Caledonia Festival Queen named at Caledonia Summer Festival
Caledonia Minnesota January day Janice Schulte 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo Schulte was named queen of the Caledonia Summer Festival Saturday evening. First runnerup was Janene Rollins daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Rollins second runnerup Connie Bunge of Eitzen fourth Kathy Danaher. In tractor pulling Don Bedtke of Dover won heavy weight and Malley of Soldiers Grove won lightweight.
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Caledonia
Minn
Janice Schulte
Leo Schulte
Janene Rollins
Charles Rollins
Connie Bunge
Byron Bunge
Eitzen
Kathy Danaher
Claude Danaher
Don Bedtke
Dover
One Malley
Soldiers Grove
Johnson Signs Two Year Extension for Food for Peace
President Johnson signed legislation to continue the Food for Peace program. The law extends the program for an additional two years.
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Washington
Johnson
Sparta elders approve lighting change for Market Square lot
Sparta Common Council approves a change order to replace six quartz floodlights with 3 700 lumen mercury vapor ornamental lights at Market Square Parking lot. The add-on raises contract from 4 210 to 5 605, but operating costs drop from 95.25 to 33 per month.
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Sparta
Wis
Sparta Common Council
Fanning Electric Co
Market Square
Clarence Habhegger
Mhabhegger
Keith Kenyon
Allen Roberts
Mill Street
Roberts
Alma Center Dist School Opening Set
Alma Center Humboldt and Merrillan teachers attend a August workshop at Alma Center. Orientation for seventh and ninth grades is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday August 23. Regular classes start 8 30 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. Kindergarten classes run 8 30 to 11 15 a.m. and 12 45 to 3 30 p.m. Lunch prices are 1.10 weekly for grades 1 8 and 1.35 for grades 9 12.
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Alma Center
Wis
United School District 3
Humbird
Merrillan
Minnesota names Stillwater man as assistant conservation commissioner
Robert H. Rygg of Stillwater is named assistant state conservation commissioner, a new post created by the 1967 legislature. At 43, he previously led Hamm Brewing national promotions and chaired Connolly Shoe Co. He will oversee service bureaus including information education and boat registration with a $16 000 annual salary. He will focus on water safety education, project scheduling, and department budgeting. Rygg is Macalester College educated, an outdoors enthusiast, married with three sons.
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Walrath Street
Northern Engraving Co
Southside
Northern Engraving
Sparta
B and B Plumbing Co
Rygg
Conservation Department
Information and
Leirfallom
Macalester College
Nelson calls govern actions to halt rural Wisconsin population loss
Sen Gaylord Nelson spoke at a Jackson Trempealeau County Farmers Union picnic in Blair Wisconsin urging firm action after a UW rural sociology study warned of a 10 percent population decline in Jackson County and surrounding areas in Northern and Western Wisconsin.
Rural decline alarm prompts new farm and utility push
Nelson warned Trempealeau County and Wisconsin that migration will drop tax base and strain governments. He urged immediate action with bold programs to boost agriculture industry and rural development as towns lose residents to cities.
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Nelson
USDA Sees 50 Percent Hike In Buying Power
The Agriculture Department projects inexact long term trends for 1980 including a roughly 50 percent rise in consumer buying power and a U.S. population near 235 million with rapid growth among 20 to 34 year olds. It anticipates beef demand rising, wheat exports near one billion bushels annually, farm man hours growing to industrial levels, and increased farmer integration with industry via mergers and market consolidation. The note also mentions more lab derived additives for textiles and feed, and cites over 200 geysers in Yellowstone National Park.
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United States
LBJ warns of rural to urban flight
President Johnson told National Association of Counties officers that a future historian might call the era of mass rural desertion to cities in the 1950s America's greatest domestic failure. He urged balanced development of cities suburbs and rural areas to face both crises.
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Washington
Johnson
America
National Association of Counties
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