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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1968
Page
4
In Paris intelligent men debate a conference table while war rages in Vietnam and Nigeria. The piece reflects on global suffering, human flaws, and the belief that mankind can yet achieve paradise through love and universal peace despite enduring conflict.
Commentary argues that permits were revoked last week as Minnesota reviews legally blind drivers. It urges careful study before new laws, stresses need for eye tests and periodic exams, and warns against blanket license loss without clear justification.
The piece argues shoplifting harms retailers and consumers nationwide during the holidays. It claims criminal pilferage raises operating costs and prices, urging public intervention and criticising open shelf formats as vulnerable to theft. It warns ongoing losses threaten retailers and customer access.
Researchers report coffee is ineffective at sobering drunks and may offer only a shaky alibi for late drinking. The piece argues early switch to hot coffee could reduce risky driving, urging drinkers to redirect efforts before it’s too late.
The Faribault Daily News argues the inaugural period risks eclipsing the main event with lavish Balls receptions concerts and parades at venues like five hotels the Smithsonian and the national armory. It urges focus on the January 20 transfer of power as the core duty.
The column recounts Pat Pourri’s nervous return-ticket mishap on a Wisconsin Christmas flight, the Milwaukee agent’s hello to her Austin ties, and a note that she knows the Herald’s engraver Walter Osterholt. It also covers Austin High wrestlers’ injuries, New Year resolutions, Minnesota snow moods, and winter plow Baiting plans for Albert Lea and Austin as snow removal debates rise.
The narrator recalls visiting Bethlehem and notes its small hilltop village status, its historic church and shrines, and a farming life under Israeli military rule since 1967. Arabs hold mayoral and civil roles, while police and officials are described as Arab.
The speaker links Bethlehem 1968 with Prague and Vietnam, noting refugees and a defeated people bearing burdens yet delivering the gospel of hope forgiveness and reconciliation. The text contrasts sorrow and decay with a enduring promise of justice and sustaining love as carols rise in Prague and children pass tanks in Bethlehem.
Nichol Fleming debuts with a crime thriller about Jake Gainsborough, an English drifter who works for the international criminal Felix Paradise. The plot centers on 50,000 dollars in stolen traveler's checks and features a perilous dungeon scene with explosives and a ticking clock.
Hal Boyle suggests a safer party concept for New Year’s Eve a plan that avoids overindulgence. The piece sketches a mock formal program with fruit punch, home movies and light political banter before a relaxed midnight wind-down. It emphasizes keeping guests safe and capable of waking in 1969 in one piece.
On this date in history, Edison demonstrated the electric light in 1879, Lincoln signed West Virginia statehood in 1862, Ellis Island opened in 1890, and WWII era and postwar events are noted including relations with Germany, Bermuda car ban, and New Year truce violations.
Bruce Biossat argues that white campus radicals like Students for a Democratic Society act as play-actors rather than real revolutionaries. He contends campuses show minimal progress, Detroit-style disruption faded, and public support skews toward ending the war rather than radical overhaul.
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