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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1973
Page
4
Our letter urges a comprehensive review of the Austin high school structure. It argues the system favors average students, limits advanced science options, and imposes non music credits, suggesting a broad evaluation to align with students needs and potential.
Rotarians heard a sketch of the Woolworth stores by Clarence Lillquist at the Fox Hotel lunch. YWCA finance drive success was announced by the Board of Directors. War Manpower Commission calls for laborers and carpenters in Austin. A E Larkin named vice president at Geo A Hormel & Co elected to board. Austin Male Chorus gave its first concert at Shaw PTA. American Legion endorses Hap Littlefield for First District Commander. Mower County Beef Feeders Tour set for Thursday visiting local farms. Pat Schaub and others attended ribbon cutting for the Schaub Chiropractic Clinic. Grand Meadow Main Street gains parallel parking enforcement.
Veteran journalist Victor Riesel reports a rising gang war among Cosa Nostra families in New York and New Jersey. Five killings, a disappearance, and two stabbings signal a leadership shift as Jerry Catena and Carlo Gambino are cited amid immunity questions and ties to Genovese era power.
On December 7, 1941 Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor inaugurating the Pacific war. Delaware became the first state to ratify the U S Constitution in 1787. James Madison was elected president in 1808.
A retrospective column recalls Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1956 suggestion of Henry Cabot Lodge as a Republican presidential hopeful, seen as a setback to Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. It also recounts Mafia trials and prison terms involving Holleran, Catena, Bruno, Zicarelli, and Genovese relatives, hinting at wider mob activity in New Jersey and Montreal.
The Time magazine cover story on Last Tango in Paris drew strong backlash with advertisers dropping about 400,000 in business. About 1,400 letters of protest were received and 400 subscribers canceled within three weeks, reflecting varied literacy and bold responses from readers.
A lighthearted note questions why shoppers face delays at the teller window as a store manager jokes about holiday help and Christmas cookies in 1942 context. The piece nods to pennies and coin handling during a busy season.
The column blends light jabs at gas rations and young pranksters with a birthday for Don Jones, a mock business pitch for a new recording company, and reflections on Nixon's political shifts. Travel woes with weather delays, a sick Oral Roberts note, and a 1897 Bankers Life Association document found during real estate work round out the week.
The piece humorously catalogs high priced holiday items from fashion to gadgets including a $380 cashmere sweater, $1500 solid gold lighter, a $2500 pound of gold nails, a $125 sterling silver door knocker, and a $65 miniature shopping cart, all set against rising turkey prices and 1973 holiday inflation observations.
A list of fiction and nonfiction best sellers including Burr by Vidal, The Honorary Consul by Greene, The First Deadly Sin by Sanders, The Hollow Hills by Stewart, Salamander by West, The Joy of Sex by Comfort, America by Cooke, How To Be Your Own Best Friend by Newman, Pentimento by Hellman, and The Onion Field by Wambaugh.
Dr. Donald Bartlett of Dartmouth Medical School argues that health impairment from carbon monoxide is not the key question, but how much impairment society will tolerate, stressing the need for pollution control in 1975 cars.
The article announces a statewide SSI Week and describes the federal Supplemental Security Income program starting January 1974 for people 65 or older or blind or disabled. It covers eligibility, payment levels, funding from general taxes, and that SSI differs from Social Security while outlining contact with local Social Security offices for details.
President Nixon cites vast shale deposits in Colorado Utah and Wyoming as key to an energy crash program. Estimates total three to eight trillion barrels with 1.8 trillion barrels producible at 15 barrels per ton and 600 billion more at 25 per ton. Interior plans six leases and environmental safeguards. Production goal set at one million barrels daily by mid-1980s.
Seattle First National Bank's Telephone Computing Service offers home bill paying for checking customers and expense tracking. Subscribers can use their phones as calculators and receive voice responses with biweekly computer printouts. The $6.50 monthly service has several hundred users and broad interest from other banks, with national expansion planned.
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