Six Diehards? No, Six Seriously Injured In Mapleview Crash
Six persons suffered severe injuries when two cars collided near the Mapleview liquor store on Highway 218 early today. Victims include Viola Huffman 17 Joan Nack 18 Lars M Larson 31 Lynn Turbett 24 Fred Olson 22 and Ralph McFadden 33 all treated with varying injuries.
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Mapleview
Austin
St. Olaf Hospital
Viola Huffman
Elmer
Joan Nack
Johnson
Lars M. Larson
Albert Lea
Bank Cashier Held in Embezzlement Case
FBI agents arrested 60 year old William Paul Smeltzer assistant cashier at First National bank of New Kensington on embezzlement charges. He allegedly took about 25 000 yearly over more than twenty years totaling about 550 000 to finance stock market trading. Smeltzer is married with three grown children.
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Pittsburgh
FBI
First National Bank
New Kensington
J. A. Robey
William Paul Smeltzer
Robey
Smeltzer
Policemen to Take Part in Pistol Shoot at Mankato
Marksmen from the Austin police department join police and sheriff representatives from southern Minnesota for a pistol shoot in Mankato on Sunday. Competition starts at 8 a.m. at the Mankato police department pistol range. Prizes this year are donated by Austin merchants.
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Austin
Minnesota
Mankato
Mass Prison Break Sparks Alabama Manhunt for 12 Fugitives
Bloodhounds join a statewide search after 12 Draper prison inmates escaped Friday night. Seven were recaptured overnight. four caught in Selma, others run down by dogs or nabbed near the prison. Prison Director J M McCullough fired two guards over the break.
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Speigner
Ala
Draper
Selma
Calera
Alabama
Here
J. M. McCullough
McCullough
Get Acquainted Week Planned in November
The Herald will publish illustrated cartoons during November Get Acquainted week. Mayor M. G. Rolfson becomes the first cartoon to start the campaign. Merchants and civic groups join in as preparatory work continues.
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The
Herald
Austin
Rolfson
M. G. Rolfson
Boars Bring Strong Bids at National Barrow Show
In purebred sales at the National Barrow Show Friday 11 boars sold for an average of 182.30. Harlan Hanks of Winnebago topped the York boar price with L. K. McFarlan of Mansfield paying 550. Suburban Home Farms of Waynetown sold the first place gift to Lee Winther of Wisner for 200. Poland China top price was 350 paid by the University of Wisconsin for Albert Koller & Son’s No 1 board. Oscar Anderson of Leland earned 180 for his first-place gift from Lawrence Weeks of Newark.
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Harlan Hanks
Winnebago
L. K. McFarlan
Mansfield
Ohio
Waynetown
Ind
Lee Winther
Wisner
Neb
Poland
University of Wisconsin
Albert Koller & Son
Parke
S. D
Oscar Anderson
Leland, Ill
Lawrence Weeks
Newark, Il
Art
Oscar
Leland
Ill
Champ Duroc
Altoona
Lee Winther, Wisner
Nebr
Tone in Semi-Coma After Hollywood Fight
Hollywood reports Franchot Tone remains semi comatose in hospital after a brutal altercation with Tom Neal. Neal says Tone started the fight. Barbara Payton disputes that. Neal and Payton were to marry in San Francisco today, now canceled. Tone suffered a broken nose and concussion. police investigation ordered, no charges yet.
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Hollywood
Franchot Tone
Tom Neal
Tone
Barbara Payton
Neal
Miss Payton
San Francisco
Tones
Lee Siegel
William Parker
Franchot
Tom
Allies Drive Reds From Heights Northwest of Kumhwa
Allied troops with bayonets captured strategic high ground northwest of Kumhwa after a two hour hand to hand battle with Reds. The action lasted 10 hours as three assaults failed before the bayonet charge drove the Communists off.
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John Randolph
U. S
Eighth Army
Korea
Kumhwa
Austin Area Breeders Lead Trucklots in 1951 Show
Faint Bros with 15 Berkshire pigs won the No 1 light weight trucklot and placed eighth in light weight, as Emmett Serfling, Harvey Holst, Robert Miller, and Roy Funk also ranked in the top 15 of 27 trucklots at Crane pavilion Mower County Fairgrounds. Faint Bros and L. L. Stewart and Son showed the top trucklot and second light weight trucklot as judging continued. overall champion barrow and pen of barrows to be decided later in the day with market animals to be sold in the final event.
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Faint Bros
Havelock
Iowa
Crane Pavilion
Mower County Fairgrounds
Austin Area
Harvey Holst
Brownsdale
Emmett Serfling
Preston
Robert Miller
Mabel
Roy C. Funk
Osage
Hampshires
L. L. Stewart and Son
Kirlin
Ind
Barrow
Honor Film Pioneer Mack Sennett Granted Honorary Membership
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards Mack Sennett honorary life membership by a special vote of its board of governors.
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Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Mack Sennett
Academy
Board of Governors
Communist Air Blow Seen by Fifth Air Force Chiefs
U S Fifth Air Force leaders and Washington sources say a massed Red airfront in Manchuria could trigger allied air strikes on Manchurian bases. Maj Gen Frank F Everest notes current Yalu restrictions limit attacks across the boundary unless retaliation is needed. Russian MiG-15 probes into North Korea typically clash briefly with U S jets near the Yalu before retreating.
