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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1969
Page
2
Lumber prices have slid from their peak as mortgage rates stay high and housing starts drop. Mills closed amid timber-supply constraints, with industry anxious that reduced demand will stall legislation to stabilize prices. A forest-timber bill aims to boost output and fund access roads to increase supply while preserving reserves.
Jersey City police said Rafael Torres, a grocer, was arrested after calling his brother to say he killed his wife Maria, 40, and six of their nine children. Victims named Lillie 9 Annie 10 Victor 11 Fay 12 Carri 17 Ann 19 Maria 20. Ray mond, 15, wounded. Rafael 14 with family. Stabbings occurred between 1 and 3 am with a hunting knife.
A head on collision on Highway 210 near Battle Lake Minnesota killed two drivers Sandra E. Nelson 21 of Battle Lake and Arnold Korpi 42 of New York Mills. Two passengers in Korpi s car Rudolph Majama 47 and Edwin Tolppi 51 of New York Mills were hospitalized.
Rome reports show more than one million state workers walk out calling for higher pay. The rail postal and communications sector halted temporarily while government talks continue. In Sardinia 35,000 stockmen and livestock faced army target practice fears, and clashes flare in Milan between left and right wing students as trials backlog.
Washington AP reports a North Dakota serviceman was killed in action in Vietnam. Army Private First Class Gilbert R. Bargmann, son of Mr and Mrs William Bargmann Jr of Hannover, was listed on Tuesday’s Defense Department toll of Vietnam war casualties.
Prague reports that defiant Czech students who faced Soviet tanks last August are treated as enemies by the regime. Censorship, funding cuts, bans on demonstrations, and the disbanding of their union followed, as a Preparatory Committee for a new student union formed to challenge the state and preserve liberal reforms.
Washington AP reports Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U S negotiator at Paris Vietnam peace talks, says the government aims to persuade the Communists to accept a mutual prisoner of war release. In a Tuesday meeting with about 100 relatives of U S prisoners, Lodge said the United States will press for the earliest possible release on both sides.
Mrs Richard M Nixon will be honorary co chairwoman of a national 4 H club fund drive to expand and remodel its Chevy Chase Maryland center The other honorary co chairman named is J C Penney founder of the department store from New York City The event seeks support for the preparation and growth of the organization
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