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In Algeria Riot
ALGIERS (AP) Army rein
forcements were called out tonight
to support police using tear gas
to repel anti-De Gaulle rioters
who battled authorities sporadical
ly throughout this Armistice Day.
The rioters subsided for a time
after sacking the U.S. cultural
center early in the afternoon. But
just before nightfall they again
assaulted police with stones and
other missiles. Several hundred
students attacked about 200 gen
darmes on the capital's main
street.
At least half a dozen injured
were added to the 40 or more who
staggered bleeding from the earli
er fighting.
Almost all the demonstrators
were students or youngsters.
Thousands hurled stones, toma
.toes. or whatever was at hand.
When the evening battle was
hardly an hour old, the authorities
called in army reinforcements. A
'Hive-square-block area in the cen
ter of Algiers was cordoned off.
Inside it, students gave evidence
they were prepared to fight on,
tear gas or not.
' Students held tenaciously to two
narrow streets. The soldier rein
forcements, infantrymen who had
Mail Tampering
Warning Issued
A sharp warning was issued to
day by Roseburg City Police
against any tampering with the
mails, as this could be a federal
offense with severe penalties.
The warning came after a pack
age known to have been delivered
by a mailman at the Engle & Per
son Heavy Equipment Co., 1511 NE
Diamond Lake Blvd., could not be
found.
The package was a small card
board carton containing water
pump packing and parts, mailed
from Hercules Engine & Parts Co.
of 721 SE Yamhill St., Portland.
A check of the area around the
buildine revealed the box and
wrapping paper strung around, but
the contents could not be located.
Police speculate that the theft
may have been by children play
ing in the area, but they are not
overlooking other possibilities.
The superintendent of the mails
has . been notified and the postal
inspector wilt be called in.
Maynard E. Engle, a partner in
the business, reported the missing
item to the police Thursday morn
ing, after the mailman notified
him that the package had been
left the day before. He had placed
the package on the porch in front
of the business location as the
mail slot was too small to receive
it and the business was closed at
the time.
Coast Guard Aids
Canadian Seaman
. COOS BAY. Ore. (AP)-The
U. S. Coast Guard gave a big
hejping hand Thursday to a Can
adian minesweeper and one of its
seamen.
A Coast Guard lifeboat met the
Minesweeper HAICS Fortune at
the entrance to Coos Bay, took
aboard the ill seaman and rushed
him to a hospital here.
The seaman, Ronald Bacley of
Victoria, B. C., underwent sur
gery for appendicitis Thursday
night and HcAuley Hospital later
aid his condition was good.
The Fortune made its first call
for nelp Thursday morning about
40 miles south of Port Orford, but
heavy teas at Port Orford prevent
ed transfer of Baeley to a Coast
Guard ship.
The minesweeper then moved
on up the coast and the transfer
was effected at the entrance to
the bay here.
Nation Pays Tribute Today
To Veterans Of U. S. Wa rs
WASHINGTON (AP) The
nation pays tribute to the veter
ans of all American wars in cere
monies originally scheduled to
commemorate the armistice that
ended World War I.
The Veterans Day ceremonies
at Arlington National Cemetery
form the pattern for similar ob
servances being conducted by vet
erans and patriotic organizations
in other parts of the country.
At the eleventh hour of the
eleventh day of the eleventh
month the very moment when
the guns went silent along the
4, Western Front in Europe 42 years
ago a presidential wreath will be
pitted at the Tomb of The Un
knowns, i
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Showers and periods of partial
clearing tonight and Saturday.
Cooler.
Highest ttmp. lilt M hours SS
Lowest temp, last 24 hours 42
Highest ttmp. any Nov. CSS) . 71
Lowest temp, any Nov. ('SS) .... IS
Precis, last 24 hours .14
Precip. from Nov. I . 1.03
Precip. from Sept. 1 3.21
Deficiency from Sept. 1 l.M
Sunset tonight, 4:SI p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:02 a.m.
been inarching to the cheers of
the crowd early this morning,
were unenthusiastie as they went
about sealing off the riots.
