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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1963
Page
2
The Agriculture Department released a report showing no large overproduction of wheat in 1964 despite farmer vote against price controls. Winter-wheat yield is forecast at about 595 million bushels, near last year and below 1958-62 average, with total 1964 wheat production about 1.25 billion bushels depending on spring plantings.
Gen Maxwell D Taylor met with President Ayub Khan and military chiefs in Karachi to repair U S Pakistan relations. They planned talks on military aid to India, Pakistan's stance toward Red China, equipment replacement, and U S 7th Fleet cruises in the Indian Ocean amid tensions over New Delhi's defense support. Taylor arrived after three days in India.
Singing pickets demonstrated in front of the University of Texas dormitory where Lynda Bird Johnson, 19, resides to protest racial segregation in campus housing. Twenty students—twelve of them Negro—marched in drizzle for about an hour before dispersing. officials and Secret Service stood by without action as the elder Johnson daughter plans not to return for spring semester.
Diana Witcher, 19, pleaded guilty to embezzling 1900 from Citizens Bank in Hutchinson where she was a bookkeeper and used moved funds to buy a trailer and marry. Three weeks earlier former bank president Helmut Kurth, 73, admitted embezzling 65000 and also awaits sentence.
A Russian family of four arrived in Portsmouth Ohio to spend a week living as guests of the Portsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce. They will tour schools, attend a YMCA open house, and join a Jaycee dance as part of a goodwill gesture costing four to five thousand dollars. The McKenzie family hosts them in their home, while the Pozdneyevs learn about American life with limited English.
Defense Secretary McNamara concluded consultations with Viet Nam leadership including Maj. Gen. Minh and Premier Tho. He said he is optimistic about progress in 1964 after receiving a somber briefing and detailed military plans. He will fly to Honolulu for a meeting with Adm. Felt before returning to Washington.
In 25 degree cold a large garage and a showroom burned in McIntosh Minnesota. Firefighters saved the fire truck parked inside but flames damaged nearby structures including the village hall. Helpers from Fosston and Erskine battled the blaze. cause undetermined.
In Mexico City at the World Council of Churches meeting, over 200 delegates from around the world urged Protestant and Orthodox churches to unite against anti religious tendencies. The report warned modern life risks forgetting God and eroding traditional practices while challenging meaning and purpose in life. Delegates pressed for closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church and floated a Christian summit with Pope Paul VI.
American comedian Bob Hope remains at home to rest longer from eye treatment after doctors advised a brief postponement of his 12th annual servicemen tour. He had been ready to depart Thursday for stops in Turkey Crete Greece Libya Cyprus and Italy.
In Washington the Senate passed the 3.3 billion foreign aid bill 60 to 25 with support from Minnesota lawmakers Humphrey and McCarthy and opposition from North and South Dakota figures. The chamber defeated a counter amendment 54 to 30 to cut development loan funds to 600 million, and rejected another amendment 55 to 31 to trim the bill to 3 billion. A 52 to 32 vote erased the ban on government guarantees for wheat sales to Russia. Also notes 1962 fruit and potato consumption levels.
Debra Marie Johnson 9 was killed when a car veered from Lyndale Avenue onto the snow shoulder and struck her and her sister Candice 10. Candice escaped injury as the fleeing driver left the scene. a radiator ornament from a 1959 Oldsmobile was found at the wreck. The state traffic toll rose to 762 for the year.
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