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Everybody's Doing Fine, '
Is Latest Word On Quints
A UPI Team Report
ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPI)-The
progress report was "everybody
doing just fine. . .it's a miracle"
for the five tiny Fischer quintup
lets in their third day of life to
day. Sister Mary Stephens, adminis
trator of St. Luke's Hospital,
came from the nursery where the
quints squirmed and cried lustily
in their special incubators. After
a visit to the mother, Mrs. Mary
Ann Fischer, Sister Stephen
beamingly reported:
"Everybody doing just fine. We
can be grateful to the good Lord."
"I feel it's a miracle to the
good Lord that there are no com
plications," she said.
The quints had been examined
early today by Dr. James Berbos,
who delivered them at 3:01 a.m.
CST Saturday. Before his arrival,
the nurses caring for the 18-inch
long babies bad increased their
food intake from four cc's to five
cc's. They are fed every two
hours.
The three elder children of the
Fischer family went to school
this morning for the first time
since the quints were born. Fa
ther Andrew Fischer drove them
two miles from his farmhouse
home in his green, slightly rusty
Plymouth, to the Sacred Heart
parish school, a block from the
hospital.
Girls Named Mary
Seven-year-old Danny clutched
i football and carried a book
jatchel into the school. Julie, 6,
and Charlotte, who will be 7
Wednesday, carried books and
brightly colored lunch pails. They
smiled as their father spoke with
reporters.
Andy Fischer, 38, looked rested
and sprightly. He disclosed that
Sunday night he had suggested
that Mrs. Fischer start to work
thinking about names for the four
girl quintuplets. So. far they each
have been named Mary for pur
poses of their baptism Saturday
afternoon.
"I told her last night to start
working on other names either
middle or first names to go with
the Mary," Fischer said.
He uttered a laughing "yes"
when asked, "Do you still love
your wife?"
Dr. Berbos went immediately
into surgery duties after quickly
cheeking the quints five bun
dles of kicking, squalling, bawling
humanity with heads the size of
oranges and hands not much
larger than a silver dollar.
He said he probably would
weigh them for the first tome to
day and that he might
Quintuplets' Proud Daddy Says
He'll Remain In Grocery Store
ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPI) Andy
Fischer, the proud father of a
real bundle of babies quintuplets
isn't going to let his good life
get complicated by fame.
He sees no reason to change
his $76a-week grocery clerk job
or hunt for a larger house.
His only problem, he told news
men, is "my four Marys."
The four daughters of Andy and
Mary Ann Fischer all were bap
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change their diet to some kind of
a milk formula. They have been
getting sugar-water by nose tube
since Sunday morning.
Still In Danger Area
The doctor made it plain, how
ever, that he will take it very
easy with the quints, who were
born six to eight weeks prema
turely, until he feels they are
safely through the danger area,
which extends until Tuesday
morning.
Sister Stephen said Mrs. Fisch
Sunday Downpour Indicates
Record September Rainfall
As forest fire fighting organiza
tions sighed with relief, a transi
tional Pacific storm left no doubt
Sunday that the summer of 1963
would be a short one.
In Roseburg, the U.S. Weather
Bureau station reported that the
1.08 recorded from midnight Sat
urday to midnight Sunday was the
greatest daily amount for Septem
ber since Sept. 1 1941, when 1.17
inch was recorded.
And, if the forecast is correct,
September should set a new pre
cipitation record for the period
Police Investigate
Beating Of Woman
Roseburg city police are investi
gating the strange case of an Ash
land woman who arrived at a local
hospital in a hysterical condition
Saturday afternoon...
The woman bore injury marks
and a badly smashed hand, which
she claimed were inflicted by her
husband when she tried to escape
him.
She claimed she had sought to
leave her husband and hoped to
get a job playing a piano or organ
to support herself. She alleged her
husband smashed her hand with
a board to prevent her playing.
She stated that after her husband
beat her Saturday, she managed
to escape, loading a few posses
sions in her car and drove to Rose
burg. Police said she seemed in great
fear, and it took more than the
usual amount of sedation to quiet
her.
tized "Mary." The boy was bap
tized James Andrew.
