Skowrons Family Ties Highlight Yankee Star in New York Visit
Associated Press photographer captures Bill Skowron and family in New York while he plays for the Yankees and summers in Austin. Virginia Hulquist Skowron, a former Austin High cheerleader, and Bill’s nickname Moose link their life to the Scheid Plumbing Co. Their 20 month old Gregory battles a cold, photographed indoors during the visit.
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Skowron
Arden Busse
Highway
Eleven Fliers Freed By Red China Head Home This Weekend
Eleven airmen including Col. John Knox Arnold are freed from Communist captivity after 32 months. They will depart this week aboard two C54 transports from Tokyo via Midway and Hawaii to Travis Air Force Base California as military officials announced the homeward plan.
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Polio outbreaks spark U S health action in Wisconsin and Midwest
Wisconsin polio cases have risen sharply in 1955 while ten Midwest states show a 26 percent drop from January through July. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reports ongoing Wisconsin outbreaks and rapid deployment of gamma globulin and iron lungs to Appleton and West Allis.
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Nebraska
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Red Haters Reinforced at Inchon
Twelve hundred Red-hating Korean railway workers arrived at Inchon from Seoul to reinforce about 300 demonstrators besieging the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission billets on Wolmi. About 700 U.S. soldiers guard the island as clashes injure nine Koreans and twenty-two Americans since riots began.
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Drugstore Bandit Nabbed In Downtown Twin Cities Case
Police capture 30 year old Martin J. Wallace after a drugstore holdup near 100 S Ninth and a cafe robbery totaling 19 000 dollars. Eleanor Turbitt, cafe cashier, initially identified him but later recanted noting the bandit’s pencil mustache hat and coat. Wallace denies involvement and says he was marked. He was spotted after a radio description led officers to arrest him near the drugstore.
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Dahl
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Anglesey
Eleanor C. Turbitt
Red Chinese Again Postpone Geneva Session
Geneva reports that a Wednesday meeting between U S and Communist China ambassadors was postponed to Thursday at Red China’s request. Wang Ping nan provided no reason for the 24 hour delay.
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Red China
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Bemidji Training Squadrons Endure Rough Two Weeks
The 665th fighter squadron stationed from NAS Anacostia Washington D C endures a rough two week Bemidji training period. Incidents include a water loop by an Albatross on Lake Superior near Duluth, a Corsair ditching on Lake Winnibigoshish, and a beechcraft overshoot into the woods. No injuries reported and pilots from the Washington area were involved.
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Weather outlook with scattered showers tonight
Partly cloudy forecast shows a few widely scattered showers or thundershowers tonight. Wednesday to be fair and mild with a high around 85 to 90 degrees and a low near 55 to 60 degrees.
Soviet farm chiefs split visits in Minnesota schedule
The 12 Soviet farm chiefs split into two groups to tour Minnesota farms and enterprises. Vladmir Matskevich led a group to Dearborn Ford plants while others toured New Prague livestock and a White Bear Stillwater dairy. Matskevich praised the Odin Odegaard farm near Princeton and asked about buying farm equipment, noting Minneapolis Moline as a possible supplier.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Turi Golubash
New Prague
White Bear
Stillwater
Chicago
Vladimir Matskevich
Ford Enterprises
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Wyoming
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Matskevich
Odin Odegaard
Princeton
Odegaard
Maskevich
Minneapolis-Moline
Hopkins
Mower County Fair Opens with Crane Pavilion Ready
The 73rd annual Mower County Fair opens at 5 p.m. with Crane Pavilion completed after 37 working days. Thirteen tons of ground corn cob carpeting and 1,000 pounds of calcium chloride were used for fire prevention. Over 900 hogs 600 sheep and lambs and 600 cattle are expected, with 4-H entries showcased in the Exhibition Building and new center booths. Carolinas face hurricane alerts as Connie moves northward.
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FFA
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Dorothy Eisterhold
Patty Eblen
Ruth Marie Peterson
Ruth Marie
Freeman Arrives for Istanbul Visit
P Government Orville Freeman of Minnesota arrived by air in Istanbul for a brief unofficial visit after a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. He plans to visit Ankara to inspect Minneapolis Moline tractor and Federal Truck assembly plants built and run by Minnesota capital. He and his wife will depart Friday for Paris, London, and home.
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Turkey
Orville Freeman
Minnesota
Ankara
Minneapolis
Baby Killed as Car Overturns on Gravel Road
Humboldt Iowa Randy Lee Ruberg 16 month old son of Mr and Mrs Francis Ruberg Humboldt was killed Monday when a car driven by his mother overturned in loose gravel on a county road near here The boy was pinned underneath the car and was dead when the mother returned with help Mrs Ruberg was unhurt and another son Rodney 4 suffered minor bruises
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Randy Lee Ruberg
Francis Ruberg
Here
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Rodney
Train Kills Man in Duluth Suburb
Matt Blair, 46, identified as an escapee from the St. Louis County work farm, was struck and killed by a Great Northern train near Brookston in a Duluth suburb. Blair fled the farm last week while serving a term for drunkenness. no witnesses reported the accident.
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Duluth
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