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Elmo Smith Takes Oath
As Neiv State Executive
SALEM IB Senate President
Elmo E. Smith. 46-year-old John
Day weekly newspaper publisher,
took the oath of office as governor
of Oregon at 9:36 a. m. Wednes
day. ,
Smithy speeded here from his
home by a state police car after
he learned of the death of Gov.
Paul L. Patterson, took the oath In
the governor's office. It was ad
ministered by Chief Justice Harold
J. Warner.
He spoke in solemn, measured
tones as he swore to uphold the
federal and state constitutions, and
to faithfully discharge his duties.
After he took the oath, he said
he would "continue the sound and
good administration of Gov. Pat
terson with as little interruption as
possible,"
SFlRST ACTS
His first acts, he said, would be
. to see that the governor's family
gets proper care, and that "proper
tribute is paid to a great public
servant."
The doors of the ' governor's of
fice were locked during the day.
The only spectators present for
the taking of the oath were Justice
William C. Perry; Secretary ol
State Earl T. Newbry, State Treas
urer Sig Unander, Deputy State
Treasurer Fred Paulus; William
E. Walsh, Coos Bay, former Sen
ate president who now is a mem
ber of the State Board of Higher
Mrs. Abbott
Found Purse
OAKLAND (UP) Mrs. Elsie
Abbott, mother of convicted slayer
Burton W. Abbott, now admits she
found Stephanie Bryan's purse in
the basement of her son's home
two months before the case broke!
"I saw the girl's name on it,
but it didn't mean anything to
me," Mrs. Abbott said after visit
ing Burton at the Alameda County
Jail.
"I tossed the purse back In the
box and thought no more about
it." . .
Abbott's wife, Georgia, found the
purse on July 15 and called police.
The discovery eventually led to
i the finding of Stephanie's body
near the Ahhnt.f mmintniM nahln
(na to Abbott's arrest and .coa
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Abbott's visitors yesterday In
eluded his wife, mother and
brother, Mark; his aunt, Mrs
Mona Marsh; a family friend
Frank Schwedhelm; and his cou
sin. Rollin Haisht. '
All declared they intend to fight
on tor Aoooit's freedom.
Wheat Belt
Has Rainfall
. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Most of the nation's winter
wheat belt got some more bene'
ficial precipitation today.
Rain or snow fell over wide
areas in the central part of the
country. The rain belt extended
over eastern Texas and Oklahoma
with snow northward into the
eastern Dakotas.
Snow depths across Kansas
Tanged from 7 Inches at Dodge
City and Salina to 9 inches at Rus
sell. Snow started last night in
western Kansas and the storm
moved northeastward across Kan-
sas with falls from 4 to 8 inches
predicted in northern Kansas and
.northern Missouri tonight. Sleet
and freezing rain pelted southern
Kansas and sections of Missouri.
In the rain belt, falls generally
were light. One of the biggest
amounts was nearly half an inch
. .at Shravenort, La.
Fairly cold weather prevailed in
jmost ot tne country, witn Deiow
zero readings extending across
northern Minnesota to southern
Wyoming and westward into parts
of northern Nevada and eastern
sections of Oregon and Washing'
ton.
New Appeal
In Offing
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Caryl
Chessman's attorney prepared to
day to appeal a U.S. District
Court decision denying the convict
author a writ of habeas corpus.
Attorney George T. Davis said
he will file the appeal with the
U.S. Appeals Court here. If that
fails, he will carry it to the U.S.
Supreme Court. The whole proc
ess may take a year. .
Chessman, 34, faces death in the
San Quentln Prison gas chamber
as the "red light bandit" of Los
Angeles convicted in 1948 of kid
naping, attempted rape, robbery
and sex perversion.
He asked Federal Judge Louis E.
Goodman for a writ of habeas
corpus, alleging that the transcript
of his original trial was faulty.
Judge Goodman denied the writ
yesterday in a sharply worded
opinion that accused Chessman of
making "false and perjurious
statements."
Had the writ been granted.
