Blooming Prairie Man on VFW Committee Named
Blooming Prairie resident James Olsen was named to the state Veterans of Foreign Wars rehabilitation committee for a three year term. At the Austin encampment, Lawrence Jensen of Minneapolis was elected commander, succeeding Thomas Letnes who became a national council member for two years. Letnes will serve District 12 on the national executive committee. Other officers include Ray Kesler Fairmont senior vice commander Edward Ofstie Zumbrota junior vice commander Joseph Jorgenson St Paul quartermaster Harold Nyman Miltona judge advocate Rev Max Matz St Paul chaplain and Dr Gilman Goehrs St Cloud surgeon. Committeemen elected were Gordon Cummins St Paul rehabilitation for five years and Carl Eckman Aitkin finance for five years. A hot race for judge advocate featured five candidates. Resolutions urged opposition to Hoover Commission changes, Korean veteran benefits equal to WWI veterans, a broadened veteran definition to include expedition campaign badges, and extending parental allowances to servicemen’s parents. District 7 was split into Districts 3 and 5, with a new district seven formed from their consolidation.
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James Olsen
Blooming Prairie
Minnesota Veterans of Foreign Wars
Austin High School
Lawrence Jensen
Minneapolis
Thomas Letnes
Neilsville
National Council
Letnes
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ray Kesler
Fairmont
Edward Ofstie
Zumbrota
Joseph Jorgenson
St. Paul
Harold Nyman
Miltona
Max Matz
Gilman Goehrs
St. Cloud
Gordon Cummins
Carl Eckman
Aitkin
Judge Advocate
Hoover Commission
Administration of Veterans Affairs
Congress
City council denies beer license fee relief request
Ten years ago the council adjourned vote refused a $200 licence fee cut for off and on sale 3.2 beer dealers. Also noted Austin Junior College won permission to train ten Navy Air Corps pilots. Twenty five years ago the Minnesota Supreme Court associate justice candidate W H Vanderburgh drew crowds in Austin amid a county vote swing of 1200 against him.
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Austin Junior College
Navy Air Corps
W. H. Vanderburgh
Minnesota Supreme Court
Austin
Mower County
Merle Began Killed in Fall From Roof
Merle Bagan 41 former Aus tinite died Saturday night in a fall from the roof of his Troy Center Wisconsin home while adjusting a television antenna. He lived on a farm near LeRoy as a boy. He served in the Navy during World War II and worked at Geo Hormel before moving to Troy Center after the war. Surviving are his wife Leona and daughter Renee 10. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Merle Bagan
John Jennings
Patrick Spellman
Austin
No Kin Sought for Milwaukee Transient Died in Bunker
Milwaukee authorities, amid a death at the Milwaukee Road Station bunker, search for relatives of Joffre Sargent of Chicago. A temporary SS card identified him. Chicago police say he stayed at a rooming house June 9 to 11. Fingerprints sent to the FBI for ID. the sheriff says burial likely here. The hatch reportedly fell on him as he tried to crawl out.
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Milwaukee Road
Albert Reinartz
Joffre Sargent
Madison
Chicago
Sargent
Austin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Emmons Holstein Completes 365-Day Production Test
Dolly Doris Carnation Draftsman a registered Holstein-Friesian cow owned by Gilmer Undahl & Sons in Emmons completes a year long production test. At four years two months she produced 540 pounds butterfat and 15,568 pounds milk, averaging about 20 quarts daily while milked twice daily. University of Minnesota supervision aided by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America.
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Dolly Doris
Mabel Legionnaire Heads First District
Odell Lee Mable was elected commander of the First District American Legion on Saturday. District vice presidents named were Harlen Burton Otanonna, George Spoo Stewartville, and Daniel Foley Wabasha. A L Fostenson Blooming Prairie was chosen finance officer and Rev Theodore Severtson Lanesboro chaplain.
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Owatonna
Odell Lee
Mable
American Legion
Harlen Burton
George Spoo
Stewartville
Daniel Foley
Wabasha
A. L. Fostenson
Blooming Prairie
Theodore Severtson
Lanesboro
Fire damages awning at Kolb's Bakery
Firemen believe a lit cigarette caused a blaze in the bakery awning at 1017 East Bridge. Damage remained confined to the awning with no injuries reported.
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Kolb’s Bakery
E. Bridge
Service Members News From The Herald Area
Allen L Hanson is serving aboard USS Floyds Bay AVP-40 in the Pacific theater. William D Pyburn has returned to Norfolk base after leave with his parents in Austin Route 1. Naval cadet David L Paul trained on USS Cabot near the Gulf of Mexico to qualify as carrier aviator. Pfc Laverne A Wendt is with the 370th Engineer Heavy Equipment Company at Rhine army post in Germany.
