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Blast Kills
Mother,
4 Children
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. I UPI I -An
explosion and fire ripped
through a converted apartment
building early Saturday, killing a
motner and tour of her children
A fifth child dove through a
window to escape the flames that
destroyed the one-story building
Police identified the dead as
Mrs. Betty Lou Ryan, 36; three
daughters, Billie Jean, 7, Vickie,
6, and Linda Sue May, 15, and
a son, Freddie Arthur, 9.
Another daughter, Karen Sue
May, 13, suffered second and
third degree burns and severe
lacerations when she jumped
through a window to escape. She
was reported in serious condition
in a hospital.
Linda Sue and Karen were chil
dren of a former marriage of
Mrs. Ryan.
The blast in the concrete block
structure awakened a neighbor,!
James Daughtery. He ran to the
flaming building and assisted
Mrs. Edith Wilson, 62, from the
Jront apartment.
Patrolman Joe Jarcd, attracted
by the flames, arrived a few
.minutes later and attempted to
enter the rear four-room apart
ment, occupied by Mrs. Ryan and
her children. But' he was forced
back by the flames and smoke.
"It was a mass of flames . . .,"
said Jarcd. "It was just too hot,
I couldn't get close enough to
tind the rear door.
Jared said the roof caved in
shortly after his arrival.
Mis. Ryan and the children ap
parently were asleep at the time
of the blast at 5:20 a.m. Karen,
her clothing ablaze, was cut when
she dove through the window
glass, Jared said.
Firemen, quickly extinguished
the flames and removed the bod
ics from the smouldering ruins
Origin of the explosion was not
determined immediately.
U.S., Japan
Adjourn
Fish Talks
TOKYO (UPI) - The United
States, Japan and Canada an
nounced Saturday they have
agreed to adjourn their dead
locked negotiations over fishing
rights m the northeastern Pacific,
U.S. sources said the talks
would be resumed in Canada.
A brief announcement issued
after Saturday's session said the
talks would be adjourned Monday.
Japanese sources said the negotia
tions are expected to be resumed
early next year.
While all sides say there has
been some progress in the talks
the main issue Japan's demand
that it be allowed to fish for salm
on and halibut off North America
remained unsolved.
The U.S. wants Japan to con
tinue to abstain from fishing for
these two marine resources in the
northeastern Pacific convention
area. Japan wants to scrap the
abstention principle.
. Sen. E. L. (Bob) Barllett. D
Alaska, arrived here Friday to
back up the U.S. delegation and
to explain America's unyielding
position.
Bartlelt said it would be "gross
ly unfair for Japan to share in
halibut and salmon resources
which American fishermen and
the U.S. taxpayers have spent mil
linns of dollars to build tip.
Demo Figure Closely Tied
To Firm Under FBI Scrutiny
WASHINGTON 'LTD - A rap
idly expanding firm with close
lies to Senate Democratic Secre
tary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker is
under scrutiny by FBI agents.
The firm, Scrv-U Corp., is re
ported to be doing a $3.5 million
annual business by placing its
vending machines in aerospace
plants working . on government
contracts.
Serv-U acquired five major fran
chises during the past 18 months
at plants of North American Avia
tion. Northrop Corp. and Thomn-son-Ramo-Woolridge
in the South
ern California area.
The 35-year-old Baker and his
wife. Dorothy, are listed as re
cipients of $290,000 in promissory
notes from Scrv-U and Mrs.
Baker has signed documents as
assistant secretary of the firm.
Ernest C. Tucker, board chair
man and vice president of Scrv-U
is a close friend and law partner
of Baker's in private practice.
Baker is a well-known Capitol
Hill figure and has close tics with
many Democratic senators. He is
a protoge of Vice President Lyn
don B. Johnson.
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NEW UNIFORMS Klamath Falls' three metar maids
show off the new, light-blue uniforms they will wear start
ing Monday. The new uniforms and hats replaca old green
and white uniforms the maids have been wearing. The
meter maids (left to right) are Jody Kitchen, Peggy
Glasscock and Donna Hoffman. They are standing on the
steps of the police department.
Widow, Lover
In Murder Of
CHICAGO (UPI) - An attrac
tive young widow was held on a
murder charge Saturday in the al
leged love triangle slaying of her
executive husband.
Mrs. Irwina Weinstein, petite
28-year-old mother of two chil
dren, surrendered voluntarily to
police Friday five days after the
charred body of her husband was
found in his fire-swept station
wagon in a South Side garbage
dump.