Chessman probably would have
been tried again. But this time, he
w-ould have escaped the death sen
tence. The law under which he was
sentenced to death has been
changed to provide a penalty of
life imprisonment. I
Education; Fred Shideler,' who
only a month ago became admin,
istratlve assistant to the governor;
Edwin Armstrong, secretary to the
governor; and a dozen reporters
and photographers.
PAST TRIP
Smith made the trip from John
Day in six hours, arriving here M
6:30 a.m. He Immediately went to
a hotel, and came to the capitol
shortly before 9 a. m.
After he made his brief state
ment about continuing Gov. Pat
terson's policies, Smith said he had
nothing more to say because "I
haven't, had time to think this
over."
Smith has served in four ses
sions of the state Senate, having
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fcLMO SMITH
. . New Governor
Judge Ponders
Custody Case
SAN JOSE. Calif., (UP) The
guardianship case of 3'a-year-old
Susan Smith, formerly of Portland,
Ore.. , baa been taken under sub
mission by Superior Judge M. O.
Del Mutolo.
The judge indicated that -he
might spend anywhere from sev
eral days to two weeks considering
the evidence in the case. '
Susan's aunt, Mrs. Ellen High
tower of Los Gates, Calif., . pell
tioned to be named her guardian
on grounds that the mother,-. Mrs.
Marjorie Smith of Portland, is
unlit.
However, attorneys for Mrs.
Smith argued that Mrs. Hightower
was guilty of "child stealing'1 for
taking Susan from her Portland
home after Mrs. Smith was
charged with complicity in the
bomb-murder of her husband. Ker
mit. Mrs. Smith was acquitted of
the charge.
Hugh Center, attorney for Mrs.
Smith, argued yesterday that sev
eral inter-state legal cases similar,
to the one' involving Susan were
thrown out because the domicile of
the child Involved was in a dif
ferent state.
But attorneys for Mrs. Hightower
cited a case in which a California
court ruled that the court of Juris
diction was the court in the state
in which the child was living when
the action was brought.
Del Mutolo said he would study
the arguments in regard to Juris
diction and .would also go over the
testimony introduced from the
Portland trial of Mrs. Smith In
connection with her , husband s
death.
"However, I am not going to
pass on the guilt or innocence of
this lady (Mrs. Smith) as to
whether or not she had anything
to do with the killing of her hus
band," Del Mutolo said. "That
matter was litigated In Oregon."
After court adjourned yesterday,
Mrs. Smith said she intended to
return to ' Portland immediately
and did not expect to see her
child before she left.
She said she saw Susan at Mrs.
Hightower's home last Sunday and
that the child told her, "I want to
go back to Portland with you,
Mommie."
Mrs. Patterson
Takes Shock Well
SALEM i Mrs. Paul Patterson
stood up well after hearing of her
husband's sudden death.
The Rev. Julian J. Kelser. past
r of the First Congregational'
Church which the governor attend
ed, said "she took the news ex
tremely well."
The Rev. Keiser went to see Mrs.
Patterson as soon as the news was
announced.
Quake Reported
Near Marianas
PASADENA. Calif. (,P A
.strong earthquake which occurred
200 miles below the surlace of the
Pacific Ocean was recorded
Wednesday by the California In
stitute of Technology.
, Dr. Charles Richter of the Seis
mological Laboratory said it ap
parently happened between the Ma
rianas Islands and the islands of
Japan. It was timed at 5:53:47 and
6:03:31 a.m., PST. Magnitude was
6.8 on a scale which rates the
largest shocks at 8.6.
been elected its president in 1955
without opposition.
He has been a newspaperman
for 23 years, branching from ad
vertising work to found the On
tario Observer.
He served as mayor of Ontario
for three years, resigning in 1943
to enter the Navy. He was in the
South Pacific and Far East for
18 months.
He owns the Blue Mountain
Eagle, weekly John Day news
paper, end has an Interest In the
Madras Pioneer.
