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Here’s a thrilling and informative film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive. The 60′s went well for Hormel. In 1961 Little Sizzlers sausages were introduced. In 1962, Hormel constructed a 75,000-square-foot sausage manufacturing building in Austin, Minnesota. Cure 81 hams,a skinless, boneless, cured ham with the shank removed hit the shelves in 1963. In 1964, the Hormel Corporate Offices were opened just to the north of Interstate 90 in Austin and in 1965, the same year this charming film was released, R.F. Gray took over as chairman and M.B. Thompson became president and. I imagine George A. Hormel was slept well in his blue-grey marble and pink granite lined sarcophagus knowing these fine men were in charge. In 1967, the Hormel Foundation, in cooperation with the National Merit Scholarship Program, started a college scholarship program for the children of Hormel employees. Partial scholarships were awarded through this program on the basis of the student’s test scores, academic records, financial need, and school and community involvement. In 1969 a separate building to house the growing research and development department was built northwest of the corporate office in Austin. Soon after the building was completed, Gray resigned from the company and Thompson replaced him as chairman. Yes, the 1960′s were an exciting time for Hormel. The decade also saw the release of such popular product lines as Famous Foods of the World and the fully cooked sausage product, Brown’n Serve.
