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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1962
Page
10
The troubled Skybolt air launched missile may be discarded as Defense Department budget plans show no funding for next year. Sources say the project is in serious trouble after five straight test flops and waning Pentagon support.
Idaho growers L. E. Stephens and William O'Brien told a Denver hearing the proposed nationwide potato marketing agreement would harm free enterprise and Idaho’s industry. They argued it would be controlled by outsiders, discriminate against Idaho, and exceed local regulatory needs.
Reginald Ouimet confessed in court that he removed a bullet from his abdomen and replaced it with another caliber to provide an alibi in an armed robbery case. He received a three year sentence after changing his plea to guilty and detailing the self inflicted surgery. Police had fired on two robbers at a suburban store. one suspect was hit. Ouimet said he removed the police bullet, reported to hospital, and later re opened the wound to insert the alibi slug while jailed.
Government auctioneers Fred Hinkley and George Beam presided over a sale in a hotel ballroom drawing 320 bidders. About $4 million of items were auctioned including locomotives and machine tools, with nine locomotives averaging $4,500 and some items returning as much as half their original cost.
Dennis Crosby, Bing Crosby’s son, reportedly begins a trial separation from wife Pat Sheehan who said the split is not serious. Viscount Elvedon, 25, will marry Daphne Smiley, 22, in England. Marianne Mirkin wins a letter contest and a half hour shopping spree worth $1,338.50 with grandson Ricky assisting in the grocery haul.
Jaareen Thompson a Huron High senior was sent home by Principal Glen E. Peterson over her platinum mink updo. The stylist Kenneth Welker says the hairstyle is needed for a contest this week prompting the clash with school policy and a remark about teachers hair color.
Benja min Dranow, already jailed as a federal bond jumper, must serve another seven years for income tax evasion after the 8th District Court of Appeals in St. Louis denied his latest appeal for improper timing. He already faces seven years for mail fraud and may face wire fraud charges. a grand jury probes potential co-conspirators in the bond jumping case. A subsequent $2,5000 cash bond was forfeited when he failed to answer the wire fraud charge. Dranow was arrested in Miami Beach after a hemispheric dragnet. another $55,000 in bond money remains under consideration.
Cairo AP report says the United Arab Republic ends its ban on the twist and twist records after a government statement endorsing freedom of the arts. Officials note the move follows earlier bans on the belly dance and other artistic restrictions.
In Minnesota the Rolvaag for governor and DFL lieutenant governor volunteers reported higher receipts and outlays than their Andersen and GOP rivals. Rolvaag supporters listed $74,135 in receipts and $70,446 in expenditures, while Andersen volunteers showed $22,000 receipts and $21,510 spent.
Morocco has purchased a $280,000 U.N. bond and Burma a $100,000 bond. Thus far 56 countries have pledged or purchased $117,981,097 of the $200 million bond issue.
Jack Benny, 68, returns to Broadway with The Jack Benny Show after leaving stage work in 1931. He opens Feb 11 in Toronto at the O Keefe and performs Feb 27 at the Ziegfeld Theater New York with Jane Morgan and the Beverly Hillbillies. Benny cites fun and balance with golf and violin practice as reasons for the comeback.
The Minnesota forecast shows temperatures 4 to 8 degrees below normal with highs of 19 to 25 degrees in the north and 25 to 31 in the south and lows from zero to 8 degrees in the north and 8 to 14 in the south. Day to day changes are small and precipitation is minimal.
Washington AP reports 96 high school students named for the first U S Senate Youth Program. The program, funded by a 70 000 Hearst Foundation grant, runs a week of government observation with ASC and APSA support. Notable selections include Sandra Schuck and John L Selstad of Minneapolis and others from North Dakota Wisconsin and Maryland.
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