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To City Subscribers: If you fail to get your Star please telephone 7-3431 by 6:30 p.m. and a special carrier will deliver your paper. Hope For Weather Rtportt See Column at Bottom of This Page 64THYEAR: VOL. 344 Rest Home Fire in Ohio May Have Killed 60 NORWALK, Ohio (AP) Forty to 60 elderly persons were killed in a fire which swept the Golden Age Rest Home in Fitchville, the Huron County sheriff's office reported. Deputy Sheriff Jim Wade said there were believed to be as many as 85 persons in the one- story building, which had several wings.

Only 20-25 persons were definitely reported to have reached safety. Many still were trapped in the burning building. When firemen reached the scene, the building was ablaze. The first job was to remove those able to walk. A funeral home director Richard Eastman, said many were trapped in their beds.

The first word of the fire came to the sheriff's office at 5 a.m. from a truck driver who was driving near the home on U.S. 250. The driver, who was not identified, helped in removing some of the old age patients. The home was described as an institution for ailing old persons.

Officials Air Situation in Viet Nam By FRED S. HOFFMAN A Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Top U.S. officials who assessed the post-coup situation in South Viet Nam reportedly concluded the new military regime still must prove it can win support of the Vietnamese peasants. Administration officials who met in Honolulu two days ago with Amercian diplomatic and military leaders from South Viet Nam agreed things are going reasonably well so far. Sources familiar with what went on at the Hawaii conferences indicated the report to President Kennedy is unlikely to call for any sharp policy changes.

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who was among those taking part in the Honolulu talks, will meet Sunday afternoon with President Kennedy at the chief executive's country place in Virginia. The ambassador's personal report may have a bearing on any decision regarding the timing of possible recognition of the Saigon military regime. The views that Kennedy eventually gets from all of the top participants in the Hawaii meeting are expected to sum up this consensus: The signs are promising but it may take six- months to tell whether the overthrow of the Diem regime has brought victory in the anti-Communist war closer. U.S. officials do not expect a Democratic regime patterned after the American image to bemerge in South Viet Nam.

What they are hoping for is a government that foreswears brutality and repression and thus far the military junta seems to be tending in that direction. The Honolulu meeting was told that the peasants who make up the bulk of South Viet Nam's 14-million population still are apathetic. It long has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy that the war against Communist insurgents infesting South Viet Nam cannot be won without the backing of the peasants. HOPE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1963 PRICE lOc COPY VIEW WITH A showing on one of the floors of a 27-story apartment house rising in Pittsburgh's golden triangle is in an "apartment" with natural air con- ditiomng.

Interior designers will be along later, the Walls are uo. This Year Marks the 100th Anniversary of Thanksgiving as a Holiday in the U.S. Sharp Election Plans Approved LITTLE ROCK (AP) The state Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee approved Wednesday Sharp County's plans to hold its election of local committeemen a month later than other counties in the stale. The election will be held on Jan. 7.

Committee members said the county liad gotten behind in its procedures and should be lowed to delay its election. The state ASC Committee on Sept. 19 ordered Sharp County to hold its election at polling places instead of by mail, as do other counties. Weather Arkansns: Cloudy to pnrlly I cloudy and jmifli colder today. By MARY ANITA LASETER Star Feature Writer This year marks the 100th anniversary of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in "the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the first proclamation for a national observance of Thanksgiving in 1863. In file last "Thank You" has gotten harder and harder to say, apparently. Else why are "Thank You Notes" so small or table grace said by so few? Some people even wonder just what to be thankful for. Surely this isn't a serious request for knowledge. Even those without- too many material blessings have enough of the kind to keep them talking, or thinking, a long time.

The old Pilgrim's Grace inscribed in Chester Cathedral, England, gives us all a few points to ponder, and we would do well to think about it. "Give me a good digestion, Lord, and also something to digest. "Give me a healthy body, Lord, with sense to keep it at its best. "Give me a healthy mind, oh Lord, to keep the good and pure in sight, "Which seeing sin is not appalled, but finds a way to set it right. "Give me a mind that is not bound, that does not whimper, whine or sigh.

