One Third of 1956 AHS Grads Attend College or Work
Austin High School class of 1956 saw about one third in college or vocational schools by May 1957. Sixty five joined Austin Junior College or Area Vocational School, 45 in other colleges. Of 380 grads, 150 were employed with clerical work most common, 26 at Hormel & Co offices, 23 as sales clerks, and 57 boys entered military service.
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Austin High School
Austin Junior College
Area Vocational School
Geo. A. Horme! & Co
Austin
Dexterous 4 H Club Takes Annual Bus Tour
Dexterous 4 H Club members parents and leaders conducted a Friday bus tour guided by William Pike of Brownsdale with 40 participants. They visited Sibley House Faribault House St Paul a noon picnic at Como Park and tours of the Capitol Science Museum and Wold-Chamberlain Airport while Bob Sheeley a UMN student joined the group returning home with them.
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Dexter
Minn
Dexterous 4-H Club
William Pike
Brownsdale
Sibley House
Faribault House
St. Paul
Como Park
Capitol, Science Museum
Wold-Chamberlain
Bob Sheeley
University of Minnesota
Municipal Band Concert at Bandshell Tonight 8 P M
The second weekly Municipal Band concert directed by C V Sperati will be at the Bandshell at 8 p m tonight. The grounds will be sprayed for mosquitoes. The program includes Americans We, March Fillmore Oklahoma In a Monastery Garden Anchors Aweigh Waltz You Saved For Me Euryanthe Overture Thunderer Semper Fidelis Star Spangled Banner and more.
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C. V. Sperati
Fillmore
Oklahoma
Hammerstein
March
Sousa
Ye Banks and
Braes O
Bonnie Doon
Grainger
Wild
Cornet
Walters
William Goblitsch
Paul Schulz
Ferd Schulz
Ayer
Medley
Lake
the Opera Mirror
Fantasia
Tobani
Concerts Slated at Grand Meadow High School Band
Grand Meadow Minnesota John Cravens will conduct the 46 piece Grand Meadow High School Band in an 8 p m summer opening concert on school grounds. The ensemble will perform weekly at a new location and has just returned from the Mason City Band Festival and accepted an invitation to the Minneapolis Aquatennial. Patrons are asked not to park on the grounds.
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Grand Meadow
Minn
John Cravens
Mason City
Minneapolis
Thill Installed in Adams Post
Adams American Legion Post 146 installed officers at the Conservation Club with Jack Thill as commander and Dallas Heeren adjutant. Other officers include Michael Raven first vice commander Glen Allen second vice commander and Vernon Schaefer Maurice Severson Arthur Osmundson Edward Anderson and Ervin Mullenbach. A steak dinner preceded the program with Joe Abbot in charge and Herbert Smith as installing officer. Guests included Commander Adams Stacyville Marvin Heman Commander Taylor Lyle and Norman LeVasseur.
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Vernon Schaefer
Maurice Severson
Arthur Osmundson
Edward Anderson
Ervin Mullenbach
Joe Abbot
Herbert Smith
Adams
Stacyville
Marvin Heman
Taylor, Lyle
Norman LeVasseur
New Receptionist at St Olaf Church
Miss Florence Kylen, formerly of Swea City Iowa, is named the new receptionist at St Olaf Church. A Waldorf College graduate, she studied business education and was active in Phi Theta Kappa and the a cappella Miss Kylen choir.
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Florence Kylen
Swea City
Iowa
St. Olaf Church
Waldorf College
Forest City
Phi Theta Kappa
Miss Kylen
Metalcraft, Inc
Mason City
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Salvation Army Donations Reported for April and May
Captain Cecil Dye presented receipts from the final board meeting before fall. Transients aided with lodgings 53 and meals 55, transportation 4, garments 124, shoes 14 pairs. Families received groceries 31, clothing 210, furniture 18, bread and pastries 70.
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Salvation Army
Cecil Dye
Falconer Completes 15 Day Air Force Active Duty Tour
Maj. George B. Falconer Jr. of Sheldon finishes a 15 day active duty tour at the Twin Cities Air Reserve Center in Minneapolis. He, an Austin teacher, attended the self taught Air Force Base Management School supervised by Lt Col Paul H. Ptacek of the University of Minnesota. The course aims to show how to use taxpayers money efficiently and cut non productive personnel procedures.