Tonight's fight was within a
few yards of the U.S. cultural
center, vhieh was a wreck. Win
dows and office furniture were
rubble and torn books, records
and pamphlets littered the street.
U.S. Deputy Consul Richard
Johnson said he could see no po
litical significance in the attack,
particularly since the building
seems to be a regular target
whenever there is rioting here.
There were some, however, who
professed to see in the attack
links to the election of Sen. John
F. Kennedy to the U.S. presiden
cy. Kennedy once spoke of an Al
gerian settlement in terms which
some here thought sounded like
independence for Algeria.
The U.S. cultural center was
stormed by the demonstrators aft
er several hours of pitched battles
in nearby streets. The center was
sacked once before, during the
turbulent days of 1958, and has
been the target of right-wingers
in lesser demonstrations on many
occasions. Initial reports men
tioned no injuries there this time
nor was there any word as to
what damage was done to the
center.
The temper of the European
demonstrators mounted toward
the boiling point as French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle's civilian
chief in Algeria, Paul Delouvrier,
drove through the Boulevard Pas
teur to lay a wreath at the monu
ment for war dead.
The crowd shouted "Resign!"
and "De Gaulle to the stake!"
Delouvrier laid his wreath with
out interference, however. The vi
olence came after he drove off.
. Anger has mounted among Al
geria's militant French settlers
since De Gaulle, in a broadcast
a week ago, promised that the
North African territory would no
longer be governed by Metropoli
tan France but would have "its
own government, its own institu
tions, its own laws." The settlers
generally interpreted De Gaulle's
words to mean an Algerian re
public in which they would be
overwhelmed by the Moslem Ma
jority. Paris newspapers reported
Thursday De' Gaulle may soon
proclaim Algeria a republic in a
bold move to liquidate the fester
ing nx-year-oid nationalist renei'
lion.
Thursday night a crowd of about
1,000 demonstrators, in an Armis
tice Eve wreath ceremony at the
war dead monument, clashed with
security forces. Several persons
were injured by police clubs.
Trickling Returns
Cut Kennedy Lead '
WASHINGTON (AP) Trickling
late returns from Tuesday's elec
tion cut Sen. John F. Kennedy's
popular vote lead down today to
278.277 out oi nearly 7U million
ballots tabulated. That gave his
50.2 per cent of the total.
The count, with only 1,875 of
the nation s 166.078 voting units
unreported: Kennedy 33,567.212,
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
33,288,935.
The revisions, minor in relation
to the record total, had no effect
on the electoral vote outcome.
Kennedy had 300 votes, well
above the required 269, and held
a thin lead for 32 more in Cali
fornia. The California outcome
will be determined by the count
of more than 200,000 absentee bal
lots next week.
Nixon had 188 and a lead for
3 more in Alaska with a few doz
en remote polling places unre
ported.
For (he first time this year, a
torch that was lighted in Antwerp
Belgium, and flown across the
Atlantic Ocean, will be presented
in the amphitheater adjoining the
tomb. Another torch, lighted in
this country, has been flown east
ward across the ocean for presen
tation at similar ceremonies in
Anlwero.
Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.,
former commandant of the Ma
rine Corps, will address represen
tatives of the veterans organiza
tions in the amphitheater.
The dav was observed as Arm
istice Day throush 1953. There
after, by act of Congress, the
name was changed to honor the
services of veterans of all wars
Sponsorship of the Arlington
ceremonies is rotated yearly
among veterans organizations.
This year the Marine Corps
League is in charge.
