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Elections Test Impact Of Civil Rights Revolt grass-roots political Impact of the Negro civil rights "revolu. tion" gets its first major assess ment today in off-year state and local elections across the na tion. . The racial controversy was particularly in evidence in the spirited contests for governor conducted in Mississippi and Kentucky, and in Philadelphia's mayoralty election. The response to the Negro de mands was not of major con cern to most political strate gists; it was the reaction of the white majority to those de mands Hiat was thought to pro. vide a clue to 1964's general election. " In Mississippi, whero both candidates are ardent and out spoken segregationists, the civ il rights issue took an odd twist as the Republicans made their first serious bid since Recon struction to capture the gover nor's mansion. Lt, Gov. Paul B. Johnson, a Democrat, was still favored to win but Republican Rubel Phil lips, a handsome young admir er of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, R.Ariz., made a race of it, Johnson argued that a true two-party system in Missis sippi would split Uiat state's white voters and give Negroes the balance of power. Phillips said that segregation would be strengthened by a two-party system because each party 'would serve as a racial watch dog over the other. Johnson was backed by out going Gov. Ross R. Barnett, who is barred by law from suc ceeding himself, and some of the biggest names in Mississip pi politics. Phillips claimed he would have stood stronger than Barnett against the admission of Negro James H. Meredith to the University of Mississippi last year. The Democrats were also fa vored to win the gubernatorial race in Kentucky where Repub lican Louie B. Nunn opposed Democrat Edward T. Breathitt Jr. But here again the Demo cratic margin was expected to be smaller than in recent years. In Kentucky the civil rights issue centered on the executive order issued earlier this year by retiring Democratic Gov. Bert Combs. It forbids racial discrim ination in all business estab lislimenla licensed by the state. Nunn hit hard at Iho order, not on racial grounds, he said, but on constitutional grounds a position somewhat similar to that of Sen. Goldwater. He also attempted to link Breathitt to the Kennedy administration. " Phlladelphians, divided by ex plosive racial tensions, vote on wihether to give bemucratic Mayor James II. J. Tato his own four-year term or turn the LAST 2 DAYS'. THE MEDICAL JUNGLE lf , DOCTORS Vy DONT TALK f !?;f 7 ABOUT! y'j GOnniBOIi Recommended For AduKs Only! Laurence! Simone Olivier I Sionoret MORE GOOD NEWS! Our "Movie Masterpieces" Continutt By Sptciat Arrangement with M-G-M w art cUligKud to bring No. 3 of tht "World Hrifo9" Pictures to Klomorh Foils ... for on night onlyf DRAMA YOUR HEART WILL NEVE FORGET! . . . MARL RUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE-WIN-NING NOVEL IECOMES EVEN MORE SPEC TACULAR IN THE MAGNIFICENT SCREEN VERSION! ONI NIGHT DOORS OHM tBSSEte Democrats out of office for the first time in 12 years in favor of Republican James T. Mc Dermott. Tate, who became mayor when Democrat Richardson Dil worth resigned to run unsuc cessfully for governor against Republican William W. Scran ton, ran with the backing of Rep. William J. Green Jr., city Democratic chairman, and the on-the-scene endorsement of President Kennedy, who made a special trip to Philadelphia last Wednesday. Purely local issues dominated most of the rest of the hundreds of slate, city and county elec tions across the tiaflon. In New York City voters were to register their opinions on a controversial proposition con cerning legalized off-track horse race betting. The proposal, championed by Democratic Ma yor Robert F. Wagner and hot ly opposed by Republican lead ers of the State Legislature, would allow the mayor to ap point a committee to draw up a plan for legalized bookie par lors in the city. Other major cities holding municipal elections included: Cleveland, Columbus, Youngs town, Akron, Canton, Toledo and Dayton, Ohio; Boston; San Francisco and San Diego, Calif; Rochester and Niagara Falls, N.Y.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Tuc son, Ariz., and Salt Lake City, Utah. Father Kills 3 Children PITTSBURGH (UP!) - A 35-year-old unemployed machinist from suburban Etna was scheduled to undergo question ing today at St. Francis Gen eral Hospital in an effort to learn a motive for the slaying of his three children. P.olice said George Vidovich Sr. apparently slashed Hie chil dren's throals while they lay sleeping Monday. Officers said the father then attempted to take his own life by placing a hose from his car's exhaust pipe to the inside through a window. Vidovich was unconscious when located by officers but he was revived by oxygen. Three .Allegheny County dcloctivcs and several attendants at (lie hospital were required to strap Vidovich to a bed. The dead are George Vido vich Jr., 14, a ninth grader at North Catholic High School; Jo. Ann Vldovi.il, 11, and Richard Vidovich, 9. JoAnn and Robert were studcnls at St. Nicholas parochial school in Millvale. Police said the cMlchcn's bodies wcro found in their beds by neighbors. A note found on the kitchen table of the Vidovich home read: "Jean, this is (he best way out. It's not your fault." The children's mother, Mrs. Jean Vidovich. 