CHIEF INTEREST
His chief interest in the Legis
lature has been highway legisla
tion, the same as Gov. Patterson's
main Interest when he was a leg
islator. , '
Smith is friendly and high es
teemed by his fellow legislators.
He also is a straight talker.
His voting record might be con
sidered as middle-of-the road
among Republicans.
Smith was born on a cattle ranch
near Grand Junction, Colo., Nov.
19, 1909. He went to high school
at' Wilder, Idaho, and was gradu
ated from the College of Idaho in
1932.
He married Dorothy Leinlnger
of Payette, Idaho, and they have
a son and a daughter,
Mrs. Smith was expected to ar
rive late Wednesday from John
Day.
Tax Charges
Face Balentine
PORTLAND lifl U. S. Balentine,
Klamath Falls attorney who was
put on probation a year ago be
cause he did not file income tax
returns, was. to appear in federal
court here Thursday to answer
charges of additional tax viola
tions. Federal Judge Chase Clark
meted the probationary one-year
sentence- last Feb. 4 after the 55-year-old
attorney pleaded guilty to
failing to file income tax returns
for three years.
A petition signed by John M.
McFarland of the federal proba
tion office accuses Balentine of
falsifying his 1954 tax return,
which he filed last April 15, and
of failing to keep Income tax rec
ords last year as he was ordered
to do by the Internal Revenue
service.
It also accuses Balentine of not
turning over to the government
federal taxes which he collected
from the pay of an employe and
of not making deductions from the
pay of other employes.
'No Pressure'
On Patterson
SALEM W There was no
pressure from Pres. Eisenhower or
his staff for Oov. Paul Patterson
to run far the U. S. Senate.
In an interview with AP Corre
spondent Paul W. Harvey Jr.,
shortly before' his death he denied
reports' he had been requested by
the President to run against Dem
ocratic Senator Wayne Morse.
Those reports grew from a
breakfast meeting Gov. Patterson
had with the President a year ago.
The governor explained he had
gone east three or four times in
behalf of Oregon projects. He said
on one of those- ocAisions he had
gone to the White House for the
meeting.
"We talked about federal aid to
education, and politics wasn't men
tioned," Gov. Patterson told Har
vey. He added that other politi
cians he met in Washington had
urged him to run. but there had
been no suggestion of it from the
White House.
Gov. Patterson said in the inter
view he had made up his mind to
run for the Senate a week after a
talk at Coos Bay in which he said
he would make up his mind In
two weeks. The favorable reaction
from the public after that an
nouncement convinced him he
should run, he said.
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Disarm Talks
Spotlighted
During Meet
WASHINGTON lifl The Eisen-
hower-Eden talks shifted Wednes
day to questions of disarmament
and possible limitations on atomic
and hydrogen bomb tests. .
These subjects came up in a
White House session attended by
Harold Stassen, who la President
Eisenhower's disarmament special'
1st. and Lewis Strauss, head of
the Atomic Energy Commission.
British Prime Minister Eden and
Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd met
with Secretary of State Dulles,
Stassen and Strauss.
Lloyd had conferred earlier 'for
two hours with Dulles at the State
Department on Middle and Far
East problems
Signs pointed to a call by Eisen-
hower and Eden for an all-out ef
fort to make peace In the Middle
East. i
PREVIOUS SESSIONS
Previous sessions of the Eisen-
hower-Eden talks have gone over
joint U.S. -British preparations for
another disarmament conference
with the Russians next month at
London. Past efforts to reach ac
cord with the Soviets on disarma
ment have foundered on the criti
cal question ot how to make sure
nobody cheats on pledges to dis
arm.
Eden has talked publicly about
possibly limiting atomic and hy
drogen bomb tests in the Pacific.
But Eisenhower and Dulles,. In pub
lic comment, have been cool to
ward the idea. Plans for new U.S.
nuclear tests in the Pacific have
been going ahead.
