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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1964
Page
8
Sacred Heart Hospice opened its nursing home with 60 residents funded by the 800000 bequest of Fred Dugan, Hormel treasurer for nearly 30 years. The Winona Diocese built the facility to fulfill his aim of a comfortable, dignified retirement home.
Delegates head to St Paul for the first Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention in 20 years to be addressed by a U S president, with Lyndon Johnson expected to speak by Saturday afternoon. Festivities include a reception hosted by Gov Karl Rolvaag and Secretary Orville Freeman as platform debates and national convention selections loom.
White House press secretary George Reedy said one briefing item was inadvertently inaccurate amid a surge of mis information on the Mississippi civil rights workers search. He corrected that Marines were not from Meridian and that FBI chief Hoover later contacted Governor Johnson to clarify the matter.
The United States Britain and France condemned the Soviet East German pact of June 12 as an attempt to perpetuate the divided Germany. They reaffirm self determination and reunification as a Western goal while outlining that Berlin remains under four power authority. The declaration rejects claims of independent West Berlin and upholds the legitimacy of the FRG as the sole German government authorized to speak internationally.
The Republican Issues Council urged sound relationships between private enterprise and government to tackle U S energy problems, calling for a reassessment of national energy policy amid rural electrification and atomic energy debates. Separately a John F Kennedy Memorial Library drive nears the halfway mark with about five million raised. Udall proposed a 11 western state public private power network with a federal outlay of 280 million out of 697 million total investment.
A former Communist says some party members once plotted to blast Minneapolis bridges and seize control of mass media. The House Committee on Un American Activities held an executive session as witnesses invoked rights. Ruth Gordienko named Winnipeg party posts and alleged associates Martin Maki Claude McDonald and others refused to answer.
Senator Barry Goldwater returns to Arizona to witness his daughter Margaret Ann Goldwater Holt wed Richard Arlen Holt in a Phoenix Trinity Episcopal Cathedral ceremony. The bride, Peggy, will be given away by her father during a brief 11 minute service. The couple, soon to reside in Beverly Hills after a Hawaii honeymoon, is linked to a Beverly Hills oil executive fiancé.
New York AP reports Stuart Davis an influential contemporary abstract painter died Wednesday from a heart attack. His works are held by major museums worldwide.
A truck carrying ammonium nitrate exploded at Marshalls Creek Pa killing at least six and injuring about ten. Three fire trucks were destroyed, snakes were freed from the reptile farm, and nearby homes suffered blast damage. Victims include Edna Browning and others. several firemen died. Northwest senators voted on an excise tax extension with mixed party positions.
Lorena Gore, 80, wife of R. H. Gore Sr., former Puerto Rico governor and longtime Fort Lauderdale News and Pompano Beach Sun publisher, died Wednesday.
In East Los Angeles, detectives arriving at the L. F. Clark Detective Agency found a hole in the ceiling and the office thoroughly ransacked. A note reading So, solve this one signed Ace was left behind, marking the burglary discovered on Thursday.
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