"We're working on names for
the four 'Marys.' But we are
going to use 'Mary' for either the
first or middle name of all the
girls," Fischer said.
As for his rented 10-room house
two miles out of town, Fischer
said, "I'm content where I am
now. I don't plan to look for a
bigger house."
er, 30, has been getting gifts of
fruit and flowers in her room.
Her "doing fine" report also ap
plies to the mother.
As for the father, Andy Fischer
got up early, as usual, and milked
his two cows, a Jersey and
a Guernsey, in the big blue barn
behind his farm house, two miles
outside town, which he rents for
$55 a month. Sightseers are com
mon now on the road in front of
the five-bedroom stucco house, oc
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since the Weather Bureau was re
located at the Roseburg Airport in
1952.
Average Surpassed
The rainfall for Sunday sur
passed the average precipitation
for September in a single day. The
normal amount for the month is
only one inch. With the heavy Sun
day downpour, it became the sec
ond . wettest September since the
move to the airport. The year 1957
was the wettest with total rainfall
of 1.98 inches.
So far this month, the total is
1.39, and the five-day forecast calls
for more rain and below normal
temperatures. Just normal rain
fall for the rest of the month will
push the total to a new record,
Roseburg was wet, but it was
nothing compared to the Rock
Creek area. The Douglas County
Water Resources Survey office
shows 3.17 inches in 36 hours. Else
where in the North Umnqua area.
rain was also heavy. Correspond
ent Mrs. Arthur Selby 'reports 1.41
incnes at the Glide Ranger Sta
tion; 1.8 inches at Steamboat, 1.63
at the Wolf Creek Guard Station
on Little River and an even inch
at Toketee Ranger Station.
Brush Burned
Tiller correspondent Mrs. Milton
Hammersly says the weekend ram
there totaled 1.05 inch. She said
the heavy rainfall permitted crews
to begin burning piled brush in
the South Umpqua Ranger District
of the Umpqua National Forest,
but no regular slash burning is
being allowed yet.
Other readings around the coun
ty from the Water Resources Sur
vey were 1.48 at Elkhead, 1 inch at
Sutherlin, 1.04 at Curtin and .88 at
Lookingglass.
"I've been at the grocery for 18
years and I like it there. I'll stay
mere too," ne added.
Fischer, clad in a tan summer
suit, dark tie and white shirt,
stood calmly with his hands be
hind his back while 30 newsmen
fired questions at him Sunday at
a news conference in St. Luke's
Hospital.
"1 was surprised and shocked
wnen i learned my wile was
going to have quintuplets, but
maybe I would have been also if
they had told me I was going to
nave twins, ne said.
"My wife doesn't know much
i about the hubbub this has caused.
' She hasn't said anything about
the luture. bhe got papers and is
reading them and all the tele
grams (including one from Presi
dent and Mrs. Kennedy).
But the kids at home are all
enthused that the little babies are
coming home; they have picked
one for each of themselves."
Fischer was so excited when he
looked at his quints for the scc-
: ond time Sunday that he forgot
j to take a good look at them in-
dividually.
Asked if they were handsome
babies, he replied "I'm sure they
; are but ' I didn't get a good
! enough look to tell what they look
: like."
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Mostly cloudy with showers
through Tuesday with occetional
sunny periods today. Little temper
ature change.
Highest temp, last 24 hours ..... 40
Lowest temp, last 24 hours SO
Highest temp, any Sept. (SS) 102
Lowest temp, any Sept. (S4) 32
Precip. last 24 hours .90
Normal Sept. Precip 1
Precip. from Sept. 1 1.39
Sunset tonight, 7:22 p.m. PDT
Sunrise tomorrow, 4:55 a.m. PDT
.
King To Get
JFK's Reply
On Alabama
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy today expressed "a
deep sense of outrage and grief
over the bombing oi a xvegro
church in Birmingham Sunday.
He called on whites and Negroes
to put passions and prejudices aside
in the interests ot domestic jus
tice and tranquillity.
After a series of conferences
with Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken
nedy over the Birmingham vio
lence the Chief Executive issued
a statement at midday reflecting
the depth of his concern.
