la The-
Weather
Klamath Falls and vicinity -Fair'
through Saturday. Highi
47-52. Low tonight 17-32.
Day's Hews
Weather
Northern California: Fair today
and tonight except cloudy oa cen
tral coast and fog in Central Val
ley; cloudy Saturday with fog la
Central Valley; cooler In Salinai
Valley Saturday.
Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Fair
with little temperature change
through Saturday.
Herald wA
High yesterday 4
Low last night 25
Preclp, last 24 hours none
Since Oct. 1 5.32
Same period last year 1.80
By FRANK JENKINS
' John F. Kennedy, who as this
is written has just taken the oath
of office, is the youngest man ever
to be ELECTED President, but
not the youngest man ever to
SERVE in that high office.
Kennedy is 43 years, seven
rnce ten tenis n raxes iuvn i ii ru.LS. imr.i.urv, r kiday, JANUARY 20, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 65S9
months and 22 days old today.
Theodore Roosevelt lacked 43
days of reaching his 43rd birthday
when he became President after
JleKinley was assassinated.
What of Jacqueline Kennedy?
She is 31 and in her pictures
(he looks even younger than that,
But she isn't the youngest mis-
tress of the White House. That
distinction apparently goes to
Frances Folsom Cleveland, who
was 22 when she was married
to President Grover Cleveland
They had five children, the first
of whom was born in the White
House. Mrs. Cleveland was mar
ried the year after she graduated
from Wells college. She had had
relatively little social experience,
but she was equal to the demands
of her position. She soon became
widely known for her delightful
ability as a hostess, and was of
immense assistance to her hus
band. The American public was deep
ly interested in her. she shunned
publicity, in which she seems to
have been similar to Mrs. Ken
nedy. She had little luck, however,
in keeping out of the limelight,
(or the newspapers of the day
followed her every word and
action. It is highly probable that
Mrs. Kennedy will have the same
experience.
One of the most distinguished
hostesses of the white House was
undoubtedly Dolly Madison. She
was 22 when she married James
Madison, then a wealthy and dis
tinguished member of congress.
She had already been married
and widowed.
When Madison became Presi
dent Jefferson's secretary of state.
the went to Washineton not only
to preside over her own home but
to act as otticial nosiess at ine
White House, as Jefferson was a
widower.
II was a Deriod of bitter noliti
al ctri!0flpK. hut Mrs. Madison's
charm and popularity made her
home a center of Washington so
ciety and a place of refuge from
party quarrels. During the bitter
wears' nf her husband's Presidency,
Dolly Madison's popularity made
the social life of the administration
nnrl hrilltnnt.
glfllHJU j v
. When British troops occupied
Washington in the summer ot inn
the fled, along with other citizens
.n.no silver historically price
less official papers, and valuables
with her. She returned to find
only the blackened walls of the
White House standing.
T:jioiiu rinllv Madison was
the first hostess to serve ice
cream in the United States. She
served the strange foreign dessert
. . c 1 nnn
at a White House dinner m joira.
. immenco CPTlKation.
il was on unit-.... ----
The first ice cream is believed
to have been made in Italy about
-r rTL nnliuoG fllPPA had lOMI
JOOV. le uanw. - -
used ice from the mountains to
cool their drinks. Tney oiscoveieu
that ice and salt made a freezing
mixture. From mere u was mi'
a step to adding milk or cream
and the Italians had ice cream.
Up and coming Dolly Madison was
quick to latch onto it as soon as
die read about u.
Dolly MadTson was the belle of
the first inaugural Dan. men, aa
J Ml Ulrxt-
row. people poureu mio nasiuug,
. r Ua manaiiral reremonies.
lun iui tnc ib
The first inaugural ball, held in
Long's Hotel on March 4, 1809,
was a brilliant affair. So many
people attended it that the air in
u Koiirnnrn Wame unbelievably
duffy and they had to smash the
windows to provide veniuauuu
4 Bodies
Are Found
SALINAS, Calif. (AP)-Bodicsl
ef four men, their skulls broken,
were found in a field Thursday.
Undersherifl Carol Joy said au
topsies showed that holes were
made by an instrument such as a
ball-peen hammer. The victims
had not bee-i robbed.
None of the victims had been
Identified.
A woman who lives nearby
Freeman Arbo. said she saw
five men drunk and apparently
quarreling at the murder site
when she went outside to feed her
chickens the night before.