Her husband, Harvey. 31, was
an executive for Royal Display
Inc., a firm operated by Mrs.
Weinstein's father.
The woman was implicated in
the case by a burly ex-convict,
Richard Mattox. 31. who told po
lice he and Mrs. Weinstein had
been carrying on a love affair.
Mattox, who also has been
charged with murder, said Mrs.
Weinstein asked him to kill her
husband so that they could get
married. Mattox said he refused
however, and that she found an
other man whom he could not
identify to help her do the job.
Mrs. Weinstein refused to speak
with reporters after a 30-minute
session with the states attorney
but denied through her attorney
that she had anything to do with
the death of her husband.
Attorney Frank Whalen unsuc
cessfully sought the widow's re
lease from police custody, and
she was held in jail.
Stale's Atty. Daniel P. Ward
said Mrs. Weinstein refused to
answer his "appropriate ques
tions" about the case. He said
no bond would be set for the
pretty brunette because "it's a
murder case."
Mattox told police he was on
his way to visit Mrs. Weinstein
at her home last Sunday when
he saw her strike her husband
in the presence of a man he did
not know. He said he went home
and did not know what happened
next.
"I tried lo talk her out of kill
ing him." Mattox said. "It's a
Baker's non-elective Job pays an!
annual $20,000 salary. His wife is
employed on the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee's staff at
salary of $11,800 a year.
Senate staff members are not
barred by law from carrying on
private business careers. Baker
has made no secret of his finan
cial interests.
The FBI and the Justice Depart
ment refused to comment on their
interest in the vending firm but
it was learned that FBI agents1
visited several plants in the Wash
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Arrested
Husband
story of love and romance. She
wanted, to divorce him and he
would not give her a divorce."
Whalen called Mattox' state
ment "incredible."
Police said tests on the dead
man indicated he was killed by
a blow on the head and was dead
before the station wagon fire
started.
Burned Girl
Continues
To Improve
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Doc
tors attending eight-year-old Cath-
ryn Reeves were reported "en
couraged" by her improvement
Saturday, but the mystery of who
tossed the matches that turned
her into a human torch deepened
The child, who was prevented
from running for help by braces
on her polio-crippled legs, suf
fered second and third degree
burns Tuesday when her light cot
ton dress burst into flames.
She was able to take fluid by
mouth Friday and doctors said
she appeared to be "much bet
ter." Doctors indicated they might
start skin grafts this week.
But police said some witnesses
had thrown some doubt on Cath-
ryn's account of the burning. The
child said two playmates, who had
been teasing her about her braces.
threw a lighted book of matches
at her, setting her dress on fire.
Witnesses told police they had
seen the girl playing with match
es Tuesday afternoon. The wit
nesses said she was joined later
by two boys and that all three
began throwing matches at each
other and at passing cars..
Police said the girl had insisted
her version of the incident is the
correct one. But they added, ques
tioning of the child had been lim
ited because of her condition.
ington area in connection with the
firm's transactions.
Attention was first called to
Baker's tics with Scrv-U when he
was named a defendant in g civil
suit for damages filed by Ralph
Hill, president of the Capitol Vend
ing Co.
Hill alleged that he paid Baker
$5,600 for "securing and maintain
ing" a contract for Capitol Vend
ing to place its machines in the
nearby Falls Church, Va., plant
of Mclpar, Inc., an electronics
firm with government contracts.
October 6, 1963
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Space Agency Officials
Deny Inefficiency Claim
HOUSTON (UPP-Top federal
space agency officials defended
industry Friday against a Gen
eral Accounting Office (GAO re
port that contractors were ineffi
cient on the nation's first space ef
fort. A press conference of a two-
day meeting summarizing Proj
ect Mercury Friday turned into a
statement and-qucstion period be
tween newsmen and four top
space figures.
The four were Walter Burke,
vice president of McDonnell Air
craft, prime contractor for the
Gemini spacecraft; Hugh Dryden,
deputy administrator of the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration (NASA I; Robert Gil-
ruth, director of the Manned
Spacecraft Center; and Dr. Wal
ter Williams, deputy director for
mission requirements.
Burke, representing industry
said "I have never known of any
evidence of deliberate sloppy
workmanship.
Burke said the fact that parts
functioned correctly was testimo
nial to industry and the space
team. "Six men flew (in space
capsulcsl and nobody lost their
lives, he said.
