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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1962
Page
6
New edition expands to 24 volumes with maps and revised articles. 134 outside experts reviewed every entry over a year, rewriting 35 percent of material and updating Census, space, and science topics. The overhaul aims to serve pupils from fifth grade to college level.
A weekly chart shows Stripper by David Rose taking No 1, followed by I Cant Stop Loving You by Ray Charles. Palisades Park by Freddy Cannon is No 3, Roses Are Red by Bobby Vinton No 4, and The Marvellettes’ Playboy rounds the top five. New entries include Wolverton Mountain by Claude King at No 11 and Wah Watusi by the Orlons at No 13.
AP reports George Maharis resumes Route 66 with Martin Milner after an eight week hepatitis break. He describes working long hours during recuperation and notes his rebound popularity with teens and music sales. He forecasts a potentially decisive third season amid NBC competition and ABC comedies.
The passage discusses dissatisfaction with a farm bill, criticizing high price supports and crop controls. Congressman Hagen denounces amendments favoring friends and constituents, urging a long range land retirement plan and a voluntary approach similar to the current feed grain program with 27 percent of acres idled in 1962.
The House Agriculture Committee approved a one year extension of the current emergency wheat and feed grain programs with minor changes. The substitute reduces payments to farmers who cut production and keeps penalties for not reducing acreage, while no penalties exist for overplanting feed grains if a 20 percent reduction is met for price supports and diversion payments.
The Weather Bureau forecasts July temperatures to run above normal across the northern half of the continental United States between the Rockies and Appalachians. The southeast and Pacific Coast are expected cooler, while Gulf states and the Pacific Northwest may see above normal rainfall and the northern area east of the Rockies subnormal rain. Near normal precipitation overall is anticipated.
Gordon McRae of Bemidji was sworn in as 9th Judicial District judge by Chief Justice Oscar Knutson. He will reside with his wife Viola Schelling in International Falls and succeeds retiring Judge J. J. Hadler. McRae began law practice in Bemidji in 1948, later joined Northwestern National Life in Milwaukee for two years, and returned to Bemidji in 1954.
American Lutheranism advances toward a unified structure as the Lutheran Church in America negotiates a new inter-Lutheran agency to serve all churches, potentially replacing the National Lutheran Council. Missouri Synod agrees to talks, with the American Lutheran Church also poised for action in October.
A New York report notes a soft drink company runs a national contest with a 10 karat solid gold dinosaur as top prize four inches high. Past prizes included a tropical island and a diamond doorknob. The company adds ten thousand dollars to the winner’s prize and urges buyers to imagine display value on a mantelpiece.
At its 11 day triennial convention the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod rejected a move to sever ties with the National Council of Churches. A proposal to create Lutheran Church Canada as a separate synod was deferred to 1965. Canadian congregations will vote in 1964 to seek autonomy. Canada has about 85 000 members in five provinces.
The Soviet Union announced that Alexander Puzanov, currently ambassador to North Korea, will become ambassador to Yugoslavia. Vasily Moskovsky will replace him in Pyongyang as ambassador to North Korea.
U S Navy Undersecretary Paul B Fay arrives in Bangkok Thailand from Saigon to begin a two day visit as part of a Far Eastern tour of U S naval installations.
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