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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Tuesday, January 5, 1960 PAGE FIVE Senators Humphrey-Kennedy Meet In April 5 Wisconsin Primary Battle WASHINGTON (AP)-Two an nounced candidates for the Demo cratic presidential nomination ap peared certain today to wage a major battle in Wisconsin. Sen. Hubert' H. Humphrey ID Minn) said today he considers the April 5 Wisconsin primary "the heart and core ot my political prospects." Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) said he knows of no rea son why he would not enter the came contest. Both have cam paigned widely in the state. Kennedy's formal announcement Saturday listed his entry only in the New Hampshire primary, in which' he is not likely to have op position. He said Sunday he will announce within four or five weeks whether he will file in Wis consin and other states. Humphrey said in an interview he believes he will win in Wiscon sin and added: "The Wisconsin primary is at the very center of my efforts. It is the heart and core of my political prospects.' Kennedy said Sunday in a radio- television interview NBC Meet The Press that he would run in representative primaries if Hum phrey is willing to enter them. Kennedy said he was confident the two would be running against each other in at least two pri rnaries and that he expects to win. But he declined to issue any Fires Claim 950 Persons Per Month BOSTON (AP)-Fires killed al- , most 950 people a month in the United States during 1959, the Na tional Fire Protection Assn., re ported today. .More than 30 per cent of fire casualties were children and more than half the estimated 11,300 fire deaths occurred in homes. While the international fire safe ty organization reported its pre liminary estimates indicated a clight reduction in fatalities about 200 less than in 1958 it also estimated the 10-year loss, includ ing 1959, totaled an appalling 116,- G00 lives. The NFPA said preliminary fig ures pointed to more than 100 mil lion dollars a month in fire losses in the United States last year for an estimated total of $1,275,000,000. This is an indicated decline of $3,800,000 in the .over-all loss. The 1959 property loss Included buildings and contents worth $1,055,000,000, plus 220 millions in aircraft, motor vehicles, forests, and other non-building fire' dam age. The corresponding figures for 1958 were, respectively, $1,056,308, 000 and $222,500,000. Worst single fire loss of life in the United States was in Meldrim, Ga., on June 28, when a freight train wreck resulted in gas ex plosion and fire. It killed 23 adults and children picnicking in a rec reational area. Almost as bad was the loss of 21 lives when fire struck a state operated boys' industrial school at Wrightsville, Ark., March 5. The victims were among 68 locked in dormitory. From the standpoint of property loss the worst fire was in Rose burg, Ore., Aug. 7 when explosives pouched off in an unattended truck resulted in a blast and fire which destroyed more than 10 million dollars' worth of property and killed 13 persons. The second largest American fire was the July 2 Pentagon blaze in the nation's capital, with an estimated loss of $6,690,000. Serves In Germany Army Pfc. Michael F. Gaddis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gaddis, Route 3, recently participated in cere monies in Leipheim, Germany which marked the transfer of the military installation known as Flie gerhorst Kaserne to the German Air Force. The 4th Division's 66th Armor, Gaddis' parent unit which was for merly stationed at the kaserne, lias moved to a new installation in the Nurnberg area. Gaddis, a member of the armor's Headquarters Company, entered the Army in February 1959 and re ceived basic combat training at Fort Ord, California. He was sta tioned at Fort Knox, Kentucky, be fore arriving overseas in July 1959 The 18-year-old soldier attended Klamath Union High School. ! crTiiitnnr challenge to Humphrey, saying he would prefer to "let Sen. Hum phrey decide where he is going to run." As for the Wisconsin con test, Kennedy said "I know of no reason why I might not enter that, or many other primaries." Humphrey said his next visit to Wisconsin will be Jan. 17 'when he will meet boosters at an informal session in Milwaukee. After that, he said, he will make frequent weekend trips to Wisconsin to compete "county by county, city by city and very extensively in AP Reporter Witnesses Train Crash Editor's Note Luciano Ferrari correspondent for The Associ ated Press in Milan, Italy, was a passenger on the commuter train which derailed in Monza today. By LUCIANO FERRARI MONZA. Italy (AP)-I was go- g to work on the regular Son drio-Monza-Milan commuter train this morning with hundreds of oth ers who ride it every day. With-; out warning the terrifying crash happened. I was in a compartment of the fifth coach with three young girls and two students. The girls were chatting. The students were reading newspaper accounts of the