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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1963
Page
2
Dr Darrell W notes a vaccination benefit and provides Harold and Mrs Fries a method to tell the six month old twins apart. The brief item highlights parental guidance and medical advice.
Vietnamese Marines overran a major guerrilla command post in southern Camau after clashing with a Communist platoon. Officials reported 34 insurgents killed, describing the site as the headquarters for western provinces near Pakistan and near China's Sinkiang region.
The Akher Saa newspaper reports a public display of a multistage UAR rocket with a 625 mile range. The range would allow strikes toward Israel Jordan much of Lebanon parts of Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Afghanistan and Red China agreed on a treaty outlining their shared border in the Wakham panhandle remote mountains. The accord sets the easternmost Afghan frontier between the nations near the Soviet border area.
President Kennedy told the American Society of Newspaper Editors he is doing his best to address harassment complaints from American reporters in South Viet Nam. He described the situation as a peculiarity complex but pledged to change conditions hindering newsmen.
Izvestia accuses a United Press International correspondent and a Minneapolis based professor of luring a Soviet citizen named Felix S. to provide secrets for Western intelligence during 1956 and 1957 visits to Moscow. UPI denies CLA employment.
Police showup fails to connect Charles M Reed and his brother Marvin Reed to recent Minneapolis robberies. Charles was wounded by accidental self gunshot in a bus station restroom and Marvin was detained later for drunkenness and a narcotics inquiry.
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant repeated calls to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic to quit the Yemeni civil war. The appeal comes through authoritative sources at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Former Vice President Richard Nixon and his family flew in from Paris and lunched with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home. An embassy official said the talks were entirely private.
Representative Odin Langen of Minnesota believes federal agencies will someday study the extensive water issues in the drainage basin of the Red River Valley of the North.
Fort Madison AP A convict who spent four days and thirteen hours on a 140 foot penitentiary water tower climbed down voluntarily. William T. Bradley 45 of Sions City faced disciplinary action and possible censure from inmates. Bradley is serving a 25 year sentence for assault with intent to commit great bodily injury and as a habitual criminal. He said he got a raw deal and asked Gov Harold Hughes for an investigation which is under way and may take months.
In Blackduck Beltrami County Minnesota the Blackduck Project provides summer work for 30 boys ages 14 to 20 helping prevent delinquency. The program builds a road in Blackduck State Forest and clears timber while teaching carpentry and tool use. Funded mainly by Hill Family Foundation with state and local support the effort aims to expand to 100 boys and even statewide adoption.
Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed Waldee Hodge’s swindling conviction for cashing 18 bad checks totaling 8900 at Red Owl stores in Hennepin County on July 15 and 16 1960. He used a false license and a postal worker shirt to stage the ruse. The court also denied damages to Jean Haskin in a plane crash suit and rejected Ablstrand’s appeal claiming lack of counsel at arraignment.
Children unearthed 100 two foot sticks of dynamite in a wooded St Cloud area. Police inspector Willard Sexauer said the sticks, from a heavy construction type, were in a steel barrel and no missing charges have been reported. A rock crushing firm uses the same type but a different brand. The cache is kept in a safer location pending investigation.
In New York seven civil rights demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's Manhattan office. The protests follow three others jailed for similar actions at Mayor Wagner's City Hall.
Iowa delegation and government officials met over the closure of Armour & Co plant in Sioux City Iowa. Spokesman said the conference produced no new developments but continued efforts to place 110 workers idled by the June 16 closing and 250 transfers were announced to other Armour plants.
New York AP notes a reverse biography through a list of things a man never did. It illustrates self view by recalling missed acts such as piloting, learning languages, or earning money, inviting readers to consider their own undone deeds that shape identity.
Omaha Ed ward A. Cudahy of Cuday Packing charges Local 60 of the United Packinghouse Workers Union violated the labor contract 57 times since the new Omaha plant opened. Union says management suspended operations. plant employs about 1,100 people and ready to return to work.
