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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1973
Page
2
Vital Statistics lists several residents with survivors and relatives in Sioux Falls Mason City Austin and surrounding areas. Multiple obituaries note deaths Oct 1973 with services planned across Austin Lyle and Fremont area churches and Worlein funeral home arrangements.
Harold Sprandel and family express sincere thanks to neighbors, friends and relatives for help during illness and after the passing of June V Sprandel. Special thanks to Rev Harold Luecke and medical staff at St Olaf Hospital and to Ladies Aid Circle No 4 of Our Saviors Lutheran Church of Lyle for memorials, flowers and food. May God bless all.
Hospitalized individuals include Nicholas Fink of Rose Creek with medical needs, Mrs. Gene Barth at 1009 13th Ave NE for surgical care, and Mrs. Robert Keating of the Austin area at 1406th Ave NW in St. Joseph Hospital Mankato Minnesota for surgical treatment.
The U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington operates as the world’s largest printing plant, renowned for its scale and national printing capabilities.
U.S. District Court Judge Lee P. Gagliardi postponed the Mitchell and Stans trial to January 7 after prosecutors said the White House would decide within two weeks whether to provide documents related to former White House counsel John W. Dean III. The government seeks Dean's statements and tapes potentially blocked by executive privilege, in a probe tied to a $200,000 Vesco contribution alleged to influence investigations.
In the Sinai desert the Saluki once a hunter of gazelles becomes a Bedouin family pet. Israel’s Yigal Selah notes drought and overhunting have decimated wild game, leaving Salukis to survive on rats and family rations. Sinai Saluki differs from European types, heavier with stamina for long chases. The breed dates back 7,000 years, with ties to Egyptian tombs and Crusader-era introductions to Europe.
Elizabeth Witheridge author of several children's books will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday to the Sumner Community Group in the Sumner School auditorium. She will visit Sumner School children earlier, then address parents and interested people from Austin. All are invited to attend future meetings as well.
Government planes and heavy artillery pounded positions from which North Vietnamese and Viet Cong gunners were suspected of lobbing shells into a division base camp north of Saigon, the South Vietnamese military command announced today.
A truck driver, Robert Roy Davey aged 44 from Des Moines, died when his semi trailer plunged into the Mississippi River after hitting the Dartmouth Bridge near the University of Minnesota exit. The crash halted westbound I-94 and a ramp for about four hours. Earlier, Daniel N. Lutthens, 21, of Rochester, died in a downtown Rochester collision between a motorcycle and a car Monday night.
DETROIT AP Yes Old MacDonald would wait two years to sell at Detroit s Eastern Farmers Market once failing and losing money Three years of murals revived the city owned market drawing merchants and customers Watermelons pigs chickens cattle tomatoes loom in oversized art boosting business and keeping the market alive
Washington area riders increasingly avoid the central city. The Road Information Program says millions of metro workers drive to work and back without entering the city. By 198, suburb to suburb travel will exceed half of local work trips, TRIP reports. In Washington, 41 percent of commuters never enter the city, up from 30 percent a decade ago.
The 12 minute parking penny slots were removed in Douglas Arizona near the Mexican border. A Mexican five centavo coin, worth a third as much, fit the old meters but now only nickels and dimes are accepted.
The Supreme Court deepened its split over obscenity with four justices accusing the court of vague standards that leave police and judges to interpret prurient interest and patently offensive material. Justice Douglas joined by others criticized last June’s ruling as creating vague tests while the court processes 11 new obscenity cases and remands a Montgomery Alabama material sale case for reconsideration.
A Brazilian airliner crashed near Santos Dumont airport. More than 20 people were rescued from the fuselage before the plane sank after about 10 minutes afloat. The Japanese made Samurai with Rolls Royce engines operated a shuttle flight to an interior city.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling prohibiting liquor sales on Amtrak trains crossing Kansas. It rejected Amtrak's claim that the ban would seriously harm passenger train service nationwide as a viable alternative to interstate travel.
In the South African Medical Journal an editorial calls for a firm scientific stand on acupuncture. It urges that acupuncture either be subjected to objective controlled studies or be dismissed from medical discussion.
A historical note outlines the Sea of Galilee as a freshwater lake measuring about 14 miles in length and up to eighty miles in width, highlighting its geographic scale.
SMITH CENTER Kansas AP balloonist Malcolm Forbes landed eight miles east of the geographical center of the continental United States after leaving North Platte Nebraska. Forbes editor of Forbes Magazine set a 13 hour 5 minute endurance record for his balloon class and had earlier logged a 213 mile leg Casper Wyoming to Gurley. He plans to continue toward the New Jersey coast from Coos Bay Oregon.
Markets bulletin dated Tuesday October 23 1973 notes Hor mel paying for hogs graded No 3. Butcher hogs sold at 41.00 to 41.25 dollars per hundredweight.
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