Today in History revisits the November 9, 1960 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story about former Grand Forks native Martin Rimestad Jr. dying in an Indiana plane crash during a snowstorm. Continue reading for more details.

The bodies of Martin Rimestad Jr., formerly of Grand Forks, and another California businessman were found Tuesday in the wreckage of a twin-engine plane on a farm near Warsaw, Ind.

The plane evidently crashed in a heavy snowstorm Sunday, Associated Press reported. Mr. Rimestad, 42, was a salesman for an International Harvester Co. dealer at Santa Rosa, Calif., and lived at Petaluma, Calif. He had joined International Harvester there shortly after graduating from Central High School in 1937 and had transferred to Oakland, Calif., with the same firm t

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