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Vaflinijsfi: 1: John Fitzgerald Kennedy started his administration as the 35th President of 11k United States by dedicating himself to two shining goals survival of liberty at home and peace in a world shivering in an "uncer tain balance of terror." ' lie invited the Communist world to join in a new begin ning of "live quest for peace" before "the dark powers of de struction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction." "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." he said in his in augural address that was de voted almost entirely to foreign policy and foreign affairs. lie suggested tliat "both sides explore wliat problems unite us instead of belaboring t h e problems that divide us." "Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the in spection and control of arms and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all na tions," Kennedy continued, lie appealed to both sides to make use of scientific wonders rath er than scientific terrors. ' Pledged Liberty At All Costs Sut repeatedly he put the Communist bloc on notice that ho intended no softening of American purpose, saying: "Let every nation know, wheth er it wish us well or ill, that wo shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hard ship, support any friend or op pose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of lib erty." Kennedy said the United States did not dare tempt the adversary nations by allowing itself to bo weak "only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain be yond doubt that they will nev er be employed." While lie said he knew that neitlicr he nor anyone else of his time would live to see a ''new world of law" that he en visaged, he suggested that a start be made tow ard achieving "a beachhead of cooperation '. . . in tlie jungles of suspi cion." Kennedy wrote the inaugural speech himself. In it, lie said the American people could bring to (he cause of freedom an energy, faith and devotion which would light live nation and set up a glow (hat "can truly light (ho world." "And so, my fellow Ameri cans," he went on, "ask not what your coiuitry can do for you ask what you can do for your country." Wartime Buddies In Parade Inaugurated with Kennedy was Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. They had served together in the Senate. 1AST TIMES am Starts SUNDAY! WETRO-GOLOWYN-UAYER A PERLBER6-SEAT0N PRODUCTION- RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN WHOM YOU KNOW AS DR KIIDARE T NOW IN HIS FIRST STARRING ROLE IN MOTION PICTURES DRAMA OF f rnnmr.r M I LOVE AND ' MURDER!. y x V? i C O-lttrrmf NICK ADAMS CLAUDE RAINS-JOAN BLACKMAN 4 t1 mrennrrnrw inn nriTiirnTAvi PAT PUTTRA ., J LJI where Kennedy sport eight years. Previously Ik? had served six years in the House. It was on a freezing Jan. 20. 1961, that Kennedy was sworn in as President in a ceremony of moving dignity, rooted in rich tradition as ol d as the country itself. He took the oath of office with his hand on a Bi ble that had been in his moth er's family for generations. One of the star attractions of the inaugural parade was a PT boat mounted on a flatbed truck. The boat was numbered 109, the number of tlw craft which Kennedy commanded when it was sunk by a Japa nese destroyer in Hie Pacific during World War II. The nine surviving members of the crew were on the float. As it drew abreast of the re viewing stand, Kennedy waved with both hands to his wartime buddies, who were lined up on the deck and waved just as ex citedly. Tlte President had invited the survivors and their wives to Washington at his expense for the inauguration festivities. lie also invited them to attend ev ery official function. Greetings From Kx-Knemies The ship that cut Kennedy's PT boat in two was sunk itself a year later off Borneo by an Allied torpedo. The 17 Japanese survivors sent a cable to the man tliey almost killed con gratulating him on his election to the Presidency. The former skipper, who had become a farmer, said Kenne dy's election had brought so much attention to the incident that the destroyer's survivors formed a club. On the oilier side of the world from Japan, county Wex ford. Ireland, celebrated the in auguration of Cousin John. On the same stone quayside at New Moss, from which Ken nedy's great-grandfather had sailed for America in the days of Ireland's famine, tlte people danced awl sang. Bonfires blazed and Gaelic pipes rang out across the waters which in 1850 were the scene of fears of departure. A message of con gratulations was sent the new President of the United States. And there was a reply by radio. In it, Kennedy said: "Fourteen years ago this summer I visited New It o s s and saw the home from which my great-grandfather had jour neyed on his long voyage from Ireland to America. Two Nations Linked "T li r c e generations have passed since then, but across this long time and across the seas I send to all of you my very best wishes. New lioss and Washington, D.C., are tied together today. ... 