Three in Family Die from Gas Fumes in Savage
A young woman visiting her parents home found her mother Mrs Edman Seiersen 41 and father 49 and younger brother Edman Jr 15 dead from asphyxiation. Sister Kitty Bonita 6 was rescued in critical condition as gas from a furnace apparently continued flowing after the flame went out. An autopsy was planned to confirm the cause.
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Savage
Minn
Donald Breeggemann
Edman Seiersen
Edman Jr
Seiersen
Scott County
Cyril Maxa
Kitty
Shakopee
Paul Stahler
Two Grand Meadow Youths In Critical Condition
St Marys Hospital doctors report no change in the status of Kenneth Rieken and Alan Durhman both unconscious and very critical after a car wreck near Wykoff. The wreck demolished the 1956 car, sending one youth to safety and trapping the other as 12 men freed him from the crushed roof. Authorities call the crash likely caused by speed on a curve.
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St. Mary's Hospital
Grand Meadow
Wykoff
Hugo Chunke
Fillmore County
Donald Cook
Racine
Grand Meadow High School
Kenneth Rieken
William Rieken
Alan Durhman
Albert Durhman
Communists Lose in Italian Local Elections
In Bolzano Italy election officials reported strong losses for the Communists in local voting. Early returns from the Trentino provincial race attributed the defeats to public reaction to changes in Hungary and related regional developments.
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Bolzano
Italy
Trentinondige
Hungary
Soviets Move Against Last Rebel Pockets in Hungary
VIENNA The Russian military drive presses on against remaining Hungarian resistance. Factories on Csepel Island, the Danube complex, hold as Soviet armor attacks persist. Rebels in Ujpest, Dunapentele, Pecs, and areas near Austria face hunger and cold as Janos Kadar vows liquidation in days.
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Hungary
Vienna
Russia
Budapest
Csepel Island
Danube Island
Ujpest
Dunapentele
Stalinvaros
Austria
Vac
Janos Kadar
Soviet Union
Petoefi
Csepel
Kadar
Imre Nagy
Recount Doubt Grows in Minnesota Treasurer Race
Albert Lea reports indicate former Treasurer Val Bjornson leads DFL incumbent Arthur Hansen by about 3,217 votes with unofficial returns. party chair Ray Hemenway calls a recount unlikely due to cost and lack of significant figure changes.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Ray Hemenway
Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party
Associated Press
Val Bjornson
DFL
Arthur Hansen
Hemenway
Bjornson
Lord Leads Kennedy by 4909 Votes in Minnesota Election
Atty Gen Miles Lord holds an unofficial 4909 vote lead over Keith Kennedy after Hennepin County canvass boosts Lord by 919 with Kennedy up 87. Statewide total: Lord 694115 Kennedy 689206. Recount planned in Winona precinct four and Anoka County request for recount of Columbia Heights precincts. State canvassing board meets November 20.
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ST. Paul
Miles Lord
Lord
Hennepin County
Associated Press
Keith Kennedy
Kennedy
Winona
Columbia Heights
Don Fraser
Minneapolis
DFL
State
Secretary of State
Use of Sample Ballots Stirs Controversy in S D
In Pennington County South Dakota last Tuesday officials used about 100 yellow sample ballots after official supplies ran out. Attorney General Phil Saunders confirmed the practice was legal with judges oath to use ballots substantially similar to official ones. Drew Pearson had implied ballot stuffing and Democrats called for scrutiny as counties prepared canvasses.
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S. D
Atty
Phil Saunders
Alner Snesrud
Pennington County
Navy seaplane crash near Azores kills four crew
A Navy seaplane returning from the Mediterranean crashed during takeoff from Fayal Base at Horta in the Azores. Four of the nine crewmen were killed and two injured, one seriously.
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Norfolk
Mediterranean
Azores
Fayal
Horta
Assembly Faces 2 Big Issues
The United Nations General Assembly opened its 1956 session with Hungary and the Middle East as top concerns. Dag Hammarskjold sought observers in Hungary and a cease fire police in Egypt as he planned actions on 73 agenda items. Morocco Sudan and Tunisia were set for admission, possibly expanding UN membership to 79. Controversies included Algeria Cyprus Dutch New Guinea Korea disarmament and debates on peaceful use of Antarctica.
