Bel Air Well Gets Bid Action From Utilities Board
The Austin Utilities Board moved to bid two pumps and a pump house for the Bel Air well aiming for about 1200 gallons per minute. Bids open at the July 10 meeting. A Brownsdale plant boiler and pump house bid review is set for June 19 with an automatic chlorinator purchased for Brownsdale at 2903 dollars. The board chats about drilling a South River street well starting at 350 feet deep.
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Bel Air
Austin
Utilities Board
Brownsdale
South River Street
Lawrence Dewey
City Employes Credit Union
Baldy Hansen
Ex Senator Bingham Dies After Long Illness at 80
Washington reports the death of Hiram Bingham III former Republican U S senator from Connecticut at age 80 following a long illness. He served nine years in the Senate during the Coolidge and Hoover eras and chaired the Loyalty Review Board at age 75 in 1951. He faced a Senate censure over an ethics issue but was absolved of corrupt motives.
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Washington
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Bingham
Truman Administration
Loyalty Review Board
U. S
Coolidge
Hoover
Senate
Charles L. Evanson
Connecticut Manufacturers Assn
Senate Finance Committee
Herbert Hoover
Eleven Women on Jury in City Plant Death Case
Eleven women and one man hear testimony in a Minneapolis trial over Delores Johnson of Austin seeking 17500 dollars for her husband Lester Johnson’s death at the municipal plant. The suit names Industrial Electric Co Westinghouse Electric Co Batzli Electric Co and the Austin Utilities Board claiming improper bus bar clearance and an arc resulting in fatal burns. The defense notes the bus bars carried about 13000 volts and the cubicle’s design akin to a telephone booth. The jury is to decide if negligence caused the fatal outcome and the amount is the legal limit under Minnesota law. The case links Draeper Electric Co Mankato as installer Westinghouse supplied gear. Continued on Page 10.
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Delores Johnson
Austin
Lester Johnson
Industrial Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Co
Batzli Electric Co
Austin Utilities Board
Minnesota
Johnson
William Bandler
The
Batzli Company
Westinghouse
the Utilities Board
Jet Rams Car Killing Mother and Daughter at Wold
A Scorpion fighter jet failed on takeoff at Wold-Chamberlain field and crashed into a car, killing Thelma R. Usher age 38 and her 5 year old daughter Rita. Helga Anderson 68 was hospitalized in critical condition and Clair Usher was hospitalized in shock while Allen Usher 7 escaped injury. Captain Donald Hamilton and Lt Henry Gerling escaped serious harm. The crash prompted a plan to reroute Highway 100 for a runway extension.
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Minneapolis
Air Force
Thelma R. Usher
Rita
Ilton
Wold-Chamberlain Field
Hamilton
Hillsboro
Texas
Henry Gerling
Overland Park
Kan
Usher
Anderson
Metropolitan Airports Commission
Col
David Gould
475Th Air Defense Group
Mindszenty jailed again reported by Il Quotidiano
Il Quotidiano said Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungary’s Roman Catholic primate, was moved to Felso Peteny near Nograd and kept in jail after refusing to sign a statement praising government church policy. He had been convicted of treason in 1949 and was released in 1950s, later confined to a priests home.
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Rome
Italian Catholic Action
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Il Quotidiano
Cardinal Mindszenty
Felsopeteny
Nograd
Sta
Brain-surgery girl becomes cheerful child after half brain removed
Doctors at Wesley Memorial Hospital report that a six year old girl who once acted as a “brat” with daily convulsions has improved after surgeons removed the right half of her brain in a four hour operation on May 14. The patient now shows a new personality, has no convulsions, and is expected to regain normal senses and continue schooling in northern Indiana.
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Wesley Memorial Hospital
Wesley Hospital
Indiana
Driver Killed in Pipestone County Crash
A youth was killed and three teens were injured four miles north of Pipestone on Highway 75 after a rollover crash at about 1 a.m. Larry Nixon, 20, of Pipestone, died. Georgianne Kelly, 16, of Verdi, was in serious condition with chest injuries. David Sedlacek, 15, and Lila Mae Ripley, 17, both of Verdi, were hospitalized with non serious injuries. Police said the driver likely fell asleep. the car traveled into a ditch and rolled end over end. Nixon recently left the Navy. The fatalities mark Pipestone County’s first traffic death this year, pushing Minnesota’s toll to 173.
