Garden Clubs Plant Flowers on Boulevards in Austin
Four Austin garden clubs completed a city beautification project by planting two flower beds on Oakland Avenue across from Sterling Shopping Center. They funded about 600 flowers 100 cosmos and 500 red and white petunias and will maintain the beds all summer.
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Austin
Oakland Ave. W
12Th St
Ed Struck
Austin Gar
Oakland Ave
Sterling Shopping Center
City Park and Recreation Department
Austin Garden Club
Hoe and Grow Garden Club
Roy Dunning
Hoe and Grow
W. L. Hedegard
Town and Country Garden Club
Red Cedar
Izaak Walton League
Park and Recreation Department
Tom Belton
Park and Recreation
Store Sales Rise 18 Percent in April Region V Report
Department and general stores in Region V of the Minneapolis Fed posted an 18 percent year over year increase in April sales. Easter fell three weeks later than in 1961. Four month totals show a 3 percent decline from the prior year. Minnesota reporting stores up 15 percent for April, and up 3 percent year to date.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Austin
Albert Lea
Mankato
Blue Earth
Fairmont
Jackson
New Ulm
Pipestone
Waseca
Windom
Worthington
Minnesota
James Mork Re-elected National IRC Group President
James Mork son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Mork 407 12th St SE a University of Minnesota student was re elected national president of the Association of International Relations Clubs a national student body. Ballots followed a Hope College Holland Mich convention and a six week voting period. Mork a Pacelli High School 1957 graduate previously led IRC at Austin Junior College and Transfer Student Council at the University. National HQ is in New York City.
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James Mork
Thomas Mork
12Th St. SE
University of Minnesota
Association of International Relations Clubs
Vention
Hope College
Holland
Mich
Mark
Austin Junior College
IRC
Pacelli High School
The
Association of International Relations Club
New York City
Fillmore Farmers Divert Acres Under Feed Grain Program
Fillmore County farmers diverted 29,985 acres under the 1952 Feed Grain Program, 2,345 more than under the 1961 program. Additionally 65 farmers signed up to divert 575 acres under the Wheat Stabilization Program. Total advance payments to county farmers this spring totaled $521,094.
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Fillmore
Preston
Minn
Fillmore County
Chatfield Dairy Day Featuring Coronation Parade
CHATFIELD Minn The Fillmore County Dairy Day set for June 9 includes a parade and the coronation of the county dairy princess as part of the festivities.
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Chatfield
Minn
Miss Minnesota Pageant in Rochester Chooses Finalists
Minnesota's candidate for Miss America will be chosen from 14 finalists in the Miss Minnesota Pageant at Mayo Civic Auditorium Rochester. Finalists come from Duluth Moorhead North St Paul Fairmont Faribault with judging across evening gown swimsuit and talent. Nancy Ann Fleming Miss America 1961 will be mistress of ceremonies. Nancee Ann Parkinson current Miss Minnesota attends the show.
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Minnesota
Rochester
Mayo Civic Auditorium
Duluth
Moorhead
North St. Paul
Fairmont
Faribault
Nancy Ann Fleming
Montague
Nancee Ann Parkinson
Atlantic City
Blooming Prairie Class of 74 Graduates Named
Seventy four Blooming Prairie High School seniors will receive diplomas Thursday night at 8 p m Commencement. Rev Morris C Robinson of Grace Presbyterian Church Minneapolis delivers the address on You and Your World. Baccalaureate was held Sunday with Rev H Boecker of St Columbanus Catholic Church speaking on What God Expects of Us.
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Blooming Prairie
Minn
Blooming Prairie High School
Morris C. Robinson
The
Grace Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis
Rev. H. Boecker
St. Columbanus Catholic Church
Gustafson to Lead ACM African Education Survey Team
Leslie J. Gustafson former Austin High School principal and St. Olaf education professor heads a five member ACM, Carleton, Lawrence College and ACM Chicago group touring Liberia, Nigeria, and Tanganyika in June and July to study schools and advise on Africa development. The Ford Foundation funds the trip with goals to guide ACM contributions once they return.
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Austin High School
Leslie J. Gustafson
Associated Colleges of
Midwest
Gustafson
Carleton College
Northfield
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
Associated Colleges of the
Chicago
Ford Foundation
Liberia
Nigeria
Tanganyika
ACM
Africa
National Guard Unit Heads to Camp Ripley for Summer Training
Thirty two Austin men depart for two weeks of summer training with the National Guard at Camp Ripley near Little Falls. The reconnaissance platoon of Combat Support company will bivouac five days and then remain for field operations. Capt. David F. Reinartz commands the company with 1st Lt. James Cherwinka leading the recon platoon and Capt. Delbert A. Hoffman directing the heavy mortar platoon. The full unit includes 47th Division elements from Austin and departs June 10 returning June 24.
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Austin
National Guard
Camp Ripley
Little Falls
135Th Infantry
47Th Division
David F. Reinartz
James Cherwinka
Delbert A. Hoffman
Ford Foundation Grants City Man Asia Training Fellowship
David G. Johnson of 510 8th St SW won a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowship for Chinese history and language study at the University of California Berkeley. He joins 204 recipients from the United States and Canada across regions including Asia and Africa with stipends covering living costs tuition and research. The foundation has awarded about 9 million dollars to more than 1,200 individuals since the program began.
