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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1968
Page
13
Gusty rain and cool winds cut attendance to about 15 000 on Tuesday at the 86th Mower County Fair. Weather forecasts expect a warm, humid spell with cooler days ahead and Friday through the weekend offering relief. A transformer outage darkened barns for 45 minutes and one steer died in the Midwest Show amid heat fatigue among workers.
About 25 representatives from city and county government listened to James Hawks Jr. and Barbara Lukermann of Midwest Planning and Research outline a three stage feasibility study for a multi purpose arena in Austin. Cost total estimated at 8000 to 10000 dollars with staged steps and possible site recommendations.
Mrs. Don Weseman of the Mower County Pioneer and Historical Society calls the ceramic gray cat the cutest she has ever owned. The cat sits on the door of a 1900 gray cook stove in the old fashioned kitchen display at the Mower County Fair, donated by Mrs. Frank Kearns and added a warm homey touch to the exhibit.
Holstein Jodi Thome Adams and Ramona Thome Adams win champion and reserve with purebred cows. Jersey Jeff Torgerson Telstar and Jerry Bartz Enterprise take top and reserve with purebred and grade cows. Ayrshire Thomas McCloskey Busy Beavers and Cindy Stephenson Busy Beavers claim champions with purebred cows and junior yearlings, while Guernsey DeWayne Logan Rockets and Pam Kilgore Southside win with grade senior and junior yearlings. Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorn winners listed with judges Garth Miller and Ralph Wayne.
Plans set for the annual Day Camp for Retarded Children from Aug 12 to Aug 16 at Todd Park with a nature theme. Co chairs are Mrs Gary Wageman and Mrs James Chiz with reservations through them. Also noted were the Pre School Eye Clinic on Aug 19 and the Jaycee Project With a Heart picnic for Senior Citizens on Aug 24.
Austin Police investigate a morning breakin at Tommy's Supper Club where thieves forced a roof opening and stole about 150 dollars in cash from a register and two money bags along with a small safe valued at 95 dollars. A private citizen recovered the money bags near the airport. losses remain unestimated.
Three persons were injured in five accidents investigated by Austin Police Tuesday and today. Arnold Register and Judy Frettham collided at 4th St SE. Carole Murphy and Harold Cummings collided at 1st Ave SE. JoAnn Bartesch and Harold Berge collided at 6th Ave and 1st St SW. Wayne Culton and Edna Fossey collided at Sterling Shopping Center. Charles Getzin lost control near the Mall Shopping Center, damaging his vehicle.
Don Ritland reports 106 FFA exhibitors from 20 chapters competed this week at the Mower County Fair. Judging concluded Tuesday night with classes including 67 dairy 269 swine 19 beef and 125 sheep highlighting the livestock shows.
The Mower County Register of Deeds records a notice amending the Hormel Foundation Articles of Incorporation to authorize holding real and personal property in trust for purposes stated in the charter. The amendment designates Hormel trusteeship roles for trusts established by George A. Hormel, Lillian B. Hormel and Jay C. Hormel and directs officials to file the amendment with applicable authorities.
Barbara Finbraaten becomes the first Austin area recruit to earn a direct commission as a 1st Lieutenant in the U S Women's Army Corps. She receives the first salute with a $1 bill and heads to Fort McClellan for eight weeks of basic training before assignment. Her family, full of service members, includes Army, Air Force, Navy personnel.
A full fair schedule lists 4 H dairy junior herd and showmanship at 9 a m in the North Arena followed by 4 H beef showman ship. Dogs at 7 p m North Arena. Midwest Market Hogs 6 30 p m South Arena. Rabbit show 10 a m Grandstand 8 p m Hank Williams Jr Show. Special Family Day with exhibits open and livestock entries due by 6 p m.
A Waseca man, Lloyd A. Lane Jr., appeared in Municipal Court and was arraigned on a felonious theft charge linked to a July 19 break in at Darrnell Klingfuss’s home at 805 4th St NW. About $165 in goods were stolen. A preliminary hearing was set for 1:30 p.m. Aug. 16, and Lane was remanded to the sheriff in lieu of a $1,000 bond.
Spray Bros. of Elkton achieved a historic top five placings repeat at the Midwest Steer Show with their top Angus steer leading the live event this year and a champion carcass in 1966 and 1967. Top ten included Angus dominant entries, while prize money totaled $500 distributed from first to lower places.
The Spray siblings from Elkton led a clean sweep of the Mower County 4-H beef event at Crane Pavilion, with Lew Jean Sprau winning grand champion steer and Jill Sprau earning reserve. Jon Sprau won grand champion heifer, Rod Sprau took reserve, and numerous others from Elkton and surrounding towns captured top honors across Angus, Hereford, and Shorthorn classes. The day also featured a carcass contest for Geo. A. Hormel & Co. exhibitors and judges selecting beef showmanship winner Tony Burke.
Sixty three beef calves shown by junior exhibitors at the Mitchell County Fair were sold for 17327.43 at auction Monday. They averaged 28.39 per hundred pounds with a high of 39.50 per hundred for a 361.43 total price steer bought by L A Falk Construction Co. of St Ansgar for Lynn Halbach of Stacyville. The Hereford weighed 915 pounds. The second high price was 30 per hundred paid by Stoltzenberg Standard Oil of Stacyville for Nick Halbach's Shorthorn steer.
Bids on a bridge to be located west of Adams on CSAH 7 will be opened Wednesday September 4 at a Mower County Board of Commissioners meeting. The structure will span the Little Cedar River and connect local routes.
Allan James Blaser 17 of Stacyville Iowa died from electrocution while disconnecting an electric manure spreader at the Herman Krebsbach farm near Stacyville The death is under investigation by Mitchell County officials and Interstate Power Co representatives He had been a Marian High School junior and would have been a St Ansga Community High senior. He is survived by parents five sisters four brothers and a grandmother Funeral services set at Sacred Heart Church Mayer Iowa with interment in the church cemetery. Rosary tonight and Thursday at Hatten & Son Funeral Home Stacyville.
Richard D. Stanley, a nine year Hormel veteran, is promoted to Marketing Manager Institutional Canned and Packaged Foods. He will oversee Meat Products and Grocery Products sales for the Food Service Division under James Haldbergh and assist new product introductions. Stanley began in 1959 in Phoenix and rose to district manager, later Marketing Services Manager. He studied at East St Louis High School and attended the University of Illinois and Washington University in St Louis.
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