The men's bedrolls and empty
wine bolt!e.i were strewn about
the site, a camping spot for itin
erants, authorities said.
QL'EEN STARTS TOL'R
LONDON (UPD Queen Eliza
beth and Prince Philip take off
tndav on a 39-dav tour of the
Middle and Far East including
India and Pakistan, the first any
British monarch has paid to these
two nations since they achieved
Independence in 1947.
PLANS FOR A GIANT NEW SHOPPING CENTER
moved from the planning to the formation'stage yester
day. The James F. Stilwell Company, real estate brokers,
announced plans for construction of the big shopping
center to begin in late spring or summer. This company
is exclusive leasing agent for the center which will be
MM Dinaupirated
$4 Million Shopping Center Plans Are Announced
Proposed plans for a four mil-lbrokers. 517 Main Street. lof Avalon Street. ifirm selected the Klamath Fallsivcstmont. lit is adjacent to the recent Rick
lion dollar giant shopping center
were unveiled Thursday afternoonlis
in the offices of James F. Stil- lies between South Sixth Street
well and Company, real estateland Shasta Way along bolh sides
102 Cheat Death
In Airliner Crash
NEW YORK AP A jet air-.
liner crashed Thursday night sec
onds after taking off in a wind
whipped snowstorm. The huge
ship's speed sent it slamming
across a highway, clipping an
auto and skidding in flames into
marsh.
Of the 106 persons reported
aboard, 102 escaped death, al
though at least 26 were injured,
several critically.
The dead tentatively were iden
tified as four of the eight crew
members three men and the
woman purser. Sixty-one of the
98 passengers aboard the tour-
engine airliner are residents of
the tin ted Stales. i"
The airlinei, a DC8B of Aero-
naves de Mexico, went down at
8:25 p.m. It. was bound nonstop
for Mexico City.
One survivor, G. Terry Sechrist
of Farmington, Conn., said the
plane got about 50 feet in 'the
air, then skimmed down. Other
survivors weren't certain if the
plane ever got off the ground.
Idlewild Airport observers said
the $5-million craft had to get
aloft to clear a concrete fence at
the end of the -runway. The plane
did hit a wire fence just beyond
the concrete barrier. Sections of
the wire fence were enmeshed in
the wreckage. The front section
of the plane became enveloped in
flames.
The Civil Aeronautics Board and
the Federal Aviation Agency be
gan on-the-scene investigations in
an attempt to learn the cause of
the crash.
The one person aboard who
might have the answer is Williamlbands and beauties, and even
B. Poe, 52. of Miami, Fla. check
pilot aboard the plane. But Poe's
condition early today at St.
seph's Hospital in Queens was
scribed as "still critical."
Noting that the plane look off!
in a blinding snowstorm with
winds up to 25 miles per hour,
Rep. Steven B. Derounian, R-N.Y.,'
said in a statement from Wash
ington: "Next week I will introduce
some legislation to make it man
datory that no takeoff or landings
of planes will be allowed unlessi
visibility is 2.5 miles and the
minimum ceiling Is 2.500 feet."
Visibility al the lime of the
crash was a quarter of a mile,
and the ceiling about 300 feet.
Derounian U a member of the
House subcommittee on lranspor-j
tation and aeronautics.
Police tentatively identified the
bodies found in the wreckage, as
those of Capt Ricardo Gonzales,
the pilot; First Officer Antonio
Ruiz Bravo; Second Officer Javier
iAlvarcz Bacha; and Gloria San
jchcx Herrejou, the purser.
V
The modernistic shopping center
planned lor a 30-acre area that
When the. plane finally halted,
passengers leaped through exit
doors and smashed windows and
fled in all directions in the sub-
freezing temperature.
Many were picked up by pass
ing motorists and driven back to
the airport or taken to hospitals
Spectators
Bundled Up
Cai Pftliirlo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Specta
tors lined Pennsylvania Avenue
today, bundled up against the bit
ing cold, to watch the inaugural
parade for incoming President
John F. Kennedy.
Twenty-degree cold and an 8
inch snow failed to dampen spirits
as the eariy comers of an expect
ed large throng gathered along
the historic route and at the Capi
tol, scene of the swearing-in cere
mony. The' l'j'miii! parade roule from
the Capito! to the White House
had been cleared, right down to
the pavement, by an army of men
and a huge array of equipment
borrowed from the Army.