"Don't let me worry over much about the fussy thing called I. "Give me a sense of humor, Lord, give me the grace to see a joke, "To get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk." The other day a suggestion for observing Thanksgiving came our way, and it was something many people consider doing but too few of us carry out in practice. Is there someone who meant a lot to you in your formative years, who was responsible, perhaps, in your choice of vocation, or who guided you in making a decisioa which proved beneficial? Have you ever told them how much you appreciate what they did? Perhaps it is a teacher who inspired. you or a minister who sustained you. It could have been a good friend who stood by you.

Tell them or write them a sincere Thank You. It may come as a surprise, but what a pleasant surprise! Some have waited too long to utter verbal thanks on this earth, but those of you who are still to say it, do by all means! You will experience the happiest Thanksgiving ever if you remember to offer gratitude to both God and your fellow man. Bids on School LITTLE ROCK (AP)-The apparent low bid of $909,550 for construction of two elementary schools in Pulaski County was submitted Thursday by Bush Construction Co. of Hot Springs The schools will be at Jackson ville and in the Sylvan Hills 1 area north ol North Little Rock Identical Twins Prove Troublesome TACOMA, Wash. (AP)-When you have 2-year-old identical twins, trouble comes in double doses.

Thursday Lita Rita swallowed some powerful pain pills. Which twin needed the stomach pump, wondered their mother, Mrs. Hannah MacIntyre. Doctors pumped out both stomachs, a solution not particularly pleasing to the innocent twin whoever that was. Bulletin DALLAS, Tex.

(AP) Gov. John B. Connally was reported in satisfactory condition today after undergoing surgery for a bullet wound in his chest. Connally was shot as he sat in the same open car as President Kennedy Friday in a'mo- torcade through Dallas. A sniper's bullet killed Kennedy.

Connally underwent surgery for more than one hour. Alter awakening, he asked: "How's Nellie?" referring to his wife. He then asked: "How are the kids?" and went back to sleep. Dr. Robert Shaw, his attending physician, described the governor as "mentally alert, his condition satisfactory and stable." "I do not anticipate his getting worse," Shaw said.

W. R. Herndon, 53, Dies or His Home Toddy W. R. (Billy Bob) Herndon, aged 53, a native of Hope; died unexpectedly at his home here early today.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Herndon was a construction engineer and for the past six months worked for the Cimarron-Williams one of the contractors of the Millwood Dam. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Annie Laurie Herndon, a son, W.

R. Herndon Jr. of Bur- Hngame, a brother, R. V. Herndon Jr.

and his father, R. V. Herndon Sr. of Hope. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church by Dr. L. T. Lawrence. Burial by Herndon-Cornelius will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Sees Little Chance for Education Bill PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Arch W. Ford, commissioner of education in Arkansas, told a meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers that he saw little chance for passage of the general aid-to-education bill by Congress. Ford, retiring president of the group, said at a news conference Thursday that there were several reasons why he felt it was not "even remotely possible" to get the bill through in the "foreseeable future." The chief reason, Ford said, is the issue of federal aid to private and parochial schools. He said the structure of the House of Representatives is such that a bill for only public schools cannot be passed.

"About 15 per cent of all the pupils in elementary and secondary grades are in private schools, and the bulk of these schools are in the seven or eight most heavily populated states with strong representation in Congress," Ford said. He also said there "isn't a strong grass roots feeling In this country for a general aid bill. Those who want it, don't want it badly enough." Ford said he believes the bill to strengthen vocational education and the college construction bill, both now pending in Congress, will be passed because "the people of the United States have made it clear to the Con gress that they want these measures enacted." Other factors which operata against the possibility of a general aid bill, Ford said, are "fear that federal aid will lead to federal control; Congress realizes it would cost a great deal of money, and some congressmen hesitate to open up appropriations to a large group of public employes at the local level. They fear the police and firemen will be next." Ford was succeeded as president of the group by Byron F. Stoiler, stale superintendent of public instruction in Nevada.

Ford aulomatic.nly bw-nnips first vice president! Malvern Men Get 200,000 Judgment MALVERN, Ark. (AP) Two Malvern men were awarded $200,000 each Thursday by a Hot Spring County jury for injuries they received in a train accident. Assistant Arkansas Atty. Gen. Les Evvitts of Little Rock said today he believed it was the largest personal injury damage award in the state's history.