Gilruth said the contractors on
Project Mercury were a "highly
dedicated group on the government-industry
team," and Dry
den added that quality control on
Mercury components "was as
high as had ever been contained
in any project I know about."
Williams, clarifying a paper he
presented to the session concern
ing industrial testing standards,
said the paper was not intended
to be "vindictive." but only to
point out that such testing must
be geared to search for the tiniest
flaws.
Because testing did not simu
late complete flight conditions,
Williams said, the possibility that
moisture might collect in capsule
electrical components was not re
vealed. Such actually did occur in as
tronaut Gordon Cooper's "Faith
capsule, causing failure of the
automatic controls as Cooper
readied for re-entry.
Williams added that correct
functions on Mercury components
was "better than 90 per cent."
Burke said discrepancies
pointed out in paper at the confer
ence were caused by re-working
of the capsule from its regular
duties into the Cooper spaceship.
John D. Hodge, assistant chief
'Fuehrer' And His Bride
Greeted By Boos, Eggs
COVENTRY. England (UPD -j
British neo-fascist "fuehrer Co
lin Jordan and his bride, the
niece of the late Paris fashion de
signer Christian Dior, gave the
Nazi salute after their marriage
ceremony here Saturday and were
greeted by boos, rotten eggs and
slink-bombs.
When Jordan, 40, and his fian
cee, Francoise Dior, 31, arrived
at the Coventry registry office for
the ceremony, they were booed
and hissed by members of the lo
cal Anti-Fascist League who were
in the crowd of about 1,000. Sev
eral clods of turf were thrown at
Jordan and Miss Dior, but they
were not hit.
When they emerged from the
building 15 minutes later, Jordan
and his bride both gave the Nazi
salute. The crowd booed and
threw rotten eggs and stink
bombs at them, but the couple
was not hit. They got into a wait
ing taxi and were driven off.
The first of two ceremonies
that will see Jordan and Fran
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ground controllers before the
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State GOP
Stays Mum
On Tax Vote
PORTLAND (UPP-The Repub
lican State Central Committee
Saturday refused to take a stand
on the Oct. 15 tax referendum.
The committee, meeting here,
unanimously adopted a resolution
which recommended that voters
base their decision upon "non
partisan study and individual
judgment."
The action was advisory be
cause only 16 of the state's 36
counties were represented at the
meeting. Delegates from 19 coun
ties are necessary for a quorum.
1 he resolutions committee head
ed by James Cahill of Coos Coun
ty noted that a majority of the
Republican members of ihe state
legislature voted against the $t0
million tax bill, but it also pointed
out that voters traditionally ig
nore party lines m referendum
votes.
Zoo's Baby
Named Dino
PORTLAND (UPI) -Portland's
third baby elephant will be named
Dino.
The Portland Zoological Society
announced the name after
tallying votes from about 37.000
school children in the Portland
area. The name Dino received
about 24,000 votes to 7.000 for
Rasha and 6.000 for Tyce. The
three names had been suggested
by the zoological society and city
officials.
Dino, the three-weck-old son of
Pet, is the smallest of four baby-
elephants born at the zoo. The
latest baby, a two-week-old daugh
ter of Tuy Hoa, will be named by
school children in Portland's sis
ter city of Sapporo, Japan.
Zoo officials also took advantage
of the weekend to celebrate the
first birthday of Mc-Tu, the sec
ond elephant to be born at the
zoo. The observance was two days
late, but Me-Tu was given a large
quantity of cotton candy and had
her picture taken.
coise mingle their blood over a
copy of "Main Kampf" took place
in the civil registry office of the
British city that was. nearly lev
eled by Nazi bombs in World
War II.
The bride has said she and the
former schoolteacher hope to
raise their children by "insisting
they keep their race pure by not
marrying someone of non Aryan
bloods, teaching them to defend
their race and venerate the fuehr
er and instructing them how to
fight for their race.
A "Political" ceremony will
take place Sunday at the London
headquarters of Jordan's Nation
al Socialist party, which glorifies
Hitler and preaches anti Semi
tism. Miss Dior told an interviewer
in Pans earner last wcck snc
and Jordan will marry in a cere
mony in which their fingers arc
cut, their blood mixed and sever
al drops of it allowed to fall on a
copy of Mcin Kampf, Hitler's
textbook of nazism.
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