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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1966
Page
4
The article reports growing evidence that protests against the draft system could drive a long range overhaul. Congressmen from both parties push revision, and a 1964 Johnson study may inform White House recommendations. Debates include exemptions, volunteer forces, and a possible return to a WWI lottery.
A guest column argues that sustained U S prosperity fuels inflation and taxes. It notes rising living costs blamed on excise taxes, a federal budget deficit smaller than feared, and debt growing to over one trillion dollars as part of a controversial view of the economy.
The Mississippi ambush on James H Meredith echoes Civil Rights tensions and echoes past assassinations. The incident reverberates beyond Mississippi drawing global attention and challenges to America’s image amid ongoing efforts to ease racial strife.
The Chatfield Minnesota high school with about 1,130 students accesses a modern time sharing computer in the Pillsbury Building in Minneapolis. A direct telephone link lets Chatfield students and teachers work math and physics problems as if in the Pillsbury offices, a model of rural education aided by imaginative educators.
A damaged OCR fragment from a Minnesota paper lists addresses for the Austin publication and subscription details. It includes a publisher contact, box address, and various subscription rates and delivery notes, with scattered decorative quotes and illegible lines.
In the near future the city must enlarge its library building and add a memorial building and museum. The Herald picnic at Sunrise Hill enjoyed good weather. The New York Fashion Shop space will host the Austin Garden Club flower exhibit this weekend. A Mower County court verdict of 250.40 awarded to the Chicago Great Western Railroad against the Osmundson Brothers of Adams for a snow plow crash on Jan 25. Three policemen were added to the Austin force: Glen Scharfenberg Warren Walburn and Leslie Papenius. By end of 1955, 807 county retirees received benefits and 786 were dependents or survivors. Oleo smugglers reportedly peddling colored margarine in Minnesota door to door.
The piece notes a civil rights flare up in Waterloo with protests at city hall and police brutality claims, then shifts to June Dairy Month and the National Spotted Swine Summer Type Conference in New Ulm. It includes a collection of welfare letters, mentions ducks at Allaire State Park, Austin road work on 14th Street NW, and nostalgia for old stamp machines at the post office.
On June 8 1966 the Associated Press recounts key historical moments. Tennessee declared independence in 1851, the Penny Post Card authorized in 1872, Pershing arrived in London in 1917, and other notable events include King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Washington in 1939, Bayeux captured in 1944, and later notes on Eisenhower Kennedy Westmoreland and Viet Nam.
Senator Kennedy widens assault on Tammany Hall and Daley machine power in New York and Chicago. He allies with liberal labor figures like Alex Rose and Walter Reuther to challenge Barratt O’Hara, backed by COPE, while Mikva faces Daley ally O’Hara in June primaries. The battle centers on influence over city machines and labor blocs amid Kennedy’s broader reform push.
A California study by Theodore Parsons shows Mexican American students in Guadalupe high and elementary classes kept separate by housing patterns and classroom grouping. Teachers and administrators justify it as better for all, while the state Commission for Equal Opportunities in Education lacks enforcement bite to intervene.
A world of publishing bound by idealism and conflict as editor Alex Godowsky guides a firm toward quality while facing a troubled year. Personal plots include divorce, remarriage, and a mentor’s scandal, with staffers Ernie Hunter and other authors bringing tension.
NEA reports on how draft deferment decisions hinge on class standing and college reporting. Local boards may tighten criteria as high draft numbers persist, requiring clearer student status and qualification exams. Indian Hills Colorado notes Wave enlistment by 18 year old Kristine Jo Tays, whose grandmother served in 1917-19 Yeomanettes.
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