AGREE
Eden and Eisenhower agreed
Tuesday that peace between Israel
and the Arab states is essential
to Middle East stability. Among
other things they discussed the
possibility of posting United Nations-
troops 'In the demilitarised
zone between the hostile armies
o( Palestine In-order to pacify the
area.- ., ; -
U.S. officials ' demonstrated
little enthusiasm for this possibil
ity but an American spokesman
said it had not been ruled out by
Eden and Elsenhower.
In two days of discussion the
British and American government
chiefs and their foreign ministers
have aired problems and disagree
ments ranging from Europe to the
Far East. They have touched also
on such matters as general cold
war strategy and plans for further
disarmament efforts through the
U.N. '
Polio Stock
Auction Held
A livestock auction held at the
Klamath Stockmen's Commission
Co. yards Tuesday netted tl, 119.55
for the March of Dimes drive, re
ported Tom Perkins. National Po
lio Foundation chairman, for Klam-
ath County, today.
A steer donated by Ben and
Mabel Henzel brought in (791.65
for the drive. The steer was pur
chased first by the donor. Ben
Henzel, for $325 and then, given
back to be auctioned again. The
second time Dan O'Connor of J. D.
O'Connor and Sons paid $283.65 for
the steer and he also gave it back.
The final buver was the Klam
ath Stockmen's Commission Co.
who paid $183 for the animal.
The Klamath Stockmen's firm do
nated a lamb which was purchased
by Don Flournoy for $77.-A hog
given by Del Stepp brought 126.40.
Tulana Farms, donated ' a hog
which brought $57.50 and John
O'Connor gave a hog which was
sold for $30.
Two sides of bacon given by
Grigsby's Smokehouse ' and Tru
love's Market were auctioned 14
times to bring a total of $137 tq
the drive. -
Perkins and Jay Kroksh, county
March of Dimes chairman, ex
pressed their thanks to the donors
and buyers and to the Klamath
Stockmen's Commission Co. for
their donations of time, money and
livestock to aid the polio fund drive
Death Comes To
Fourth Governor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Goy. Paul Patterson was the
fourth Oregon chief executive to
die while in office.
By coincidence the state's- two
governors named Patterson both
had their terms cut short by death.
The first to die in office was
James Withycombe. who was in
his second term when death came
on March 3. 1916. Ben W. Olcott
moved up from secretary of state
to fill the vacancy.
I. L. Patterson, no kin to the
governor who succumbed Tuesday
night, died Dec. 21.- 1929, three
years after his election. A. W.
Norblad, president of the Senate,
took his place.
Earl Snell, In his second term
was killed in a plane crash near
Lakeview Oct. 28. 1947. Because
the president of the Senate, Mar
shall Comett, also was killed in
the crash, the governorship went
to the speaker of the House,. John
H. Hall.
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GOVERNOR PAUL L. PATTERSON
Below Zero Temperatures
Hit Klamath Basin Areas
Below zero temperatures were
reported from all over the Klamath
Basin this morning.
' Bonanza -had its coldest night
this, year' with an unofficial 12
degrees below zero Tuesday night-
. At the' Ground Ob'srAer Corps
station ill Fort Klamath,, it was 23
degrees below zero at 7 a.m. to-
KF Base Work
Bids Opened
Six bids were opened Monday af
ternoon at Hamilton Air Force
Base, California, for rehabilitation
of existing housing and shops, at
tne Klamath r ails Air rnrce Base,
according to information this
morning from the Purchasing and
Contracting office at Hamilton.
Plans for the rehabilitation work
were drawn by the office of How-
ard R. Perrln, Klamath Falls architect-and
the work includes reno
vating; remodeling -and replacing
of necessary fixtures and utilities
in existing .structures at the base.
Bids and amounts wpre:
Pinnlger and Watklns, Klamath
Falls, $238,069; Lostin and Robin
son, Gresham, $284,000; Leo N.
Huls, Klamath Falls. $230,320.68;
Bigelow Construction Company,
Portland, $262,248; Schenk Con
structlon Company, Portland. $254,-
611; Brosterhous Construction Com
pany, Klamath Falls, $240,048.