By agreement among the or
ganizations, regional observances
are being conducted elsewhere in
the country with the ceremonies
Mng in charge of the following
organizations:
The American Legion at New
Orleans; Veterans of Foreign
Wars at Long Beach, Calif ; Army
avy Lesion of valor at Trenton,
N. J : Disabled Veterans at Bir
mingham. Ala : and the Amvet
at Louisville, Ky. ()
Established 1873
12
Post Office
Move Draws
Rapid Fire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Postmaster General Arthur
Summeriield said Thursday the
Northwest regional Post Office
will be moved from Portland to
Seattle, starting Dec. 1.
The announcement drew auick
fire in Oregon. i
Hep. Walter Norblad and a
spokesman for Gov. Mark Hat
field, both Republicans, said Sum
merfield should have let the mat
ter hang until the new Democratic
administration took over.
Sen. -elect Maurine B. Neuber-
ger, a Democrat, said she was
asking the Senate Post Office
Committee what could be done to
countermand the order.
The Post Office announcement
in Washington, D. C, said the de
partment has leased office space
in Seattle and will transfer 73 po
sitions there Dec. 1. It said an
additional 112 positions will he
shifted from Portland to Seattle
at a later unspecified date.
The regional office serves 1.989
post offices in Alaska, Idaho, Mon
tana, Oregon and Washington. The
Post Office department said it
thinks Seattle is a better site than
Portland because it is more near
ly the center of the region.
Seattle is also more of a center
for air, steamship and rail trans
portation, the department said. It
said the move might cost up to
$100,000 but would save the tax
payers money because the region
al office is now occupying quar
ters in both cities.
Loren D. Hicks, legal adviser
to Hatfield, said in Salem:
"I regret the timing of the move
during a period that is tradition
ally one of orderly transition in
the national administration. A ma
jor policy implementation of this
kind should not be made by a
retiring cabinet member."
Said Norblad: "Summeriield is
out of steD with this move. He
should have left the decision up
to the new administration. He is
doing a dis-service to the Eisen
hower administration . and to the
Post Office."
President Accepts
Alien Resignation
AUGUSTA. Ga. (AP) Presl
dent Eisenhower accepted the
resignation today of George V.
Allen, director of the U.S. Infor
mation Agency.
He also accepted the resigna
tion of Robert C. Hill, ambassador
to Mexico for the past four years.
Allen, a career diplomat of 30
years experience, asked to retire
from government service Dec. 1
to accept the post of president of
the Tobacco Institute.
As director of USIA, he strong
ly supported Eisenhower's deci
sion to keep secret pons nis agen
cy conducted overseas which re
portedly showed a drop in U.S.
prestige abroad.
Hill. 43, a New Hampshire resi
dent, built up a reputation in
Mexico as one of the outstanding
noncareer men Eisenhower ap
pointed to diplomatic posts.
A political appointee, he served
during the eight years of the Ei
senhower administration as assit
ant secretary of state for congres
sional affairs and also as ambas
sador to Costa Rica and El Sal
vador. The President also closely fol
lowed reports of an antigovern
ment coup in pro-Western South
Viet Nam.
On the second day of his golf
ing vacation, Eisenhower avoided
public appearances even though
cold weather delayed his usual
visit to the fairways of the Augus
ta National Golf Club.
Five Youngsters
Perish In Blaze
CORPUS ClfRISTI Tex. (API-
Five young children, left at home
alone, burned to death early today
when flames destroyed their small
frame home in a poor section of
Uiis Texas Gulf Coast city.
The fire, which apparently was.
discovered about midnight, start
ed in the living room of the house,
firemen said, when an open gas
heater became overheated.
Killed In the flames were the
five children of Gloria Jean Car
roil, an unemployed Negro woman
who said her mother supported
her and her children.
The children were Rrenda Car
roll, S; Pamela Carroll, 4; Albert
I,ca Carroll, 3; Larry D. Carroll,
2; and Don Lee Stevens, 7
months. Police said the father of
the four oldest children was Ab
Jt Carroll Mrs. Carroll's first
! h.ickanH Thev said ihm father nf
the Stevens child was also di
vorced from Mrs. Carroll, who
took her first husband's name.
