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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1960
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is the official weekly newspaper for Tripoli, Bremer County, published each Wednesday. Established in 1894 with William A. Buckley as publisher. Rates listed at 3.50 yearly in town, 4.00 elsewhere. second class mail and postage details noted.
Nov. 2 Extension Council meets at 8 p.m. at the Extension office. The article lists 4-H club record books graded on a 100-point scale with blue ratings for 90-100 and red for 80-89. Seven clubs achieved 100 percent blue, with numerous members named across clubs such as Do R Best, Clover Teenerettes, Dutiful Daughters, Leroy Gopherettes, NRG, Sumner Sparklers, and TNT, along with dozens of listed members earning blue and red ratings.
Farm Economist J Marvin Skadberg of Iowa State University reports larger 1960–61 carryover of feed grains and higher total supplies for next year. Soybean crop up about five percent, soybean meal production strong though down from last year, and cottonseed meal similar to last year. Prices for major protein concentrates are lower than February 1960, with tankage, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, linseed, alfalfa hay, bran, and dehydrated alfalfa meal all detailed by price per ton and per pound. Skadberg warns lower roughage use as farmers shift toward concentrates and a higher ration percentage of grain feeds.
Jim Lohmann a junior begins his third year in FFA vocational agriculture with a dairy calf born November 15 1959 as his productive project for 1959 60. He painted the barn with his father for his 1960 improvement project and last year his one with six pigs born April 11 1958 were marketed in six months. An active FFA member he has represented the chapter in swine and dairy judging contests and on the parliamentary procedure team. He is currently building a cattle feeding bank as his farm mechanics project in vo ag shop.
The Maxfield Merry Maids met October 17 at Cynthia Buhr’s home with Jamces Strotmann presiding. Members planned a group meal in early November, dropped a bake sale, and held talks on How My 4-H Has Helped Me and Care for the Teeth. New members were welcomed and officers installed. next meeting set for November 7 at Deborah and Nancy Schiller’s home.
The Tripoli Leader reports Hethesda is a House of Mercy caring for over 530 mentally retarded Lutherans age eight and up. In 55 years more than 1700 handicapped individuals have been cared for in the home. Separate notes mention neighbors moving and a hospital discharge.
Mrs A I Bernthal Mrs Irwin Bruns and Rose Howrey joined ladies from Waterloo Lutheran churches on a charter bus trip to Watertown Wisconsin on Wednesday where they visited the Bethesda Lutheran home.
William Howard Taft became the first U S president to receive a salary of seventy five thousand dollars annually, marking a historic earnings milestone in the executive office.
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