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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1960)
: ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) Two little children bound for their Grandparent' home for Christ mas died in a five-car pileup on an Icy. fog. shrouded highway : north of Ontario and early Satur day. Their brother and sister and their parents were hospitalized. So were five others. Police said it appeared that a ear stopped about 3:45 a.m. on a traieht stretch of Highway 30 leading Into this town on the Ore Idaho border, probably to clear ice from the windshield. Fog was so thick visibility was cut almost to zero In patches. It froze on the highway in a clear layer that gave a deceptive ap pearance of dryness to the road way. The car that stopped was head ed east. A following car slammed :lnU it as did another and still another. A fifth car avoided the pileup but spun around and ended with its headlights playing back ,'on the first. . Three of the cars were demol ished. - Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Chaffin. $1 Helens. Ore., and their four children were headed for a Christ mas holiday in Blackfoot, Idaho, at the home of Chaff in's parents. ; Their daughter Edith Emaline, months, and their son Bert Jr., I, were killed. Their other, chil dren, Michael, . and Nancy, 4, kere hurt but not critically. Mrs. Chaffin, 28, iu seriously hurt! and her husband, 34, teacher at the rural Deer Island School near St. Helens, was less badly injured, hospital attendants said. State Patrolman Ray Ganlnu said that Chaffin, despite his own Injuries and the knowledge two of his children were dead, helped with the injured. "He is one of the bravest men I have ever seen," the patrolman said. In reconstructing the accident, Caning said a pickup truck driven by Morris Nelson. 29, The ualies, stopped to clear the windshield. A following car, the driver's name not learned, skidded by and stopped with its lights on the pickup. Nelson got out, asked if anyone was hurt, then returned to his pickup when assured every one was all rignt. A car driven by Armand Den nis Hegce. , Everett. Wash., with Edgar Duane Wait, 25, of Everett, as passenger, hit the pickup just as Nelson was start' ing to drive on in the darkness and fog. Then the Chaffin car hit and stopped broadside on the highway. The last car, carrying several young women, struck the car carrying the Chaifin family. Others hospitalized were Elaine Ritchey, 23, Rexburg, Idaho; Joyce Craw, IB, Portland, Ore.; Vernon B. Beck, 21. Idaho Falls, Idaho; Deon Bean, 23, Twin Falls, Idaho: and Gayla Whitmore, 31, Portland. Only Mrs. Chaffin was believed seriously hurt. BOSTON (UPD A deafening-lings in what police described as explosion shattered the quiet of 'a "major disaster." j the day before Christmas, Early reports from the blast completely destroying two build- scene in the city's Charlestown Bar Association Backs Two For District Judge Russians Denounce Christmas As Pagan Rite From Mythology : MOSCOW (AP) The celebra lion of Christmas was denounced as a pagan rite by the labor paper Trud .today. It said science had proved long ago that Christ never existed. i- Trud said that "this person is purely taken from mythology" ."Snd. Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25 because the chief gods of Indent religions were supposed to kave been born around that date. E What actually- happens. Trud aid, is that the sun is beginning to turn Ma face toward spring "so this holiday is the day when the1 sun is born when longer days start" 1 The paper said it was printing the article in response to requests from many readers asking for a story "explaining the harm of re llgion and its customs." Under, .communism, Christmas has been combined with New Year celebrations and people set up what are called "New Year's trees." The Orthodox Church cele brates Christmas on the old Julian calendar, which put the date on Jan. 7. id - . , IKE I2D.OTE O CLUE .Qf CF THE YEAR q CesMsMeve Yetatey t )AoAev ' ' I heat 1M , : SI I TMy osy , ..... m m J TECHMCOUM PAGE 2-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday. December 25. MM Many-Bead, 2 Buildings Leveled In Boston Blast Two young Klamath Falls at torneys have been recommended by the Klamath County Bar As sociation for the position of dis trict judge, vacated recently by the death of Judge D. E. Van