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City delays Beyer’s license vote

Beyer’s Bar will have its liquor license at least one more week. A hearing on possible revocation of the license was postponed Tuesday by the New Ulm City Council until May 13 at the request of the owner’s attorney. The council had notified Leslie D. Arens, license holder at Beyer’s, ...

Payne Hill upgrading requested

Sixty-one residents of south New Ulm petitioned the City Council Tuesday to put temporary blacktop on the Payne Street Hill near 12th S. The petition was not the usual type, signed by abutting property owners. It was rather signed almost entirely by people who live south of there and use Payne from 12th to 16th S. to get to town. “In its present condition,” the petition stated, “The Payne Street Hill is both dangerous and damaging to the vehicular traffic. “GRADING THE street is of very little benefit; within a day or two the ruts and holes reappear. We believe that ...

Vets regret money, time spent on Vietnam

“A Rift in American society has come to an end.” This is the view taken by one veteran, commenting on the end of two decades of military involvement in Vietnam. RANDALL KROENING, an attorney now associated with the law firm of Kunz and Mueller, was in Vietnam for a year, from December 1968 until December 1969,serving with the U. S. Army in military intelligence. Kroening was in Quang Ngai, the area where the My Lai massacre took place. “When I was over there I felt that it was more a civil war between the north and the south,” he said, “rather than a fight against the ...

Senator calls odds even for approval

ST. PAUL — “There is slightly better than a 50-50chance the legislature will appropriate a requested $173,000 for a Department of Natural Resources building near New Ulm.” That was the appraisal of one of the senators who may make the decision, Richard Fitzsimons, GOP-Warren. FITZSIMONS, who spent 10 terms in the House before being elected to the Senate last fall, is one of 10key members who may serve on a conference committee to reconcile differences between House and Senate on the DNR appropriations. He was one of several lawmakers contacted by a four-man New Ulm delegation ...

ELECT F. B. ANDREEN AS SUPERINTENDENT

Head of Ada Public Schools Chosen to Succeed Prof. Arnold Gloor at Board Meeting. ———— POSSESSES NUMEROUS GOOD QUALIFICATIONS ———— Served in U. S. Army as Lieutenant for Two Years During World War. Has a Family. ———— Prof. F. B. Andreen, superintendent of schools at Ada, this state, for the past five years, was unanimously elected to succeed Prof. Arnold Gloor, resigned, as head of the New Ulm public schools, at a special meeting of the board,of education, late Thursday afternoon. The new superintendent, in a message received by President Alfred ...

MURPHY GETS A TWO YEAR SENTENCE

Apprehended In Oklahoma After Jumping Bail In Two States. County Attorney T. O. Streiasguth has received a communication from the county attorney at Oklahoma City,Okla., in which he is informed that Charles Murphy, pickpocket, has pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny and has been sentenced to serve a term of two years at the State Penitentiary at McAllister, Okla. Murphy will be remembered here as being arrested last fall at the County Fair grounds on a charge of pickpocketing. He was released on $2,000 bail the date for his trial was set. When he failed to appear in court ...