Sunday Highway Toll Rises With Two Crashes Kills Seven
A Minnesota Sunday crash near Elmore claims seven lives including Melvin Frette and Ernest Farrow and injuries to eight others. A second wreck near Wadena shears Wegsheid car, killing Norman Wegsheid and his wife Dorothy and brother. The weekend toll lifts Minnesota’s 1966 highway deaths to 279 with several more injuries and hospitalizations across Otter Tail and adjacent counties.
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Norman Wegsheid
Prior Lake
Minn
Wadena
Floyd Sharp
Wegsheid
John
Bluffton
U.S. 10
Michael G. Reynolds
Minneapolis
John Budig
Elmore
Minnesota
Frette
Farrow
Dorothy
Reynolds
Judith Tanner
Danny
Bonnie Hildreth
Otter Tail County
Don D. Samuelson
Henning
Otter Tail County Road
Dale Hoffman
Gubernatorial Battle Remains Unclear After DFL Nominating Session
In Cloquet Minnesota the 8th District DFL convention failed to endorse a candidate or vote, keeping Gov. Karl Rolvaag and Lt. Gov. A. M. Keith in a tight race. Delegates chose to steer clear of a public straw poll, awaiting the Minneapolis state convention June 17-19. Key figures included Rep. John Blatnik and district chair Lawrence Yetka.
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Cloquet
Minn
Minnesota
Democratic Farmer-Labor Party
Karl F. Rolvaag
A. M. Keith
6Th
Minneapolis
Rolvaag
Keith
John Blatnik
Lawrence Yetka
Blatnik
Yetka
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Weather outlook with scattered showers and cool days ahead
Widely scattered showers occur early this evening. Tonight and Tuesday will be fair to partly cloudy and cooler. Outlook for Wednesday calls for mostly fair and cool conditions.
Two Austin Women Seriously Hurt in Albert Lea Crash
A 7:05 a.m. crash near the Hayward Road intersection on Highway 16 sent two Austin women to Naeve Hospital in serious condition. Mrs. Barbara Hovey and Mrs. Enos Wagoner, both employed at Land O Lakes in Albert Lea, were in a car owned by Wagoner and totaled. Gerhard Landvig of Eagle Grove Iowa, driving for Ellsworth Truck Lines, was the semi driver en route to Austin. Police investigated the incident.
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Evelyn
Donald
Ernest Farrow
Janet
Rochester
David Farrow
Brian
Bruce
Park Memorial Hospital
Mason City
Iowa
James Mino
Ledyard
Farrow
Blue Earth
Emma Weythman
Perham
Minn
Hilmer Tonsager
Ottertail
Henry Young
Edward D. Macer
St. Paul
West St. Paul
Joseph C. Mack
St. Petersburg
Fla
Gertrude
John Messerick
Mader
Harold W. Johnson
Bloomington
St. Francis
Anoka County
Charles Nelson
Minneapolis
Richard R. Bakken
Hutchinson
St. Bonifacius
Daniel Schmidt
Patricia Proell
St. Cloud
Schmidt
Dennis
Nellie FE. Remick
Villas
Wis
Joseph Mack
Zenda Tregembo
Ironwood, Mich
Remick
William
Albert Lea
Austin
Naeve Hospital
Barbara Hovey
Austin Rt. 5
Enos
Louella) Wagoner
Graham St
Mapleview
Hayward Road
Highway 16
Ellsworth Truck Lines
Gerhard Landvig
Eagle Grove
Land O'Lakes
Court reversal orders retrial for Dr Samuel Sheppard
The Supreme Court ruled Dr Samuel H Sheppard did not receive a fair trial in the bludgeon slaying of his wife Marilyn and ordered the case returned to the district court to consider release or retry within a reasonable time. Justice Tom C Clark announced the decision with Justice Hugo Black noting a dissent.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Samuel H. Sheppard
Ohio
Marilyn
Tom C. Clark
Sheppard
Clark
U.S. Circuit Court
Cincinnati
U.S. District Court
Hugo L. Black
Montana Political Figure Dead at 81
Wellington D. Rankin, 81, Helena Mont., prominent attorney and political leader, died at Methodist Hospital Rochester after surgery complications following a Mayo Clinic stay since May 23. He was one of the nation’s largest landholders and had long served in public life.
