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1 4 12 Pages Member Associated Press: AUSTIN MINN TUESDAY AUGUST 3 1958 Single 7c z'CWi ji Listed at County air 4 4 Others By DAVE OWEN 4 swine show at the HPS ONLY A SYMBOL ent at any rate Gamal Abde Tornado to grab his younger companiw and Councils of hpfnrp tnn wa rarriAd into a Malone Mrs Rasmussen Wolf MORAL: DON'T THROW OLD TROUSERS AWAY TOO SOON turned 70 East Berlin Shopper inds West Berlin Clerk orgot to Wrap Pants That's Bad United unds Takes Over fw I t( nlr Assart rt 'f tv ra rfSJfe New Suit Wrapped August boarded a train in West Berlin for home carrying bis new Drowned in State liiinchssnfyain to Austin late Monday and early today twice as much rain as fell during June The Herald weather observa tory atop the fire station record ed the rain welcome to crops and thirsty lawns Half of the South River street substation went out about 11 pm during the electric storm and the east half of the Ellis Avenue sub station was out from 2 am to 7 am with crews working to make repairs for theheayy load period starting at 8 am 4 Harold Laman utilities super intendent said homes east of Deck er Avenue were without power for five hours The residential area BERLIN (AP) August the Pow erful languished today in" the clutches of the East' German Communist police And all be cause be threw his pants out the lavatory window on a speeding train Until the pants affair got nation wide publicity inthe newspapers August Starke Was looked upoh as a solid and respected citizen of Dresden His bowling pals af fectionately called him August' the Powerful 1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One man was killed in a small tornado which struck southwest of Redwood alls Mirai Monday night The death came as heavy rain strong winds and hail damaged farm crops in west and west central Minnesota areas The downpour coming in minutes brought brief floods to some com munities Herman Schultz 82 died in the tornado in the Lucan area about 20 miles southwest of Redwood alls' Was Visiting Daughter the Salvation Army said the new affiliation is an advantage and Jhat United unds was more meaningful Capt Alfred Gorton of the Sal vation Army pointed out that a drive highly organized can be suc cessful and cited one community where an organization drive help ed raise funds of $64000 compar ed with previous fund raising of only $28000 Capt Gorton has had experience in fund raising in sev eral communities ormal application for member ship in the nationwide United unds organization was approved i and plans for using United unds I facilities for the coming October drive were discussed Officers Elected irst of business was election of new officers for the re cently completed board Mrs Ger aldine Rasmussen was elected president Wolf vice presi dent Anderson treasurer and William Malone' secretary In plant solicitation for all of Austin was thoroughly reviewed Vol CXXXV No 30 suit in an old paper wrapping He had a great plan for getting the new garment past the Communist customs inspectors He would rid of bis old tattered suif don the new one and casually turn the cus toms men away As the speeding train neared the border control point Augu st popped into the lavatory whisked off his pints and pitched theffi out into the night What Na Paata? Carefully he unwrapped hii par cel Then aid the Tageblatt DISAPPEARS Herman Kierdorf 63 who had prom ised to get vengeance on the men who tortured his ne phew rank Kierdorf was missing today This turn of events heaped new mystery and nftw problems for De troit and Michigan State po lice (earlier story on page 12) 125 lnch Rainfall Breaks Long Dry Spell i Th is Area i High winds along with thunder around Kenwood including the dis have persuaded them to do so with the poetically cadenced vio lence of emotional propaganda The masses will not make the future The intellectualswill Nasser was tioti in Iraq But this did not nec NASSER (Continued op Page 2) Officer Recognizes Police Parking Sign CHARLOTTE NC Offi cer Hagler thought there was something familiar about the sign the three men were carrying up a midtown street He called county police who picked up the trio and the battered sign It read and it came from the county police parking lot ueiore ne wo was carrieu mio the 10 foot deep water Paul Olson 12 brother of Cur tis had to be pulled back onto the sand bar by Gary Halvorsen 9 fourth member of the wading par ty after trying to help the other