Austin Daily Herald (Newspaper) - December 1, 1955, Austin, Minnesota The Weather Occasional snow warmer little change in low tonight 22-26. VOL. No. 132 AUSTIN DAILY HERALD 1955 Cry Traffic 703 Fatalities Single Copy 6c DECEMBER 1. 1955 Member Associated Press 28 Pages ACROSS THE NATION S-D Day Toll Mounts Youth Killed By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Safe Driving Day was but an hour and half old today when Minnesota recorded a traffic fatality which also blemished the year's perfect traffic record in the county in which the accident Harvey Lee 17, Minn. high school was killed at a. m. His in which he was riding left Highway 266 about 5 miles northwest of The machine hurtled into the I traveled 140 struck a farm service road approach and rolled j Barrett's death was the first i traffic fatality of the year in Nobles The accident came on the heels of a statement from Gov. Freeman in which he expressed hope sota would go through the day without Austin's S-D Record Clear at Noon Today New Benson Farm Plan Announced Congress Will Get 6-Point Program Next January CHICAGO of riculture Benson today a program for dealing Nov. 17. The total for i with the acute farm He j in By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With Safe Driving Day half ed in the Eastern time the national death toll from accidents stood at 14 At noon EST Ohio had four Lousiana and two and and New York one For comparative purposes the ted Press counted the traffic fatalities for Anderson Found Guilty in Fatal Car Accident the 24 hours was 69. In Illinois motorists today were warned of hazardous driving con- ditions in many areas in the north said it will be presented to Con- j gress in In a speech prepared for a ing of the Republican and central portions due to snow or freezing without lights smashed into the rear of a semitrailer near i on U. S. 40, killing Robert Austin motorists retained a clean i M- 44, of As of Minnesota had S-D Day record at noon today Ind. He died at a.m. EST as 61 fewer deaths than at the same spite light snow and freezing con- i he was being extricated from the point in 1954. The governor said j ditions which are making driving he was with this evidence of progress in our drive to cut the highway of injuries suffered in an auto cident Sailor Killed we get by this day with con- Less than 90 minutes after the ditions which were making driving i start Of S-D Day in Richard died in George Roope the i aid La 27-year-old St. Marv's Hospital at Rochester i should be highly j was killed when struck by a 1 They have done marvelously well accident occurred at a.m. thus I The city traffic record for three L. T. 22, of days before the start of S-D Day I was killed at a.m. EST today was The last 1 when he lost control of his car and dent to be reported to the police hit a culvert in Canton was j a Detroit today's record will be The fatality reported was he said President had recently approved In a car police said was the It 1. Stepped up surplus disposal and expansion of i I 2. A vigorous purchase gram to remove j 3. Enlarged soil I conservation and i n c e n live i S-D Day Editorial Is Cited An S-D Day editorial written by Dick former Austin Daily Herald area for the Marshall Daily this noon received special citation on the Good Neighbors radio The editorial was sent to sponsors of the which is broadcast over by a reader of the Benson ra e n t especially in drought 4. Expansion of the rural ment program for low-income farm i 5. Stepped-up sizing lower production new uses for farm and ex- a test since driving conditions are Donald 23, of Glens of the worst they have been all Y who lost his life when his Members of the Austin Junior car left a highway and struck a Chamber of Commerce were j near Glens Falls about 3 a.m. first hand the results of i EST. the Austin's S-D Day Attempt as they rode with police in patrol Today was the nation's second 6. A speedup in a 10-state Great Plains program to make better of wheat and grazing j In Preparation Benson said the now in was not ready for WASH KILLS They were taking two-hour attempt to go through 24 hours in shifts watching for that first without a traffic j win be no nostrum no which they are hoping won't few persons expect i no he S-D DAY on Page 26) Leirfallom Quits State GOP Post will be Answering repeated attacks Democratic leaders he said farm proposals of Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York have reached He said the Democrats have picked as the major domestic battlefield for 1950" after I failing in prophesying and attacking Eisenhower's Quack same people who shackled the farmer with price controls who sought to ram the Brannan plan down the throat of suddenly began ping up all the place with remedies and discarded EXPLOSION AND explosion in a paint store in Union N. early day sparked a fire which gutted three damaged four sent 21 ies fleeing into the streets and caused da mages estimated at more than Wire FAILS TO ARRIVE AT HONG KONG Still No Sign of Tenneson when the best possible BENSON on page 27) HONG KONG -A fourth Gl Chinese Red Cross had informed turncoat who decided to conic the British Red Cross that home after