Minnesotans Hope for Peace and Prosperity in 1953
A AP survey of Minnesotans shows broad hopes for the new year including world peace, balanced budgets, better health, and progress in industry. Gov. C Elmer Anderson calls for a harmonious legislative session and benefits for all. Others wish for peace in Korea, fair pay, higher cattle prices, and tolerance among people.
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Associated Press
C. Elmer Anderson
Minnesota
Len Costley
International Falls
Paul Bunyan
Joe Stalin
Charles Loring
Nick Weyrens
West Otter Tail County
Korea
Charles E. Mayo
Rochester
Helene Aull
Faribault
Albert Woolson
Duluth
United States
Austin to Welcome New Year Tonight
Austin will ring in 1953 with watch night services in churches and various New Year's Eve parties. Stores close at regular hours today and observe New Year’s Day Thursday. There will be no mail delivery on New Year’s Day.
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Austin
Texas Airman Wins Tall Tale Title With Jap Mosquito Yarn
Airman C. Harry V. Cummings of Dallas won the 23rd Ananias Award as World’s Champion Liar of 1952, praised for a tall tale about Japanese mosquitoes. The tale, told while stationed at Johnson Air Force Base near Tokyo, edged out an honorable mention from John S. Kendeix of Brooke Army Hospital San Antonio.
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Texas Airman
Burlington
C. Harry V. Cummings
Dallas
Cummings
Johnson Air Force Base
Tokyo
John S. Kendeix
Brooke Army Hosiital
San Antonio
Eisenhower Reaches Two Key Understandings With Senate Leaders
President-elect Eisenhower and Senate Republican leaders settled two major points after a long talks session. Taft backed future appointment procedures with adequate advance consultation, easing potential friction. A Farm policy dispute centered on Ezra Taft Benson and 90 percent parity price supports for basic commodities, raising potential confirmation hurdles.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
New York
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Congress
Ohio
Taft
Milton R. Young
North Dakota
GOP
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
Plane Crash Data Collected in Minnesotas 1952 Toll
Three Civil Aeronautics Authority officials examined the crash that killed Otto Nelson and Rolland Purdie near Albert Lea. Findings will be sent to Washington as sheriff speculation cites downdraft or mechanical causes. Nelson held a private pilot license and hunting permit. guns were found in the wreck.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Albert Leamen
Sheriff’s Office
Otto Nelson
Rolland Purdie
Schroeder
Nelsen
State Conservation Commission
Rye
Freeborn
Purdie
Rochester patients tour city to view Yale decorations
About 160 hospital patients toured Rochester Monday and Tuesday to see Christmas decorations. Twenty five cars driven by American Legion members made the route, followed by coffee and doughnuts.
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Rochester
American Legion
Anderson Proposes Penal Reform Report to Legislature
Gov. Anderson received a 49 proposal penal reform plan from the Citizens Advisory Committee on Penal Reform. The study covers Stillwater Prison St Cloud Men’s Reformatory and Shakopee Women’s Reformatory and urges a unified system, parole review of lifers and expanded staffing. It calls for 24 hour medical service more nurses psychologists updated education and work programs and use of prison profits to improve the system.
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ST. Paul
Anderson
Citizens Advisory Committee On
Stillwater Prison
St. Cloud Men’s Reformatory
Shakopee Women’s Reformatory
Stillwater
Jarle Leirfallom
Gallagher
Henry Gallagher
Mankato
Minnesota Supreme Court
State Board of Parole
State Pardon Board
St. Gloud Reformatory
St. Cloud Reformatory
St. Cloud
Traffic Deaths Seen Near 38,000 in 1952
The National Safety Council warned 1952 traffic fatalities could reach at least 38,000, the third highest on record, with December deaths raising the total. President Ned H. Dearborn urged sober driving for New Year celebrations as 34,500 deaths occurred in the first 11 months and 3,670 in November. The group estimates 410 lives may be lost during the four day New Year holiday period.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
U. S
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Peace Outlook Improves Says Truman At News Conference
President Truman said the world peace outlook is better now than a year ago citing global Cold War trends. He noted no new plan for ending the Korean conflict has been submitted, and he will address the nation on January 15 from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. CST.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Brannan
Douglas MacArthur
John Carter Vincent
MacArthur
Korea
Inauguration Plans for Gov C Elmer Anderson
Ceremonies echo 100 years of tradition for Gov Anderson as two day program begins with the 58th Legislature convening. Lt. Gov Nelson to take oath, Anderson to deliver inaugural message before a joint session, then reception in the House chamber and a Capitol rotunda public reception.
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Jack B. MacKay
ST Paul
C. Elmer Anderson
J. E. Nelson
Senate
House
Supreme Court
John A. Hartle
Owatonna
Gov. Anderson
Loring
Anderson
State Capitol
Justice Loring
Nelson
Hartle
Mike Holm
Stafford King
van Bjornson
J. A. A. Burnquist
Grace Kaercher Davis
United States reassures on UN loyalty risks
Secretary of State Dean Acheson told a House panel that UN employees with questionable loyalty pose no real threat to U S security. He called their presence a black eye and said the UN does not handle matters of national defense. Acheson cited plans for full FBI field investigations of current and prospective U N workers who are U S nationals and possible appeals to a Loyalty Review Board.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
United Nations
Acheson
House
United States
Justice Department
Chelf
D-Ky
State Department
U. N
Ross Malone
U.N
New York
Malone
FBI
U. S
Trygve
U. N. Office
Adrian Fisher
U.S
Fisher
Truman
Department
Piqued Republicans Seek Patronage Job List
Republican congressmen protested they lack a complete list of government jobs open to patronage under a new GOP Congress. After 20 years of Democratic rule, they urge a Civil Service Commission resolution to publish the thousands of positions that may be filled through political patronage.
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Edwin B. Harrinson
Washington
New Republican Congress
Civil Service Commission
December records peak for Austin employment
Austin closed the year with a new employment high of 11 194 people in December 1951. The gain over November was 170 and construction remained strong with 523 workers employed despite 103 layoffs. Extra holiday staff included 195 in retail and wholesale and 68 at the Post Office.
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Austin
Post Office
Austin Uses
Trans
Indian Leader Frank Broker Dies in Minneapolis
Frank Broker 62 prominent Minnesota Indian leader and owner of Broker Logging Co died Tuesday night at University Hospital Minneapolis. He led regional tribal affairs and commerce efforts for years.
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Cass Lake
Minn
Frank Broker
Minnesota
University Hospitals
Minneapolis
Broker Logging Co
Night Fighters Battle B-29s on Korea Front
Predawn and daybreak exchanges mark the final 1952 day as 21 B 29 Superfortresses from Japan and Okinawa strike two targets near the Yalu River and Sinanju. They drop over 200 tons of explosives on an ore processing plant and a supply center amid heavy ground fire and night fighter opposition. The Air Force reported no confirmed bomber losses and offered limited damage details on the Choaktong plant and nearby facilities.
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Jim Becker
Seoul
Korea
Japan
Okinawa
Yalu River
Sinanju
Pyongyang
Air Force
Choak-tong
Uiji
Yalu
Wollywon
Israel Seeks U S Pledge to Limit Arab Arms
Israeli diplomats press for State Department assurances that the United States will curb arms shipments to Egypt and other Arab states. Ambassador Abba Eban is instructed to argue that broader arms flows would upset the balance of power in the Middle East and weaken Israel.
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Washington
State Department
U. S
Egypt
Abba Eban
Israel
Middle East
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