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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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