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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1963
Page
3
Harrigan family of six narrowly escapes a deadly fire as flames engulf their home. Fire officials say all five children and the parents managed to flee unharmed with assistance from neighbors and AP Wirephoto captured scene.
President Johnson told NATO ministers in Paris that the United States will maintain the equivalent of six American divisions in Europe as long as they are needed. He urged allies to share burdens while stressing NATO must serve political ends with both nuclear and non-nuclear forces.
Mrs. Minnie Drexel age 68 was struck and killed Sunday night by Milwaukee Road freight train No 331 as she walked along tracks near her Dakota Minnesota home while returning from work reading gauges for the U S Government Dams agency. The impact hurled her 150 feet and left her body against a telephone pole 15 feet from the track. Dakota lies about 20 miles southeast of Winona in extreme southeast Minnesota.
The Koran has 114 suras. An Arab who memorizes the entire text earns the title hifa.
City College sophomore basketball star Mike Schaffer, 19, was killed after a motorist allegedly aimed a car at a group walking from a game. Eddie Weissman, 19, was arrested and charged with homicide after police identified the vehicle and traced the license number.
South Korea’s strongman Chung Hee Park dissolves the military revolutionary council he led to power, calling it folded, as he nears his presidential oath to establish the Third Republic within a little over three years. Park remains under martial law while preparing for the Tuesday ceremony.
After the first of 20 major monasteries arose on Mt Athos in 963, women children and eunuchs were barred from the narrow hilly peninsula.
Minnesota Farmers Union President Edwin Christianson urged using direct farm income gains over an immediate tax cut, arguing price supports and income increases yield quicker benefits without widening the federal deficit. The convention also heard praise for Food-for-Peace impact and education aid needs from Mondale, with delegates to consider tuition and auto insurance issues.
Two adult elk were shot and killed in a pen at Jester Park on Saturday. Sheriff's deputies were searching for two men in a red car who reportedly drove to the pen, killed an adult male and a calf, and then fled.
Sioux City report on Northwest Iowa Mayors Association planning to keep discussing a proposed multi county industrial development organization at the next meeting in Spencer on January 13.
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