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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1973
Page
2
Birth notices list a series of newborns and parents across St Olaf Hospital and areas around Austin and Delano. Grandparents and multiple addresses are cited. later items record funeral notices for Swan Skamfor and Tillie Helgens with service details and burial plans. Court entries follow with numerous traffic related fines and misdemeanors, plus memorial poem for Anna Byers.
Minnesota Corrections Department imposes a temporary freeze on the work release program after the David Torgersen incident. No inmates are being approved for participation pending a department review with no timetable for completion. Torgersen is indicted for the murder of his wife, two children, and a babysitter in Rochester. victims found July 4 after his disappearance from work release.
Agricultural report from Minneapolis and St Paul covers cattle and hog markets with texture data. Prices show mixed moves with hogs steady to down and cattle steady to higher, including specific price ranges for slaughter steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and feeder lambs.
At 1 p m stocks show a mixed day with gains in IBM Hormel Co and Jostens while several names slip. In federal program notes Thomas Lawson says the Torgersen case prompted a freeze but screening revamp began earlier to ensure proper participants. Deputy commissioner Pat Mack says intake was stopped to straighten procedures and ensure the right men join the program.
Space Center Houston reports officials will decide today if the three Skylab 2 astronauts are medically fit to continue the 59 day mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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