Democrat, celebrating their re
turn to executive power in Wash
ington, jubilantly decided against
curtailing plans for the colorful
parade of men and missiles,
Navy PT boat
Three thousand workmen
Jo-'worked all night in the cold and
de-'snow to clear the route. At least
550 snowplows, dump trucks and
other removal
equipment were
mustered.
Pastor Admits
Firing Churches
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -
napusi minister stunned hisshares of Pacific Power for eachj7.00 per ccnl or 6.00 per cent se
pdrisnioncrs inursaay ny admit-
ting, officers said, that he had
burned down two of his churches.
He said he didn't know why.
Officers booked on arson charg
es the Rev. Leonard Rhoads, 44,
whose First Southern Baptist
Church in Palo Alto was de
stroyed by fire Dec. 13. Deputy
Dist. Atty. Harry Parker said lhe
minister aisn admitted burning
down his church at Fontana Nov.
16, 1956.
constructed on a 30-acre plat that lies between South
Sixth Street and Shasta Way along both sides of Avalon
Street. Photo at left shows drawing of shopping center
as made by architects Morrison, Howard and Starbuck,
Engineer. Center, the plans get a close-up review. Left
to right are John Howard, architect; Don Sloan and
William S. Curtis, San Francis-'
h comolete final nlansJ
. ' . r
K01' lhe project.- staled that a syn-
an investment and' development
corporation from the Bay City
area, is engineering the new cen
ter.
Initial plans call for construe
lion of more than 200,000 square
feet of building, with plans for
eventual space exceeding twice
that amount.
The initial phase of construe-;
tion is expected to get underway
in late spring or summer.
Plans call for a mall-type con
struction with five or six large
structures grouped around the
mall and parking space for about
2.000 cars planned around the per
imeter of the area.
Curtis indicated that it will be
exclusively a retail center, with
planning calling for a supermar
ket, drugs, variety, department
store and other businesses as well
as personal service operations
and other of this type.
He indicated that negotiations
were now underway with some
firms for space in the center,
but that first consideration for
space would go to local firms.
He also slated that there is still
uncommitted space allocation in
the center.
The James F. Stilwell Company
is exclusive leasing agent for the
center and is handling all nego
tiations.
The architectural firm of Mor-'
rison, Howard and Starbuck, En
gineer, have drawn plans for the
center, and will handle this phase
of the development.
Curtis also said local people
would be used as much as pos
sible in the construction phase of
the center.
When queried as to why Iheiabout a four million dollar in-
Copco, PP&L Close Deal
On Exchange Of Stocks
PORTLAND (API Two power!
companies today announced they
have reached a detailed agree
mentmostly covering stock ex
changeon their merger.
Boards of Directors of Pacific
Power & Light Co. and California
Oregon Power Co. said special
stockholders' meetings will -be
held March 14 to approve the,
merger.
The companies had reached
agreement earlier on the ex
change of common stock 1.2
COPCO share. Today's announce-jnal
ment set the exchange rale of
various preferred stocks and au
thorized Pacific Power the sur-!
viving company in the merger
to issue additional shares of stock'of Pacific's $100 par value 5.00 per
equal to the number needed for'cent serial preferred slock; and
the cxchanne
Approval of the merger requires
a majority vote of PP&L's shares,
including a majority of preferred
stock, and a two-thirds majority cific's $100 par value 5.40 per cent
of bolh common and prefcrrediserial prefericd alock."
area for such a development,
Curtis said, "We made a thor
ough study ol the Klamath Falls
trading ares. We checked such
things as per capila income, po
tential future growth, traffic pat
tern, existing facilities of this
type. These factors determined not
only the particular area, but also
the particular site that we se
lected."
mTS
Curtis also explained, "Business
is of a stable nature and the long
term outlook appears very good.
You might term this a typical
American city' since it is grow
ing in an orderly manner.
"There is a definite need here
for a major shopping center, and
the , fact that this is a steadily
growing community had a big
bearing on its selection," he con
cluded. Eventual plans call for a sub
stantially larger center than will
be constructed initially, and Cur
tis indicated that the unused land
would be developed as future need
arises, wun an eye 10 luiure ex
pansion of the center rather than
the addition of other commercial
structures.
A complete brochure of Klam
ath Falls and adjacent areas as
well as detailed studies on popu
lation centers, traffic trends and
other factors was prepared for
the investment group by the Stil
well firm. It Is one of the most
comprehensive studies of the area
yet documented and provided the
investing group with much ol me
information they needed to en
able them to make a decision on
this move.
