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U.S. I mbassy Struck by Shells as Laos Battle Continues; 5 1 I VI 11 III .V , " 1.' YV i Ir i, '2 t im " 4 KENNEDY CERTIFIED The Illinois Elec- Recount Committee, presents a 33-page pe- toral Board today unanimously certified tition pinpointing the alleged fraud to the President-elect John Kennedy's election vie- board while Chicago Mayor Richard J., tory in the state. The move assures him of Daley, above Dapples' hand, remains silent the state's 27 electoral votes. Here.George with a big frown on his face. H. Dapples, representing the Chicago Nixon (UPI Telephoto) Illinois Board Certifies Kennedy as Official Winner Springfield, Ill.-fflPD-Presl dent-elect John F. Kennedy to day held a firm, official claim to Illinois' 27 electoral votes despite Republican charges of election fraud. 'The Illinois Electoral Board certified Kennedy the official winner Wednesday at the end of a stormy 2'z hour hearing in the state capital. ' . Kennedy's margin over Vice President Richard M. Nixon was a razor-thin 8,838 Votes 2,377,846 to 2,368,988.' . . Republicans conceded the decision by the GOP-dominat-cd Electoral Board all but spelled the end to their hopes of reversing the Kennedy vic tory. . . "There is apparently no way ol stopping the electoral voles from going to Kennedy," Cook County Chicago Repub lican Chairman Francis X. Connell said. George Dapples, . attorney for the Chicago Nixon Re count committee, spiked sug gestions an injunction might bo sought in Circuit Court here '.to prevent the Demo cratic electors from meeting Monday. "What' good would that do?" Dapples asked. "It wouldn't keep Kennedy out of the White House, or put Nixon into it." New York -, (UPI) - Stocks drifted lower today with steels, chemicals and scattered blue chips pacing the decline. Texas Instruments dropped more than 3 and IBM a large fraction after opening with a gain of IVs. Chesapeake & Ohio rolled up a solid fraction. Steels, Chemicals Pace Stock Decline DOW-JONES AVERAGES Now York - (UI'll - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 612.68, up 0.96; 20 railroads 127.10, up 0.36i IS utilities 97.49. off . 0.16, and 65 stocks 202.94, up 0.32. Sales Wednesday were about 3.88 , million shares compared, with 3.5 million shares Tuesday. ' Weci'nesdny'i prices on 'selected siocki: ... Allied Chcitilcnl a,, j., 63 !a Alum Co. Am. J.-U.. 18 Amcncnn unit r.4 Amerlcnn Motors 1RT5 AT&T i Oil '. ij Anncondn Couocr... , 44:)i, Antico Steel flU'.i Bendlx Corp. .......t.......;. (IS Belhlehcm Sleel - 3I',' Boelnl Air 37 Caterpillar Corp . 31 Chrysler Corn 40l,i Continental Can .:. 34 '.i, Crown Zallorbach 4l)!ii Curtlaa Wright 10 Vt Dow Chemical Du Pont Enstmnn Kodak Firestone General Electric Clenernl Foods General Motors ... Georgia Pacific Graham T'aiuc Greyhound Gulf OH . Homcstnke Mill nc Idaho Power a. M. . Int. 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POCAHONTAS Gay, beadea moccasin with snug fur collar (or gifting both women and children! In all the wanted colors. ' v for under the tree. Soft leather uppers, J&ijxffi ibm Mt eat By2es SHOES There are over 300 Karl's shoe stores. 230 E. Main Street OPEN EVERY NIGHT 711 9 NEXT WEEK Incendiary Shell Burns Building; Leftists Retreat Vientiane, Laos -flJPD Artil Icry and incendiary shells and bullets struck the U. S. Em bassy today as pro-Western soldiers battled to drive Com munist-supported troops from the capital city. Diplomatic officials in Washington said the Ameri can Chancery, the building housing the embassy offices, was burned out in a fire started when . an incendiary shell hit the building. There was no report of Americans hurt. . Staffers Huddle U. S. Ambassador Winthrow Brown and 30 staff members huddled on the ground floor of the buildings as the fight ine between pro- and anti- Communist forces swirled through the city. Two heavy shells hit the building' and shells sprayed the second floor. ' The anti-Communist forces led by Brig. Gen. Phoumi Nos- avan shot their way into the center of the city Wednesday in a fierce battle. The leftist and Communist Pathcl Lao soldiers under par atroop Capt. Kong Le retreat ed to the airport on the west ern edge of the city. Intervention Threats Tile continuing battle brought new1 threats of inter vention from Communist China, a move that almost certainly would draw in out side Western forces and turn Laos into a new Korea. Pciping Radio accused the United States and neighboring Thailand of "crude" and frenzied" Intervention and said the situation was "very grave.". It said it would make utmost efforts to . . . cnecK U. S. imperialist intervention in the internal affairs of Laos." Victory Uncertain The see-saw battle still was going on and it was uncertain which side would be the ul timate victor. This was the second time .Phoumi's soldiers had driven out the leftists. Thtt nrn Woctorn . 