1 pray the Lord's blessing on Ireland and America and upon all tliose who believe in freedom." OPtNS TONITS 6 45 CONTINUOUS SAT. 4 SUN. I ROM U:4S SATURDAY! . J. uUlI HtA mtK UN Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev congratulated President Kennedy on his in auguration and said he hoped for "a radical improvement of relations" between Hussia and the United States. Less than week later the So viet Union freed two American fliers, crewmen of a U.S. re connaissance plane the Rus sians had shot down over arc tic waters almost seven months earlier. They had become pawns in the cold war. Kennedy made the dramatic announcement at his lirH news conference as President. He hailed the release of the airmen as amounting to removal of "a serious obstacle to Improve ment of Soviet-American rela tions." The Soviet government called it a reflection of a "sin cere desire to uslicr in a new stage in the relations" between the two powers. Kennedy personally greeted the two Air Force captains upon their arrival in the Unit ed States. Later the fliers, their wives and lamily mem bers were guests for collee of President and Mrs. Kennedy at the White House. Four Crewmen Killed The United Slates and t h e Soviet Union had disagreed on circumstances surrounding the shooting down of the plane. This country said the Ameri can aircraft was on a recon naissance flight over the Bar ents Sea north of the Soviet mainland from its base in Eng- hfV W-'J A - tie " f . $ f JOHN F. LATE SHOW JOHNWAYNEMAUREeOHftRft 'McLINTOCKl WALLOPS THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF WESTERN YOU'VE EVER SEEN! ' Jmto wayne i stefanie powers TECHNICOLOR PANAVISION h d . 1 1 1 1 d : 1SIAND JAMES WJSON wi'JJJjf GATES OPEN 6.30 Se AN .SUND WASl I a n d on an electromagnetic mapping mission designed as a navigational aid. The Soviet Union claimed, however, that tlw; aircraft was over Soviet Territory and that its downing was justified. The body of the plane's com mander was returned to the United States by the Itdssians. The other three members of the crew were missing and presumed dead. In his first State of the Union message 10 days after becom ing President, Kennedy said he had been "staggered" by what lie h;d learned concerning "the harsh enormity of the trials" ahead. "I speak today in an hour of national peril and national op portunity," he told a joint ses sion of Congress. "Bclore my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The out come. is by no means certain. The answers are by no means clear, . . ." Saw Troubles Ahead Kennedy warned that life in the immediate future was not going to be easy, declaring: "There will lie further set backs before the tide is turned. But turn it we must." He ordered a fast stepup in the drive to slrcngtlien the na tion's defenses. At the same lime he bade Soviet Russia join in a side-by-sidc march toward peaceful conquest of space and ,; mji,.ii , I t if P 1 KENNEDY SAT. NITEI jack kruschen chill whs 'UWAC"-""" I c. Orwi Twtlt :4S JEFF CHANDLER i n4 betterment of mankind through science. While his speech dealt cMerf sively with the world at large, Kennedy's message also sur veyed the domestic economy. He called the outlook disturb ing and troublesome. Kennedy at 43 was the young est man ever elected President. He succeeded the oldest man ever toxoid that office, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was past 70 when his term expired. (While Theodore Kooscvclt was about nine months young er than Kennedy upon becom ing Chief Executive, he reached that office from the Vice Presidency as the result of William McKinley's assassi nation. ) Kennedy also was the first Roman Catholic President. 'Hie Democrats had had a standard bearer of that faith in 1928 Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York but he had been defeat ed overwhelmingly by Herbert Hoover. Religion An Issue In the 10 campaign, as in the one a generation earlier, religion was much discussed. By a coincidence, the Repub lican nominee each time was a Quaker. Both Hoover and Rich ard M. Nixon. Ihe candi date, disavowed religion as a campaign issue. But it re mained a very live one. Kennedy was elected with a comfortable electoral majority 303 to 219, with only 269 need ed but his popular vote mar gin was the narrowest in 76 years. This margin was 113.037 out of a total of KR.8'12,778 votes cast, about one-tenth of one per cent. The winner's plurality in pop ular votes was the smallest since Democrat Grover Cleve land won by only 62.683 over Republican James G. Blaine in 1884. The total vote cast for the major parties that year was less than 10 million. Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia, though not a candidate, received the votes of 14 un pledged electors in Alabama and Mississippi, and one Okla homa Republican elector also cast his ballot for Byrd. Nor mally that vote would have gone to Nixon as he carried Oklahoma. The total vole divided this way: Kennedy 34.221,531 : Nix on 34.11)8.474; others 'includ ing minority parties) 5112,773. tint Minority of Total Actually the total voter turn out was about 225,000 higher Ihan the vote for President. That number did not mark their ballots in the Presidential column though voting for other offices. Nixon carried 26 states; Ken nedy 23. All of Mississippi's electoral votes were unpledged and went to Byrd; Kennedy's electors ran second and Nix on's third. Kennedy polled 50.1 per cent of the major party vole; Nix on 49 9. Of the total vote, Ken nedy's percentage was 49.7; Nixon's 49.6 and others 0.7. Kennedy was tlw 14th presi dent to poll less than 50 per cent of the total vote. Harry S. Truman and W'oodrow Wilson were others in this century. Kennedy appointed his broth er and campaign manager. Robert F. Kennedy, as Attor ney General. The latter was just 35 years old at the time. Asked by newsmen whether he knew of any historic parallel of a President's appointing a brother to the Cabinet, he re plied: "No. We are going to start one." The brothers were extraordinarily close. He named his personal pin si cian. Dr. Janet G. Travell. as While House physician. Presi dent Kennedy credited her with curing a muscular ailment that had troubled him for m a n y years. She also treated other members of the family. He was the first President lo hold live news conferences on television. Young Kennedy was an out standing advocate of interna tionalism and strongly support ed aid to Europe alter World War II. 1 It m in tluit conllicl that he TONITE and SATURDAY! YOUHS ME! V - Sljide TROY DOlMAUIir RONNIE STPVpmc nntnm. u. ...... " distinguished him.'elf as a jun ior grade naval lieutenant in command of a PT boat in Blackett Strait, off tlie enemy infested Solomon Islands. His Boat Sunk "Early Monday morning, Au gust 2, 1943, a Japanese destroy er appeared suddenly out of the darkne-s and sliced the patrol boat diagonally in two. "It happened so fast there wasn't a chance to do a thing," (lie young skipper said later. "Tlie destroyer hit our star board forward gun station and sliced right through. I was in the cockpit. 1 looked up and saw a red glow and streamlined stacks. Our tanks were ripped open and gas' was laming on the water about 20 yards away." He remembered later think ing, at the moment the destroy er hit. "this is how it feels to be killed." Two of the crew were lost. Kennedy, his back badly wrenched, and three of his men were on the still floating for ward half of the torpedo boat. Six others were scattered about in the water in their life jack ets. The young skipper worked for 45 minutes to tow his seriously-burned engineer to the bow half. It took three hours to collect all of the men. The watertight bulkheads kept the bow of the PT boat afloat and on this tlie survivors drift ed. About 2 p.m. Kennedy de cided to abandon the bow sec tion, which was about to sink, and try to reach a small island three miles away. Refuge Near F.nemy Base He swam to it, towing one man. The others clung lo a plank and swam in a group. It took about five hours to reach land. Two days later the men had eaten all the coconuts on the island's two trees. Then tliey swam to a larger island where there were plenty'. ' This island was close by the cone-mountained Japanese base of Kolombangara. For three successive nights, Kennedy, once a backstroke on the Harvard swimming team, put on a lifebelt and swam far out to try to signal another PT boat. But none came into view. On Thursday afternoon two natives found the group and brought food and coflce, togeth er with a small kerosene stove for warmth. Saturday night a rescue boat guided by a native pilot arrived. During Kennedy's campaign for Ihe Presidency, several of his fellow survivors worked for his election. Lieutenant Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medals and the Purple Heart. One of his brothers, Jo seph P. Jr., a Navy pilot, was killed in action in Europe in 1944. Sister and Husband Killed A month later, the husband of one of his sisters, Kathleen, died in action in France. He was the Marquess of Harting ton. a captain in Ihe Coldstream Guards. Lady Harlington her self met tragic death in the spring of 1948, along w ith three fliers, in Ihe crash of a plane in France. A spinal injury that Senator Kennedy suffered in the South Pacific action necessitated two operations. One was performed in 1945 and anotlier in 1934. The second required eight months of convalescence. Born in BrookHne. Mass.. 