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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1963
Page
1
The display features muskets axes beads and other trade items recovered from waterways by French canoeists. Visible are Louis Zgonc Ely and Robert C. Wheeler photographed from behind as they survey the artifacts.
Saigon faced rumors of general strikes and street clashes as U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge arrived to take up his post. The crackdown on Buddhists drew protests from Viet Nam’s leadership with resignations and calls for a pilgrimage.
AP report from Kensington Minnesota says fumes from acid used to clean a well killed two Evansville workers James Ellingson and Carl Lindemeyer at the Elving Berquist farm in Pope County near the Douglas County line. Fireman Craig Watson was overcome during the rescue and hospitalised in Starbuck in fair condition.
Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight becoming partly cloudy with a few widely scattered showers on Saturday. Outlook Sunday calls for temperatures near normal with more showers and thunderstorms.
The Minnesota State Fair starts its 102nd run on Saturday drawing over a million visitors by close. Highlights include Electricity building for electronics exhibits, Indian Village, Kiddieland, Teen Danceland, and an Atom exhibit by the AEC. New pav ing adds 75,000 parking spaces, and a portable grandstand stage speeds setup for nightly shows.
In Rochester Minnesota teenagers tossed eggs at marchers and later set a burning cross before the Avalon Hotel owned by Mr and Mrs Verne Manning. About 40 people joined the civil rights march with 14 Black participants. Police questioned a group of teens. the hotel serves Mayo Clinic patients.
In Saint Paul AP report the Guthrie Theater Minneapolis owned by the T B Walker Foundation is exempt from property taxes. Attorney General Mondale ruled the foundation has remained a public charity, despite admissions, keeping it off the tax rolls. The Walker group built and leased the theater near the Walker Art Gallery.
A slight drizzle fell in Midtown shortly before noon. A .1 inch thundershower broke over the city about 7 a.m., drenching the area before clearing later.
Fred Moyer 23 a Boy Scout guide from Me Allen Texas was killed by lightning while canoeing with two scouts on Moose Lake near Ely Minnesota The bolt struck after ricocheting off a tree and a three inch hole opened in the canoe. Gary Rawl and Bob Caconower Fort Worth Texas reached shore with his body and tried to revive him.
In Minneapolis President Jimmy Hoffa told a Teamsters rally that unions must organize if Congress passes anti-labor measures. He warned against laws treating unions as antitrust targets and limiting bargaining scope, urging precinct organizing and political action to secure votes.
Nancy Atkin's six year old entry Dracula faltered early as a Lansing frog surged to victory in Huntsville Ontario. Dracula clocked one minute forty four seconds to finish and a diverse field from nine states and six provinces competed in the event.
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled a citizen’s arrest of Robert F. Duren for alleged drunken driving was illegal. Judge J Clifford Jones was barred from proceeding after nor seeing Doren intoxicated. the arrestee was not observed driving by the arresting citizen or police. The court also reversed a Chippewa County will interpretation involving Mary Bletcher’s estate, deciding Susan Lovett and Frank Lichter prevailed over nephew Robert Bletcher in the distribution of legacies.
Hazleton Pennsylvania AP report says two of three trapped miners, David Fellin 58 and Henry Throne 28, hear a drilling rig nearing their 14 by 9 foot chamber 331 feet underground as rescue teams slow pace to avoid a cave in. Louis Bova 48 is believed 25 feet away with no food since Aug 13.
Ralph Helstein, head of the United Packinghouse Workers Union, blasted Armour & Co. for failing in a committee on automation. He said Armour participated but showed callous indifference to its own workers, noting nearly 30,000 Armour employees have lost jobs in seven years due to plant closings and transfers.
Joseph Bova, in his late seventies, weeps and refuses to eat as his son Louis and two other miners remain trapped 331 feet underground since Aug. 13. Marie, Louis’s wife, describes the father’s grief, prayers, and memory of a 1928 rescue when a brother was trapped seven days.
The Senate Commerce Committee approved a binding arbitration bill to settle deadlocked railroad work rule disputes. It creates a seven member board and moves to the Senate for Monday action. The measure aims to avert a Thursday strike deadline.
In Washington AP reports scientists departed from Roosevelt Roads Air Station Puerto Rico to decide whether to seed hurricane Beulah with chemicals. Navy planes carrying the researchers left around 8 a.m. and are due back by 7 p.m. Puerto Rico time.
President Kennedy and Nigerian Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Balewa spoke across the Atlantic using the Syncom satellite launching a new era in space communications. The formal ceremony marked Syncom service with Balewa aboard the Kingsport near Lagos while Kennedy spoke from the White House. the exchange included the phrase What hath God wrought.
Representative Martha W. Griffiths, the sole woman on the House Ways and Means Committee, advocates changes shaping the federal tax system. She presses for reforms as the committee reviews tax policy.
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