Arlie Mitchell, 45, and James Rogers, 26, were awarded judgments against the Missouri-Pacific Railroad and the Malvern Gravel Co. Their suit said they were working for the gravel company, loading gravel cars, on May 10, 1962, when a Missouri Pacific locomotive smashed into the string of cars. Mitchell suffered a crushed pelvis and hip. Rogers lost his left leg. Medical testimony in the trial was to the effect that neither would be able to work again.

The men had asked $250,000 each. Missouri-Pacific and the gravel company were to pay $100,000 to each man under the judgment. The accident occurred in yards one mile south of Malvern. Warns Gop Candidates They'll Work ST. LOUIS (AP)-Republican national Chairman William E.

Miller warned GOP presidential hopefuls they will have to Work for the Republican nomination because there will be no draft candidate. "I think anyone to wants the nomination in 1964 ought to be about it right now," Rep. Miller of New York said. "Anyone who just sits by expecting to be drafted will be disappointed." Thus far, he said, the nomination will go either to Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York has announced as a Sen.

Barry Goldwater or it seems to me will soon announce. "I believe Nixon (former Vice President Richard M. Nixon) when he says he is not a candidate and does not intend to be a candidate." Miller called for GOP presidential aspirants to enter state preferential primaries. He said if anyone won all the primaries -as President Kennedy did in Republican convention could not deny him the nomination. Miller is in St.

Louis for a Uvo-day. 13-state regional Re, publican meeting which ends 'Saturday. Declares Dividends STtJTTGART, Ark. (AP)-Di- viderids on 238,500 shares of Arkansas Power Light Co. stock were declared Thursday by board members.

The dividends, payable Jan. 2 to stockholders of record as of Dec. 16, are $1.37 per share on 75,000 shares of 5.48 per cent preferred stock, $1.18 per share on 93,500 shares of 4.72 per cent preferred stock and $1.08 per share on 70,000 shares of 4.32 per cent preferred stock. L. C.

Carter, general manager of the Rice Growers Association and an director, took the board members on a tour of the rice and soybean processing complex. Board Won't Take Up Integration By WICK TEMPLE Associated Press Staff Writer The University of Arkansas board of trustees meets today in Fayetteville, but a popular topic for discussion around the Southwest Conference use of Negroes on athletic will probably not be officially discussed by the board. The idea of integrated teams at the university appeared to meet with little favor among the trustees during a pool taken Thursday by The Associated Press. Generally, board members contacted felt the school's athletic program is getting along well and the board wants to avoid anything that might disrupt the program or involve it in controversy. One board member said, "I think people take: it for granted that we are against it." Two Southwest Conference teams Texas and Southern Methodist said earlier this week that they would start letting Negroes play on their teamg, probably.jn near future.

Board members said the question of integration of athletics is not on the agenda for the meeting today, and they said they did not think it would be discussed officially. Some indicated, however, that there might, be some unofficial discussion. Gov. Orval E. Faubus has said he is against integrating the university teams; University of Arkansas President David Mullins had no comment, and Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles has said integration of athletics will not be his decision and that he will not comment on it.

One board member said he had heard no public sentiment either way about the issue. There apparently is no objection to the Razorbacks playing teams that have Negro players since Oklahoma State, long a Razorback opponent, has had Negroes on its squads for some time. It was brought out during the discussion over Texas' decision to integrate its program that Southwest Conference schools are missing a large number of outstanding Negroes athletes. The state of Texas has 10,000 players in its Negro high school football program. About 1,000 Negroes on some 30 are Paying high school football in Arkansas, an official of the Arkansas State (Negro) Athletic Association said.

MM North Little Rock, said there were a number of good college and professional football prospects the current crop of Negro players in Arkansas. Among the good Negro football players the state has produced are Elijah Pitts of the Green Bay Packers, a former Philander Smith College player and a native of Conway Bobby Mitchell of the Washington Redskins from Hot Springs and Willie Davis of the Cleveland Browns, a graduate of Washington High School in Texarkana. Columbia Offers Prime Time NEW YORK (AP) The Columbia Broadcasting System has offered free prime time for debates between the major parties' presidential and vice presidential candidates next year Frank Stanton, CBS president announced Thursday night the offer was made in letters to the Democratic and Republican chairman. I Druing the 1960 campaign, only (he proridon'hl cnndidntos Appeared. World Is Stunned by Tragic Assassination of U.

