Community Band Seeks Players for City Recreation Program
The 1935 era community band led by Richard Weis gram and Mardy An derson offers Wednesdays rehearsals at Ellis Junior High School. Sponsored by the Park and Recreation department, Austinites may join via the recreation office Tedrow or attend the next rehearsal to borrow the old municipal band library and instruments.
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Bhased
Richard Weisgram
Mardy Anderson
Park and Recreation Department
Ellis Junior High School
Tion
Tedrow
Duplicate Bridge Club Prepares for National Tournament Event
The Austin Duplicate Bridge Club, meeting Wednesdays at the Elks Club, plans four weeks of activity led by president Don Stillwell. On March 20 a sanctioned game honors Dr. Walter O. Lundberg for life master status. A March 27 master point game and April 3 tournaments follow, with proceeds aiding the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Institute of Logopedics.
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Austin
Walter O. Lundberg
Hormel Institute
American Contract Bridge Club
Lundberg
St. Louis
National
Multiple Sclerosis Society
The
Institute of Logopedics
ACBL
Two Drivers Tagged After Intersections Crash Probe
Police investigated three intersection crashes and a rear end collision on icy streets Wednesday. George M. Murphy of St Paul was cited for failure to yield at 10th St and 2nd Ave NE. Damages ranged from 45 to 300 dollars with four drivers named including Bryant, Lee, Swaney, Rathke, Wilkie, and Thompson amid the weather sparked incidents.
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George M. Murphy
St. Paul
Margaret A. Bryant
1St Ave
10Th St
2Nd Ave
Bettie M. Lee
3Rd St
Dennis Ames Swaney
17Th St
2Nd St
Mary Jane Thompson
Oakland
Bryant F. Rathke
4Th Ave
Lowell G. Evans
Hayfield Council reviews old post office remodel plan
Hayfield Minnesota council studied remodeling the old post office for possible use as a municipal liquor store. Costs were estimated at 12500 for construction and 7000 for fixtures with plans by Joe Wechselbaum and Fredricksen attending a three day mayoral conference at the University of Minnesota.
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Hayfield Council
Mayfield
Minn
Hayfield
United States Public Health Service
Jeee Fredricksen
University of Minnesota
Minnesota League of Municipales
Fredrick Moss
Minneapolis
Joe Wechselbaum
Rochester
Drive-In Fire Service Now
Austin firemen extinguished a car fire at a fire station after a driver brought the vehicle in around 1 45 p m. Lawrence Larson of Lyle reported his car ignited by a cigarette dropping onto the seat cushion and the blaze was put out with a hand pump in minutes.
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Austin
Lawrence Larson
Lyle
Cedar Valley Council Posts 6 Percent Scout Membership Gain
The Cedar Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America reports a 6 percent membership rise in 1962, from 4671 to 4931, the second highest gain among Region X councils. At the March meeting in Albert Lea, new district scout executive Wes Swensen was introduced, and the board discussed a $250,000 Luck Scout Camp capital fund drive to be completed by June 30.
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Cedar Valley Boy Scout Council
Albert Lea
Minn
Cedar Valley
Spamland
Mower County
Austin
Wesley J. Swensen
Swensen
Hibbing
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
Wisconsin State College
Superior
Luck
Wis
William Darragh
Chicago
Ketchum
Cedar Valley Council
Council
Camp Cedar Point
Fairmont
Faithful Beaver
North Star
Cedar Valey
Social Security Coverage Explained To Kiwanis Club
Miss Leonora Hise outlined Social Security goals and operations to the Kiwanis Club at the Red Cedar Inn. She noted coverage rose from 1 in 10 to nearly universal, with benefits increasing from 40 to 127 dollars for retirement.
