16 Apr 1960
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1960
Page
1
Christians abroad prepared for Easter with prayer and songs as churches rang with praise. Good Friday processions in Jerusalem drew 12 000 UN troops and pilgrims amid heat. In Rome Pope John XXIII walked barefoot and kissed a cross as Christendom recalls the Passion.
A 329 foot Lebanese freighter the Ethel C reported taking water off Virginia's eastern shore and abandoning ship with 23 crew aboard. Over seven hours later no trace of vessel or crew was found despite Coast Guard and Navy searches. The ship bound for Newport News with scrap iron valued cargo $130000 and crew largely Greek.
Negro students in Raleigh discuss a nationwide selective buying campaign and training volunteers to risk jail for civil rights protests. King spokes of a “strategy for victory” to organize demonstrations against lunch counter segregation while violence erupts in several cities.
Bonnie Butcher a 17 year old from Walker died from burns after a Thursday gas lamp explosion lit a house. Robert Van Pelt 24 Cass Lake carried her out and doused flames with sand. Delores Day 35 also in hospital in fair condition. Bernard Bellanger 23 treated and released.
In Mower County census work, friendly receptions replace old resistance as 40 of 45 enumerators are married women. Group leaders Mrs. Ernest Wilcox, Mrs. Alfred Jacobsen, and Mrs. Robert Kunn report progress with many residents offering coffee and cookies, and calls back to collect information.
Wayne County jail in Wayne West Virginia serves meals catered due to a new modern kitchen. Jail staff attend classes to learn the equipment while a local restaurant takes over cooking duties for four inmates.
The United States Air Force aims to recover a 27 by 33 inch capsule ejected from the Discoverer XI satellite after it enters polar orbit from Vandenberg. If successful, the mission would prove recovery of an orbital capsule and pave the way for animals and humans to be sent into space and returned.
Two Austin men nabbed after a string of early morning break-ins across Brownsdale and Dexter. Loot totaled about 582 dollars including a pistol from Don Foster’s Texaco and 82.95 at Brownsdale’s Ray Nelson General Merchandise. A blood soaked handkerchief was found at Schmidt’s Hardware. Authorities link no connection between Brownsdale and Dexter raids.
Showers and thundershowers were forecast for the northern and central Rockies, southern plains, Great Lakes northeastward, and Gulf states to New York with fair to partly cloudy conditions elsewhere. A small tornado hit near Louisburg Kansas destroying farm buildings and a state highway shop, dropping seven inches of rain at Pleasant Hill Missouri. flash floods closed parts of U S 71. no injuries reported.
In Havana Fidel Castro’s agents rounded up hundreds of suspects to thwart a pocket size revolt. Castro leads a battle ready force into the Sierra Maestra chasing Manuel Beaton and his guerrilla band amid rain and fog and a government news blackout. Beaton, a Sierra Maestra native, once guided Castro and later served as a captain in his army.
Three Dostel siblings Judy 14 Carol 10 Miles 8 died Friday in a pond on a neighbor’s farm near Friendship Wisconsin. Officers said circumstances were not immediately determined and the bodies were recovered.
The Agriculture Department warned that the low rate of vaccination for pigs could trigger a costly hog cholera outbreak. The disease, caused by a virus, is the most serious swine infection with no cure or treatment.
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