0PnpmI -' ' . . . B launched his first attack Tues day and seized key areas of th rlt.v Knnff Le rallied his forces and drove them bacK again. .; Late Wednesday Phoumi re ceived reinforcements and Irove back into the heart of this city. Guests Take Refuge Heavy fighting . swirled around the city's only major hotel, the Constellation. Men, women and children took ref uge in the lower floors and none was injured although the hotel suffered three direct hits from artillery fire. Two large calibre shells and several bullets struck the sec ond floor of the U. S. embassy. U. S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown and 30 staff members huddled on the ground floor and none was injured. Five More Bodies Fouud as Algiers Terrorism Mounts Algiers, Algeria - IUPU -French police discovered the bodies of five more terrorist victims in Algiers today, add ing a new and ugly twist to the now flagrant hatred be tween Moslem and European communities. Moslem demands for inde pendence ; were growing! ap parently fanned by agitators sent into Algiers by leaders of the six -year -old rebellion against France and mobs of Arabs streamed out of the Cas bah today in ugly demonstrations. Four truckloads of French paratroopers - rolled into gov ernment square today and broke up one throng of 1,300 Moslems waving Algerian rebel flags and howling for independence. Discovery of the five bodies Disc Jockeys To Join Federation Portland - OIPl) - Disc jock eys for four Portland radio stations voted for membership in the American Federation of Radio and Television Ar tists Wednesday night. The vote came following a recent National Labor Rela tions Board decision that disc jockeys at KPOJ, KGW, KOIN and KXL need not belong to both AFRTA and the Interna tional Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers. The vote was 20 for the AFRTA and' none for the 1BEW. Two votes were cast not to have any union. Richard Ross, KOIN-TV newsman, is president-elect of AFRTA. Oregon May Gain In Avery Estate Salem - HIPD - A Salem newspaper said today "the estate of former Montgomery Ward & Co. Chairman Sewcll Avery could mean up to $4 million in inheritance taxes for Oregon because of 11,979 acres of virgin timber he own ed in Linn county. The north Linn county holdings, in the Thomas creek watershed, have been esti mated to be worth more than $20 million. The amount, of taxes Oregon would receive depends on provisions of Avery's will, the Oregon Statesman said. He died last month and his will will be probated in the Midwest. Property Tax Hike To Pay for Schools Said Education Threat '! Salem - IUPI1 Oregon legis lators were told Wednesday that to further increase prop erty taxes to pay for schools would be a "serious threat", to education in Oregon. . Thomas Rigby of Salem, executive secretary of the legislative interim committee on education, said Oregonians now pay more property .tax to finance education than any other state. - More, than 60 per cent of school costs in Oregon come from property taxes while the national average is 50: Per cent, he said. Gov. Mark Hatfield has suggested more basic school support from the state to en able a reduction in property taxes. ' . ' Rigby said the committee s goal is for the state to pay 50 per cent of school costs by the 1965-66 school year. The state now contributes 36V per cent. -.' ' Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dal ies) suggested that instead of the present school aid distri bution formula, each county be given a certain percentage of the personal income tax for schools, i ' ' House Speaker Robert Dun can (D-Medford) said this may be considered during the regular legislative session. State Fiscal Officer Ken neth Bragg said that ' even with the proposed salary in creases for state employees, the salaries would be three years behind those of private and federal employees at the end of the biennium. He contrasted this with recommended increases 1 n academic salaries.. At the end of the next, biennium under proposed pay increases, Ore gon would, be competitive with 19 comparable colleges, Bragg said. Regional Edition MEDFORDf Page 2A Tribune MEDFdRD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15; 1960 raised new fears among .the French settlers that the war would engulf Algiers itself. The principal victim, was Said Madani, leading Moslem front man of the settlers' French Algeria cause. The other victim were two Europeans found battered to death in the Diar El MancouK suburb and two Moslems ly-5 ing in a ditch 'at Maison Blanche, site of a major air-y port outside the city. Their deaths brought the toll, of week's violence . to. at -least ,'. 130. - ... , The death of Madani was special shock. He was a, mem'., ber of the French Algeria. " Public Safety committee', which led the May, 1958, set-', .tier revolt that brought '(Jeny Charles de Gaulle to power v Holiday Season Close-Oul Burn-Rite Logs KOGAP lumber Indultriei ll liquidating their track of um. Rir L091. Now you on ui i much 26c por carton. Burn-Rita Logi ara packaged in oaty to carry 10 packs and 6 packt. Each log It 3 Inchoi in diamaror and 12 inchot long and will give hourt of warm, comfortable hoar. Burn-Rita loga aro available at our mill en So u t-h Pacific Higway 99 or we will deliver orderi amount i n g to $15.00 or -more. , .' Sorry No Charging on theee apodal pricet .- For More Information Call ... ? SP 3-6601 Ext 46 Americans spent an estimat ed $1.2 billion last year for t. I i 3.95 -5.95 ' -10 THE COLORS ARE FABULOUS; THE DESIGNS DEv LIGHTFUL; THE LACE DETAILING DONE WITH A LAVISH HAND . . . YET, THE PRICES ARE SENSIBLY IN KEEPING WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS BUDGET. LA POINTE'S GIFT PETTICOAT COLLECTION FEA TURES WHITE AS WELL AS LUSCIOUS COLOR, BLACK, RED, SERENADE BLUE, CREAM BEIGE, AND PRIMROSE PINK. . ' BE EXTRA THOUGHTFUL AND TUCK IN A LA POINTE'S GIFT CERTIFICATE. . -. JIT'I A WONDERFUL STORE JPT NEW CHRISTMAS HOURS Monday Thru Friday 10:00 to 9:00 . Saturday -9:30 to 5:30 candy and consumed an av erage of 16.4 pounds per capita. - 9
