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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1963
Page
4
Austin faces about nine months to fix its money losing city bus line. Operator Bill Pike notes no one in his family has taken wages during his two years running the route. He proposes nine month student passes while evaluating subsidies as a possible fix to persistent underfunding and obsolete parts.
President Homer R. Davison of the American Meat Institute argues that a consumer oriented food business requires two aims: efficiency and producing what the consumer wants. He notes the economy has shifted from agricultural to industrial and now toward urban consumer focus, with profit incentive as the key driver of growth.
The Minnesota State Highway Department reports a five year cost to clean highways equals the state's share of $10 million in interstate construction. Through midyear, highway crews removed over 4 000 twenty two ton truckloads of trash, a 20 percent rise from last year. Local towns like Askov rally residents to sweep roadsides, but the core issue remains: litterers continue to foul roads despite pleas and penalties.
United Nations debate on Portugal shows strain in Security Council as Portugal faces critique for colonial repression in Africa. Eight to zero call for action, with United States Britain and France abstaining. Adlai Stevenson says resolution fails to achieve objectives while exposing biases of new nations. African bloc criticizes colonialism, condemning Iron Curtain repression elsewhere.
The excerpt reflects on confession and prayer among believers. It cites James 5:16 and quotes Hugh Miller about prayer’s power and its expansive reach across human needs and divine generosity.
An advertisement outlines a 26 week one year mail subscription option with rates and zones. It notes delivery via post office within 50 miles of Austin and service to all U S Armed Forces anywhere in the United States or APO and FPO areas. Payment is in advance.
Committees named in Austin Albert Lea and Spring Valley for paving highway No 9 to be celebrated Sept 13 with a free gate at the Mower County Fair.
Readers are urged to consider how locals should speak well of their town to visitors. African students join hosts in Hayfield and Austin as part of the Community Ambassador program tied to the Experiment in International Living.
A Chicago sleep study shows dreaming occurs during rapid eye movement with five to ten minute early dreams and about five dreams per night totaling over an hour. Subjects wake to record dreams and may continue the same dream after brief awakenings, while external stimuli rarely enter dreams.
In Caracas Romulo Bentancourt defends democracy and U S investments as Castro’s Cuba fails to terrify Venezuela. Victor Riesel notes strong unions countering communists, a cooperative government, and a thriving economy with major American corporate backing. The president sees retirement as writing.
A period of play in polo is called a chukker. High tide does not always arrive at the same hour. each tide is about 50 minutes later than the preceding one for the same period. The only British soil occupied by German troops in World War II was the Channel Islands off the northwest coast of France.
Today marks events from 1864 first railway post office on the Chicago and North Western between Chicago and Clinton Iowa to 1922 first Walker Cup in Southampton New York and 1941 Dnieper Dam destruction to thwart German forces. Other notes include 1798 Lexington Kentucky vineyard founding and 1850 Lohengrin premiere under Franz Liszt.
A reader denounces officials over the stinking Dobbins Creek at Airport Road and urges immediate action to end lake pollution. Cedric O. Lincell of 806 15th St NE stresses public concern, warns that the lake must not be a sewage basin, and advocates swift remediation. He argues for citizen involvement to fix the problem now.
Practical guidance from The Reading Laboratory on organizing notebooks for each course and doodle and vocabulary books. Emphasizes keeping notes neat and readable, using a doodle book, maintaining a vocabulary notebook, and collecting ideas from outside reading. Encourages 3x5 flash cards for language learning and building a future study routine.
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