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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
2
Washington AP reports that the chance Congress votes itself a higher pay from 22 500 to 32 500 next year is shrinking. Disclosure of members income remains unlikely with little appetite for new rules. Senator Hart notes conflicting signals but says public trust will drive any decision.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller adds the Oregon presidential primary to his schedule in May as he seeks GOP rank and file to back his campaign amid divorce controversy. An AP poll places him fourth behind Goldwater Nixon and Lodge. he plans NH and California contests before Oregon.
Secretary Luther Hodges outlines a 1964 outlook calling for a 5 percent U.S. economy expansion and prices remaining fairly stable. He cites personal income gains, a 463 billion dollar 1963 handoff, and a potential GNP over 620 billion if a tax cut is enacted, while noting unemployment and capital underuse.
Eight crewmen of the French freighter Capitaine Louis Malbert are reported drowned or missing after a fog collision with the Danish tanker Rosborg. Nineteen survivors were saved by Danish Swedish and Soviet vessels. the freighter sank five miles north of Anholt Island.
The writer, a newspaper editor, recounts waking on New Year’s Day ten years ago to learn both legs had to be amputated after a car crash. She describes the heavy costs of recovery, ongoing prosthetic fits, and the need for full driver responsibility and seat belt use.
Patriarch Athenagoras I urged Pope Paul VI to call a pan Christian conference with Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Anglican leaders to confront atheism and tyranny. They are to meet in the Holy Land on the Mount of Olives, marking a historic first between the two churches.
West Berlin deputy mayor Henrich Albertz urged extending the Christmas visit permit period while noting no official move to reopen talks with East Germany. Bonn cautioned against overreaching as authorities report 155000 crossings on Sunday, part of a record 412000 since Dec 20. Ahmed Abboud Pasha, 74, Egyptian sugar magnate and ex-director of the Suez Canal, died in London.
Burlington Vermont AP reports the Burlington Free Press offers to cover funeral expenses for readers who register their plan to drink and drive on New Year’s Eve. Five registered in 1961, two in the following year, but none has collected yet.
AP reports A. J. Liebling age 59, famed New Yorker critic of The Wayward Press, died Saturday from pneumonia. A prolific author of over a dozen books, he previously worked at several newspapers before joining The New Yorker staff in 1935. Born in New York.
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, back in Bonn, says President Johnson expects new proposals from West Germany to ease tensions with the Soviet Union. He notes Germany's proximity to Russia and confirms no specifics were given. Both leaders, in Texas, push to ease Berlin tensions and extend the holiday visits between West and East Berlin.
Fidel Castro's regime celebrates five years in power with a New Year's Eve mass rally and speech. The article notes shortages, high prices, low wages, and a controversial push toward compulsory military service amid chaotic economy and strained Moscow ties.
In Moscow Khrushchev says there are reasonable prospects for 1964 agreement on measures to slow the arms race and ease tensions. He cites possible arms reductions, cuts in spending, non aggression pacts, no nuclear dispersal, and zones free of nuclear weapons. Khrushchev notes shifts in policy under President Johnson and sees mutual interest in peaceful settlement.
Brown County Attorney Robert J. Berens of New Ulm is elected president of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association at its annual convention. William Randall of Ramsey County becomes vice president and Carl F. Erickson of Crow Wing County is secretary treasurer. Trustees named include Warren A. Saetre Marshall County Malcolm MacKenzie Nicollet County and Chester Durda Hennepin County.
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