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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1956
Page
7
Hormel Transportation installs forty seven green and white directional signs on Austin streets to route trucks to the Hormel plant. The temporary signs feature Hormel animal graphics and should be adjusted as the Freeway is built.
Ruth Marie Peterson, American Dairy Princess, serves milk at the American Dairy Association Dairy Bar in Disneyland. She toured the eastern seaboard and now heads to California to visit grandmother Mrs. C L Peterson and appears on Queen for a Day Tuesday.
City Recorder John Weiland announced an extended deadline for cigarette and food license applications. About 75 merchants have not yet applied. the new due date is June 22 to ensure licenses are issued by July 1. Licenses expire June 30. The notice references Main Street area.
Bid opening for a new bridge over Turtle Creek on Highway 105 south of Austin set for July 6 by the Minnesota Highway Department. Project includes two 40 foot spans and one 50 by 52 foot beam span, 3 miles of grading, base and surfacing, with substantial excavation and material quantities across 13 counties totaling about 5.43 million dollars.
Eighteen members of the Woodland 4-H Club toured Thursday afternoon starting at the Chester Taylor farm and ending at the Henry McGordon farm where a picnic lunch was served. Projects displayed included swine dairy poultry garden bread baking banking and sewing with County 4H Club Agent Ronald Seath accompanying.
City Recorder John Weiland spoke at the Southern Minnesota Normal College reunion in Todd Park detailing Austin’s growth since 1911. He recalled college staff service, public works, and shifts in rail and bus travel while noting church, health, business, and recreation expansion.
Miss Jean Norman will become director of religious education at First Methodist Church and start July 15. She previously led the Oshkosh Wisconsin church program for two years and was named to the Austin church at the state conference. She holds degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University Garrett Biblical Institute and attended Kendall College.
Poundmaster Harold Carlstrom offered seven dogs for adoption today. The dogs include two shepherds a six month male and a one year male two black Labrador mixes both males six months and two shepherd puppies both males six weeks old.
Paul Hull of Austin was elected president of the Minnesota State Auctioneers Assn at the annual convention in Winona. The group closed sessions by taking over the auction to raise funds for the new Winona hospital with 48 volunteers selling donated merchandise. Resolutions urged improving professional status and pursuing similar legislation to real estate dealers.
Firefighters were called out three times over the weekend and today but used no water. A grass and brush fire at Crane and Buchanan streets was tackled with brooms and extinguished. A gas leak at Nilan and Todd Printing Co. prompted one call. A washing machine short at 609 S St Paul, the Utzke home, caused another fire response.
An overheated journal box on a freight car derailed one wheel pair on the Marquette Austin freight train around 5:30 a.m. near Adams. A small track section was damaged, repairs finished by 10 a.m., with service restored on the Austin Calmar lines. No cars derailed and no extensive damage reported.
Eight members of the Austin Civil Air Patrol left Saturday for nine days of training at Whiteman Air Force Base Sedalia Missouri Cadets at camp are Louis Dudycha Don Buedine Bernard Elns er John McAlister Robert Ames Richard Colyer Duane Nantz and Richard Tennis The group traveled by car to Minneapolis and by plane to Missouri.
Sheriff Albert Reinartz and State Crime Bureau Agent Elmer Madsen flew to Deer Lodge Montana on Sunday to pick up Ralph H. Ledster and Vernon L. Krueger on charges of a stolen auto in August 1955.
A boy on a bicycle collided with a car driven by Raymond Swenson at 11 47 AM. Charles Wolf 11 crashed into the right front fender of the car causing him to be thrown into the windshield and crack it. He was taken to St Olaf Hospital in serious condition.
Dale Baugh of Ostrander told Deputy Halstenson that buckshot struck his cows for the third time while in the pasture. He cited hits on June 6 and 10 and noted six or seven cows injured Sunday night. Pellets indicate a 12 gauge shotgun fired from a distance to avoid serious injury. The sheriff's office continues the investigation.
