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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1961
Page
3
In Havana Fidel Castro reviews the abortive April 17 19 invasion. He credits his revolutionary movement and invaders mistakes for victory. He tours 300 miles of Cuba with foreign journalists including eight Americans and views economic projects and the invasion point in a swampy southwest region.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson urged a system of interdependence to replace nationalism as a cause of war. He spoke at an American-Italy society dinner honoring Italian leaders and called for unity among North Atlantic nations and support for less-developed lands. He warned against letting nationalism become a pathogen and emphasized saving the United Nations from Communist threats. Castro analyzed the Cuba invasion, claiming strengths that outmatched the invaders and detailing battlefield observations before a hospital visit and prisoner interviews.
John Charles McGuire of Minneapolis, held in Stillwater Prison for first degree robbery, lost his appeal before the Minnesota Supreme Court. Associate Justice Oscar Knutson ruled his claims lacked merit, noting they were largely general and based on insufficient representation.
Four technicians who negotiated with Fidel Castro on a men for machines swap delivered a secret report to the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee. No decision on Castro's demand for $28 million in tractors for 1,167 Cuban rebels was made.
An 18 month old infant from Little Rock Arkansas with osteogenesis imperfecta was flown to Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Chicago for an examination to assess a rodding operation. Peter Lollar has suffered 32 fractures since birth and slept through the flight as his mother Lani Lollar described.
Richard Nixon and his wife Patricia land in Los Angeles with daughters Tricia and Julie after 15 years in Washington. The reception includes Nixon's mother Hannah Nixon. Nixon, a former vice president and presidential candidate, now practices law in Los Angeles and says he is not seeking the California governorship.
The United States aimed to push for a thorough investigation of repression in the Dominican Republic at the OAS. U S representative Gerald Drew said Washington pressed for a longer stay but was outvoted. The mission returns to Washington as officials urge continued study of the Dominican situation.
Western states faced extreme conditions with heat across the Far West and rains in New Mexico as well as flash floods in Texas. California reported seven heat deaths, Oregon one, and overall weather contributed to many drownings. Fires burned thousands of acres near Los Angeles while New Mexico crews contained a 600 acre blaze. Temperature records included 108 in Portland and 122 in Palm Desert.
AP report lists how Northwest lawmakers voted on a motion to kill President Kennedy's FCC reorganization plan. Minnesota representatives Blatnik voted for, while Karth Andersen Marsh Judd Langen MacGregor Nelson Quie opposed. South Dakota Berry Reifel opposed. North Dakota Nygaard Short opposed. Wisconsin members Zablocki voted for, while Johnson Kastenmeier Reuss Byrnes Laird Schadeberg Thomson Van Pelt opposed.
Minnesota Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling rejecting Ira J. Hill of Winnebago's $2,900 claim against Stokely-Van Camp Inc. for nuisance from odors near the Blue Earth River. The court notes private nuisance damages depend on a factual question and cites earlier verdicts for Merrill H. Hall and Byron Hall affirmed.
Arch Reeve, 71, a pioneer in movie publicity and advertising, died Wednesday from a heart attack in Hollywood. He helped shape early film promotion and worked with major studios during his career.
The forecast shows temperatures near normal with 70 to 78 degrees in the north and 78 to 81 in the south, lows of 49 to 54 north and 54 to 59 south. Early warmth gives way to a brief cooling, then warming again though the north cools midweek. Precipitation stays under a fifth inch in scattered showers at the start of the period.
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