The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 1

Austin daily herald AUSTIN MINN MONDAY APRIL 29 1957 Single Copy 7 Member Associated Press 14 Pages The Weather 1957 City Traffic Accidents atalities Injuries Damage 505' None 3 1956 '19J2 '322 None 22 $40513 $40800 Generally fair tonight continued womv low tonight 40 50 continued above normal temperatures Wednesday Vol xcviii No 101 Legislature aces ROUNDUP '57 ACTION 800 Bills Passed By Tonight Deadline Warfare MEXICO Liberate Lags Boats Collide and the begin the QUITE A CROWD bn has accused Egypt par ticularly of stirring up the anti Western elements in his country signs indicating throughout the Holiday Mood a holiday mood pre Amman as the curfew with the pro Soviet tendencies of the Egyptian Sid Syrian govern ments tion of 20000 reserves has been ordered" It known whether Nicar agua will attempt to repel push to Cruta the Tribune said an AL CIO officer Tn advance of May 20 hearing on corruption reeman Must Sign All Bills by Midnight 1 I ANOKA Minn (5) Dragging crews operated in the Mississippi River here today in search for the body of Leroy Smith about 30 Osseo who was thrown overboard in the collision of two boats Smith Sunday was riding in a boat with Harvey Hagel 25 Osseo when the craft and another col lided The Hagel boat Overturned and Smith was thrown out Hagel clung to his overturned craft and was picked up by Arnold Perola Columbia Heights Opera tor of the second boat Dragging operations suspended at nightfall and were resumed this morning 1 for the theater long regarded as the shrine of va riety entertain ment said Libe race will give his final perfor mance riday nlffhL Hie show Hg opened April 20 nereis were on CHICAGO Two grade school boys were tufhed over to juvenile authorities yesterday by police who said they admitted sending a series of extortion notes de manding money from parents un der threat of harm to their chil dren Police said 12 tenants of a Northwest Side housing project where the boys live had received letters demanding $20 to $50 and threatening harm to their chil dren if the money was not re ceived The letters variously signed "The and "The bad told the tenants to leave the money in mail boxes in the project Police said one of the tenants reported a brick was hurled through the glass of her kitchen door when she ignored a demand to leave $50 on the top of a neigh borhood mail box The boys were seized after their schoolteacher at police re quest had given her pupils a handwriting test Police compared the handwriting on the test pa pers with the writing on the ex tortion notes Almost vailed in was lifted for eight hours the longest out of doors period since the and martial law were ordered last Thursday The government announced the cur few would be raised entirely if calm continued ST PAUL (fl Prospects of a quick settlement of the "utility re issue one of the two major stumbling blocks in the way of winding up the overtime legislative session are Rep" Charles Halsted of Brainerd told The Associated Press today The other big issue is the tax problem Rep Chilgren of Little fork chairman of the tax confer ence committee said he was hope ful a settlement would be reached someUme this afternoon on that issue The question of reimbursing public utilities for relocating facil ities on highways to be settled by allowing the utility firms the costs of relocation on 936 miles of freeways that will become part of the federal inter state highway system Senate conferees had voted for reimbursement on the entire state trunk highway system of 11800 miles The House met briefly today approved a few conference com mittee reports repassed sev eral bills House members are "on awaiting conference com mittee reports on the major is sues viet Union The young ruler has blamed dirrent trou bles on international communism aided by Egyptian propaganda security forces have been busy rounding up Communist ele ments Balloon Drifts Over Western Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS (fl A huge plastic balloon which set off "Hy ing reports in the Twin Cities apparently has drifted into skies over Western Minnesota Residents of ergus alls spot ted a balloon shortly after day light Officials at the Winzen Re search Co here said it was the balloon launched by the firm from South St Paul late last week The helium filied bag dropped its load of instruments for upper stratosphere research near Siren Wis Saturday morning Instead of rising and disintegrating how ever