Paul Fuller son of Mr and Mrs Albert Fuller 711 Lincoln earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering on June 8 at the University of Colorado Boulder He attended Austin High School and Austin Junior College and now works for Sterns Rodgers in Denver Attending commencement were his mother and his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Sydney Arndt North Hollywood Calif
Leonard Miller of 209 Oakwood and Roy E Crow son of Rochester had damages of 50 and 150 dollars after a collision about 3 40 p m Friday while both cars traveled south one mile south of Austin on Highway 218. No injuries were reported.
David E. Reisinger reported a black revolver stolen from his apartment on 701 S. Railway, missing since Sunday. Mrs. Cora Sherwood said $50 disappeared from her home at 905 W. Maple while the back door was open.
Over the weekend there were seven traffic collisions totaling about $1,329 in damage. Slippery roads from weekend showers contributed to crashes on Main, Jay and Water streets, West Winona, East Oakland and other areas. One driver, Otto C. Tapp, was cited for drunken driving after a Saturday collision on Main near Winona.
Seven deaths reported in Iowa weekend incidents. Victims include Reverend Oliver Stevenson 76 of Cedar Falls and five others in traffic crashes across Estherville Monroe Rockford and Arcadia. Drownings at East Lake Okoboji and North Twin Lake involve Edward Jaramillo 5 Ronnie Woodley 4 and two more. A five year old suffocated in a Monona silo.
Stephan Collins of Spring Valley, son of Mr and Mrs Cletus Collins, participates in SPAN a Europe tour with 65 students visiting England Scotland Ireland Belgium France Germany Switzerland Italy and Spain. The group flies chartered to Europe with visits to London Scotland Lourdes and Rome catacombs. Collins is a Spring Valley High School graduate and attends St Thomas College. SPAN stands for the Student Project for Among Nations.
Former Austin police chief Lee M. Sargent was moved by ambulance from his home at 909 W. Freeborn to the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis on Sunday night.
Warren Plunkett files to seek election to the 10th district judgeship which he already holds. The district covering Mower Fillmore and Freeborn Counties has a six year term. Senior judge A C Richardson is not up for election.
Larry Avery, winner of the Jaycee Road-e-o in May, tallied 499 points at the state meet in St. Cloud Sunday. Ada’s Sherman Moe topped with 539 points as 52 boys and 12 girls competed at a department store lot and Technical High School. Roger Saman, Austin Jaycee chair, organized the event and aims to enroll more girls next year.
Twelve area residents attend the first summer session at Luther College Decorah Iowa which ends July 14. Names include Dolores Dean Austin Arnold Fredriksen Lona Lee Glenda Senjem Hayfield Joanne Hamberg Glenville Janice Austin Janice Austin Donna Hatlestad Helen Knutson LeRoy Ann Bonnallie Beverly Eggen Lyle Marilyn Klusmeier Rose Creek
Four members of the Lansing Juvenile Grange Armedia Yanzer Patty Luthe Larry Johnson and Roger Correy left Sunday for the Grange Youth Camp at St. Croix Park in Lansing Minnesota Secretary of the State Grange Estelle Thompson accompanied the group.
The Casino of Juan-les-Pins offers a restaurant section immersed in water where diners sit with feet in the sea. Waiters walk through water while a butterfly net sweeps debris and a frogman watches the bottom for hazards. Casual dress and black dining uniforms prevail as guests enjoy seafood and champagne.
Mower County Board rented the county home to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Anderson for use as a rest home. A dentist in Mower County earned a $25 cash award for first place in Minnesota for promoting good dental health.
Joyce Hughes of Minneapolis newly elected governor directs a team of student officers for the 10th annual Minnesota Girls State in the 4-H Building at the State Fair Grounds in St Paul.
A report notes that the anaconda is not venomous and poses no venom attack risk. It describes the snake as nonpoisonous and highlights its reputation versus its actual danger in encounters.
Advertisement promising a $1,000 final expense life policy from Old American of Kansas City. Emphasizes mail-only, no obligation, no sales calls and requests name address and age details to apply by mailing to 3 West 9th Dept L622B Kansas City Missouri.
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