Vactor. Robert B. Kerr, 33, and Hal F: Coe, 29, were the co-choices of 45 association attorneys polled, P. K. Puckett, president, announced Fri day. Kerr and Coe had 19 votes each with the other seven widely scattered. The preferential poll was taken after a request by Gov. Mark Hatfield, 'who asked for recommendations from the local bar group. The governor Is expected to make the appointment soon. Both Coe and Kerr are extreme ly interested in the judgeship. Coe, who came to Klamath Falls in May of this year to go into partnership with Glenn D. Ramir ez, said he has always been aim ing for a judicial career. A na tive of Burns, he received his BA degree from Oregon State Col ege and graduated from the Northwestern College of Law in Portland in 1958. Since then he has worked as a law clerk for Multnomah Circuit Judge Martin Hawkins and as a trial lawyer for the, Portland firm of Posey and Wilson, prior to coming to Klamath Falls. Coe, his wife, Betty, and three children live at 1120 California Avenue. Kerr received his bachelor of science and law degrees at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1953. He began as deputy dis trict attorney in Klamath County in January, 1954. He was in the district attorney s office untd Aug, 1, 1955, when he opened his own private practice. Although not principally a trial lawyer, Kerr feels that he has gained consid erable experience through the years. He has also been municipal judge pro tern for the past two years. Colefa Gets An Apology From St. Nick, Himself SANTVi HEADQUARTERS North Pole (AP) Dear Coleta Burns: ' Shiver my whiskers! My face is red as my suit. Please forgive me for not getting to your house at Christmas for such a long time. No wonder you thought I was dead. But rest assured, I am not. All can say is that my elfin secre tarial help here is just not what used to be, and the names ol many poor and deserving children sometimes get left off the list. But don't worry. By a reindeer's hoof, I promise I'm going to get to your house this time. I have before me a copy of the letter! you wrote from your farm home at Viola, Ark., to the police de partment in New York City say ing: "Is there a real Santa? You see if there is a real Santa he doesn't know where we live. You know he hasn't been to our house for long time. He must have been dead for a lot of years. If he is alive, I hope you will read this 4. S) ' tMMk''.''.. MHk :. . " JmI" ir&i Jtsl m I ef lW fttMtfl UN taW BMt L S .j "Cr iimmhf m rik4 r yk" CtNvy, u4 Uu w tA fVV- , imMrfCMrtawMeall I V I A TM immbm tl WsW&aWI.J ' , Wi iMft nkm ' "TSl 'V f' BoHur tmi EmImt, Tkt Of mm m mil m Um ' n8L.i.. In mn ikm Rmh nlWw nck Un " .. II (Mtrtf. Mtc4oalia riM. If i M i f Jjm naeieiraBiiaH letter to him." As Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm wrote back to you, 1 m still real, honey, and I want to visit all kids everywhere regu larly. And there are plenty of gilts on this earth to go around. I know things have been diffi cult there for you and the rest or the Carncil Burns family, scraping a living out of your little farm, particularly, since your father hasn't been able to get ex tra work lately as a carpenter. Certainly it wasn't intentional that I've been overlooking you, a little girl of 11, and your two old er brothers, your twin sisters. 13. and your younger brother and sis. ter. It s just that such faults do exist in my system. iffl going 10 try to make up for the oversight this year, al though I may not make it by Christmas, for as Commissioner Arm says, I have "a lot of terri tory to cover." So please be pa llent. Through help of New York's po lice Athletic League. I have mailed you a package of 18 gifts. including games, books and a toy piano for your twin sisters. This is as close as we could come to the real piano you requested so they could "learn to play in church." As for the cowboy boots, blue jeans and cowboy hat you asked lor yourself, I ve arranged to send this through Mr. George Otlowski of Perth Amboy, N. J.; who vol unteered to rush the items .to you. Also, concerning your request for some encyclopedias for your older brothers, I've arranged for the LitUo Rock, Ark., agent of the Compton's picture encyclopedia to deliver a 15-volume set, as a company gift. Of course, I plan to slip by your house with my loaded sleigh and reindeer team sometime in the season to see that all is taken care of. You'll