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Carroll Daily Times Herald Delivered by Carrier Boy Each Single 94-No. 277 Return Guaranteed Postage Carroll, Iowa, Saturday, November 23, 1963 -Eight Pages Evening for 40 Cents Per Week Copy Johnson Takes Over Presidency; Nation, World Mourn Kennedy Day of Mourning in Carroll Monday Stores Will Close From 10 to Kennedy Visit Here Recalled 60 Killed in Fire in Rest Home 10:15 and 10:45 to permit worshippers to return home in time to watch national telecasts of the official state funeral scheduled in Washington, D.C. at 11 a.m. CST. Churches in Carroll opened NORWALK, Ohio (AP)-About Mayor William S.

Farner Saturday issued an official 60 persons were trapped and proclamation setting Monday, Nov. 25, as a day of mourn- killed in a fire today at a nursing in Carroll for the late President John F. Kennedy. ing home for the aged and inHe requested that business places and professional firm in Fitchville, the Ohio offices close between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Highway Patrol reported. when final rites for the slain leader are scheduled A patrol spokesman said the in the nation's capital. blaze swept through the oneRecalling the visit of Mr. Kennedy, then a senator, to story conrete home in the preCarroll four years ago, Mayor Farner urged Carroll citito to their churches to for the late president dawn hours. Eighty four pa-1 zens go pray and his family.

tients were reported residing at the home when the fire broke The mayor called on public places and households half staff. out. to fly the American flag at Twenty-one patients and three All Carroll churches will be open ser- nurses were safely accounted for memorial vices from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., Monday. for at Fisher-Titus Hospital in There will be no school in Carroll on Monday. closed Monday Norwalk.

The courthouse and city hall will be Fitchville is a community of open p.m. about 200. It is 20 miles southmorning and will at 1 Judge A. J. Braginton, Manson, will empanel the east of Norwalk, the Huron grand jury here Monday at 10 a.m.

and then will County seat. immediately declare the District Court in Carroll Huron County Deputy Sheriff County at recess for the remainder of the day in Jim Wade said the death toll tribute to the memory of the late president. would be "very close to 60." The Clerk of Court's office in the courthouse will not No bodies had been removed at 1 p.m. because of the court being in recess on from the still-smouldering buildopen order of Judge Braginton, Alfred J. Klocke, clerk said.

ing more than four hours later. There will be no night classes at Carroll School Authorities feared many of the on Monday night, Principal George Fair announced. victims would be burned so severly as to make identification The plans for Carroll's ob- Friday night and scheduled almost impossible. servance and participation in the last rites for the late president weekend worship services on be- The home is the Golden Age were made at a special meet- half of the late president and Nursing Home. Its patients are ing called here Saturday morn- his family.

mostly elderly persons, but ing by Mayor Farner. there are some who are mental Present at the meeting were Members of Charles Carroll and infirm patients of a young the Rt. Rev. Msgr. F.

H. Grete- Council, Knights of Columbus age. man, the Rev. Dr. Paul M.

Diet- will attend a mass at 6 p.m. E. H. Woods of Cleveland, trich, the Rev. Allan M.

Peter- Monday at St. Lawrence church who is head of Retirement the Rev. Harold W. Kieck, to pray for the repose of the Hotels, said he built the home son, the Rev. G.

J. Frahm and the soul of the late President Ken- 10 years ago, but sold it two Rev. Robert Condon. nedy. The mass will be open to years ago to Robert Pollock of Also in attendance at the the public.

Cleveland. meeting were Dr. H. K. Rich- Grand Knight F.

L. Sharp said home supposed to and Char- immediately after the "That was ardson, Bill Hammen that mass, be fireproof," Woods said. "I les Knoblauch of the Chamber the membership will convene can't understand how it hapof Commerce; Max H. Reed, at the K.C. hall for annual me- pened.

Everything is concrete president of the school board; morial services for members of block." George "Bert" the council who died during the Woods said the home was for Principal Fair, Carroll of the board past year. who were infirm and High school; A. J. and Leon P. The Fire Pro- many were mental patients who Daeges, chairman persons of supervisors; Inter-County Oswald, county auditor.

tection Association will not meet had been discharged from state Monday at Halbur as had been hospitals. He said the youngest The group decided on the The will be patient was 38 and there were scheduled. meeting morning observance between Carroll See Page 7 some as old as 100. An Editorial-- In the tragic passing of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy every citizen of this nation mourns in shocked horror at not only a keen feeling of personal loss and for the bereaved Kennedy family but in a sympathy that such a black day should mark the hislarger sense tory of the United States. The grief manifested in Carroll, Iowa, of course, is greater in degree than in all cities and towns and no rural areas throughout this country and around the entire free world.

There is, however, perhaps reason for Carroll to feel the loss somewhat more directly because of a visit paid to this city by the late President Kennedy before he elected to the highest office in the land. It was was in November of 1959 that the then youthful U.S. Senator from Massachusetts honored Carroll by appearing as the principal speaker at an annual Chamber of Commerce dinner. During the program he was made an honorary member of the Carroll Colonels. It will be recalled that the martyred President, on that occasion, had been in attendance at an Iowa-Notre Dame football game in Iowa City during the afternoon, leaving the game early in order to make his scheduled appearance in Carroll.

