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3 -Bay Toll Climbs to 66 -CtStg' JOWL'S, VK Xt ft- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 66 multiple fire deaths have been recorded over the nation in the last three days with more than half the victims children. House fires killed six and seven persons at a time as cold weather gripped parts of the nation in advance of today's calendar start of the winter. Home furnaces were pushed to near maximum capacity. The death toll by days: Sunday: At least 20 dead, 14 children and six adults. A mother and her six youngsters perished in one upstate New York blaze.

Saturday: At least 26 dead, 23 children and three adults, with one fire killing six youngsters, and two others claiming five each. Friday: Fire swept a nursing home in Fountaintown, killing 20 elderly residents. The upstate New York fire killed Mrs. Paul B. and her six children, aged 2 to 8, in their borne in Palmyra, near Rochester.

The 31-year-old father returned home from a business trip to Chicago an hour after the blaze was discovered. Two adjacent homes were destroyed, but the occupants escaped. Breeden, a spot welder, had found work in Chicago and returned to pick up his family. Also on Sunday: In Tiffin, Ohio, a home fire claimed the lives of Robert A. Church, 32, a widower, and his three sons, aged 6 to 13.

Near Pine River, while Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker were at a dance for the benefit of a couple who were burned out a week ago, four of the six Baker children perished in their flaming home. The victims ranged from ages 2 to 9 The fire was blamed on an over-heated stove. The oldest child, Janice, 14, saved the youngest, Perry, 1, asleep in his parents' bedroom.

In East Wenatchee, fire swept the home of John E. Stufl, 58, and his wife, Renie, killing them both. An explosion and fire ravaged a two-story home in Wichita Falls, killing Wyletta Thorn ton, 3. In New York City, separate home fires killed Isaac Watson, "75, and Francisca Cruz, 22. i COLD, snow, wind nurtured tragedy by fire.

Fire The Hammond Times COOL Mostly cloudy tonight, low around 15. Partly sunny on Tuesday, a little colder; high around 30. Cloudy on Wednesday, snow possible. Details on Page A-8. PICTURE PAGE Graphic resume of weekend prep basketball in Calumet Region high school gymnasiums.

See page of pictures, D-5. Home Neivspaper of the Calumet Region Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana, Monday, December 21, 1964 Vol. LIX, No. 160 WEstmore 2-3100 46 Pages 10 Cents o3mc Booms Dee Mime THE SONIC BOOM conc or OUMO m.n.o.d Stmc A IMWD SUPtHMMIC n.MHT 1MI -I Weak' Noise B-58s Will Fly Over Jan. 4 to March 31 OOM WIU.

tc Ht0 At-i. ALONG ftuPCftSOWlC FLIGHT ATH At SHOW tTMWMT LIMCS wise, carry mobile radar bomb scoring equipment. Calumet Region residents were told today to expect a series of sonic booms from the free world's fastest bombers. Strategic Air Command B-58 Like the test corridors, the BBS Express is moved to a new loca-'. tion periodically to use new different target areas.

In addition to the B-58 Hustlers, REASON for the boom: sound waves lose their race with supersonic bomber. School Campus Study Financing May Be Near subsonic B-52 and B-47 jet bomb- ers will fly low level missions against the express trains in Summertown and at Cheyene Wells, Cola t- Sheboygan i 1 I ll MICH. CHICAGO (f Other training corridors to be Hustlers will fly over the area from Jan. 4 to March 31 at sonic speeds. The resulting booms will be comparatively weak because the training missions will be flown at altitudes above 35,000 feet, SAC said.

The big noises, frightening to some and distracting to others, will cause no personal injury. The crew must fly the Hustler at speeds up to 1,300 m.p.h. to get full benefits from its capa-bilitis. The 40-mile-wide test corridor passes over Chicago and Kankaa- used are near Paducah, Tex.k near Crossett, and over the Gulf of Mexico. downtown Hammond, Supt Jo HAMMOND An educational organization has agreed to finance a feasibility study for the site of a proposed school campus near felt confident the EFL would also help fund the construction.

