Task Force Flags Hazards at Faribault State School
A government task force reports obsolete hazardous and overcrowded facilities at the Faribault State School and Hospital. It urges construction of 250 beds and timely replacement, with a plan to transfer patients to Brainerd and Cambridge facilities, and proposes reevaluating institutional control between welfare and education agencies.
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Freeman
Faribault School
Brainerd State School
Cambridge State School
Faribault
Brainerd
E. J. Engberg
Faribault School For the Deaf
Department of Public Welfare
State Department of Education
Khrushchev Proposes New Four Year Disarm Plan
Premier Khrushchev sent personal letters to world leaders outlining staged disarmament. Proposals call for suppressing all means of delivering nuclear weapons including rockets and long range bombers, with year by year details.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
United Nations
Rochester Trucker Bound Over On Theft Charge
Donald J. Henry a 27 year old trucker for Witte Transportation Co was bound over to district court after a preliminary hearing on grand larceny. He faces a $1500 shortage in accounts and is jailed in 2000 bond.
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Rochester, Minn
Witte Transportation Co
St. Paul
Donald J. Henry
Floyd W. Frank
Witte
Henry
House Expense Records Reopened After Crackdown
In Washington AP. House expense accounts are to be reopened for public inspection after Speaker Sam Rayburn ended a secrecy order. The move follows disclosures of irregularities in official business trips. Records will be accessible but not photographed. clerks must be present during review.
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Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Rayburn
Ralph Roberts
Young Bandits Sentenced in North Dakota Robberies
Wenloyd Carpenter and Robert Beylund, ages 21 and 20, were sentenced to 1 to 10 years in the state penitentiary after forcing a farm family to shelter them for six hours while fleeing lawmen. They were named in three counts of first degree robbery for stealing cars and gasoline.
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RUGBY
N.D
Wenloyd Carpenter
Towner
Robert Beylund
Polish Government Seizes Church for Community Center Clash
In a provincial Polish city, Roman Catholics clashed with police as authorities attempted to take over a church building to convert it into a community center. The confrontation highlighted tensions between church authorities and the government during the action.
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Warsaw
Poland
Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski
Zielona Gora
Gruenberg
Lower Silesia
Soviet Union
Poznan
Nowa Huta
Duluth Bucks Housing Plan Appeal to State Supreme Court
A group opposing Duluth Minnesota Fairmount Park public housing filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court challenging a 50 000 bond order. District Judge Mark Nolan required indemnity to the Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority and denied both temporary and permanent injunctions earlier, with the appeal filed May 20.
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Duluth, Minn
Fairmount Park
Minnesota Supreme Court
Mark Nolan
Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority
Nolan
State Supreme Court
Sunday Beer Vote Rejected in Winnebago Minn
A 424 to 211 defeat overturned a proposal to legalize Sunday sale of 3.2 beer in Winnebago. The opposition came from the local Ministerial Association amid religious concerns.
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Winnebago, Minn
Winnebago
Ministerial Assn
Explosion at Fargo plant kills three workers
Sparks from a welding torch ignited a gas pocket during work on converting a coal storage building into a natural gas distribution center for Northern States Power Co. The blast killed Samuel G. Rott and Angus Neyssen at the scene and Robert LaPash in hospital. Eight others were injured, several critically, with a mix of fractures and blunt trauma as concrete slabs were hurled by the explosion.
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Fargo
N.D
Head
Minn
Northern States Power Co
James Grandhoise
GOP convention opens in Minneapolis with endorsement test
The Minnesota GOP convention begins in Minneapolis as rules committee actions expected to endorse a slate of candidates. Peterson seeks open primary and may oppose endorsement, while Andersen campaigns for endorsements. Bjornson potential Senate bid discussed amid broader GOP maneuvering and a contrast with the DFL endorsement process.