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Rochester, Minn
Wellington D. Rankin
Helena
Mont
Methodist Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Traffic Deaths State Today 279 Year Ago 250
A brief table notes traffic fatalities in Iowa with figures for today and a year ago. The record tabulates counts 279 for today and 250 for the prior year, reflecting year over year comparisons in road mortality.
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Iowa
Train derailment injures about fifty in Iowa
About 50 people were injured when the east bound City of Los Angeles passenger train derailed near Templeton Iowa. The locomotive units dropped into a corn field and 17 passengers were admitted to St Anthony's Hospital in Carroll with the hospital reporting 30 outpatients and the Man ning hospital receiving four.
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Templeton
Iowa
Los Angeles
Union Pacific
Milwaukee
Omaha
Chicago
Here
St. Anthony's Hospital
Carroll
Manning Hospital
Minneapolis trades unions clinch new building contracts
In the Minneapolis St. Paul area about 30 000 iron workers and builders paused work as triennial talks concluded with seven craft unions signing new deals. Brick layers gain 1.05 hourly over three years plus 50 cents fringe. laborers 0.80 over three years. iron workers 1.05 over three years. Contracts ignore the 3.2 percent wage guideline, unions arguing the limit is unfair to labor.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis - St. Paul
Associated General Contractors Inc
George Meany
Aflcio
Merger filing aims to form Chicago Milwaukee North Western Transport
Milwaukee and Chicago and North Western jointly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval of a merger to create the Chicago Milwaukee and North Western Transportation Co. The two roads with 10 thousand mile networks serve many common points and will exchange stock under a 0.70 ratio for Milwaukee and one for North Western.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ben W. Heineman
The
North Western
William J. Quinn
Milwaukee Road
Midwest
Chicago
Council Bluffs
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Sioux City
Iowa
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S. D
Beloit
Green Bay
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Janesville
Madison
LaCrosse
Wis
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St. Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee & North Western Transportation Co
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Gemini 9 lands safely as TV highlights EVA
Apollo era drama ends with Gemini 9 touchdown in the Atlantic near Cape Kennedy aboard the Wasp. Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan completed a 72 hour mission, 45 orbits, 1.2 million miles, amid earlier flight troubles and a historic live telecast.
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Fla
Gemini
Atlantic Ocean
Eugene A. Cernan
Thomas P. Stafford
Navy
Stafford
Cernan
Wasp
Globe
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Meredith Continues Mississippi Hike Toward Capitol
James Meredith presses on with a 225 mile trek to Jackson Mississippi. After a first day halt just short of the state line he returned to Memphis to spend the night relying on local hospitality and planning to resume the march.
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Memphis, Tenn
James Meredith
Mississippi
State Line
Meredith
Mississippi State Capitol
Jackson
Panamanian clashes kill three as guards clash with students
In Colon, 50 miles north of Panama City, three people died and at least 20 were injured as renewed clashes erupted between students and troops of the Panama National Guard. One dead was identified as a student.
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Panama
Panama National Guard
Colon
Here
Jobless Rate Takes Big Jump in May
Washington reports unemployment rose sharply in May to 4 percent from 3.7 percent, the biggest monthly jump in a year. Labor Department data show a slowing in growth, yet BLS Commissioner Arthur M. Ross says the overall economy remains on an upward path.
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Washington
Labor Department
Arthur M. Ross
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Earliest Tropical Storm Forms in Caribbean
The earliest tropical storm in 15 years surged from the Caribbean toward Florida as Weather Bureau forecasts predicted a rise to hurricane force by day’s end. Hurricane hunter aircraft logged top winds at 55 to 60 mph, with expected increases to about 75 mph within 12 to 18 hours.
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Miami
Fla
Caribbean
Weather Bureau
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