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David G. Johnson
George A. Johnson
8Th St. SW
Ford Foundation
New York
Johnson
University of California
Berkeley
Howard County Awards Farm-to-Market Road Contract
Loren Leas of Luana won the low bid of 45115 dollars for the Farm-to-Market road on the Howard Mitchell County line. The project runs from Riceville about four miles south, per Howard County engineer Robert Ellestad.
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Riceville
Iowa
Loren Leas
Luana
Howard - Mitchell County
Howard County
Robert Ellestad
Car collision injures two women at city intersection
Damage of 475 dollars occurred when Marion Amelia Mechl of 407 20th St. SW and Winifred Elaine Kolb Swank of 706 17th St. SW collided at Oakland Ave. W and 14th St. SW Friday at 1 p.m. Both drivers reported slight injuries but were not hospitalized.
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Marion Amelia Mechl
20Th St
Winifred Elaine Kolb Swank
17Th St
Oakland Ave
14Th St
Orrie Jirele to Graduate at St Bonaventure Sunday
Orrie E. Jirele son of Mr and Mrs Edward W Jirele of 1000 3rd Ave SW will receive a bachelor of science degree Sunday at the 102nd commencement exercises of St Bonaventure University Orleans N Y He majored in mathematics and was captain of the 1961 62 basketball squad He was named to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges last December He also played violin in Pacelli High School and Austin Symphony orchestras and captained Pacelli basketball while earning other school and church honors.
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Edward W. Jirele
3Rd Ave
St. Bonaventure University
Orleans
N. Y
Jirele
Pacelli High School
Pacelli
Austin Symphony
Minnesota
Citizenship Awards At Rose Creek High School
Rose Creek Minnesota during graduation exercises Daphne Hesselgrave and Ronald Nelson received American Legion citizenship awards. PTA awards went to Gene Brinkman for science achievement Tom Schammel for athletics and math and Helen Ballantyne for music.
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Rose Creek
Rose Creek, Minn
Daphne Hesselgrave
Ronald Nelson
Rose Creek High School
American Legion
PTA
Gene Brinkman
Tom Schammel
Helen Ballantyne
Eighth Grade Graduation at St Peters Catholic School
Nine eighth graders graduated from St Peters Catholic School in Rose Creek Minnesota on Thursday morning. The graduates were Dale Brown Chevyl Cress Darrell May Colleen Meny Martin Reagan John Thir Suzan Alwelling Mary Jones Moreland and David Whalen. Rev Paul Sainsbury pastor of St Peters Church gave the commencement address and distributed diplomas.
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Rose Creek
Minn
St. Peters Catholic School
Dale Brown
Chevyl Cress
Darrell May
Colleen Me
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Daily Herald
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Miss Parkinson
N. J
Sue Pitblado
Thief River Falls
Andrea Hricko
Brooklyn Center
Jane Lammers
Stillwater
Judy Lerstad
Miss Fleming
R & F Bike Shop
W. Oakland
Blooming
Lyle Anderson
Barbara Baum
Artner
Jerry Becker
Delores Benson
Margaret Bellach
Judith Baumeester
Roger Boysen
Roger Braatem
Marideanne Bray
Thomas Buck
Gloria Christiansen
Diane Christianson
David Cole
Robert Coughlin
Bette Dennis
Karen Dittevson
Judy Dray
Jill Frits
Carol Ogarness
Jane Halvorson
Fliwood Hansen
Sue Harris
David Helleck
John Herron
Eileen Hilison
Kenneth Holz
Cheryl Ingvaison
James Ingvaison
Kenneth Jacobson
Bruce Jensen
Hjordes Johnson
Janet Johnsen
Linda Jensen
Kay Jorde
Jeanne King
Nancy Kollar
Douglas Kruckeberg
Ronald Kubista
Harold Kuhlman
Michael Linse
Douglas Lysne
Judith Madson
Donald Matson
Susan Mayzick
Marcia Miller
Larry Moeykens
Larry Mucker
Janet Nichols
Thomas Nielsen
Thomas Nobile
Ronald Nordland
Donald Olson
Esther Pechecek
Carol Peterson
Lois Peterson
Tena Post
Kathryn Prokopec
Jean Ramsey
Doris Robinson
Judith Robinson
Robert Ruvek
William Schillcting
Ronald Selstad
David Swenson
Mariene Tollefeon
Duane Udstuen
Henrietta Meekeren
Kathryn Wagener
Erna Welss
Rosalie Wenecl
Marienne Winn
Paul Wood
Sherman Wood
Sandra Yentsch
St. Olaf College
Owatonna
Hayfield High School
Hayfield
Kane and Graves
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St. Bonaventure
Orrie E. Jirele, Son
Mr. and
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Arthur Ll. Swenson
Harvey A. Anderson
Melvin E. Hauge
KAUS
StarKist Tuna
Bongard
Gerber’s Baby Food
Nabisco Sugar Honey Grahams
Nabisco
Piggly Wriggly
Sterling Clothing
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