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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1966
Page
11
A shift from metal pins to adhesive slogan labels spreads across advertising and social life. Brands like Avis and Pepsi drive the trend with peel-off stickers. retailers, shoppers, and groups adopt badges for quick identification and conversation starters.
In Colombo, a mass volunteer program sees about a million schoolchildren weed rice paddies to boost yields. Weeding parties, often with music, aim to lift rice production by 25 percent. early results show a 21.2 percent gain and rising. The effort originated with Upali Senanayake, a businessman and cousin of...
Prime Minister Senanayake pilots a School Youth Mobilization Programme to curb a 30 million dollar annual rice bill. Children over 12 weed paddy fields while schools adjust schedules, with patriotic songs and flag planting at work sites. Farmers offer tea and festival meals as 200,000 acres are targeted. New land and farming techniques accompany the plan.
In Germany office dining shifts from traditional sandwiches to elaborate self packed meals. Workers now favor deli purchases and homemade lunches with coffee kettles and even refrigerators appearing in workplaces as noon becomes the peak lunch hour.
The Harris poll finds growing militancy and a get-it-over-with mood in public opinion on Vietnam. It shows shifts on bombing Hanoi Haiphong and North Vietnamese ports, a decline in support for neutralist South Vietnam, and waning backing for enclave strategies and a prolonged bombing pause.
Six New York high school students use a home computer and pushbutton telephone in a Catholic diocesan IBM study to perform algebra chemistry physics and more at Yorktown Heights. The system provides verification storage and vocal feedback showing education may shift with future home computing tools.
In Saigon demonstrations led by monks and nuns disrupted the capital, police in steel helmets used tear gas and arrested a number of monks at the central market. Rioters advanced toward the Gia Long Palace, where riot police charged and herded monks into vans as youths faced induction into the army. Police also removed outside Buddhist family altars during the unrest.
In Frankfort Kentucky the expanded medical aid program begins July 1 providing free birth control pills to many medically needy persons under 65. The State Advisory Council on Medical Assistance endorses the principle of family planning within the program.
Augusta Maine August a AP reports a drop in lobster supply due to cooler Maine coast waters. State marine research director Robert L Dow says catches have fallen and prices risen over the past two years.
John Jr., son of the late President John F Kennedy, visits a sumo tournament in Honolulu. He sits with two Secret Service escorts, meets grand champion Taiho who lifts him in a blessing gesture for good health. Jacqueline Kennedy is away on vacation with the children.
Native leaders of isolated Pacific communities order household size limits to prevent famine. Authorities urge adherence as communities enact policy to control births and allocate scarce food resources amid drought.
AUSTIN MINN Herald brief items from June 13 1966 cover local happenings in Austin Minnesota including community updates and notices. The short notes reflect typical small town news and civic items of the era.
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