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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1961
Page
8
A long list of weekly school menus shows daily offerings including soups, stews, meats, vegetables, bread, butter, desserts, and milk across Monday to Friday. Entries repeat across multiple weeks with items like chili soup goulash baked potatoes mashed potatoes chicken hot dish and fish sticks.
Hayfield High School and Elementary share a weekly menu listing meals for Monday to Friday. Dishes include turkey, goulash, tuna, mashed potatoes, buttered vegetables, bread, milk, desserts, and fruit sauces. Grand Meadow features Wieners and catsup on Monday.
Two Austin churches host Christmas choir concerts this Sunday. At St Olaf Lutheran five choirs perform a 4 p m hour program led by Drake and Rebecca Lange. At Grace Lutheran children junior and senior choirs sing, with Ralph Harnesk accompanying 350 voices. Joan Hansen Mary Bjork Ramona sing solos. Gene Nietz directs and Larry Gilbertson is guest organist. Nietz concludes his tenure before moving to Owatonna. The program follows the annual Christmas dinner at 6 p m.
The Scenic Hawkeye Stages Bus Line now serves Spring Valley with two daily runs to Kansas City. Buses depart the Valley Hotel at 6:35 a.m. and 3:20 p.m. The route also serves Waterloo Cedar Rapids Des Moines Dubuque Iowa City Omaha and Kansas City. Service began December 1.
Austin attorney H. V. Plunkett Jr. was admitted to practice before the U S Supreme Court in a ceremony attended by about 200 at the Mayflower Hotel state dining room. Mutual of Omaha director Plunkett was honored as J Edgar Hoover received the Criss award for safety. reception included Mayo Clinic's Dr Charles W Mayo and Hoover's praised service.
Duane Johnson topped the Osage Iowa corn contest with 134 bushels per acre, slightly behind his father Woodrow Johnson’s 139 in 1960. The event, sponsored by the Osage Chamber of Commerce, notes many high yields among 22 checked farms, with a five acre area per contestant and measurements overseen by local officials.
Riceville and Osage firemen battled a midnight to 6 am blaze that destroyed a barn and its contents on the Clyde Bonnette farm four miles south of Riceville. Thirty four pigs four calves two farm machines and hay and straw were lost. Delmar Reed and wife provided coffee and cookies to firefighters.
Two collisions occurred Thursday causing minor vehicle damage. Lorraine Block of 207 4th St NE and Ethel Christopherson of 715 10th Ave SE collided on 4th St NE near 8th Ave NE at 6 12 p m. Eldon Noling of Rudd IA and Charles List of 810 6th Ave NW collided at 2nd Ave and 2nd St NE at 2 30 p m with about 50 damage to List and 10 to the other.
Kenneth Quandt was elected chairman of the Grand Meadow Farmer's Union at the American Legion Club Rooms. Raymond Holst was chosen vice chairman and Harry Boeff secretary and treasurer. Prizes were awarded and lunch served by local women.
Jack Newgaard was elected and installed president of the Austin Area Shrine Club at the Masonic Hall meeting. Victor Sasse retired as president and joined the board of directors, receiving a Shrine pin from Gene Field. Field installed Erwin Johnson vice president Simon Johnson secretary treasurer and Irvin Teigen trustee. The club approved donations totaling 385 to Crippled Children's Hospital Salvation Army United Fund Community Ambassador Easter Seal Crippled Children and Mently Retarded in Austin. Field urged more members and noted the regional Masonic meeting and dinner.
Ten fifth and sixth graders from Spring Valley are chosen to perform with the Rochester Male Chorus in an all Roch ester concert at the Mayo Auditorium this Sunday. Participants include James Parker Nancy Nagolski Sophia Howden Roberta Esklund Mary Teamenson Steven Carson Mary Halzer Robert Howard Robert Simonson and Bjorn Borrie.
Farmer cooperators in the West Fillmore Soil Conservation District held their last annual meeting at Grace EUB Church. The district will merge with the East Fillmore District into a new combined unit.
Prospective and current students may begin UMM winter quarter classes on January 2 under the University of Minnesota, Morris program. Transfer credits are largely usable and counseling is available. Dec 1–2 marks early registration for non enrolled students.
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