Contract award will not be made
until further study of the bids, of
ficials at Hamilton Air Force Base
indicated.
A. Stevenson
Asks Support
SACRAMENTO W Sharp
barbs against the Eisenhower ed
ministration set the keynote ol
Adlai Stevenson's appeal for sup
port in his California presidential
primary campaign.
"We've had enough of piety and
peaceful proclamations by the
President to please half the Re
publicans," the Democratic con
tender declared Tuesday night,
"and enough of threats and bomb-
brandtshments by the secretary of
state to please the other half.
"We've had enough of huckster
ing and self-advertising of this ad
ministration to please its stock
holders." Stevenson did not elaborate on
his "piety" remark. The "bomb
brandishings" apparently referred
to the controversy over Secretary
of State Dulles' "brink of war"
statements In Life Maguzine.
Patterson Home
Receives Ike Wire
SALEM tin. President Elsen
hower telegraphed his sympathy
to Mrs. Paul Patterson Wednes
day. The telegram:
r"I cannot possibly express to
you the depth of the shock and
distress I feel In learning of your
husband's death. He was a dis
tinguished citizen, dedicated to the
service of his fellow men. More
over, I was privileged to call him
my good friend.
"Mrs. Elsenhower and I loin in
assurances of deepest sympathy to
you and to the members of your
family."
No. 3389
day, according to Myrtle Wlmer
Herald and News reporter tor tne
area. Ranchers coming in to the
Fort Klamath Oarage early this
morning reported low last nlght ofj
25 and 26 degrees below zero,
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Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sub-Arctic cold kept much of the
Pacific Northwest region east of
the Casrades in a deep freeze
Wednesday. Forecasts were
for continued cold.
The Weather Bureau reported It
was 23 below at Ellensburg and
22 below at Baker, Ore.
It was even colder farther to Uie
east as New Meadows, in west
central Idaho, reported 4S below
and Helena, Mont., shivered at 27
below.
Other sub-zero readings in Wash
ington and Oregon included: Yaki
ma -16, Spokane -10, Pendleton -8.
Walla Walla -7, Bend -6.
Freezing temperatures also ex
tended over virtually all of West
ern Washington and Oregon, too.
Brookings, on the Oregon coast,
was the lone spot to report the
mercury remained above freezing
It had a minimum of 33.
Bright weather prevailed gener
ally. A strong wind accentuated
the cold in the Columbia River
sector. Easterly gusts reached as
much as SO miles an hour at Trout
dale, east of Portland.
The forecast for east of the Cas
cades was for temperatures as
low as 25 below overnight Wednes
day in some areas.
Some Montana schools were
closed because of the weather.
The city of Butte, with 10,000 pu
pils, was one of them.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair and cold throu&h
Thursday except for morning fog.
Highs 18-23. Lows Wednesday
night 5-10 below zero.
Iligh yesterday 15
how last night -4
Precip. last 24 hours trace
Prcclp. since Oc t. 1 15.35
Same period last year 3.80
Normal for period 6.82
Probe Invites McKay
WASHINGTON I A congres-, tain Davis considered the proccd
slona) committee studying Interior urc to be "proper and correct."
Department handling of 15 disputed Scott said he was "disturbed" that
Oregon mining patents offered Davis had accepted "decljive !ln-
Wednesday to he3r testimony from
Secretary McKay
Robert W. Redwlnc. assistant
counsel lor the Senate subcommit
tee which is conducting the hear
ing with a House group, said Mc
Kay was being Invited by letter to
appear, ii he so desires, at a fu
ture session of the Joint group.
Redwlne said it was possible the
hearing, which opened in Portland,
Ore., in November and has been
held here intermittently over the
past three weeks, might wind upTruman administration
wun one more session, in itce
Wednesday. It is presently sched
uled to resume next Tuesday.
Tuesday's session recessed wllh
Ihe barrace of charge and counter
clnrge that has marked the hear
ing throughout.
The flareup came at Ihe wind
up of testimony by Clarence A.
