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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1959
Page
2
Vital statistics list several births with parent names and addresses including Leidall Lange Serene Madson Nedderson Murphy and Murphy families. Funeral notices for Burma Rue present with church and cemetery details. Obituary notes for Mary Warfield recount birth in 1866, Austin residence, church membership, survivors, and service dates. Acknowledgments praise care at St Olaf Hospital and curfew violation case involving Marvin Haskins.
Ole Rue aged 88 died suddenly at his Nevada Township home after living in Rhame and Lyle. Funeral services are planned for Saturday. He is survived by four brothers Knute Theodore Oliver and Sam. Palmer Springer 46, a Merchant Marine engineer, died aboard the Hou s éton ship wife at Fort Snelling. He served 17 years in the Navy and recently joined the Merchant Marine with two sisters Ruby Minneapolis and Cleo Hjalmer Milwaukee as survivors.
Mr and Mrs Milton Herwig longtime school staff members have signed contracts to teach in Waterloo Iowa schools. He will be East Waterloo High School biology teacher and she will teach third or fourth grade in the elementary schools. They plan to move to Waterloo in late summer.
ST. PAUL AP Hot weather and ample moisture boost corn early in its race with frost. For the week ending June 6 planting finished ahead of average and 30 percent of the crop has its first cultivation. Spring grains mostly good to excellent, some aphid and frost damage. winter grains improved but fair prospects. Rye heading. flax hay and pastures fair to poor due to earlier setbacks.
West Berlin would ban missile sites and atomic weapons under a Soviet proposal. A joint East West German committee would tackle unification and peace treaty issues during Western occupation, with a fallback to a East German treaty and control of Allied routes if the committee failed. Western ministers criticized the plan as pressure and a threat, while noting no action against East Berlin. In Oakland, a fire destroyed 140 bridal shoes color sprayed to match gowns, affecting June brides and attendants.
Sergeant Donald Root and family of Yuma Ariz depart San Francisco June 20 for a three year stay in Japan. Private Jerold Getzin of Fort Leonard Wood Missouri is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood with RA 17549908 Co A 5th Bn 3rd Tag Regt Basie. Curtis A Winslow of Wycoff has been promoted to technical sergeant and serves as flight engineer for the 552nd AEW&C Wing tasked with warning of enemy aircraft or forces en route to the United States.
Bryan Marmesh of Austin Acres received the American Legion medal from Faribault Post 43 for top overall athletic and scholastic standing at Shattuck. He also earned a Rector's Silver Letter for scholastic achievement.
Scout Troop 124 received its charter Wednesday night at a Grace Lutheran Brotherhood picnic at Todd Park. The Rev. S. M. Schreitmueller made the presentation. Carl Thompson, Brotherhood president, gave the troop a purse of money. Leonard Swanson presented a scout axe and Oscar Husemoller presented a scout shovel.
Twenty eight Cub Scouts toured Grand Meadow Minnesota sites on Thursday visiting a lost cemetery a log cabin and a monument to 41 settlers who died during Bear Creek settlement Den mothers Mrs Norman Sween Mrs Fletcher Hathaway and Mrs George Rickeral accompanied the group In Mason City the North Iowa Band Festival drew nearly 25000 people with 86 visiting high school bands parading two hours along a mile and a half route.
The Minneapolis mayorality race signals a political rebuke to Gov. Freeman's administration as Gerald Dillon loses. GOP chairman Ed Viehman calls the Dillon defeat a clear vote of no confidence in Orville Freeman and his programs. The governor’s personal involvement is noted.
Nixon will join a Whittier College class reunion in Whittier California on Saturday open a new Disneyland section Sunday and receive the first doctor of laws degree from the University of San Diego Monday He may reassess California politics where Democrats have narrowed his operational base by winning the governorship
An Austin fisherman, Kenneth Clark, 29, suffered severe multiple fractures to his left arm in a car crash north of Elgin while returning from fishing on the Mississippi River. He remained in satisfactory condition at St. Olaf Hospital.
The Enterprise 4H Club met at Enterprise School Monday night with Mrs. Loren Loucks named chairman of a scavenger hunt committee for the July meeting. Dio Rockers announced the fair booth project. Linda Rockers showed how to make a quick summer drink. Ann Ingvalson spoke about a health camp. Refreshments were provided by the Robert Rockers family. DES MOINES the meter maids cited over 4 900 motorists statewide last month for traffic violations affecting a local nonpartisan election.
Mrs. Hsu Shih hsien urged the Formosa Provincial Assembly to marry prostitutes to retired servicemen to reduce vice. Governor Chow Chi jou dismissed the plan, warning servicemen and prostitutes may not accept such marriage arrangements, leaving doubt about its practicality.
Richard Dehler, 34, pleaded innocent in Little Falls to four murder indictments over shotgun deaths of his father, mother, brother, and sister from 17 years ago. The state filed new charges after Dehler had been freed on a technicality from a life term tied to his mother’s death.
A nationwide logistics estimate calls for a train 30,000 cars long to haul bituminous coal from mine to market each day, stretching from New York City to Richmond, Virginia, to meet daily demand.
J J Morrow longtime local physician and surgeon died early today in Hollywood California where he had practiced for years. His sister Mrs William Decker awaited details this afternoon Another brother Thomas Morrow died November 15 in Minneapolis He was prominent in local and state Legion affairs and in medical circles and was a boxing promoter for the Legion in the 1920s.
Mrs. Edith Lichterman baked 54 cupcakes for her 5 year old son’s birthday in San Diego. But the boy contracted measles, so the party was postponed and another 54 cupcakes were baked only to have the child develop chickenpox.
Mrs. Clarence Williams a junior high gym teacher in White Ridge Colorado painted a 25 foot long mountain mural for a basement recreation room. She had no formal art lessons but created a striking landscape with bold color and scale in her spare time.
In San Diego a police accident investigator John L Adams Jr and spectator Margaret Roush were married in Judge Ronald Abernathy’s chambers during a court recess. Adams had arranged the ceremony as a double wedding in the midst of the trial proceedings.
Dr. Alvin Loving, UM Flint educator, was greeted by a standing ovation at Flint Dye High School as the board reversed its earlier decision to cancel his commencement speech due to racial pressure. Valedictorian Beverly Newton, moved to tears, discarded her speech and praised the graduates for standing up. The 61 graduates and 1,000 attendees witnessed a peaceful ceremony with Loving's remark on American opportunity.
A Norfolk dealer was startled when a buyer listed his profession as killer. it turned out the man was simply employed at a nearby pork packing plant.
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