Caledonia Summer Festival Queen Named
Caledonia Minnesota Janice Schulte 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo Schulte was named queen of the Caledonia Summer Festival Saturday evening. Janene Rollins was first runnerup Connie Bunge second runnerup Kathy Danaher fourth place. In tractor pulling Don Bedtke Dover Minn won heavyweight and Malley 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
Malley
Soldiers Grove
Johnson Extends Food for Peace Program Two Years
President Johnson signed a law extending the Food for Peace program by two years. The measure was approved to continue aid efforts and support international food relief.
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Washington
Johnson
Sparta Elders Act Parking Lot Lights Changed To Mercury
The Sparta Common Council in a special session authorized a change order for Fanning Electric Co. to switch six quartz floodlights to 3,700-lumen mercury vapor ornamental lights for Market Square Parking lot at a cost of 1395 extra, but with lower operating monthly costs. A August 14 council meeting seeks public input on free or mentered parking.
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Sparta
Wis
Sparta Common Council
Fanning Electric Co
Market Square
Clarence Habhegger
Habhegger
Keith Kenyon
Allen Roberts
Mill Street
Roberts
Alma Center Dist School Opens with Workshops and Lunch Prices
Alma Center Wisconsin teachers will attend a two day workshop on August 22 and 23. Orientation for seventh and ninth grades is set for 1 p.m. Friday August 23. Regular classes begin at 8 30 a.m. and end at 3 30 p.m. Lunch tickets cost 1 10 for first through eighth grades and 1 35 for ninth through 12th. Kindergarten offers two sessions with a 25 cent snack. Parents will be notified which kindergarten class their children attend. A separate note recalls the great Boston fire of 1872.
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Alma Center
Wis
United School District 3
Humbird
Merrillan
Conservation Aid Named In Minnesota
Stillwater man Robert H. Rygg named assistant state conservation commissioner in Minnesota. At $16 000 a year, Rygg will supervise information and education, engineering, planning, business management, and boat and snowmobile registration bureaus. He aims to boost water safety and prioritize engineering projects. Rygg, 43, a Macalester College graduate, formerly worked for Hamm Brewing Co and chaired Connolly Shoe Co, Stillwater. He is married with three sons.
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Information and
Leirfallom
Rygg
Conservation Department
Macalester College
Nelson urges UW action to curb rural population decline
Senator Gaylord Nelson spoke at a Blair Jackson Trempealeau County Farmers Union picnic noting a University of Wisconsin forecast of a 10 percent population drop in Northern Wisconsin. He urged firm university action to arrest the rural exodus.
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Blair
Wis
Gaylord
County Farmers Union
Nelson
University of Wisconsin
Jackson
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Department of Rural Sociology
Sen
Jackson-Trempealeau
Newest Arrival County and Rural Decline Warned
Nelson warned Trempealeau County will face a five percent decline this decade and six percent next decade. He argued Wisconsin must act now to stem rural depopulation as towns lose residents to cities. He urged bold programs to boost agriculture industry and regional development.
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Trempealeau County
USDA Sees 50 Percent Hike In Buying Power
The Agriculture Department projects in 1980 that consumer buying power will be about 50 percent higher with a U S population near 235 million. Beef demand may rise to 120 pounds per person and wheat exports could reach one billion bushels annually.
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USDA
United States
Flight From Rural Areas Worries LBJ
President Johnson warned that neglect of the mass migration from rural areas to cities in the 1950s harmed the nation. He urged balanced development and said the country must face both urban and rural crises, speaking to National Association of Counties officials.
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Washington
Johnson
America
National Association of Counties
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