I THINK it's about the most encouraging thing that's happened to us in some time," the superin seph L. Hendrick said today. Hendrick returned last weekend from New York, where he detailed plans for a five or six- tendent said. "It shows that school complex to the Educational someone has some confidence in Winter 'Breezes? Into Area kee, to a point 10 miles east of Facilities Laboratories. Hammond's ability to come at its Onarga, TJL Hendrick said he also received iprobleras fa a reaMic manner Onarrra I I 1 TRAINING corridors for the Hendrick said he hoped to en encouragement of additional support in another educational gage a consultant, who would SAC bombers are rotated periodically because training benefits lessen when crews become fa study such areas as accessibility to the site, traffic problems and legal matters by the end of the He said the EFL, a Ford Foun Car Crash Cuts Power HAMMOND Power was cut to 2,500 homes in the Woodmar and Hessville sections for nearly an hour Sunday night when a car clipped a utility pole.

The driver was charged with public intoxication. He is Carl E. McGregor, 20, of 4910 Ivy East Chicago. IND. ILL.

dation-financed group, agreed to pay for a consultant's study of miliar with landmarks, simulated target complexes and identifying characteristics of a particular week. the 23-acre site east of Harrison The complex, in addition to Park for the proposed complex. providing more needed facilities, would eventually mean the closing area. Flights along the route may occur daily, but normally will not be scheduled between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.

cost $4-5 million, and that it could Wallace School and Washing B-53 Supersonic Corridor be built by 1967. He also said heir Trr? Junior Scoring equipment at the radar CALUMET REGION will be on the fringe of this new sonic boom corridor. bomb site in Chicago will deter The complex would have three or four elementary schools, a mid mine the accuracy of simulated bomb drops through the use of dle school and a special education schooL Such facilities as library, radio and radar signals. No bombs are carried on the train cafeteria, auditorium and shops Gateman Charged In Burn ha in Deaths Viet Future Shaky would be pooled. "The EFL is interested in big city problems; the decaying mid SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) die city and in-migration of pupils, The future of South Viet Nam's obsolete facilities and creative government and the war against would be op to the Lake County Coroner's Office to conduct an solutions in areas where land is difficult to acquire," Hendrick BURNHAM A railroad gate-tender was charged today with reckless conduct in the death of two men hit by a South Shore the Viet Cong have been thrown ing missions.

One feature of the B-58 is its ability to sustain supersonic speed over long distances while approaching and leaving its target. THIS capability enhances crew survival and assures a high probability of mission success despite strong enemy defensive measures normally expected over a target. The B-58 Hustlers will also fly missions simulating bomb runs against the RBS Express train near Summertown, Tenn. said. force commander; Brig.

Gen. Le Nguyen Khang, Marine Corps commander, and Brig. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, 4tb Corps commander. The military's rapid move caught leaders of the Buddhists' anti government campaign by surprise.

Their weekend of hunger striking and demonstrating into doubt by a weekend political purge by young Vietnamese gen "THAT'S WHY they're inter Line train. inquest," he said. A representative of the South Shore Line said the railroad "has investigators checking into the accident." ested in this project." erals. these generals as rebels against the duly constituted government" Premier Tran Van Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu were still nominally in power. In a broadcast proclamation, the junta of young generals declared confidence in and support for both men.

U.S. officials said the latest assertion of over-all authority by the military badly damaged the civilian government's position. Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thl, commander of the 1st Army A preliminary hearing has been Also, the superintendent said, The "Young Turks" dissolved set for 9:30 a.m.

Feb. 1 in Chicago Heights Circuit Court. the High National Council and ar the Ford Foundation indicated it might help finance curriculum de rested most of its nine members, Burnham police placed the velopment in Hammond's middle- plus more than 20 other leading was cut short and Buddhist followers were told "for the time being just pray and go home." The Express is the Air Force school program. charges against Edward Robinson, 35, of 3019 E. 138th PL, politicians.

designation for trains which Hendrick said a foundation offi riiisip iiilf V-v Burnham. He was released on U.S. military and diplomatic Winter blew in officially today" with a forecast to match the sea-; son. Colder air is expected to flow; into the region tonight, dropping temperatures and possibly bring-; ing more snow by Wednesday. Although Winter's official ar- rival was at 1:50 p.m., weather during the waning days of fall was very winter-like.