There was no explanation of
Mrs. Carroll's whereabouts when
the fire started. Firemen said that
passcrs-bi: saw the house in
jiames iHd awakened neighbors.
(S)m fought the blae with gardn
loose until fir equipment arrived
Pages
ROSEBURG, OREGON
GOP Chairman Asks Cheap
Of Ballots In Close States'"
WASHINGTON (AP) - Repub
lican National Chairman Thurston
B. Morion today asked GOP state
leaders to recheck the presidential
voting in their individual states.
Morton told a reporter he had
asked the recheck because he be
lieves there is "a chance for hu
man error in such an election."
The chairman said he is not
now in the position of challenging
the election of Democratic Sen.
John F. Kennedy in last Tues
day's -balloting.
But he said he had received
"thousands of telegrams" urging
a new canvass of the vote by
which Kennedy won in several
states by a narrow margin.
"In elections as close as this
one is, 1 think it is my responsi
bility to urge the state chairmen
to take another look into the bal
loting in their states," Morton
said. .
"I know nothing personally
about the counting in any of these
areas, but the local officials do
and I want to get reports from
them."
Morton said the funds for a re-
National Guard
Has Test Alert
SALEM (AP) Oregon's 6.000
national guardmen were called
out in a test alert today. -
A series of telephone cans
through the chain of command.
starting with Mai. Gen. Alfred E.
Hintz and running down to eacn
platoon sergeant, was used. There
was no nelp trom radio or teie
vision stations in this test.
The test here was judged to
have brought out about 75 per cent
of the 420 guardmen in the Salem
area. Effectiveness throughout the
state will be determined when re
ports - reach -Oregon ' Notional
Guard headquarters here.
Some units, such as at Port
land, used the alert as a make-up
drill since they did not drill as
usual on Tuesday, election night.
Company D, 186th infantry, Na
tional Guard in Roseburg, partici
pated. They were in evidence in front
of various business structures and
also were guarding such facilities
as the U. S. Postoffice. In some
cases machine guns were emplaced
at strategic points.
A backward look at a Roseburg
disaster was inevitably part of the
alert. Troops were assigned to
guard the blast area which was
devastated on Aug. 7, 1959.
Martin Bros. Win
Umpqua Tree Tract
The Martin Brothers Container
and Timber Products Corp. of Oak
land Thursday purchased 10,100,-
uuu leet ot umpqua National For
est timber for $220,620. This tint-
ber, located on a 227-acre tract
67 miles east of Roseburg on the
Diamond Lake Ranger District,
nan Deen appraised at 3137.575.
The winning bid, calling for a big
hike over the appraised price on
Douglas fir, is unusual when back-
dropped by the depressed lumber
market, according to Vondis Mil
ler, Umpqua Forest supervisor.
Many factors nearness to opera
tion and transportation of the bid
der, for instance affect the bid
ding, he explained.
Martin Brothers paid $23.15 per
thousand board feet for 8.400,000
feet of Douglas fir appraised at
$14.20, $19 for 1,300.000 feet of pine
appraised at $12.95 and the ap
praised $3.65 for 400,000 feet ot
western hemlock and other spec
ies. Other bidders were Douglas Ve
neer Co., Sun Studs, Inc., and Coni
fer Logging Co., Roseburg: Nor
dic Veneers, Inc., Sutherlin; Evans
Products Co., Coos Bay, and Mo
doc Lumber Co., Klamath Falls.
The next Forest Service sale
will be Monday.
Myrtle Creek Schools
Get Standard Rating
Myrtle Creek School Board
members were advised at their
meeting this week that two of the
district's elementary schools have
been classified as fully standard
and a third has been classified as
conditionally standard,
The State Department nf Educa
tion said both the Tri-Clties School
and Myrtle Creek primary build
ing are fully standard. They of
fered suggestions as to how to in
to ease the Upper Elemen
tary building from conditionally to
fully standard.