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U. S. Fifth Air Force
Korea
Manchuria
U. S. Fifth Airforce
Washington
Yalu River
North Korea
Arcade moves Austin game tickets to Sunday afternoon
The Arcade said tickets sold for the Austin game in Faribault are valid only for Sunday afternoon. The game was rescheduled and fans not using the afternoon option can get refunds and repurchase for the evening showing.
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the Arcade
Austin
Faribault
Smeby Hog Tops National Barrow Show
Smeby Brothers of Austin were among ten breed winners in the National Barrow show carcass contest. Their cross bred barrow yielded 70.8 percent in edible pork products, with other breed winners listed: Yorkshire Tamworth Duroc Berkshire Chester White Hampshire Hereford Poland China and OIC. Judging based on yield and grade, with one winner per breed. Animals paraded in Crane pavilion before slaughter Thursday.
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Smeby Brothers
Austin
Yorkshire
Waynetown
Ind
Tamworth
Ray Conn
Oxford
Ohio
Duroc
Lehmann Farms
Pleasant Plains
Ill
Berkshire
Emerson Littlejohn
Christiansburg
Chester White
R. E. Williams & Sons
Iowa City
Iowa
Hampshire
Earlham Farms
Richmond
Hereford
A. O. Sander
Faribault
OIC
Clarence Kinsey
Ludlow Falls
Poland
China
Indiana
Waldron
James Hillier
Oklahoma A & M
Edward Kline
Iowa State College
Robert Bray
University of Wisconsin
Robert Hartle
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Crane Pavilion
Divorcee in Folsom Paternity Suit Dies
Christine Putnam Johnston Webb, a red haired divorcee who sued James E. Folsom three years earlier over alleged common law marriage and paternity, died in Cullman Alabama at 33. Her son James Douglas was born in 1946 and she had just welcomed another child two weeks prior.
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Cullman
Ala
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Christine Putnam Johnston Webb
Pact OK for Greece and Turkey Faces NATO Council Vote
The United States backs full NATO membership for Greece and Turkey to shield them from Communist attack. Approval by the 12-nation council appears likely though some smaller Western European states may resist. The plan hinges on a unanimous vote and hinges on German integration discussions with Eisenhower’s proposed European army.
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Ottawa
Greece
Turkey
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Mediterranean
Hayfield Gridders Coach Escape Injury in Highway Crash
Hayfield football coach Donald Strom and five players escaped injury after a two car collision on highway 60 near Wanamingo Friday afternoon. A Wanamingo driver B M Jacobson pulled onto the highway and was carried about 150 feet in the crash. Both cars suffered extensive damage as the team returned from a game in Goodhue.
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Larson Auto
Larson
McFadden
Kenneth Kahler
W Johnson
Paul O. Helme
W. Bridge
Oakland
Kahler
St. Olaf Hospital
Donald Strom
Hayfield
Wanamingo
B. M. Jacobson
Jacobson
Goodhue
Omaha Convict Escape Triggers Massive Citywide Manhunt
Wary officers comb Omaha for Kenneth Kitts a bank burglar who slipped from a courthouse guard and vanished while en route to a federal hearing on a 100000 Oklahoma City jewel robbery. A crowd of about 5000 watched as police pursued leads near the Kitts family home. two men fled from FBI agents and were found unrelated.
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Omaha
Kenneth Kitts
Douglas County
Oklahoma City
Kitts
FBI
Richard Collins
Duluth Bus Fares Rise to 15 Cents and Transfers Denied
The Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission ordered fare increases in Duluth and Proctor from 13 to 15 cents cash, and tokens from four for 50 cents to 55 cents. Student fares rose to ten cents, and the Duluth Superior Bus Co. lost its request to charge five cents for transfers.
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ST. Paul
Duluth
Proctor
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Duluth Superior Bus Co
Mando Award Made To Schoenike In Forestry Fellowship
The School of Forestry announced that Roland E. Schoenike a 1951 University of Minnesota graduate has been awarded the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co graduate research fellowship in forestry for 1951 52.
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Mando
School of Forestry
Roland E. Schoenike
University of Minnesota School of Forestry
Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co
16 Year Old Admits Firing Fatal Shot
Sheriff reports 16 year old Rushford youth confessed to fatally shooting 19 year old Declan Peterson in jealousy over a 15 year old Rushford girl. The incident occurred outside a Rushford home where the girl works, after Bakken confronted Peterson in a car and fired a single .22 rifle causing Peterson’s death en route to a doctor.
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Rushford
Donald Cook
Declan Peterson
Carroll Bakken
Preston
Bakken
Larry Dobbs
Houston
Peterson
Dobbs
Dubbs
Boy Drowns After Language Gap Near Reservoir
In Covina California an 8-year-old boy Billy Lyon drowned after a hole in a fence let him into a reservoir area. Five-year-old Naomi Lyon ran to Mexican orange pickers who spoke no English. Victor Rodriguez foreman tried to save her but failed. firemen recovered Billy with grappling hooks.
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Covina
Calif
Billy
Naomi Lyon
Naomi
Victor Rodriguez
The
Pickers
Wet Story Brief Shower Marks Measurable Rain
A brief morning shower produced a trace of rain measured at [[unknown]] inch. The stray moisture ends a dry stretch and briefly dampens streets in the area.
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