probably hear the bells, tinkle at midnight. I have such a big job, however. I do need others to help get it done. Your friend, Santa Clans. AMM fl.44) (feat Tka) ill rae HOLIDAY SCHIDUU . section said at least four persons were dead and several more missing. A raging three-alarm fire flared up trom the rubble that was Doherty's Golden Nugget Cafe and the adjacent Purity Cone Co. The ruined buildings were lo cated on Chelsea btreet, Just a few yards from City Square, the major Charlestown business intersection. At. least five persons were un dergoing emergency treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital, A hospital spokesman said "we understand there are many, many more coming. We have called in all available assistance." Police said the explosion was the second to occur in the big cafe. They said the building was rebuilt after being destroyed in an illuminating gas blast "four or five years ago." Force of Saturday's explosion caved in the walls of the two- story brick building and shattered every window in a block-long area. Huge billows of smoke rose up over downtown Boston within min utes of-the explosion, just as Bos ton stores were opening for the last day of the Christmas rush. Patrolman Peter Larfarello said he and Patrolman Michael Cam- maratta were among the first to reach the scene of the blast. "There were four or five bodies lying in the street when we got there. It looked to me as though the explosion happened in the cafe. Both the cafe and a build ing next door belonging to the Purity Cone Co. were just a pile of burning rubble," Larfarello said. Dense black smoke from the blast obscured a nearby express' way. Police attempted to divert traffic around the area. The nearby City Square YMCA lost every window in the building and ffltvJront door in the blast. Bus Demolished, But Passengers Are Only Hurt ST. JOHNS. Nfld. (AP)-A sub urban bus filled with Christmas shoppers slammed into the side of a moving Canadian National Railways train at a crossing here Saturday. Officials reported 15 persons injured and called it miraculous that no one was killed. James Clements, 28, the bus driver, was reported in critical condition. He was making his first trip as a substitute driver on a run from Petty Harbor, 30 miles away. Another bus driver who got to the scene minutes later said Clem ents' bus slid into a freight car Lat the middle of the combination passenger-freight train. Witness es said toe crossing had not been sanded. Rescuers freed some bus pas sengers, including a 5-year-old boy, who were trapped in the wreckage. Most on the but were women. Rescuers worked 20 minutes to free a woman and. a man trapped in tne wreckage. - 1 Tne bus, demolished in the front, was dragged 50 feet bv the train and stopped only when it struck a telephone pole. There is slight downgrade at the inter section where the bus apparently siuaaea on ice. KLAMATH ANOUCCI ABY GIRL BANDUCCI, Infant daugh ter of Mr. nd Mn. Pul J. Banducci df Chtmult, dltd hrt Dfc. 23. Gravtsltft ttrvicti win una piact m Mimim tnw morlil Park on Tuatdav. Dtc. 27, 4 p.m., .Rav. Farrit D. Winn of tha Cal vary Baptist Church officiating. Ward's Klamath Funaral Homa In charot ef tha arrangement. BAKIft EMIL LEE BAKER. M. native of Sil ver Creek, Ore., resident of Kiematn Palls for JVt veers, died here Dec. 73. He Is turv ved bv a daughter, Mrs. Donne Pool of this city. The Body was forwarded by Ward's Klamath Funeral Home to trie senaeay r-unerai nomf, Burns, Ore., for final rites and Interment. No Blame Is Placed For Blaze NEW YORK (AP)-The deadlv. disastrous fire on the aircraft car rier Constellation was the result of an unforeseeable chain of cir cumstances and not caused by general negligence or by any in dividual, says the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. roe tire took 49 lives and did an estimated total of 175 million damage before it was brouiht un der control Monday night at the Navy Yard, where the Consteu tion was nearing completion. Rear Adm. Schuyler N. Pyne, testifying at the naval court of inquiry into the fire, called the start of the blaze "inconceivable a chain of circumstances which was inconceivable to foresee." While Pyne gave this opinion. in Washington the Navy ordered a series of new and stiffer safety precautions aboard its ships. Specifically, it said fuel tanks of the kind involved in the start of the