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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1967
Page
4
The draft extension bill nears President Johnson's signature and offers limited changes. It shifts emphasis to 19 year olds, solidifies student deferments, and allows undergraduates to stay in school under scholastic standards until completion or age 24, preserving the general selective service framework.
The Defense Department now concedes that United States warplane pilots may have fired upon a Soviet ship in a North Vietnamese port on June 2, reversing an earlier Pentagon denial. The shift follows conflicting statements after the ship was hit and Soviet accusations.
The piece notes rising status and pay for college presidents, with Minnesota state college boosts up to 5000 dollars, and officials say more is needed to compete. Presidents increasingly receive top government appointments and public recognition surpassing some big corporate figures.
Opinion pieces compare urban lawn care to farming with mowers and weed killers. A Chicago firm tests computer weed control on farms and may someday assist homeowners, while Cal Griffith’s Twins firing of Manager Sam Mele prompts debate on baseball management and ethics.
A distorted OCR fragment shows religious quotes and a publisher notice for Thomson Newspapers in Austin Minnesota. It lists contact information for A Richard Gross, subscription rates, and mail delivery options but contains many garbled and repeated words.
New additions have stretched Austin's size with the newly platted property bringing 439 building lots. S. T. Neveln, exalted ruler of Austin Elks, left for Denver as a delegate to the National Elks convention.
Brief items cover a 1.2 million dollar school project cost overrun risk from sales tax on materials, a July 19 tax explanation meeting, social security timing in an election year, political quips, a tornado warning broadcast tweak, and light vignettes from IBM style ads to dairy farmer inquiries.
Washington report notes Teamsters leaders plan a two thirds vote to oust Jimmy Hoffa as General President. Move would elevate Frank Fitzsimons and seek reaffiliation with AFL CIO while Hoffa remains jailed and collects a pension.
Since ancient times this bird has been trained to catch fish. Fishing with cormorants is an important industry in China and Japan. Q What is the name given to a black cloud with rain coming down from it.
New York AP profile of H. Allen Smith author of Rhubarb and Son of Rhubarb. He remains sentimental about people and gruffly cynical about mankind at 59. He laments the fading era of American humorists and recalls peers like Benchley and Parker, arguing true humorists are social critics.
A forend view argues Moscow may bury the hatchet with Washington to seek peace in the Middle East but Moscow’s support for Egypt and Syria has slowed, revealing a clash between Russia’s security needs and its revolutionary aims and a shift in Arab expectations.
United States officials consider aid to Jordan after the Arab-Israeli war. Factors cited include Jordan losing territory and revenue, refugees, and King Hussein's role as a moderating ally. Officials note Jordan's military was largely powered by Western equipment and that rearming will be needed without allowing Soviet dominance.
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