Five Auto Crashes Increase Austin’s 1954 Damage Total
A series of five accidents Friday and Saturday raised Austin’s total vehicle damage by $700. The latest at 8:45 involved Robert Donovan, 17, of 1007 Moscow, and Spencer Jordan, of 502 S. St. Paul, at High and Mill. Donovan’s car had $10 in front end damage, Jordan’s $50 on the left rear.
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Austin
High and
Mill
Robert Donovan
Moscow
Spencer Jordan
S. St. Paul
Donovan
Jordan
Oakland
East
Gary Peterson
Fox
Chester W. Kampe
McKinley
Klampe
Peterson
Kenwood
Freeborn
Theoni J. Lecakis
William H. Schenberger
Harrison
Schenberger
Lecakis
Chatham
Nordean C. Rouhoff
Miller Rd
Thomas E. Johnston
Lyndale
Ronald W. Rester
Lincoln
Rester
Johnston
Rouhoff
Flood Upstream Areas Braced as Iowa Storm Worsens
Creeks rose and residents evacuated by boat as Linn Grove and Marble Rock faced record flood crests. The Floyd River flooded Sheldon while bridges and roads suffered. Rain totals peaked at Britt with 8.57 inches as Weather Bureau warned of continuing storms through the weekend.
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Marble Rock
Lime Creek
Shellrock
Mason City
Floyd River
Sheldon
Sioux City
Britt
Rock Island
Iowa
Missouri Valley
Rochester
Minnesota
Austin
Midwest
Southland
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Chicago
St. Louis
Dodge City
Kaw
Gila Bend
Ariz
Phoenix
Tucson
Yuma
Florida
Hollandale
Harold Henderson
Hollandale Marketing Association
Albert Lea approves tentative one million budget plan
Albert Lea school board tentatively approves a one million dollar budget up 169000 from last year. The plan allocates 503000 for administration and operations plus 116528 for capital outlay and 88928 for instruction. The board also votes to add a two room Hawthorne Elementary addition and to hire a third driver training instructor as enrollment grows.
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Halvorson
Hawthorne
Dist
Hammer School
Albert Lea
Ellen Edwards Named Girls State Mayor
Ellen Edwards of Austin was sworn in as one of 14 mayors at Girls State held at the State Fairgrounds. The event marks early government activity for Minnesota's 415 participating girls.
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Ellen Edwards
Austin
Minnesota
1929 Jury to Hold Reunion Here Sunday
Members of the first District Court jury in Mower County who included a woman bailiff will gather for their 25th annual reunion at Sut ton Park Sunday. The group plans a simple program and a social visit while recalling cases from the 1929 term with Judge Norman E. Peterson presiding.
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Mower County
Sutton Park
Abe Brooks
California
Brooks
Six File for Sheriff in Blue Earth County
In Mankato Blue Earth County voters face a wide open sheriff race with six candidates. Incumbent Mrs Mickey Date did not run. Deputies J Mikkelson H Childs and E Schumacher join former highway patrolman Harry Nackerud plus Clarence Hellkekson and Elmer Krueger in the field.
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Mankato
Blue Earth
Mickey Date
Jay Mickelson
Harold Childs
Ervin Schumacher
Harry Nackerud
Clarence Hellekson
Elmer Krueger
Josephson Bound Over on Forgery Charge
Clyde L. Josephson 23 of 506 N. Railway waived preliminary hearing on a second degree forgery charge in municipal court and was bound over to the District Court. Sheriff Reinartz and Deputy Halstenson arrested him Friday afternoon. he is jailed in Mower County pending district arraignment where bond will be set. He allegedly cashed a $68.50 check at a local Austin liquor store drawn on his own bank account, with a forged endorsement by signing the third party's name.
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Austin
Clyde L. Josephson
N. Railway
Albert Reinartz
C. H. Halstenson
Josephson
Mower County
Man seeks skunk pets as readers beg for critters
Austin Daily Herald worker Bluhm raises seven baby skunks found near an airport. Readers from Duluth to Charles City request skunks for pets, offering to pay for deodorizing services. Dr Knoche planned to deodorize but killed diseased animals. Bluhm has no skunks left.
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Winona
Duluth
Hibbing
Fairmont
Blue Earth
Charles City
Iowa
Otto Bluhm
Austin Daily Herald
Bluhm
Associated Press
Herald
Karl Knoche
Austin
Partial Solar Eclipse Expected for Austin June 30
Austin residents will see only a partial eclipse on June 30 with totality centered near New Ulm and Mankato. The event travels from O Neill Nebraska at 5 07 a m, lasting about two hours and 45 minutes, and observers must use safe viewing methods such as smoked glass. Weather conditions will determine visibility.
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Austin
John G. W. Havens
Dr. Havens
New Ulm
Mankato
Nebraska
O'Neill
Minneapolis
India
Havens
Blood Volume of Whales Compared to Other Mammals
The text notes that whales possess a larger blood volume relative to their size than other mammals, indicating a higher circulatory capacity among large marine mammals.
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Whales
Austin Area Service Men Return From Training
Maj Jacob L DeBoer Dexter has graduated from the Air Command and Staff School and will resume duties at the Air Research and Development Command in Baltimore Maryland Pfc Ralph J Milbrandt Adams lives with wife Joanne and serves in Korea with the Seventh Infantry Division Milbrandt son of Lawrence Milbrandt McIntire Iowa is a gunner in Co M 17th Infantry Regiment He entered the army in June 1953 at Fort Riley Kansas before arriving in Korea last November Bayonet division training continues to sustain peak combat readiness after actions from Pusan to the Yalu River.
