Austin Transportation Facilities Geared to Heavier Load
Austin's transportation network moves hogs lumber pulp oil and butter while scrap iron trains head to Superior and Minneapolis. Milwaukee Road expands as a division point with 15 000 to 16 000 freight cars monthly and 245 local staff. Chicago Great Western plans a new depot and bridges on the Freeway era, with trucking firms optimistic about the Austin Freeway and new routes for Hormel and Eddy Paper goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
S. C
Lumber and Pulp Board
Austin
Jersey City
N. J
Superior
Duluth
Minneapolis
Geo. A. Hormel and Co
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit
Charleston
Chattanooga
Brooklyn
Hawaii
Phillippine Islands
European
Chamber of Commerce
Milwaukee Road
Chicago Great Western
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakota
Walter J. Hotchkiss
Railway Express
Milwaukee
Car
Ohio Street
Fred Ten Eyck
Great Western
State Highway Department
Oakwood Cemetery
Cedar River
Sutton Park
East Street
Brownsdale Avenue
Garnett Kough
Austin Trucking Company
Hormel Company
Hormel and
Eddy
Hormel's
Ed Flitton
Hormel Transportation
Flitton
Hormel
Wisconsin
Chamber of Commerce Aims for 400 Members Next Week
A one day blitz targets 400 members for the Chamber of Commerce, first drive in 15 years. 247 on rolls and 300 prospects, teams of two depart Fox Hotel at 7 30 to report back by 4 30 p m. Race Crane, president, has mailed invitations and campaign leaders oversee nine program areas from retail to aviation.
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Chamber of Commerce
Fox
Mickey Justad
Ken Soderberg
Race Crane
Chamber
Dockers Return to Work After Longshoremen Strike
New York and other Northeastern ports see longshoremen back on piers after a 10 day strike ending with a ratified contract. ILA chief William V Bradley says the men mean it as back to work orders are issued across ports amid 30 million dollars in losses and over 100 ships tied up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Maine
Virginia
International Longshoremen's Assn
Baltimore
Hampton Roads
William V. Bradley
Ind
ILA
Bradley
Sergeant Wounded in Trailer Shooting
S. Sgt. Earl Stover was wounded in his trailer near the Duluth Air Base. His wife Joyce 22 admitted handling the rifle when it fired. He was reported in good condition with hits to his right hand and hip. no charges were filed after questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth, Minn
Earl Stover
Duluth Air Base
Joyce
Stover
Youths Captured in Chase Over Crime Blueprints Found
Four youths, including a 14-year-old with top grades, were detained after a high speed chase and discovery of crime blueprints and maps drawn in class. The plans listed targets and routes with notations for garage break ins and thefts. Police recovered two maps and the plans, and the youths were turned over to juvenile authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Broadway
Freeway Route Through Austin Minnesota Planned Interstate 391
The proposed Federal aid Interstate 391 will enter Minnesota from the east over a new bridge north of La Crescent and pass south of Highway 16 near Austin. It will join Highway 390 north of Albert Lea and run north of current Highway 16, paralleling it most of the way.
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Minnesota
Austin
Mississippi
la Crescent
Albert Lea
Tug Workers Reject Terms
About 4,000 tugboat workers in Local 333 rejected a six-year contract to end a port work stoppage now in day 23. The 5 to 1 vote pleased some leaders while others blamed the length. the union sought 20 percent higher wages, with current pay $1.76 to $2.80 hourly.
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New York
United Marine Division
National Maritime Union
William Hannan
Assn
Joseph O'Hare
Bandit Wins Big as He Robs Bowie Race Course
At Bowie Race Course in Bowie Maryland a lone bandit robbed the money counting room of $4,350 in advance ticket sales for the eighth race. He entered the room with a gun, forced ticket seller Leo M. Coll of Baltimore to hand over cash, and vanished into the holiday crowd. Other sellers heard nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie, Md
Bowie Race Course
Leo M. Coll
Baltimore
Coll
Former Austin Man Is Board Director of Rural Fire Dept
Rochester Rural Fire Department operates as a private enterprise with a 12 man staff and four full time fire trucks. G M Tommy Thompson 34 year old Austin native serves as fire chief board director purchasing agent and sales manager while marketing fire protection to 1500 subscribers including farms and rural businesses. Annual member fees are 15 dollars for residents and 25 dollars for businesses with emergency service charges and optional extra costs for high demand calls.
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Rochester, Minn
Rochester
Thompson's Farm, Fire and Safety Inc
Minnesota
Rochester City
Thompson
Austin
Minn
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
Eisenhower Ben Gurion exchange kept from public view
White House refused to reveal contents of a latest message from Premier Ben Gurion to President Eisenhower. The United States seeks to avoid sanctions on Israel while the Asian African bloc pushes in the U N for economic and military measures. Dulles and Eban recently discussed Israel's Gaza and Gulf of Aqaba positions taken from Egypt, with Israel demanding guarantees against Egyptian harassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
David Ben-Gurion
Israel
White House
James
United Nations
United States
U. N
U. S
Fear 25 Dead in Transport Crash
The burning U S transport plane failed midair and crashed into the Han River Friday night killing 25 feared. Of 159 Americans aboard 134 were rescued while 20 or 17 were listed missing by Air Force and Army officials as search resumed. Captain James Cartwright described loss of power and metal tearing through the fuselage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
U. S
Han River
Air Force
Army
State Priest Dies on Florida Vacation
The Rev. Thomas J. Coleman aged 51 a Minnesota winter visitor died Friday after a heart attack while swimming at a gulf beach in Florida Coleman was priest of a Catholic parish at Lake Benton Minnesota and had been vacationing for two months He collapsed in about three feet of water and had prior heart attacks according to Dr Bruce Walker
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Thomas J. Coleman
Minnesota
Coleman
Mound
Minn
Lake Benton
Gulf Beach
Gulf of Mexico
Bruce E. Walker
Any Further Concessions Seen Unlikely
The Eisenhower administration remains opposed to additional U. S. concessions to Israel to withdraw troops from areas seized from Egypt. Dulles and President Eisenhower will not change the U. S. stance, as Israel's Abba Eban returns from consultations in Jerusalem via London to Washington for renewed talks.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Israel
Egypt
Dulles
U.S
St Paul Man and Woman Killed in Collision
A St Paul man from Wold Chamberlain Naval Air Station and his female companion died after their car collided with a semitrailer on icy West 7th Street. Leona M Reimann 42 and William A Anderson 36 died at scene or en route to Ancker Hospital. Chester Kelly the truck driver was injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Wold- Chamberlain Naval Air Station
William A. Anderson
Leona M. Reimann
Anderson
Ancker Hospital
Minnesota
Chester Kelly
West 7Th St
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Austins
Dick Joyce
E. J. Full
Curtis Christie
Minnesota Highway Department
Education Department
Barrow
Mower County
State Department of Aeronautics
NEW York P—Dock
Seaboard Ports
Alexander Chopin
New York Shipping Assn
Chase
Onwood
Jonwan
Earth
Bandit
Ike
Lashley
Leitchfield
Mildred
John
Martine
Beulah
Austin Man
Rochester Rural Fire Department
Mideast
Fear
Chin
Japan
Kimpo Airfield
Tokyo
Tachikawa Air Base
James Car
Wright
Elkton
Florida
Warren Rogers JR
Abba Eban
Jerusalem
London
Eban
Ben- Gurion
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