Davis, undersecretary of the in
terior, when Sen. Scott (D-NCi said
the procedure followed by the de-
partment In granting the patents
to Al Sarena Mines. Inc., was "a
shabby and shoddy way for govern -
mcnt to operate." ,
Although asserting he Ik-It cer -
Death Comes During
Political Conference
PORTLAND, Ore. OT Gov. Paul L. Patterson of Ore
gon, who was the top choice of Republican party leaders in
Oregon to try to unseat Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse next
fall, died of a heart attack last night.
Patterson, who had announced only four days ago that
he would make the race for the Senate, was conferring with
political advisers at the exclusive Arlington Club in Portland
when he collapsed. He was 55.
Dr. Ernest Boylan, who reached the governor's side with
in five minutes, said Patterson died within 10 minutes of the
attack at 9:50 p.m.
The doctor tentatively blamed a coronary occlusion.
Death Stops
State GOP's
Chief Hope
PORTLAND 11 The Oregon
Republican Party lost Its chief
political hope through the death
in Portland Tuesday night of Gov.
Paul Patterson.
Only Saturday Patterson had
declared himself a candidate for
Republican nomination to seek the
U. s. Senate seat now held by
Democrat Wayne Morse. Morse Is
the only Democratic candidate so
far.. .
The death threw the Republican
Party politics in the state wide
open.
INTERIM TERM
Patterson's term as governor
would have run into January,
1959, had he been unsuccessful in
his bid for the Senate. His succes
sor, State 8enate President Elmo
E. Smith of John Day in Eastern
Oregon, now must win the gover
norship In this year's election if
ne wishes to retain tne position,
His interim term will run only un
til early January, 1957.
Gov. Patterson's death leaves
State Rep, Elmer Deetz, Canby
dairyman, the only Republican
candidate for the U. S. Senate posi
tion. Deets Is well known for his
legislative work on Oregon milk
laws, but is not generally consid
ered to carry the political weight
Patterson did.
Thus the governor'i death turns
an off-year , election .already.-of
good size into' a full blown fight
for political power in the state.
1 It brings up for election the third
position on the Important State
Board of Control. The board is
composed of the governor, the sec
retary of state and state treasur
er, Fliied now by three Republi
cans, all three positions will be
up for contest by the strengthened
Democrats. It Is believed the first
time all positions have been open
at one time. The board supervises
all state Institutions and serves as
a state land board.
IMPORTANT POSITION 4
The Important positions to be
filed in the November general
election include one U. 8. Senate
sent, four U. 8. representatives,
governor, secretary of state, state
treasurer, attorney general, all
state representatives and approx
imately half ' the state Senate
sents.
Political leaders In the Repub
lican Party expressed shock and
grief at the governor's death.
None wished to comment, so soon
after the death, on the political
implications.
Republicans Keep
Dinner Schedule
PORTLAND m The Rennhll.
can. Lincoln Day dinner at which
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson Is to be principal speaker,
will go on as scheduled Thursday
night despite the death of Gov. Paul
Patterson. '
Francis I, Smith. Multnomah
Counly Republican chairman, said
the decision was made alter due
j consideration and some hesitancy
1 because members felt the gover-
, nor would have wished it that way.
! "Gov. Patterson's devotion to
good government dictates that we
proceed with those things political
j In which he was so Interested,"
! Smith said In a statement.
formation and data upon which
you based your
final decision-
from a member
of Congress."
He referred apparently to testi
mony by Davis about meetings,
letters and other communications
wllh Rep. Ellsworth (V-Ore) con
cerning the Sarena claims. Davis
nld he had been contacted by no
other member of Congress but ac
companied his statement with let
ters written by Rep. Boykln (D
Alai to department officials In the
Because the patents gave the
private company title to valuable
timber In the Rostie River Na
tional Forest, Democrats denounce
them as "a giveaway."
