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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1967
Page
1
State Tax Commission figures show first quarter 1966 sales at 6 563 800 with a gain of 422 950 over the prior year. Waverly Tripoli Denver Janesville Readlyn and rural holders posted gains while Sumner fell by 5 600. comparisons cover January February March 1966 and 1967.
Readlyn town council will hold a public hearing and receive sealed bids for six inch Portland cement pavement on Main Street between First and Fourth Streets. Hearing is Thursday Oct 12 at 7:30 p m in Town Hall. Bids must include grading excavation and drainage per plans. Residents may attend and be heard.
The Farmers Home Administration loaned $13.5 million to Iowa farmers during fiscal 1967, up nearly $3 million from fiscal 1966.
Tripoli man Lynn Wilson was named buttermaker at the Denver Co operative Creamery Co. He will start in Denver on October 20 after 16 years as a buttermaker at Tripoli and Western Douglas creameries and a year at Kramer Crittenden Produce in Tripoli. He will also run his Tripoli television business. The Denver creamery plans to resume butter manufacture shortly after October 20 after having used milk buyers for about a year.
Mrs. H. W. Peters is a patient at Mercy hospital in Waverly after being taken there Friday.
Regular dinner meeting of the Tripoli Commercial Club will be held Monday Oct 16 in Town Hall at 7 00 p m. Dinner will be served by Grace Lutheran church ladies. Football film of the Tripoli Panthers in action will be shown. Attendance committee will contact members for dinner reservations by Friday noon.
Tripoli VFW Post will sponsor a dance at the Post Home on Friday evening October 13 following the Tripoli versus Dunkerton homecoming football game. Music by Adolph Steinbronn and lunch served by the Auxiliary.
Mrs. Theodore Bock was discharged Monday from Mercy Hospital Wa verly after a ten day surgical stay.
Bremer county officials report an all veterans association sponsors an easy Christmas parcel pack for boys in Vietnam. A benefit dance at the Waverly V F W club is set for Saturday November 11 from 7 to 1. Proceeds fund the project. Veteran groups participate, seeking addresses of Bremer county servicemen serving in Vietnam. Tripoli area addresses should be sent to Tripoli Legion Commander D, Tripoli Iowa 50676. October 16 is the final day to accept servicemen names.
Department of Social Welfare released the September monthly welfare report for Bre County. Total county payments reached 23 020 with 141 assistance cases and 16 000 in grants. 33 dependent children benefited from 128 per month. 5 856 in grants for two blind cases. 47 persons received led payments. Statewide expenditures from public assistance funds rose to 5 740 484 for September due to medical care cuts delay. recipient payments were 5 182 and medical costs 557 856. Vendor payments to nursing homes continue except for extended care facilities under the Social Security act administration.
Charles Hanson of the Farmers National Dealers Association warns the 3 percent service tax will cost Iowa farmers millions as it raises costs for grain elevators storage drying and other country elevator services. The association urges members to pass higher charges to farmers.
Robert Haight of Denver High School received a letter of commendation for high performance on the 1967 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. He ranks among 40,000 students in the United States in the upper 2 percent of graduates, below the 14,000 semifinalists announced last September. Haight is the son of Mr and Mrs Lee Haight of Waterloo and has been an honor student at Denver Community School.
All farmers and agricultural business personnel are invited to an outlook program at 8 p m on Wednesday Oct 18 at the Steel Building Fairgrounds Waverly Speakers include Dr Gene Futrell ISU Extension economist and county and vocational agriculture staff Topics cover Iowa agriculture trends grain and livestock outlooks management decisions and feeder worksheets No reservations or fee required per Dale Shire
Tripoli voters will select two councilmen on November 7 as four candidates appear on the ballot Paul Block Wendall Kuethe Harold E Laube and Dale Krueger Kuethe seeks a second term while Block Laube and Krueger seek first terms George W Barnes runs unopposed for a sixth two year term as mayor C C Eichmann seeks re election as treasurer Balloting takes place at the Town Hall
Harold Wehling owner of Wehling's Radio and TV conducts an open house at Readlyn shop on Friday and Saturday October 13-14 from 9 am to 9 pm. Attendees may view 1968 Zenith television models with free coffee and doughnuts. Free registration for color TV and prizes.
Grace Lutheran church in Tripoli schedules October events for the 450th Reformation with a Luther Talk night, choirs hymn festival, and a family movie. A mass gathering at McElroy Auditorium Waterloo on Oct 29 will unite 100 congregations for a 2 30 to 5 pm program led by Dr John Bachman.