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Kiwanis Club
Red Cedar Inn
Leonora Hise
Mower
Freeborn
Steele
Dodge
Hise
Truck Hits Snow Plow Near Corning Police Log
A two ton truck driven by Harold Schriever 28 of 2006 10th St SW sustained 250 damage after colliding with Alland Brothers Construction Co motor grader Wednesday at 9 50 am about 13 miles northwest of Austin Sheriff Doyle Lindahl said Myron Cochran 29 of Austin Rt 1 was snow plowing near Red Oak Grove church yard when he backed onto County Road 36 48 feet south of Adolpho Township road intersection The truck hit the grader rear wheel then slid 33 feet none injured Chief deputy Dale Rolfson investigated the crash.
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Harold Schriever
10Th St
Alland Brothers Construction Co
Austin
Doyle Lindahl
Myron Cochran
Austin Rt. 1
Red Oak Grove
Adolpho Township
Schriever
Dale Rolfson
May Modernize Disposal Plant at St Ansgar
St Ansgar Iowa council weighs modernization of a 1920s sewage plant built for about 1000 residents. They will hire an engineer to survey the system and make recommendations as population and modern appliances strain capacity. The plant west edge site, run by city engineer Frank Griga, discharges effluent to a drain bed.
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ST. Ansgar
Iowa
Frank Griga
JC Expects Enrollment to Jump 10 Percent
Austin Junior College anticipates about a 10 percent rise in spring quarter enrollment over last year. Cumulative enrollment this year reaches 582, an eight percent increase from the previous year. Registration for spring quarter is set for Monday and Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the college library.
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Austin Junior College
County Board Sets Bidding on Purchases
Mower County Board of Commissioners will open bids on items March 13 at 3 p m and March 26 at 4 p m Bids on sectional concrete pipe culverts channel beams bridge timber hardware and addressograph and graphotype machines for county offices in the courthouse March 26 bids on bituminous materials and calcium chloride
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Mower County Board of Commissioners
250 Attend Chamber Stock Clinic
About 250 livestock farmers attended a meat animal clinic at Crane Pavilion Mower County Fair Grounds. Sponsored by the Austin Chamber of Commerce, the event covered diseases and parasites causing income loss with live demonstrations by University of Minnesota experts and local veterinarians.
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Crane Pavilion
Mower County Fair Grounds
The
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
University of Minnesota
Austin Veterinary Clinic
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
County Extension Service
Henry Griffith
L. J. Butman
Don Hasbargen
Carroll Plager
Dr. Griffith
Don Lucas
Penkava arraigned in third degree murder case
Richard Gene Penkava 22 of rural Austin appeared in Municipal Court and was arraigned on third degree murder charges. He requested a preliminary hearing set for March 29 at 9 am and faces return to St. Cloud Reformatory with no bond set. The indictment links Penkava with Kenneth Tenney and Shirlee Owens in supplying liquor used to rob Donald Shuck, who died June 3, 1962, from acute alcoholism. Tenney, already imprisoned, was arraigned earlier. Owens and Barbara Grantham fled before federal warrants were issued and were later arrested in Omaha with bond set at 2500 each.
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Richard Gene Penkava
Austin
Fred Vogel
Penkava
William Bandler
Vogel
St. Cloud Reformatory
Wallace Sieh
Kenneth Robert Tenney
Brownsdale
Shirlee Anne Owens
Albert Lea
Tequilla
Donald Shuck
1St Drive
Shuck
Tenney
Stillwater
Doocy’s Recreation
Shirlee Owens
Shakopee Reformatory
Barbara Granthan
Oma
Neb
U. S
A. Z. Donato
Omaha
Shirlee Ann Owens
Barbara Grantham
William Ries
Prior Lake
Minn
Sioux Falls
Northwood Worker Killed in Truck Accident
Oliver Mandt a 60 year old Northwood city employee died after the raised bed of a dump truck collapsed onto him in a city park snow dump. He had worked ten years for the city and is survived by his widow a daughter a son a sister three brothers and four grandchildren. Funeral services are planned for Friday at First Lutheran Church with burial at Sunset Rest Cemetery. Bakke Funeral Home handles arrangements.
