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U.OF 0RS.LI33A3Y COSP, NSI3PA?ER SECTION :v vi -fee . : Tv,t :?:. I ui, VETERANS DAY SEP.YICES AT THE MEMORIAL SHAFT and a parade down Main Street were among events planned and carried out by local patriots Friday morning. The weather, though murky after a rain, cleared somewhat for the brief, solemn ser vices. Color guards of veterans organizations and the military, a drum and bugle corps, a baton drill team, Boy Scouts and youth organizations marched down Main Street. Col. Rupert Welch, Kingsley commander, delivered the main address. Cannons boomed in an I I -gun salute early in the morning. A flight of 12 jet interceptors from Kingsley Field was canceled because of low ceiling. In the photo at left, Maj. Victor H. Prarat leads his 408th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in the parade. At center, paraders and the public mingled at the Memorial Shaft during ceremonies. At right, Old Glory sails over an Air Force honor guard, and Colonel Welch and Master of Ceremonies William Sweetland on the platform. Photos by Wes Guderian. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Kennedy's POPULAR vote is some 350,000. in excess of Nixon's popular Vote a lead of about one per cent. His lead in the ELECTORAL COLLEGE vote is overwhelming about 62 per cent. That suggests the challenging thought that a candidate for Pres ident could get a MAJORITY of the popular vote and still lose out to his opponent in the electoral college. As a matter of fact, THAT HAPPENED ONCE. It was in 1876. In that election, Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden of New York received 4,300,590 popular votes. His op ponent, Republican Candidate Ru therford B. Hayes of Ohio, re ceived only 4,036,298 votes a POPULAR majority of 264,292 for Tilden. But In the electoral college After a bitter battle, full of shenanigans and lasting more than three months, HAYES WON BY ONE VOTE IN THE ELEC TORAL COLLEGE, and became President. It's a lone story. Oregon entered into It In quite a big way. In the 1876 Presidential election, Oregon WENT FOR HAYES in the popular vote. When its elec tors came up for certification, it developed that one of the RE PUBLICAN electors (a man named Watts) was employed as a fourth class postmaster at an annual salary of $268. This office was held to be one of "trust and nrofit," and as such prohibited to Residential electors by Article II, Section 1 of the constitution. So- Oregon's Democratic governor, L. F. Grover, with the enthusias tic encouragement of his fellow partisans, state and national, ruled that Watts was ineligible and replaced him with a DEMO CRATIC elector. His action re sulted in a row that rattled the rafters not only in Oregon but all over the country and had im mense connotations in the final outcome of the Tilden-Hayes con test. Oregon then had four electoral votes two for its two senators and two for its two representatives in the congress. On the day the Oregon electoral college was scheduled to meet, the four elec tors met in a room in the state capitol set aside for their use. When they were assembled, the secretary of state arrived with the e I e c t o r a 1 certificates and HANDED THEM TO CRON1N, the Democrat appointed by Gov ernor Grover. The three Republi can electors asked for their cer tificates. Cronin refused to sur render them. Thereupon the three Republican electors proceeded to organize THEIR OWN electoral college. The Democrat, Cronin, retired to a remote corner of the room and turned himself into a ONE-MAN electoral college. His first act vas to declare that TWO vacan cies existed. He filled the "va cancies" at once, naming TWO DEMOCRATS who just happened to he waiting outside the door. I Ait the national situation then Stood, after a bloody battle in I the South, especially in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.! Tilden needed only ONE morej Sectoral college vole to win. So, I to make things look good, this rump electoral college in Oregon pave one vote to Tilden and TwO to Hayes. That was fatal error. In the general all-over reshift In Iht national electoral college (fonlinurd oa Page 2-A) Wcalhor Klamath Falls and vicinity Showers at times today. High to day 42-47. Low last night 27-34. Mount Shasta-Siskiyou Area Travelers warning. Frequent snow flurries Sunday. Moderate to heavy total snowfall. Colder. Windy at times. Snow level low ering to 2,500 feet. Price Ten Cents 62 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, I960 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6531 Woallicr Northern California Storm warning. Heavy rain with south erly gales diminishing on the coast and in the valleys. Travel ers warning for very heavy snow up to 4,000 feet by Sunday after noon In the mountains. Occasion al rain but periods of sunshine Sunday on the coast and in the valleys. Colder. Loyal Forces