A definite figure on the cost of
the initial phase of the program
of 200,000 square feet of space
could not be ascertained, but it
was developed that the entire pro
gram when completed would be
shares of COPCO
The merger must then be ap
proved by slate regulatory agen
cics and the Federal Power Com
mission.
The announcement had this to
say about terms of the preferred
stock exchange:
'Holders ol COPCO's $100 par
value non-callable seven per cent
and six per cent preferred stocks
would receive respectively share
for share of a new series of Pa
cific's (100 par value non-callable
preferred slock
'Holders ol COPCO's $100 par
value 4.70 per cent series prefer
red stock would receive for each
share one share of a new scries
holders of COPCO's $100 par value
5.10 per cent scries preferred
stock would receive for each share
one share of a new scries of Pa-
James F. Stilwell of the real estate firm handling the
negotiations, and William S. Curtis, .representing a syn
dicate of investors from the Bay Area. At right, the ac
tual site of the new shopping center which will eventually
cost four million dollars is examined first-hand. Left to
right are John Howard, William S. Curtis and Don Sloan.
DD llDp)irTO C(glFOmlfi)y
The area of the proposed shop-
ping center lies within the con-
lines ol the city ot Klamath Falls.
Seach Will Mead
bca! Merchant
Bob Beach of Beach's jewelers
was elected president ol the
Klamath Merchants Association
and Frank Bogalay of Bogatay's
shoe store was elected vice presi-
dent, at a meeting of the group
Thursday afternoon at the Chuck
Wagon restaurant. ' . .
BOB BEACH
. . . heads merchants I
Membership of the association
will ballot by mail to elect a five
man executive committee to com
plete the governing group. The
five will be elected from 10 nom
inees. The 10 are Chuck Burman
of Scars, Jim Parks of Newber
ry's, Larry Whytal of Whytal's,
Rod Bell of Bell's Hardware,
Gene Favell of Gene's Men's Store,
Don Radkc of Weisfield's, Dick
Hicks of Market Basket, Bob Got
shall of Wards, Lowell Jones of
Jones' Office Supply and Noel
Flynn of Pay Less Drug.
The group voted to sponsor a
retail sales clinic for store per
sonnel in conjunction with the
Oregon Retailers Association and
University of Oregon. Timing and
details for the five-week course
will bo worked out soon with the
university. Vern Owens present
ed the plan.
Planning for a Fourth of July
parade was assigned to a com
mittee of Jim Parks, chairman;
Frank Hales and Lew Wayburn
by Beach
Spring opening promotion was
assigned to Harry Glcsin, chair
man; Gene Favell, Larry Why
tal and Walt Kcnnett, with in
structions to report back al the
next merchants meeting.
Customer parking plans were
reported by Charlie Schuss, Lew
Wayburn, Greer Drew, Al Hat-
tan and Noel Flynn ot the Park
and Shop Corporation,
"We want to build this into a
city-wide parking plan for
Iittmntowt merchants with
all
fall's housing development, and
less than a block from the newly
'built Lucile O Neil School
.stores participating," Schuss said.
A meeting of the original 40
signers of the Park and Shop
agreement will be scheduled for
next week for the purpose of
electing directors and officers for
operation and promotion of the
parking plan, Beach announced
'Runaway'
Is Blamed
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Atomic Energy Commission has
established that the explosion of
an atomic reactor in Idaho Jan. 3
was caused by an accidental "run
away" reaction.
The explosion was nothing like
an atomic bomb blast, but three
men were killed and the reactor
chamber still cannot be ' entered
because of radiation danger.
The AEC announcement Thurs
day said technicians are striving
to devise a way of remotely
looking into the reactor room and
the reactor vessel."
Special television cameras and
other equipment have been
brought from the AEC's Oak
Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamas,
N. M. laboratories.
"It is hoped," the AEC said,
'that this equipment will enable
detcrminaiion of the status of the
reactor, especially the water level
and condition of the fuel elements
and controi rods which are as
sumed to have been disarranged
by the explosion."
Once the reactor slalus Is del
inltely established, action can be
taken safely and with certainty to
remove the possibility of further
criticality, if such possibility ex
ists." Criticallty means the possi
bility of a further chain reaction
'Georgia Moon
Is Quite Legal
ALBANY. Ga. (AP) - Georgia
has a booming new industry legal
moonshine.
Viking Distillery of Albany re
cently added a new beverage to!
its line, Georgia moon, a corn
liquor guaranteed to be less than
,10 days old.