It is a noteworthy mark of irony another Iowa-Notre Dame game at Iowa City stands cancelled as a result of the assassination of this great American who so thoroughly endeared himself to a Carroll audience almost four years to the day previously, while yet but a candidate for the nomination by his party to the highest office this nation can confer. But as the deepest sorrow for the loss of President Kennedy falls heavily on the hearts of all, there must be a renewed determination to carry on under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson to the end that the nation may rise above this serious scar on its record as the leader of free peoples everywhere. President Calls in Rusk, Eisenhower Gathers Up Monumental Tasks; Given Pledges by Party Chiefs A -AP Photofax Wire Picture President Lying in ReposeThe body of John Fitzgerald Kennedy guard comprises four enlisted men lie in repose today in the historic East of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Room of the White House. The honor Force.

Last Rites for Kennedy By CARL P. LEUBSDORF WASHINGTON (AP)-John F. Kennedy lies in death today in the White House from which he governed the nation. Through the day, his family, his close friends and high officials of the government, including former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, were scheduled to view the body of the chief executive who was assassinated Friday in Dallas.

Sunday it will be borne by solemn cortege to the rotunda of the Capitol where for 24 hours it will lie in state, to be seen by the public. Funeral services will be held at noon Monday at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral with Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston and a long time friend of the Kennedy family, celebrating a Pontifical Requiem Mass. The final resting place for the President, 46, gunned down as he rode in a motorcade, remained uncertain early today. In the early morning hours, the flag-draped casket of the fallen President was brought to the White House.

A Navy ambulance carried the casket from the Bethesda Naval Hospital, in suburban Maryland, where the body had been taken upon its return from Dallas. From 10 to 11 a.m., Kennedy's immediate family was to view the body in the East Room of White House. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m, the top officials of the government, led by President Johnson and including Speaker of the House John W. McCormack, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, were scheduled to arrive.

Eisenhower also was due to come at that time. Former President Herbert Hoover, 89 and ailing, expressed regrets Funeral See Page 7 Johnson Member of Christian Church WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson is the second chief executive to belong to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The other was President James A. Garfield, who was shot by an assassin July 2, 1881 and died Sept. 19 of that year.

The Christian Church, as it is most commonly known, numhers about 1.8 million members in the United States. Texan, 24, Held as Kennedy Assassin By FRANK CORMIER 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 alter 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 minutes after the assassin's bullets crashed into his neck and head as he neared 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-stunning murder. "There is no one else but him," Wade said. Taken before microphones and cameras earl ytoday, 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: "'We'll put it this way. I don'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 Oswald See Page 7 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 a morning conference 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 Senate some say the most able leader the Senate has ever had. Almost as soon as he arrived back in Washington Friday night, the 55-year-old Texan with a reputation 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 around the country and to the Democratic presidential.

nomin- far reaches of the world. ation in 1960, automatically be- Expressions of grief, sorrow, came the 36th President of the surprise poured in from friends United States the moment Ken- and antagonists, allies and foes, nedy's life ebbed away in the from the Kremlin and from the emergency room of a Dallas Vatican. hospital. Johnson was in the car behind For Johnson, the problems Kennedy's when three bullets were just beginning. from a sniper ripped into the By moving into the White House he also assumes leaderopen presidential limousine, of striking Kennedy in the head ship the West in the cold war and throat and wounding Texas -and faces the major question of whether Soviet Premier KhruGov.

John Connally. Presi- shcev will stir up a new crisis Blood sprang from the fell face to test the mettle of the new dent's face and he forward in the back seat of the American chief executive. car. Mrs. Kennedy, who had Judging from Johnson's publia been riding with him, tried to statements, no big change in lift his head, crying, "Oh, no!" foreign policy appeared likely, Half an hour later John F.

for he has strongly supported Kennedy, 46, the first Roman the Kennedy line. Catholic and youngest man ever Another problem is Congress elected to the presidency, was where Kennedy's legislative prodead. gram--the tax reduction bill and It was stunning, almost un- civil rights legislation--is stalled believable news that flashed apparently fo 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 this year.

Already worn and with tempers frayed after 11 months of its first session, Congress is exJohnson See Page 5 their doors for prayer services Mayor Sets Mourning Day As Mayor of Carroll, I proclaim for our city that Monday, November 25, be a day of mourning in respect to our late President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy visited our city some four years ago, and at that time made many friends in Carroll. For us as American citizens it is hard to realize that tragedies such as this can occur in our great country.

Our sincere sympathy goes to Mrs. Kennedy and the Kennedy family. I urge our. citizens to attend the churches of their choice, to pray for the Kennedy family, and to ask God to give our new president, Lyndon Johnson, the strength and courage he needs to carry on. I also urge the citizens of Carroll to fly their flags at halfmast, likewise, on all public buildings.

I further urge that all business and professional offices close during the hours of 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. William S. Farner, Mayor of Carroll, Iowa The Weather IOWA FORECAST Fair through Sunday. Warmer west and north Saturday night, lows 20-25.

Warmer Sunday, highs around 60. Further outlook Considerable cloudiness with brief scattered showers likely Monday, warmer southeast. CARROLL-NORTHWEST Partly cloudy and not so cold Saturday night, lows in upper teens to low 20s. Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday, highs in 40s. The Weather in Carroll (Dally Temperature Courtesy of Iowa Publio Service Company) Yesterday's high 59 Yesterday's low 20 At 7 a.m.

today 17 At 10 a.m. today 25 Weather A Year AgoIt was clear and windy a year ago today as temperatures ranged from a high of 42 to a low -AP Photofax Wire Picture Tears, Prayers for Dying PresidentA weeping child offers up a prayer terday, victim of an assassin's bullet for President Kennedy outside Park- in the head. land hospital where he lay dying yes- of 21 degrees..