the balloon stayed aloft It was sighted near the Twth Cities Saturday night casting sil very reflections of the light MINNEAPOLIS (fl The man who signed daylight saving time 7 into law in Minnesota was late to church Sunday because he forgot to set 'his watch ahead Gov reemaft and his wife ar rived at Ebfe'nezer Lutheran Church shortly before 11 am standard time They found other persons were leaving The? reemans surmised the 9:30 service was longer than usual and the governor mentioned it to a man who was coming out of the church Bandits Get $200 in' Tavern Holdup MINNEAPOLIS (fl Three ban dits masked by white handker chiefs held up a tavern and seven customers early today and walked out with about $200 The three fled after herding five customers into a basement room and ordering Kenneth Virgin pro prietor of the Club and two other customers into a closet The robbers took about $100 from the customers and an addi tional $100 from the cash register Area residents will agree with the poet Browning who characterized spring as the time when birds on the wing the snails on the thorn in his Heaven and fdl'j right with the All was right with the world over the weekend Picnickers in vaded Todd sun worship ers doffed clothing and got into their shorts for an early tan A lot of tennis was played and judging from traffic everyone was out for a Sunday drive with an extra hour of daylight In which to enjoy it The temperature climbed to a comfortable but not too hot 83 Sunday with a low of 42 Todry will probably equal Sunday with a reading of 54 at 8:30 am with a steady rise day Green grass nings of flowers and plants ac companied the ideal weather thanks to the healthy rain late last week "You signed the daylight saving the departing worshiper re minded reman xv "We all had a good' laugh about it Mrs reeman said The Bey Charles Johnson told reeman' tape recording had been made of the service and he offered to make it available to (be governor reman signed the daylight saving bill last Thursday and fast time went into effect at 12:01 am in Mississippi One Man Dies 2 Boys Admit Extortion Plot By TOM MASTERSON AMMAN King Hussein re turned to Jordan today after a i flying visit to Saudi King Saud Apparently the young monarch wanted to find out what was said iq hip neighbor's conference Sat urday with leader of Egypt and Syria and to patch up any crack the Syrian and Egyptian visitors might have opened between him and Saud Before taking off for Riyadh Sunday Hussein rejected a pre vious proposal Jfor diplomatic relations with Qje So Beckon April 18 Meany to name a five man committee of AL CIO Executive Council mem bers to confer with another five man group named by Beck "for the purpose of discussing my sus Meany replied today that he would not name such a group but would convey request to the 28 member AL CIO Council for such action as it desires at the May 20 meeting Meany noted Beck will have a fully opportunity to discuss his case at that time if he up The exchange of correspondence between Meany and Beck stems from suspension 'by the AL CIO Council on March 29 as both an AL CIO vice president and a Council member The Council acted after Beck refused to answer questions before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee invoking the ifth protection against possible self incrimination By JACK MACKAY Land ADOLPH JOHNSON PAUL The 1957 Minne sota Legislature is up against the gun today 2 Now in its fifth overtime day it faces an absolute deadline of midnight tonight Since Wednesday midnight legis lators have carried od with clocks stopped maintaining the fiction that it is still Wednesday Deadline for reeman But midnight tonight is the last minute for signing bills into law if a special session is to be avoided' Two big issues remaining for settlement are taxes and reim bursement of public utilities for costs of moving facilities in con nection with highway construction The 10 ember Senate House conference committee on: taxes held numerous long sessions over I the weekend without making ap preciable progress toward recon NICARAGUA Mafagsipa AX a 1 DISPUTED AREA Brok en lines outline disputed territory along Honduran NicarSgtian 'border over which troops of the two countries reportedly a The Chicago Tri bune said today ih a dis patch from Honduras that Honduran forces planned to drive on to town of Cruta (Ap Wirephoto Map) Streets wert jammed' with traf fic and stores packed with chop pers laying in supplies for the an nual feast at the end