Bottled in a replica of a quart
fruit jar traditional moonshine
container lhe 90 proof whisky is'
distilled to meet government spe
cifications.
Sid Witlcn. Viking vice prcsl
dent, said it took him three years
to get federal government approv
al to market the gimmick moon
shine.
Local retailers are being given first opportunity for
space in the shopping center which will have parking
space for about 2,000 cars and be built in a naall-type,
arrangement.
Appeals To Reds
For Peace
WASHINGTON (AP)
Kennedy became president
an eloquent plea for the Communists to join him in a
quest for peace lest all humanity be destroyed.
At the cold, windswept, snow-covered Capitol the
old order left and the new
Kennedy, at 43 the youngest elected president in
our history, took the oath as the nation's 35th chief exe
cutive from Chief Justice Earl Warren at 12:51 p.m. :?
The simple, impressive ceremony look -bat mo
ment, and Kennedy immediately plunged into the world
problems that will occupy
the next four years.
The President began hisi
inaugural address with a
vow that this nation would
remain strong.
"Let every nation know," he
said, "whether it wish us well or
ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hard
ship, support any friend or oppose
any foe in order to assure the sur
vival and success of liherty." ,
He never mentioned the Com
munists by name when he said:
To those nations who would
make themselves our adversary,
we offer not, a pledge but a re
quest: that both sides begin anew
the quest for peace, before the
dark powers of destruction un
leashed by science engulf all hu
manity in planned or accidental
self-destruction."
Nearly all the notables in the
nation were here governors, sen
ators, representatives, Supreme
Court justices. A few, including
former President Herbert Hoover,
were kept away by Thursday
night's snowstorm. ,
But ex-President Harry S. Tru
man was on the inaugural stand,
beaming to see a Democrat take
over the White House again' after
eight years of Republican rule,
And Dwtght D. Eisenhower, at
70 the oldest president in U.S. his
tory, listened quietly as his youth
ful successor confidently said;
"Let the word go forth from this
time and place, to friend and foe
alike, that the torch has been
passed to a new generation of
Americans born in this century.
tempered by war, disciplined by
a cold and bitter peace, proud of
our ancient heritage and unwill
ing to witness or permit the slow
undoing of those human rights to
which this nation has always been
committed, and to which we are
committed today."
There was no immediate expla
nation, but Kennedy, who had ar
rived at the Capitol early, did not
come on to the inaugural stand
until 12:12 p. m., or 12 minutes
late.
Even then the program wasn't
ready to begin, and there was
considerable milling about on the
platform,
Eisenhower and Kennedy didn t
seem to mind. They chatted ami
ably and at times energetically.
Neither smiled much Mostly,
Kennedy listened soberly, squint
ing into the sunlight made ex
ceptionally bright by the snow,
The program finally got under
way 20 minutes late,
There were the prayers from
leaders of four faiths, Roman
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and
Quest
A deadly serious John F.
today in deadly times with
came in.
most of his thoughts during
" :
Greek Orthodox. .
There was the stirring, martial
music, the singing, and, curiously,
there even was comedy. At the
most inappropriate moment. Dur
ing the invocation by Archbishop
Richard Cardinal Cushing smoke
poured from the lectern. Whatev
er the origin of the ire, it was
quickly extinguished. Cardinal
Cushing was undisturbed. A flit
ting smile crossed even Kenne
dy's face.
PRISIDINT KENNEDY '
Finally, came the point ot all
this proceedings, taking the oaths.
Lyndon B. Johnson's turn came
first. The tall . Texan, who had
such' high hopes of being presi
dent himself, was sworn in as vice
president by his old friend, fellow
Texan and political coach, House
Speaker Sam Rayburn at 12:41
p.m. ,
Kennedy slipped out of a topcoat
protecting him against the 22-de-grce
weather and stepped for
ward. Facing Chief Justice Warren,
and speaking in a loud, clear
voice, he repeated his oath to up- -
hold the Constitution and took on
the awesome job of leadership.
When he finished the oath, ne
turned to now ex-President Eisen
hower and smiled broadly. Eisen
hower smiled back and they shook
hands. "t
Kennedy delivered his speech
with the finger-pointing, hand
chopping gestures which became
so familiar during the political
campaign.
"I do not shrink tram this re.
sponsibility I welcome K," be
said.
There were scattered cries ef
"Jack!" as the crowd Interrupts!
Kennedy during Us