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Pipestone
Minn
Larry Nixon
Georgianne Kelly
Verdi
David Sedlacek
Hatfield
Nixon
Navy
Minnesota
No Tax Cut Foreseen This Year
Washington tax writers expect little chance of a tax cut this session barring a business downturn. Next year they may review individual and business taxes. Rep Mills says reductions require related spending cuts or a downturn, while Rep Byrnes calls tax cuts premature for January.
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House
Ways and Means
Committee For Economic Development
Economic Research Organization
Treasury
Byrnes
R-Wis
California Landslide Only First Step Adlai
George MacKinnon described the killing of banker Kenneth Lindbergh by James P. Taylor as cold and wanton. He urged a jury with power to impose the death penalty, noting premeditation and lack of mitigating factors. Taylor pleaded guilty to stealing over 15000 dollars in travelers checks and cash from Northern State Bank. The defense outlined Taylor’s troubled background while witnesses were prepared for trial.
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Minneapolis
George MacKinnon
U. S
Kenneth Lindbergh
James P. Taylor
Gunnar H. Nordbye
Taylor
Thief River Falls
MacKinnon
Irving Nemerov
Walter Riordan
Riordan
86-Year-Old UCLA Graduate Proves Age Is Just a Number
John Burgoyne Ely, 86, earns a bachelor of arts in music from UCLA. Six of his seven children and four grandchildren attend his diploma ceremony. Ely, born February 10, 1870 in an Arkansas Ozark cabin, kept A and B grades through four years of college.
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Los Angeles
John Burgoyne Ely
Ely
UCLA
Ozark Mountains
Arkansas
Aid to Tito Needs Restudy Says Eisenhower
President Eisenhower urged restudy of U S aid to Communist Yugoslavia in light of Tito's new friendliness with Moscow. He pressed Congress to enact the administration's foreign aid program while avoiding direct involvement in Republican primaries and clarified his campaign plans.
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Tito
Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
House Foreign Affairs Committee
The
Congress
Twin Cities Ford Plant to Halt Work
About 950 of 1,300 production workers at the Twin Cities Ford assembly plant will be laid off for one week starting Monday to readjust inventories to seasonal demand. Glass, maintenance, and production control crews will stay on. plant output runs about 280 vehicles daily. It is unclear if workers will receive unemployment benefits under the negotiated UAW program.
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ST. Paul
Twin Cities
Ford
Robert Elliott
United Auto Workers
He Leads Too Grave a Life to Even Vote
A bearded man living in a cemetery near Chatham Square sought to vote after being turned away at eight polling places. He claimed residence in the cemetery since it was cheaper, and asked for voting rights but was told he must meet formalities including a residence definition.
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New York
State Attorney General's
Chatham Square
Indonesia Abandons Rubber Embargo to Red China
Indonesia joins Malaya and Singapore in lifting the U N embargo on rubber shipments to Red China. Together they produce over half of world natural rubber, nearly a million tons annually, with Ceylon also sending rubber for rice under the long standing Cold War trade.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Malaya
Singapore
U. N
China
Ceylon
Red China
Foreign Ministry
Stevenson Crushes Kefauver in California Primary
Adlai E. Stevenson defeated Estes Kefauver in California's crucial primary, boosting Stevenson toward the Democratic nomination. Eisenhower swept Republicans, while Kuchel won renomination. New York delegates favored Harriman, with Stevenson backers eyeing a few seats as results continued.
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Associated Press
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
California
Kefauver
Stevenson
Los Angeles
Eisenhower
Thomas Kuchel
Richard Richards
New York
Averell Harriman
GOP
Eigenhower
Voters OK 12 Million for Hospitals in State
Minnesota taxpayers have contributed or agreed to contribute over 12 million dollars to hospital projects via bond issues since 1955. Dr. Helen Knudsen and Elmer Slagle note bond proposals generally succeed with second attempts when needed.
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Helen Knudsen
State Health Department
Elmer Slagle
Public Health
Olmsted County
Rochester
Douglas County Hospital
Alexandria
St. John’s Hospital
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Utilities Department
Hansen
Centennial Committee
East Side Lake
Draeper Electric Co
Mankato
Fuel Economy Co
Westinghouse Company
Burr Markham
Bandler
Jerome Anderson
William O’brien
Paul McGough
Minnea
Frank Cobrun
Cobrun
Jet
Wold
Mindszenty
Chicago
Rep. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means Committee
Adlai
Lindberg
Adlai Stevenson
Joseph Buel
Falls Church
Citizens For Eisenhower
IEE
Eeeves
Reds
Adial
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