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Northwood
Iowa
Oliver Mandt
Mandt
5Th Ave. North
Mabel
Donna Flatness
Glenville
Minn
Alfred
Cedar Falls
Mable Mandt
Lake Mills
Rey
Gilbert
Martin
First Lutheran Church
Sunset Rest Cemetery
Bakke Funeral Home
Rural-Urban Conference Set Sunday
A panel discussion on agriculture sponsored by a citizens group will be at 8 p m Sunday in Queen of Angels Church Hall. It will cover agriculture's role in the economy family farms cooperatives collective bargaining surplus control and rural development. Speakers include Francis Lair Albert Lea Vic tor Holst and Mrs Fred Gravenish. A social hour follows for the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens
Queen of Angels Church Hall
Francis Lair
National Cooperatives, Inc
Albert Lea
Victor Holst
National Farm Organization
Fred Gravenish
London 4H Club to Tour Lee Machecek Farm
The London 4H Club will host a livestock tour at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lee Machecek farm.
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London
Lee Machecek
Junior High Drama Club Stages Heidi
The Junior High School Chil dren's Theater presented Johanna Spyri's Heidi to 700 seventh to ninth graders in Christgau Hall this morning. Directed by Miss Betty Plummer, the two performances featured a 13 member cast all from junior high and student-built sets.
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Johanna Spyri
Heidi
Christgau
Betty Plummer
Mary Brewster
Don Narveson
Tedda Thomas
Lowell Pickett
Kathy Lane
Mary
Hayfield High Chorus Stages Pop Concert
Hayfield Minnesota Hayfield High School Chorus presented a Sunday concert drawing several hundred attendees. The mixed chorus performed show tunes folk music and pops with solos duets and group numbers. Notable acts included Cheryl Bjaastad Carolyn Wilson Sharon Dahle Ann Scharbere Debbie Carstens Dorothy La Frenz Duane Johnson Diane Demmer Cleone Gilbertson Sarah Baken Beverly Gilbertson Barbara Heydt Carol Kruger and the Girls Triple Trio. Gary Lohn gave a hulU performance under the direction of Miss Nancy Zeller with Barbara Heydt and Sarah Bak en at the piano.
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Hayfield
Minn
Hayfield High School
Cheryl Bjaastad
Carolyn Wilson
Sharon Dahle
Ann Scharbere
Debbie Carstens
Dorothy la Frenz
Duane Johnson
Diane Demmer
Cleone Gilbertson
Sarah Baken
Beverly Gilbertson
Barbara Heydt
Carolyn Evjen
Su Anne Senjem
Naomi Paulson
Linda Hamilton
Carol Kruger
Odette
Gary Lohn
Nancy Zeller
Riceville Junior Class Play Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Riceville Community School presented the junior class play Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the high school auditorium on Monday and will perform again Friday. The pageant showcased student actors in period costumes with a light crowd expected for the second showing at Riceville, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riceville
Iowa
Riceville Community School
Pacelli Orchestra Chorus rehearse for God’s Trombones concert
Pacelli Orchestra chorus rehearses for a Tuesday performance of God’s Trombones a dramatic musical based on James Weldon Johnson poetry. Thirty-one orchestra players join a 90 voice chorus, with Solos for flute clarinet horn trombone. Tickets sold by chorus members.
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Pacelli Orchestra
Ray Ringwald
James Weldon Johnson
Janet Horton
la Rita Callahan
Judith Tate
Sarah Seufert
Sue Anne Meineke
Mary Bradley
Catherine Horton
Kathleen Lynch
Mary
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Jack Tedrow
Edwin Arnold
Duplicate Bridge Club
Carl Young
Robert Kuhnist
Gordon Anderson
R. Norman Miller
Mahlon Anderson
Byron Borgeson
Harvey Fiala
Norbert Schmitt
Grant Williams
Robert Thomson
William Goblitsch
Fast - West
Robert Thill
William Fox
Tom LaClair
Ike Atwood
Ray Arett
J. W. McGuiness
Robert Kuhn
Drive-In Fire Service
Austin United Fund
Baltimore
Austin’s
Minnesota
Kansas City
Herald
Corning
James L. Olson
Lawrence Pint
Northwood Street
Pacelli High School
Hayfield HS Chorus
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