Veterans of Foreign Wars honors H H Corey and awards essay winner
Minnesota VFW state convention enters second day with awards for Jim Twiselman of Waseca for Where's Our Patriotism. H H Tim Corey receives an American flag and honorary membership cap. Parade and Pageant of Drums slated. enrollment reaches 52,039 as districts report growth and scholarships awarded during ceremonies.
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Minnesota
H. H
Tim) Corey
Mel & Co. Board For Americanism
Corey
Worst Crop Disaster Hits Northwestern Minnesota
Lt Gov Karl Rolvaag and officials tour northwest Minnesota where excessive rains have caused a $70 million crop disaster. BeLtrami Clay Kittson Polk Marshall Norman Otter Tail Polk and other counties declared disaster areas with waterlogged fields and stalled planting. Gov Andersen seeks federal aid while critiqued for campaign duties during floods and a state convention.
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Associated Press
Karl Rolvaag
Minnesota
Harbo Named Interim Head at Augsburg College
L. S. Harbo, retiring Austin Public Schools superintendent, named interim president of Augsburg College Minneapolis. He begins Aug 1 to allow time for selection of a permanent successor to Bernhard Christensen. The Harbos will move to the college president residence in Minneapolis.
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Augsburg
L. S. Harbo
Austin Public Schools
Augsburg College
Minneapolis
Lutheran Free Church
Supt
Bernhard Christensen
Braille Light Saving School
Faribault
St. Olaf Lutheran Church
American Lutheran Church Synod
Free Church Convention
Harbos
Tiros IV Falters in Limited Weather Scope
NASA reports Tiros IV weather satellite faulty tape recorder restricts data to 1,500 mile ranges from Wallops Island Virginia and Point Mugu California. Launched Feb 8 from Cape Canaveral, the craft had provided global weather images before the malfunction.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wallops Island
Point Mugu
Calif
Tiros
Local Weather Forecast With Clouds and Showers
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Expect Saturday afternoon and evening activity.
Man Charged After Kidnapping Ex-Wife In High Speed Chase
Gerald Crist 29 was charged with assault after he abducted his divorced wife Hedy Crist from St Paul. He allegedly forced her into his car, traffic to a Kettle River area, where she was assaulted and raped before she jumped from the vehicle during a Sandstone arrest pursuit.
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Pine City
Minn
St. Paul
Lawrence Thrun
Pine County
Gerald Crist
Nickerson
Duluth
Crist
Sandstone
Highway 23
Thrun
Jennifer Jones Treated for Food Poisoning
Hollywood doctors say actress Jennifer Jones is stricken with food poisoning and will remain at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for about two days.
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Hollywood
Jennifer Jones
Cedars of Lebanon
Stock market opens higher then slips again in afternoon
The New York market saw an early rise erased by midafternoon trading. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks at noon stood at 208.30, down .30, with industrials off .60, rails up .20 and utilities down .30 as activity remained heavy.
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New York
Associated Press
Palmer Opens Round With Solid First Half At Open
Arnold Palmer carded a 3-under par 33 on the front nine of the second round to close in on defending champion Gene Littler at the National Open in Onto Mont. Jack Nicklaus also posted a 1-under 35 as play continued amid tense competition. Meanwhile in St Paul the State Industrial Commission received a request from Ciulett Peabody & Co. to reopen a minimum wage hearing.
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Oaemont
Arnold Palmer
Gene Littler
Jack Nicklaus
ST. Paul
State Industrial Commission
Ciuett, Peabody & Co
Iron Range
Pro-Red Koreans March U S Embassy Protest
A 150 strong pro Communist Korean demonstrators marched on the U S Embassy in Tokyo to protest the beating of a Korean by two U S Army lieutenants. The lieutenants were reprimanded fined 600 dollars each and suspended from command for six months by a Korea court martial.
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Tokyo
U. S
Korea
Official Believes Escapees Drowned at Alcatraz
A San Francisco prison official, Fred T. Wilkinson, said he believes three bank robbers who escaped Alcatraz may have drowned. He declined to discuss reports of a homemade raft or two improvised paddles, and did not confirm a swim by two seasoned swimmers to Angel Island two miles away.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz
Fred T. Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Angel Island
Mill City Boy 6 Dies After Street Collision
In Minneapolis a six year old boy Steven Wiggins died in hospital after being struck by a car at a street intersection. The death raised Minnesota’s 1962 traffic toll to 219, compared with 274 a year ago. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Wiggins.
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Minneapolis
Steven Wiggins
Minnesota
Robert Wiggins
Gilbert case widens as SEC and DA probe $1.95 million withdrawal
Edward M. Gilbert, former president of E L Bruce Co, vanished to Brazil after acknowledging an unauthorized withdrawal of 1.953 million dollars. SEC and Dist Atty Hogan’s office probe all aspects of his finances while Bruce’s new president cites ties to Celotex. No charges yet. extradition unclear.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
District Attorney’‘S Office
Edward M. Gilbert
Brazil
E. L. Bruce Co
Dist. Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Gilbert
Rio
United States
FL. Bruce
President seeks court order to halt Republic Aviation strike
President Kennedy orders the Justice Department to obtain a court injunction to stop a machinists walkout at Republic Aviation, the sole F105 jet fighter supplier. The 9,000 workers strike, begun April 2 over contract issues including job security and severance pay, threatens national safety as 7,600 more may be laid off in two years due to lost government orders. Five craft unions are involved, with the vast majority represented by the International Association of Machinists.
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Justice Department
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National Safety
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International Association of Machinists
Senate Committee Approves $1.45 Billion Military Works
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a global military construction program totaling $1.4507 billion for Army Navy Marine Corps and Air Force installations at home and abroad. North Dakota funds rose to 3.055 million with Minot base restored to 1.268 million. Ellsworth Rapid City Duluth and Grand Forks allocations unchanged from prior levels.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Kennedy
House
Minot
N.D
Air Force Base
North Dakota
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Ellsworth Air Force Base
Rapid City
S.D
Link Between Solvents Firm Estes Probe Faces Attack
President Maynard C. Wheeler of Commercial Solvents Corp dismissed claims of a three way collusion with Estes and Agriculture as unfounded. Bass alleged a triangle of interest when Estes secured his first storage contract March 9, 1959 after assigning grain payments to the firm. Wheeler noted the payments were assigned later and approved in Dallas, with more hearings ahead.
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Ross Bass
D-Tenn
House
Estes
Bass
Wheeler
Department
Dallas
Tex
L. H. Fountain
D-N.c
Fountain
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
Commercial Solvents
James A. McConnell
Walter C. Berger
Berger
McConnell
Commodity Credit Corp
Kennedy Urges Bipartisan Support for Major Proposals
President Kennedy told a news conference that Democrats need Republican votes on key measures and urged a nonpartisan approach on national issues. He cited historic GOP support on debt limits and aid to Poland and Yugoslavia, pressed for his farm bill with production controls and price supports, and urged airline labor action limits.
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Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Poland
Yugoslavia
Senate
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Trans World
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