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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1957
Page
6
The Tripoli Panthers staff previews ongoing student life with notes on bookkeeping busy study halls and upcoming features. Readers are invited to watch this Inside the Tee Pee column every two weeks for more local teenage news and personalities.
Editorial urges students to finish assigned work before watching TV or going to movies. It contrasts procrastination with dependability, arguing that bringing unfinished tasks to work undermines employment. The piece encourages immediate change and self satisfaction.
The feature highlights 16 year old twirler Carla Bremer a senior who enjoys culture and etiquette and relaxes with radio or records. It also profiles Gerald Wagner a four year band baritone player 5 ft 10 in curly haired senior pole on Tri poli track who runs the half and quarter miles writes letters and hopes to attend Iowa State College while raising beagle hounds.
Schedules set and classes settle into routine as freshmen start strong. Science lab reports a mild hydrogen balloon explosion from a flame test while sophomores study safe driving. Juniors rehearse pantomime of famous sayings in speech class. Seniors count long columns as they dream of closing entries.
Jeff Clark, director of journalism at the State University of Iowa, praised the Tee Pee in a visit to the newspaper staff. He offered helpful suggestions to improve the 1958 annual, demonstrating various picture layouts to enhance the publication.
The Girls' choir members have elected Karlyn Klenzman president Jackie Nerge vice president Dorothy Plum secretary and Susie Niemeyer librarian for the year. A boys' chorus is forming with a men’s quartet being organized for interested singers, information available from Mr Koch.
Four selected cheerleaders Karlyn Klenzman Jean Chapin Karen Pinch and LaJean Slack head school pep rallies. Students back them as they boost school spirit at games. This year they swap uniforms for black slacks white sweat shirts and orange black caps bearing the T emblem and megaphone.
Jim Block says six games remain and the team can turn season around with the right spirit. Bob Boeckmann hopes for the best if everyone performs their duties. Larry Buchholz believes experience will yield a good finish despite a slow start. John Diaz emphasizes cooperation to win. John Lenius remains hopeful if hard work continues.
Freshman plans, labor, and equipment depreciation on projects are drafted while sophomores study dairy cattle feeding and ration balancing. Juniors and seniors have finished cattle judging. The judging team Duane Buchholz Vernon Everding and David Mohling competed at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress on September 28.
Nile Forcht of Stuart caught a 30-pound flathead鱼 near the Adel dam while fishing from the bank using spinning tackle and 10-pound test line. He landed the large fish in about 40 minutes. Bertha Stuckey retires after 47 years at Corydon Times-Republican as a linotype operator with occasional pinch-hitting duties.
The Congregational church calendar lists Sunday school at 9 30, Holy Communion at 10 30, and a 11 30 business meeting after rally day promotion. Various groups meet Friday through Sunday with lessons, elections, and a chicken supper Oct 10. St Peter’s Lutheran and Zion church events, regional conferences, roller skating party, and joint services are also noted with dates in early October.
A compact church schedule lists 7 p m services for KYB Jet Cadets and Young People's groups, 8 p m evening service featuring Daniel and the End Time, and Wednesday 8 p m Bible study and prayer meeting. Everyone is welcome.
Knittel and Westen dorf families visited relatives in Oelwein and Sheffield area as social notes. A 33 foot silo at the F W Greimann farm 3 miles southwest of Sheffield buckled and fell, its 70 tons of silage spilling and a blower crushed by the falling steel structure.
Report describes a near miss with several tractors missing by inches and no injuries. Mentions the State Crown of England containing 6,170 diamonds with one 34 carat stone.
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