Hormel annual meeting features color film show
Geo A Hormel and Co held its annual meeting with a color movie explaining operations at plants and branches. The film covered hog processing, curing ham production, bean sorting, and Spam can handling, touring the Fremont Nebraska plant and others. The company reported fiscal year livestock slaughter of 3,460,757 head and sales of $306,162,883 with 8,028 average employees, 2,350 stockholders, and $3,490,999 in taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Fremont
Nebr
Jay C. Hormel
M. F. Dugan
Hormel
Austin
Consolidated
Minnesota
Putnam Hits Wage Snag
Washington reports that Truman administration aims to revive wage price controls with Roger L. Putnam seeking to fill vacancies on the Wage Stabilization Board after mass resignations. Laurence F. Lee of the Chamber of Commerce urged a boycott and called for immediate termination of controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Walker
Washington
Truman
Roger L. Putnam
Wage Stabilization Board
Laurence F. Lee
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Putnam
Lee
Eisenhower Faces Long Honeymoon With Congress
Rep. Judd of Minnesota said President elect Eisenhower should enjoy good relations with Congress for a long time. He added Eisenhower will have Congress with him longer than the honeymoon period and that Republicans will support his programs after he takes office January 20 amid a slim party majority in both chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Judd
R-Minn
Gen
Minnesotan
GOP
Senate
House
Death Ends Long Career of Judge Catherwood
Judge Samuel Doak Catherwood 93 of Austin died at St. Olaf Hospital after a long legal career. He practiced 65 years in Austin and led the Minnesota Bar Association as president in 1929. He served as 10th Judicial District judge from 1916 to 1921 and was chief counsel for Hormel & Co. Surviving are wife Gertrude, son Roger, and daughters Josephine Ely and Catherine Drake. Funeral Friday at Congregational Church, Oakwood Cemetery interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Doak Catherwood
Austin
St. Olaf Hospital
Catherwood, Hughes and Alderson
First National Bank
10Th
Minnesota Bar Association
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
George A. Hormel
Judge Catherwood
Winona
Gertrude S. Catherwood
Roger
Josephine Ely
Eveleth
Catherine Drake
St. Paul
Congregational Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Catherwood
R. E. Shepard
Doak Catherwood
George Hirsh
Doak
Shepard
Eisenhower signals farm policy not yet decided
President elect Eisenhower told the American Farm Bureau Federation that a long range agricultural policy is not yet formulated but government aid should not curb farmers freedom of action. He urged analysis and nationwide talks over the next two years, with conclusions shared with Congress and the agricultural advisory commission. The Farm Bureau, gathering in Seattle for its four day convention, will consider recommendations tomorrow as about 5 000 members attend. The current law supports major commodity prices at 90 percent of parity.
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Seattle
Eisenhower
American Farm Bureau Federation
Allen B. Kline
Congress
Agricultural Advisory Commission
Farm Bureau
Army orders armored shorts for troops in Korea
The Army will supply armored shorts and an armored vest to protect the torso. The shorts weigh four pounds and resemble prize fighter trunks, while the vest weighs eight pounds. Together they cover hips, abdomen and groin and are made of laminated nylon with water resistant plating. In tests in Korea the gear deflects about 65 percent of missiles and cuts chest and upper abdominal wounds by about 60 percent. One thousand sets will be ready for Korea in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Korea
Blue Earth Farmer Named PMA Head
Loren C. Crane of Blue Earth county is named chairman of the Minnesota Production and Marketing Administration, succeeding Charles W. Stickney of Clear Lake who resigned. Crane has served on the PMA state committee since 1949 and previously held local offices. He began farming in 1924 and managed the Mapleton Hemp Plant from 1943 to 1945.
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ST. Paul
Loren C. Crane
Blue Earth
Minnesota Production and Marketing Administration
Charles W. Stickney
Clear Lake
Crane
PMA
Blue Earth County
Mapleton
Ike Mac Feud Fades in Notes En Route to Hawaii
President elect Eisenhower on the USS Helena signals willingness to hear any plan Gen Douglas MacArthur may have for ending the Korean War. Messages exchanged aboard the heavy cruiser as Eisenhower and his prospective administration head home to the United States set the stage for a possible Ike MacArthur meeting and eased tensions from the campaign.