living in China was releasing him at his own re- failed to arrive here today as ex- Tenneson was captured in Korea U. S consular officials wailing in May 1951. He was one of 21 at border between China and Gls who refused to he colony said R. alter the armistice and instead 22-year old son of Mrs. Ho e ot not on the daily train from They there no tion when he The chose His ST. PAUL resigned today from his a year post as executive secretary of the Minnesota Republican The resignation from the post he has held since March 1 will be effective at the end of the In his letter of resignation to John Hartle of GOP quack state Leirfallom said he felt because of his personal and family situation that should i make a change to more nent He did I go into any detail about his future Hartle denied reports that fallom had been forced to re-sign because of dissatisfaction with his is not true at said was a mutual agreement between us when I someone says it seems a hired him that Tie would be free to bit strange for a man to tic on Main make calls for make a change if he felt he could cook and Adelor Capt. Dye and his alort lino is a talent God with ironing gave me and 1 believe that ox cry person should use the talent He has given no matter what it mav The U. S. Army wouldn't let her go further but she said a plane ticket was waiting for her son in Kong to bring him home for out shortly before the Court Orders Investigation A jury ended a vigil today as it returned a verdict ing Charles 17, guilty of criminal negligence in a fatal auto Judge A. C. Richardson ed sentence pending an tion by William county i bation Obviously tired after their Ions deliberation without the en women and five men filed into the district courtroom at on this S-D Day morning to report they had reached j The Harry ed the A poll of the showed all 12 con- Would Safeguard Schooling County Attorney Wally Sieh gested to the court that a pre- sentence investigation be made by He also recommended that who will be 18 next and who is a high school be allowed to finish high Judge Richardson said Anderson will be called for sentencing as soon as the county probation of- report is Kermit Hoversten who with er Bang represented the asked that leniency be shown both because of Anderson's age and the fact he has no previous The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben 511 was the driver of an auto in which a Yvonne 15, was fatally last Aug. 17 when the auto I failed to make a curve on the mouth avenue Gross Negligence Charged The state charged that son drove the auto in a grossly negligent and careless that it was traveling at a high rate of and that the lights went to live in Red mother was convinced her son had been thoroughly washed and flew to Tokyo last in the hope of seeing GOD GAVE HIM THE TALENT There was no word from ington whether anything else was waiting for With the other he was ably discharged from the Army after their decision to stay with the The three Mho came home last summer William A. Lev is E. Griggs and Otho G. Bell arrested by the Army for as traitors but were released Jurors received the case at p.m. They returned to the courtroom in the afternoon to ask the judge for additional involving principally the de- finition of several This at about the judge called the jury back to the and was informed it had not yet reached a unanimous He repeated the tions he had given them dav About 10 minutes Salvation Army Man Makes Quilts weeks he'll lend the and I embroider Hie BABY WILL NEVER SEE ITS FATHER HE'S with 20-year-old Mrs. Barbara an expectant holds a picture of her 24, who became Ohio's first Driving casualty when his new automobile ed into an abutment at high speed here early Mrs. holding a copy of Wednesday's Cincinnati pointing up Driving baby will never see its he's Indict 3 in Conspiracy to Defraud Uncle Sam ST. LOUIS Three including two former government officials who served during the Truman were in- today by a federal grand jury on a charge of conspiring to defraud the in the indictment were- Matthew J. former pointment secretary to former 55, has been with the Justice Department since 1934, ex- cept for military leave in World War improve think he found the job what different from what he ex- Working with volunteers as he has on this job is different from being head of a state ment with paid work took him away from his family quite a lot and he hasn't been too happy about Hartle said Leirfallom had about quitting some time ago but apparently made up his mind and other household during a recent hunting days at the hon The state chairman said he had law no one in mind at this time to replace j Leirfallom said he was quitting now so that party j tion might he complete in the year campaign He pledged his support to the Republican program and offered to help in the role of parly The resignation came on the eve of the Saturday meeting in apolis of the Republican State Central Committee which may give some consideration to naming a arrived in Austin from his Chicago home several days ago and him came one of his 27 It's a colorful one ing 1.728 cotton all and based on light He'll spoilt the Christmas holi of his and