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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1957
Page
7
The Rev William J Campbell addressed 380 Austin High School graduates and guests in a Sunday baccalaureate urging faith in eternal life and love as life’s guide. He compared life without God to bread without yeast and urged church fellowship as essential to knowing Christ.
The Minnesota State Rabbit Show at the Mower County Fairgrounds drew 211 entries on Sunday with 174 in open class. Breeds judged include New Zealand White and Dutch, with winners named for best of breed and opposite sex. Breeders from Austin, St. Cloud, Anoka, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Mason City, Des Moines and Waterloo attended. Henry L. Zimmerman of Dubuque Iowa led the judging.
Dr F A Scott, USDA meat inspector, will retire July 31 after 45 years with Geo A Hormel & Co and service since December 1911. The June 1 Provisioner notes his record may be unmatched in the meat inspection division and that he has been at the Austin station since July 1912. The Scotts reside at 1212 Eberhart Drive.
Riceville First National Bank marks its 50th anniversary with remodeling and open houses. President E. K. Hendricks hosts bankers and newspapermen Tuesday and the public Thursday from 4 40 to 9 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The remodel includes exterior and interior changes and a night time depository box.
Dr. Forrest Richeson, minister of Minneapolis First Christian Church, will deliver the Austin High School commencement address on Thursday. The talk titled Keeping Our Record Tris will address 380 graduates with the ceremony featuring the Symph ony Orchestra under Paul Helme and a diplomas presentation by School Board President Kleo Gildner.
Knode, a LeRoy area farmer and former International Farm Youth Exchange student, will address the Cresco rally program. He will show slides from his El Salvador trip during the afternoon session while Marion Graves chairs the event with 4H girls judging in the morning and county officer elections after the 9:30 registration.
A bridge tournament in Austin contributed 58.50 toward a goal of 800.62 to be donated to the Heart Fund in Minnesota by the American Contract Bridge League. The Minnesota unit held four events in Austin, Little Falls, St. Cloud, and St. Paul naming the Heart Fund Charity of the Year 1957. Minnesota Heart Association will benefit from the tournaments, said Mrs. Leo J. Seewald, South St. Paul, tournament chairman.
Two LeRoy girls will graduate from Winona State College. Nancy McGillivary daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald McGillivary completes a four year course and teaches fifth grade at North St Paul. Nancy Hoon daughter of Mr and Mrs Glen Hoon will graduate from a three year elementary education program.
Arch ie Crawford Hayfield Herald editor and printer plans retirement after selling the paper. He and Mrs. Crawford own a Hayfield house and have long run the paper since 1920 with a small staff, shifting from hand set type to modern machines. He recalls a wanderlust past and intends to travel by station wagon after quitting.
The Austin Boating Club schedules four cruises for June and July. June 9 from Winona to LaCrosse, June 23 Hastings to St Paul, July 7 beach lunch and races, July 21 Prescott to Stillwater. So far 148 people in 36 boats, 103 families members, National Safe Boating Week June 30 to July 7.
The Rev. Leon Hazinski awarded diplomas to 10 eighth grade graduates at St. Peter's Church in Rose Creek Minnesota after the 9 o'clock mass on Sunday. Graduates included Anne Brown John Cress David Kilgore James Majerus Robert Pesch Suzanne Schammel Richard Schwerneberg Roger Schwartz Mary Ann Thill and Ruth Westmoreland. Benediction closed the ceremony and a breakfast followed hosted by seventh graders and mothers.
Henry Farris and Carl Nelson host the season opener at East Side Lake starting 6 p.m. free instruction in bait and fly casting and spinning. Bring equipment if you have it or they will provide gear. The session welcomes children as well as adults.
Willis I. Norton age 77 longtime Minnesota House member from 1912 to 1934 and retired vice president of Investors Diversified Services died here Saturday.
Sen Hubert H Humphrey will report in Minneapolis on his Middle East trip June 8 at a Foreign Policy Conference at the Leamington Hotel. Main speaker at the Jefferson Jackson Day dinner will be Sen Albert Gore. Local DFL leaders coordinate transport through Hugh V Plunkett Jr Helen McDermott and Mrs C R Hansen.
Three Maple Island men on a sunny morning drove into the Cedar River when brakes failed. Armando A. Gonzales pulled into the North Main street lot but could not stop, sending the 1949 sedan into the water with trunk above. They swam ashore safe. Gonzales cited for driving without a license.
Tools valued at about 200 dollars were stolen from the car of Hans Jensen of 700 Padden. The theft occurred while the vehicle was parked on North Franklin, with the tools and a bumper jack taken from the trunk. A separate report notes a windshield broken by a rock causing 120 dollars in damage to H. P. Gannon’s car.
A seven year old LeRoy boy, Michael Cartney, son of Mr and Mrs Maurice Cartney, fractured his left leg in a fall from a slide at MclIntire Memorial in LeRoy Minnesota. He was treated by a local doctor.
After May 1958 ROTC graduates can receive deferments up to three years to pursue post graduate study in any recognized degree granting institution. Applications must be filed six months before graduation and deferments are awarded in six month periods. The policy shifts graduates toward critical specialist status and longer education before service.
LeRoy Minnesota village council has started a program to install street name signs at all intersections. Signs have been placed along Broadway and will go up along Frederick after curb and gutter work finishes. The council hopes to finish the project in a few years.
SPRING VALLEY Minnesota three cars collided on Highway 16 two miles west of the Wykoff turn causing about 1000 dollars in damage. Drivers August Breeman Preston westbound Har vey Newkirk 26 Rochester eastbound Douglas Bartsch 18 Wykoff eastbound and passenger Tom Harnack Rochester escaped injury. Highway Patrolman Val Erion said Newkirk pulled right to let Vreeman pass then left onto a country road. The Newkirk car was not fully off the road and Bartsch passed then struck the Vreeman auto turning it and the Bartsch car. The investigation continues.
An auction two miles northeast of LeRoy sold the 280 acre stock farm owned by Ray R Sorrenson of Moorhead and John R Peterson of Marshall to Donald Stover of Grundy Center Iowa. The price was 40180 dollars or 143 50 per acre. Co Albert Hopfe and Son acted as auctioneers.
Mitchell Iowa Mitchell County girls 4-H clubs held Rally Day at the Mitchell school. The East and West Stacy Aces Otranto Jerseyettes and Jenkins Sunshine Club participated. Rev T Janet Surdam Riceville spoke on Life of Girls in the Orient in the afternoon program.
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