pair Grapplers ind Body Grappling crews summoned by loyd Loken Houston who had been fishing from shore near the accident scene recovered the bod ies an hour latent In St Paul James Blanchard 15 failed to come up after diving from an 18 foot tower at Phalen Lifeguards said the victim may have been knocked out when struck underwater by another diver the Powerful ghastly pale He began to tremble There were no pants in the parcel The saleslady hadforgotten to put them August sadly sat in the lavatory in his underwear with two coals and no pants awaiting the inevi table the customs police arrived they arrested Aug ust The Tageblatt say whether he jever his pants back 1 2 4 5 IP The Hollandale drown ing whs one of the five reported in Minnesota Monday A St P411I boy drowned in that Lake Phalen and a Hay ward Minn youth went down while swimming in a private pool' at Hollandale after dark The baby victim was Doris daughter of Mr and Mrs Dennis Maanum of Chokio whose body was recovered from a foot of wa ter in Lake Minnewaska near Starbuck Visiting at Cabin The couple was visiting at 'a cabin owned by the grand mother Baldenow When his wife and Mrs Baldenow SHE GETS COUNSEL INDIANAPOLIS ffl A well known Indianapolis father and son lawyer team was hired Monday by divorcee Connie Nicholas to de fend her in the killing of drug company executive orrest Teel USL was voted out in favor of United unds Monday with a new slate of officers new ideas an old theme united effort The USI board of directors and agency representatives voted un animously to revamp the organi zation changing from United Sol Inc (USD to i 'v The Communist newspaper Tageblatt said undoing began when he decided to get a new suit Like a lot of other East Ger mans he ducked into Allied occu pied West Berlin buy it East German law forbids shopping in West Berlkv but many East Ger mans take the becausehe clothes are cheaper pd made better 'i Grounds on a means or maaing uie arive a success Representatives from the Albert Lea und spoke to the group last Thursday and credited in plant sol icitation as one of the important items for a successful drive Local Board Backing Rollo' Sisael said the Local 9 executive board was behind the united effort fund raising 100 per cent and would favor any steps to make the drive a success He pointed out however htat there was membership opposition to in plant solicitation as a means of solicit ing Sissel agreed to refer the ques 1000 Troops join Our Units inJebanQn Siii there was no lifeguard on duty ateft for a shopping trip to town i 1 1 4 I Maaiium uiougnt iney naa iaxen mAmrt HnrrA VvzWMV A 0AM I Dons witnthem instead officials said the women had assumed Maahum was caring for her A search when they returned dis closed the little body ire men rnade a vain effprtq jgvive fee child The fiave" two' other children a 3t4 year old daughter and 5 month old sori Lost While Wading Paul Thompson' 10 and Curtis Olson 8 went down while wading on a sandbar under an old high way bridge near Houston The Thompson boy made a vain effort rank Krecji uneral Set for Thursday BLOOMING PRAIRIE Minn IAP) services for rank Krejci editor and publisher of The Blooming Prairie Times since 1938 will be held here Thursday from the irst Lutheran Church Krejci who would have been 70 on Aug 25 died Monday night of a sudden heart By WILLIAM OATIS UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) UN delegates are continuing private discussion of arrange ments for a Security Council sum mit meeting while awaiting word whether Soviet Premier Khrush chev will attend In the absence of word from the Soviets there has been no sched uling of a preliminary' meeting 5f the Council to set a time and place for the government chiefs to gath er There' was speculation in Mos cow and at UN headquarters that acceptance or rejection of the Western invita tion to a Council meeting might be made public at the UN not in the Soviet capital Matter of Practice Diplomats leaning to this view pointed out that President Eisen hower and Prime Minister Mac millan ih their last letters to the Soviet chief had not requested an answer specifically but had said they were going ahead to arrange a summit Security Council meet ing to start around Aug 12 These sources felt it would be logical for the Soviet UN dele gate Arkady Sobolev to commu nicate the Soviet position to' lhd Council Geneva Preferred UN delegate Sir Pier soft Dixon told newsmen the pri vate talks among delegates