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10 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON 65 Elderly Persons Perish as Blaze Sweeps Rest Home NORWALK (UPI) - Sixty five elderly men and women perished In a rural rest home fire Saturday In the worst fire in this country since 95 persons died in a Chicago school lire In 1958. ' . Slat Firs Marshal Fred Rice aaid there were 86 residents and three ' employes in the Golden Age Nursing Home 10 miles from here and "65 didn't Bet out." Rice, after an on-the-spot in Ktwlinn with finv. .fames A, Rhodes, confirmed that three amnlnvns nnri nnlv 21 Of the elderly residents, many of them invalids, escaped irom me one story building which quickly became an inferno as winds whipped through the structure. The tragedy was the second disastrous rest nome lire in we Post Offices To Be Closed Monday WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Post Office Department said ail postal installations will be closed Monaay dui wme iinuini -ice will be provided for busi nesses. The comptroller of the cur rency, regulator of national banks, said it "strongly ap proves" 'of actions by individ ual DanKS or governors oi oiaiea to close banks Monday and "urges the adoption of similar action" by other states and banks. The comptroller's an nouncement appeared to mean that banks were free to close nnH the mmntrnller honed thev would. ' The post office said lid de liveries, except special deliv ery mail, would be made but incoming mail would be dis tibuted to boxes. There will be no nostal services at all. how ever, between the hours of 12 noon and 1 p.m. EST, the hours of the President's funeral, the announcement said. United States last week. On Monday, 26 elderly persons died in a fire at the Surfside Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., a resort hotel used as a convalescent home in the off-season. School Fire Worse The Chicago school fire on Dec. 1, 1958, claimed 95 lives. The tragedy, however, was far from trie worst in Ohio s his tory, three fires each having claimed more than 100 lives. A fire at the Ohio Penitentiary on April 21, 1930, Killed 320. "This is the most devastating thing I have ever seen," the governor said as he looked at the smouldering ruins which disclosed an occasional charred skull and piece of human flesh. Rhodes ordered all assistance at the state's command made available and then flew to Washington to loin other offi cials in paying their respects to the slain President Kennedy Saturday afternoon, Rhodes ordered a complete investigation of the tragedy by the Highway Patrol under capt, A. B. Cook. Robert Pollack, president of the Cleveland firm which owned the rest home, said the build ing and operation had recently been approved by the state and the Health Department. He said it was cited for an "efficient, clean, safe nursing home." Elderly h'atlenu About half of the elderly pa tients came from Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Pollack said. A number of the residents were transferred here from the Cleveland Slate Hospital about a year ago. The grim task of identifying the charred remains began shortly before noon. Officials said identificaiton would be dif ficult and mostly through teeth and dentures and from charts showing the beds assigned for each resident. REMAIN ABROAD '.' WASHINGTON (UPl)-Presl-' dent Johnson has asked all U.S. 1 ambassadors and other top dip lomats abroad to remain at . their posts and continue to dis charge their duties, the State Department said Saturday, Jackson Elected To Board of Directors ... PORTLAND (UPI) - Glenn L. Jackson of Medford has been elected to the board of directors of Commonwealth, Inc., a mort gage banking firm based in Portland. : Jackson is chairman of the Oregon Highway Commission. He also is vice chairman of pa cific Power & Light Co. and Is a director of the U, S. National Bank, v - ; . - . ( X' THREE OTHERS President John F. Kennedy was the fourth chief executive to be assassinated while in office. The three others (shown here, left to right) were Abraham Oil M and Lincoln, April 14, 1865; James Garfield, July 2, 1881; William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901. (UPI) Four Presidents Have Been Assassinated WEISFIELD'S FEMURE 1HEGIF1 WITH THE YEAR ji guarantee Every Senilis watch move ment must perform properly for 3 full yens or Burirus will repair or rpplace it free. I 5Nt A n FOR MEN -FOR LADIES USE . OUR CONVENIENT LAY-AWAY PLAN . FOR CHRISTMAS INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS BENRUS QUALITY WATCHES $30to15000 WAN'S 17jewel watch. Self-winding nd tuaranteed waterproof' with malching adjustable eipansion band. LADIES' lovely model has new marquise design, petite round dial, faceted crystal, sculptured florentmed tapered ends and adjustable expansion bracelet. 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Only 16 years later, President James A. Garfield died from a bullet in the back fired by a disappointed office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau. Garfield was shot while walking through Washington railroad station. President William McKinley, at the head of a reception line at the 1901 Pan American Ex position at Buffalo, N.Y., was shot in the chest as he extend ed his hand to a visitor. Between Lincoln and Kenne dy, a number of presidents have been tne target oi assas sins, Ex-President Theodore Roos evelt was wounded in Milwau kee during the 1912 election Downed Pilot Still Missing SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) - The missing pilot of an Air Na tional Guard jet which crashed northcentral Washington Nov. 14 spent his tenth night In tne wilderness Saturday if he Is alive. First Lt. Robert Boucher. 25. las been sought since his crash ed ntnna war fnUnd west of Orovllle, Wash., near the Ca nadian border. The nlnne's radio observer bailed from the craft, but he said he did not see Boucher lonvn the nirnlnne. Crews. checking the F8!U's wreckage, found no trace oi uoucner in the plane. Knnrrh nlnne nnerations. ham pered by weather, were unable to search Saturday. Air National Guard officials at Fairchild Air Force Base near here said 41 ground search snckinf Boucher Sat urday. They are led by six Ca nadian Indian guides. Mnl rtnviri Kinnev. search coordinator for the Air National Gaurd, said planes have blanket ed the area for more than a week without a trace of Bou cher. "The hopes of finding him oliun ni' a slim, hut whatever hope we have rests with the ground personnel," Kinney said. ish Cadets To Attend Funeral DUBLIN (UPI) A contin gent of 300 Cadets from the Cur ragh Camp Military College will attend President Kennedy's funeral at the request o( Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, the Irish government announced Satur day night. Mrs. Kennedy, In a request relayed to Prime Minister Sean Lemass by U.S. Ambassador Matthew McCloskcy, had asked for the presence of a delegation from the Irish Army. The cadets will fly to ine United States today on the same plane carrying President Ea mon De Vnlcra and Foreign Affairs Minister Frank Aiken to the funeral. When Kennedy visited Ireland last summer he placed a wreath on (he graves of Irish leaders executed in the tulfi revolt against Britain. He later re quested and was presented the full Irish television recording of the ceremony. campaign when a New York saloon keeper fired at him. President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly escaped death when an assassin's bullet intended for him killed Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak in 1933 in Florida. President Harry S. Truman watched from a second story window of the Blair House in Washington in 1950 while po lice and Secret Service agents killed two Puerto Rican nation alists who fought their way into the mansion. - . . Kennedy was the first presi dent to be killed from a rifle bullet and while moving. Suspect Refused Mother's Calls DALLAS (UPI) - Mrs. Mar guerite Oswald used to call her son by telephone when he was in Moscow in 1959 and get only a click in her ear. Lee H. Oswald, who police said killed President Kennedy, would hang up on his mother. She would sob, but she still had kind words for her boy. "He was a boy who helped his mother," she said. She said her son had suffered "persecution" when he defected to the Soviet Union and that since his return to the United States in 1962 she had not seen him that is until Saturday when she visited him in a jail at Dallas. "I want to hear from HIM that he did it," she said. Dressed in her nurse's uni- Hatfield's Office Get Abusive Calls SALEM (UPI) At least four "violent" telephone calls were received by the governor's of fice Friday after word of Presi dent Kennedy's assassination was released. Travis Cross, press secretary for Gov. 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