funeral of Fausto Coppi, Italy's great bicycle racer who died Saturday. Suddenly, as the coach inclined on a curve, the girls were hurled into our laps. Then, for what seemed several long seconds there was a violent crashing and grinding sound, a gigantic scrap ing of steel on steel. This seemed to continue for several hundred yards. Now the coach was on its side and we were all piled together. The coach continued to grind along. The girls screamed. Only one of them had .. a slight bruise. We crawled out of shattered windows on our stomachs, along the ground to get clear of the wreckage. We had no idea of the extent of the crash. Fog was so thick you could scarcely see the coach ahead. Then I saw it. It had apparently also scraped along on its side and then bounced back on its wheels, I could scarcely believe what I saw. A railroad rail stuck out ot the ' coach, pointing skyward. I looked and saw that the rail had pierced and killed three passen gers in that coach. One was a Roman Catholic priest. It was just as though a child had stuck a wire through a thin paper toy. I couldn t see the third coach. It just seemed to have disap peared. Then I saw it. It was on lop of a factory roof, adjoining the tracks. To get there, it had to hurtle over five railroad tracks and up into the air about 20 feet. I don't know how it did that. I could now hear screams com ing from the coacn. There must have been at least 100 persons in that coach. It was packed with laborers, on the way to their jobs. I still could not see the last coaches of the train because of thick fog. There must have been 1,000 persons in- all aboard the train. One girl with her hands under her coat asked me to hand her purse to her. I did. She put out her hands. They were bleeding. She could not move her fingers. "I guess they're broken," she said and turned away and walked toward town. I counted 17 dead in the wreck age, but there must have been more bodies trapped inside the tangled cars. ?SJ3 Why Pay Personal Loans 0 Appliance Loans Borrow this Amount $200.00 " $300.00 $400.00 - $500.00 Sbfc M BmiHl smeW U h S10.000 the rural areas." Kennedy said that as a delegate to the Democratic convention he would not take seriously the can didacy of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex), Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) or others who do not en ter primary contests. Johnson and Symington, despite extensive speech-making, have Hot said they are candidates for the nomination. If some candidate who will not face us in the primaries and then hopes to be the choice if he can't beat us, he can't beat Mr. Nixon in November," Kennedy said. He has excepted Adlai E. Ste venson from this challenge. He in dicated he accepted Stevenson's statement that he has no plans to be a candidate and said Stevenson had expounded his views to the country in the 1952 and 1956 presi dential campaigns. Kennedy said again he couldn't run in all of the major primaries and still hadn't decided whether to enter favorite son states such as California and Ohio. He added I have no inhibitions against running against a favorite son." Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) said on Dec. 22 he would enter his state's presidential primary. Kennedy emphasized again he would not accept the vice presi dential nomination. Humphrey had said his only plans were to seek a third Senate term if he fails to make a good showing in the pri maries. In reply to questions, Kennedy made these other points: The Democrats do not deserve to be successful if they reject him as a presidential candidate be cause of 'his Roman Catholic re licion, regardless of any other factors. He owns no stocks or bonds and has no properties which are in volved in any way with the gov ernment. He said he "will certain ly be glad to take somebody through my books" if it becomes in the public interest. Video Fanatic Goes To Jail CANTERBURY, England (UPD John L. McNally, 39, had had enough. For two years his television set acted up. The screen would go dark when his wife tried to watch the afternoon housemakers pro gram. It would break down during the westerns, causing the children to burst into tears. - He kept- losing his favorite pro gram right in the middle. McNally brooded about this and the shop where he had purchased the faulty device. His anger over came him and he entered the shop with a 21-pound sledge ham mer and smashed every television set in sight. 'McNally went into the shop a very angry man, detense lawyer Michael Lewis told a court Mon day. "He got himself worked up." 'I am satisfied that what you did was under great provocation and in circumstances which might make a man angry," said court Deputy Chairman Christmas Humphries. "You were justified in being cross." But Humphries sentenced Mc Nally to six months in jail. Nice things for Ladies: Diamonds, Minks and Orchids! More For Auto Loans Boat Loans Repay In II monthly Payments of 12.53 - 18.79 25.06 31.33 -BRilK- I IV 1 ! ....KLnmnTM frlls t V7 KlMMttl ATtRIMj 0,000 It K D.I.C I -J 1- St 0 I t . On The Record KLAMATH COl'KTV MARRIAGE l.K ENKtrt William T. Lnninger, 44, and Mil dred L. Bergman, 46. Jack Dwayn uann, 10, ana joyn Miv Weit. 19. William NrUon Murpny, 40, uorni, and Stella Irena Bvbet. 