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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1977
Page
4
The Austin Daily Herald emphasizes its 85 year history as a fair impartial newspaper serving Southern Minnesota and North Iowa. It pledges to promote agriculture labor and industry and to avoid political favoritism or bias toward any group or individual.
The 1977 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant arrives at Riverside Arena Austin with 25 contestants contending for more than 3000 in scholarships. Return of Dorothy Benham Miss America 1976 and Terry Meeuwsen Miss America 1973 plus former Miss America USO troupe members join Thursday and Friday preliminaries and Saturday coronation.
The agreed voluntary limits on Japanese color TV exports to the United States cut from 2.96 million to 1.75 million over three years, aiming to curb job losses while preserving broader free trade. The pact also prompts Japanese investment in U.S. plants, promising American jobs as Carter pushes similar accords with other nations.
The last Railway Post Office route from New York to Washington ends its final run in June marking the end of an era once boasting 1,500 RPOs and 30,000 workers. After decades of decline since the 1950s, mail will be transported by rail truck and air with sorting done at origin and destination post offices.
City council bans rowdy tailgating at Metropolitan Stadium at the request of the stadium manager and the Metropolitan Sports Area Commission. The rule narrows activities of troublemakers while allowing responsible tailgating to continue. The Bloomington council action aims to curb dangerous behavior and litter while preserving orderly fan enjoyment.
Hollywood reporter Michael Viner and wife Deborah Raffin were detained for seven hours by Hungarian police who seized passports camera and notes amid a charge of taking unauthorized pictures of a military truck. The incident followed a KGB arrest of Times correspondent Robert Toth in Moscow and mirrors growing Cold War tensions.
The piece outlines U.S. efforts to protect endangered species such as the snail darter, madtom catfish, and Furbish lousewort, with a $9 million appropriation for relocation and conservation. It notes opposition from labor and industry and discusses broader energy project delays tied to environmental action.
Leon Dibble of Austin Route 1 earned a place in a Butler Square exhibit in Minneapolis for a novel use of window shutters. Six $1,000 prizes and 21 merit awards were awarded in a Minnesota suggestion box contest open statewide to spur resource use ideas.
Sandra W Renli Mitchell of S. D. complains on Memorial Day that Oakwood Cemetery overflows with wreaths for the Unknown Soldier while Calvary Cemetery has none. She urges fraternal organizations to spare a wreath from Oakwood to honor Calvary and asks for prompt correction.
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