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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1958
Page
1
Freeman plans a special session on unemployment pay with Governor Mackay confirming the date as June 16. The move aims to address extending or tightening relief for workers facing job loss amid ongoing economic concerns.
Gov. Freeman plans a June 16 extraordinary Minnesota Legislature session to extend unemployment compensation after Congress authorized states to widen benefits. He will confer with Atty. Gen. Lord and Frank Starkey before finalizing the decision.
Traffic fatalities over a 78 hour Memorial Day period rose to 370, the worst three day toll on record. Drownings reached 127 and 33 other deaths were attributed to miscellaneous accidents, totaling 585. The AP expected to raise the toll further.
An Austin mother carried her 4 year old Dixie Lee to safety minutes before a gas line explosion gutted their home at 1608 Lyndale. Neighbors rushed Dixie Lee to 1610 Lyndale, as fire crews theorize a struck gas pipe jolted the meter amid curb work. The blast blew out the east wall, sent debris across the yard, and shattered windows while the house burned.
In Minnesota, two former sheriff's posse members and a farmer-turned-positve group captured two armed men and a 17-year-old girl after a raid on a vacant Morgan area farmhouse used as a burglary base. One suspect was wounded by buckshot. all three were jailed in New Ulm.
In Algiers signs of sharp disappointment with Gen. Charles de Gaulle's new government grew. Insurgents, after 20 days of mass protests, felt betrayed as De Gaulle kept party figures from Paris reforms, delivering a cabinet drawn from the old ruling group.
Mower County farmers answered a post card poll by the Agricultural Poll Committee, a non-partisan Young Republicans group. Of 190 responses, 52 percent said the government should exit farming to set agriculture on a long term sound basis.
The National Assembly approved sweeping powers for six months to govern by decree, voting 322 to 232 and sending the measure to the Senate. De Gaulle, praised as wartime resistance leader, urged a free hand to prevent a breakup or civil war as he prepared for Algeria mission. The decree aims to stabilize government and restore authority.
Four drownings on the final day of the long holiday weekend lifted Minnesota’s fatality tally to 16 for the three day period. Other deaths came from eight traffic fatalities and miscellaneous accidents.
Readings over the last 24 hours show a high of 65 and a low of 42 degrees. At 8 30 am the temperature was 45 with overcast skies and a trace of rain.
The House unanimously approved a retroactive 10 percent pay raise for about one million classified federal workers at an estimated 542 million dollars yearly. The bill also applies the same raise to 530,000 postal workers and extends retroactivity to last January. Additional groups include foreign service, Veterans Administration physicians, and members of the legislative and judicial branches.
The Thailand cholera outbreak rose to 106 deaths over the weekend. No infections reported among Bangkok's large foreign community thus far.
In Two Harbors Minnesota 11 year old Susan Bugge daughter of Wesley and Mrs Bugge of Knife River won a local merchants contest securing a trip to Disneyland Susan was hospitalized in Rochester after having one leg amputated a week earlier Contestants dropped out after learning of her condition Greg Labonne 16 redirected his votes to Susan boosting her to victory The timing of the trip remains undecided
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