Enrollments Strain Minnesota Schools, Legislation Looms
Minnesota public schools face a mounting funding crisis as enrollments rise rapidly across the state. The Minnesota Institute of Governmental Research warns the 1957 Legislature must find new tax support to sustain existing aid levels. Reorganization of districts is urged to reduce costs and improve quality, with proposals to deny aid to very small elementary and high schools and to craft a master plan for district consolidation.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Minnesota Institute of Governmental Research
Harold L. Henderson
Henderson
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
State Advisory Commission On Reorganization
Olympic Stables Burned In Stockholm Fire
Fire hit the Olympic equestrian stables in Stockholm sending horses fleeing and emergency crews rushing to the scene. The blaze spread across a red brick complex serving the life grenadiers with roofs caving in and flames rising over 100 feet.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Life Grenadier Guards
The
Life Grenadiers
Some Relief From Heat Is in Sight
The Associated Press reports heat relief across Minnesota and the Dakotas as temperatures neared 100 in Minnesota. North Dakota expected 48 to 55 overnight with 75 to 80 Thursday, while South Dakota saw 104 in Pierre Tuesday and cooler highs near 84 to 90 inland.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Dakotas
Mercury
North Dakota
South Dakota
Pierre
Twin Cities
Hultengren Named New State Land Administrator
Richard D. Hultengren of Grand Rapids was named state land administrator and will take office in St. Paul on Saturday. A 1939 Minnesota graduate, he previously worked with the U.S. Forest Service and the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co before joining state service.
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ST. Paul
Richard D. Hultengren
Grand Rapids
Hibbing
Hultengren
Minnesota
U.S. Forest Service
Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co
Farm Boy Killed in Gun Accident
Dean Ehrich 14 of rural Blue Earth Minnesota was fatally wounded when a small caliber rifle discharged accidentally while he rode a bicycle. He was the son of Freeman Ehrich who farms 10 miles southeast of Blue Earth. The coroner said the bullet struck him in the head.
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Blue Earth
Minn
Dean Ehrich
Freeman Ehrich
Here
Minnesota Girls State Opens At State Fair Grounds
St Paul reports the Minnesota Girls State session organized by the American Legion Auxiliary opens in the 4 H building at the State Fair grounds. The 10th annual event will attract 432 girls to participate this week.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
The
American Legion Auxiliary
Six Children Die in Brooklyn Cave-In After Digging Hole
In Williamsburg a 30-foot excavation for a Brooklyn Queens expressway collapsed killing six children and injuring one. Authorities probe negligence and watchman needs as Mayor Wagner orders city departments to assist.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Brooklyn
Black - Square
Edward Silver
Brooklyn-Queens
Silver
Williamsburg Bridge
Ike Ups Work Load Plans to See Adenauer
Filing for nominations opened for state and national offices in the September 11 primary. Early entrants include George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in the 3rd District, joined by A. R. Johanson for attorney general. Fellow Lakers Whitey Skoog Clyde Lovellette and Ed Kalafat accompanied Mikan. Other early hopefuls are Victoria Joyner Osseo mayor and M D Tollefson Minneapolis for the 3rd District GOP seat. Johanson led with a state office filing and pledged lawful, nonpolitical handling of state business. The first Democrat Farmer Labor filer was Harold Zupp for Congress in the 2nd District. Frank Mitchell Canby filed for the 7th District, Theo Swanson Princeton for the 55th District House.
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George Mikan
Minneapolis Lakers
A. R. Johanson
Wheaton
Lakers
Mikan -Whitey Skoog
Clyde Lovellette
Ed Kalafat
Victoria Joyner
Osseo
M. D. Tollefson
Minneapolis
Matson
William Murphy
Supreme Court
Harold Zupp
Bricelyn
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
DFL
Congress
Frank Mitchell
Canby Farmer
Rep
H. Carl Andersen
Theodore Swanson
Princeton
Lamon Elected President of Minnesota Utilities Assn
Harold Lamon, superintendent of the Austin Utilities Department, was elected president of the Minnesota Utilities Assn. He had served as first vice president last year. Lamon left the Brainerd convention early to testify in the Johnson fatal accident case.
