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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1966
Page
2
President Sukarno announced plans to travel in the first three months of 1967 to attend a meeting of heads of states addressing Vietnam and global tension. He faces domestic pressure over alleged involvement in the October 1965 coup amid previous crises.
Tokyo AP reports Mao Lin faction claims opponents hold ideological edge and urges recall or elections as they attack Liu Shao Chi and Teng Hsiao ping. Red Flag notes fierce internal struggle while reports from Peking describe confusion and violence between Mao Lin Red Guards and Lin supporters.
Production workers at Farmers Produce Co in Willmar Minnesota voted 361 to 189 against representation by the United Packinghouse Workers union in an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
The North Vietnamese Embassy issued visas to Grace Newman, Mrs. Joe Griffith, Diane Bevel, and Barbara Deming to travel to Hanoi and verify whether U S planes bomb civilian targets. Their passports were sent for transit visas via the Red Chinese embassy. The State Department said they had not sought required travel permission.
Minnesota Supreme Court ruled for Luverne School District in a three way fight over annexation of Hardwick district. The court upheld a February 1965 order allowing Hardwick to consolidate with Luverne, ruling the education commissioner need not hold a hearing on the entire matter under the Administrative Procedures Act. The court also found a man arrested in an auto crash case was illegal but waived challenges to the warrant by pleading guilty.
Maj. Lawrence J. Kennedy Jr. of Hinton Iowa was killed when his Iowa Air National Guard jet crashed near Woodbine during a training mission out of Sioux City AFB. Kennedy reportedly was thrown clear as the plane burned in a farm field southwest of the town.
A note from the Friday December 16, 1966 issue cites the Encyclopaedia Britannica stating a robin's heart beats about 570 times per minute. The item appears in the Austin Minnesota Herald context as a brief factoid.
The forecast predicts weekend mildness with temperatures 4 to 8 degrees above normal in the west and 1 to 5 degrees above normal in the east. Normal highs range from 18 to 25 in the north and 24 to 30 in the south, with lows from 3 below to 6 above in the north and 5 to 12 above in the south. Light snow is possible Sunday and around Wednesday with a trace to 1.2 inches accumulation in the northeast.
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