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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
1
Wausau Wisconsin serves as a precedent by selling its courthouse site as valuable business property and moving to a modern facility elsewhere. The move aims to convert non taxable courthouse land into revenue via new development. Other counties have followed similar strategies to redeploy courthouse assets.
Sioux City Iowa a 13 year old boy Jeffrey Vennard was found in a five foot ditch after hitchhiking from a movie He was in critical condition with scalp head and facial wounds and a back puncture wound Doctors said the attacker likely intended to kill him and police had not yet established a motive Jeffrey whispered that a lone man in a car picked him up and they fought in the car The boy is the son of Mr and Mrs William Vennard of Sioux City
Three people die when a car veers off Highway 65 on a curve eight miles south of McGregor and strikes a tree. Driver Hubert Lundstrom 27 of McGregor passenger Delores Peterson 23 of Hopkins and Kenneth Ernst about 25 of Minneapolis perished. The vehicle reportedly went straight for 500 feet before the impact. Minnesota’s 1957 traffic toll rises to 274 versus 206 last year.
Parishioners at the Episcopal Cathedral were urged to find comfort during services by Dean N R H Moor. He advised that on hot days worshippers may sit rather than stand or kneel and joked that the Lord will forgive any lapse.
Dozens of Minnesota communities faced rising flood waters as the Crow River moved out of its banks and the Minnesota River remained high. Thousands of acres of crops were under water and residents evacuated in Delano and Rockford while officials prepared damage reports for disaster funds.
Six people died in Minnesota events over the weekend. In Hastings area backwater currents a teen trio perished when their boat capsized. A farm couple trying to rescue them drowned as well. A fifth youth survived wearing a life jacket. Separate tragedy hit Chatfield where Sally Martin and Joel Martin, children of A. H. and Mrs. Martin, drowned swimming in a creek.
Marshall Minn residents describe widespread losses from floods on the Redwood and Yellow Medicine rivers. Banks report dire outlook with tens of thousands of acres under water, hundreds of pigs dead, thousands of chickens and sheep lost, and many farmers unlikely to recover.
John Zierden, 57, a machine operator at Cold Spring Granite Co., died at about 9 15 this morning after a granite sawing machine malfunctioned. He leaned over to inspect under the head of the heavy unit when it dropped and crushed his head.
Violent weekend storms struck Texas Oklahoma and Kansas causing injuries and crop damage. In Texas near Ft. Stockton twenty Mexican farmers faced hailstones larger than baseballs injuring nineteen with sixteen needing hospital care. Crop losses hit cotton fields while a Midland cloudburst dropped three inches of rain. Oklahoma saw flash floods while wheat harvest suffered declines in Woodward and Ellis counties. Kansas reports floodwaters washing out part of the Santa Fe line before service was restored. Showers extended from New England to the Gulf Coast and Texas.
Three University of California physicists and AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss briefed President Eisenhower on progress toward a hydrogen bomb with about 95 percent reduction in radioactive fallout. The delegates said fallout has fallen since January and indicated the team has moved much of the way to a ten tenth reduction, but the question of actual production remained unsettled.
The fifth shot of the current nuclear test series exploded over Frenchman Flat at 6 30 am. It appeared above normal in size, seen as a second sunrise by observers 40 miles away. A balloon deployment produced the blast. 850 military observers and Civil Defense officials witnessed from trenches about 4500 yards from Ground Zero. Reports said yield would be above 20 kilotons, larger than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pigs used in the test were examined for radiation effects, and shelters and food samples were tested for fallout implications. Scientists and officials debated safety, disarmament, and future testing while insisting current tests produce negligible radioactivity.
A North Central Airlines DC-3 with seven passengers and three crew landed on its belly at Wold Chamberlain Field after damage en route from Grand Forks. Pilot Capt. Orlin T. Gudim guided the aircraft to safety with no injuries.
The Supreme Court upheld the federal obscenity statute banning indecent literature sent through the mails. Justice Brennan wrote for the majority, rejecting First Amendment challenges by Samuel Roth, who was convicted in New York for mailing four publications including Photo and Body and American Aphrodite No. 13.
Official U S readings at 8 30 today show 53 degrees amid cloudy skies. Precipitation measured .15 inches with a low of 61 and high of 66 in the previous 24 hours.
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