Austin Centennial Night Ends Citywide Celebration with Fireworks
Austin closes its centennial with a 30 to 40 minute fireworks display sponsored by the Austin Centennial Corp. A Sioux Falls firm will set up 57 displays including a 100th Anniversary sign and a Niagara Falls like water wall. Finale features aerial bombs, shells, and 288 shots from twelve battery lines. Events are staged near East Side Lake with safety roping and spectator viewing from the southeast.
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Austin
Austin Centennial Corp
Sioux Falls
S. D
Niagara Falls
Austin School Bonds Sold By District 27
Dist 27 Austin sold 4.4 million dollars in school bonds to Halsey Stuart and Co First National Bank of Minneapolis and Chicago and Associates. Net interest rate 3.0214 percent over 30 years. First National Bank of Austin among successful bidders. other bids: Northern Trust Co Chicago 3.124649 percent Harris Trust Co Chicago 3.101754 percent. Bond sale approved May 15. Funds for new buildings additions remodeling and equipment.
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Austin
Halsey, Stuart and Co
First National Bank of Minneapolis
Chicago and Associates
Austin Board of Education
First National Bank of Austin
Northern Trust Co. of
Chicago
Austin State Bank
Harris Trust Co. of
Tanker Crash Kills 11 Fliers in New Mexico
A Boeing KC97 tanker crashed 10 miles south of Walker Air Force Base in Roswell New Mexico. The four engine aircraft burst into flames seconds after takeoff at 6 50 PM killing 11 airmen aboard.
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Roswell
N.M
New Mexico
Walker Air Force Base
Walker
Air Force
Recheck Ordered on Rochester High Plans After Overage
Rochester Minnesota Board of Education opened bids for a new high school on Tuesday night and ordered a recheck of plans to find possible reductions as low bids exceeded the 3.2 million dollar estimate by over a million. Low bids totaled 4,625,720 dollars plus about 250,000 for architects fees. the district has 4 million dollars but plans to add two grade school additions along with the high school.
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Rochester
Minn
Board of Education
Grasshoppers Invade Minnesota Counties
State entomologist T. L. Aamodt reports grasshoppers have invaded six Minnesota counties and threaten about 20 more. Southeastern counties Houston, Winona, and Wabasha and northwestern counties Ottertail, Grant and Douglas face severe infestations with eastern Olmsted and Fillmore also at risk. Farmers urged to spray now before wings form.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
T. L. Aamodt
Houston
Winona
Wabasha
Ottertail
Grant
Douglass
Aamodt
Olmsted
Fillmore
Connie Swenberg Wins Region 10 Dairy Princess Title
A Goodhue County farm girl Connie Swenberg won the Region 10 Dairy Princess crown in Rochester. Attendants Geraldine Sackreiter and Jann Deen Witt support her as Kathy Bartlett predicted the win. Connie, 17, credits the victory to the day’s events and plans to study at St Olaf College.
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Rochester
Minn
Goodhue County
Connie Swenberg
Norman Swenberg
Red Wing
Connie
Geraldine Sackreiter
Lewiston
Winona County
Jann Deen Witt
Houston County
Houston
Mower County
Kathy Bartlett
Dexter
Kathy
George Pederson
Ruth Marie Peterson
St. Olaf College
United Lutheran Church of
Geraldine
Lewiston High School
ASC
Marvin Sackreiter
Jann Deen
St. Francis School of Nursing
la Crosse
Dale Witt
Houston High School
Minnesota
Lois Mogen
Dodge County
Eileen Anderson
Olmsted County
Phyliss Egge
Fillmore County
Janet Cravath
Wabasha County
Austin Daily Herald
Dulles Says Russ Control Over Satellites Weakened
Secretary of State Dulles stated Moscow’s influence over Communist parties abroad has weakened since Stalin’s downgrading. He cited dissatisfaction with Khru shchev Bulganin leadership and warned the shift toward limited methods Africa. He urged Western unity to deny communism broader expansion.
