: 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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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'
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and William Montgomery of
VILLARD HOTEL
Brookfield, Ohio.
There was no immediate esti
mate of the property loss. I