Obituary notices and birth announcements from Minnesota churches
Vital statistics list multiple births and deaths from Austin, Brownsdale, Riceville, Hayfield, Rochester, White Bear Lake, and surrounding areas. Items include births to McCullough, Newkirk, Sheedy, Dalager, Harvey, Anderson, Roser, Wilkerson, Eastman, Austinson, and Elliott families. deaths of R. W. Franklin, Milton Gardner, Mrs. Max Horeck, Jessie Leutink, Albert Meyer, Francis Sirek, Horace Wood, and others with funeral details and residences in Austin, Rochester, Hayfield, and surrounding communities.
Ambulance Runs to St Olaf Hospital Details
Ambulance movements recorded with times and routes to St Olaf Hospital. Entries include St Paul and Mill to St Olaf Hospital at 148 p.m. Three miles east on Highway 16 to St Olaf Hospital at 5 p.m. Saturday 2:42 a.m. 713 Page to St Olaf Hospital. 1:12 p.m. Rose Creek to St Olaf Hospital. Sunday 10:55 p.m. 102 South Elm Tree to St Olaf Hospital.
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St. Paul and Mill
St. Olaf Hospital
Highway 16
St Olaf Hospital
Rose Creek
South Elm Tree
Cameron pleads innocent in drunken driving case
Lloyd D. Cameron of Albert Lea pleads not guilty to a drunken driving charge and a trial is scheduled for 9 am Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd D. Cameron
Albert Lea
Summit outlook widens Berlin crisis at issue
Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts East West accords at the summit even if foreign ministers do not reach a deal. East German official Heymann says Berlin and Germany can only be solved at the summit. Western diplomats worry over a new blockade threatening Berlin as the talks stall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Union
Berlin
Khrushchev
Budapest
Moscow
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Stefan Heymannn
East Berlin
Geneva
Germany
Heymann
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
France
Maurice Couve de Murville
Gromyko
Gets His Daughter Off to a Clean Start
In New Ulm Minnesota the Rev Douglas K Marks a Methodist minister loaded his daughter Jane A Marks and her attendants into a laundry truck to transport them to the church for her wedding to Dale Dray The bride arrived spotless with no wrinkles or spots on her gown, ensuring a pristine start to the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Ulm
Minn
Douglas K. Marks
Jane A. Marks
Dale Dray
Minneapolis Man Wins Regional Toastmaster Title
Keith R. Frost of Minneapolis topped four speakers from Minnesota and Iowa to win the Districts 19 and 6 regional Toastmasters competition. He earned the right to represent Region 4 at the national convention in San Francisco. Paul Freeman of Rock Rapids, Iowa, placed second. others were Donald L. Goranson of Clear Lake and Adolphus Erdahl of Blue Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Minn
Keith R. Frost
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Iowa
Toastmaster Club
San Francisco
Paul Freeman
Rock Rapids
Donald L. Goranson
Clear Lake
Adolphus Erdahl
Blue Earth
Drownings claim several lives across Minnesota lakes and rivers
The report details multiple drownings from Duluth to Itasca County. Harold Odberg, 34, fell from a cruiser on the St. Croix River and drowned. his companion Muriel Larson was hospitalized. Stephen Hauge, 15, drowned in Lake Hiawatha. Norma Jean Bentley, 11, died at Arvids Lake after a bag was used as a swimming cap. Others include Karlis Ansmus 16 at the Rum River Milaca, Barbara Trail 13 at Fridley Mississippi River, and Francis Sirek 42 at White Bear Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Sirek
White Bear Lake
White Bear
Mildred
Ronald
David
Claude
Michele
Richele
Michael Sirek
St Paul
Michael
Clyde Weaver
St. Paul
M. M. Lang
New Jersey
Harold Odberg
Duluth
St. Croix
Stillwater
Muriel Larson
Miss Larson
Odberg
Gary Webb
Norma Jean Bentley
Arvid's Lake
Blackberry
Minn
Grand Rapids
Arthur Jetland
Itasca County
Karlis Ansmus
Rum
Milaca
Barbara Trail
Coon Rapids
Mississippi River
Fridley
Richard D. Morehouse
New Brighton
Long Lake
Ex Secretary of State on Her Honeymoon
Mrs Virginia Holm of St Paul and Arthur L Bye wed at Nashua in the Little Brown Church. The couple, former Minnesota official and Cedar Rapids attorney, head west then plan to live in Cedar Rapids after a July 1 return.
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Nashua
Iowa
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids
Virginia Holm
St. Paul
Arthur L. Bye
Little Brown
the Vale
Alice Langevin
Catholics Barred From Maine Institute Exercises
Sixteen Catholic students at Maine Central Institute were barred from commencement after refusing to attend the school baccalaureate. Class valedictorian Lawrence Dysart and others were denied diplomas by Headmaster Edward R. Stanley. The move follows a bishop’s a year-old ruling about Catholic students and baccalaureate services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Maine
Maine Central Institute
Lawrence Dysart
Edward R. Stanley
Daniel J. Feeney
Portland
Long Still Refuses to Cooperate with Doctors
GALVESTON Texas AP A psychiatrist treating Louisiana Governor Earl K Long said on Sunday he refuses to cooperate with physicians trying to diagnose his illness. A court order placed him in protective custody on a petition by his wife and a sanity hearing is scheduled for next Saturday. Long, 63, was admitted to the psychiatric clinic at John Sealy Hospital after arriving by air on May 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Tex
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Long
John Sealy Hospital
Twins graduate 70 miles apart at two universities
Widowed mother Sara Plante watched her twin sons Dale and Dana Plante graduate hours apart. President Jean Paul Mather arranged a one man commencement at UMass Amherst for Dale, enabling Mrs. Plante to travel to Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut for Dana’s graduation.
