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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1959
Page
1
Mower county commissioners told William Howley of Austin Development Corp that they would not sell the west half of the Courthouse Square under any circumstances.
Minnesota lawmakers approve a three month daylight saving period from late May to day after Labor Day. The plan allows western border towns to stay on standard time to align with North Dakota. The measure moves to the governor for signature.
Francis R. Warrington an Estherville locomotive fireman for the Rock Island will receive an international safety award in Des Moines from Gov. Herschel Loveless. He saved 80 year old Carl Vroman who was in the path of a Rock Island Freight train near Goldfield last April 25.
Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson told Congress that removing the interest rate ceiling on government bonds would not raise rates broadly. He presented to the House Ways and Means Committee the administration’s request to raise the federal debt limit and repeal the current rate cap.
In May total employment rose by about one million to a record 66,016,000, while unemployment dropped by 238,000 to 3,389,000. The figures were announced by Secretary of Commerce Lewis L. Strauss and Secretary of Labor.
A tornado from a midweek storm struck the Bagley Minnesota fairgrounds destroying two small buildings and displacing another. No casualties reported though power lines and communications were severely disrupted twelve hours after the storm. The event occurred amid a stretch of hot weather sweeping the region.
Senate Republican leader Dirksen informally endorsed a Democratic work sheet with political risk but no new major spending. He noted Lyndon B. Johnson listed priorities aligned with Eisenhower requests, including civil rights progress and extension of trade development, wheat pact, excise tax rates, military and atomic energy projects, foreign aid, and an inter-American development bank.
The Soviet Union proposed a one year moratorium in the Berlin crisis if the West begins German settlement talks on Soviet terms. US officials called the plan unacceptable and said it aimed to derail the Big Four talks. Gromyko urged a formal session to present the plan publicly.
President Eisenhower addressed the 108th annual American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City urging doctors to charge reasonable fees to curb inflation. He linked fiscal balance to national health and warned against government stepping into private medical care. He stressed the profession’s stake in preventing inflation and cautioned about loss of freedoms if care becomes government dependent.
Miss Share-in-America Mary Jean Villaume will fly from St Paul to Austin to appear on a U S Savings Bond TV program at 8 30 p m The kickoff promotes payroll deduction bonds at Geo A Hormel Co and other Austin firms Local 9 division chairman Robert Enright heads the Hormel plant drive Supt L B Harbo and W G Fisher deputy director coordinate with Ken Glass Des Moines regional rep.
A federal jury in Los Angeles will determine damages for three plaintiffs in a 10 million dollar suit arising from the 1956 Grand Canyon crash that killed 128 people. The jury found United Air Lines and Trans World Air Line legally responsible.
Frederick Platt, who turned 100, remains in St. Olaf Hospital with a critical illness. A letter from President Eisenhower offered congratulations as the Minnesota resident, born in New York, celebrates a century. He lived in Watkins before moving to Austin 42 years ago and worked for Geo. A. Hormel & Co. He stays with son Henry Platt and his wife at 710 N Railway. daughters Milton Smith, Ethel Wortz, Ray Kaswell, John Munson, and Mary Inselman live in nearby towns.
West Germany’s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard held a private hour and forty five minute discussion at the chancellery. Informants say the talk centered on Adenauer’s decision to remain in office amid their public quarrel. Erhard, who had earlier declined to seek a meeting, did not speak to reporters after the session.
The Minnesota Senate passed a 47 to 16 compromise reapportionment bill for the first time in 46 years, moving it to the governor before the 1962 election. The measure adds seats in Hennepin and Ramsey counties while maintaining a 67 senator Senate and 11 member House, with supporters citing courage and timely reform amid criticism of gerrymandering and fairness concerns.
Senate confirms C Doug Dillon as first undersecretary in the State Department to succeed Christian Herter after John Foster Dulles. The nomination faced a 95 minute attack by Sen Long and defense by Sen Bush. FBI reports a slight drop in major crime in U S cities in Q1.
Willmar educator Supt. P. C. Helland defended high school agriculture teachers against critics who call their pay too high. He argued agriculture instructors work longer hours due to night adult classes, summer farm duties, and regular farm visits.
An elderly bandit robbed Lakota Farmers Trust and Savings Bank at gunpoint in Lakota Iowa. Town marshal Charles Stroebel said the thief fled in a dark blue Ford with Minnesota plates carrying less than $1,000. The suspect, over 60 with glasses, had been seen in the area before.
A 16 year old Dubuque boy recovered about $17 350 in unissued government bonds from the Mississippi River linking them to a Wisconsin bank burglary. Federal officials said burglars on January 20 took the bonds 600 unissued bank notes and more than 245 in coin from the First State Bank at Prairie Farm Wisconsin.
Conservative Senate leaders hailed the Minneapolis mayoral win by Gerald Dillon as a sign the seven week old Minnesota special session could end early. Gov Freeman urged prompt passage of appropriation bills to fund the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
Justice Whittaker granted a stay of execution for Charles Starkweather a 20 year old mass killer from Nebraska The stay delays his Nebraska electric chair date and gives until June 17 to file a petition with the full Supreme Court For now the stay remains in effect until the court acts final on the petition filed by two Washington attorneys.
The Herald reports at 8 30 a.m the current reading shows 60 degrees with a 24 hour high of 91 and a low of 56. Conditions are overcast at the Herald Building.
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