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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1963)
Gloom Still Continues In Assassination City DALLAS. Tex. c I'PI Snow, cold, flowers and contrite pil grims today hovered over the spot where President Kennedv was slain 31 days ago. , The official mourning was ended Sunday, but the gloom hung on. Wreaths still were on both I sides ot the street where, in 6.2 seconds, a sniper squeezed off three shots into the President AT SHAW'S fa SPECIAL VALUE WRAP DiftinctivB Htll mark Gift Wrap in con tinuous roll. SHAW STATIONERY 729 Main 1 j 0 TACIFI 4 vlCnooit trora 8 a 300 INCHES 1a oil niIHrr:onu -yj uii wui OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY 6:30 A.M. 10 P.M. PELICAN CAFE AND 722 NATURAL GAS SERVICE IS CONNECTED TO YOUR HOME FREE All You Poy For Is The Piping Inside Your Home NATURAL GAS PROPANE TANK GAS SERVICE 1011 & Your Got Company and Texas Gov. John Connally. The curious and mourners still come. An unidentified woman and her teen-aged daughter, dressed in black, knelt in the snow Sun day to lay a wreath near the spot. Many bowed their heads in prayer. The weather has changed from a balmy, sunlighted 68 de grees Nov. 22 to a sub-freezing, snowy pre-Christmas gloom. Dallas, aware of the futility of grieving, braved the slippery footing that followed the trag edy and worked to redeem it self. The Methodist churches Dallas started a $100 days of love" campaign. Bishop William C. Martin urged citizens in full page newspaper ads to "carry the spirit of Christmas charity, good will, love into the new year." This conservative, Republican city felt a political change. The Dallas Morning News said Sun day: "On Nov. 22, ironically, it suddenly became socially ac ceptable to be a Democrat. "Although there is little doubt the GOP is still the stronger or ganizing force in the county, the ever-present hand of fate already has begun etching signs of change." Christmas decorations in the city were gay, but there were reports that retail sales were off. 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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath ENJOYS FREEDOM Richard Honeck, 84. who was released from Menard ( Prison Dec. 20 after serving 64 years of a life sentence for murder, enjoys i candy with his niece, Mrs. Clara Orth, at San Leandro, Calif., as they examine Christ mas packages in her trailer home. Honeck will live with Mrs. Orth, 62, a widow, who agreed to care for him after reading a story describing him as the "loneliest person in the country." UPI Telephoto President Will Decide Missile Controversy WASHINGTON (UPD-A con troversy between Pentagon ci vilian and military bosses over the eventual size of the Minute man missile force is going to be put before President John son. It was reported Sunday that the federal budget to be sent to Congress next month calls for defense spending of more than $50 billion in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The cur rent estimated military outlay is Sol billion. The major budget controver sy will be laid before the Presi dent by the Joint Chiefs of Staff at a scheduled meeting Dec. 30 at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. It concerns future pur chases of (he solid-iuel Jlinute man missile. Defense Secretary iRobert S. McNamara and his staff be lieve the Air 'Force needs 1.200 of the intercontinental rockets by mid-1969. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. Air Force chief of staff, wants 1,950 by the same period. Both LeMay and McNamara base their goals on what they believe would be needed to sur vive a surprise ICBM attack rrnrr iT nmi:i TU 4-5175 Falli. Orejoo. Monday, December ti. 1963 v 'i and still destroy targets in Rus sia. The final budget session also will permit the President to ex amine Pentagon plans to trim money requests for new Army weapons by as much as $1 bil lion under the current year's $3.2 billion. Other big money cuts for the new defense budget are being aimed at weapons for the stra tegic retaliatory forces. With no more bombers being built and the heaviest missile ex penditures behind it, the Penta gon has sharply cut new mon ey in tlie strategic field. By the end of the year, the U.S. ballistic missile force will comprise 601 operational weap ons on land and undersea 123 Atlas. 108 Titan, 300 Minutemen and 160 submarine-launched Polaris. LITTLE PEOPLE'S i-UZZLc 1 1 1 2 .sfk rowMr2$ty 10 to', I IjfesfTO C RVUWiarrTAf.Vi. I 1 I I I I I I i RVUWiltrTAI ONVr'najaNiaa '9 lava 'mohd -j 'ivoo nivi NflOWl--uMOa 'S0aOD3a -ll 01 'NOflflla '6 '1NV '8 'HJ.V3aM 'S '30HS E '31DADa010W ( oj3y 'SaSMSNV SELF-ADJUSTING MATERNITY SEPARATES STYLED BY PAGE-1 V State piece of Six Hurt In Mishap ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (UPI Six persons remained hospital ized today witli injuries suffered Saturday when a Union Pacific passenger streamliner plowed into a derailed freight east of here. Officials said five of the 11 persons taken to Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital here Saturday after the accident were released Sunday. Tlie six remaining were not listed in serious condition. Hospital officials said tlie five patients released Sunday were Mrs. Frances Winter, 69, of Portland, Ore.; Susan Brown, 23, of Lincoln Neb.; Theodore Alexander, 36, of Chicago; Guy Holmes. 