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COXP. Blast Turns Gay Ice Show Into Nightmare; 63 Die INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. lUPD A tremendous explosion turned a gala Halloween ice show into nightmarish tragedy -Thursday night, killing at least 63 persons and injuring 341. Officials said the explosion might have been caused by compressed gas used in cooking hot dogs and for pop corn pop ping. The catastrophe largest in Indianapolis history killed 63 men, women and children, ac cording to official sources. There was such confusion after the explosion some bodies were counted twice and, at one point, officials had set the toll at 70 before revising it down ward. The explosion roared through the Indiana Coliseum at the conclusion of the opening night performance of "Holiday On Ice." It tore through the con crete floor beneath the $3.30 box scats, finest in the house, and hurled bodies 50 feet through tlie air onto the ice, where moments befoi? skaters had pirouetted. Panic swept through parts of the audience. Crowds surged toward exits. One spectator said, "I saw people jumping over the balconies to their death." Shortly, there were mink coats from women in the audience strewn on the ice, along with popcorn boxes and empty beer cups. Many of the box seats direct ly above the explosion were oc cupied by prominent Indianap olis residents. Coroner Dennis Nicolas said, "apparently it was an accumu lation of leaking propane gas used for the concession stands." He said the explosion may have been caused by a leak in cop per tubing and net in a gas tank. Gov. Matthew E. Welsh or dered an immediate investiga tion. To the stunned city of Indi anapolis, (he reasons why seemed secondary lor the mo ment. The shocking and most Im portant fact was a sheet of ice scarred with dead mothers, fathers, a few children: a noli- -day Halloween night which be came a real nightmare while a band played jazztime music; the double row of covered bod- ( Continued on Page 2-A) U.OP ORS.UBrtARt ME-iaPAHER SSCTIOM GEN. RISK. AND DOCUMENTS DIV. VICTIM REMOVED Rescue Twisiea wrecicage following Thursday night. Sixty seven Hospital Wins Final Okay; Ground Breaking Saturday Construction of Klamath County's new 141-bed Presby terian Intercommunity Hospital was given the go-ahead signal yesterday afternoon when the office of Congressman Al TJ11 man told the Herald and News that the U.S. Department of Public Health had approved the low bid of $2.09 million as sub mitted by the Todd Construc tion Company of Roseburg. The Roseburg construction firm was among five bidders who competed for the contract to build the four-story structure, scheduled for completion before the summer of 1965 on a site adjacent to the new OTI cam pus. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS ' From Washington: Representative Morris K. Udall, of Arizona, has intro duced in the congress a bill that would raise the pay of the vice president of the U.S. from the present $35,000 to $50,500; cab inet officers from $25,000 to $10,000; Supreme Court j u s tices from $35,000 to $50,000 and members of congress from $22, 500 to $35,000. He says in explanation of his bill that present salaries paid top government officials are ridiculously low and that sub stantial increases are needed to attract and HOLD the kind of people it takes to run the gov ernment properly. In defense of his bill, he goes on to say: "It doesn't make sense when Chicago pays its chief of ipo lice $30,000 a year to protect its citizens and the United States pays its secretary of de fense only $25,000 a year to ad minister a So5 billion budget for the protection of the entire na tion." And, he adds: "It's absurd when the city of New York pays its comptroller $40,000 a year but the U.S. sec retary of the treasury gets only $25,000 a year." Hmmmmmmmmmm. What Congressman Udall seems to be saying is that the higher the pay the higher the quality of the government the taxpayers get. One wonders. Out this way, we seem to re call that over the years the municipal governments of Chi cago and New York have been fantastically corrupt in spite of the high salaries that arc paid to their officials. We are so naive as to think that it isn't so much WHAT WE PAY THEM as the KIND OF MEN WE GET that results in good government. . Interesting thought: Suppose the congress should enact and the President should sign Representative Udall's bill. Suppose it could then be re ferred by petition to a vpte of tlie people of the