of the month marking the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan The crowds showed no signs of tension and strong troops patrols were almost the only evidence of the bitter struggle between the King and the leftists Communists and extreme Arab nationalists Palace Conference The Jordan monarch was ac companied to Riyadh byvDepiity Premier oreign Minister Samir Rifai Cabinet Chief Bajhat Tal bouai and Ahmed Kuhernn Sudi Saudi charge in Am man Immediately oh his return the King went into conference at his palace with leading government A Liberate sale for a four week through May 15 but the theater said that actually the entertainer had been signed for a two week rtm with a renewal4 ojption has completed his two week was the official com ment Unofficially it was understood the boxoffice been busy No revenue figures Were given Austin Area Loved That Extra Hour Settlement Expectedon i 3U' and nominally allied with Jordan and Saudi Arabia in a mil itary would use the Jordan ian crisis as an excuse for Syria to take over at least part of kingdom i Stood by Husteia The Saudi Arabian monarch whose oil holdings furnish most of the ready cash the alliance can scrape up has stood by Hussein throughout his struggle to purge his government of Communists and leftists His army and that of cousin King aisal of Iraq have been considered the chief obstacles along with the Jor dan army to the Syrian and Egyp tian Saud sent his young neighbor a message congratulating him JORDAN (Continued on Page 13) reemans forget to Turn Clock Ahead Miss Church There's Plenty of Sunshine to Save Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesotans making the trans ition to daylight saving time had plenty of summery sunshine to save today Temperatures in the 70s and near 80 in some sections were fore cast And the prospect was for little or no change during the two days The only suggestion of change to the northwest came from a storm system 'moving east from westefh Canada There was a pos sibility it vfauld bring aome show ers and cooler air into the west ern Dakotas by Tuesday night Expanding powers of water re sources board to make it bearing agency on water use issues Redefining public waters to mean those capable of public use Establishing one dollar surtax on hunting licenses to raise money to buy wetlands for game and wat er conservation purposes Providing for December bow and arrow deer season to addition to October seasoi Authorizing conservation com missioner to set an earlier regular deer season betwenr Nov 1 and Nov 21 Permitting large and small mouth bass fishing between May 29 and eb 15 Authorizing confiscation of con tents of fish bouses left on lakes after date set for removal Empowering game wardens to inspect firearms in cars or boats Setting up a uniform system of reporting gunshot wounds Strengthening the firearms 'safe ty training act 3 EDUCATION Providing $200 per student aid to junior colleges Adopting "foundation pro gram for determining distribution of school aids Providing formula to increase BILLS (Continued on Page 13) STATUH Milts $424 Million Problem aces Weary Solons ST PAUL (fl A 424 milliop dollar problem faced 10 weary legislator on the Senate House conference committee on taxes to Rep Ed Chilgren of Littlefork chainnan of the group gave this compilation of revenue needs: or the genera! revenue fund $200955552 or the income tax fund $208290214 or the Korean bonus 15 mil lion dollars The problem must be solved be fore midnight Largest sum 234 million dollars is needed for education including school aids Other major needs are about 100 million dollars for wel fare and institutions and 45 mil lion for state departments eg uuuakuur cut tSRsenbower' spending budget Sen Lyndon Johnson of Tex as the Democratic leader said: in my public career have 1 I seen such strong demands for economy in Johnson returned Sunday from i an Easter vacation spen ip part in touring Texas No Letup Seen in BudgeKGutL Drive WASHINGTON (fl The SttaatftW wvland of California constitute his chief ogpoaity'hgan troops have been deployed Democratic and Republican lead TRepubhcan' leader said that inani want to unify policy on the frontier and the mobiliza era said today that 10 4 days with talks with members who have re the voters at home have stiffened turned from their home states he congressmens determination tohas tound'no est the country in irw desire wwmu tearea for Knowland made brief trips dur ing the vacation period to Califor nia and to lorida