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Washington
Dulles
Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Soviet Communist Party
Khrushchev-Bulganin
Jaycees Toss Mammoth Party for Junior Chamber Meet
In Kansas City a Jaycee led mammoth bash for 7500 attendees at a municipal garage floor. Delegations from Arkansas Indiana California Missouri South Carolina provided food and drink in vast quantities. Newton Baker oversaw chaotic preparations while a 70 person band kept the crowd moving.
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Kansas City
Jaycees
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas
Indiana
Missouri
South Carolina
Newton Baker
Jaycee
Baker
Eisenhower Improves. Walks and Eats More Comfortably
President Eisenhower remains on the mend with doctors reporting steady progress. He walks increasingly each day and spends about three to four hours daily out of bed, meals included, with permission to eat steak twice daily and better sleep since intestinal operation stitches were removed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Big 3 in Steel Make New Bid to Avert Strike
Washington lawmakers debate a $912 million boost to air power as Senate backs extra Pentagon funds. Rep Mahon weighs House approval and defense use before final compromise. Symington cautions funds may not be spent. Wilson says a review will follow. Eisenhower sought about $34 billion for defense with roughly 15 percent for the Air Force.
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Washington
Mahon
D-Tex
House
Pentagon
Senate
Eisenhower
U.S
Russia
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Congress
Air Force
Big Three steel firms seek three year contract to avert strike
New York firms present a written three year contract proposal with an expected 10 cent hourly raise in year one to the United Steelworkers Union as a midnight strike threat looms. Banks of furnaces may run tonight in Gary Indiana and Pittsburgh area to prevent furnace cooling damage. Negotiators meet after an amiable session with possible concessions to stave off a costly industry walkout.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
Gary
Ind
Pittsburgh
Road Bill Opens New Era for Minnesota Highways
Passage of the federal highway bill by Congress will yield Minnesota more than 56 million dollars in federal funds each of the next three years for highways. Gov. Freeman cited highway commissioner M. J. Hoffmann’s estimates showing about 200 million dollars annually spent on Minnesota roads for primary, secondary and urban use.
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ST. Paul
Congress
Minnesota
Freeman
M. J. Hoffmann
Hoffmann
Duluth-Superior
Speedy Construction Seen Under Road Bill
Congressional sponsors forecast the giant highway bill will have motorists using new superhighways by summer 1958. The 33 billion dollar measure cleared Congress and goes to President Eisenhower, with rapid state start anticipated despite earlier waits.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Girl 8 Drowns Jump From Boat at Lake Le Homme Dieu
An 8-year-old Ohio girl, Linda Valentine, drowned on Lake Le Homme Dieu near Alexandria Minnesota after she became frightened and attempted to jump to a dock from a boat she and a 7-year-old companion had just left. The Valentes of Toledo area reported the tragedy. Timothy Damaline, with them in the boat, is the other child involved.
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Dayton
Ohio
Mike Shepherd
Vincent Stall Jr
Diane
Alexandria
Minn
Lake le Homme Dieu
Linda Valentine
Howard Valentine
Toledo
Timothy Damaline
Valentines
Faribault 10-Year-Old Drowns in Cannon Lake
In Faribault Minnesota ten year old Sharon Gutknecht drowned while swimming with other girls in Cannon Lake. The body was recovered about fifteen minutes after she disappeared. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Gutknecht.
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Faribault, Minn
Sharon Gutknecht
Faribault
Cannon Lake
Harold Gutknecht
Nixon Overlooked as GOP Governors Back Eisenhower Run
Vice President Nixon appears as the forgotten man among 20 Republican governors and White House aides urging Eisenhower to seek another term. A round robin statement from party leaders omits Nixon, described by Howard Pyle as an oversight despite White House approval in principle.
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Nixon
White House
Eisenhower
GOP
Fred Hall
Kansas
George N. Craig
Indiana
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Pyle
Sherman Adams
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