U.S. as an act of the legislature can be submitted to a vote of the peo ple in Oregon. What would happen? One suspects that it would be beaten as decisively as was the recent tax increase in Oregon. Why? ' Well, one suspects that a 1 1 over the country people are get ting as hot under the collar over soaring taxes as are the people of Oregon. Taxes are beginning to BITE. workers Indianapolis an explosion during an ice show were killed and hundreds injured The bid had been first ac cepted by the hospital board and the State Department of Public Health, represented by Harry Palmer, moments after the bid opening. But acceptance of the bid was also needed from the U.S. Department of Public Health before some $1.3 million could be released to the project from Hill - Burton and Accel erated Public Works Program funds. Word clearing the way for the start of construction came as members of the hospital board were preparing arrange ments for the official ground breaking of the hospital site by Congressman Al Ullman, 1:30 p.m., tomorrow. County Commissioner Frank Ganong will emcee the affair to be attended by Sens. Maur ine Neuberger and Wayne Morse and other distinguished guests, such as city and county officials from throughout the 'Klamath Basin. Also in attend ance will be Rev. John Reyn okls, moderator of tlie Prcsby teria of Southwest Oregon (spon sors of the hospital), and Rev. iRobert C. Groves, who will de liver an address on the achieve ment of tlie Basin in raising funds which have made possi ble the construction of the hos- 3 Miners Rescued PEINE, Germany (UPI) -Three men trapped for more than a week in a flooded iron mine were brought to the sur face today and cheered by a crowd of waiting miners as they stepped out into the daylight. The underground ordeal for the three miners ended when they came up a 262-foot escape shaft that had been punched through to them in days of te dious drilling. After three hours in a decompression chamber to prevent the possibility of an at tack of the "bends" the men walked out under an overcast sky. About 800 fellow miners and friends cheered them. A mine official said the phy sical and mental condition of the rescued men was extraordinar ily good. After pushing through the crowd of well-wishers the men went into a Red Cross tent for a private reunion with their families. Rescue worker Paul Syska went down in a rescue capsule through the emergency shaft to help the men to the, surface W TLX isL ' 2&S! (." LA I I 1 TRICK OR THEATERS Youngsters of all ages donned costumes and scary masks to confront residents of the area with the option of "trick" or "treats" on Halloween. At left, Tyana Payne, 1707 Kan. Street, ii shown handing remove a victim from the t the state fairgrounds UPI Telephoto pital. Tlie invocation will be de livered by Rev. Al Place of Chil oquin. Music for the ceremony will be provided by the Klamath Union High School band, under the direction of LaMar Jensen. The committee in charge of the ground breaking includes Dick Lamb, Jim Crismon, Lt. Jim Delaney, Rev. Robert Groves, Boyd Sanderson, George Calli son and Dr. Don Bauer. ' Gordon Todd, general super intendent fbr the bid winners, told the Herald and News fol lowing the bid opening that his firm would begin moving heavy equipment here from Roseburg so it would be prepared to start work as soon as the contract was let. President And Advisers Study Viet Nam Situation WASHINGTON .(UPD-Presl-dent Kennedy met for 45 min utes today with top diplomatic and military advisers on the military coup directed against the government of South Viet Nam. A spokesman said afterwards that the President was given "direct information" on the sit uation in Saigon by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretory Robert S. McNa mara. Press Secretary Pierre Salin ger said that there would be no immediate White House com ment on the fast-developing sit uation. He said, however, that there is "no problem" in White House communications with Saigon and "our reports are coming in very fast." Shooting Hours OREGON November 2 Open Close 6:10 a.m. 5:00 p.m. CALIFORNIA November 2 Open Close 6:09 a.m. 4:59 p.m. Wont her Klamath Palls, Tulelakl ind Lakt- view: Mostly cloudy with few scat tered showers tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight at to 32, highs Saturday SO to 55. . High yesterday 55 Low this morning 34 High year ago - .i Low year ago so Preclp. lest 24 hours .00 Since Jan. 1 1.04 Same period last year 14.51' U.S. Forces To Protect SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) Vietnamese marine, army and air force units rebelled today to overthrow the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. (The United States promptly ordered forces in the Pacific to start moving toward Vict Nam to protect American lives if necessary. (Diem was arrested and jail ed and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, powerful head of the se cret police, was assassinated by rebel forces, diplomatic sources said in Tokyo. ) ' .Those attending the meeting also included Central Intelli gence Agency Chief Johtf A. McCone; Gen, Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman, Roger Hilsman, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, and McGeorge Bundy, the Pres ident's assistant for national se curity. Bundy, who awakened the President at 3 a.m. EST to tell the President of the develop ment, maintained a White House "situation room" where reports from Saigon were re ceived. He briefed the Presi dent again at 6 a.m. EST. Mme. Nhu Raps U.S. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UPI) Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu said today that "if press re ports of a revolt in Viet Nam are true, it is a great shame to many Americans." Mme. Nhu issued her state ment through her traveling com panion, T. M. Thach, South Viet Nam's observer at the United Nations. She said: "Indeed, we all know many of them (Amer icans) wanted this for a long time. Now that victory was coming for us, they thought they could rob us of the real fruits of that victory with the help of little men who are traitors." out treats to Tayna, Alan, Ricky and Dennis Peterson. Center view, wM looks like two juvenile members of the Cose Nostra mob ar. shown as th.y mad. th.ir Hal. low.an rounds. Th.y ar Gary Jonas, 5203 Bryant, Mr, Price Ten Cents 16 Pages Ordered Americans The rebels struck at midday. By nightfall they were reported in control of most of the coun try following fierce fighting. (The American forces ordered to Viet Nam are primarily part of the 7th Fleet, and were ex pected also to include some air and ground units. The Unit ed States already has an esti mated 15,000 troops in Viet Nam. (The rebels appeared to be in virtual control of Saigon and other parts of the country ex cept for the immediate area around the presidential palace, according to reports reaching Washington. Heavy fighting continued around the palace. Diplomatic sources in Washing ton cautioned, however, that it still was uncertain whether the coup was successful.) Madame Nhu, the president's controversial sister-in-law, is touring the' United States and currently is in Beverly Hills, Calif., with her 18-year-old daughter, Le Tuy. (Tlie Japanese foreign office in Tokyo also said it had re ceived a cable from its acting ambassador in Saigon reporting that Saigon radio announced the formation of a new govern ment some time around 4 a.m. EST. The coup forces were be lieved to be pro-American. I A U.S. Embassy official in Manila said there had been fierce fighting. "One plane has been shot down and the presi dent's palace has been sur rounded," the official said.) The United Slates has made no secret since then that it would like a change in the Sai gon government. The English language Times of Vict Nam charged here Sept. 2 that the U.S. Central Intelligence agency had planned a coup against the regime Aug. 28 but "postponed the plot" because the "Vietna mese knew and were prepared to . . . fight to the end." The United States dismissed the accusation as a fantasy. President Kennedy said earlier this month that the United States would continue Its sup port of Dicm's guerrilla war against the Communists, b u t would like to sec a change In "policies and personnel." This was believed directed particu larly against Nhu, who has been reputed to be the real ruler of Vict Nam and chief In stigator of the crackdown cam paign. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. list Vandalism Takes CHECK CONVENTION PLANS Officials of t he Pacific Northwest Newspaper Advertising Executives Association (PNNAcA) are shown as they check over last minute preparations for the ij.i.. ki-i-i el vvinema iworer morel, jnown, lerr to ngnr, DacK row, jia giaaway, victoria, D.t.