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Jacob L. DeBoer
Dexter
Air Command and Staff School
Air University
Montgomery
Ala
Air Research and Development Command
Baltimore
Maryland
Maj
de Boer
Henry de Boer
Ralph J. Milbrandt
Joanne
Adams
Korea
Seventh Infantry
Pusan
Yalu River
Lawrence Milbrandt
McIntire
Iowa
Co. M
17Th Infantry Regiment
Army
Fort Riley
Kas
Talent Winners Named at Owatonna 4-H Show
Southern Minnesota 4-H contest winners were chosen at Owatonna High School Auditorium. Kenneth Webb a bari tone vocalist from Medford Marilyn Maus a vocalist tap dancer from Minneiska and Mary Schmidt a pianist from Minneapolis will represent southern Minnesota at the State Fair 4-H Search for Talent show this summer.
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Owatonna
Amelia Highstreet's Bid to Earn a Living Despite Handicaps
Amelia Highstreet, partially paralyzed with very limited vision, runs a Post Office newsstand in Austin selling cigarettes cigars magazines newspapers and candy. She hopes to expand with ice cream soft drinks and vending machines while selling hooked rugs from the Minneapolis Society for the Blind. She studies Braille and reads via talking book machines as she waits for better business and tax relief.
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Postoffice
Miss Highstreet
Minneapolis Society For the Blind
Cattle Feeders Hear Market News Analyst
About 50 Mower County cattle feeders met at Little Cedar Lutheran Church Adams for their annual meeting to hear Bob Develin market news analyst discuss factors likely to affect feeder and finished cattle markets. He warned trend certainty is down amid a unsettled world scene and Geneva Conference impacts, predicting lower feeder prices this year with a good fall purchase window. County officials reported surplus funds, approved continued $1 memberships, and planned a fall tour. Director nominees Otis Jorstad Charles Lukes G L Warn Bert Godfredson Bud Hotson were elected to lead and appoint officers. President Godfredson led the session as Nancy Drakle read two pieces. County Agent Liebenstein urged preserving protein in legume grasses via grass silage. A church lunch concluded the event.
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Mower County
Little Cedar Lutheran Church
Adams
Bob Develin
South St. Paul
Develin
G. L. Warn
Treasury
Otis Jorstad
Charles Lukes
Bert Godfredson
Bud Hotson
Nancy Drakle
F. L. Liebenstein
Rochester Cannery Workers Ballot on Union Choice
About 300 Libby, McNeill and Libby canning plant workers in Rochester will vote in July to choose between United Packinghouse Workers Local 199 CIO and AFL Teamsters Local 874. The election follows AFL Local 874’s representation petition and a meeting with union representatives and the National Labor Relations Board.
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Rochester
Libby, McNeill and Libby Cannning
United Packinghouse Workers
CIO
AFL Teamsters
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
Auto Looted in Hormel Parking Lot Report
A car was looted Friday in the Hormel parking lot. John Weis of 109 E. Winona reported the theft of a broken .22 revolver, two pairs of pliers, and a crescent wrench.
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Hormel
John Weis
E. Winona
Cedar waxwing named for waxlike wing tips
The cedar waxwing derives its name from small red waxy beads on the wing tips. The function of these waxy tips remains unknown.
Jury Denies Damages in Iowa Boy Injury Suit
In Mower County District Court a jury ruled no damages for 11 year old Everett J. Feller Jr and his father E. J. Feller Sr of Emmetsburg Iowa in a suit against National Tank Maintenance Corp. The village of LeRoy was dismissed as a defendant. Everett claimed wrist injury from a water tank incident in June 1953 and a prior rink fall.
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Mower County
Everett J. Feller, Jr
E. J. Feller Sr
Emmetsburg
Iowa
National Tank Maintenance Corp. Dist
A. C. Richardson
LeRoy
Everett
National Tank Corp
VFW Resolution Demands Bar on Red China at UN
The Minnesota VFW annual encampment in Hibbing approved resolutions calling for banning Red China from the United Nations and, if admitted, United States withdrawal. Delegates urged strong support for the FBI and agencies against subversives and backed outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
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Hibbing
Minn
China
United Nations
United States
Minnesota Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Communist Party
U. S
Nine Candidates File in Freeborn County
Nine candidates filed for the September 14 primary in Freeborn County. Six are incumbents seeking re election including Sheriff Carl Lindahl register of deeds Kenneth Jacobson county auditor Robert D. Hanson and county commissioner T C Nelson. State Rep Irvin M Talle and State Sen Earl L Engbritson also filed with opposition emerging on day one Ed Christian filed for county attorney James C Nelson seeks the state senate Edmond F Conn filed for state representative.
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Albert Lea
Freeborn
Carl Lindahl
Kenneth Jacobson
Register of Deeds
Robert D. Hanson
T. C. Nelson
Irvin M. Talle
Earl L. Engbritson
Ed Christian
Garden Villa
James C. Nelson
State Senate
Edmond F. Conn
Alden
West Berlin Vacation Insurance Payout Triggers by Rain
Vacationers in West Berlin can buy a policy that pays all expenses for a two week holiday if rainfall reaches 22 inches or covers half expenses if 2 inches fall. The product links weather to travel protection and targets rainy season travelers.
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West Berlin
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Frank Detloff
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T. M. Seery
Mower County Heart Council
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Blue Earth County
US Air Force
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Austin Business and Professional Women’s Club
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