Brownsdale Seeks Merger With Rose Creek Schools
Brownsdale asks to dissolve Dist. 493 and attach to Dist. 498 Rose Creek amid prior rejected merger attempts. Petition signed by 256 Brownsdale freeholders seeks to join a district with a secondary school. debt assumptions to be managed by each district.
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Brownsdale
Rose Creek Schools
M. Schweickhard
Commis
Sioner
Mower County Board
Rose Creek
Graham Uzlck
Austin
District of Attachment School Board
Red Cross campaign reaches 92.5 percent of goal
Receunts lift Red Cross to 92.5 percent of goal with total funds reaching 17 539 19 dollars. Miss Gertrude Banfield reports to the board as $9 372 94 remains with Mower County and 8 166 25 to national headquarters. Bloodmobile visits Elks Club and LeRoy in early July.
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Red Cross Fund
Gertrude Banfield
Mower County
Junior Red Cross
The
Elks Club
Harold Lamon
LeRoy
R. Norman Miller
Office of Volunteers
St. Olaf Hospital
Rossman
Sumner School
Duane Rasmussen
Gordon Burke
Stanley McGuire
Claire Cleary
Marjorie Priester
Verne Ojanpa
Janet Kliever
Red Cross
Elks
Emmet Phifer
Fred Ten Eyck
Driver Fails to Make Curve in Outrun of Austin Police
Mapleview man Lincoln H. Cole, 27, attempted to outrun Austin police after a four block chase. He failed to turn at Bridge and Fourth, hitting a curb and causing $250 damage to his car and $5 to the curb. Police cited him for careless driving and resisting arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Mapleview
900 West Bridge
Lincoln H. Cole
Chase
Cole
Bridge
Oakland and Railway
Larry Diggins
Ramsey Park Addition
Phyllis A. Ruszat
Fairfax
Allyn G. Schmid
610 Division
Barry Rush
Austin Rt. 5
Northwestern Bell Names New Chief Operator in Austin
Miss Alvina Busch is appointed chief operator at Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Austin exchange succeeding Miss Hertha Rockne. Busch comes from Red Wing where she was chief operator and previously was chief clerk in Rochester district traffic office. She has worked for Northwestern Bell over eleven years. She will oversee all long distance service and local information and intercepting service.
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Alvina Busch
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Austin Exchange
Hertha Rockne
Miss Busch
Austin
Red Wing
Rochester
Northwestern Bell
City License Holders Slow in Renewals
City Recorder John Weiland warned that renewals for about 500 licenses are overdue with a June 10 deadline. Few holders have appeared and he said the city cannot process the bulk in the final days. Licenses cover food handling cigarets milk liquor beer gasoline novelty machines and other activities.
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John Weiland
Weiland
Cafourek in Fair Condition After Rapid City Shooting
A2c Ronnie Cafourek, son of Mrs. Ethel Cafourek, was hospitalized in fair condition at Ellsworth AFB Hospital Rapid City S.D. after a gunshot wound to the abdomen Saturday night. AIC Harry Collum of Pittsburg Pa wounded Cafourek during an exchange in a Rapid City parking lot. Collum was held without charge as police investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronnie Cafourek
Ethel Cafourek
Freeborn
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Rapid City
Cafourek
AIC
Harry Collum
Pittsburg
Collum
Mitchell County Farm Bureau Women Tour to Minneapolis
Three chart ered buses will take Mitchell County Farm Bureau women on a tour of Minneapolis Wednesday. They will attend cinerama in the afternoon.
New Woolworth Manager Assumes Post Here
C. W. Wood Wilson, 44, takes over the F. W. Woolworth Co store here this week. He arrives from Minneapolis after 25 years with the chain, with prior posts in Atlantic and Boone Iowa Milwaukee Wisconsin Sioux Falls D C Monroe Wisconsin St Paul and Minneapolis. He and wife and son Bob 16 plan to move once a Minneapolis home is sold and an Austin home is purchased.
