell food stamps before 1969 as county welfare director Verlyn Wieden notes despite congressional funds. The county has an April 1 1968 application filing and cannot join surplus foods while the stamp program is pending.
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