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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1956
Page
1
National Safety Council reports record traffic tolls during Christmas and New Year periods. Estimated 490 highway deaths from Friday 6 pm to Tuesday midnight, higher than the 407 New Year record. Combined holiday fatalities for Christmas and New Year hit 973, with a Christmas high of 706 traffic deaths and 884 total for the 102 hours.
A 21 year old Darlington woman Doris Meier died in a crash two miles north of Darlington as Wisconsin tied its all time highway death toll of 932. The victim was a passenger in a car driven by Gerald Flesch of Ames Iowa who was hospitalized in critical condition. The collision involved a pickup truck and a milk truck stopped on Highway 3, officers said.
In Montgomery Alabama gunfire erupted as buses were integrated under a federal court order. A shotgun blast hit one bus and nine bullets struck another with four Negro passengers and a white driver aboard the first. In Tallahassee Florida the City Commission suspended Cities Transit Co franchise for efforts to integrate the bus system and police arrested the manager and nine drivers for operating without a franchise.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell charges House Speaker Sam Rayburn blocked him from new offices as seniority entitled. Powell says Rayburn gave offices to Rep. Frank Chelf of Kentucky after Powell opposed the Democratic nominees, asserting a Negro purge. Powell supported Eisenhower on civil rights and remained a Democrat at the time.
The Austin Daily Herald sponsors a free film afternoon at the Sterling Theater on Friday. Roy Rogers and Trigger star in Sunset in El Dorado with Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans, plus six cartoon shorts. If you miss 1:15, a 3:15 show is available to accommodate the crowd.
U N salvage fleet may start clearing the southern end of the Suez Canal immediately after Egyptian acceptance. Nasser seeks staged concessions, keeps canal closed, while UN forces monitor. Diplomatic tension over British French presence and Israeli forces remains.
New York report highlights spelling misspellings among college students. Dr. Kenneth B. M. Crooks of Fort Valley State College cites 100 to 500 students showing errors like blud, nerse, and brane. He attributes poor spelling to inadequate writing drills and public signs, urging action.
Dale Logue a Las Vegas dancer sues NBC show The Big Surprise for 103000 claiming producers used warm up questions to trap her and she missed a 10000 astronomy query on Nov 6. Steve Carlin of Entertainment Productions calls the allegations ridiculous.
An Iowa Employment Security Commission official said on Thursday the panel likely will appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court two district court losses involving employer insurance tax rates.
A Guamanian girl and her brothers are visiting Austin with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Aandahl during winter break. Celestin Benny and Myrna Aguiguí, Chicago students, describe Austin as friendly as they enjoy pen pal ties that began a decade ago between Jesusa San Nicholas and Carol Aandahl four. Celestine and siblings now frequently visit Austin, continuing the long friendship.
In a telegram to President Eisenhower Jeno F Paulucci chief of Chun King Sales Inc urged using cut over Minnesota timberland in northern Minnesota for Hungarian refugees He said thousands of acres are available at nominal cost and that 1000 refugee families could be housed with low cost housing and land clearance The land lies on tax forfeited state and St Louis County property available for 5 to 15 dollars an acre
Roger Hanson an 18 year old Fertile High School athlete said leadership in church youth societies is sheding the old tag sissy. Hanson registered first at Hamline University for the Minnesota Methodist Youth Convocation and noted more high school leaders are taking serious roles in church youth groups.
Pasadena Police Chief Charles Morris estimates about half a million cars carrying roughly a million people will converge on Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses parade and Rose Bowl game on Tuesday.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen orders a January 2 strike against Canadian Pacific Railway and two CPR subsidiaries to preserve firemen jobs amid dieselization. Potentially 75,000 workers and 40,000 miles of lines could be affected nationwide.
Minnesota study of 679 drivers in 500 fatal crashes in 1955 shows 89 percent had their first mishap. The report notes fatalities occur even among drivers not known as accident prone. Among 76 repeaters, 41 had one prior crash and 16 had two. 10 had three or more. Prior violations varied with 26 having one, 21 having two, and 20 having three or more. one driver had 13 prior convictions and another eight accidents.
Governor's Tax Study Committee recommends a 60 plus item package to reform personal property taxes, shift revenue to an income tax withholding system, and adopt full market value assessment with 1964 start. Unified labor and business support, no new taxes, and joint returns proposed.
In North Mankato Minnesota the body of eight year old Diane Schuster was found on a sandbar in two feet of water after an all night search. Officers and volunteers used floodlights donated boats and support from surrounding counties to locate her after she slipped from ice while playing with a companion two blocks from home.
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