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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
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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. Paper
.lohns Manvlllc
Kcnneeott Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power
Montgomery Ward
Natlonul Biscull
New York Central .. .....
Pacific Gas & Electric .
Penney, J. C
I'enn lilt
Radio Corporation
Ktc meld oil
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Shell Oil
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Southern Co -.:
Southern Pacific i.
Standard California ,X..
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Sun Mines
Texas Co
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Texas Pac Lund Trust .
Transamerlca
Trans World Air
Trl-Conlincnlnl
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
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U, S. Rubber
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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
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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
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