Johnson said he found "consid erable among the peo ple about business conditions He said the recent of income tax payments has strengthened demands for slashing Eisenhow $71800000000 budget Hearing to Open As chairman of an Appropria tions subcommittee which will be gin Tuesday on 'the State money bill Johnson said plea foy restoration of 47 million dol lars cut off that funds by the House will be given President has indicated he is interested in John son said "I am sure he will un derstand our desire to economize' I have an open mind on the mat ter of state department Senate Action Johnson said the Senate will get down to work on money bills in May with prospects that it may act finally on half a dozen of the measures the House already has cut Hie statements of the two par ty leaders mzde to reporters as the Senate was convening threw cold water on the hopes of Eisen advisers that budget cuttirig ardor 'might have BUDGET (Continued on Page 13) of injuries suffered the night be fore when car struck him Hfiler Jr 27 St Paul was killed in a collision on Highway 36 near St Paul' earl Sunday Seven other person ere injured one critically Linda Guyse 7 Rochester died Saturday night when she was hit by a car on the North Broad way Bridge In Rochester child had been shopping with her grandmother 2 athers Infants: Killed in xbllisibn By'THE ASSOCIATED £RESS i An automobilq collision to north I em Minnesota killed two Mmhea polls men and their infant daugh ters Sunday Wives of both men were Injured critically' Thq car carrying members of 1 families collided on High i er Hr nt Mvae one carrying two St Paul youths on lheir Way home from a smelt fishing expedition Robert Pahkamaa 22 his daughter Mary 41i months and Dawn Joyce Avenson 2 months wre killed in the crash father Vera Avenson 22 died a short while later in a Sandstone hospital 7 'Tell Hite IM Their deaths and four others aver the weekend raised Minqe traffic toll to 180 or more than during the same period last year Three of toe vic tims were pedestrian following the Sand stone tragedy were Mrs Pahka maa and Mrs' Avenson both 22 and Eugene Bennett 18 driver bf the second car Bennett suffered a broken arm and cut about this face His companion Ricnard Krause 18 escaped serious injury and was released after hospital treatment" All of those hospitalized were listed to critical condition Killed la Willmar Elaine Sharstrom 6 daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Sharstrom of Willmar died Sunday after she was hit by a car as she darted across to buy candy in a grocery store She had been rid ing with her mother a sister and brother and the party stopped to let Elaine go after candy Harold ougner 32 Duluth died in a Duluth hospital Sunday night tog plant Setting up swine testing sta tion aipiiid at development of meat typabogs 'Making egg candling ud grad ing compulsory Requiring wholesalers 'to post and adhere to prices charged re tailers for dairy products Increasing maximum storage tnm onetwenty fifth to "one twentieth of a cent a bushel AVIATION Autfiorizing use of a million dol lars state fuids for purchase of military site near Beth el Defining expansion of Wold Chamberlain ield the Twin Cities airport to mean addition to land area Requiring persons who sue Met ropolitan Airports Commission to poqt bond CONSERVATION Transferring control of Lac lui Parle game refuge from execu tive council to State Conservation Department Establishing rontenac Brule River and Mille Lacs Kathio state NEW YQRK (B'Ubevace the Jian? P1?" Ddln famous Palace Itieaier weeks ciling their widely divergent pointe of view 'Looming largest among possible stumbling blocks was the $5 head tax The House passed a bill to repeal it and planned its tax pro gram without the 10 million dol lar it will produce 'The Senate version of the tax bill requires continuing this tax Thus far Senate conferees have refused to yield an inch on thikey issue Tax Relief On the matter of tax relief if any is possible the House would give it to individuals by Increas tag credit for dependents la addi tion to repealing the bead tax The Senate has taken a stand for per sonal property a "proposal originally advanced by the Cover Tax Study Committee and backed by liberal HOuse leaders The Senate attached a reim bursement amendment to the bill to designate routes to become part of the federal Interstate highway a blll thst must be passed if the state la to share in the many millions of dollars of federal mon ey for the expanded