might continue all week It was appar ent that no summit meeting could be arranged by Aug 12 Aug 18 appeared a more likely date Preference was growing for Geneva as the Conference site rather than New York A soviet source said it appeared no one but General Dag Hammar skjold wanted to meet in New York The United States also was reported preferring Geneva but willing to agree to New York if the majority of the Council wants it that way St Paul Child Killed by Car ST PAUL (AP) i traffic toll stood at 381 up 25 from last year after the death" of a 2 year old St Paul child late' Mon day The victim Kenneth Tammi nen was run over by a car Jerojne Moore waSbackine into an alley near the home Moore told officers the chifohad not been in sight and that his only warning he ftad struck something came when he heard a thud Jle investigated and found Kenneth's body IND NO SMOKE iremen were called at 12:30 pm Sunday to Bar North Railway A report of smoke was '5 posal plant was also without pqw "Transformers inAustin were shorted In Spring Valley inches of rain fell and 114 inches west of the town at the Libby arms was re corded No reports of lightning or wind damage have been received At 11 pm lighnlng struck a strawstack at the Henry Buresh farm seven miles southeast of urging support of all membership Riceville Two Riceville fire trucks unions answered the call and firemen Reference was also made to the worked until 3:30 am to save the hospital drive in Austin which was nearby barn and a pile of baled' a success through in plant solicita may me straw naa oeen stacxea only Monday America (U) Austin will work with other Unit ed unds communities exchanging ideas in the common goal of a united fund Name Has More Meaning (Doc) Cook representing 7 93 8 92 9 88 10 11 Pt IS 12 PM 84 CHAMPION LIVESTOCK Patricia Herr Brownsdale proudly shows her South down market lamb its class at the Mower County air Emphasis is on youth livestock the first three days of the fair UN Gets Ready for The Weather Motly foir tonight ond Wednw tonight 55 change In humidity on light wind today New Swine Champs tion of all business and industrial groups Meet Aug 13 Next meeting of the United unds board will be at 7:30 pm Aug 13 in the conference room at the Austin Daily Herald The United unds board consists of 20 members 12 chosen at large and 8 from each of the participat ing agencies The agencies may choose their representative for the'board'i The 12 member of the United unds Aboard are: Sissel Morris Anderson Robert Wolf Strong Leonard Dugan Rus sel Vaale Davis Qwen James Huntting Sr' Mrst Geraldine Ras mussen Dr Tfiomas Seery John Jones and William Malone The board voted to request Clarence Smith last year's drive chairman to serrerin an advisory capacity t4 I' Anderson tion to the Local 9 executive board for possible action Dr Thomas Seery said he was convinced the drive would be a success only with in plant solicita tion and cited the experiences' of other communities Other In plant solicitation Was respon sible for successful drives iij Roch ester Milwaukee St Paul and a score of other cities Capt Gorton pointed out Cook and Mrs Rasmussen said UdKetf unoiwwld have to woric 'success regardless of method of solicitation but agreed that ex periences of other communities in dicated implant "solicitation as one of the most successful fund prising methods iJ Sissel noted that the internation al AL CIO council has gone on record strongly favoring all unit ed effort fund raising drives and Iowa Judge Calls Woma n'Mea nest' Sentence: 30 Days DES MOINES Iowa Municipal Judge Harry Grund in sentencing Alice Cunningham here io 30 days in jail Monday on a charge of disturbing thepeace "There is no question in mind that you are one of the meanest women in the city of Des Neighbors testiied thatMiss Cunningham had thrown hot wa ter on a 3 year old girl pushed a 5 year old boy onto the side LWalk injuring his arfnand had called naighbors f'aU kinds of bad jnaine Miss Cunningham testified she had only ordered children of her yard because they were I destroying her Howers unfounded i 's 8c By EDWIN SIIANKE BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) One thousand more US troops ar rived in Lebanon today An Amer ican military spokesman said this completed the movement of troops assigned here There are now more than 14000 UJS soldiers and Marines here The troops debarking from the transport Gen Geiger included a hospital unit signals and sig nals photos