75, of Boise, Idaho; and Mrs. Mary Colson, Bl, of Olym pia, Wash. They were passengers on the UP streamliner "City of Port land," which plowed into the derailed cars of a freight Satur day about 35 miles cast of Rock Springs. III.) I I I I I f Only nationally-famous Lady in Waiting knows how to make ma ternity fashions like these. You get a full, seam-to-seam front in sert of magic - stretch Helenco Rl . . . PLUS a firm, soft, all-around waistband of one-inch elastic . . . PLUS more fullness shirred into the expertly-fitted back for extra grow ing room. Nothing to adjust or fasten your Lody in Waiting garment expands automatically at you need it, fitt perfectly at all timet. Come in for a try-on. Most Rugged Winter Weather Of Century Batters Temperatures Across Southland By I'nited Press International Some of the worst winter weather of the century hit Dixie today, dumping heavy snow from Ohio to Mississippi and pushing the temperature below freezing all the way to the Gulf Coast. Fourteen inches o snow fell at Memphis, Tonn., probably tlie most to fall on (lie city since 1872. It was colder in Dal las. Tex., than it was in An chorage, Alaska, and a reading of 11 was the lowest for this day since Dallas started keep ing records in 1898. Snow fell as far south in Texas as Waco, and statewide freezing temperatures threat ened crops in the low Rio Grande. Traffic in Jackson, Miss., and Atlanta, tin., was at a virtual standstill today be cause of snow turning to ice. Air and bus service through out Tennessee one of the harder hit slates was sharply curtailed. Many roads were vir tually impassable. All major roads out of Memphis and the Memphis - Arkansas bridge across the Mississippi River were closed Sunday night. Heavy snow warnings were posted for most of the Eastern eight states Ohio. North Caro lina, Tennessee, Kentucky, the l Virginias. Maryland. Pennsyl vania, Indiana, New England and Delaware. Hard freeze warnings were posted from southern Texas to Florida. Driving was haiardous throughout the South. Wiley Lamaster, St. Louis, Mo., escaped injury when his single - engine Cessna 150 crashed south of Hohenwald, Robeson Ends Five-Year Self-Imposed Red Exile NEW YORK I U PI 'Contro versial Negro singer Paid Rob eson, 47, ended his self-imposed five-year exile Sunday and flew back to the United States. The 6-foot-llirce, former All America football player, asso ciated in tlie oast with Commu nist front movements, arrived at Kennedy Airport here look ing considerably thinner than when tie loft in 1058. lie has been suffering from a circula tory ailment and received med ical treatment in East Berlin and London. The 65-ycar-old Mobeson re mained relatively quiet, prefer ring to let his wife do the talk ing. Questioned about reports that Robeson had become disillu sioned with communism, the singer's jfc, Eslanda, told newsmen, "that's stupid. Of. course he is not. He never was. He thinks it's terrific." 'Shaven' Santa Destroys Image HITCIHN, England lUPH Two mothers complained Fri day that a local department store Santa Claus, George Tabner, destroyed their daughters' faith in Santa be cause they caught him with his beard off. Talmer, (w, denying he up set the children, admitted that "I may have been cauglil at an off-moment wien I was not expecting anyone else to come in." xsHKBir-r Slim Jtont . 6.98 SI2 Main Stitit Matlffiity Fathienl Stcond Floor Uvo th IlaTOtor! Tenn., Sunday night during the snow storm. A number of weekend traffic deaths in Alabama and Missis sippi was blamed on slippery roads. Six persons suffocated in St. Petersburg, Fla., in two sep parato fires (our elderly per sons when a faulty flue sent deadly fumes into a home and a couple in a fire in their home. The tcmcratiircs dropped to near or below zero in a huge triangle from the Great I.akcs to Oklahoma to the Canadian border. It was colder in Dallas, Tex., than it was at Anchorage, Alaska. At least seven weekend traf fic fatalities in Texas were blamed on icy roads. A young couple injured in an expressway accident near Louisville, Ky., froze to death Sunday when they lay undiscovered in 9-dc-grce temperatures for four hours. A young man and woman died from carbon monoxide fumes after their car crashed into a snow-covered ditch near Denison, Iowa, and they apparently elected to wait for help in 17-below temperatures. A heavy snow warning and hazardous driving alert was out for Ohio today, and as the tem perature dropped below freez ing, water main breaks oc curred in most major cities. Water Works Supt. Charles Bol ton said the freeze caused at least 20 water main breaks in Cincinnati since Thursday. A 5-year-old boy drowned in Washington, Pa., Sunday when he (ell into a creek while play ing with friends. Pranksters shoved a 1053 model car down the hill onto the frozen Alle "He's always thought that way and he always will." Mrs. Robeson said. Robeson, who has been in re tirement since before his ill ness, aopcarcd reluctant to talk. "I may have something to say later," he told newsmen. "First of all, ho has to get his health back," his wife said. "He's just come out of a clinic." (Robeson's only statement camo In response lo a query on whether he intended to join the civil rights movement in this country. "Yes," he said, "I've been a part of it all my life." .Neither Hobeson nor his wife would reveal their future plans. Earlier in London Jtdieson's agent said the singer would re tire permanently and remain in the United Slates. ':ma fee x-4 MtiB. 'ton i : in. . gheny River upstream from Pittsburgh, and police plan to let it sit until tlie river melts and then recover it. The snow fall in Arkansas w as the most in three years. The weather bureau called the snowfall in Arkansas and Ten nessee a "rare occurrence." Two traffic deaths were blamed on the storm. I. WOULD YOU BELIEVE THEY'RE MOVING JODAY? Smart girl! Sh phontd Lyon and told them her moving ptom. To day, ichool-rrained Lyon movers arrived promptly on the icene and packed every item clothei, even the crystalware all her tamily't furnishings with heirloom care and scientific preciiion. 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