Davis rejected the Democratic
assertions. He testified. In ellect.
that mining law required that the
Al Sarena patents be granted
The law declares that a holder
of a mining claim can get patent
(ownership) to the claim if he
! demonstrates he has made a "val
: Id discovery" of minerals and has
done at least 1500 in development
iwork
The only other Republican
who has entered the Senate
race is Elmer Deetz, a dairy
man who was elected to the
State Legislature two years ago
when he led a successful campaign
to remove Oregon's Milk Control ,
Act.
The partv primaries will be held
in May. Morse has no opposition
among Democrats.
Patterson became governor be-
oause he was president of the State
Senate in 1952, when Douglas Mc
Kay -resigned to become secretary
of the lnteitor in President Elsen
hower's Cabinet.
Patterson will be succeeded by'
the new State Senate president.
Elmo E. Smith, 46, publisher of the
weekly newspaper The Blue Moun
tain Eagle in the small eastern
Oregon town ot John Day, Smith
also is a Republican.
After stepping Into the governor- -
ship, Patterson was elected to a
full four-year term in 1954. Smith
will serve until a successor can
be named at the fall general elec
tion.
SERVED CONTINUOUSLY
Patterson, an attorney at Hllls
boro, 17 miles west of Portland,
entered politics in 1944, and had
served continuously In the State
Senate until he became governor,
Survivors include his wife and
three children, Mrs. John L. Smith
son, Oswego, Ore.; Mrs. James
Dollard, Claremore, Okla.; and
Paul h. Patterson Jr., Tucson,
Ariz.
The attack that took the gover
nors life came as a surprise to
his physicians. Dr. Boylan said
Patterson did not regain conscious
ness after the attack and added,
"He experienced no pain. He never
knew what happened.'' :, - ,
' Dr. Ralph purvine, Salem, saltt
Patterson-bad undergone, two..rjhys-"
ical examinations in the past two
months, and neither disclosed, any
heart trouble,
He said it was similar to, but
more severe than, the attack that
struck president Elsenhower.
This particular type of heart
attack is one of those unpredlct-
ables in the present state of the
science of medlolno," Purvine
said.
Patterson's last nubile appear
ance came two hours earlier, when
he spoke a few words- of welcome
to the Assemblies of God World
missions convention, attended by
1,700 Pacific Northwest delegates
at Portland.
After that he went to the Arling
ton Club, where he conferred with
Ted Gamble, E. J. Ireland and
John Hlggins on his campaign. Ire
land had resigned only hours pre
viously as secretary of the Board
of Control, intending to become
manager for Patterson s Portland
campaign headquarters.
COLLAPSE
He was seated on a davenport
when the sudden collapse came.
Patterson long had been in public
service, even before entering the
state Senate 12 years ago.
He was city attorney at Hills-
boro, president of the Hlllsboro
(jnamDer 01 commerce tunuimuu
er of the Hlllsboro American Le
gion post, and was active in com
munity affairs.
He was a member of the Con
gregational Church. He was in the
Rotary Club and was presioeni 01
the Oregon State Motor Assn. in
1950-52. . ,
He was born In Kent, O., July
18, 1800. His family moved to Port
land when he was 8. He served
briefly in the Army in World War.
I, was graduated from the Univer
sity cf Oregon business school in
1923, and received his law degree
from the university In 1926.
That same year he began law
pi-BCtice at Hlllsboro, where he re
mained until stepping into the gov
ernorship. Capitol Funeral
Service Planned
SALEM 11 Funeral services
for Oov. Paul Patterson probably
will be held at 2 p. in. Friday In
the House chamber in the state
capitol.
A stale funeral was being
planned Wednesday, with final ar
rangements to be announced later
In the day.
Friends of the Pattersons said
that Mis. Patterson preferred hav
ing the funeral In the First Con
gregational Church here. But the
church can seat only about 250
persons.
Patterson Said
Picture Of Health
SALEM iITt Gov. Paul Patter
son was the picture of health at
Tuesday afternoon'r Board of Con
trol meeting.
In fact, newsmen, who have been
wondering how the governor could
stand the- strain of working long
hours, remarked how well he
looked.
Attending that meeting was his
last official act.