Miss Minnesota Pageant Expands Jaycee Sponsorship
In Austin the Miss Minnesota Pageant marks its 15th year under Jaycee sponsorship and hosts the largest Miss America preliminary in the US with 67 contestants. The Jaycees started with 18 local pageants, growing to 23 in 1955 and 67 by 1968, producing a string of Miss Minnesota winners who go on to national fame.
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Austin
Jaycee
Minnesota Jaycees
Jaycees
Minnesota
Jeannie Reince
Winona
Marlys Reed
Fairmont
Marie Miller
Win
Ona
Ardyce Gustafson
Minneapolis
Diane Albers
Dundas
Judy Olson
Albert Lea
Jean Elverum
Faribault
Nancee Ann Parkinson
West St. Paul
Judy Lerstad
Bloomington
Sharon Carnes
St. Paul
Barbara Hasselberg
Jeannie Marie Ruth
Diane
DeDe) Lindgren
White Bear Lake
Charlotte Ann Sims
Roseville
LaCrescent Man Wins Inventors Grand Prize
A LaCrescent man, Donald Denny, won the grand prize at the Minnesota Inventors Congress for a car tote device entered in the automotive class. Judges and visitors also honored B C Kelly for a ball game invention, with other winners including James Krueger, Dennis Hoegh, Ed Harvey, and Esther Doering for cattle holder, gun case, tractor safety switch, and baby safety harness.
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Redwood Falls
Minn
LaCrescent
Man
Donald Denny
B. C. Kelly
Kelly
Weiss
James Krueger
Verdon
South Dakota
Dennis Hoegh
la Crescent
Ed Harvey
Braver
Iowa
Esther Doering
LeSueur
Foreign observers urge moral conscience after RFK assassination
West German analyst Friedrich Langhelm says America needs a paring of moral conscience as violence politics intensifies after Robert F. Kennedy's death. UK Times and Asahi notes blame Vietnam war, urban Negro tensions, while Meier cites glorified violence in media and frontier myths.
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Frankfurt
Germany
America
United States
Friedrich Langhelm
Rheinische Post
Dusseldorf
Langhelm
Robert F. Kennedy
Sunday Times of London
Asahi
Tokyo
Vietnam
Viktor Meier
Washington
Frankfurter Neue Presse
West Germany
New Statesman
States face antistrike laws that fail to stop walkouts
Several states with antistrike laws for public workers have seen thousands walk off jobs despite penalties. Illinois bans strikes via court rulings. New York’s Taylor Law restricts but does not mandate firing, while other states vary in enforcement and constitutionality.
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Jan Hwartnet
Associated Press
Massachusetts
Delaware
Illinois
New York
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Florida
Virginia
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Nebraska
South Dakota
Texas
Hawaii
Oregon
Illinois Supreme Court
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Florida Supreme Court
Iowa
New York State
New York City
Sanitation
State Public Employment Relations Board
Pageant Officials Put Up Signs to Welcome Visitors
Austin Jaycees and Miss Minnesota Committee promote the Miss Minnesota Pageant in Austin by banners banners street signs and lapel stickers. Officials and visitors are welcomed as Austin aims to become the permanent site for the Miss Minnesota finals and a yearly family show.
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Austin Jaycees
Minnesota
Austin
Jaycees
Boy 8 Drowns in Golden Lake Near St Paul Suburb
Theodore Lloyd eight, son of Harold and Mrs. Lloyd, drowned about 2 15 p m while wading with his brother and a third youth near a Sand bar off Golden lake in Circle Pines suburb of St Paul. Divers called off search for Michael Krebs, 13, missing since Sunday in the Mississippi River near Nicollet Island. Krebs and two companions were swimming. his mother said he could not swim and that his father died after jumping from a nearby bridge.
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Associated Press
St. Paul
Mississippi River
Theodore Lloyd
Harold E. Lloyd
Circle Pines
Golden Lake
William
Theodore
Michael Krebs
Nicollet Island
Minneapolis
Steve Klugman
Paul Rush
Hennepin Avenue
High Court Upholds Stop and Frisk Police Powers
The Supreme Court rules that police may stop and frisk suspects without probable cause if necessary for crime prevention. Chief Justice Warren writes the decision, citing officer safety and crime statistics. Justice Douglas dissents, warning of a slide toward totalitarian policing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Earl Warren
Warren
FBI
William C. Douglas
Douglas
Sullivan's dream to lift Philadelphia's poor via OIC growth
Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, a Philadelphia Baptist minister, built a nationwide network through the Opportunities Industrialization Center to train workers and place them in jobs. From a cramped North Philadelphia station, OIC now spans 75 cities with a $2.7 million annual budget and aims for 250,000 students by 1970.
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Philadelphia
Leon Howard Sullivan
Sullivan
Opportunities Industrialization Center
OIC
Little Rock
Ark
Roanoke
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Mr. Wayne
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Charleston Alley
Mastercraft of
Omaha
USC Ask
Mastercraft
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