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Helena
Hawaiiia
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
MacArthur not planning West Coast conference with Eisenhower
An aide said Gen Douglas MacArthur does not contemplate a trip west to meet President elect Eisenhower about Korea. Col S L Huff said there are no grounds for speculation he would travel to the West Coast and meet Eisenhower, who is returning from Korea and currently unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Col
S. L. Huff
Far East
West Coast
Eisenhower
Huff
MacArthur
Eisenhower MacArthur exchange hints at Korean peace plan
President elect Eisenhower and General MacArthur exchanged messages after MacArthur urged a clear solution to the Korean Conflict. Eisenhower sought MacArthur's views as part of outlining a future program aimed at ultimate peace in Korea, signaling a possible diplomatic move to reconcile past rifts.
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Korea
Far East
Eisenhower
MacArthur
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Japanese writer accuses CIC of kidnapping and abuse
Wataru Kaji, a 49 year old leftist writer, charges before the Diet that American CIC agents kidnapped him and held him prisoner for more than a year. The U S Army denies the accusation and says Kaji was detained briefly in late 1951 before release.
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Tokyo
Wataru Kaji
Counter-Intelligence Corps
CIC
U. S. Army
Japan
Kaji
Shigeru Yoshida
Kozo Inomata
Diet
Largest seaborne raid pounds targets near Manchuria
U S Navy planes from three carriers hit four major rail and supply targets near the Manchurian border. Lt James F Low earned his eighth MIG kill as Allied fighters attacked across the peninsula. Navy counts major destruction at rail yards repair shops locomotives box cars and tracks with dozens of buildings damaged and six trucks destroyed.
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Sam Summerlin
Seoul
Manchuria
Soviet Siberia
Vladivostok
James F. Low
Sausalito
Calif
U. S. 5Th Air Force
Ronald W. Hartrim
Port Jervis
N. Y
Air Force
Alfred M. Miller
Reds
Panther
Oriskany
Bon Homme Richard
Essex
Hanging
Korea
Honyang
Musan
Najin
Sea of Japan
Hyesanjin
Task Force 77
Dam
Far East
Suiho
Yalu River
Shotgun Gang Thug Causes Times Square Shootout
In New York a Cleveland gunman Clarence O. Sims led a running gun battle through Times Square wounding seven and injuring three officers. Sims, claiming to head the Shotgun gang, was captured near 8th Avenue after a bar dispute sparked the melee. A companion was arrested in the chaos near 42nd Street.
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Times Square
New York
Cleveland
Clarence O. Sims
Sims
Eighth Avenue
42Nd Street
Defiant grocer shoots bandit in Eveleth Minnesota
Hjalmer Niemi, 65, shot and killed Charles Gray, 24, during a pretended robbery at Niemi's Eveleth grocery. A second man, William Rosovich, 60, was arrested nearby and jailed without charge as police investigated the double attempt to hold up the store.
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Eyeleth
Minn
Hjalmer Niemi
Niemi
Eveleth
Charles Gray
Gilbert
William J. Rosovich
Iron Works Win Tax Concessions
Two Midwest firms receive swift tax write offs from the Defense Production Administration. Owatonna Iron & Metal Co. gains 65 percent of 18100 for scrap facility spending, totaling 11765. Watertown Iron & Metal Co. gets 65 percent of 15489 amounting to 10062. Write offs apply over five years for defense needs.
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Minneapolis
Midwest
Defense Production Administration
Owatonna, Minn
Five sue over 3 M blast injuries in Ramsey County
Five St Paul residents filed lawsuits in Ramsey County District Court seeking over 1 million dollars each for injuries from the February 8 1951 explosion at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. The suits name Phillips Petroleum Co and Northwest Hydrogas Co of New Brighton alleging faulty equipment supplied to 3 M and delivered by the New Brighton firm. Fifteen people died in the blast that damaged a 3 M factory building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Ramsey County
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Northwest Hydrogas Co
New Brighton
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Dugan
S. D. Catherwood
J. H. Skinner
Mr. Skinner
Mr. Catherwood
R. S. Banfield
H. H. Corey
R. H. Daigneau
Park Dougherty
R. D. Gower
R. F. Gray
T. H. Hocker
Clarence A. Nockleby
J. L. Olson
Corey
Gray
Daigneau
Gower
Hocker
Nockleby
Olson
E. J. Garrity
George W. Ryan
P. C. Knopf
R. C. Dougherty
R. H. Biedermann
E. H. Larson
Austin and Vicinity
WSB
Independence
Putam
Meekin
Monsenne
Samuel D. Catherwood
Reassures Farm Group
Army
Ike-Mac
By Don Whitehead
Mac ‘Disappears
By Forrest Edwards
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Jerred
Katsuo Okazaki
China
Blaine Thorpe
Dale Thorpe
Trowbridge Supermarket
Sterling Shopping Center
Sterling
Rosovich
Iron Works
North Korea
South Korea
U. S. Navy
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