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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1963
Page
1
Pagnotti refuses to estimate total rescue cost noting nine workers on site, eight hour shifts, and heavy outlays. Foremen earn about 800 dollars monthly, drillers paid hourly at 2.86 dollars, with over 100 hours logged by Friday midnight. He questions reimbursement and says costs are normal for the business.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania rescue crews expanded the 12 inch escape shaft to lift miners David Fellin 58 and Henry Throne 28 from a 331 foot chamber after 11 days entombed. A third miner Louis Bova 42 remains unaccounted with a 4 inch lifeline drill progressing toward him.
Eugene M. Wallace longtime vice president of a fixture and furniture firm marks his 96th birthday on October 13 and notes he will officially reach the age by then. He has arranged to become his own beneficiary in his insurance plan.
Vietnamese students lead a growing anti government movement under martial law. Demonstrations at Saigon University and in Hue follow calls for a general student strike, with police and troops present but taking no direct action during the May events.
Senate ready to take up a binding arbitration bill to avert a nationwide rail strike over mass job cuts. The measure would form a seven member board to rule within six months if no negotiated deal is reached, with hearings within 30 days and decisions within 60 days on firemen layoffs and crew size.
Premier Cyrille Adoula orders troops and tanks into Leopoldville fearing a threatened civil service strike could trigger a broader anti-government uprising in the Congo.
Jakarta parliament approves a record 700 billion rupiah two year budget despite leftist opposition. The plan maintains the government's crash economic stabilization program. In Buenos Aires a Peronist union and Socialist congressman accuse U S ambassador McClintock of meddling in Argentina’s internal affairs.
Pravda denounces past Red China experiments to mobilize peasants into large communes as failed propaganda. It says the communes did not live up to promises and were not a ladder to paradise.
Dr. Roy Prentis said a site for a new two year State College in southwestern Minnesota may be chosen by mid September, otherwise the field of 14 cities will be narrowed to three or four. The five member committee will review 30 to 40 pounds of testimony and is to consider sites including Redwood Falls and Marshall plus other communities. The project could open with 300 students, reach 1,000 in four years, and 2,000 by 1973, with total building costs estimated at 13 to 14 million dollars.
Archie Bredberg, a Red Oak farmer, joined Red Oak Policeman Don Maher in cornering and holding fugitive Robert Hanrahan, 32, in a farmyard. Hanrahan, who had escaped a Grant City jail, surrendered and was returned to Missouri to face car theft charges.
Two men died in a flaming collision two miles north of Georgetown Minnesota near Moorhead around midnight Friday. Donald Hammer 18 Halstad and Roger Bortner about 20 Fargo ND died in the wreck Bortner burned trapped in his car Allen Richards witnessed the crash and tried to help but fire and crushed legs prevented rescue. In a second crash Berthild Topske 73 Wheat was killed near Wheaton and Cyrus L Isaacson 42 Rosholt SD was hospitalized. Minnesota traffic deaths for the year reached 460 up 62 from last year.
Occasional cloudiness tonight with a high around 72 to 78 today and a low in the 50s. Monday will run slightly cooler than normal with little precipitation. sections listed include Area News and Sports.
Senate leaders weigh sustaining a $585 million foreign aid cut approved by the House as President Kennedy labels the move short sighted and dangerous. The House 222-188 vote endorsed the cut to a $3.5 billion ceiling, with Kennedy urging bipartisan action to reconsider.
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