program The House opposes action on the reimbursement issue now propoe ing instead that the question be studied for two years Reorgatisauoa Imm Also still to be resolved art dif ference over reorganization and Judicial redistricting Senate and Hops conferees on reorganization are hung up ovpr thei Senate sponsored amendment to change the Railroad and Waerbose Com rpission from an elective rtiody to one chosen by the Legtalatune Conferees are split on the judi redistricting bill but are ex pected to reach a settlement in time to get legislative approval The House proposes setting up judicial districts the Senate 10 Biggest 'issue solved over the weekend was'ihe Korean bonus solution enable ths tax conferees to 'get ori wlth their job The compromise ralb for pay ment of $15 for each month of combat area service for veterans who earnejLrthe Korean service medal $750 for all others in the vrvice between June 27 1950 ant Union President Dave Beck fob July 27 1953 The compromise also places a limit of 15 million dollars on total payments with provisions for pro rating payments if the cost runs higher ir $400 Benns LimitPayments would not start until after Jan 1 1959 and would be limited tb $400 for combat veterans and $200 for others The Legislature also took quick corrective action after discovery LEGISLATURE (Continued on Page 13) Meany Rejects Beck Proposal WASHINGTON Ifl AL CIO President George Meany today rejected a by Teamsters Erupts in Honduras CHICAGO (fl The Chicago Tribune said today in a dispatch from Tegucigalpa Honduras that Honduran troops moved up to the frontier of Nicaragua for a drive into disputed border territory The story from Jules Dubois said "It was understood that Mocoron a border town in the new Gracias a Dios province of Honduras already had beefl re captured from a handful of Nio araguan of "Honduras is in a state of Gen Roque Rodrigues a' mem ber of the three man military junta which rules Honduras told Dubois the Tribune said The other two members of the trium virate Col Victor Carraccioli and Maj Robert Galvez were present as Rodrigues spoke Dubois added The Tribune said Honduras has charged that 50 Nicaraguan troops invaded fhe disputed area 10 days ago and occupied the village of Mocoron Planning Drive Vfhe Nicaraguan force now has left Mocoron and the Hondurans i have taken the story con tinued the Honduran fojcq Js planning to drive' ca Cruta a town which Honduras has not occupied for '2 "Gen Rodrigues said 5000 Hon TROOPS IN CHARGE Jordanian soldiers man a barbed wire barrier in a street in Amman capital of Jordan during last week's period of martial law The city was quiet today and there were indications the curfew would be lifted (AP Wire photo) Hussain ConferyWith Saud i It just roti dn be done tne tier aid cameraman aeciaea aner try ng ro ger an or women in the picture But he got most of them in as those who attended the breakfast Saturday sponsored by the Mrs Jaycees will attest he event was at Queen's HalJ i 'ii i 8JWTSN HONDURAS Diipultd A Tevrilorv HONDURAS T5iueifllp 'I I CIVIC MUSIC WEEK STARTS ITS TIME TO PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP EE Legislature By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Here is a summary of important bills passed by the 1957 Legislature exclusive of those enacted on the fifth and final overtime day While enacting more" than 800 new laws the Legis lature killed more than a half dozen of the major and highly controversial bills that captured headlines included party 'designation for legislators re apportionment of legislative districts power of arrest for state liquor control agents constitutional revision re peal of the presidehtial primary law the antigambling bill longer legislative sessions state college board re organization and state aid for nursing home construction The bills passed included: GENERAL Directing the governor to set daylight saving time each year Authorizing the state St Louis County and Duluth to levy taxes for development of the port of Du luth Requiring governmental agen cies to open their meetings to press and public Prohibiting Sunday sales of automobiles Providing penalties for jjiUwse of coin operated devices' Prqyiding for regulation of in stallment sales of automobiles Raising the marriage license fe from $3 to $5 Banning "tie sales of inde cent literature OX AGRICULTURE Providing for state 'inspection and licensing of poultry process M3nBu ST 5 COSTA RICA? 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