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Harold Lamon
Austin Utilities Department
Minnesota Utilities Assn
Lamon
Brainerd
Johnson
William Dunlap
Lee Miller
Ed Smith
Claude Moore
North Central Electrical Industries
League of Minnesota
Eisenhower Signs 27 Bills Amid Illness At White House
President Eisenhower, recovering from intestinal surgery, signed 27 bills and other papers in a 25 minute morning session with White House staff. He planned a Thursday meeting in Walter Reed with Chancellor Adenauer and dictated a note of thanks to Mexico's Ruiz Cortines.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Walter Reed Hospital
Konrad Adenauer
Ann Whitman
Ruiz Cortines
James C. Hagerty
Interior Department
Hagerty
Adenauer
Adams Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Gerald D. Morgan
Col
Andrew Jd. Goodpaster
Adams
Rescued 8 Days After Mishap Lost Prospector Lives on Lizards
Charles L. Robinson of Hot Springs Arkansas survived eight days after a boat capsized on the Colorado River near Moab Utah. He survived by eating raw lizards and cactus while drifting and trekking along the river after losing 42 pounds. Robinson praised the rescue as divine and said he planned to return home to Arkansas. His companion Bryan Waielder of Long Beach California was rescued earlier after traveling nearly 100 miles through the desert toward Hisville Utah with air rescue spotting him.
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Charles L. Robinson
Hot Springs
Ark
Robinson
Bryan Waelder
Long Beach
Calif
Hanksville
Utah
Faith Healer Blamed for Rift Between Queen and Husband
A German magazine report claims Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard are estranged due to influence from Miss Greet Hofmans, a faith healer who visited the palace in 1948. Dutch officials deny state impact, noting the queen lacks independent governmental power.
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the Hague
Netherlands
Juliana
Prince Bernhard
Maria Cristina
der Spiegel
Frankfurt
Bernhard
Greet Hofmans
Miss Hofmans
Rasputin
Press Hunt for Fugitive
PIERRE South Dakota The man hunt for fugitive Albert C McIntire 36 McPherson Kan centered in the Cape area on the Bad River between Midland and Pierre today Officers chasing the two time escapee after a Rapid City jail escape converged on a ranch home break in A burglar suspected as the hunted two time escapee ate a meal used a towel blood on it and left with shoes clothing and wallet Officers said Wunder Henry E 19 LaCrosse Kan captured Tuesday at Spearfish
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Pierre
S.D
South Dakota
Kansas
Cape Area
Bad River
Midland
Albert C. McIntire
McPherson
Kan
Rapid City
Carl J. Olson
Capa
McIntire
Henry E. Wunder
LaCrosse
Spearfish
Plan for tallest television aerial tops Empire State Building
London Moscow radio reported Soviet authorities plan to construct a television transmission aerial taller than New York Citys Empire State Building, signaling a bold expansion in broadcasting infrastructure.
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London
Moscow Radio
New York
Empire State Building
Fire Destroys Railroad Shop in St. Paul Yards
Flames and several explosions devastated a two story Great Northern Railway maintenance shop in the St. Paul yards near the loop Tuesday night. Firefighter Jack Eddy was treated for heat and smoke exposure and later listed in good condition.
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ST. Paul
Great Northern Railway
William Mattocks
Jack Eddy
Ancher Hospital
Great Northern
St. Paul Loop
Ten Republican Senators Back Eisenhower on Foreign Aid
Ten Republican senators rallied behind President Eisenhower urging upholding his leadership for peace as the Senate weighs a House foreign aid bill of 3.8 billion dollars. They signaled support for restoring some House cuts while the administration aims for 0.6 billion above that level.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clifford Case
Allott
Cole
Bender
Ohio
Duff
Bush
Conn
Flanders
Ives
Ruchel
Calif
Payne
Maine
Purtell
Senate
White House
House
George
Edina 14-year-old killer ruled insane after killing father
Michael Abbott, 14, who shot and killed his architect father in their Edina home on April 26 after an argument over the car, was declared dangerously insane by a sanity board. He faces confinement in a maximum security institution, likely St Peter State Hospital. His mother had earlier suggested psychiatric help, opposed by the father.
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Minneapolis
Michael Abbott
Edina
St. Peter State Hospital
Young Abbott
Michael
Officials Rule Out Dulles Chou Meeting
Washington State Department officials ruled out any meeting between Secretary Dulles and Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China until the Reds fulfill an agreement to permit 13 American prisoners to return home and to make meaningful renunciation of force regarding Formosa. The proposal from Geneva May 1 was rejected, with no chance of a Dulles Chou meeting while China remains on its present course.
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John M.eightower
Washington
State Department
Dulles
Chou En-lai
Communist
China
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Geneva
Thrce
United States
Red China
Dulles-Chou
City Traffic Accidents Report Seven Fatalities
Traffic data shows seven fatalities and no injuries in a city incident report. Authorities released figures totaling $54,122 to $55,154 in costs related to the accident cluster and response.
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Anatole Bykov
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Ike
Donovan
Johanson
State Senate
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Attorney General's
E. Luther Melin
Leroy Matson
Moab
Colorado
Rim
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Waelder
Ditmars Books & Magazine Co
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