'May 29. 1917, Kennedy received his bachelor of science degree ci:m laude from Harvard in 1940 and then studied at the London School of Economics. His father set up a million dollar trust fund for each of his nine children w hen tliey were in early childhood. Tile Kennedy wealth was amassed from such widely diversified interests as banking, liquor, motion pictures, theaters. Wall Street and real estate. Once when questioned about his father's wealth, John Kennedy conceded drily: "He has some resources." ' In Congress at -'9 John Kennedy entered politics al the age of 29, when he was elected to Congress. That was in 1946. .Viler winning reelection twice to the House o( Representatives, he ran for the Senate in 1952 and defeated Senator Lodge. He won by 70.000 votes de spite the fact that Eisenhower, tlie Republican presidential can- KUrnalh Fiin. OrtfM Putlliftt ' tavettl Sal t a Su lrvmj SawtHtrft Orf ) Nartham Calihtrfiia f Klamath Pvtltihin CamM"T i t Fpiana Pwt TuatJt a am 9tr4 at la matttr at tfta ?ott o"-ct at K'a-na'K : Vtofr. an Avtutl 31, 14- tiMtr act t Ca 9tu. vart 3. 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In 1953 Kennedy and Miss Jacqueline Lee Bouvicr were married in St. Mary's Catholic Church at Newport, R.I. Arch bishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston officiated and read a special message o f blessing from the Pope. A daughter, Car oline Bouvier, was born in 1957. Three years later there was a son, John F. Jr. Religious Question Disrusscd Prior to the IOfiO primary election balloting in the pre dominantly Protestant state of West Virginia. Kennedy dis cussed the religious questions in an address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. In that speech he said he was not "a Catholic candidate for President." Kennedy began with the as sertion that "I do not speak for the Catholic Church on issues of public policy and no one in that church speaks for me." He aid he had voted often in the ! The (Continued from Page I) ception at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. He was shot on September 6. 1901, and lingered on until September 14, when he died. Vice - President Theodore Roosevelt immediate ly look the oath of ollice as our 25th President. Now comes the fourth assas sination of an American Presi dent. It is a terrible indictment of a nation that claims to. be the most enlightened nation on earth. Why this record? Tlie answer is hard to find. Perhaps there is a clue in the derivation of the word. It comes from ASSASSINS or HASIIISIIIN (hemp-eaters i the name of a Iwcllth-century hand of Moslems in Persia and Asia Minor who smoked a drug called hashish, and under its influence murdered their enemies. Days lews GMC is READY for '64.... Immediate Delivery on these units IN STOCK! V-6, ONLY GMC has it . . . and We're READY to talk trades! OLDSMOBILE 7th & Klamath J GMC I -TJUCKW Fir CADILLAC! NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Senate agains tlie wishes of many Catholics. "The fact is." he went on, "that the Catholic Church is not a monolith it is committed in this country to the principles of individual liberty and it has no claim over my conduct as a public officer sworn to do the public interest." What is it about the Presi dency, he demanded, that some believe it ought not to be filled by a Catholic? He said mem bcrs of his faith abounded in other national offices, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy said the "only legiti mate question that could be osked was: 'Wculd you, as Pres ident of the United Stales, be responsive in any way to eccles iastical pressures or obligations of any kind that might in any fashion influence or interfere km nAIIUUKAritU V'H I f s Js i Si it? ' ' 41 J A I 1! EleRant slim, compact textured finished metal cabinet In Ebony color, or Maroon color. 21.000 volts of picture power. Deluxe Automatic "Fringe-Lock" uircuu. Tin uooieo" i ransiormer. vltx6 TO MAKE YOU PROUD YOU OWN ITI "fOR WORLD'S And For UHF , . . 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