He promised all possible fed
eral assistance in calming the
Alabama situation and in bringing
to justice those responsible for
Sunday's crime.
In making the statement public,
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said the Rev.
Martin Luther King would re
ceive a reply from Kennedy to a
message King sent Sunday de
manding new, fast federal steps
to cope with the Birmingham
situation.
For the time being, the Presi
dent planned no message to Gov.
George C. Wallace of Alabama.
The White House left open the
idea that Kennedy felt Wallace
had encouraged violence by dis
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Umpqua Forests
Get $50,000
The Oregon congressional dele
gation reported Saturday that $50,'
000 more In accelerated public
works funds has been allocated to
tile Umpqua National-Forest. This
raises to $253,000 the forest now
has available for jobs it would otn
erwise not be able to finance.
A total $750,000 was allocated in
the latest total for Oregon national
forests.
Umpqua National Forest Super
visor Vondis . Miller emphasized
that the money would be used on
jobs which otherwise would not
have been possible.
Projects being worked up for the
ACW financing include new resid
ences for Forest Service person
nel, campground facilities, and new
lookout stations.
Also included will be some haz
ard reduction work, such as falling
snags; timber stand improvement
work, such as thinning and pruning
of young stands; stream clearance;
and some wildlife studies to deter
mine effects of wildlife damage
on trees.
Other forests receiving funds
were: Fremont in Klamath Coun
ty $50,000; Siuslaw in Lincoln Coun
ty $100,000; Siuslaw in Yamhill
County $60,000; Umatilla in Mor
row County $70,000; Willamette Na
tional Forest in Lane County $140,
000, Willamette in Linn County
$100,000; Winema in Klamath
County $100,000; Siskiyou in Jose
phine County $50,000; Siuslaw in
Coos County $30,000.
Portland Zoo Gets
New Baby Elephant
PORTLAND (UPI) The Port
land Zoo's prolific elephant herd
produced its third baby pachy
derm in the past year and a half
Sunday afternoon.
Pet unceremoniously gave birth
to a bouncing boy alone and un
attended cs.-spt for Belle, another
female elephant, who hovered
around helpfully.
It was a sharp contrast to the
birth of Packy to Belle April 14
last year when reporters and
photographers lived in the ele
phant house and Zoo Director
Jack Marks fainted when it was
all over.
Plucky Woman Survives Nine-Day Ordeal Adrift At Sea
JACKSONVH.LE, Fla. (UPI)
1 "I had no food or water for
a week, but I don't remember be
ing hungry or thirsty."
Mrs. Lorna Slade was relating
her experience aboard a slowly
sinking cabin cruiser which drift
ed nine days in the Atlantic
Ocean while she tried to signal
for help. Her husband, retired
Canadian Naval Commander Stu
art L. Slade, died after six days.
The spunky Mrs. Slade was
picked up Saturday by the tank
er S. S. Perryville and brought
her here Sunday night.
Smoking a cigarette nervously,
the tiny, grey-haired native of
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Negroes were killed and at'
Sunday School Sunday. (UPI
Adopted Daughter
Victim Of Blast
Triggered By Hate
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UPI)
The words came quietly, halting
ly, from a broken heart.
"Her place will never be filled
in this home," said C. A. Wesley,
referring almost with reverence
to his 14-year-old daughter, killed
with three other girls Sunday in
a church explosion triggered by
hate.
'She was our adopted daugh
ter," said Wesley, principal of
Lewis Elementary School, who
has no other children. "Cynthia
came to us when she was six
years old."
"We played with her dog 'Toots'
before we left for church," Lewis
said. "She loved that dog. He's
a cocker spaniel. He hasn t be
gun to miss her yet.
"But he will," Lewis added
with infinite sadness.
"We washed the dishes together
this morning," he went on, speak
ing in almost a whisper. "That's
when we always talked. She
wanted to go to a football game
tomorrow at her high school. I
was concerned about the danger
but I had told her she could go
if her mother agreed. This made
her happy and she went to look
up the schedule.
"Cvnthia wore a wniie uress
this morning because she was to
have been an usher in ine cnurcn
sprvipe . . .
"We just haven't accepted her
death vet." Lewis said. "She was
such a happy child. She never
complained, never pouted."
