Minnesota voters face record off year turnout in 1958 election
Minnesota forecast calls for slightly warmer election day with a record off year turnout of 1 250 000 or more. Voters will choose a full slate of state officers eight congressmen two supreme court justices a full legislature and three constitutional amendments. The race features Lt Gov Karl Rolvaag challenging Gov Elmer Andersen amid charges of highway irregularities and a federal probe into the Bureau of Public Roads.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Supreme Court
Karl Rolvaag
DFL
Elmer L. Andersen
Kennedy says Cuba surveillance must continue after missiles
President Kennedy favors continuing U S surveillance of Cuba long after the missile crisis to guard against new Soviet missiles. Officials indicate International inspection, UN backed, will verify removal while Castro may bar inspectors. Mikoyan discussed inspection with Castro in Havana as pressure to accept a system grows.
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International Red Cross
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Castro
Mikoyan
Government
Edward M. Martin
inter-American Affairs
Martin
Theodore C. Sorensen
Sorensen
Eight Minnesotans die in weekend road and river crashes
A series of weekend accidents across Minnesota left eight people dead. Among the victims were engaged couple David Maki and Joyce Holmstrom who died after their car left an icy road near Deer River and plunged into the Mississippi River. Other fatalities occurred in New Ulm, Princeton, St. Paul, Kiester, and Cloquet plus two Wisconsin crash deaths.
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Mississippi River
Deer River
Itasca
New Ulm
David Maki
Joyce Holmstrom
North Grange Hall
Maki
Muriel Reinke
Mankato
Kathy Rae Jan
Highway 15
Miss Beinke
William Danfenbach
Danfenbach
John Schaus
Rochester
Loel W. Jan
Jan
Rochelle
Gerald W. Straka
St. Paul
Como Park
Royal Olson
Kiester
Minn
Albert Lea
Laurence Jay Nelson
Princeton
Jane Huben
St. Cloud
Wisconsin
Jerome Edmund Porter
Winona
LaCrosse
Gary Rogers
Kenosha
Wis
Walter L. Adams
Cloquet
India loses key outpost as Chinese advance in Ladakh
The Indian Defense Ministry confirmed the fall of Daulet Beg Oldi in Ladakh, a crucial northern outpost. Nehru vows to resist and demand Chinese withdrawal to Sept 8 positions, while Soviet and Western arms flow to back India as fighting widens.
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Ladakh
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India
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Peiping
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Assam
U.S
Calcutta
Road Bureau Auditor Flies to St Paul for Hinckley Work
Charles Marinez an auditor for the Bureau of Public Roads flew to St Paul to investigate alleged faulty construction on Interstate Highway 35 near Hinckley Minnesota. The report notes an official inquiry into the highway project following complaints about workmanship and safety standards.
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Road Bureau
St. Paul Washington
Charles Marinez
Bureau of Public Roads
St. Paul
Hinckley
Minn
Russ Expels U S Envoy on Spy Claims in Moscow
In Moscow the Soviet Union again accused a U S Embassy staff member of spying and ordered him out. Richard Carl Jacob, 26, a secretary-architect, was charged with secret liaison with a spy and removing intelligence data from a hiding place. Tass claimed he was caught red handed. the embassy called the charges a fabrication and said Jacob was detained for two hours with immunity violated.
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Soviet Union
U.S
State Department
Richard Carl Jacob
Jacob
Tass
Pushkinskaya Street
GOP Hopeful of Winning Top Governors Posts in 1964 Election
Republicans enter Election Day with aims to capture 19 of 50 governorships as voters choose 35 governors, 39 senators, and 435 House members across 169000 polling places. The narrative centers on state races, presidential implications, and anticipated shifts in power ahead of the 1964 election.
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County voters expected record turnout in nonpresidential year
Mower County anticipates about 20 000 voters with 13 392 registered and a possible countywide turnout shaped by a state senate race and a county redistricting referendum. Polls open 7 to 9 am, with four ballots to tally by hand outside Austin.
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Graham Uzlck
Ray Hanson
Hanson
Uzlik
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Dodge
Emil Schaffer
Helen McMillan
Harvey Sathre
Adams
Richard A
Dick) Cotter
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Sathre
Cotter
al Reinartz
Doyle Lindahl
Windom
Robert Shaw
Ralph Turner
Grand Meadow
Holger Larson
leRoy
Terry Meany
Windoms
Rose Creek
Federal Bureau Begins Minnesota Road Probe
The federal Bureau of Public Roads starts an in depth investigation into Minnesota highway construction amid election campaigns. The probe centers on alleged irregularities during the Interstate 35 Hinckley project and involves questions of tests and materials as political tensions rise.
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Minnesota
Associated Press
Federal Bureau of Public Roads Today
John A. Blatnik
D-Minn
Congressional Highway Investigating Committee
Hinckley
Washington
Joseph M. O'Connor
Grant Mickle
BPR
52 Members of Congress Won't Return in January
Washington AP reports 52 members of Congress will be replaced when the new session begins in January. The group includes octogenarians like Brent Spence of Kentucky and three other long-serving Republicans. About seventeen others have chosen not to seek reelection or retirement, with various Senate and House members listed among those not returning.
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Windom
Rose Creek
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Washington
Brent Spence
D-Ky
House Banking and Currency Committee
Spence
John Taber
New York
Clare Hoffman
Michigan
Noah Mason
Illinois
Tabor
China Compares Cuba to Munich
In Tokyo AP report Red China likens Moscow’s pledge to remove missiles from Cuba to the Munich appeasement of Nazi Germany by Britain and France.
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Cuba
Munich
Tokyo
Red China Today
Soviet Union
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