units and a graves registration team Gen uad Shehab army chief who was elected pres ident of the nation last week as a compromisfin trthree month re bellion' declared Monday with drawal of US troops was' fore most among ttje national aims' But President Camille Chamoun indicated his determination to keep the troops here until lus term ends Sept 23 In his first pronouncement since he was elected last Thursday Shehab indicated he intends to follow policy of neutrality to ward the big powers friendship with Arab neighbors and unity and stability in Lebanon A Embassy spokesman said American troops will leave when asked to do so by the duly constituted government were damaged but the house was attack He had re untouched A number of large i turned home on wprp unrooted ly last weekly The wind picked up and hurled from seven weeks Roy Turbes about 15 He was! in a Rochester bruised and taken to Wabasso hospital recover doctor for treatment The Turbes farm is acmes the road from the Soupir place Hall in City The city of Redwood alls had some hail along with its heavy rain One of the heaviest falls appar ently was at Perham in northern Otter Tail County where nearly three Incbee poured down ih the short snap of 25 miputes The de luge sent water cascading over sidewalks and Into baseinebts of business places Wind gusts of up to 70 miles tornado (Continued on Pag 2) 669 WIE AND SON BURNED TEAMSTERS OICIAL Mrs Jessie Kierdorf wife of Teamster Union official rank Kierdorf who was taken for a ride and set afire by two unidentified men Sunday night and her son rank Jr shown today at St Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac where Kierdorf is in critical condition Mrs Kier dorf was vacationing near Hollywood la (AP Photofax) PickGifts' Barrows Pen of 3 Intellectuals Backing Nasser Until Better Leader Comes Along By WILLIAM RYAN oreign News Analyst Scholarly young Arab intellectuals speak in clear clip ped British accents ofthe coining rout of the Western for tlgner i Well heeled young shiks in immaculate white robes and kaffiyahs mutter sullen protests against the feudalism which is the source of their wealth Palestine refugees cling to their tin roofed shacks and dream of "revenge And all look speculatively toward Cairo or the pres ivasser is tneir nero They Seek Hero This Is not because he is Gamal Abdel Nasser It is because they are "in search of a hero Nasser will do until a better one comes along Nasserism is something which grew out of international events inexorably pushing the Arabs East The United Arab Re President still has enor mous potential for good or mis chief But developments this year have cooled the ardor of some of his followers It Is for ttie West now to recog nize that Nasser is only a symbol to most nationalists His appeal ls to a small but powerful intellec tual class which blames the West for its woes sees Nasser as a symbol of reviving Arab power which one day will crush impe rialism and colonialism It blames these for its sense of inferiority and 'backwardness in a modem Masses Carried Along The peasants of Egypt the lone ly Bedouin nomads of the Arab deserts the heavilv burdened la Schultz a longtime resident of borers of Iraq know little of poli the Wabasso area was visiting his tics If they respond to Nasser daughter Mrs John Soupir at her it is because Arab intellectuals farm home about six miles west of Wabasso near Lucan He was in a outbuilding which was overturned and crushed by thewind Schultz died of head injur told her brotfier Edmund Schultk Wabasso that the sky appeared to be clearing up when the wind struct The wind made a loud whistle rile said and a flash it was all over Mrs Soupir rushed outdoors to find the outbuilding smashed She managed to lift a portion of the building from her father who was still conscious She said he complained of pains in his neck and bead Runs Half Mile Mrs Soupir a half to a neighboring farm for help When a doctor arrived Hie elderly manwas dead Mrs husband was at a neighboring farm helping thresh when the storm struck Several pieces of farm equipment on the Soupir farm and other btffldingsj ing from a brok en left hip A native of Cis choslovakia Krejci had oper ated several Krejci Mekly newspapers in Iowa before coming here He carried a 50 year button after being foiled recently by the Minnesota Editorial Assn In addition his widow Krejci is survived by three sons Victor Vyrle Vernon' all with him in the local paper as well as the