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Minnesota
Minneapolis
Rules Committee
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
P. Kenneth Peterson
Peterson
GOP
Elmer L. Andersen
U. S
Bjornson
Sen
Hubert Humphrey
Senate
Leonard Lindquist
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Wayne Field
George Jensen
Minneapolis School Board
DFL
State Central Committee
Powers' Dad May See Son
The Washington Post reports Thomas G. Powers father Oliver Powers of Pound Virginia may visit his son, the pilot of the downed U S reconnaissance plane in Russia. Oliver Powers declined to comment after applying for a passport on May 16. A State Department official refused to confirm or deny the report.
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Washington (Ap
Washington Post
Thomas G. Powers
U.S
Russia
Oliver Powers
Pound
State Department
Survivors Question Who Caused N S P Explosion
Ernest Forness of Moorhead Minn tears up in Moorhead hospital after the Northern States Power blast. Pete Ronning and Dale Holmes are injured as others recount the concrete building collapse and flying debris. Ronald Motch and William Waskus describe the chaos and near calamity as eight workers faced the explosion and its aftermath.
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Red Lake Falls
Minn
Dale Holm
Detroit Lakes
Ernest Forness
Raymond H. Severson
Moorhead
Peter M. Ronning
Fargo
Ronald Notch
St. Cloud
Allan Tierney
Turtle Lake
N.D
Henry Zigan
St. Paul
Tierney
Pete
Dale
Forness
Moorhead Hospital
Ronning
Holmes
Rott
Northern States
Peter Ronning
Dale Holmes
Furness
Ronald Motch
Avon
Motch
William Waskus
NSP
Weather outlook with light wind through Friday
The forecast calls for occasional cloudiness and low humidity with little temperature change this afternoon through Friday. Winds shift from west to southwest at 10 to 20 mph this afternoon, then turn northwest tonight and Friday.
Kennedy era alert ordered from Paris by Gates
Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates Jr testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he ordered a military alert from Paris after learning Soviet Premier Khrushchev would disrupt the summit. He called the measure prudent, not offensive, and said it prepared for possible readiness changes if needed.
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Washington
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Gates
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Senate
Pillsbury Mill Workers Reach Pact to Avert Walkout
In a marathon overnight session, about 2,500 Pillsbury Co workers across 14 plants in 10 states halted a midnight strike after a master contract was reached. Wage details remain to be set by locals while health and welfare, vacations, and severance terms are covered. The pact pauses after federal mediator Charles LaValley sat in, with details pending policy committee review.
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Minneapolis
Pillsbury Co
Ming
Pillsbury
Buffalo
N.Y
Los Angeles
Calif
Charles LaValley
General Mills
Refuse More Money for City Hall Project
Winnebago voters reject the request for authority to spend an extra 4000 dollars after a 12500 bid on the town hall project. The outcome leaves the $8500 bond issue still in effect but with no clear funding path for the added costs.
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Winnebago, Minn
Town Hall
Three Hogquist Family Die in Minnesota Crash Toll Rises
Three members of the Hogquist family, Oscar 65, his wife 56, and their adopted son Loren 27, died when their car collided with a auto transport trailer near Thief River Falls. Lawrence Golden 31 of St Paul, driver of the truck carrying three new cars, was hospitalized in serious condition. A second fatality occurred when Theodore Sanctum 67 of Verndale died in a crash on U S 102 miles east of Verndale involving a car driven by John Abrahamson 24 of Coon Rapids.
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Minnesota
Thief River Falls
Oscar Hogquist
Loren
Lawrence Golden
St. Paul
Hogquist
Theodore R. Sanctum
Verndale
John Abrahamson
Coon Rapids
U.S
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House Administration Committee
Duluth Bucks Housing Plan
Samuel G. Rott
Angus Neyssen
Hatton, N.D
Robert LaPash
Moor
Adolph Johnson
Associated Press
Val Bjornson
Powers
Survivor
Sam Ming
American Federation of Grain Millers
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