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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1963
Page
9
A line formed an hour before the bank opened on November 8 under new management and a service charge for checking. Many planned to close accounts opened with the original Southern Hills, which opened August 5 with no service charge. The bank briefly closed when its business outpaced bookkeeping.
Iowa families received 39.2 million dollars in life insurance death benefits in the first nine months, up nearly six million from the same period last year. The Institute of Life Insurance announced the figures.
North Branford voters deadlocked 55 55 on naming the new high school for the late President Kennedy. Moderator Pasquale Young broke the tie by voting for John F Kennedy High School amid parental opposition over class rings and sweatshirts bearing North Branford High School.
Walter A. Whittaker 81 of Rose Hill died in a hospital from burns suffered when kerosene used to light a coal stove exploded at his farm home Saturday. He died Sunday, authorities said.
A fragment describes a Christmas gift in a home, noting a gas clothes dryer as the appreciated present. The brief hints at family routines and holiday, with a casual aside about the Santa-like process of gifting.
At a Minnesota School Boards Association meeting the proposed five year college requirement for all teachers was discussed with questions directed to Education Commissioner Erling O Johnson. Redwood Falls delegate John Hoepner queried whether costs would rise for taxpayers as the five year plan replaced the current four year standard.
A discussion in Austin on a five-year salary plan for teachers notes that moving Redwood Falls teachers to the fifth year would add about $21 000 yearly in costs. Johnson takes no stand while Arthur Ennis of Littlefork urges extra training for four year college teachers. A committee will report in March on allowing a fifth year to be completed over seven years after a bachelor's degree.
Andrew Fischer, father of the Aberdeen quintuplets, returned to his $76 a week shipping clerk job at a wholesale grocery warehouse in Aberdeen. It was his first day back since his quintuplets were born September 14, prompting a leave of absence for the birth of four girls and a boy.
Mississippi River freight traffic halted at Burlington as a gear on the bridge that opens the span broke early Monday during its closing after a boat and barge passed downstream. The malfunction stopped river movement until repairs could be made.
The Atlanta Board of Aldermen adopted a resolution by 10 to 4 urging voluntary desegregation of public places. It calls on public and private entities to remove racial barriers but has no legal force.
A witty remark on married life suggests a husband who mocks his wife’s sensitivity should examine his own behavior. The quip implies reciprocity in humor within relationships and hints at shared self awareness.
The Rev Dr Paul M Hann of Mount Pleasant and superintendent of the Burlington district is named pastor of First Methodist Church Des Moines. He succeeds the Rev Dr C Clifford Bacon who retired December 1. Hann has previously served Ottumwa Knoxville Fort Madison and Lone Tree.
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