S. President Johnson Takes Over Affairs of the Nation By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP)-Asking God's help, Lyndon B. Johnson gathered up the monumental problems of the presidency today as the world, the nation and his family mourned John F. Kennedy, dead by an assassin's bullets. "I will do my best-that's all I can do.

I ask for your help and God's," said the new President, numbed and haggard, after accompanying the slain chief executive's body back to Washington from Dallas. A few hours after the slaying, Dallas police charged a 24-year- old man who professed love for Russia with murder and said he was the assassin. He was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. As arrangements were made for family, friends and dignitaries to view Kennedy's body at the White House today, Johnson set about getting advice on the troubles that abruptly were thrust into his hands. He set up morning conferences with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, who not many years ago listened to advice from Johnson, then leader of the Democratic opposition in the say the most able leader the Senate ever Almost as soon as he arrived back in Washington Friday night, the 55-year-old 'Texan with a reputa.tion as a tough political genius plunged into a meeting of congressional leaders of both parties where he asked for and got pledges of support in his days of trial ahead. Johnson, who fought a losing fight against Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, automatically became the 36th President of the United States the moment Kennedy's life ebbed away in the emergency room of a Dallas hospital. Johnson was in the car behind Kennedy's when three bullets from a sniper ripped into the open presidential limousine, striking Kennedy in the head and throat and wounding Texas Gov. John Connally. Blood sprang from the President's face and he fell face forward in the back seat of the car.

Mrs. Kennedy, who had been riding with him, tried to lift his head, crying, "Oh, no!" Half an hour later John Kennedy, 46, the first Roman Catholic and youngest man ever elected to the presidency, was dead. It was stunning, almost unbelievable news that flashed around the country and to the far reaches of the world. Expressions of grief, sorrow, surprise poured in from friends and antagonists, allies and foes, from the Kremlin and from the Vatican. For Johnson, the problems were just beginning.

By moving into the White House he also assumes leadership of the West in the cold war faces the major question of whether Soviet Premier Khrushchev will stir up a new crisis to test the nieMe of the new American chief executive. Judging from Johnson's public statements, no big change in foreign policy appeared likely, for he has strongly supported the Kennedy line. Another problem is Congress where Kennedy's legislative tax reduction bill and civil rights stalled apparently for the rest of the year. Johnson won his fame, however, by whipping and cajoling senators toward his way of thinking. But the consensus on Capitol Hill is that there will be no more battles in the halls of Congress thfs year.

Already worn and with tempers frayed after 11 months of its first session. Congress is expected to close shop soon and go home until the next session in January. Also coming soon was a decision whether Johnson will campaign to try to win the presidency in his own right in Even as the troubles of the world and the country whirled on, the nation lowered its flags to half staff in mourning tor its young President with the Harvard accent whose watchword became "vigor." Today, Kennedy's body was to lie in repose in the East Room of the White House as among file by. among Sunday his body will be carried in a somber cortege up the route of presidents and heroes the Capitol where he will lie in state until Monday morning beneath the towering dome of the Capitol. Then it will be taken to St.

Matthews Roman Catholic Cathedral, a few blocks from the White House, where Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, will celebrate a Pontifical Requiem Mass at noon. Another former President, Harry S. Truman, will come tp Washington Sunday to pay homage to Kennedy and his respects to the new chief executive. Burial plans were uncertain. There were unconfirmed reports Kennedy would be buried where his infant son Patrick was interned just a few weeks ago in a family plot in a Brookline, cemetery.

Arlington National Cemetery was another possibility. There was no word whether the late President's two children, Caroline and John had been told of their father's death. Both have'birthdays this month and John 3. Kennedy went to Betheso'a Naval Hospital where Kennedy's body was prepared for burialA Also at the hospital were Atty. Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy, the late President's brother and chief adviser, and several close aides, said the assistant White House press secretary, Andrew Hatcher. DALLAS, Tex. (AP) A young man who once tried to renounce his country is charged with firing the two bullets that killed President Kennedy. "No, I didn't kill the President," Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, said after he was charged Friday night with murder in the President's assassination.

