Conservatives accuse tax plan of misrepresentation
St Paul AP Conservatives in Minnesota accuse lawmakers of fear tactics to push a state sales tax. Rep D D Wozniak says Duxbury GOP leaders push a 3 percent tax with a $10 exemption, costing a family of four earning 4000 to 85000 about $40 extra annually.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
D. D. Wozniak
Lloyd Duxbury
Caledonia
Duxbury
Wozniak
Minneapolis and St. Paul
Freeman
Symington warns US lags in ICBM gap. Iowa panel backs staff cuts
Sen. Stuart Symington contends Russia will field four times more ICBMs in 1961 than the Eisenhower plan shows. He says the administration is widening the gap and failing to fund production. Defense chief McElroy disputes Russia's lead and cites inflated 1960 projections. In Des Moines, a bill would cut Iowa highway commissioners from five to three fulltime members.
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Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Soviet
Russia
Eisenhower
Symington
Air Force
Truman
Senate
McElroy
Des Moines
Iowa Highway Commissioners
Iowa Senate
Farmyard shooting spree leaves four dead in Waseca county
In a farmyard tragedy at Waseca Minnesota a farm worker shot and killed his estranged wife Ellen Yanke and her two elderly cousins Clarence and Herman Domny then killed himself. The gunman known as Howard and Herbert Erno 57 had pursued Ellen after a 1957 marriage with sheriff’s wife Stanley Bailey saying they separated due to cousin marriage laws. Florence Domy 36 escaped and sought help nearby. the case is linked to multiple letters Erno sent urging Ellen to return.
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Waseca, Minn
Clarence
Herman Domny
Ellen Yanke
Howard
Herbert Erno
Minnesota
Stanley Bailey
Waseca County
Erno
Morristown
Minn
8. T. Norman
Ellen
Ernc
Hotel Motel Site Clears Path in Austin
The State Senate approved a bill to authorize a hotel motel site in Austin and the House public domain committee endorsed the measure in an extraordinary session. Former Rep. Jacob Herzog urged swift passage while the Horace Austin State Park transfer to the city is amended to allow 32 acres for the project.
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State Senate
Austin
House Public Domain Committee
Jacob Herzog
Horace Austin State Park
House
Sert
P. J. Holand
Senate
Rep
Emil Schaffer
Egan Improves but Still on Critical List
Seattle reports Gov. William Egan of Alaska in improving condition but remains on the critical list. Doctors say full recovery will take several days and note his age at 44.
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Egan
Seattle
Wash
William Egan
Alaska
Gas Company seeks power to serve 28 Minnesota towns
Iron Ranges Natural Gas Co. reapplies with the Federal Power Commission for authority to supply natural gas to 28 northern Minnesota communities. The plan foresees gas from Northern Natural Gas Co. and construction of two pipelines the Mesabi and the North Shore from Grand Rapids to Hoyt Lakes and Silver Bay to Duluth. Recipient towns include Aurora Biwabik Bovey Buhl Calumet Coleraine Cooley Gilbert Grand Rapids Hoyt Lakes Keewatin Marble Mountain Iron Nashwauk Chisholm Eveleth Hibbing Virginia Barnum Carlton Crosby Deerwood Ironton Kettle River Moose Lake Proctor Silver Bay and Two Harbors.
