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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1963
Page
13
Two bedroom one story house with garage priced at 8500 and two lot features offered. A 1430 square foot three bedroom rambler with garage on a large lot includes rec room den and family room with carpeting and drapes priced at 25000. Unimproved land for sale with good soil near paved highway offering crop share to new owner. Contact evenings for details at local numbers.
Used car ad lists 1963 Buick Le Sabre 4 door with power steering and brakes, nearly new at a savings of 1000. Bonneville 4 door hardtop fully powered and like new, save 1400. 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air 4 door with eight powerglide. 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne 4 door single owner. 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air 4 door eight powerglide. 1960 Volkswagen station wagon with new tires, exceptionally clean, was 1195 now 895. 1959 Mercury Park Lane 4 door hard top, sharpest in town, priced low.
Plymouths Valiants and Chryslers offered with 5 year or 50 000 mile warranty. Used cars from 1951 to 1963 advertised with emphasis on new car savings and time limited offers. Large dealership promotion highlights 21 new Chryslers and Plymouth models available now.
Multiple cars and trailers listed for sale by Austin Auto Co and Village Used Cars. Models include 1955 Chevrolet 210, 1963 Le Mans Pontiac deluxe, 1961 Impala, 1963 Wilson Wagonneer four wheel drive, 1962 Ford Galaxie 500, plus various Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles. Prices, contact numbers, and estate sale notes included.
Deadline for word ads is day previous to publication. The note indicates submission timing for classified word advertisements in the paper.
Notice from Mower County Planning Commission and Board of Commissioners for Everett Shutt petition to change SE% of the SW Sec 26 T103 R18 from rural to commercial. Special meeting set for September 3, 1963 at 10:00 A.M in Austin for public hearing. Also sealed proposals sought for equipment including an addressing machine with bid bonds due September 3, 1963.
The farm share of the consumer food dollar fell to 36 cents in the second quarter, the lowest in over two decades, down from 37 cents the prior quarter. Officials cite lower farm prices and higher marketing charges, with retail food prices up one percent and consumer outlay at 19 percent of income.
The Agriculture Department warned the St Lawrence Seaway may not meet the 50 million ton cargo target by 1968. Traffic rose from 20.4 million tons in 1959 to about 26 million last year, with four bulk groups accounting for 75 percent of tonnage and agricultural goods comprising 47 percent.
John H. Glenn Jr. told a seminar of over 6,000 college students that he believes the Soviet Union has had spacecraft failures despite denials. He said he knows of no facts confirming deaths among Soviet astronauts but finds it hard to believe they have had no launching or flight failures, manned or unmanned.
Gov. Karl Rolvaag announced the state lands program underway. A three-man team has appraised 40 acres for Lake Carlos State Park expansion and four other Lake Carlos tracts totaling 385 acres, plus 141 acres for Big Stone Lake State Park in Big Stone County. The effort operates under the 1963 Natural Resources and Recreation Act expanding 18 parks and establishing 11 new ones.
A Sioux Falls youth, Stanley Gulbrandson, 19, was killed in a Monday night automobile collision near Worthington Minnesota. Injured were Larry Russel 19 Kenneth Brander 138 Gordon Moeller 21 all of Sioux Falls. Also injured was Albert Schoeberl 57 of Adrian Minnesota, driver of a second car.
Robert Patton Hufford, 71, who began in show business at age ten and became the slack wire artist known as Levolo on vaudeville's Keith Circuit, died Monday in Roanoke Virginia.
In Helena discussion on Montana livestock future Lloyd Needham of Sioux City Iowa notes Montana produces high quality meat but rivals in the Middle West out bid locals for cattle and feed costs. He urges more feeding and slaughtering in state to keep profits amid beef consuming nation.
Scotland Yard announced the hideout for the world's greatest mail train robbery gang is Leatherslade Farm near Oakley. A truck and two army type vehicles were found, with searches ongoing though the robbers may have left three days prior. Some mail bags were located but the £2 million loot is still missing. The brick farm house sits in isolation with blacked out windows and abundant food. fingerprints and other experts were rushed to the site as the district was sealed off.
Dr. Edward D. Kohlstedt a Methodist leader of national prominence died in Menlo Park California at 88 Private services are planned for Wednesday He headed the home mission council of the United States and Canada 1937 to 1939 and earlier led Dakota Wesleyan University He spent 20 years as a Wisconsin pastor and moved to California in 1947 after retiring as executive secretary of the board of national missions He is survived by his widow a daughter and two sons.
