Wilson says trimmed defense budget a year ago
Former Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson asserts President Eisenhower reduced requests from 38 to 36 billion for the current fiscal year amid a budget cutting mood in Congress. He notes the White House ignored top Pentagon recommendations and explains Vanguard separation from missile programs to spur development via Army Air Force competition.
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Percival Brundage
National Security Council
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Air Force
Severe asthma attack nearly fatal for Red Skelton
Comedian Red Skelton nearly suffocated during a severe asthmatic attack at his Bel Air home. He was revived by wife Georgia, a fire squad, and his physician, then transported to St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. Doctors described the event as an asthmatic phase with lung fluid causing heart strain, but not a heart attack. He remained serious but improving, with a film and TV work pending.
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Calif
Bing Crosby
Skelton
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Bel Air
St. John’s Hospital
Red
Crosby
Pebble Beach
St Ansgar Man Killed by Austin Train
Alvin George Belz, a middle aged St Ansgar man, died in a car train collision 22 miles east of Carpenter Iowa. His car struck a Milwaukee freight train bound from Mason City to Austin and was hurled 72 feet from the impact. The train with an Austin crew arrived here early this afternoon.
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St. Ansgar
Carpenter
Iowa
Belz
Milwaukee
Mason City
Austin
Stores Close 4 P.M Today for New Year Preparations
Austin stores will close at 4 p m today to allow employees to ready for New Year’s Eve. City and county offices observe normal hours. The Austin Daily Herald prints two comic sections and will not publish New Year’s Day. Various lodges clubs and venues plan parties dances and midnight shows with favors and noisemakers.
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Austin Daily Herald
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Herald
Geo. A. Holmer & Co
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Weather Readings From Herald Site At Fire Station
Official readings show snow at 8:30 today with a low of 4 and a high of 18 in the past 24 hours. General conditions indicate continued snow.
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Herald Weather
Root of Fire Station
City utilities workers push for 10 percent wage hike
Fred Miles of Local 867 said a 10 percent raise for city utilities employees, on top of a prior 22.5 cent hourly hike, was proposed to the Utilities Board. The plan would raise operating engineers to about 51 cents hourly and boiler firemen about 47 cents, still below Hormel Co. rates even after increases. A meeting with Miles’s committee and board members was set for 10 a.m. Thursday to seek agreement.
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Hormel’s
Cold Minnesota New Year to Start With Frigid Air
The Weather Bureau forecast a cold New Year for Minnesota with lows of 10 to 25 below in the north and around 5 above in the south. International Falls dropped to 24 below, Bemidji 11 below, Duluth 9 below, St. Cloud 1 below, Alexandria 1 below, the Twin Cities 6 above, and Rochester 8 above. A major snow storm spread across the Midwest, causing hazardous travel and traffic deaths in Kansas and Missouri, with Chicago reporting minor accidents as snow neared six inches.
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Missouri
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Minnesota plans 70000-student expansion by 1970
University of Minnesota reveals a massive future growth plan to enroll more than 42,000 students by 1970, a rise of over 19,000, with campus relocation and a West River area expansion across the Mississippi. A new Washington Avenue two level bridge would link campuses, and space needs equal to 37 Ford Hall sized buildings are projected.
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West River
J. L. Morrill
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Morrill
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College of Science, Literature and the Arts
USI Closes 1957 Books on 90.7 Percent of Revised Goal
Final drive totals show $55,851.68 raised, 90.7 percent of the revised goal of $61,602. Clarence Smith reports expenses around $3,000, down from earlier estimates, with payroll deductions accounting for part of the gifts. The drive attracted 5,567 contributors, including 227 payroll and 293 other pledges, and excluded 1,261 carrier-drive contributors.
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USI
Clarence Smith
Smith
Minnesota economy shown solid as Freeman touts growth
Governor Freeman says Minnesota enters the new year with a strong economy and sound fiscal outlook despite a national downturn. He cites a net population gain of 4 364 and rising business development aided by the Department of Business Development under Commissioner James Clark.
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Minnesota
Freeman
Joseph Robertson
Minnesota Pic
James Clark
Department of Business Development
Four-Cent Wage Boost at Hormel’s Plants
Hormel in Fayette announces a four cent per hour raise for all Geo A Hormel & Co plant workers. The new hourly rates are 1.952 for men and 1.94 for women, effective Monday. The raise stems from an October 11 1956 agreement with the Big Four packers and the United Packing House Workers of America CIO AFL. Clothes-changing time wages rise from 32.30 to 2.35 per week, effective January 6.
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Fayette Sherman
Big Four Packers
United Packing House Workers of America
Cio-Afl
Hormel Company
Local 9
Eisenhower Near Final 1958-59 Budget Ceiling
President Eisenhower and Budget Director Percival Brundage wrapped up 1958-59 budget work at the White House farm session in Gettysburg. Kilian joined to discuss science and space weapons costs shaping next year’s spending as Susan Eisenhower’s sixth birthday neared and New Year’s Eve was quiet at the farm.
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Eisenhower
Percival Brundage
Brundage
Washington
James R. Killian Jr
Killian
Susan Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Khrushchev Named Time Man of the Year 1957
Time magazine named Nikita S. Khrushchev its Man of the Year for 1957 in the January 6 issue. The Soviet leader dominated world news and left a lasting impact on history, for better or worse, Time announced in New York.
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Dave Owen
Baldwin
New York
World News
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Time Magazine
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