Mrs. Cecil Dye of the Salvation This is third holiday has been a Salvation Army worki r tor years ard his i making has been going on about the same of the scraps the Army which can't tie used else and a quilt is ished I it to ho needs it and lie says he has no use for The quilt lie's on is made of oM the ends to make a di ed. son in Austin and for the next few narrow ends are cut up lor to care fur throe that in an effort to make as much as possible as a mother would have it. he made their did the cooking and baking and some time for embroidery and when 1 was a he always ed to help my wanted to bake and Proof of his ity are first awards on rugs and cookies won at county Until his years was a cook in a cago restaurant for 15 But during the he had time lor Army and his the Supreme Court ruled this they reported they had month that the military couldn't ecj their try civilians for committed while in The government hasn't said whether it would prosecute them in the civilian return will leave 16 of the with the Chinese Reds A 17th, F. Douglas of died in GOVERNOR OK Wis. sin's Gov. Kohlor was released from University Hospitals BLAST KILLS FARMER POLK Iowa Karl 5d. Polk City was killed Wednesday in the explosion of a bottle gas heater while he was visiting at the home of a President Theron Lamar day night after what an aide called j neighboring George H. former chief of the tice department's tax division who was fired by and Harry I. former Kansas City lawyer previously indicted by the grand jury on a perjury Mentioned in the indictment as but not named as defendants were Ellis N. Slack and Trving Sf shoe manufacturer previously fined on a plea of guilty to evading ment of federal income The indictment accused the de- fendants of feloniously conspiring with each with Slack and Sachs and with other persons im- to thr grand jury de- fraud thr United In Atty. Gen. Browned said that an at- in the appellate of Vie Justice Department's tax divi relieved of duty a regular physical Mrs. Ramsey Secures Then Finds Ifs for a Friend The task of rounding up Cross office received a call from donors at all hours of the Spring ran have according secretary County Red its compensating is L. E. the to Ruth i voice like to thank of the Mower i ever was responsible for that blood to my wife Mrs. Ramsey revealed later that Mrs. Ramsey spent most of last Sunday calling donors for surgical patients at St. Olaf Later she and the are close personal hut neither was aware of the other's Mrs. Ramsey did not know the identity of the patient who was to use the and did The donors contributed the know that had ind the patient survived the played major role in securing A few days later UM the I in the evening she was requested to get persons donating a pint each of Mother Plans Welcome Home Minn. Mrs. Portia Hove today planned best come home anyone ever er hearing of the impending re- lease fom Red China of her coat Pvt. Richard j am relieved and 1 ful to she Mrs. xx ho has not seen her son since 17. said she is planning to have her family all together for their first Christ since She said was in i land the Army during The mother of the soldier who not to accept repatriation after the Korean War is planning a i probably with turkey But I menu will be up to i Ricky Mrs. Howe said she understands the VS. State Department has had papers m Hong Kong for eral to his back to this i Ipon hearing the of probable Mrs. said she called her 12-year- old Jan and at the junior huh school here I were pretty she com- merited She made no predict ions about what action might he taken against I by the Army when he but said take the rest of it as it Little Stress Is Placed on Beer Angle County authorities gained a con- viction of criminal negligence inst Charles Anderson today out stressing the factor of In testimony at the cor- inquests and the preliminary hearing in Municipal ty Attorney Wallace Sieh the fact that Anderson and two other youths had each con- two cans of beer about three hours before the accident occurred on Aug 17. ere questioned in de- tail about the purchase of about drinking one six-pack and throwing two others mony regarding the beer at the inquest had led to the trial in Municipal Court and conviction ot Lowell During the trial in District little reference was made to the Sieh did not it during of ry he did at the inary Albert did not bring it out during his When the was this nu next his court was his lle did not change and showed no I motion mooting the of m he 1.it Ins lip briefly slipped on his TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY DISPLAY 27TH displays his 27th quilt This one rosettes of colorful cotton on a light blue includes Tot Burns to Death on Indian Reservation PON KM Minn. Uf Leone 3, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Simon burned to death Wednesday when fire de strayed her small frame j house on the Red Lake Indian i reservation 1P 2 P. 3 P. 4 P. 5 P. M. M. M. M. M. 6 P. M. 1 A. M 2 A. M. 3 A. M. 4AM. i S V J 6 A. M. 17 20 22 22 22 21 THURSDAY 7 P. M. 8 P. M. 9 P. M. 10 P. M. 11 P. M 12 Midnight 18 18 18 1H 18 20 7 A. M. 8 A. M. ft A. M. 10 A. M. 11 A M. 12 A. M. 10 U 17 18 IS 20 21 22 23 23
