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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1957
Page
10
A 49 ton Washington National Guard tank became mired in a creek bed between Poulsbo and Bangor, delaying a tank driver training course. Guardsmen from Camp Murray spent five days freeing the vehicle.
The article notes that sound travels about 16 times faster in steel than in air, making steel the quickest medium for sound transmission among common substances.
Austin Herald lists film offerings at Paramount Outdoor State and Sterling venues for June 1957. The schedule features The Kettle's on Old McDonald’s Farm and Dog In The Orchard at Paramount, The Giant Claw and The Night the World Exploded for multiple showings, Toward the Unknown and Kiss Me Kate outdoors, Shepherd of the Hills and Mouseum at Sterling, True Story of Jesse James at State, Track the Man Down and Scandal Incorporated, Apache Ambush and Fighting Trouble, with Stan Laurel and the Three Stooges among cartoons.
Twenty six people completed a nine weeks training in first aid sponsored by the Red Cross in Spring Valley and received certificates. Participants included Bernard Briggs Walter Christianson Mary Jo Dathe William Gritzner Kathryn Hagen Ralph Hagen Edna Hagen William Hammes Lorraine Johnson Lois Jorris Vincent Keenen Melvin Kellogg Rosalie Kruger Kenneth Moon Daniel Norton Helen Ostrud Winfield Ramaker Rodney Rudd Joan Ruzzier Lou Schedean Robert Schedean William Simon Evelyn Weihel and Hugh Willmarth. Dean Bartz and Charles Gritzner Boy Scouts earned first aid badges for completing the course.
James E. Smrkovski valedictorian of Grand Meadow High School will join five student teachers next year. He accepted a 1300 dollar yearly scholarship to study with and tutor a blind and partially deaf student at St Thomas College in St Paul. He hails from Ostrander, Minnesota, and will study electrical engineering with Jack Boyer of Wadena, who attended a New York school for the blind last year.
Four Austin pianists Steve Gentle Jr Delbert Saman Carolyn Olson and Karen Lane are chosen to perform in the 10 piano concert Monday as part of the 56th annual Minnesota Music Teachers Association convention at the University of Minnesota. Attending teachers include Mrs Charles Painter Mrs Harold Stupka and Mrs Chester Reistad.
The 4 H Jamboree formerly the Soybean Festival runs July 5-7 in Blooming Prairie Minnesota. Kiddies Day begins at 10 a.m. with about 75 candidates for Kiddies Day king and queen. Parades, talent eliminations, and coronations occur daily with 2 p.m. parades and 9 p.m. coronations including 130 marching units in the final parade.
A 17 year old from Boston tied to a car theft spree is in Rochester custody. He stole a Hampton Iowa car, then a LeRoy vehicle, then Knight’s car before returning to Rochester. Authorities recovered the Hampton and LeRoy cars and traced the Rochester car during the pursuit.
In New York Ethel Merman agrees to visit Washington for future shows after a Congressional Club breakfast plea from Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower and Mrs. Earl Warren. The star of Happy Hunting had avoided touring after Broadway runs but now promises Washington appearances to 600 guests.
In Roanoke Virginia the Ministers Conference adjourned quickly after a motion proposing that ministers grow beards for the city's Diamond Jubilee triggered the session's end.
Fly, bait and spinning instruction will resume Monday at 6 p.m. at the new East Side Lake dock. Rain cancelled sessions for the past two Mondays. In the last two weeks instructors Henry Farris and Carl Nelson fished well with trout, smallmouth bass, and Nelson catching walleyes on the Mississippi. Instruction is free and open to all, with or without gear.
New Broadway trend of alternates replacing leads spreads to animals. Robert Weede and Rex Harrison, off schedule, are joined by Salomey of Li'l Abner as another porker substitutes weekly matinees while Salomey appears in film shorts.
A bright multicolored Mallard attracted the resident white ducks at Theta Pond on the Oklahoma A&M campus. The colors stirred the white ducks to leave their mates and the mallard chose to extend his stay instead of continuing south.
Stanton Delaware trainer Lester Bedwell has four South American bred horses in training at Delaware Park. Invicto Nereo Mandolin 2nd and Patotero owned by Venezuelan Jose F Liccardi have won on Maryland circuit and Atlantic City circuit.
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