Ellendale Eagle and two daughters Mrs Everett Bothun and Mrs Donald Beckman both of Austin New champions were crowned in the Mower County air this morning with selection' of champion bar 1 rows gilts and the pen of three market pigs The champion gilt was a Hamp shire crossbred raised by John Eisterhold rural Austin a mem ber of the Woodland 4 Club His gilt bettered the purebred champions elected in the breed divisions Runner up was a Hampshire raised by Carol ries Sargeant and third was a Berkshire shown by Marlys Dammann Elkton Oth ers in the over all lineup eligible for trip to the State air David Marchwick rural Austin Yorkshire Orlyn Ellingson Wai tham Duroc" and Laura Lyle Poland China Break Into Purple Gary Tollefson1 of the Vdolphcj 4 Club was exhibitor of the grand champion barrow 't' a 'Berkshire This is his first time in the pur pie' ribbon group Diinnftriin Atcnn Rose Creek" crossbred Caroll The Weather Official Reading tram Herald Weather Site Roof of ire Statioa: High previous 24 hour 88 Low previous 24 59 Reading at 8:30 a jn 63 'J GeneraLWeather Cloudy 'Precipitation 115 MONDAY 86 87 90 91 92 92 1 Mower Centennial 'air got off to 'a 'start Monday with 8578 person en ti tering the grounds The extend sion to a Seven day fair worked4 7 very smoothly Secretary Holand said Judging got under" way in the 4 apd Minnesota Iowa uturte armers of Amer lea livestock shows which were the largest in the history of the The total attendance at the 1957 fair was 137348 and Holand said "We? stand al chance to beat th record attendance mark of last yrer because our fair this year IX much improved over a year ago in exhibits features and qua! ity of all exhibits said today few fairs nnnntw non aihq! 111 A Ml mVVUUUUJ VUM VtgMMa VMW ity 'of livestock shown at the' Mower County air and Mid west Livestock Shows The cred 1'? it goes to the livestock pro ducers he said "and this just did not happen this year but 7' it is an out growth of the edu cation incorporated in 1 all of our departments that ex hibitors recognize as sound pro egress Pries Sargeant Hampshire bert Ingvalson blooming Prairie Yorkshire MaryRyther Austin Rt 1 Hampshire and Tyrone Sash Brownsdale Hampshire' The fett are eligible foe trif (p the Junior Livestock Show' The pen of three market bogs which could be all barrows or a combination of barrows and gilts is a new competition this year irst champion js Marlys Dan mann of Elkton' 'and runHerup is David Olson Rose Creek Marly I had Berks and Olson Yorks Gilt Division i In the gilt division blue rib 4 bonS were awarded entries shown? by: Marlys Damman Elkton and Gary Tollefson Austin Rt 1 Berkshire Larry Larson Sar geant' Chester White Ellingson and Bellrichard Austin Rt COUNTY AIR (Continued on Pag 2) 1958 City Traffic 1958 Accldtnt 452 Injuries lit 'a IOI otalitl Non Non Damage $67364 $86520 Austin daily herald Wind Hail Man Killed 84 HayWard arm Youth Drowns in Swimming Pool Near Hollandale HOLLANDALE Minn A Hayward area farm youth who was one of the student leaders at Albert Lea High School drowned Monday night in the Hollandale pool He was William Hansen 17 son of Mr and Mrs Her bert Hansen who farm IVfc miles northeast of Hayward He had been swimming about an hour in the private Hollan dale Swimming Assn pool converted frbm a gravel pit William was swimfning with three other boys Don Gill Mar vel Hansen and a third youth believed to be a Vollum boy He swam to a raft about 30 feet (fropi the edge twice using fins He went down while attempting to reach the raft without fins riend Unable to Help His friends tried to grab him but William fought them off a witness said He drowned in about 20 feet of water about 9:10 pm His companions went some dis tance to call Hollandale firemen who called boats from Oakland and Albert Lea to use in searching for the body Donald (Butch) Ver doom found the body using a grappling iron at 10:20 pm iremen used the resuscitator for a few minutes before Dr Egge county coroner pronounced the youth dead No Guard on Duty An official of the swimming as sociation said the pool would be closed until after the funeral The private pool is operated by resi ents of the area It is outside the village limits of Hollandale and the time of the accident Hansen would have been a sen 1 ior at Albert Lea High School and I last Spring was named co editor of the Tiger the school yearbook DROWNING (Continued on Page 2) TUESDAY 1 AM TO A'M 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