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C. W
Wood) Wilson
F. W. Woolworth Co
Woolworth
Wilson
Minneapolis
Bob
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Atlantic
Boone
Milwaukee
Sioux Falls
D. C
Monroe
Wis
St. Paul
Austin
St Olaf Hi League to Honor Austin High Graduates
The St Olaf Hi League will honor Austin High School seniors who are members of St Olaf Church and youths recently confirmed. A punch reception and banquet begin at 6 p.m. Saturday in the church parlors with Dr Alvin Rogness, president of Luther Theological Seminary, as main speaker. Supt L S Harbo and coach Ove Berven and their wives attend as special guests.
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St. Olaf
Austin
St. Olaf Church
Alvin Rogness
Lutheran Theological Seminary
St. Paul
Hamline University set to graduate 190 area students
Area residents Dale H. Slupe and Miss Willa Christianson join 188 peers at Hamline University as 190 students from the area receive degrees on Monday. Slupe earns a Bachelor of Science in business and economics while Christianson earns a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. Commencement speaker Hod ding Carter, editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, will address graduates at Norton Field House on June 9.
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Austin Area
Hamline University
St. Paul School
Dale H. Slupe
Howard Slupe
Bauman
Alpha Kappa Psi
Newman Club
Willa Christianson
William Christianson
Clinton
Mapleview
Hamline
Hamline University Christian Fellowship
International Relations
Sociology Club
Hodding Carter
Delta Democrat - Times
Greenville
Miss
Norton Field House
Cerny Wins 1958 Cadillac In Austin Business Draw
Don Cerny a 33 year old sheet metal worker in Austin reacts with disbelief as Chamber of Commerce President Jack Strong informs him he won the 1958 Cadillac in a downtown drawing held at the Courthouse. The news comes while he works on a home in Streverling Addition and photographers capture the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Cerny
Austin
Oh Baloney
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Strong
Cerny
Austin Heating Co
Streverling Addition
Strong
Stanley Nelson
Stanley Martin
Baloney
Gleason
Ikes to Stage Varnish Bee on Monday Night
Izaak Walton League members will hold a varnishing bee Monday at 6 p.m. Volunteers should bring brushes and help is needed to complete the outside job in one evening. Open house for the new cabin is Sept 13. Harold Smith led the winning team in the membership drive and top salesmen will receive awards at a dinner. Hollis Weber reported on the Colorado Springs convention and plans for the 1959 national conclave in Minneapolis.
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Izaak Walton League
Gordon Johnson
Walton
Johnson
Harold Smith
Hollis Weber
Colorado Springs
Minneapolis
Otranto Farm Bureau Picnic Closes Season at Brenna Farm
Otranto Iowa Farm Bureau members gathered at the Orlando Brenna home north of St Ansgar for a Sunday picnic. It marked the last meeting of the season until September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otranto
Iowa
Otranto Farm Bureau
Orlando Brenna
St. Ansgar
Neighbors Hold Planting Bee for Local Farmer
Dexter Minnesota residents organized a plowing and planting bee for Gerhardt Glienke while he was a patient at St Olaf Hospital. Neighbors plowed and seeded over 60 acres with help from Carl Anderson Edson Quast C E Wagaman and son Ernie Kirkpatrick Orlean Braaten Ernie Clark John Wohlers Rod Kenyon Walter Pink Rudy Jech Don Gilbert Harold Hoffman Pete Walterman William Kraft Rudy Hartje and Glienke's father. Dinner and lunch were provided at the Jendersee home by Jendersee Mrs Quast and Kenyon. The effort was organized by William Jendersee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dexter, Minn
Gerhardt Glienke
Dexter Area
St. Olaf Hospital
Carl Anderson
Edson Quast
C. E. Wagaman
Ernie Kirkpatrick
Orlean Braaten
Ernie Clark
John Wohlers
Rod Kenyon
Walter Pink
Rudy Jech
Don Gilbert
Harold Hoffman
Pete Walterman
William Kraft
Rudy Hartje
Glienke
William Jendersee
Jendersee
Mrs. Quast
Ac Kenyon
Pleads Guilty to Forged Check Charge
Ruben Chambers of Austin Route 1 pleaded guilty in district court to passing a forged check at Hastings Shoe Repair in the Babcock Building. Judge A C Richardson delayed sentencing on the second degree forgery charge pending pre sentence investigation.
