
Boomer’s Journal: The milkman cometh
Picture it. A 17-year-old, 185-pound farm boy at 7 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1962. The milkman cometh. Truman Hanson, in his younger years. Contributed photo Truman Hanson, a kid who graduated from Battle Lake High School in 1963, had his chauffeur’s license (today’s equivalent would be a CDL). The license was the first qualification for becoming a substitute milk route driver for the Battle Lake Co-op Creamery in the early ‘60s. However, in anyone’s right mind, the first qualif