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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
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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
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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.
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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.