There are no funds In the cur
rent budget for this program and
the board decided to consider the
suggestions in next year's budget.
Board members w. A. Wirth
John Meiers and Gilbert Seaver
gave report on the Oregon State
School Hoinis Association conven
tion they attended in Eugene last
week. Supt. Al Ncet and Clerk
l'. B. Kmelich also attended this
convention.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1960
count in Cook County (Chicago)
in Illinois already had been raised
locally. He said there will be a
recount in that county, which sup:
plied the margin by which Ken
nedy squeaked through for Illi
nois' 27 electoral votes.
However, it will be several days
before official vote tabulations are
complete in Cook County. Repub
licans will have to wait until the
canvass is finished before taking
any legal steps to verify it.
Morton said he had urged State
Chairman Thad Hutcheson to in
vestigate the vote in Texas. On
the basis of unofficial returns
Kennedy won Texas' important 24
electoral votes by a margin of
about 50,000.
Morton said he had been told
that in Waco. Tex., about 39.000
votes had been cast on a local
bond issue proposal. He said only
35.000 votes were cast in the pres
idential election.
It doesn t stand to reason that
more people would vote on a bond
issue than the presidency," he
said.
Republican officials had spoken
earlier of complaints from the
Carolinas, Michigan and New Jer
sey also.
A spokesman for the Republican
National Committee said Thurs
day it had received many com
plaints alleging fraud, vote buying
and other irregularities.
J he spokesman said Morton had
asked local officials to determine
the facts and advise him and the
Justice Department if they found
a substantial basis for the com
plaints. ine new YorK Herald Tribune
said today that allegations of elec
tion irregularities in several states
caused Republican leaders to
check all returns and wonder if
their concession of victory to Sen.
John F. Kennedy might have been
premature.
A Washington dispatch to the
newspaper added that one top Re
Mobutu Arrests
Lumumba Aide
LEOPOLD VILLE. the Congo
(AP) Col. Joseph Mobutu's Con
golese army Thursday night de
fied the United Nations Command
and arrested one of the strongest
supporters of deposed Premier
Patrice Lumumba.
Several hundred demonstrators
this morning (warmed before U.N.
headquarters and yelled for the
release of the Lumumba support
er, Cleophas Kamitalu, 29, presi
dent of Leopoldville Province.
Mobutu rushed soldiers appar
ently to disperse the crowd from
Kamitatus tiamoaia trine, out
U.N. officers persuaded the sol
diers to withdraw to avert a
clash.
More than 300 Congolese sol
diers swooped down on Kamitatu's
residence shortly after 9 o'clock
and brushed aside the provincial
leader's bodyguard without a
fight.
Kamitatu, who commands the
2.000-man police force in Leopold
ville Province, earlier this week
had challenged Mobutu to carry
out a threat to arrest him.
Leaking Gasoline
Perils Reedsport
REEDSPORT (AP)-Fears that
gasoline leaking from a service
station storage tank might explode
Thursday night led volunteer fire
men to evacuate a tneater and
warn persons in Reedsport a
downtown area not to smoke.
Fumes from the gasoline were
still leaking from manholes Fri
day morning.
Volunteer firemen were called
out when the odor was first no
ticed. They discovered that 1,100
gallons of gasoline had leaked
from an underground storage tank
al a service station.
The gasoline seeped down to Ihe
underground waler that lies be
neath Ihe land fill upon whicn the
downtown area is built.
The gasoline spread throughout
the area and into the Pacific
Theater's orchestra pit.
About 100 persons were evacu
ated from the theater.
Increase Noted
In Oregon Idle
SALEM (AP)-There were 31,400
unemployed persons in Oregon in
October 30 per cent more, than a
year earlier David H. Cameron,
slate employment commissioner,
announced Thursday.
