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PHONE TROUBLE CAUSED BY STORM

Total of 140 Telephones Out of Order in City. Number of Rural Lines Also Out. ———— STORM CAUSED DAMAGE TO ELECTRIC LIGHT LINES ———— Heavy Storm Hits Hennepin County- Two Killed and Num ber Are Injured. Rainfall 1.45 Inches. ———— The first heavy rainfall of the sea-son struck New Ulm and vicinity about six o’clock Tuesday evening. The water came down in torrents for nearly an hour. The total precipitation was 1.45 inches. The fall was accompanied by considerable wind, which caused damage to the telephone lines in this city and vicinity, as well as ...

Soaring – Pilots compete at Sleepy Eye

SLEEPY EYE — SLEEPY EYE-Thirty gliders from seven states have been soaring over southern Minnesota this week and will continue to do so through Friday. It’s part of the Region Seven soaring championships at Sleepy Eye Airport. GLIDER PILOTS from seven states began arriving as early as ...

Bars promise changes

The owners of Joey’s Bar and Shorty’s Place promised city officials Friday to try to help correct problems occurring outside their bars. The owners, Joey Franta and Roger Schnurrer, said they would be present at their bars Friday and Saturday nights and their bars would close at midnight. The officials had suggested the owners’ presence at the bars was important during crucial hours. The meeting between Franta and Schnurrer and four city officials was organized at the direction of the City Council to try to solve behavior problems outside the bars on which, city officials ...

Bert in Guard

For the first time in 104 years, the New Ulm unit of the National Guard has a member who is a woman. Spec. 5 Alberta V. Marth of St. James is also the first full time technician to be hired by the local unit. In order to get her through, the unit’s battalion had to be reorganized and ...

Viet doctor to practice in Winthrop

WINTHROP- A Vietnamese husband and wife doctor team, who will be practicing in Winthrop, are scheduled to arrive in Minnesota this week. Dr. Tien Than and Dr. Thi Nhu Bui, refugees from South Vietnam, along with their five children, are in New York this week where they are being processed with other refugee medical personnel. THE TIEN THAN family is being placed through Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and is being sponsored by First Lutheran Church of Winthrop. They will be among the first families to be resettled in Minnesota under the Lutheran Social Service program. The ...

EIGHT-POUND WALLEYE

EIGHT-POUND WALLEYE was caught by Mrs. John Rewitzer Jr.of New Ulm in the Minnesota River here opening day Saturday. She also caught a half dozen catfish and a two-pound sandpike. (Photo by Steve Kohls) New Ulm Daily Journal - May 22, 1975