Apparently Repel Viet Nam Revolt SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) President Ngo Dinh Diem's loy al forces appeared Saturday to have smashed an uprising by par atroopers who seized most of this tropical capital before dawn Friday. The pro-government forces an nounced by radio in mid-morning that they had recaptured the ra dio station and several strategic points about the city. The broadcast said the rebel leader, Col. Nguyen Chanh Thi, escaped in a jeep as government forces began encircling the c:tv. It said ..the 3,000 paratroopers and marines, who staged Friday s pre-dawn attack on the presiden tial palace and proclaimed the overthrow of President Diem, sur rendered on all sides after put ting up weak resistance. It claimed the insurgents were be ing disarmed. The counteroffensive by Diem's armed forces, led by Gen. Le Van Kim, was launched against the city early Saturday. President Diem in a nationwide broadcast urged the population to remain calm and disregard insur gent appeals. "To protect the people's life and interests I have ordered the insurgents to surrender, but they failed to obey the right cause. he said. I, therefore, gave or ders to the Vietnamese armed forces to settle the matter with Identity Case Victim Saved By Specialists BURLING AME, Calif. (AP) - Teams of specialists who per formed two emergency operations are credited with saving the life of Mary Hawthorne, 26. Mary, an American Airlines; I I ! I v J'!?"' ' l killed two persons and seriously .-. l V I in-iure 'hree others. I I. fJ "'"i' 1 ll Until Thursday, Joan's father, 5 FWL. ' " V i I Thomas Frost of V 1 XJ Istewardess who became a princi pal in a case of mistaken iden tity, lies In critical condition in a hospital here. A medical spokesman says the New York girl "is improving slightly and slowly." He said the operations, one to remove her spleen and the other to relieve pressure on the brain, are saving her life. The victim of an automobile ac cident, near here, Mary's body had been mistaken for that of her dead companion Joan Frost, 26, another American Airlines stew ardess. The error was discovered hy two of Mary's friends Wednes day when they looked into a cas ket in New York containing the body of Joan. The mixup occurred when per sonal belongings became scat tered alter the accident, which hiladelph had sat in a hospital room, think ing the injured girl was his daughter. Mary's mother, Mrs. John F. Schnell of the Bronx, who had mourned her daughter as dead, arrived Friday to Jseep vigil at Mary's bedside. them." The armed forces fulfilled their duty, he added, and the insur- Train Hits, Kills Woman At Shasta MOUNT SHASTA - The north bound Shasta Daylight struck and killed Mrs. Flora Turner. 78. of gents will be punished. He paid 209 Water Street, at the Elma tribute to those courageous com-street crossing at 3:12 p.m. Fri- batants who died for the cause.1 right day. Trainman rannrla fha linht nn The city had awakened to the'iu. , tt.ri,i n, iv.ii ouuiiua vi 1111111 e. I E puMicans Will Alter Pomhv ot Within 45 minutes pro-Diem broadcasts began coming from1 the radio station that- had been in the hands of rebel paratroopers. By afternoon the situation in the city was becoming calm again. But a full assessment of the. consequences ot the apparently. short-lived insurrection was not possible. Large crowds of demonstrators and various political groups sup ported the insurgents during the uprising Friday. Tryong Vinh Le, speaker of the pro-Diem national assembly, went on the air Saturday and accused the insurgents of complicity with Communists and demanded that they be denounced and publicly punished. Shooting Times OREGON November 13 6:25 a.m. 4:50 p.m. November 14 6:25 a.m. 4:50 p.m. CALIFORNIA November 13, 6:21 a.m. 4:48 p.m. November 14 6:21 a.m. 4:48 p.m. was ringing and the wig wag sig nal at the crossing was operat ing at the time. They said they did not see the elderly woman until just before the accident. She was crossing the , tracks at the time of impact, ilhicf of Police Harold Bari um reports the woman, mother of I Lester Lee, was wearing a hear ing aid, but It could not be de termined whether it was operat ing. John B. Harrcll, Dunsmuir, was engineer of the train, F. H. Win Integration Battle Line Forms; Crisis Is Monday NEW ORLEANS (AP) - State segrc.'?iion leaders prepared Sat urday hir an 11th hour attempt to prevent public school integration here on Monday. The Louisiana Legislature re sumes its 12-day special session in Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours before five Negro girls are due to enter first tering, Dunsmuir, fireman, and'g'ade classes at two all-white was strengthened when Rep Kisley Triclie, chairman ot an eight-man legislative committee named to run New Orleans schools, charged the school board was "acting In complicity1 with persons trying to integrate schools. . By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans clung to the hope Saturday that recounts and absentee ballot tabula tions might give Vice President Richard M. Nixon a pop ular vote lead over Sen. John F. Kennedy. That was the practical valuation put by spokesmen for Nixon on a request by GOP National Chairman Thrus- ton B. Morton for a recheck of the vote in 11 states. Nixon was not consulted about Morton's "'recheck "request, n aide said. -'" , y , - ? 