( board of governors; Frank Newell, Roseburg, exhibits chairman; A. D. "Deb" Addison, Klamath Falls, convention chairman, and Dale Dixon, Walla Walla, board of governors. Seated, same order, Frank McGirr, Calgary, Alberta, vice president; Del Jackson, Vancouver, Wash., president, and Gordon Crossley, Vancouver, B.C., secretary-treasurer. The session concludes with a buffet luncheon Saturday noon. Newspaper Advertising Executives Gather Here For Two-Day Session Glenn Jackson, vice chair man of the Pacific Power and Light Company, highlighted tlie first morning's activities of the convention of newspaper ad vertising executives with a luncheon address on "Commu nity and Newspaper Develop ment at the Wincma Motor Hotel Friday. In addition to this position with the utility firm, Jackson is chairman of the Oregon State Highway Commission, and is di rectly involved in the newspa cr field as one of the owners of the Albany Democrat Herald and the weekly Cottage Grove Sentinel. About 50 persons, including delegates, wives and guests were attending the semi-annual meeting of the Pacific North west Newspaper Advertising Ex ecutives Association which and Mike Knabl., S228 Bryant. They also looked at though they meant business. At right, decorated forth, occasion ar., left to right, Barbara Buhrl., Ter.sa and Margarita Garcia and Linda Buhrl. Th. photographer captured FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1963 Ota 57th semi-annual convention i - -La i i opened with Thursday registra tion. Bub Watson, retail advertis ing manager of tlie Province, Vancouver, B.C., opened the session at 9 a.m. Friday with the "Early Bird" award, and William B. Sweetland, publisher of the host newspaper, the Her ald and News, delivered t h c welcoming address. Delbcrt Jackson, advertising manager of the Columbian, Van couver, Wash., and president of the PNNAEA, opened the busi ness portion of the convention with preliminary remarks. The Friday morning program Included a keynote address by Paul Carter, advertising co ordinator for the Spokesman Re view and Daily Chronicle, Spo kane. Dale Dixon, ganeral manager of the Walla Walla, Wash., Union Bulletin, chair manned the "Northwest Idea Telephone Til 4-8111 No. 761? 11 9 Heavy Toll In City which opened Friday at the r;j cj f b r Panel," and Uien individual idea panels were held for Ore gon, Alaska and Idaho. Frank Newell, exhibits chair man, Roseburg News Review commented briefly on fall ex hibits just prior to tlie luncheon recess. Friday's session concludes with a banquet dinner and dance this evening at which fall 1903 awards will be pre sented. ' Modern Miss Described LONDON (UPI) - National. Chamber of Trade President. ' James Parke said today that "the ultra - modern miss dresses to kill and la reputed to cook the same way." these four pixies at 422 Washington. Trick or tr..tr were reported not quit, to numerous this year In most placos. Weather . LONO'RANOI OUTLOOK ftKurrlng showers through the week' and with mild temperatures. Return to lair fall weather It oxpected early next Windows And Autos Damaged Merchants and homeowners today counted up thousands of dollars to destruction wrought on Halloween by gangs of van dals who roamed through Klamath Falls. Dozens of stores and homes were hit by rocks and beer bot tles, breaking windows valued at hundreds of dollars each. One East Main, store had four of its five plate glass show win dows shattered. One man's car was broken up and the upholstery lashed and ripped by vandals who also covered the outside with paint- destroying shaving cream and acratches from sharp objects. Police declared war today on the vandals and indicated they have solid leads to their iden tities. One youth was captured ' at a drive-in cafe where 18 win dows were broken. Chief of Police Charles How ard said the Halloween was one of the worst in recent his tory as page after page of the police log were filled with re ports of destruction. The vandals hit virtually ev ery area of the city except the downtown blocks which were patrolled. In one instance, beer bottles were thrown through the win dows of three business estab lishments In a row on Spring Street Outside the city, Oregon State Police reported six instances of similar vandalism. The one youth nabbed by po lice was a member of a four- man gang which broke 18 win dows out of Shondo's Drive-in, Main and Martin. It is believed the same sang hit Calhoun's Floor Covering, 357 East Main, and broke four of tlie firm's five plate glass windows and smashed out two glass doors. police were questioning the youth in an attempt to learn the names of the other vandals. Here Is a list of incidents compiled from city police and state police reports this morn ing: (Continued on Page 4-A)
