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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1965
Page
4
Austin plans a three day Fourth of July celebration dubbed a safe and sane bang. East Side Merchants plus many groups host softball, parades, rides, water carnival, street dance and fireworks with proceeds to the Austin United Fund. Organizers aim to revive community Independence Day spirit.
Minnesotans may save about 30 million annually from a federal excise tax slash but much of that could return as higher Social Security deductions later. Governor Rolvaag and lawmakers considered a special session to explore replacing property taxes with an excise levy. The plan aims to ease high property taxes and attract new industry, though a sales tax remains opposed.
The piece notes a Cabinet level department to aid big cities with slums highways transit and crime will likely be created before Congress adjourns. It cites Senate action and predicts increased funding and more projects as urban populations grow toward 140 million. It attributes past fast aid to political support.
A column notes the Berkeley four letter word controversy has cooled as dirty word writers return to walls and male protest returns to barracks. It cites Gen Cambronne and Gen McAuliffe in a discussion of unprintable terms and historical bravado.
A retrospective note lists activities from 30, 20, 10 years ago. Scout trip to Wolf Point Lodge Crane Lake, Austin Legion delegates to Jaynesville, and Austin Country Club glass enclosure. Also mentions municipal band program and March 1944 bank debits.
A provocative anti Goldwater cartoon critiques the Arizona senator and links to Viet Nam fallout. The piece notes Franklin Roosevelt Jr’s mayoral bid and Elliott Roosevelt’s Miami Beach path, then covers Mower County DFL events led by Leo Reding and Mrs. Herman Jensen. It also discusses excise tax cuts, state revenue effects, and Proctor Minnesota open meetings amid voter pressure.
Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz floated a universal paid sabbatical for all workers, aiming to give a full year off with pay. He warned bugs exist but urged discussion for middle aged and older workers to pursue leisure or return to school. The idea mirrors broader labor goals alongside the 35-hour week, with unions eyeing longer vacations as a shared objective.
Highlights include Eisenhower’s 1945 New York parade return, 1846 Hoboken first organized baseball game, 1911 Pennsylvania first Motion Picture Censorship Board, and 1953 Rosenbergs executed. Also notes labor sabbaticals and a push toward a 35 hour work week amid evolving union talks.
An emigrant party crossing Death Valley in 1849 faced extreme heat and thirst. From the Panamint Mountains they looked back and one trader exclaimed Goodby Valley of Death, giving the region its historic name.
The Austin Social Security Office explains that paying a babysitter or other household workers $50 or more in cash in any three month period requires reporting earnings for Social Security. Domestics include maids cooks and caregivers including regular babysitters. Cash payments count for benefits even if some money covers room board or tokens.
Book review of When I Was Last on Cherry Street by Harry Roskolenko portrays a restless, radical figure roaming mid century America. The critic highlights Roskolenko as a visceral one man phenomenon shaped by poverty and agitator zeal, a Trotskyist in the 1920s and later a journalist after war.
Madison Wisconsin. Eugene M Emme historian of NASA told the University of Wisconsin Student Union that the space challenge began ninety months ago with Sputnik I and that within about fifty months humans will have been on the moon.
U S officials aim to restore resigned South Viet Nam Prime Minister Phan Huy Quat and remove officials who blocked his reforms. They view Quat as anti corruption and pro war, trusting his experience and networks while hoping for a cleaner government amid ongoing factional rivalries.
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