8""' ' ' .g; L. E. Hubbard, conductor. Klamath Falls, SATELLITE ORBITED VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Discoverer XVII first of a series of new military spy satellites capable of j called, was due to end. A new 30 changing course H mreaienea tfay spccja session, called by Da schools. Lloyd J. Rittiner, president of J the Orleans Parish School Board, said no further meetings were planned. The board, under orders from U. S. Dist. Judge J. Skclly Wright to integrate schools Mon day, voted last Thursday night to transfer the Negroes. Gov. Jimmie H. Davis sum moned legislators back to the Capitol two days before the pres ent special session, which he had rocketed into orbit Saturday. After hours of confusion blamed on insufficient radio data, the Air Force announced the satellite was whizzing around the earth once every 96 minutes. MISTAKEN IDENTITY Stawardeji Mary Haw thorn, top, believed killed in an auto accident in San Bruno, Calif., is itill alive, har face covered by band ages, and in a coma at Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo. The mistake in identity was discovered by a friend of hers when har coffin was opened in New York. Tha dead girl was Joan Frost, bottom photo, also a stewardtss, who was in the accident with Mist Hawthorn and two other girt. Boy, 6, Saves 3 From Blaze SALEM (AP'-A cool-headed -year-old boy was credited with averting a possible tragedy here Friday when fire consumed a barn. I Timothy Lee Roberts ushered ! his younger brother and tuo small jsisters from the top loft ol the barn alter hay flared up from a match one of the sisters was play ling with. I All the children escaped safely ahead of the flames. , The barn, slocked with hay and ;corn and on property rented by the parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roberts, was destroyed at esti 'mated lost of AVfl. 1- . . x J ( if '' ' ; vis last Thursday, begins Tues day upon the end of the current one. The special session earlier this week passed 28 bills designed to preserve school segregation, in cluding bills to give the legisla tors control of New Orleans schools. But Judge Wright, acting on a suit brought by New Orleans citizens, issued a restraining or der telling the stale to keep hands off the schools. House Speaker Tom Jewell said in Baton Rouge the session Sun day would make technical chang- THE LINKVILLE KIWANIS Club was organiied Wednes day at a special meeting at the Winema Hotel. New officers for the club war chosen. Left to right, they are Dr. Arnie Jensan, lieutenant governor and accredited field representative for tha Pacific Northwest District who conducted tha meeting; Jamas Crismon, president, and Frad Foulon, first vica president. Jo LaClair, lieutenant governor of District 15-A, Klamath Falls, assisted. Th nw club will met ach Wednesday noon at 12:10 and will concentrate its membership activities in th South Suburban area. Gene Favall, president of thi sponsoring Klamath Falls Klwanis Club, preiented new members with pins and mad a brief talk. Local Man Is Killed In Accident A Klamath Falls man became Klamath County's 18th traffic fa tality early Saturday night in a one-car accident south of Chilo quin, about 18 miles from the Chiloquin junction on Highway 97. An unidentified passenger in the car was not seriously injured. Dead was Frank Jones, in his late 20's, and a resident of Klam ath falls for some time. The po lice station at Chiloquin said the accident was reported at about 7:30 p.m. The body was taken to Klamath Falls Saturday night by Peace Ambulance. Jones died after being taken to Chiloquin for medical aid. The state police were investi gating the accident and would not release details until the re- While some Republican leaders had dreamed of overturning Tuesday's re sults which gave Kennedy more than enough electoral votes for the presidency, Nixon's top aides made it clear they expect no such outcome. Herbert G. Klein, Nixon's press secretary, and Robert Finch, his campaign manager, did say they believe Hie vice president may gain a lead over Kennedy in the final count of popular votes. They didn't suy so, but any such re sult would be regarded as a boost for Nixon to run again in 1964. When Morton asked for the re counts in 11 states, he told GOP officials in the states to look into "purported vote frauds." Reports from some of the 11 states indicated that few local Re publican officials were hopeful of changing the results in any sig nificant way. Some, in fact, said there was no evidence of fraud. The latest Associated Press tally, with 1,672 voting places un counted, showed: Kennedy 33,627,- 229, Nixon 33,348,397. Finch and Klein told a news conference Friday that Nixon was not consulted about Mortons move for recounts or inquiries into any irregularities in Illinois, Texas, Delaware, Michigan, Min nesota. Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania and South Carolina, in Miami, Fla., where he went for a post-election vacation, Nix on said he knew nothing about plans for legal action which might lead to vote recounts in states where Kennedy was declared the winner. Finch and Klein said Nixon was standing by Tuesday's results and has no plans to take any affirmative action toward trying to upset them "The vice president ran the race and accepts the decision of the voters," Klein said. "The de cision made on Tuesday stands." In a 12th state, California, Re CHICAGO (API - A Jury has,olher Irony: The head of a rcput-' Pelicans were hoping that the ni,.. ..,) h.,.. tw A,., ed multimill ion-dollar crime svn-'-'o"ilnR " absentee Dallols would .. dilate falselv decforine HMO 'as! Me 'he slate out of Kennedy's """. ' 01 mme laA eviu.mil- ... .; n... .... ..IpHni al rnlumn nnrl nl II Inln the same crime that landed his no-lrcd sx)r,s tnr Nixon's. But the first tallies in- torious predecessor, Al Capone, In A.ai0 h..rj ,h wr.i..., indicated the absentee vote would passively, then told newsmen not swing the state to Nixon, coldly: "I still have no com- At the polls Tuesday, Kennedy menl." !ook a 37,140 lead in California. Like C.-itwne, Accnrdn never Nixon would need almost two- ... ;n UA UHIc C.-A A,.inr lla said he didn t contemn ate new ' legislation. , However, Rep. Edward Lebro- ton of Orleans Parish said he had heard the session would be asked to address out of office the Or leans Parish School Board. Belief that this might happen Bruce David, 25. of Applcton. Minn., suffered back injuries Sat urday at 12:25 p.m. when the car he was driving slid off High way 97 south of Klamath Falls and overturned. Gangland Boss Guilty Of Income Tax Evasions other action taken will be entirely in the hands of local Republicans in the 11 states. He added that 'any hopes we have that the na tional result will be overturned by local action in the states is very slight," Finch went on to say that tha most any Republican could hope for would be to reduce Kennedy s electoral total, which now stands at 332, to slightly below the nec essary 269 margin. He said this would merely throw the election into the hands of uncommitted electors. Eight of these wer elected in Mississippi and six in Alabama. Sanitation District Vote Set - TO... J .nlm ii A J:MnfA lilt. ClVlllUll W OVIVt CftUUClllM for the South Suburban Japitation District will be held stA4onday, Dec. S, not on Nov..'15 fa stated in a recent news story. Filing deadline for th office now held by Fred Lewis will ba Tuesday, Nov. 15. Three candidates have already filed for this post. The three are Fred Lewis, incumbent, 615 Washburn Way; William Goen, 4650 Thompson Avenue, and R. C. Brollier, 3756 Altamont Drive. Candidates for the office must be property owners in the Subur ban Sanitary District. The election will be held at the district office. a federal prison 2B years ago. The stocky Accardo faces a pos sible maximum sentence of nine 'years in prison and fines totaling $15,0110. Judge Julius Hoffman ol t.'. S. District Court will pro nounce sentence Nov. 18, if a mo tion for a new trial is overruled that day. A jury of six men and six women returned its verdict Friday. The crime that brought the sacre of seven men in wealthy Acrardo conviction hcldSid garage. Pedestrian Hurt John Led well Smith, 2135 North west Lovejoy Street, Portland, was hospitalized Friday afternoon with a broken arm and other in juries after he was hit on a crosswalk at Sixth and Shasta Way. Gordon Randall Sellers, 1012 Donald Street, was cited by Klam ath Falls police for failing to yield the right-of-way to a pedes trian. , ' thirds of the stale's 2(10,000 ab sentee ballots to erase that. Officials counted th first 3.400 of the California absentee ballots was convicted of a serious crime until the tax people went to work on him. During the past 30 years frequently was questioned nbout slayings of mobsters rivnl- Friday. The totals were In Nix ing the Capone gang including on's favor but they enabled him the 1929 St. Valentine's Day ina.v to cut down Kennedy's lead by a North-only 438 votes. I Finch said any recounts or Logger Found Dead YREKA. Calif. (AP)-Ivan Ow ens, 67, a logger of Happy Camp. was found dead in the wreckage ot his car 7J miles west of here Fri day, Coroner A. B. Cottar said Saturday. Cottar said the smashed veil Id was found at the bottom of a bank and that Owens' accident apparently happened Nov. . H was alon In th car.