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Amherst
Mass
Sarah Plante
Fall River
Jean Paul Mather
University of Massachusetts
Dale Plante
The Great Laurel Becomes West Virginia State Flower
The Rhododendron, known as The Great Laurel, is designated as West Virginia's official state flower reflecting statewide botanical heritage and pride.
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West Virginia
Volkfest in Minneapolis Draws 8000 German Americans
A large German American turnout gathered in a Minneapolis park for the Volkfest, the largest since World War II, with visitors from New Ulm and St. Cloud. Dr Walter Dornberger, once head of Peenemunde rocket development, spoke and predicted a man on the moon within ten years, uncertain if Russian or American.
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Minneapolis
Minnehaha Park
New Ulm
St. Cloud
Walter R. Dornberger
Peenemunde
Bell Aircraft Corp
Buffalo, N.Y
Nicaragua Defense Chief Calls Palace Shooting Drunken Celebration
Managua Nicaragua AP defense chief Gen Anastasio Somoza says four or five riflemen fired near the presidential palace were merely a bunch of drunks celebrating not aiming to assassinate the president. He also says rebels who invaded from Costa Rica are split into two groups and abandoning arms to slip into cities.
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Managua
Nicaraga
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Luis Somoza
Somoza
Costa Rica
Herseth Fires Commissioner Amid Salary Probe
Gov. Ralph Herseth dismissed Employment Security Commissioner Alan Williamson amid accusations of unlawful salary collection in his roles as commissioner and assistant attorney general. The move follows investigations into pay practices and fiduciary implications. Williamson's actions prompted the governor to act, citing legal and ethical concerns for state governance.
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Pierre
Ralph Herseth
Alan Williamson
Father’s Calm Shattered at Services of Slain Daughter
Anatol Holt broke with quiet resolve at the graveside and in a funeral parlor vigil for Becky Holt a 13 year old girl slain by a teen neighbor. The suspect, a 15 year old boy, confessed to the strangling and is under psychiatric evaluation.
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Philadelphia
Anatol Holt
Becky
Edward Cooney Sr
Cooney
Holt
Child Hit by Car Stirs Undeserved Panning in Dexter
In Dexter Iowa driver Melvin Newkirk faces unmerited criticism after a minor accident with 2% year old Elizabeth Ann Reinhart who darted from her mother into the street. The child suffered no serious injuries.
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Melvin Newkirk
Dexter
Elizabeth Ann Reinhart
Cedardale Addition
Newkirk
Senate confirms Ellendale postmaster appointment
The U S Senate confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment of Ruth A Campbell as postmaster in Ellendale Minnesota.
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Senate
Ellendale
Minn
U. S. Senate
Eisenhower
Ruth A. Campbell
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Robert A. McCullough
Owatonna
Donna M. Newkirk
Dex
John FE. Sheedy
Austin Rt. 1
Fileen J. Dalager
Brownsdale
Raymond Harvey
Blooming Prairie
Jane
Wayne Anderson
W. Grove
Charles Roser
Austia Rt. 1
Jack Wilkerson
Locust
Austin
Willard Eastman
Riceville
Riceville City Hospital
Delmar Austinson
Barbara Heins
Harry Heins
Harry J. Elliott
Mount Vernon
Lemon Grove Calif
Mary Lou Field
J. F. Creegan
Johnson
VRS
R. W. Franklin
Adams
Milton Gardner
Milton F. Gardner
Nicholson
Mary
Loren Bell
Jean
Maj
George Gardner
San Salvador
Fl Salvador
Central America
John J. Gardner
Devine
Texas
Eddie Roberts
Hollywood
Calif
Tom Jackson
Chatfield
Walter Gardner
Libby Co
Max F. Horeck
Max E. Horeck
Rochester Hospital
Chesner. Sur
Richard
Cecil Rodemeyer
Mason City
Henry Cotten
Edward Juergens
Paul E. Anderson
Glenview
Julius Johnson
Blair
Wis
Elmer Johnson
Whitehall
Jessie Leutina
Jessie Leutink
Rochester Community Hospital
Arthur
Hammond
Raymond
Spring Valley
Edward Mast
Rockford
Ill
Andrew Blakley
Lou van Sickle
St. Joseph
Thomas van Sickle
Des Moines
Clifford van Sickle
Inwood
Sidney van Sickle
Bessie Forrester
Detroit
Mary Severnson
Los Angeles
Cora Armstrong
Harvey Reich
Albert Meyer
Hayfield
Elsie
Harry Wooner
Alma
Lester
George
Roy
Alma Covers
Stone
Sask
Canada
Walter
Stone, Sask
Francis Sirek
Horeck
Max FF. Horeck
Dhesner
the Vine
Alfred Dahlberg
Oakwood Cemetery
Sirek
the Lake Mortuary
Third St
St. Mary's Church
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Methodist Hospital
Elsie Hartman
Howard Smith Lansing
Court News
Hii
Ead
Cook’s Paints
Austin, Minn
Rum River
Edward C. O'Leary
Feeney
Ohi
U.S. Weather Bureau
Dept. of Commerce
Atlantic Coast
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Kansas
Oklahoma
Idaho
California
Midwest
Konrad Adenauer
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Herseth
Daugher
Chidren
Worshop
ST. Ansgar
Marcus Morse
Wayne Neustrom
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Tatania
Alexander Levin
Rabbi Levin
Board of Review
City of
Mower County
City of Austin
J. H. Weiland
BMC
U. S
the New
Morris Oxford
Riley
Austin-Healey
MGA Sports Roadster
Austin-Healey Sprite
Sassy Little Brother
Cambridge
Morris
Austin Equipment CO
Hiway
Sportland
Dial
Mayer
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