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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1963
Page
3
The 22nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor is marked by a half mast flag over the Arizona and a memorial for 1,102 aboard. Navy crews remember 2,300 killed as President Kennedy lies in memory after assassination two weeks earlier.
Louisiana Democrats nominate a governor candidate in a 1964 primary dominated by JFK's assassination. Ten candidates compete for the nomination, with a runoff possible on January 1 if no one exceeds 50 percent. DeLesseps Morrison, former New Orleans mayor, pursues the race amid a changed political climate.
Hollywood AP report states comedienne Martha Raye 47 was treated at a Santa Monica hospital after an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. Police said she took eight tablets and informed her physician.
Scientists report NASA's Mariner II spacecraft completed its first solar orbit after traveling 540 million miles in under a year. The Venus flyby probe marked a milestone for planetary exploration and space science.
A Des Moines man Cyrus Hughes McGuiness died when his car collided with a propane gas truck driven by 42 year old Myron Smith of Clearfield about 20 miles south of Des Moines on Highway 65 69. Authorities say McGuiness appears to have lost control veering into the truck’s path.
Three by elections dim Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's prestige as Conservatives shed votes in London Manchester and Sudbury. Labour landslide potential fades as Conservatives hold St Marylebone and Sudbury while Openshaw stays Labour. Returns bring back former Lord Hailsham as Quintin Hogg to the Commons.
Harvard University plans a six million dollar Memorial Library and museum for John F Kennedy. Design will start soon with a two acre site near the Business Administration school donated by Harvard. A new corporation to fund the project lists Robert F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy as officers. The federal government will eventually hold the land and building.
Idaho state patrolman Cal Bernard stopped at the Mountain Home sheriff's office to work on records when his wife, an Elmore County deputy, handed him a subpoena to testify in a District Court trial.
In Tanganyika, a new 225,000 member Evangelical Lutheran Church is created through the merger of seven Lutheran bodies in Salam. The consolidation unites the former factions under a single church body to serve the region.
Maj. Gen. Marvin L. McNickle will assume command of the 9th Air Force based at Shaw AFB Sumter effective January 15. The 9th covers bases in North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida. McNickle 48 comes from Wright Patterson AFB Ohio where he led operations for the Air Force logistics command. He hails from Doland South Dakota and graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1936.
President Johnson's nine day push for civil rights and tax cut bills yields only modest gains. Senate Finance speeded tax cut action while House Rules plans no civil rights sessions before next month, and final passage remains unlikely this year.
The National Farmers Organization, after internal strife, plans a holding action to keep farm products off the market. Oren Lee Staley of Rea Mo was re elected president with 4774 votes, defeating Rest Nave Jr. 581. NFC directors were re elected from Minnesota Wisconsin and Wisconsin locales.
The X-15 functions as a plane in Earth atmosphere and as a Mercury capsule in space, using reaction control rockets in its nose and wing tips to maneuver.
The United Nations main political committee approved by acclamation a blueprint for international cooperation in peaceful space use and a proposal to set legal guidelines for space activity. The actions reflect US Soviet accord and follow a nuclear test ban theme with a pledge for further cooperation in outer space.
Four children died in a fire started by a candle at 3 a.m. in Minneapolis. The victims, Stephen 5 John 7 Viki 8 and David 1, were children of Mrs. Dorothy Blaylark of 726 East 38th Street. Gail Cotton 16, tending seven children, said she moved three outside before flames trapped them. Police noted power and gas shut off to the home.
The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered new trials on damages in two auto accident cases. In Holdingford the village of Holdingford must face a new trial over 21 000 in parents of a killed youth case and in Freeborn County case Auger vs Rofshus the court called for a new damages trial or a reduced award of 16 500. Justice Rogosheske dissented opposing a court-ordered damages reduction.
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