Oswald swore allegiance to the Soviet Union four years ago and tried to renounce his American citizenship. He said he is now a member of "Fair Play for Cuba." Police termed him arrogant. President Kennedy died 30 minutes after the assassin's bullets crashed into his neck and head as he nea'red the end of a triumphal motorcade Friday. A third bullet wounded Texas Gov. John Connally.

His condition was reported not critical. Dist. Atty. Henry Wade of Dallas was asked if authorities were looking for anyone else in connection with the world-slun- m'ng murder. "There is no one else but him," Wade said.

Taken before microphones and cameras early today. Oswald managed an occasional smile as he insisted in a low voice that he was innocent of Kennedy's death. Wade was asked if he regarded Oswald as Communist inspired or "just a nut." He replied: "Well put it this way. I dou't think he is a nut. I think he is sane." Oswald had been taken into custody soon after Kennedy was fatally shot and Gov.

Connally wounded in the back by three volleys fired from a high powered rifle. Kennedy and Connally had been riding side by side in the presidential limousine, their wives sitting just ahead of them. The key factor that led to Oswald's arrest at 2 p.m. Friday an hour after the President's death was the apparently senseless killing of a Dallas policeman. Authorities said a clear trail led to Oswald and he was charged earlier with murder in the death of the officer.

If the massive manhunt for the 46-year-old president's assassin was ended, the investigation by city police and agents of the FBI nnd Sec-rot Service continued. A Pro-Castro Sympathizer Prime Suspect By RAYMOND HOLBROOK and PEGGY SIMPSON DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with murdering President Kennedy, insisted during hours of questioning Friday night that he was not the assassin. With his jaw thrust out and his dark eyes intent and piercing, Oswald kept telling newsmen: "I did not kill President Kennedy. I did not kill anyone.

I don't know what this is all about." After the formal charges were filed, Oswald was brought before newsmen. Speaking in a low voice into a cluster of microphones thrust into hi sface he denied killing the President. He appeared less defiant than earlier in the evening but still was composed. He smiled several times as he 'was being questioned. "I don't think he is a nut," Dist.

Atty. Henry Wade told newsmen. "I think he is sane. don't mean that he is any Ph. but he answers questions very easily, and he is sharp." Secret Service agents, Dallas police and FBI men had quizzed Oswald for almost 10 hours before charging him with the murder of the in the evening he was charged with the unprovoked slaying of a policeman 50 minutes after the assassination.

City detective Ed Hicks, after intensive investigation of the slaying, drew this picture of the hour surrounding the tragedy: Oswald was working on the fifth floor of the Texas book depository, the floor from which the shots were fired. A man working with him said: "Oswald, let's go see the President." Oswald replied: "No, you go on down and send the elevator back up." As Oswald left the building, he was stopped by Dallas police. Oswald told them he worked in the building and was going down to see what was going on. In the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, four miles away, Oswald was seen 45 minutes later talking to a policeman, J. D.

Tippett. A witness said that Oswald suddenly whipped out a pistol and shot the officer. Shortly afterward, police received a tip that a suspicious looking man had entered a theater on West Jefferson Street, not far from where Tippett had been slain. Officers surrounded the theater, and then entered. When they spotted Oswald near the rear, he pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger.

It failed to go off, and the officers jumped him. In the scuffle that followed, one patrolman was cut on the face before Oswald was subdued. As they snapped the hand' cuffs on his wrists, Oswald was heard to say: "It's all over." An angry crowd had gathered around the theater when the suspect was pulled out and put into a patrol wagon. When he was booked, officers noted that his height and feet 9, 160 with the description given of a man who was seen near the assassination area. The intensive questioning began.

A steady stream of witnesses and officers filed into the crowded office where Oswald was held. Later his mother and Russian-born wife, carrying a tiny baby, entered. Faubus to Speak in Memphis MEMPHIS (AP) Orval E. Faubus and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture George L. Mehren will speak at the 24th annual meeting of the Agricultural Council of Arkansas aext Monday at Memphis.

Mehren is head of agricultural marketing and the commodity exchange program of the Agriculture Department..