End of exile urged as Queen Mary dies
London reports Queen Mary has died at 85. Editorials urge her son the Duke of Windsor to return to England as Windsor cuts short a Florida trip. Churchill pays tribute and plans for funeral at Windsor's St George's Chapel, with coronation set for Queen Elizabeth II.
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Law Allows Refunds of Tax on Home Sale
Gov Anderson signed a bill allowing home owners who sold a home in 1951 or 1952 and bought a new one with a reported profit to claim a refund from the state income tax department. The change aligns state law with federal rules. refunds should be filed promptly.
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ST. Paul
Anderson
State
Workman Cuts Cable Mistaking It For Tree Root
In Independence Missouri a worker trimming for a plumbing firm cut a cable he mistook for a tree root. The cut disrupted 1,000 telephones with 400 pairs of wires. Cable-splicers restored service through the night.
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Independence
Austin Wins FCC Permit for Channel 6 TV Station
The Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit to the Minnesota Iowa Television Company for Channel 6 at the KAUS site 242 miles south of Austin. Operations aim to begin immediately with programming expected by June 15 and a primary service area of about 60 miles reaching over 400000 people in Minnesota and Iowa towns including Rochester Owatonna Waseca Albert Lea Mason City and Charles City.
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L. L. McCurnin
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Blue Earth
Minnesota
Mason City
Charles City
Iowa
McCurnin
All Space at Home Builders Show Is Taken
The Home Builders Show opens Friday at the Austin Armory for a three day run with every space sold. H. B. Lidstone of the Chamber of Commerce cites the event as the fourth show and promises the greatest variety of displays. Forty-two exhibitors from St. Cloud Minneapolis and Albert Lea will join in prizes totaling 2000 dollars in cash and merchandise. Attendance is expected to reach 30000 with hours 1 to 10 Friday and Saturday and 12 to 5 Sunday. Episcopal church ladies will serve lunch in the basement throughout the show. The show committee includes Lidstone H J Taylor Clint Jordan and Leonard Johnston.
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Chamber of Commerce
St. Cloud
Minneapolis
Albert Lea
Lidstone
Episcopal Church
H. J. Taylor
Clint Jordan
Leonard Johnston
Pressure for new FCC look at color TV problems
Washington faces growing demand for another FCC review of color television issues. The House Commerce Committee seeks further testimony from Chromatic Television Laboratories president Richard Hodgson and Du Mont Laboratories chief Allen B. Du Mont as hearings push toward an early FCC decision.
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Federal Communications Commission
House Commerce Committee
Richard Hodgson
Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc
New York
Allen B. du Mont
du Mont Laboratories
Clifton
FCC
Wolverton
Four bodies recovered from grim murder flat
Police confirmed one of the four bodies is Mrs. Ethel Christie wife of a clerk sought for questioning in the case. President Eisenhower named Charles E Bohlen as best qualified for ambassador to Moscow and announced the nomination sticks.
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London
Ethel Christie
Washington
Eisenhower
Charles E. Bohlen
Moscow
Vishinsky Returns to United Nations Faces Peace Negotiation Test
Andrei Vishinsky arrives at the United Nations from Moscow and faces Western pressure to prove the Kremlin will negotiate for peace and end the cold war.
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Andrei Y. Vishinsky
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Kremlin
Change in YCC Commitment Bill Introduced
A bill in the Minnesota Legislature proposes giving courts discretion over committing offenders to the Youth Conservation Commission rather than mandating it. Authors include Reps. Clarence Langley Red Wing Ernest Windmiller Fergus Falls and Roy Dunn Pelican Rapids. The measure follows criticism after a highway patrolman was shot near Alexandria by a farm boy later sentenced to the YCC.
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Youth Conservation Commission
YCC
Clarence Langley
Red Wing
Ernest Windmiller
Fergus Falls
Roy Dunn
Pelican
Alexandria
House OKs Liquor Arrest Bill in Minnesota
The Minnesota House approved a bill giving liquor inspectors arrest powers for liquor violations, 69 to 59, with Sen. Harry Wahlstrand seeking Senate action. The measure, backed by Governor Anderson and opposed by sheriffs, awaits committee hearings amid broader debates on a package tax plan and liquor sale controls.
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House
Harry Wahlstrand
Willmar
Senate
Nationalist Guerrillas Sink Chinese Red Supply Craft
Chinese Nationalist News Agency reports seaborne Nationalist guerrillas sank seven Red supply craft and three armed junks, and captured another supply craft in the first half of March off South Kwangtung province.
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Formosa
South
Kwangtung
Senate Clears Pay Bill For State Employees In Minnesota
The Minnesota Senate approved the state employee salary bill by 56 to 0. It maintains current pay levels for two years with no new appropriations, while rejected plans for a $667000 annual raise for the 7000 lowest paid workers. A House vote is set for Friday with related bills advancing.
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Senate
U. S. 7th Division GlS Abandon Old Baldy to Communists
Chinese forces renewed assaults in Western Korea while Communist troops holding Old Baldy, near Panmunjom, endured heavy U.S. artillery and air strikes. A 750-man Red attack was driven back at Bunker Hill during the engagement.
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Battle for Baldy and Imjin defense in Korea update
Reporting from the front lines describes Allied forces repelling a Red assault on outposts near Old Baldy and the Imjin Valley. US Seventh Division trenches were destroyed as American and Colombian troops countered a heavy Chinese attack with air and artillery support.
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Seoul
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Imjin Valley
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George Sweers
Eisenhower In Hand Ammunition Status and Policy Comments
President Eisenhower said the ammunition situation in Korea is sound compared with current operations. He defended Bohlen’s ambassadorial nomination to Russia amid Republican criticism and addressed Van Fleet’s claims of shortages. He announced a plan to study federal state tax, grants, and social security relations and commented on loyalty, leave pay, and Roberts.
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Korea
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Russia
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Sticks
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van Fleet
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Senate
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Old Baldy
Congress
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Kansas
Roberts
Herzog votes no on House measure
Rep. Jake Herzog of Mower County abstained from supporting a bill granting police powers to state liquor control agents. The measure passed the House and moves to the Senate. Sheriffs argued it weakens local enforcement and could invite future political pressure from Twin City liquor interests.
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Mower County
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Senate
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State Sheriffs Association
Twin City
Retail Prices Dip 0.4 Percent in January to February
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.4 percent drop in retail prices from mid January to mid February the largest monthly decline in a year. Food prices led the fall while the overall index stood at 113.4 percent of the 1947-49 average. The January 15 level was 113.9. The CPI has fallen for three straight months from a peak in November.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Recommend OK to Narcotics Measure
ST PAUL A bill to tighten the states narcotics laws increasing penalties for illicit drug sales and making prison terms mandatory was recommended for passage by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a measure to license and regulate aerial crop sprayers. Sen Homer Carr said the bill targets fly by night operators tied to a caterpillar outbreak in northern Minnesota counties.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Agriculture Committee
State Department of Agriculture
Homer Carr
Proctor
Minnesota
Reds Scurry For Cover On Baldy Hilltop Fire Fight
A frontline dispatch on Baldy Korea describes a day of heavy combat with Chinese forces under fire from U S and Colombian troops. Marine Corsairs and Thunderjets bombed ridgelines while 90 mm Patton tanks and 91 mm rounds wrecked bridges and tanks. The U S 7th Division withdrew from the southeastern Baldy slope after 900 Chinese troops overran the area. A helicopter evacuated wounded near an aid station as Red mortar fire flared behind UN lines.
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