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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1961
Page
10
Senator Thomas J. Dodd warns of a neutron bomb described as a death ray that would destroy life in a target area with little physical damage or radioactive fallout. He questions whether the USSR is secretly testing such a device while the US adheres to a moratorium.
Minnesota Republican chairman Robert Forsythe blamed liberal House leader Fred Cina for the early adjournment while Cina accused the Senate of stalling over redistricting. Forsythe called Cina’s remarks a temper tantrum and argued the session collapse was caused by Cina and liberal members.
Washington AP George McGovern head of Food for Peace announced daily food for a year for 500000 Madras school children. The plan marks a major expansion of Kennedy era food aid. Madras education and finance minister G Subramaniam accepted the gift.
London AP reports bingo spreads nationwide as gambling nears $2 billion annual expenditure. Eric Morley of the organizing group calls it a social revolution, noting women can attend alone. Clubs sponsor games with 50 cent admission and per game fees.
Dr Marcel Junod, 57, a veteran of the International Red Cross who helped report from Hiroshima, died Friday in Geneva. Cause of death not disclosed. He authored Le Troisieme Combattant The Third Force detailing his observations.
Austin Herald reports 18 month old Peter Lollar arrived from Little Rock with his mother Mrs Lani Lollar to Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Chicago for examination. Peter has suffered 32 fractures since birth due to osteogenesis imperfecta and may undergo a rodding operation. AP Photofax.
Informants say Communist funds and Lumumba followers plotted against President Kasavubu. Mobutu announced arrests including 40 Congo soldiers and a foreign ministry official Laszlo Marothy. Plot threatened mutiny and leader kidnapping, with next Wednesday named for action.
Internal Revenue agents seize Lonnie Joe Chadwick's $18,000 in chips on a Reno blackjack table as part of a $100,000 levy against Chadwick's reported winnings. Harold's Gambling Club contests the action while Chadwick vows to sue.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Frost, 86, was expected to be discharged from a hospital today after undergoing minor surgery in Hanover New Hampshire.
U S District Judge Bryan Simpson dismissed a petition by a group of Negroes challenging Jacksonville two municipal golf course sales. The suit claimed the sales were a subterfuge to avoid desegregation and sought to bar new operators from excluding Negroes. The city argued the challengers failed to prove the subterfuge.
Police arrested 17 persons for breach of the peace during disturbances at three Freedom Riders forays in North Florida without injury. Five arrests were made in Mississippi as bus trips testing racial integration continued. A leadership delegation met with Attorney General Kennedy in Washington seeking help to prevent further arrests. Police in Tallahassee reported incidents.
In Tampa the Play for Cuba group assailed President Kennedy Senator Smathers and UN Ambassador Stevenson. The rally mocked Stevenson as an egghead and questioned Smathers Castro stance, claiming insufficient Marines could rescue him from South America. Hunger strikes and arrests followed at Tallahassee Airport and other cities as Freedom Riders faced police action while nine leaders met Robert Kennedy in Washington.
Duane D. Jones, 63, an advertising executive and author of Ads Women and Box Tops, died Friday after a brief illness in West Redding Connecticut. He was credited by colleagues with originating the idea of premiums for soap wrappers and boxtops. Jones was a Fort Collins Colorado native.
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