The total Was 4.900 greater than
in September, he said. Most of
this increase resulted from the
end of harvesting activity. But he
said, too, employment in the lum -
ber industry dropped 2.800. while
construction employment fell 1,
400. Emnlovment totaled S8.1.ono
i the same as in October.
!.. 11
ai down 28,100 lrom September.
publican figure told the Herald
Tribune that if "half the reports
we've been getting can be run
down quickly enough to be prov
en," it is "quite possible" that
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
would become president-elect.
ine story also said in part
Leonard W. Hall, chairman of tary regime pledged to strengthen
the Nixon campaign, was less op- the nation's fight against Commu
limistic. He said a mass of re- Mi5t infiltration and end the rule
ports from "almost a dozen I of the Diem family,
slates indicated there had been Between 20 and 30 persons were
serious irregularities especially 1 killed and manv others were
in Texas and Illinois. But he said
his offhand view was that it may
be too late to "catch enough of it"
to switch the election result.
It was learned, however, that a
preliminary survey at a confer
ence Thursday convinced party
leaders that the situation was se
rious enough to warrant chal
lenges and possible federal inves
tigations. On the basis of unofficial re
turns, it seemed possible al
though an extremely remote pos
sibilitythat the final outcome
could switch, either to elect Nixon
or to leave the decision to the
House of Representatives because
neitiier Kennedy nor Nixon won
the necessary majority of 269
electoral votes. Twenty-six of the
537 electoral votes are not legal
ly pledged to any candidate.
U. S. Beats Down
Kasavubu Rivals
UN1TED NATIONS. N. Y. (AP
The United States beat , down
soviet-Arab opposition Thursday
night and pushed through the cre
dentials committee a recommen
dation to seat President Joseph
Kasavubu as the Congo's U. N.
representative. But a bitter fight
in the General Assembly is in
prospect. I
The U. S. resolution was voted
through 6-1 with the Soviet Union
casting the dissenting vole. The
United Arab Republic and Moroc
cowhich had backed fhn Sovint
Union in a dogged effort to ad
journ the committee without ac
tionrefused to take part in the
ballot. I
The two Arab members ehorirr.it
mat. tne credentials vote conflict
ed with the General Assembly's
decision Wednesday to suspend
consiucrauon oi me longo ques
tion until a 15-nation Asian-Afri
can conciliation commission tries
to bring together the warrine no.
litical factions in the young Afri
can nation.
The Soviets and a number nf
Asian and African nations want
to give the U. N. scat to dele
gates of left-leaning Patrice Lu
mumba, deposed Congo premier.
Both aides interpreted Thursday
night's vote as encouraging to
their cause.
Larceny Counts Hit
Medford Attorney
MEDFORD (AP)-O. H. Bene-
ston, a Medford attorney who once
served in tne uregon House of
Representatives, Thursday was
arraigned on eight separate counts
of larceny by embezzlement.
The Indictments Involve i total
of $6,295, said Gerald J. Scannel,
deputy district attorney.
Ten indictments now have been
returned against Bengston. On
Oct. 12 he was convicted on the
first of larceny of $3,700. His trial
on the second indictment is sched
uled for Dec. 13.
Vote Turnout At Recent Election
Hit Over 81 Percent In Douglas
More than 81 per cent of Douglas
County's registered voters went to
the polls Tuesday judging from the
tabulation of unofficial vote figures.
A check of the highest votes in
each of the 99 precincts showed
25.600 people cast ballots. This
tigure win pronamy ne increased
al the lime of the official canvass,
because in some cases people re
frained from voting on some races
which were used to determine the
final total. '
II. Per Cent Voted
Based on the 2.1,000 figure, how
ever, a total 81.3 per cent of the
31 .591 registered voters went to
the polls.
Overlooked In the rush lo report
the races in Ihe county, the votes
on the uncontested offices were
nut rmnhaiprf in iwm emerac
earlier this week.
