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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1961
Page
6
Four people die in a car train crash near Baudette Minnesota as the year’s traffic toll rises to 289. Survivors and injuries include Albert Kopkie and Judy Jacobs among others, with multiple accidents across Minnesota and nearby Iowa noted.
Adolf Eichmann told Israeli judges that he felt no guilt, likening his part in the Nazi genocide to Pontius Pilate. He described the Wannsee conference decision as practical and feasible and said he did his best to bring order to deportations while insisting the ultimate orders came from the regime’s elite.
Harold Daudelin Jr. 12, of Rochester NH, was found safe Sunday in a Dolly Copp cabin area at the base of Mount Adams after vanishing during a weekend church group hike. More than 100 searchers and a helicopter combed Pinkham Notch wilderness. the boy suffered only minor scratches and insect bites.
Six persons were killed and at least six injured in a two car head-on collision on US Route 460 two miles west of Cumberland Virginia. One body was identified as June Goff Dawson 42 of Rustburg. Five injured were taken to Southside Community Hospital and others to Medical College of Virginia Hospital. One victim was trapped for two hours.
Beverly Radland, 18, widow of Errol Flynn, married Maurice de Leon, 22, a Los Angeles draftsman and industrial designer. She said comparing Flynn to her husband is impossible and loved them both for who they were. De Leon earns $575 a month and met Radland two years ago while she traveled with Flynn before his death in 1959.
AP report from Minneapolis notes Nixon telling Young Republicans at their national convention banquet that Khrushchev has grown more arrogant and belligerent as the U S acts timidly He urges GOP unity for 1962 elections and predicts victories He also criticizes U S policy on the United Nations if Red China is admitted.
About 50 000 Swedes and Swedish Americans gathered in Minneapolis Park for Svenskarnas Day. Richard Nixon and Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring spoke in Swedish as queen Vivian Lee Bystrom was crowned. Governor’s aide Joe Donovan attended in place of Gov. Elmer Andersen, joking about his Swedish extraction.
Rangoon Burma AP reports two Chinese Communist officials who fled to Burma have been granted political asylum. Han Ti ling 38 formerly with the labor office at the Chinese People's Bank and Kwang Kwaykyan 23 a secretary with the government broadcasting department received asylum.
Nineteen persons were killed, 18 injured and 12 reported missing in a major downpour that has pounded southwestern Japan since Saturday. More than 35,000 houses flooded across six prefectures in the Shikoku Kinki region, with heavy damage to rice fields.
The Senate opens debate on Kennedy's Social Security expansion with changes to retirement age to 62, higher minimum benefits, and larger widow payments. Javits plans a competing medical care grant proposal facing likely Democratic opposition despite last year’s narrow defeat.
Atlantic City AP report on the 1961 NEA convention with President Kennedy expressing guarded optimism that a federal education aid bill of 2.5 billion dollars over three years would be signed into law before summer. The bill faces House Rules Committee delays over aid to private schools. Kennedy stresses teacher salaries and classroom construction as core goals. Rep. Frank P. Thompson Jr. reads the president’s message to the delegates.
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