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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1952
Page
4
Auditors reveal irregularities in the Minnesota Highway Department and Stillwater State Prison administration. Chief public examiner Richard A. Golling is praised for uncovering fraud despite a general climate of dishonesty and illicit liquor smuggling at the prison.
A Minnesota report shows 24 farmers earned $100 000 in 1952 and 77 others between $50 000 and $99 000, while 6 377 operated at a loss. The piece compares successful farmers to blue chips in a poker game, suggesting hope for the broader farming community despite uneven earnings.
A Navy Constellation with 130 passengers and 18 crew members landed safely at Moffett Field after one engine caught fire over central California. The giant airliner continued its cross country flight despite the emergency.
Opinion writers debate Philadelphia's downtown parking ban through January 5. Limited loading and pickup allowed. officials praise the plan while merchants fear central area decay and traffic will push drivers to the outskirts or to garages that are slow to appear.
Readers near the fields witness a daily schedule of remarkable air service as massive aircraft carry up to 300 passengers and crew between distant shores. The article ponders where the famed Mars, the ocean crossing behemoth, now stands in this routine era of flight.
In Korea Gen Eisenhower weighs war aims and political framing. He rejects withdrawal or widening conflict while signaling steps to improve U S position. He listens closely from frontline to top brass, gathering views from Rhee and Formosa mission head Chase to shape future policy.
George E Sokolsky analyzes a generation scarred by depression era fear. He argues the mood stifled initiative and boosted demand for government security, shaping foreign policy, politics, and business through the postwar era. He questions courage, calls for renewed vision, and hints that Eisenhower might lift spirits.
The passage notes a missing dinner invitation card to Verna and Marie, an Iowa editor’s friend quitting smoking, a critique of fashion coverage favoring designers and financiers, and commentary on safety over horsepower in a new auto with 205 horsepower. It also covers cautions about the St. Cloud Reformatory, oleomargarine versus butter trends, and a Reader’s Digest Korea preview, plus a New Ulm journalist’s $1.51 for a round figure.
National Geographic photographs from during and after the 1952 eclipse show starlight bending due to gravity. The images illustrate gravitational lensing as predicted by general relativity, highlighting the deflection of starlight by the sun.
In Cabinda, Portuguese West Africa, two Americans named Clark and Turner arrived at a hotel and claimed to buy out all major lumber firms for millions. Locals say both men spent freely, yet no money existed between them, exposing the ruse as a humorous early encounter with outsiders.
In Cabinda two American men Clark and Turner buy luxuries on credit at the Cabinda Hotel. They host lavish parties, pay a $300 monthly barber, and impress locals as powerful New York figures. After eight weeks they vanish as lumber interests demand payment, leaving a wary frontier region to tighten entry rules for Americans.
Harvey D. Geyer, 61, retired chief engineer of General Motors Inland Manufacturing Division, died in Dayton Ohio. A World War II rubber on metal expert with 250 patents, he led Edgewood Arsenal innovations including a flame thrower with greater range and improvements to phosphorous bombs grenades and smoke generators.
Mark Raizen a noted Russian basso of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater fell sick in London with a throat infection and could not return to the Soviet troupe. British doctors treated possible pneumonia before a Russian doctor was summoned for consultation.
A compact fact notes that the human skull is made up of 22 bones.
Puzzle clues mix coin terms and wordplay across a crossword style grid. Entries include copper coin pound and roman emperor while other lines hint at poems passages and musical terms. The puzzle weaves word clues with multiple definitions.
Westbrook Pegler savages Benjamin Gitlow for opposing the Kremlin and accuses Gen. Eisenhower of endorsing Irving Brown of the Lovestone faction. He claims Dubinsky and his union network pursue independent diplomacy while Gitlow’s anti communism frames a bigger confrontation.
The schedule lists arrivals and departures for Braniff Airways trains and buses, Great Western lines through St. Paul Minneapolis and Mason City, Milwaukee Road routes to Chicago and La Crosse, and regional services including Rochester Charles City Waterloo Minneapolis and Austin Des Moines Kansas City. It notes daily and weekend variations, with mixed trains and multiple daily departures and arrivals across cities.
The poem contrasts quitting and perseverance, noting that a quitter ceases to try and stays behind while a determined rival continues to strive. It argues success comes to those who battle on until hope ends, a lesson echoed across work and sport.
The question and answer indicate about 2400 people are accidentally killed by firearms in the United States each year.
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