32, is being treated at SI. Francis Hospital for tuberculosis. PARF?A F.L.'3 SUSAN HAYWAHD SlbttN Hours' Indl Tonltt ISQUIRI ' ONLY! I 4S WEDNESDAY! aaaaala PAGE-3 HERALD AND 5' fi "nv EFFORT FAILS A valiant attempt is made by fireman Bernard F. Woods as he ap plies mouth to mouth resuscitation to youngster who perished along with his brother when fire swept their apartment in the Dorchester section of Boston Monday. Aiding is fireman James S. Donovan. ' ; Prosecution As Motive In MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (UPI) It was only a smiling picture, but it had a most telling effect. The man held his eyes tight shut. He took off his glasses and squeezed his nose between his eyes with his right hand. Wis eyelids were clamped in a grimace. Tilmer Eugene Thompson, the former elder of the Presbyter ian church in St. Paul in which his 34-year-old wife was a choir singer, had heard himself de scribed Monday at his murder trial as a faithless husband who sneaked off with another wom an for nights in motels and hotels. The slate of Minnesota had said it would show he took the "other woman" dining, dancing, paid tor her baby sitters, had her tcelh cared fori financed her secretarial training, and begged . her to give him 11 months to get enough money for tooth of tiliem (o live on. The begging the "other woman" had informed Thomp California Woman Among Four Nobel STOCKHOLM (UPI) - Two Americans, including a' woman nuclear scientist, two Germans and on Italian today were awarded the 1063 Nobel. Prizes in physics and chemistry. The physics award winners were Dr. Maria tioopnort May er of tlic University of Califor nia, Prof. Eugene Wigncr of Princeton University, and Prof. Hans D. Jensen of the Univer sily of Heidelberg. The chemistry prize was shared by Dr.i. Karl Ziegler of Muchlhcim, West Germany, and Giulio Natta of Milan, Italy. Italy Faces New Crisis HOME UPI - Tho slop-gap cabinet of Premier Giovanni Leone resigned en masse today, plunging this North Atlantic country back into the political crisis that has plagued it for most of Hie year. The cabinet, formed after general elections last April, voted to resign in a 24-minute session, ending its 137 dnys in olliie. The development had been expected. Leone Immediately went to present his resignation to Presi dent Antonio Scgni, a Christian Democrat like himself. Unless they call new elec tions, tlie Christian Democrats appeared to have only two pos sible courses of action: To form another center-left coalition or to set up a new government based on right-wing support. Either could lead to serious trouble, with the Communists the second largest political parly in the country waiting in the wings to cash in. Tlie Com munists also might stand to gain by elections. In April, they Kiamatit paira. erttM Putiithad a.iir i.rai m l and Sundaa sarvlnt a?nam oraawi and Narlti.ru Calllarnla V Klamath rviluMnf Ctmiany Va n at Eipianarta pnana TUvtito aim W. I. loMtiaix, PuBinntr fntarad aa aaad-claia malttr at fHa post offica at Klamath Palla. Oraoon. an Avamt la, Itaa. ansar act af Can- rati, March 3. II. Sacar-clai wi ll m a Kiamarn na,. 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Segcll sits five feet in front of defendant Thompson. He held the picture in front of him and studied it. ilt wis Carol. Thompson must have hdd a glimpse earlier to see wiho it was. But lie never saw it as Segell held it at close range. He dug his right hand into his eyes. His neck red dened. His let jaw muscle worked. Both prizes carry cash awards of $51,158. Half tlie physics prize will be shared by Dr. Mayer and Prof. Jensen, with the other half going to Professor Wigncr. Ziegler and Natla will split the chemistry prize equally. Dr. Mayer and Jensen were given their award by Hie Swed ish Academy of Sciences' for their joint discoveries concern ing nuclear shell structure. Atomic Nuclear Work Wigncr's prize was for his contribution to the theory of the atomic nucleus and lheactivity of elementary particles. Dr. Ziegler and Nalta were honored for their work in or ganic molecules which has made possible a number of new products' in plastics, in the field of synthetic detergents, and in anti-knock mixtures for high oc tane engine fuels. Wigncr, 61, was born in Buda pest, Hungary. He came to the Uniled States in KM to lecture at Princeton University and taught mathematical physics the following year. He retained the gmsl until l'.W, the same year he became an American citizen. He went to the University of Wisconsin in 11KS7. Later lie worked at the University of