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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1968
Page
6
A short wave radio antenna can send signals globally and be received unseen. Prayer is likened to this, with God hearing prayers. The Bible notes that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Grace Lutheran and area churches post Sunday services and activities. Highlights include Grace Lutheran with 8 a.m. service 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. family worship and a 10 a.m. sermon Blessed Are Those Who Can See God. Photos after the 10 a.m. service. Choirs and youth groups listed. wedding set for Sharon Nacke and Gary Johnson. Other churches list worship times, Sunday School, meetings, and district events. Faculty and pastors named include Alton and Mason City assignments.
Sunday visitors filled the Rev Erich Dornbusch house and nearby homes including Mr and Mrs Arnold Platte and Mr and Mrs LeRoy Platte in celebration. Attendees included Rev and Mrs Sig Sandrock Rev and Mrs George Gundel Rev and Mrs Arnold Thalacker Mr and Mrs John Buenzow Mr and Mrs Robert Peters Mrs Stanley Buhr Mrs Maynard Buhr Mr and Mrs Arnold Steege Garner and others.
The Tripoli Leader dated September 18, 1968 covers local news from Tripoli, Iowa, detailing community happenings and notable activities within the town.
Readlyn residents Micki Sue Huebner and Eugene Thurm plan a wedding on October 5 at 2 PM in St. Pauls Lutheran Church Readlyn. An earlier miscellaneous shower was held with 56 guests from Readlyn and nearby towns hosted by family members. Other items note a Doris Klemp shower with 21 guests, college students from local areas, and visits by relatives in the region.
A visitor stayed several weeks and was a dinner guest at Erwin Matthias home on Sunday. Afternoon and evening hospitality extended to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Matthias of Waterloo. Also listed are Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Thran visiting in Henry Oltrogge’s Sumner home and Elmer Hennings with Victor Kimball and Wash. residents.
Alyssa and Delbert Hennings were Sunday dinner guests at the Fred Rathe home in Tripoli.
Dale Carr a highway commission employee found a large toadstool on the right of way about two miles north of Corning recently. The fungus weighed nearly two pounds.
Fragmentary text mentions George, McDonald, Sheldon, and Mike with scattered references to bananas and a COM. No coherent event or action is discernible from the readable portion.
In Farmington a large egg with a circumference of 7 percent inches appeared. It cracked open to reveal a yolk and a second normal egg with a standard shell inside the outer shell.
A first person field report from the Tripoli bus barn details Texas John Schlatter guiding a typical THS student ride. The driver greets passengers, students crowd the front, and the bus fills with papers and memories before the 3:36 pick up.
The menu lists daily items for a school cafeteria. Monday includes Wieners baked potatoes sauer kraut apple sauce cake bread and butter milk. Tuesday offers Goulash carrot and celery sticks fruited Jell-O dough nuts bread and butter milk. Thursday features Scalloped potatoes and ham buttered green beans graham cracker dessert cheese and peanut butter sandwiches orange juice milk. Friday shows American spaghetti tuna and peanut butter sandwiches apple sauce chocolate-chip bar milk.
Applications for the Navy 23rd annual regular NROTC qualification test are available per Ann Kruse at Tripoli Community School. Test on December 14 offers four years of college funding including tuition fees books uniforms and a $50 monthly subsistence allowance. Registrations close November 15 1969 and bull etins are available from Miss Kruse or the Waterloo Navy Recruiting Station.
THS welcomes Janice Hall the new girls P E teacher from a Minburn area farm near Des Moines. In her first year after UNI Cedar Falls she notes the student body values education highly and praises the faculty and school building. Her husband serves in Korea.
The FTA offers necklace or key chain trinkets for ten dimes or one hundred pennies to buyers eager to beat the rush. Each item is pitched as groovy and “super wow” in a playful sales pitch style.
Duane Haverkamp argues in a campus soapbox that opposition to the Vietnam War is a moral duty if one believes the nation’s course is unjust. He notes deferments exist but warns of prison and social stigma for resisters while urging principled action.
Denny Frost, a Dunkerton Community School transfer, is spotlighted in Panther's Tale. The junior previously served as student council rep, FFA president, and football participant. He notes Dunkerton HS built in 1921 and anticipates Tripoli faculty to be as swift as Dunkerton's.
The 1968 69 class officers include seniors Kathy Blasberg president and Wayne Mager vice president with Jeff Hoppenworth secretary and Gary Berger treasurer. Juniors elect Paul Magnall president Marilyn Blume vice president Rebecca Barkhoff secretary Charles Jordan treasurer. Sophomores elect Paul Garner president Jane Fink vice president Mary Hoppenworth secretary Barbara Wente treasurer. Freshmen Diane Heideman is listed among elected officers.
A partial THS yearbook style feature profiles Steven Ray Truog born March 29, 1950 son of Mr and Mrs Richard Truog. He enjoys hunting fishing working on cars and football managing with interests in business law and world geography. He plans enlistment in the navy then art school.
The Iowa tests of educational development were given last week to measure educational growth using a ruler like method. Written by educators and psychologists, the tests have been used by military branches and millions have taken them. Four main purposes are to gauge English comprehension, practical arithmetic reasoning, natural science principles, and social science knowledge.
The list shows officers for Eighth Grade with president Doris Ann Buls, vice president Ron Stufflebeam, secretary Spencer Holm, and treasurer Doris Ann Buls. Seventh Grade names include Carol Pint as president, Tony Magnall as vice president, Kim Kividera as secretary, and Margaret Rewoldt as treasurer.
Incomplete OCR fragment references Kent Harms, Jey, and Roger Blackie with mentions of a gym, girdle pants, a ball throw, and a board member Mr. Syoverson. Several garbled lines discuss tests, a clipboard, and sleep, but details and context are largely unreadable.
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