Skin divers search Leech Lake for two missing fishermen from Duluth and Port Wing after their 14 foot boat capsized in 20 to 30 mph winds. Two companions were rescued late Thursday night and hospitalized, while authorities using launches and searchlights combed the choppy waters near Ottertail Point and Walker.
In Minneapolis a man shot Wednesday while approaching a stolen safe is identified as Marvin White, 34, formerly of Minneapolis. Police say forged papers previously identified him as James P. Hoyt, 30, from Oakland. White had prior burglary ties and was on bail in California. Detective Warren J. Burns fatally shot White at the northeast Minneapolis woods where the safe had been hidden. A companion fled as officers blocked the area. car papers tie White to Roseville, Wisconsin.
Vatican City AP reports Pope Paul VI will relocate early next week to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence southeast of Rome, marking a scheduled residence change announced Thursday.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon were guests at the same hotel. Brown, a Democrat, defeated Nixon for the governorship last year.
Samuel F. Yette, a Negro, has assumed duties as executive secretary of the Peace Corps. He previously served as a city hall reporter for the Dayton Herald in Dayton Ohio before joining the agency earlier this year in the public information division.
Pianist Van Cliburn began his debut as conductor with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra but the rain canceled the remainder of the Philadelphia program after he had led about half the concert.
FENSHAM England AP Lord Baden-Powell 27 grandson of the Boy Scout founder married Patience Batty Miss Batty from Gowelo Southern Rhodesia The ceremony ties notable family to international scout heritage and colonial connections.
Louis Parent, a former Stillwater Prison guard, pleaded guilty to theft of about $1,000 in scrap metal owned by the prison and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
Representative Odin Langen argues the Area Redevelopment Administration may damage Minnesota industry by backing projects in New York and Grasston Minnesota. He cites proposed sugar beet and potato plans costing about 2.27 million dollars with much federal funding and questions profitability and supply.
The House passed 334 to 57 a 5.2 billion dollar space program for this year, trimming the NASA request by 5 million. Officials say housing bias orders have not damped homebuilding with June starts up 10 percent from 1962 and residential construction up six percent overall.
July saw a new high of 70.9 million employed, up 600,000 from June. Unemployment fell 500,000 to 4.3 million, a seasonal dip. The jobless rate held at 5.6 percent of the workforce.
Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth charges certain Republican lawmakers with politicizing the TFX contract dispute by mounting a persistent daily barrage against him. The exchange highlights partisan tension over defense procurement during the period.
Twenty one soldiers were struck by a car while marching at Fort Dix New Jersey. Fifteen were admitted to Watson Army Hospital with fractures or injuries, six were treated and released. The driver, Pfe Robert C Keyser, 23, of Toms River, a Reservist, reportedly failed to yield the right of way.
AP reports experts say the immediate danger of another deadly earthquake in Skopje has passed after more than 200 tremors since the initial temblor that killed about 2,000 people and buried roughly 1,000 bodies as survivors remain at risk.
Warren Berg of Luther College Decorah Iowa was elected president of the College Sports Information Directors of America at the group's annual meeting Thursday. He will lead the organization through upcoming initiatives and represent college sports information professionals nationally.
Ed Rhode of Muscatine Iowa regains the lead in the national archery tournament with 2839 points while Don Cavallero of Los Angeles trails at 2782. Terry Witt of Waterloo Iowa leads the intermediate boys class.
Gary Gottschalk the last Iowan in the VU S Golf Association junior tourney fell to Dale Vaught of Albuquerque New Mexico one up in Florence South Carolina.
Ottumwa National lost 9-5 to Atlantic of Des Moines in the Babe Ruth state baseball tournament opener. Four more games were scheduled today.
Lt. Col. Leslie B. Harding assumed the district engineer post for the U S Army Corps of Engineers in St Paul on Thursday succeeding Col. W B Strandberg who retired after a two year Army career. Harding 44 a Worcester Mass native was commissioned in 1943 at West Point and earned a 1947 master’s in civil engineering from the University of Illinois He served in Europe with the 220th Armored Engineer Battalion in World War II.
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