PLAYBALL
With United Fund
Goal Scorn To Dot
$69,936 $12,907
Lincoln, Neb., told of the ordeal
which began as an island-hopping
jaunt through the Bahamas and
which took on a tragic note when
the engine failed and her bus
band, suffering a leg infection, be
came delirious and died.
The cabin cruiser, The Crystal,
sank wih her husband's body as
an 82-fool Coast Guard cruiser
prepared to tow it back here.
Sunburn And Emaciated
Mrs. Alade, wearing black
slacks and a colored blouse, ap
peared sunburned from spending
most of the time on deck paint
ing "SOS" signs and lighting
makeshift flares. She was emaci
damage , to auto outside Sixth Avenue Baptist .CburdMNe-'
Blownout -windows of church indicate force of blast. Four
least 12 injured when dynamite, bomb-went off during
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Birmingham's Mayor Calls
Church Blast 'Sickening'
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)
Mayor Albert Boutwell cried
when he talked of the bomb that
ripped a church and of the four
Negro children who died in the
blast.
"This is sickening," he said.
"It is a tragic event. It is just
sickening that a few individuals
could commit such a horrible
atrocity."
His voice shook with emotion
and tears streamed down his
cheeks. "The occurrence of such
a thing has so gravely concerned
the public ..." His voice broke
and he could not continue.
A few minutes before, Boutwell
Car Fire Burns ,
Oakland Youths
Two Oakland youths, Danny
Crager and Steve Thornton, are
reported recovering from burns suf
fered in a car fire and were re
leased Saturday from Douglas
Community Hospital.
Three other boys, Ronnie Thorn
ton, Stanley McHugill and Wayne
Davis received less serious burns
in the accident, which occurred
Thursday in Oakland on Eighth
Street near Oak. They were not
hospitalized.
The Oakland Fire Department
was called, when the car went out
of control and struck a tree. Two
gas cans in the car tipped over
in the back of the car and added
to the fire which resulted, accord
ing to Edith Dunn, Oakland corre
spondent. The tree stopped the car from
running into a trailer house oc
cupied by Mrs. Carmen Inda. Six
boys were in the car, which was
reported owned by Vernon Kelly.
ated from a week without food or
water.
She said she and her husband,
after spending time in California
after his retirement from the
Navy, decided to come to Florida
to buy a deep sea fishing boat.
They bought one and. decided to
take the trip to the Bahamas.
Mrs. Slade, who was rescued
about 120 miles north of here,
said she spotted four fishing
boats during the ordeal, but they
apparently thought "we were
fishing."
She said she and her husband
left Miami aboard the 30-foot cab
in cruiser Sept. 5, and only sev
eral hours later the engine
had called for help from Gov.
George Wallace, and ' had issued
Instructions to police chief Jamie
Moore in a firm, authoritative
voice that betrayed no emotion.
"Tell your men to be careful,"
he advised Moore.
Then he took time to talk to
newsmen and to let himself go
for a moment. "What kind of per
son would do a thing like this?"
he asked.
"In view of the tragic and ab
horrent events in Birmingham
this morning," Boutwell told Wal
lace in a telegram, "we antici
pate a great deal of unrest. While
the situation appears to be well
under control of local law en
forcement officers at this time,
the possibility of further trouble
exists."
Boutwell said he was deter
mined to "leave no stone un
turned in our efforts to maintain
law and order."
Wallace sent 300 state troopers
to work with city policemen, ex
panding the combined forces to
some 900 men. Five hundred Na
tional Guardsmen, alerted by
Wallace, stood by In full battle
dress at an armory.
The city council held an emer
gency meeting but rejected a pro
posal by councilman George Sei
bels that a 10 p.m. curfew be
clamped onto the city. Seibels,
chairman of the public safety
committee, admitted a curfew
would be difficult to enforce be'
cause four major highways run
through the city.
Council John Hawkins read a
statement from the council say'
ing "it Is time that every one
wakes up and realizes that sav
agery is not an answer to any
problem."
conked out and they began to
drift up the Gulfstream.
., Husband Grows Worst
And then her husband, already
"not feeling good," began to get
worse.