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Allen L. Hanson
GMSN
Louis Saman
Glenville
Anton Hanson
Adams
Floyd's Bay
Floyds Bay
c/o Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
William D. Pyburn
New Kent
Norfolk
J. A. Pyburn
Austin Rt. 1
David L. Paul
Cabot
Gulf of Mexico
Pfc
Laverne A. Wendt
Helen
Spring Valley
370Th Engineer Heavy Equipment Company
Rhine
Germany
Reinhard W. Wendt
Grand Meadow
Cooties Name Slate as VFW Meeting Ends
A. P. Osborne of Duluth was elected state commander of the Military Order of Cooties at the Minnesota VFW meeting in the Eagles Clubrooms. Other officers named include Leslie Cantrell and Henry Brunner with several Duluth and Minneapolis members serving in key posts. Resolutions urged opening Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Saturday while the group noted its hospital aid programs last year.
Mrs A E Kopplin Killed In Car Crash Funeral
Funeral services for Mrs. A E Kopplin 62 Wing North Dakota formerly Cora Christgau of the Sargeant Area will be held Thursday at St Johns Church south of Sargeant. Kopplin was killed and her husband seriously injured in an auto accident near Bismarck North Dakota. She is survived by her husband a brother Elmer at Byron and several other brothers and sisters.
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A. E. Kopplin
Wing
N. D
Cora Christgau
Sargeant
St. John’s Church
Red Cross Meeting Open to Members of Chapter
The Mower County Red Cross invites all members to the annual meeting on Monday, June 30. The session, announced Friday, is open to anyone with a Red Cross membership card. Any donor of $1 or more becomes an official member. Chapter chairman Glenn Kelley stresses the meeting is for all members to hear reports and participate.
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Red Cross
Mower County
Glenn Kelley
Iowa VFW encampment elects Dawson state commander at Mason City
The Iowa VFW encampment closed at Mason City on Sunday electing Clifford J. Dawson 51 of Davenport retired accountant and WWI II veteran as department commander with Council Bluffs chosen for the 1953 state convention host. New officers include Goosey Ramsell Sarcone Lillies Tilton Opsahl and Mrs. Thelma Gottschalk as auxiliary president. Other items note Masterson's five year sentence for stabbing at Des Moines Cathedral and political moves over liquor by the drink. local races include Boyle for GOP chair in the third district and Egloff criticizing city insect funds. The Good Samaritan Society bought the Deerwood Club to convert into a home for the aged and the Mason City Legionaires beat Carroll 7-3 to end a three-game skid.
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Iowa Vfw
Mason City
Vets
Clifford J. Dawson
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Leland D. Goosey
Marshalltown
Truman J. Ramsell
Eldora
G. J. Sarcone
Des Moines
Nick Lillies
Cedar Rapids
Arnold Tilton
Supreme Court
Ottumwa
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
Edward R. Boyle
Clear Lake
GOP
Third
Cerro Gordo County
Boyle
Robert Buckmaster
Waterloo
War
Ren Pattie
William C. Egloff
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
Deerwood Club
Cresco
Mason City Legionnaires
Roosevelt Field
Carroll
Area Sees Showers and Winds Across Regions
Weather across the area features sizeable showers and winds up to 30 mph, with Austin near 70 degrees. Heavy thundershowers hit parts of the Middle Atlantic states and Upper Mississippi Valley, while the Northern Rockies saw light showers and much of the West and New England stayed partly cloudy. Warm humid conditions persisted south of the Ohio River Valley and east of Colorado and New Mexico.
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Austin
Middle Atlantic States
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Mountains
West
New England
Ohio River Valley
Colorado
New Mexico
St Ansgar Woman Injured in Crash
A St Ansgar woman, Marie Wilke, suffered bruises in a two car collision on Highway 218 near the REA property. Her car traveled 225 feet after impact and hit a tree. Richard Auberry of Oakland Minnesota escaped injury. damages were $800 to Wilke and $500 to Auberry.
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ST. Ansgar
Rea
Marie Wilke
Richard Auberry
Oakland
Minn
Wilke
Auberry
Albert Lea crash injures two youths near Second Street
An Albert Lea couple aged 17 suffered non life threatening injuries when their car left Medary Street and struck a tree near Second Street. Richard D. Nelson had severe lacerations and Mary Lowry bruised elbow. Nelson was treated at St Olaf Hospital and released. Lowry was also released after X rays. The front end of the car was wrecked. Ervin Kosel pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and was fined or jailed. He had been involved in another three car collision on Water Street causing modest vehicle damage. a hit and run damaged a parked car on Franklin Street. Additional minor accidents were reported near Main and Mill and at Clark and Oak.