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Iron Ranges Natural Gas Co
Federal Power Commission
Minnesota
Iron Ranges
Northern Natural Gas Co
Omaha
Northern
Grand Rapids
Hoyt Lakes
Silver Bay
Duluth
Lake Superior
Aurora
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Buhl
Calumet
Coleraine
Cooley
Gilbert
Keewatin
Marble
Mountain Iron
Nashwauk
Chisholm
Eveleth
Hibbing
Virginia
Barnum
Carlton
Crosby
Deerwood
Ironton
Kettle River
Moose Lake
Proctor
Two Harbors
No Prospect for Reprieve From Cold
Subzero cold held Minnesota in a frosty grip with no reprieve expected over the weekend. Temperatures plunged to 33 below at Hibbing the nations coldest, 31 below at International Falls and 25 below at Duluth as the region stayed mostly below zero including Bemidji 30 below East Grand Forks 22 below and Alexandria and St Cloud 17 below overnight. Only western South Dakota saw a brief warmer spell with Rapid City at 11 above.Northern Minnesota faced little chance of significant warmth today.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Hibbing
International Falls
Duluth
Bemidji
East Grand Forks
Alexandria
St. Cloud
South Dakota
Rapid City
Alcorn Moves to Help Cement GOP Harmony
Des Moines Iowa AP Patronage hungry Republicans win pledge from GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn that party officials will help fill 100 000 census taker jobs. He defends plan as President requested and says it will be distributed through local GOP channels despite Congress and Ohio participation concerns.
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Iowa
GOP
Meade Alcorn
Republican National Committee
Alcorn
Eisenhower
Congress
John B. Martin Jr
Michigan
Commerce Department
Martin
Secretary of Commerce
Strauss
Katherine Kennedy Brown
Ohio
National Committee
New U S Outlook Sought for German Reunification
Washington reports Secretary of State Dulles and advisers seek fresh ideas for German reunification with a possible central government. They weigh a confederation as a path to negotiations with the Soviet Union, amid Western plans for a March peace conference and a Big Four meeting by May.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Sec
Dulles
Germany
U.S
West
Soviet Union
Moscow
West Germany
East Germany
Enrollment Up at Minnesota State Colleges Five Schools
In St Paul the State College Board reports the five Minnesota state colleges show total winter quarter enrollment of 8,749, an increase of 1,210 from 1958. Dr Roy C Prentis, board director, announced the figures on Thursday night.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Roy C. Prentis
State College Board
Influx of Damage Misery Weather Reaches Flood Regions
Weather chaos causes deaths and homelessness across the northeast. The death toll rises to 91 with state tallies from Illinois to New Jersey. Ohio reports severe floods in Chillicothe while the Scioto and Ohio rivers overflow and barges break free.
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Ohio
Iowa
Indiana
Texas
Michigan
Kansas
Kentucky
New York
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Missouri
New Jersey
Oklahoma
New York State
Chillicothe
Scioto
Nicholas H. Holmes
Ohio River
Liverpool
Wheeling
W. Va
Newell, W. Va
Susquehanna
Pitts
Death penalty handed in Havana war crimes trial
Major Jesus Sosa Blanco, 51, a career army officer, was convicted on five counts including murder and looting and sentenced to death by a three man tribunal of Castro loyalists. The verdict followed eight hours of trial and four hours of deliberation as 17 000 spectators filled Havana's Sports Palace.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Jesus Sosa Blanco
Jam Palace
Castro
Sosa Blanco
Aristides Dacosta
Fulgencio Batista
Brownsdale School To Attach To Hayfield District In Debt Pact
The Mower County Board voted 4 to 1 to dissolve Brownsdale and attach it to Hayfield District 203, pending Brownsdale voters approval of a debt assumption plan. Petitioners and opponents debated costs, building needs, and curriculum as Hayfield’s new high school nears completion and the merger would add four teachers if approved.
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Mower County
Brownsdale
Dist
Hayfield
Wabasha
Dan Foley
Hayfield School
Dean Fritze
Wilfred Pike
Dora Tollefson
Foley
Austin
Supt
Fritze
Pike
Citys 2nd Abduction Amid Fresh Handwriting Clue
Police linked the New York kidnaping of a 23 day old infant to a possible expectant mother after finding a handwritten note with a fictitious name and fake Bronx address. The inquiry involved police and the FBI in an overnight search around the Manhattan apartment.
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New York
West Side
Bronx
FBI
Manhattan
John Tavarez
Weather Report From The Herald Site
The Herald Weather Desk records a cloudy day with a low of 18 and a high around 20 in the past 24 hours. Reading at 8 30 a m shows 18 degrees. The report is filed from The Herald Building on Thursday.
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U. 8
Herald
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