As the hot hours passed and
the food and water supply dwin
dled and then disappeared, he be
came ill, then "delirous."
"He was irrational," she said.
"He kept asking for water. We
ran out of food and water after
about three days. . .we drank all
the water and then the water
from the life jackets. Then he
was gone."
A storm came up after several
Six Are Dead
In Alabama
Racial Fury
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)
Negro students entered three in
tegrated Birmingham schools with
out incident today in the wake of
a church bombing and street vio
lence that cost six lives.
A force of 1,400 policemen,
state troopers and battle-equipped
National Guardsmen was ready
for action in the tense atmos
phere of this racially-troubled city.
But only city police appeared
at West End and Ramsay high
schools and Graymont elementary
school as the Negro pupils began
their first full week of integrated
classes. The schools were inte
grated by court order last Tues
day. A dynamite stick bomb shat
tered the 16th Street Baptist
Church at 10:22 a.m. Sunday,
killing four young girls in a base
ment Sunday school class and
wounding at least 20 other per
sons. The church was filled with
400 worshipers.
Two other Negroes were shot
to death in the hours of street vio
lence that followed.
At West End this morninc oa-
tricia Marcus and Josephine Pow
ell arrived snortry before classes
began at 8 a.m. There were no
crowds anywhere near the school.
rou.ee and newsmen at the
scene talked in subdued tones
about Sunday's church bombing.
Only city police were on duty. .
The girls were brought to the
school in a cream-colored station
wagon occupied by three Negro
men. Last week, as they left the
school grounds in another car
with only a Negro driver, a brick
bat shattered the right front win
dow of the car.
Crowd Hysterical
A crowd of 2,000 hysterical Ne
groes swarmed from their homes
after the explosion, and police
struggled and fired rifle shots In
the air for two hours before dis
persing the group. Shootings and
stonlngs broke out through the
city and continued late into the
night.
During one of these Incidents.
police shot to death Johnny Rob
inson, a 16-year-old Negro, who
was hurling rocks at whites' cars
and ignored orders to halt after
he fled down an: alley.
At about the same time, seven
hours after the explosion, Virgil
Ware, a 13-year-old Negro, was
shot from ambush while riding
a bicycle with his brother in a
residential area 15 miles away.
Two white youths seen riding a
red motorcycle in the area were
sought by police.
Officers arrested 19 Neeroes in
the vicinity of the bombed church
on a variety of charges including
refusing to obey an officer, drunk
enness and carrying concealed
weapons.
Governor Sends Troopers
Police Chief Jamie Moore, fear
ing a repetition of the riotinz
that followed the bombing of a
Negro attorney's home Sept. 4,
called all available members of
his 600-man force to duty. Mayor
Albert Boutwell appealed to Gov.
George Wallace for help.
Wallace dispatched 300 trooners
and alerted 500 National Guards
men in the city, where racial
tensions have ebbed and flowed
for months.
President Kennedy was notified
Immediately of the incident, and
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
disptached his chief civil rights
troubleshooter, Burke Marshall,
to Birmingham. Also rushed in
were at least 25 FBI agents. In
cluding bomb experts from Wash
ington. Wallace vowed to use the ' en
tire forces of the state. , .to main
tain law and order in Birming
ham and throughout Alabama."
Boutwell. tears streaming down
his face, said "it is just sicken
ing that a few individuals could
commit such a horrible atrocity."
Wallace added $5,000 to reward
money totaling $57,000 for appre
hension of the persons responsible
for recent bombings in Birming
ham. The church bombing was
the first to cause death. None
has been solved.
days, she said, opening a seam
in the boat. The Crystal began to
sink slowly.
"First I balled every five
hours, then every three hours,
and then every hour," she said.'
"I had a big U.S. flag which I
flew upside down. . .1 bad some
white paint and painted 'HELP'
on top of the cabin in case a
plane should see us. I used sheets
and towels as flares. . .tied them ,
to brooms and chairlegs and '
soaked them in gasoline as flares
when a ship came by," she said.
The master of the Perryville,
Capt. R. A. Ryder, from Balti-,
more, Md., declined to discuss
the actual rescue. ,
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