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N. Y
Hungary
Middle East
U. N. General Assembly
Egypt
U.N
Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
U. N
China
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
Security Council
Algeria
Cyprus
Dutch West New Guinea
Korea
India
Argentina
Spain
Lat
New Delhi
Nehru
Burma
Indonesia
Ceylon
Lake City Girl Killed in Crash
A car carrying eight Minnesota youths after a roller skating party rolled in a ditch near Ellsworth Wisconsin killing Mary Sylvis 15 of Lake City Minn. Three others were injured and taken to Red Wing hospital including Ernest Sylvis 17 Roger Tackman 23 Roger Dunbar 20 Robert Henning 20 Marvin Hoffman 19 Vickie Wilkins 16 and Karen Basiak 16. The group had roller skated in Red Wing then drove south of Ellsworth on Highway 63.
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Ellsworth
Wis
Minnesota
Here
Mary Sylvis
Ernest Sylvis
Lake City
Minn
Red Wing
Roger Tackman
Roger Dunbar
Robert Henning
Marvin Hoffman
Vickie Wilkins
Karen Basiak
North Red Wing
Highway 63
Eight Die in Cincinnati Apartment Fire Including Seven Children
In Cincinnati an early morning blaze swept from a basement stairwell through a three story brick building killing eight people, seven of them children. The victims were all Negroes, including a 26-year-old mother and her five children, with three others injured as they fled.
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Johnetta Clark
Cincinnati
Luchious Tate
Ruther Walker
William Stokes
NATO Stays Strong Despite Middle East Turmoil
U.S. Senator Thye says NATO remains strong despite Middle East crisis as he leads a delegation to the NATO parliamentary conference in Paris. Humphrey resigns from the Senate group to join the UN. Jackson replaces him. Rep McCarthy and eight other House members join the trip aboard the United States.
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Washington
Sen. Thye
R-Minn
Middle East
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Thye
Paris
Rep. McCarthy
D-Minn
House
Giant Salvage Ships Set for Suez Canal Clearing
In Hamburg two of the world’s largest salvage ships the Energie and Ausdavuer weigh 4500 tons each and are tows bound for Port Said to aid Suez Canal clearance. The voyage should last about twenty days with British Dutch and Norwegian vessels to join the effort.
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Hamburg
Germany
Energie
Ausdavuer
Port Said
Suez Canal
The
Suez
U.N. Police Units May Enter Egypt Tuesday
Dag Hammarskjold announced that Egypt will permit immediate entry of U.N. police units assembled near Naples Italy. The first contingent of about 200 troops from Denmark Norway and Colombia may deploy Tuesday as Cairo talks with Egyptian leaders continue.
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Egypt
U.N
London
Dag Hammarskjold
Naples
Italy
E. L. M. Burns
Cairo
Nasser
Mahmoud Fawzi
Hammarskjold
New York
Denmark
Norway
Colombia
Burns
Britain
France
Israel
Wheel Chair Tenor Stars in JC Opera Production
Donald Smith a sophomore in law and engineering is cast in the lead roles of the Junior College production of Kurt Weill with operatic numbers sung from a wheelchair due to polio. The double bill features Down In The Valley and Alec Wilder's Sunday Excursion with a college chorus of 80. Tickets are at K O Wold Drug Co. or from JC students.
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Donald Smith
Kurt Weill
Austin High School
Smith
Wilbur Funk
Alec Wilder
K. O. Wold Drug Co
Eisenhower Starts Drafting State of the Union Message
President Eisenhower and top advisers began outlining the annual State of the Union message to Congress. The address will be delivered to lawmakers after they convene in January.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Sophomore jumps into subject with startling act at N DAC
Ed Gilbertson, 19, a Fargo sophomore in mechanical engineering at North Dakota Agricultural College, leaped from a second floor window to start his class speech. He then returned and announced the introduction was over. He will deliver the speech Tuesday on "The Law of Grav a."
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Fargo, N. D
Ed Gilbertson
North Dakota Agricultural College
Fargo
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