Chi cago, where he served as direc tor of research and development at Clinton Laboratories from 1W6-47. U.S. Cardinal Assails Decentralization Move VATICAN CITY (UPl -James Francis Cardinal Mcln tyre of Los Angelas told the Ecumenical Council today that a propositi to decentralize au thority in the Catholic Church Is a "radical change" which might "endanger the unity of the church." Cardinal Mclnlyre, one of tin? most conservative members of the U.S. hierarchy, spoke for llie lirst time at this session of the council as the fathers opened debate on a new docu ment which would enhance Iho authority of bishops lo run their own dioceses, lt also would grant oflicial recognition and real legislative (Hiwers to na tional conferences of bishops, such as tlie U.S. National Cath olic Welfare Conference. Paul Cardinal Kichaud of Bordeaux, France, led a long list of Western European liber als Mho slrongly defended the idea of national episcopal con ferences, and argued that the Tuesday, November 5, 1963 M &f m Will Ask For Life Randall Will ask this jury to send the crewcut criminal law yer to prison for life, the maxi mum sentence for first - degree murder in Minnesota. He 'told the jury in his open ing statement Monday that Thompson "instigated, planned and helped" in what the state expects to show was a three man conspiracy in "murder for hire." Besides the "other wom an" motive, he offered to prove that in a space of about a year before Carol's horribly botched slaying last March 6, Thompson took out $1,055,000 in term and accidental death insurance on her, with himself as ben eficiary. Randall told the jury he would show Thompson sent $2,500 in cash to his police character .acquaintance, Nor man J. Mastrian, who went "shopping for a killer" and found one on his fourth try. This alleged killer has con fessed the crime. Scientist Winners Mrs. Mayer was born in 1908 in Katlowitz, Poland. She stud ied at the University of Got lingcn in Germany until 1930. when she went to the United Slates. SJie became a natural ized citizen three years later. Worked At Arguaine She became associated with Johns Hopkins in 1931. For a lime she lectured at Columbia University and at Sarah Law rence College. From 1942 lo 1945 she was a senior physicist at the Argonne National Lab oratories in Chicago. The chemistry and physics prizes were the last of the year. Last month tlie Nobel prizes for literature, medicine and peace were awarded. Tlie prize (or literature went lo Giorgos Scferis, a Greek poet and former diplomat. The prize for medicine was shared by two Britons, Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding, and Prof. John C. Eccles of Canberra, Australia. Last month in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Linus C. Pauling, an Ameri can biochemist who won llie 1934 chemistry prize w as named the winner of the 12 peace prize. He was the first man in the R2-year history of the Nobel Prizes to be honored twice. Fluids for the prizes comes from llie estate of Swedish in dustrialist Alfred Nobel, cred ited with inventing dynamite. He died in 1895, document should go even fur ther in freeing bishops from un due interference by the Roman Curia. Today's debate, roming after a (mir-day council recess. Indi cated that the new documents will generate at least as much controversy as the one on the f church, which lathers discussed for four weeks previously at this session. Cardinal Mclnlyre indicaled he was parlicunrly anxious about live proposal to grant of ficial recognition and juridicial status to national conference. of bishops. He said this would entail dangerous consequences for the unity of the church. Your ultblt ditcardl will titlp til t htlt ethtrs. Dtn't throw 'tm .way. CALL: Tht SALVATION ARMY . THRIFT STORE llR A hlamaln tV .at! Oregon SALEM (UPI)-Orcgon's six year fire jinx is broken. Jubilent state forestry offi cials, eyeing rain-dripping tim berlands, have declared the fire season over in Western Ore gon. They find it hard to believe that the state was not ravaged by flaming disaster again this year as it has been every six years since 1933, except for 1957. For this year forestlands were ripe for disaster. Millions of board feet o stand ing timber were toppled in t h e savage 'Columbus Day, 1962 storm. The "jinx" was born in 1933 in the first great "Tillamook Burn." That fire exploded over a 407-square mile area almost half the size of the state of Rhode Island. 