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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1971
Page
4
An opinion piece notes that lightning kills and injures many more than tornadoes and floods with about 90 lightning bolts struck annually during warm months. It urges personal precautions, lists safe places like protected buildings and closed metal vehicles, and warns against open spots, lone trees, water, and open boats or tractors.
Victor Riesel reports a secretive Justice Dept briefing of about 35 anti crime leaders on organized crime tactics. He notes in Buffalo a Mafia don Stefano Magaddino allegedly keeps a top labor enforcer lieutenant John V. Cammillieri, signaling threats to labor and public safety.
The piece profiles John Camillieri a labor enforcer tied to Western New York crime networks and national unions. It questions how a government contractor hires a noted mob-affiliated labor coordinator to oversee labor peace at the Niagara Falls Power project and probes wider implications for government property.
Nixon faces potential re election peril as the four big northern states California Illinois Ohio and New Jersey show weak GOP organization. Analysts fear losing California alone could doom his bid with the 45 electoral votes. Young voters 18 to 21 leaning Democratic could further tilt pivotal states.
The 5 inch Bassogigas was captured at extreme depth with pressure about 800 times higher than surface. New York City earns nickname Father Knickerbocker. The world’s richest horse race is the annual all American Quarter Horse Futurity at Ruidoso Downs New Mexico. The first drive in bank opened in Chicago Milwaukee in 1946. The International Date Line sits at the 180th meridian in the Pacific. Pharmacophobia is fear of medicine. Postal savings system ended in 1966. Barnacles attach to underwater objects as saltwater shellfish.
U S Forest Service researchers report a bispectral forest fire detection system tested last summer over 8 000 square miles in Montana and Idaho. An aircraft with Doppler radar infrared sensors and a rapid film processor provides in flight maps to ground stations enabling faster detection and firefighting action. The system spotted 44 wildfires before visible smoke or flame and cost about 500 000 less to operate than traditional lookout methods.
Dr. Philip R. Lee urges caution against a moon shot like cancer cure and warns cancer is a complex problem needing cross field expertise. He testifies against a bill moving the National Cancer Institute from NIH to a presidentially directed national cancer authority.
The World Wildlife Fund reports two species once feared extinct the pygmy hog and the hispid hare have been rediscovered in northeastern India. In Assam tea estates twelve hogs and one hare are under care of workers on a British owned estate.
Mrs. Anita Maxfield, who manages a 260 unit Arlington complex, announced a $10 monthly rent cut for nonsmoking tenants. She argues nonsmokers save $120 yearly on rent and cigarette costs, while landlords save on maintenance from fewer burns, a factor she cites as potentially sparking a broader liberation moment.
The piece opens with a biblical exhortation to tend a flock willingly and by example, followed by Goethe on the use of predecessors’ strengths. It then lists Daily Austin publication details and subscription rates, ending with a light remark about a tenant antismoking campaign and related humor.
Fourteen members of the Austin school boy patrol will receive a reward in the form of a vacation at the American Legion Safety and Conservation camp near Brainerd. The weather bureau forecast partly cloudy to fair and warmer conditions for Minnesota tomorrow with brief sun and showers in Austin.
Gerald M. Loeb’s new book The Battle for Stock Market Profits targets investors who seek genuine wisdom. It warns many are not cut out for market speculation and promotes disciplined analysis, ruling reasons, and hard work over get rich quick schemes.
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