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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1967
Page
6
A call to prepare now for life after death urges personal reflection on one’s life and relationship with God. The message stresses acting today to align with spiritual expectations and to consider eternal consequences.
Grace Lutheran notes list Sunday school at 9 a m and family service at 10 a m with sermons and upcoming events. Other churches in the area share service times, confirmation classes, choirs, circles, and council meetings across Frederika Tripoli Crane Creek and surrounding parishes with dates in the week.
An ISU economist notes corn prices fall under a 15.5 percent moisture standard, with discounts rising to about 3c per percentage point over moisture this fall. Higher moisture penalties affect marketing choices and storage costs as growers harvest more wet corn and contend with slow prices. Also noted is a potato with a shell embedded in it found on the Robert Widen farm north of Perry.
Maxey Hester of Montezuma is named the nation’s second best air plane modeler in the Radio Control Scale at the National Championships. He has built models all his life and won multiple trophies. His winning plane a Fairchild PT-19 features a six foot wingspan and a flight speed of 40 to 50 mph controlled remotely by radio.
Mrs. Jim Kann of Belle Plaine grew large onions this season. Four onions weighed 2½ to 3 pounds each in the Belle Plaine harvest.
Ada McConkey and Emil Matthias hosted Sunday events at the Dilley and Ray Kuethe homes. Albert Rieck honored his birthday and the 95th birthday of Rena Smith with a 4 potluck dinner. Attendees included Alice Young Hutchinson Lawrence Inman Brandt Jones and many Rieck relatives from Janesville Waterloo and Tri Poli along with local neighbors.
The Tripoli Leader notes a Biden-Gerde wedding rehearsal dinner in Charles City attended by multiple families from Clarksville Waterloo and Cresco. Other items mention acreage purchases near Williamstown, a Tripoli resident hosting visitors, and Ada McConkey visiting Richard Schmidt. A LASER liver surgery study at VA hospitals is reported.
Denver residents share visits and illness updates. Church services and Vesper conducted by Rev Paul Schaedig. Brownie Girl Scout formation aims to recruit leaders. Talbert D Moore funeral held in Cedar Falls. DX Service Station changes hands as Denver DX with minor auto repairs planned. Denver Briefs cover local clinic observation, legions conference, and community gatherings.
A Tripoli High discussion argues for or against mandatory physical education alongside sports. Proponents say cross training diverse games aids overall fitness and prevents neglect of other muscles. Opponents warn fatigue, reduced study time, and potential injury risk during game days.
The narrative highlights Dianne Shonka daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Shonka as a senior at THS with cheerleading girls glee and Catholic Youth Organization involvement. It notes her height 5'6" brown hair brown eyes 16 born Oct 30 plans include technical school or practical nursing and dining for homecoming queen experience.
Panthers travel to Iowa City to watch Iowa defeat Texas Christian 25 to 9. Coach Ott, Coach Van Ahn and Mr. Miller join the trip with 46 731 fans at the stadium while the group discusses game positions and bus returns to Tripoli.
Cheryl Cole joins THS as a first year girls' physical education teacher after UNI Cedar Falls graduation. She notes friendly students and no strong opinions on changes yet. She hopes the next 32 weeks go as smoothly as the first four. Her plans include further goals in teaching.
On Saturday September 23 Wartburg College hosted an annual yearbook editors and advisors clinic sponsored by the American Yearbook Co. The event taught how to organize and assemble a better yearbook through slides and lectures. Attendees included Paul Carroll Nancy Burrow and Deborah Pipho.
The article describes Mr. Drips directing a school speech program with 23 participants across declamations oratorical dramatic humorous extemporaneous reading poetry prose debate and news announcing. It mentions a possible one act play and calls juniors and seniors to join in areas like original oratory expository address book reviews storytelling and play reading. The district contest is March 2 with earlier contests at Upper Iowa and West High in Waterloo.
A three step approach teaches study without notes. Read material carefully then summarize what you read. After each lesson think about its meaning and, for foreign languages, think in that language. Close the book and reflect on what you studied.
The junior class plans a 10 day magazine sales push with a two week goal of 2000 dollars. A Tuesday lunchroom meeting formed two teams competing for prizes for top sales and other achievements.
Four years of high school bring about many changes. Read about freshman to senior year shifts in ITED test attitudes study hall routines and worksheet strategies. The piece shows evolving approaches from seeking help to copying to completing assignments independently.
In the hallways students joke and chat about football player Logen Harms and D Harmening while Mary Kuker hides her wig mishaps. Harry Sievers courts Pat Schnieders with class mischief as others discuss Macbeth and a new car. Tripoli’s football squad practices aiming to beat Frederburg led by Dennis Zekol in purple and yellow.
The 5a group We, the Panther's Tale announces dedication of this year’s paper to THS students. Editors and staff listing includes Steve Heideman as editor and Donne Kapmeyer as assistant editor with numerous reporters from various grades offering to print parts or items from readers.
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