1 On the countv level, Fred Darby
I picked up 18.252 votes in 98 of the
igg precincts for re-election ai roun-
ty surveyor. One precinct didn't
even report on Ihe vole for Darby
becaujit was an uncontested 01-
The only olher uncontested votes
1 were lor the two positions on the
PRICE 5c
in vim iMum
By HA VAN TRAN
SAIGON, Vict Nam (AP)-Pa-ratroup
battalions overthrew Pres
ident Ngo Dinh Diem today in a
brief but bloody before-dawn up
rising, tne rebels set up a mill
wounded in sharp fighting be
tween the rebel battalions and
troops loyal to Diem. But by 3
p.m. cairn prevailed in the capi
tal. Armored units rolled into the
city from My! ho, 75 miles to the
south, in answer to a call from
the presidentbut they joined the
rebels.
The rebel military committee
which took over the government
was headed by paratrooper Col.
Nguyen Chanh Thi. It claimed the
full support of the army, navy and
air force and said it had formed
a temporary government.
No casualties were reported
among the several thousand
Americans in the country as mil
itary or civilian advisers to the
Diem government.
The bachelor president, 59, a
dedicated anti-Communist whose
dictatorial methods and family in
fluences had often come under
fire, was reported alive inside the
palace.
There was no word of the pres
ident's brother, Ngo Diem Nhu, or
his wile. I hey were Diem s clos
est advisers, lived in the palace
with him, and have been consid-
ereu ine powers nenind me pres-
Went
The rebel military committee,
in a broadcast announcing the
ouster ot tne pro-American pres-
ident. charged
"Ngo , Dinh Diem adopted a
family diclalorshin and was un
able to face the situation which
has . deteriorated .-bacause . of
mounting Communist dunger. The
army has been divided and the
population is without any free
dom." There was absolutely no indica
tion that the army rebels contem
plated a neutralist policy, as
neighboring Laos has just adopt
ed. The new military junta said
in a broadcast it had no political
affiliations and had seized control
of the government "to re-establish
security in me country.
Sharing borders with neutralist
Cambodia and Laos, South Viet
Nam is a cornerstone of the West
ern defense arch in Southeast
Asia. The South Vietnamese army
of 120,000 men is supported by
U.S. aid funds. There was no im
mediate comment from the U.S.
Embassy in Saigon,
Nixon Leaves
For Vacation
WASHINGTON (AP) Vice
President Richard M. Nixon left
today for a Florida vacation.
Nixon had nothing to say to re
porters when he arrived at Na
tional Airport with his wife and
two daughters for their flight to
Miami. However, the family will
ingly posed for photographers.
Herbert G. Klein, Nixon's press
secretary, said the vice president
will remain in Florida for at least
a week, resting from the rigors of
(he presidential campaign.
The trip will put Nixon in Flori
da at the same time President
elect John F. Kennedy also is
resting there after his successful
campaign. Kennedy plans a two
week vacation at Palm Beach.
The Nixons will stay at Key Bis
cayne, south of Miami. Nixon, who
derides his own golfing ability,
took his golf clubs with him.
j Supreme Court. William C. Perry
claimed one of the posts, gaining
17,407 votes in Douglas County,
and gifted C. Goodwin took the
olherwilh 17,385 volca from Doug
las County.
Biggasl Vote
263-60
The biggest vole In the county e( ,jown the increase in the in
came on the presidential racej,.ome tax (Measure 14). The coun
where 23,532 cast their ballots on,(y voters said no by more than
the two major parly candidates. 15,000 voles.
loiais 01 more man a.nw were
made on the short term U. S. sen
atorial race which Mrs. Maurine
Neubergcr won; the U, Sj rep-i
scntative race which Dr. Edwin
Durno won: the sccrelary of slate's
race won by Howell Appling Jr.;
the stale senatorial race won by
Al Flegel; and sheriff's race claim-1
ed by Ira C. Byrd.
iTwo Races Tight
I Two of Ihe races were extremely I
1 tight. The closest was that betwee nj
for oflice. Doerner beat Democrat
Clnugh hv a mere 60S votes. An-lit still mounting, a survey in
other tight one gave state Rep. dicata. The pessimist olio
Elton Jackson lur (he post uf state!
senator.