Iowa State University engineers in Ames develop a harvest system that collects the entire corn plant in one pass and blends it into livestock feed. The goal is to capture the plant’s net energy value rather than just the grain calories.
Iowa August sales of series E and H savings bonds and freedom shares totalled 8,135,850, boosting eight month state sales to 69,599,320 or 57 percent of 1967 goal. Bremer County reached 58 percent with 442,748 in eight months. Lyon County topped 100 percent in August, first in the state to do so, while Clayton Decatur and Van Buren stood at 83 percent toward their quotas. Other counties show progress with Chickasaw 75 percent at 569,914 and Fayette 63 percent at 856,031.
Funeral services for Emelie Meyer aged 69 will be held Saturday at 2 p m in Grace Lutheran church with a 1:45 family prayer. Burial will follow in Grace Lutheran cemetery. She died Wednesday at Mercy hospital in Waverly after transfer from Tripoli Nursing Home. Born January 26, 1898, she was the daughter of Henry and Lena Block. Survivors include her husband Fred and brother Will Block of Tripoli.
The Bockhaus Bartels Post of the American Legion will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Town Hall.
Republican state chairman Robert Ray criticized the new Iowa tax law during a Drake University speech. He charged the tax commission and attorney general with doubts about applicability and constitutionality, while lawmakers seek a special session to fix flaws and warn of potential multi million dollar surpluses.
More than 1100 attended the 75th anniversary services of St. John's Lutheran church in Frederika on Sunday. Morning speaker Rev. Ulrich Groth of Chicago noted his earlier 1937—1940 service at the church. Afternoon speaker Rev. Ewald Senst of Waverly served 1943—1953, with evening speaker Rev. William Engelke, 1902—1905, now 80 and living in Sumner with his son.
The Women’s Fellowship of Faith United Church of Christ in Tripoli will hold a basement sale on Thursday October 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the church basement. Baked goods fruits and vegetables along with men’s women’s and children’s clothes shoes and other items will be sold. Free coffee will be served.
THS coach Eldon Ott praised a true team effort as Tripoli rolled past Janesville 54 to 0 Friday. Quarterback Dan Biesterfelt ran and passed effectively while Karl Krumm and Willis Hildebrandt provided strong ground and receiving games as the Panthers dominated on both sides to build momentum toward Dunkerton.
Truman T and Etta L Stahr have sold the Frederika Produce Co and will auction produce equipment on Saturday October 14 starting at 1 00 p m Other items include office equipment heating and cooling equipment hunters and trappers goods and miscellaneous items A complete listing appears elsewhere in this issue R L Muench conducts the auction Farmers Savings Bank provides clerk services
Carol Ann Kruse, high school counselor at Tripoli Community schools, attended the eighth annual guidance and counseling conference Friday at UNI Cedar Falls.
Tri Poli Community schools will not hold classes Thursday or Friday October 19-20 as teachers and administrators attend the ISEA convention. Dismissal Friday will follow the homecoming parade about 3:00 PM, with the parade starting at 2:00 PM from the elementary school.
Lynda Wylam a Holstein dairy princess from Waverly will vie for the Iowa dairy princess title at the Iowa dairy conference in Des Moines October 17 18. Reigning princess Dianna Marts of Hampton will crown the new princess at the conference banquet October 18. Lynda 19 daughter of Duane and his wife farms 160 acres milks 30 Holstein cows and is a UNI student with a background in 4 H music sports and speech.
Mrs Emma Harmening visited Monday afternoon with Mrs Clarence Boderman at Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo where she has been a patient the past two weeks.
Mrs Tillie Bock Sumner visited with Mrs Sophie Bock on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Dean Buchholz Denver visited Fred Buchholz Sunday. Mrs Clara Biermann received Mr and Mrs Lavern Biermann Waterloo on Sunday. Leslie Bock Cedar Falls visited Mrs Sophie Bock Tuesday. Agnus Thran received several visitors Friday afternoon including Mr and Mrs Henry Oltrogge Mrs Minnie Wilharm Mrs Clara Seegers and Mr and Mrs Ed Tegtmeier Sumner. Charles Blume and Sophia Tietje Sumner and Herman Rathe visited Mrs Minnie Koschmeder Tuesday afternoon.
Rev W H Klein pastor of St Johns Frederika and St Pauls Siegel will deliver his final sermon Sunday Oct 29. He has served the two churches for nine years and will move to Fort Wayne Ind where he has accepted a pastorate.
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