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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1963
Page
2
The Freedom party weekly Sinhale says foreign banks in Ceylon will be nationalized soon. Six British, one Pakistani, and three Indian firms are affected, joining the state takeover of the Bank of Ceylon. The move stems from balance of payments troubles.
Three people including a 26 month old baby and a 24 year old man drowned in Minnesota over the weekend. James Macho of Columbia Heights drowned after his runabout boat overturned on the Mississippi in Minneapolis. Lisha Berge, 20 months old from Fergus Falls, drowned after apparently falling from a dock at Wall Lake. Roger Lesmeister, 18, from Morris drowned while trying to reach a raft at Pine Ridge Park in Herman.
Ronald Steeves, 20, condemned for slaying 15 year old Mary Bell, made a superficial cut with a razor in Stillwater Prison after arriving to begin a life term. A guard found the wound around 2:30 a.m. and he was treated and placed in a quiet cell. Bell, sister of Steeves’ girlfriend, was beaten and stabbed February 27 and found in Minnehaha Park.
In Buffalo New York a bandit using a toy gun robbed a pharmacist and fled with about 100 dollars. The robber drew a knife but was tackled by pharmacist Harry Chodorow and clerk Julius Palinski after the clerk called for help. Chodorow said he forgot to hold the thief for police and did not take back the cash.
Former President Truman helped dedicate a 15 000 memorial Sunday honoring six million Jews killed in World War II. Truman called the slaughter the saddest period since Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. The 10 foot aluminum sculpture by Maurice Newman stands at the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City.
Five men died in Iowa over Sunday as three boating mishaps unfolded at Lake Manawa and the Little Wapsipinicon River. Merrill Breshar of Independence, John McAllister of Mazelton, Robert Buresh, Clifford Conner, and Lyle Schreiner perished, while Perry McCollum, the only survivor among the Manawa group, was rescued by another boater. Schreiner saved his wife and daughter before being swept away.
Brown County official Richard T. Rodenberg criticized courts and probation officers for coddling teens who commit crimes after appearing in court twice in one week on gun and liquor charges. He cited a 19 year old Springfield man David Niemann facing a 3.2 beer charge with a loaded revolver in his car and noted prior sentences including burglary. The judge imposed 30 days in the work.
Des Moines Packing Co announces expansion to triple hourly cattle slaughter, enlarging to a modern plant with a production schedule of 125 cattle per hour. Construction set for completion this year. Last Monday Harvey Hitch Jr. was arrested near New Ulm with a loaded gun, and admitted using it to kill his best friend during a dispute over a girl. Rodenberg comments on Ronald Steeves, 20, Minneapolis, recently convicted in the slaying of Mary Bell, 15, in Minneapolis earlier this year.
New York police arrested 22 year old Robert A. Balle Arce after he ran 14 red lights and drove the wrong way on two one way streets during a high speed pursuit through the Bronx. He fled on foot five blocks from an abandoned car and was charged with 27 traffic and related offenses. He told officers I didn't know you were chasing me.
In Detroit Lakes Minnesota a Fargo North Dakota boy Patrick McMullen age 14 died when the car driven by his brother Michael 16 rolled over in a ditch after crossing a divided highway in rainy conditions. Michael was unhurt. The 1963 Minnesota traffic toll rose to 273 with the fatality.
Six people died in a Sunday crash at an Oklahoma City intersection. Victims include Jerry Sliger and Bobby Long both 18 from Spencer, Phyllis Hatcher 17 and Caroline McLaine 18 from Oklahoma City, Grace Waller 72 from Tulsa, and Henry London 82 from Tulsa.
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