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Ruben Chambers
Austin Rt. 1
Hastings
Babcock
A. C. Richardson
Newsman Hewett to headline Elks convention banquet
Veteran foreign correspondent Robert B. Hewett will speak at the Elks state convention banquet Saturday at 6 30 p.m. in the Austin High School Cafeteria. Hewett, 45, has reported from the Middle East for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and recently won a National Headliner Club award for foreign news coverage.
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Robert B. Hewett
Austin
Hewett
Middle East
Minneapolis Star and Tribune
Headliner Club
Europe
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Minneapolis
Associated Press
England
Greece
Israel
Iran
Malaya
Indonesia
Egypt
Lebanon
Kwajalein
Saipan
Tinian
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Minnesota
Truck collision damages parked car in Riceville
In Riceville Iowa a truck driven by Dale Buttolph collided with a parked car owned by Rex Dunlay. Damage was not extensive.
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Riceville
Iowa
Dale Buttolph
Rex Dunlay
Adams FFA to host donkey ball game with businessmen
Adams Minnesota Future Farmers of America members plan a donkey softball game on the high school diamond at 7:30 p m Thursday. Businessmen will add young farmers to their squad to narrow the age gap while FFA adviser Arvid Anderson says donkeys may equalize the teams and boost funds for chapter activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Minn
Farmers of America
Arvid Anderson
FFA
Aid Offered for Victims of Blast and Fire
Salvation Army provides clothing for Dixie Lee De Vries 4 Jane Ann and Ruth Eastman 15 after a gas explosion destroyed the De Vries home at 1610 Lyndale. Capt. Alfred Gorton says first month rent may be paid, furniture may be donated, and stock kept ready for emergencies as fire crews extinguish rekindled blazes Monday night and early today.
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Floyd de Vries
Salvation Army
Alfred Gorton
Dixie Lee
Jane Ann
Ruth Eastman
de Vries
Lyndale
Gorton
Army
Citadel
Bible School Opens at Union Presbyterian Church
Vacation Bible school began Monday at Union Presbyterian Church northwest of Stacyville under Rev and Mrs H A Sinning. Classes run through the week with Children’s Day observed Sunday. A family picnic follows the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stacyville
Iowa
Union Presbyterian Church
H. A. Sinning
Nearly 365 AHS Seniors to Graduate
Nearly 365 Austin High School seniors will graduate Thursday evening with diplomas awarded by Richard Dougherty after a program led by Principal Ray M. Wescott. Dr. Forrest E. Conner, St. Paul superintendent, will deliver the keynote address titled We Are Five after the invocation by Rev. Lyndon Schender.
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Austin High School
Forrest E. Conner
St. Paul
Conner
Kenosha
Wis
Hibbing
Belle Fourche
University of South Dakota
State University of Iowa
Lyndon Schender
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Supt. L
Harbo
Ray M. Wescott
Richard Dougherty
Austin School Board
Athalia
Mendelssohn
Out-of-Court Settlement in Austin Damage Suit
A civil damage suit against the City of Austin was settled out of court for 3850 dollars. The case, brought by Dorothy Felton for Tommy Jo Sharson, arose from a November 17 1956 fall on the Cedar River bridge on East Oakland due to snow and alleged city negligence causing head and collarbone injuries. Representing the city was William Bandler and Shurson by Wallace Sieh.
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Austin
Dorothy Felton
Tommy Jo Sharson
Tommy Jo
Cedar River
E. Oakland
Tommy
William Bandler
Shurson
Wallace Sieh
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St. Olaf League
Supt. L. S Harbo
Ove Berven
Harry
Lev
Mill—Opposite Penney's
S&h
Dale
Willa
Ikes
Adams Ffa
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Austin Daily Herald
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Curtis Edsel Sales
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