Seattle AP reports pole vaulter Brian Sternberg, 21, remains stable after neck injury. Doctors say no further surgery planned as he stays on the critical list following July 2 accident and July 16 stabilization operation.
Robert Edward Mangam aged 56 assistant dean of Stanford University Graduate School of Business died at his Hillsborough home from an apparent heart attack. He was a Des Moines Iowa native.
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia said Goldwater’s political stock is high in Georgia and would likely carry the state if he faced Kennedy today. He added he would find it hard to actively support Kennedy next year, citing his Democratic stance and opposition to parts of the administration’s civil rights program.
Three University of Illinois students traveling from Kansas to California died when their compact car failed to stop at the Highways 8 and 18 intersection ten miles east of Olivet South Dakota, sliding under a hog laden semi trailer. The victims were Gurgen Schlange from Hamburg Germany George A Thomas 25 Urbana Illinois and Wallace M Good about 20 Prairie Village Kansas. The truck was driven by Francis Mach Wagner SD and dragged the car 349 feet.
Four former Iowa players were released by two American teams and one Canadian club. Earl McQuiston and Gerry Barto were cut by the Los Angeles Rams. Karl Kassulke and a Lions rookie were waived after a recent exhibition win. Wilburn Hollis was released by Winnipeg to make room for George Flem from Toronto.
The Minneapolis Bruins, new Boston Bruin farm team in the Central Professional Hockey League, announced the 36 home game schedule opening about Oct 12. Single game tickets range from $1.50 to $2.50 with all seats reserved. children under 15 pay half price. Season tickets run from $30 to $50.
In Chicago on Monday police arrested 47 people including Negro comedian Dick Gregory and his wife Lillian along with writer James Sanders for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during a protest at a mobile public school classroom site on the South Side. Workers claimed demonstrators blocked machinery and jeopardized construction.
In Manchester New Hampshire a 14 year old paperboy Billy Coughlin and four friends explored a sewer pipe from a manhole near his home. A burst of water swept him toward the Merrimac River outlet but he grabbed a wire mesh screen and held on until the current faded and he crawled back to safety. Police noted he first changed clothes after returning home due to a dreadful smell.
The South Dakota Game and Fish Department set a 72 day pheasant season on the main range with a daily bag of four roosters and 20 in possession. The Oct 19 to Dec 31 season varies by range and shows a statewide pheasant increase of about 46 percent. Nonresident licenses cost 25.50 dollars and are valid for any 10 day period starting Oct 19.
A U S military plane with six personnel missing since Aug 4 was found in the mountains 18 miles southwest of Kangsong ni South Korea. No signs of life reported. The aircraft reportedly crashed soon after takeoff from Kangsong ni near the DMZ, with typhoon Bess hindering search efforts.
Bowling Echo Lanes results feature multiple teams with high scores including J & B's 1893 and The Nutty Four 1510. Notable performers include Vince's Stage Bar 1988 and Le Mi- Rollers 2014, among others, in a dense league tabulation.
Hollywood AP reports Hal Roach Studios will be bulldozed after props and supplies are auctioned. Stan Laurel, survivor of Laurel and Hardy, recalls fun and fights with Roach and notes they never shared profits from their films while later fame came from television reruns.
Des Moines Iowa secretary of agriculture L B Liddy son of a farm family expresses alarm over a summer surge in tractor incidents including a fatal case near Emmetsburg where a 4 year old was killed by a tractor driven by his 8 year old brother He urges action and supports mandatory tractor roll bars to prevent overturns and protect young operators.
A 17 year old monk Thich Thanh Tuc slipped from a pagoda during the night and burned himself to death in a protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's government. Buddhist leaders, surprised by the self immolation, said he was not authorized. The body was found outside a pagoda three miles west of Hue.
Seventy civil rights demonstrators picketed the United Nations in New York urging halts to exhibits at the 1964 65 world fair until more Negroes and Puerto Ricans are hired for work. James Farmer of CORE warned protests might extend to fair sites in Flushing Meadow Queens. The action, whites and Negroes, targeted African and Latin American nations with signs like African pavilions built with lily white labor.
3M announced a 1.2 million program to give each of 500 schools $3,000 worth of visual communications gear. The package includes transparency makers and overhead projection equipment selected by a national committee of educators and publishers based on written proposals.
Os car Pearson aged 61, executive vice president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Division of U.S. Steel, died Monday. He previously served as general manager of operations for U.S. Steel and as operations vice president.
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