Centennial Square Dance Recalls Austin's Early Days
Beas In Austin's early days it was customary when a farmer wished to build a new barn for neighbors to call for a working and finish the job quickly after which a dance was thrown. The Boot and Slipper Club will host a Centennial Square Dance at the Terp Ballroom on July 4 to evoke Austin's 1856 founding era with square dancers in Centennial costume.
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Austin
Howard Ellsworth
Jack Cook
Gerald Maloney
Boot and Slipper Club
Lester Hanson
Drownings Tap Lakes as Twin Tragedies Strike Minnesota
A New Ulm man Elmer Lingenhag, 40, and a St. Paul boy drowned in Minnesota lakes on Wednesday. Lingenhag disappeared while refilling a boat at Lake Inguadona, near Walker, after a trip with three friends. Franklin Hiederschied, 2, drowned at Bass Lake near Grey Eagle while his father and brother fished. Dragging operations continued as authorities investigated both tragedies.
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St. Paul
New Ulm
Minnesota
Elmer Lingenhag
Lake Inguadona
Walker
Elmer's
Klossner
Lingenhag
Ulm
Harold
Frank Bray
Jake Meier
Buck Simpson
Mankato Teachers College
Franklin Hiederschied
Kenneth Hiederschied
Bass Lake
Grey Eagle
Todd County
Craft Goes Down Off New Jersey No Survivors
A Venezuelan airliner crashed into the Atlantic about 32 miles east of Asbury Park New Jersey killing 74 aboard. Coast Guard and Navy units recovered bodies and debris as the plane dove after reporting engine trouble and dumping fuel before a fiery impact.
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New Jersey
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Asbury Park
N. J
Coast Guard
Idiewild
Frederick J. Hancox
Wantagh
N. Y
Idlewild
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
N.J
Andrews blasted income tax as confiscation in series
Former internal revenue commissioner T Coleman Andrews calls the federal income tax legalized confiscation. He says it is too complicated and costly and harms the middle class. His views, first reported in The American Weekly, begin reprinting in the Austin Herald on Page 15.
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T. Coleman Andrews
Internal Revenue
American Weekly
Austin Herald
Day of Reckoning Here for Mosquitoes
Austin area mosquitoes face targeted control as City Engineer Roger Nelson confirms spray gear from Geo A Hormel Co and spraying will begin tonight in the effort to curb pests.
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BRUSH
Schieck
Austin
Lorenz
Donald
Norman
Virgil
Erwin
Schiecks
Waltham
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
N. A. Peterson Construction Co
Otis
Esther) Johnson
Roger Nelson
Senator probes high jinks and a top FHA chief quits
Senate inquiry details Robert B. McLeaish abrupt resignation as head of the Farmers Home Administration after accusations of drinking and unprofessional behavior. He denies being a drunkard, cites hypertension, and notes he serves at the President's pleasure.
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Washington
Robert B. McLeaish
Agriculture Department
Farmers Home Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
McLeaish
FHA
Eisenhower
Montana
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Kathryn Carter
Farmers Home Agency
McLeana
Carl O. Hansen
Lost Child Found Unhurt in Brush Near Itasca Park
A 3-year-old girl Serafina Stone from the Ponsford Indian Reservation was found unharmed after an overnight disappearance in swampy brush near Itasca State Park in Minnesota. More than 200 authorities and volunteers, plus bloodhounds and three planes, aided the search. William Rock located the child around 10 am, while 60 University of Minnesota biology students participated in the field study and search effort.
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Bemidji, Minn
Momma
Serafina Stone
John Stone
Ponsford Indian Reservation
Itasca State Park
William Rock
Ponsford Reservation
University of Minnesota Biology
Ageless Levittown Mother Blasts Modern Husbands Burden
In Levittown Pennsylvania 78 year old Agnes Ferguson Murdoch argues many husbands die young from overwork caused by wives who demand too much at home after their jobs. She recalls raising six children and managing a 15 room house with minimal help while celebrating strong health and a traditional division of labor.
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Levittown
Agnes Ferguson Murdoch
Mrs. Murdoch
Two Minnesota Towns Offer Jet Training Sites
Brainerd and Bemidji have invited the Navy and Air Force to move jet training away from Wold Chamberlain Field. The push follows ten recent deaths near the Twin Cities port and concerns over air traffic and nearby populations. Sen Thye urged relocation citing hazards near the existing field.
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Minnesota
Navy
Air Force
Wold Chamberlain Field
Twin Cities
Brainerd
Bemidji
Washington
Sen
Thye
R-Minn
Wold Chamberlain
Tito Agrees to Cooperate With Russia
Yugoslavia will cooperate with the Soviet Union on an equal basis. Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov said Tito and Moscow will fight shoulder to shoulder in future wars. The statements followed a Kremlin ceremony after Tito signed communiques with Soviet leaders.
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Moscow
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Georgi Zhukov
Tito
Zhukov
Eisenhower
Kremlin
Russia
Worst Air Disasters Worldwide and United States
The article lists major air crashes with high death tolls including 66 fatalities in the 1955 United Airlines crash near Laramie Wyoming. It notes the 1950 Cardiff Wales disaster with many deaths and a Dublin to Ireland soccer fan flight tragedy. It also cites a 1953 Tokyo bound C124 military crash with 129 deaths and a 1952 Washington state C124 crash killing 87.
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Associated Press
United States
United Air Lines
Laramie
Wyo
Cardiff
Wales
Dublin
Ireland
Tokyo
Washington State
Co-Chairmen Named for Joint Austin Albert Lea Airport
A plan for a joint Austin Albert Lea airport gains momentum as 19 officials from both cities back the proposal at Tuesday night’s meeting. The two-city group aims to advance a cooperative project with renewed enthusiasm.
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Austin- Albert Lea
R. A. Proof
Austin
A. K. Grinley
Albert Lea
Austin and
Albert Lea Chambers of Commerce
Bixby Girl, 15, Killed in Crash Near Owatonna
A car carrying seven teenagers crashed into a bridge abutment eight miles northeast of Owatonna Minnesota at midnight killing 15 year old Rose Mary Wanous of Bixby who was driving. Six others were hospitalized with fractures and lacerations. two Spinler boys and four others listed. The crash remains under investigation.
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Owatonna
Minn
Here
Rose Mary Wanous
Jerry Wanous
Bixby
Bernard
Francis
Charles
Josephine
Josephine Matejcek
James
David
Peter Spinler
Medford
Migratory Worker Jailed After Slaying of Son-in-Law
In Stephen Minnesota a migratory farm worker is jailed without charge after a family dispute led to the shotgun death of Peter Opolinar 35 Brownfield Texas. Jim Perez 55 Post Texas the father-in-law is detained in Warren after being brought from the Roy Benson farm area where Opolinar and his wife Helen 21 and their 3 month old child lived. Perez says Opolinar advanced and he retrieved a shotgun firing once killing Opolinar.
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Stephen
Minn
Marshall County
Marshal Beaven Carlson
Peter Opolinar
Brownfield
Tex
Jim Perez
Post
Warren
Carlson
Opolinar
Perez
Here
Oscar Erickson
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Keith Wakefield
William Wolcott
Robert Feeley
Whitey) Aamodt
Ernie Kottke
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Venezuela
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Eastern Air Lines
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Andrews
Farm Home
H. W. Brawley
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