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George B. Falconer
Sheldon
United States Air Force
Twin Cities Air Reserve Center
Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis
Maj. Falconer
Austin
Air Force Base Management School
Paul H. Ptacek
University of Minnesota
Air Force
Radio Network Helps Check Forest Fires in Minnesota
A statewide radio network started in 1952 and now with 325 units aids Minnesota forest fire control. E. L. Lawson, forestry director, says radios speed fire reporting and dispatch crews and equipment within minutes. The system also supports civil defense by relaying airplane spotter reports.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
E. L. Lawson
Lawson
Gary Bellrichard Named House Page
Gary Bellrichard grandson of Mr and Mrs Henry Bellrichard and Mr and Mrs Herman Helland has been appointed page in the U S House of Representatives. Rep Zablocki announced the appointment June 16. He is a Bay View High School senior and an honor student who won the city 440 yard race and placed second in state in Madison in May.
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Gary Bellrichard
Henry Bellrichard
Herman Helland
U. S
House of Representatives
Rep. Zablocki
D-Wis
Gary
Bay View
Madison
Capitol
Real Estate Brokers Warned to Renew Licenses by July 1
St Paul report says Arthur Hansen state securities commissioner warned 6,300 Minnesota real estate brokers by letter Tuesday to renew licenses by July 1 or lose the right to do business in the state.
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ST. Paul
Arthur Hansen
Minnesota
Two California children die by suffocation found in refrigerator
In Austin the Alfred Kottner family learns of the death of Alice Harvey age four and her brother John age three in Redding California. They were discovered by their step sister after a two hour search. The Harveys, visiting Worthington and Austin, had been guests of the Kottners on April 23.
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Alice Harvey
John
Margaret Rudisill
Harvey
Alice
Kottners
Harveys
Worthington
Austin
Charles City
California
Famagusta Described By 14th Century Travelers
Famagusta an east coast Cypriot seaport noted by 14th century travelers as the world’s richest city in their accounts.
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Famagusta
Cyprus
Organizations Add to Magazine Fund at St Olaf Hospital
The Moose Auxiliary VFW Auxiliary Eagles Auxiliary BPOE Does and American Legion Auxiliary contribute to the hospital magazine fund. Magazines are delivered in a cart donated by the Military Order of Ladybugs and wheeled to patients at their bedsides.
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St. Olaf Hospital
Moose
VFW
Eagles
BPOE
American Legion Auxiliary
Military Order of Ladybugs
Grand Meadow Lutherans Head to Bible Camp at Green Lake
Youth from Grand Meadow Lutheran Church depart Sunday afternoon for Bible Camp at Green Lake in Spicer Minnesota. Attendees include Bonnie Sharon Linda Glynn Donna Nelson Diane Jennings Donna Johnson Orienne Olson Barbara Root Sharon Root and LaDonna Nelson.
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Grand Meadow
Minn
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AHS
Arm
Navy
Army
Marine Corps
Dexterous Club
Sterling Drugs
Walgreen Agency
Sterling Shopping Center
the Herald
Thill
Adams Post
Buick
Austin Daily Herald
Falconer
House Page
Russell Bellrichard
S&s. Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee
Alfred Kottner
S. Kenwood
Walt
Mapleview
Lifetime Guarantee
Pantoa
Goodyear
Plymouth
Ford
Chevrolet
Hudson
Nash
Studebaker
Dodge
Olds
Oes Mercury
Ponting
Madeon
Chrysler
DeSoto
Mercury
Packard
Cadillac
Sale Prici
BOB Smith Shell Service
Hopfe DX
Tenold Howe, & Tire CO
Carpenter, Iowa
North Ash Street
Thill Implement CO
Rose Creek, Minn
Osmundson Bros. Adams, Minn
Goodyear Service Store
North Main
Austin Auto CO
Drake Oil CO
Dexter, Minn
Smith’s Pure Oil Service
Main and
Oakland
Austin, Minn
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