35, Dorm P1VORCE FfcTITIUINS Loren George Blackmer vi. Miriam A. Blackmer, aeeka divorce. KLAMATH FALLS BIRTHS HOYS BARNES Born to Mr. and Mri. Carol Barnei January 2 in Klamath Valley Hospital, boy, weighing t lbs . BEARD Born to Mr. ana inn. itay- mond Beard January 1 in Kiamain Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 3 Ibi., 15 oik. rratton Born to Mr. ana mm. Robert Bra Hon December 31 in Klam ath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing lbs., tf'i ou. BRIOGMAN Born ' to Mr. and Mrs, Glen Bridgman December 31 in Klam ath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 7 lbs., 11 ozs. GENTRY Born IO Mr. ana mn. Donald Gentry January 3 in Klamath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 7 lbs., 15 ozs. HAND Born to Mr. ana Bin. uei mar Hand January 3 In Klamath Val ley Hospital, a boy, weighing 8 lbs., POWELL Bom IO Wir. ana mr. Thomas Powell December 31 In Klam ath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 5 lbs. SILLS Born to Mr. ana Mrs. i nomas Sills January 3 in Klamath Valley Hospital, a boy, weiithing 5 lbs., 1 oz. SMITH Bom IO mi. nu "im. -vn L. Smith January 2 in Klamath val ley Hospital, a boy, weighing ids.. ozs. SNinRR-Rnrn to Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Snider December 31 in Klamath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 7 lh 7 n7 SYLVA Born to Mr. ana mrs. nnx- oid W. Sylva Jr.. January 1 in Klam ath Valley Hospital, a- boy, weighing 6 lbs., 34 ots. WALKER Born to Mr. ana oirs Donald Walker January 2 In Klamath Valley Hospital, a boy, weighing 6 lbs., 10 Vj ozs. GIRLS AMRERS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Don Ambers Jr. December 31 in Klam- th Valley Hospital, a gin, weigning 6 lbs., ll'a ozs. FODGE Born to Mr. ana Mrs. uan Fodge January 3 In Klamath Valley Hospital, a girl, weighing B lbs., 3 ozs. HUMPHREY Born IO Mr. ana nirs. Thomas R. Humphrey January 3 in Klamath Valley Hospital, a girl, weigh ins; 8 lbs., 6 ozs. LELLI Born to Mr. ana mrs. wucr- Ino Lelli January 3 in Klamath Val- ey Hospital, a girl, weighing 0 ids., i'-a ozs. WADE Born to Mr. and Mrs. Phil lip Wade January 1 In Klamath Val ley Hospital, a girl, weighing 7 lbs., 12 ozs. 1BA0 ROUNDUP Boys: 0 Girls: 4 ISM ROUNDUP Boys: 577 Girls: 484 Wheel Chair Chokes Lad NEWCASTLE, England (UPD- Thomas Tyzack, a crippled victim of multiple sclerosis, lay listening to his son Monday as the 10-year-old boy played in the next room. Suddenly there was a scream. The boy, Thomas, had been play ing with his father's collapsible wheel chair, when he slipped and became entangled. Tyzack, helpless, listened while the boy struggled. The more young Thomas fought, the tighter the spars of the chair clamped on his neck. Tyzack managed to reach milk bottle and beat with it on the wall until neighbors heard him. They found the boy dead in his father's chair. DECLINES CANDIDACY CHICAGO (UPI (-Mayor Rich ard J. Daley Monday night de clined to become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois because "I feel I can't leave unfinished the work I have started here in Chicago." ...with Oldsmobile's dollar-saving Dynamic 881 M Kansas Town Sfil! Suffers From Jitters GARDEN CITY. Kan. (L'PI) - This community of 13.000 persons on the hifih western Kansas wheat plains has the jitters. It may never recover from them. Two days after authorities said they had more than a sufficient case against two ex-convicts ac cused of the mid-November slay ing of one of the area's most prominent citizens, his wife, and two teen-aged children, townspeo ple still were reluctant to be left alone at night. Prior to Nov. 15, the day that the bodies of Herbert W. Clutter, 48, his wife, Bonnie, 43, and their children Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were found in their $40,000 farm house at Holcomb, seven miles west of here, most residents of Finney County had not locked their doors at night. "We even used to leave our house open when we went away on vacation or week-end trips," said Bill Schroedcr, manager of a Garden City office equipment company. "But since that thing happened at Herb Clutter's house we lock up, and I guess we al ways will from now on." All four Clutters had been bound and gagged and blasted at point blank range by a shotgun. Clut ter's throat had been slashed. Four counts of first degree mur der were filed in Finney County Court here Monday against Rich ard Eugene Hickock, 28, Eager- ton, Kan., and Perry Edward Smith, 31, Las Vegas, Ncv. Hickock confessed the crime Sunday night and named Smith as his accomplice in a mass mur der that climaxed a futile rob bery attempt at the Clutter home. Clutter, a former Eisenhower appointee to the federal Farm Credit Board, had never locked the doors of his house. Hickock said he and Smith entered the two-story brick structure through the unlocked door leading to Clut ter's office on the ground floor. The pair led to believe that there was a large amount of money in a safe in the house through a conversation with a for mer Clutter farmhand whom they met in the Kansas State Peniten tiary, is accused of murdering the Clutter family when no cash was found. COSTLY ADVICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPD - Avclino Garcia complained to po lice Monday he got some costly advice he. didn't ask for. Garcia said he found $180 stolen from a small safe in his home and note reading: "Get a better safe. Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purs Word's Klamath Funeral Home 925 High TU 2-4404 Marquerite M. Ward . and Sons Satisfy your sense of value... DICK B. MILLER CO., 710 KLAMATH AVENUE IMI OHMS OlilM SHOW IV! T Will OM khjus JEWS,, VIEVS By TIM MASON KU students returned to school Monday after enjoying an 11-day acation, and now have settled down to work as they face the end of the first semester of chool which brings the semester exams and the changing ot scheduled classes. These mid-year exams will be conducted differently from last year. They will be held during class time with no change in the days' schedules being made. In the past the tests were held during one special week at the end of the term, when two, two- hour exams a day were given The. students then enjoyed a three-hour lunch period in between to complete the day. The new changes came about because the present plan fits in better with the school schedule and the first and second semes ter's work. It also agrees with the public sentiment, according to Principal McKinny. One thing that students missed at the KU-Medford basketball game last Saturday night was the Pep Band, whose members are n the famed marching band unit, which took part in the half time activities in the East-West game that afternoon. Some students, who have been showering t h e band members and their director with popcorn and paper, may now appreciate the band more and treat them more thoughtfully. CUM More mNei.por-alellarl Thit'. whet yon get wltb the Regular Rocket Engine ttaniinrd equipment on tvmy Dynamic 88 Oldimoeih for 19601 Yn, thii Old. thrive on the thrift of lower-cost, regular gasoline you lava about a dollar hilt on . -every tankful over premium-cost fuel.! And because of its unique chararteristiea, the Regular Rocket Engine gives you traditional Rocket get-up-and-go while reducing operating and upkeep costs. Your local Olds dealer bas tbe money-saving facts on this car that makes it mighty easy and satisfying to Rocket out of the ordinary. SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED OLDSMOBILE QUALITY DEALER! CIS-TV... Mai IOWMI TMMUf AND TM Mafia Linked To Slay Case TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Lewis Sirotta, 49. found strangled in the trunk of his car was linked today to a number of Mafia associates. "Sirotta had a knack for making enemies among racketeers and big businessmen," said Sheriff Waldon V. Burr. "I've got a list of 18 names of people we want to question in this killing," said Burr, "and an other four pages of names if they don't pan out. "ile was known to have business and social dealing with members of the Mafia and other gangsters." Police Chief Bernard Garmire said "Sirotta was under surveil lance by us from time to time because of his companions. But we never had anything on him." The FBI was checking whether the dapper real estate promoter, who moved to Tucson from Los Angeles five years ago, had any record. Jesse Z. Smith REALTOR with offices formerly at Tower Theatre Bldg. Announces the Removal of his offices to 1035 Main Formerly Offices of Burton E. Grey, Realtor Salesmen: Gene Williams, George Overmire, Sally Comsrock, Mrs. Buff Jones and Jesse Z. Smith, Realtor . MATERNITY DRESSES Rayons Wools- Silks & Cotton Tweeds Velvet Daytime Dresses Some one of a Kind Come Early for Best Selections, lixei t to to OYMAMIC M CKLMHITY MOAN GO OLDS HWi . MONDAY TH1U HIT ON CM On Schedule RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-A mass Baptismal ceremony at Cedar Street Baptist church went off on schedule thanks to the fire depart ment. The janitor had failed to turn on the water. A fire hose was used to fill the 500gallon baptismal pool. INOCULATION SCHEDULED i PINGREE, Idaho API-Five ot the 117 elementary school children, here are known to have diphthe-, ria. Inoculation of the others U to start today. ARTHRITIS? I have been wonderfully blessed in , being able to return to active Ufa after suffering from head to foot with muscular soreness and pain. Most all joints seemed affected. -According to medical diagnosis, I had Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheuma- . tisin and Bursitis. For free informa tion write: MRS. LELA S. WIER 2S0S Arbor Hill Drive . GT P. O. Box 2695 Jackson, Mississippi Adv. II I I n i m Hi Reg. 12.95 to $25 IADM
