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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,
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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
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Lincoln, April 14, 1865; James Garfield, July 2, 1881;
William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901. (UPI)
Four Presidents Have Been Assassinated
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By United Press International
John F. Kennedy was the
fourth president of the United
States to die by assassination.
His death came 128 years after
the first attempt on a presi
dent's life.
Andrew Jackson was attend
ing the state funeral of Rep.
Warren R. Davis of South Car
olina on Jan. 10, 1835, when a
Washington house painter
stepped from behind a pillar at
the capitol and fired two pistols
at trie President. The bullets
missed.
Thirtv v e a r s later, John
Wilkes Booth entered President
Abraham Lincoln's box at
Ford's Theater April 14, 1865,
and shot the Civil War leader
in the back of the head. Lincoln
died the next day.
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. Mark Hatfield, said the
calls were "abusive," and said
they had been monitored.
form, she drove calmly to
Dallas from her home in Fort
Worth Saturday.
Mrs. Oswald said her boy was
a boy who had to go to work to
help support Uie family at an
early age. He was the youngest
of three sons.
"He always brought home
what he earned and never spent
it on himself," she said.
Oswald's father died before
the boy was born. Mrs. Oswald
had to raise him herself.
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