Constellation fire must no longer be allowed on Navy ships. It also ordered elimination of tem porary structures below decks. Hazardous Driving May Make Holiday Tol High By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 8 Fires 12 Miscellaneous 10 Total 110 Traffic fatalities mounted rap idly Saturday, as tha nation ob served the long Christmas holi day weekend. Less than .18 hours after the start of the holiday period Friday evening 88 deaths had occurred m traffic accidents. In addition there were 12 deaths from fires and 10 from miscellaneous acci dents for an over-all total of 110. Icy or snow-packed highways were reported in many parts of (he country, adding to normal driving haiards. The National Safety Council also issued re minder to motorists that speeding ana drinking have been foremost factors in Christmas holiday traf fic fatalities in past years. The council estimated 510 per sons may be killed on the high ways in this year's 78-hour period mat began at 6 p. m. Friday and continues until midnight Monday. The council estimate is 217 high er man me number counted in an Associated Press survey of a recent 7S-nour nonholiday week end when 293 died in traffic acci dents. On that weekend 47 other persons died in fires and 113 in miscellaneous accidents. Last year's Christmas period saw 439 persons killed on the .country's highways, 43 in fires. and 73 in various other accidents for an over-all total of 609. The record traffic and over-all total for a three-day Christmas holiday was set in 1955 when 609 died in traffic, 68 in fires and 103 in other accidents for a total of 782. The greatest number of deaths for any holiday period occurred during the four-day Christmas pe riod in 1956 when traffic deaths numbered 706, fires 54 and others 124 for 'a total of 884. . , BEST WISHES for a HAPPY HOLIDAY ' EVA DICKSON and SHARON PEARSON Ace Mimeo Service. 312 So. 7th Ph.,TU 2-3458 SATURN ENGINES TESTED HUNTSVILLE. Ala. (UPII The Saturn rocket boostar'i eight engines developed 1.3 million pounds ot thrust Tuesday in a 80 second test firing at the Marshall Space Flight Center here. The rocket, too big for ground or air transmrtaUan in rnm Cm. naveral for flight testing, will be ferried to the Cape soon by river barge. f White marble was used on the face of the shaft of the Washing ton Monument. I 1 from I Steve's Charm Center ! 1414 Oregon Ave. S .Si 2 Persons, 19 Horses Killed WARREN, Ohio AP-Two per sons died and another was injured as fire swept through a horse barn at the Trumbull County Fair Grounds early Saturday. At least 19 trotters and pacers were lost. The dead were identified tenta tively as Nathan Bamett; about 83, a crippled Negro, and Willa belle Belle, 32, a Negro woman. William Gibson, 28, of New Castle, Pa., who had been em ployed at the Fair Grounds, es caped by leaping through a win dow. He was reported in fair con dition at Trumbull Memorial Hos pital. Most of the horses were owned by Robert Hogue of New Castle CHRISTMAS WISHES Gifts of health, good for tune and happiness to you and your family. Everett E. Givent DRYDEN'S GROCERY 1842 Portland Best wishes of the season to all of you whose friendship end patronage we value so highly. Here's hoping your holiday joys ere sweeter than candy and much more enduring! Merry Christmas . . . and may we take this op portunity to express our appreciation to you our friends and customers, for your goodwill and pa tronage this past year. Jay Humphries and Ray Migliaccio Jay's Grocery Service 1313 Owen m o 7f? II ... ana warmesr wisnes io an our f friends from all your friends -i c: -i evil sincere thanks for your loyol patronage through the year. May you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! LLOYD C. PROCK DISTRIBUTOR RAY BRAMWELL 4653 So. 6th FLOYD STONE 9th and Pine MARTIN NIELSEN Oregon and Biehn C. A. KILLION 76 Main CLIFF YADEN 2560 So. 6th TED ALEXANDER 1406 Main St. DON HUTTON 3204 Midland. Rd. B. F. BRAGG 2300 So'. 6th MAC'S STORE Merrill Highway WILMER ALLERS Malin, Oregon CLAY GOYER Modoc Point , HOMER HILL Merrill, Oregon PASTEGA'S MARKET Pelican City WHITTEMORE & BRIGGS 6660 So. 6th Remember' You DO go farther with Signal! . 1 Pffrs4HKM Te4j ft Tamerrtw 1:S0 (JikI 70 Om Ptrftrmaitc Ohr TtMt. thru Frt. art 7 JO 1jN T4ttt4 tt M yrftjwwwcw and William Montgomery of VILLARD HOTEL Brookfield, Ohio. There was no immediate esti mate of the property loss. I