Adlai, Nixon,
Ike May Draw
Assignments
HYANX1S PORT, Mass. (API- '
President-elect John F. Kennedy,
answering a message from Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer, told the German leader to
day that "the achievement of
controlled disarmament is a ne
cessity to guarantee world
peace."
Adenauer had wired the hope
that "you and statesmen of like
mind will soon find a way to open
a path for controlled disarma
ment." r
Replies To Adenauer
Kennedy messaged Adenauer:
"I am grateful for your warm
and generous message. You have
been an indomitable leader of the
free world and 1 look forward to
working with you in the years
head, and certainly agree with
you that the achievement of con
trolled disarmament is a neces
sary to guarantee world peace."
A message from British Prime
Minister Harold MacmiUan was
delivered personally by D'Arcv
Edmondson, British consul gen
eral in Boston.
The prime minister wrote: "1
send you with this short message
all my good wishes and those of
the British government and peo
ple. You have been elected to be
president of the United States.
Since my mother was American,
I know what that has always
meant to all your citizens but to
day it means that you will be tak
ing the most powerful position in
the world with responsibility
matched by equal opportunity. I
look forward to working in the
causes which the people of this
country and the United States
both hold so dear."
Macmillan Cats Reply
Kennedy replied by telegram.
He messaged Macmillan: "t
thank you for your warm personal
message. I formed a warm affec
tion for the British people when
my father was ambassador lo the
Court of St. James and it has
continued to this day. 1 know that
our two great countries will work
together in the future as they
have in the past to further the
cause of freedom throughout the
world."
Kennedy sent his replies while
preparing to leave Hyannis Port
for Palm Beach, Fla., to begin a
vacation of about two weeks.
He had with him a list of ev
( eral hundred names for considera
tion for appointments in his
administration. Kennedy said
Thursday at his first news confer
ence that he expected to have his
cabinet complete "in late Novem
ber or early December."
Kennedy was to take three nf
his lop assistants with him to
Florida. They were Kenneth
O'Donnell, named as special as
sistant to the president; Lawrence
O'Brien, political adviser; and
Salinger.
Conference Included
Kennedy's vacation schedule in
cludes a conference in Texas with
Vice President-elect Lyndon B.
Johnson.
There were indications that ha
might ask President Eisenhower
and Vice President Richard M.
Nixon to shoulder important re
sponsibilities in the incoming gov
ernment. And Adlal E. Stevenson, twice
Democratic candidate for presi
dent, appeared to be in his plana
somewhere. Considerable specula
tion has centered on the possibility
that Stevenson might be the next
secretary of state.
Kennedy prepared to leave his
llvannis Port headquarters at 2:30
p.m., today with his wife, Jacque
line. Expects Child
She is expecting a child soon.
Kennedy's private plane is sched
uled to stop in Washington and
Mrs. Kennedy will disemDarK
there. Kennedy's plana to rejoin
her before the birth of the baby.
He was moving ahead, full-tilt,
with the business of government.
barely 48 hours after winning the
presidential election.
He announced that two super
important positions already are
filled by requesting the incum
bents to remain in office.
They are Allen W. Dulles, head
of the Central Intelligence Agency
and J. Edgar Hoover, cniet ot me
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Both agreed to stay.
The biggest margin of victory
was posted by incumbent treas
urer Bert Lauranee who lopped
Repuhlican challenger George
Hunter hv 8.184 votes in slightly
over 24.000 ca.it.
The most decisive vote on the
measures in Douglas County turn-
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F, Reizensrein
Activities continue en the
up
and up (or the nation's
shoplifters. They garnered S3
m;jon from supermarket! and
"orei last year, and tne take
Roseburjloriei.