12 Billion Feet Lost Destroyed was 12 billion board feet of timber more than enough to build a milljon five room houses. It was one of the worst forest disasters ever recorded in the United States. Six years later the same re gion was laid waste by a fire which ravaged more than 200, 000 acres. Democrats Pick Aide WASHtNGTON (UPD-Fran-cis R. Valeo, a mild-mannered scholar from the big city, was elected unanimously by Senate Democrats Monday to succeed Robert G. (Bobby) Baker as their majority secretary. Baker resigned the $19,600-a-year post Oct. 7 when his wide ranging business ventures came to light. The Senate Rules Com mittee presently is investigating lo see whether conflict of inter est laws were violated. If the senators were looking for an opposite type to succeed Baker they found him in Valeo. The 35-year-old Baker came out of the hill country of Pic kens County, S.C., and learned his politics in the Senate cloak room from the time he was a 14-year-old page boy. Valeo is a 47-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y. Unlike Baker, he is almost shy and his politi cal knowledge is mostly aca demic. He took a degree from New York University and de veloped his academic speciality Asia while serving in I he China-Burma-India theater dur ing World War II. Here is 'the new Super Torque FORD for 1964 Bred in open competition, built for total perfor it is the strongest, smoothest, steadiest car in its field. With more steel in tlie suspensions, more strength in the frame, more heft in the body, it is hundreds il,.. .4.1 man cuiyuung cise al uie price. 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With Oregon's timberlands this year described by State Forester Dwight L. Phipps as "potentially the most dangerous Mme. Nhu May Rejoin Her Children In Rome BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (UPD Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu may fly to Rome Wednesday to rejoin her three younger chil dren who were in South Viet Nam when the. Diem regime was overthrown. The unpredictable first lady of the deposed South Vietnam ese government remained in the seclusion of her $96-a-day Bev erly Wilshire Hotel suite today where she has been since the successful coup. Mme. Nhu had said earlier that she would go to Rome to day, but then changed her air line reservation to Wednesday. She indicated that she wanted to talk with the children by long distance telephone from here after they arrived in Italy. U.S. Lends Aid The children, ranging in age from 4 to 15, were reported en route from Saigon to Rome via Bangkok, Thailand. Mme. Nhu's eldest daughter, Le Thuy, 18, is with her. Travel arrangements for the children were made by the Unit ed States "in response to an oral request through a friend." The State Department said Rog er Hilsman, assistant secretary for Far Eastern affairs, has talked with Mme. Nhu by tele phone and that she "expressed appreciation" for the assistance. A source at tlie hotel where the deposed first lady is staying said she had talked by telephone with "a general" in Saigon who expressed regrets over the deaths of her husband, strong TEENAGE BALLROOM 6 WEEK COURSE Starling Tuai., Nov. 5th THURSTON DANCE STUDIO PHONE TU 4-4181 of pounds more ! i. jl - Year Fire in the recorded history of the state" because of storm blow down, officials prepared for the worst. Massive Appeali Made There were massive educa tion campaigns newspaper stories, television appeals, radio announcements. Timber operators and forestry officials began mapping fire fighting strategy early this spring. They did everything but plead with the weatherman. He's the one who saved the day. man of the overthrown govern ment, and his brother, the oust ed president. Father Pays Visit The source said Mme. Nhu "took 'the. news rather -hard" and spent most of the day ly ing down, although she did not ask for medical aid. Mme. Nhu's father. Tran Van Chuong, former ambassador to the .United States and a politi cal foe of the deposed Diem government, took time out from his speaking tour of the West Monday morning to meet brief ly with Ms daughter. The 65-year-old diplomat, who had been feuding publicly with her, brushed' aside questions from waiting newsmen after his, hour-long talk with Mme. Nhu about their political differences which caused him to resign as ambassador. "As soon as I learned of the Iragic events, my heart was very near my daughter," said Chuong. "We spoke only of our selves and our family." Pickets Leave EVERETT, Wash. UPI -Pickets from the Coos Bay, Ore., local 3-261 of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America, which idled the local Weyer haeuser plant Monday, were gone today. CAR WASH Monday thru "I Thursday . I afc9 Fri. ond Sat. 1.50 Open 9 till 5 Sparkle Car Wash 4023 So. Sixth car Jinx Oregon's summer was not the kind a Chamber of Commerce would order. It was unusually cool, and wet. There were a few dry periods, and the forests were closed. But each time rain fell before the situation became critical. As a result, instead of another jinx disaster, Oregon had one of its smallest forest fire losses in history. Less than 7,000 acres were blackened. There were 491 man-caused fires, 137 less than last year. Lightning caused 430 fires al most four times as many as the year before. They were a resiftt of the storms which saved the' timberlands from disaster. To foresters, it meant that the disastrous six - year fire jinx had finally been broken. 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