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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1952
Page
7
Herald readers learn addresses for service men in Korea and abroad. Listings include John T. Dunlap at Lackland Airbase Texas and Jackie W. Grathwohl aboard USS Dixie, plus several Marines and Navy personnel with unit and base details for letters and visits.
Robert F. Lichty vice-president of the First National Bank will attend a two weeks school of Banking at Madison Wisconsin starting Monday. The school is sponsored by the Central State Conference with bankers from 16 Midwestern states and about 660 attendees this year. A faculty of 100 includes bankers attorneys and university instructors from various fields.
An Iowa soldier Pvt. James Christensen of Bancroft will not be allowed to return home to bury his wife who died Aug. 6. The Army has rejected his second request citing no valid reasons for the homeward passage. Christensen, an orphan, has no relatives to arrange the funeral.
Spring Valley physician Willard H. Peterson, 31, one of two local doctors, is in a Rochester hospital with a light case of polio. He has practiced 22 years and is father of Barbara 7 Phillip 4 Stephen 2 and Mark 1. He was admitted Thursday afternoon.
Two Austin boys, brothers, were stricken with polio with fairly acute cases. John Glynn, 9, was sent to the Kenny Institute in Minneapolis Thursday and Greg Glynn, 11, was sent the day before from Lakeville. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Glynn of 1307 North Third.
Brownsdale merchants raise over 100 circus tickets for area children. Tickets will be distributed Saturday at Hartson Produce with buses provided to transport youngsters to the Clyde Beatty Circus at the Fairgrounds in Austin. General tickets are sold by the Austin Clown Club and at Wold Drug Store, with reserved seats on sale Monday.
Jefferson Bus Lines will run a direct daily bus from Austin to Minneapolis via Lyndale Avenue beginning Sept. 3 with departures 8 15 a m and arrivals 10 50 a m. Return service departs Minneapolis 5 55 p m arriving Austin 8 35 p m. Limousine service ends Sept. 1. Lyndale route excludes St Paul Farmington and Northfield.
Joseph Tesar of Lyndale is recovering after superficial burns to his arms and face when gasoline fumes ignited while he cleaned the basement floor Thursday morning.
A collision in front of 608 W Oakland caused 400 damage to Martyn F Burns automobile and no damage to Harold G Johnson s vehicle. At Winona and Seventh another collision caused 75 damage to Jan B Peterson s car and 45 damage to Benjamin M Eblen s car.
Secretary of State hopeful John J. McCarthy of Owatonna, Republican nominee for secretary of state, toured Austin to promote a three point plan for permanent license plates, simpler numbers, and cost effective record keeping. He lists prior roles including assistant to the president of Josten Manufacturing, former executive secretary to Senator Thye, former VA Minnesota regional personnel director, and past MEA officer.
Township delegates to the county convention meet at 8 p.m. in the Courthouse to choose the PMA committee for Mower County. Delegates representing Adams, Austin, Bennington, Clayton, Dexter, Frankford, Grand Meadow, Lansing, Le Roy, Lodi, Lyle, Marshall, Nevada, Pleasant Valley, Racine, Sargeant, Udolpho, Waltham, and Windom list their names and towns.
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