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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1964
Page
2
Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid smiles again as Mayor Joergen Wassard presides over the unveiling. The statue’s head, sawed off by an unknown vandal five weeks earlier, is replaced with a head cast from the 1913 plaster mold by sculptor Edvard Eriksen.
Pierre Salinger presents Kennedy era image and polished proposals while Alan Cranston leads a strong opposing coalition including Gov. Pat Brown and the California Democratic Council. The contest centers on influence within the party and Salinger’s celebrity versus Cranston’s club backing and CDC endorsement.
Washington AP reports a crucial California contest between Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller as 86 delegates to the Republican National Convention hang in the balance. With Goldwater leading in delegates, a California win could seal the nomination, while Rockefeller fights to narrow the path.
In Havana Fidel Castro alleged a possible U S instigated germ warfare strike in Sancti Spiritus area Las Villas Province. He described a substance falling from the air dissolving on landing resembling bacteria culture material. The U S denied all germ warfare charges.
Von Braun tells 168 Iowa Wesleyan graduates and 2,000 in attendance to keep learning as obsolescence haunts knowledge. He backs continued U.S. moon effort and joins six others in receiving no degrees. In Jakarta Sukarno plans Tokyo talks with Malaysia and Indonesia. Kuala Lumpur flags possible delay unless Indonesia eases last minute conditions.
An old laundry building at G. Pierce Wood Mental Hospital in Arcadia Fla burned Monday night. Superintendent Dr Clark Adair said the structure lay 5 yards from the nearest of 21 wards and all 1 350 patients remained safely in their wards with no evacuation needed.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Charles H. Percy secured his second major victory in two months as he rode a surge of momentum from a purge move and broad support in Springfield. The outcome bolsters Percy's path toward the governorship amid a favorable political climate.
In Anamosa Iowa John M Anderson age 20 faces riotous conduct charges set for June 15 after pleading innocent. Anderson serves 10 years for larceny in Washington County. The report also notes Douglas Preston 21 and Greg Roberts 17 facing pleas and outlines Illinois GOP maneuvers at a chaotic nominating convention with Percy leading a push to back party names and oust six renegade delegates.
Fort Madison Iowa Jerry Lewis Parsons 27 serving 25 years for robbery with aggravation received an eight year term add on Monday after being convicted of killing fellow prisoner Lee Bonjour 26 of Muscatine last April 24 Parsons pleaded self defense in the stabbing in the penitentiary kitchen leading to the extended sentence
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