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Albert Lea
Medary
Second Street
Richard D. Nelson
St. Olaf Hospital
Mary Lowry
Richard
T. H. Nelson
Alice Ave
Mary
Irving Lowry
W. Clark
Ervin Kosel
Lyman Lane
Kosel
Jay
Fred F. Godfredson
W. Maple
David J. Matthews
Nicholson
Roy Lee Hamilton Jr
Adams
Main and
Mill
Marc Jancourt
Oakland
Jack Chesin
Mower Drive
Clark and
Oak
Winston A. V. Young
Bernard Lenoch
Monroe
Crestwood Cow Sets 10 835 Mark at Crestwood Farm
A Guernsey cow named Lu from Avon Farm owned by Carl E Kehret of Crestwood Farm produced 10835 pounds of milk and 503 pounds of butterfat in 317 days. Lu is daughter of Boulder Bridge Distinction, a noted Guernsey sire with 30 descendants in the club’s performance list, under supervision of the University of Minnesota.
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Guernsey
Avon Farm
Carl E. Kehret
Crestwood Farm
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Boulder Bridge Distinction
University of Minnesota
Three Dogs and Three Kittens Up For Adoption
Three dogs and three kittens are available for adoption at the city dog pound. Dogs up for adoption include a one year old male German Shepherd, an eight week old female Shepherd pup, a one year old female black and white terrier, a two year old female blond cocker, and a one year old female golden Labrador. Two dogs are being held for identification.
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City
Crane Chapel Youths Head to Camp at Lake Minnetonka
Three carloads of youths from Crane Addition Community Chapel left for Midwest Youth Camp on Main Lake ten miles northwest of Minneapolis. About 300 teens from Northern Iowa and Minnesota attend the co sponsored event by Wesleyan and Free Methodist Churches. Rev. Joe Matt leads youth counseling as board member. Rev. Martin Cox is camp director. Orval Butcher directs music and teaching. Gregorio Tingson and Stan Morse, seen at an Austin Youth for Christ Rally, will join the program. Mornings cover classes, afternoons recreation, evenings vesper services and youth rallies.
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Crane Addition
Midwest
Maine Lake
Minneapolis
Iowa
Minnesota
Wesleyan
Free Methodist
Joe Matt
Community
Martin Cox
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Orval Butcher
Parts Taken From 2 Used Car Lots
Two used car lot owners report pilfering over the weekend. Gentle Motors Inc Mill and St. Paul and Gilbert Lasvell Equipment Co 1303 E Oakland say car parts were stolen. Police are investigating.
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Gentle Motors Inc
Mill and St. Paul
Gilbert Lasvell Equipment Co
Oakland
Howerd County Club Trip to Red Wing
The Happy Homemakers Project Club of Oakdale 1 2 and 3 Howard County Iowa chartered a bus at LeRoy on Thursday for a sightseeing trip to Red Wing hosted by the Red Wing Chamber of Commerce. Itinerary included visits to a pottery works LaGrange shoe factory a boys training school the Goodhue County Courthouse and a radio station. The group had a picnic supper at Colvill Park before returning to LeRoy.
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Leroy
Happy Homemakers Project Club
Oakdale
Howard County
Red Wing
Red Wing Chamber of Commerce
LaGrange
Boys Training School
Goodhue County
Farmers Funival
Colvill Park
Ing
Judge Fitzgerald Elected to State Municipal Judges Committee
Judge John Fitzgerald was elected to the executive committee of the State Municipal Judges in St. Paul. The judges met in conjunction with the Minnesota Association.
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John Fitzgerald
Tion
St. Paul
Minnesota Association
Bible School Pupils Present Program in Spring Valley
SPRING VALLEY The 54 Memorial Methodist Bible School pupils presented a program and showed handicraft work for their mothers Friday morning in the church parlors. The program was followed by a cooperative dinner. Teachers were Mrs. Vonne Hatley, Mrs. Gordon Lagerquist, Mrs. A. F. Spiess Jr., Mrs. De Meyer and Mrs. Harold Al-
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Spring Valley
Memorial Methodist Bible School
Vonne Hatley
Gordon Lagerquist
A. F. Spiess, Jr
de Meyer
Harold al
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Emmons Holstein
Mabel Legionnaire
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Herald
Korea
C. D. Paul
N. Greenwich
Naval Cadet Program
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Corpus Christi
Tex
A. P. Osborne
Duluth
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eagles
Osborne
Les Cantrell
Henry Brunner
Jens Rasmussen
A. M. Madigan Winona
Robert Brown
W. W. Preston
Excelsior
E J. Cloar
T. W. Fahlstrom
Hopkins
Owen Papke
Mankato
C. L. Midlam
Lady Gold Bug
Carolyn Baker
A. M. Madigan
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Adeline Paul
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Rose Greay
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Nellie Gibb
Buttinsky
Herbert Schmidt
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Glady Ritzke
Milwaukee
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Veterans Hospitals
VFW
Red Cross Meeting
Joseph Helebrant
Louis Andrew
Charles Heald
N. Main
Bill Tarby
Wm. Holton
Martin Jorgenson
E. Oakland
Alvin T. Yeadon
Leonard Anderson
Crestwood
Crane Chapel
Howerd County Club
Judge Fitzgerald
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KAUS
Leuthold-Peterson
Edith Hansen
Chuck Hall
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