Near-zero temperatures and heavy snow kept Calumet Region residents shivering for nearly the past two weeks. The mercury hovered near zero 1 for several days last weeks, chill-; ing the remains of almost one foot of snow which fell the previa -ous week. THE WARMER air which tempered Calumet Region weather over the weekend will be pushed out of the picture late this after' noon when a flow of northwesterly wind reaches the region. Weather bureau officials said I temperatures will drop about five to 10 degrees with the passage of the cold front Tonight's low Is to be near 15. Snow may come Wednesday, when a warmer air front is ex pected to battle the cold front -over the Calumet Region.

Winter officially comes when the sun reaches its southernmost point in the sky in the earth's, I tilted-axis rotation. The earth will slowly shift the sun's point in the sky until spring -arrives in March. A pre-winter storm blasted the northwest and northeast U. S. during the weekend, causing least 25 deaths throughout the -nation.

I' EIGHT inches of new snow blanketed the Montana and North Dakota area, while up to thrwjl and one-half inches was reported in the northeast. More than 200 motorlitfi stranded on a stretch of Oregon highway Friday and Saturday were freed Sunday Haylifts to starving cattle In; Montana were planned today. Hundreds of cattle are reported, to have suffocated because of ice forming in their mouttis and nos, trils. cial told him "to come knocking officers made no official statement on the crisis the country's 11.000 bond. Martin Wiesman, 48, of 4 Mason on their door." 77T 11 Corps, is the dominant member of the junta.

He escaped to Cambodia in 1960 after failing in an attempt to overthrow the Ngo sixth government upheaval in less "That was the phrase he used," and William I. Jones, 34, of mm 1 than 14 months but American displeasure was evident Hendrick said. "I construed this as an invitation to make them a 365-166th both Calumet City, were killed when their car col Diem government. Since Diem's proposal on our middle school pro lided with a westbound commuter "This power play did not seem death he has risen rapidly in the SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS gram, rm going to move after Footsk With Mao? called for," said one U.S. official, "and basically we have to regard that one in the very near future." Vietnamese army.

Acting with him in Sunday's pre-dawn, bloodless purge were Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, air Allen and Scott say we're considering abandoning Formosa Page A-10 Policeman killed, his partner guns County Jobless Rate Up down the killer in Indiana Page A-2 Women Make Good Engineers? NEW YORK (AP)-Do women make as good engineers as men? HAMMOND Lake County unemployment rose slightly last E.C. Washington's shop expansion is imperiled by dispute Section ALLEN Ruddell said despite the unemployment increase, the economic picture is "still very good." train Friday night. The accident occurred at the Brainard and Burnham Avenues crossing.

Wiesman died instantly; Jones died two hours later in St Margaret Hospital, Hammond. BURNHAM Police Chief Edward Lawhead said Robinson said the train was 20 minutes late and he forgot about it. "When he heard the whistle he thought it was a slow freight and started the gates. But the car was on the tracks and the train was coming fast," he said. An inquest was held at the Opyt Funeral Home, Hegewisch, today to determine the cause of Wies-man's death.

Lawhead said the inquest on only one of the two men was because Wiesman died in Illinois. "Since Jones died in Indiana (at St. "irgaret Hospital), it Voice of People A-ll In a survey conducted among 7,000 engineering graduates of Columbia University, about half He said jobs for 1,000 are going bogging in the county because of a shortage of skilled workers and Weather A-8 Earl Wilson D-10 Building Page B-4 Classified Ads D-6-7-8-9 Comics D-10-11 Crossword Puzzle D-ll Editorials A-10 Illinois News B-2 Markets A-8 Obituaries A-8 Sports D-l-2-3-4-5 Theater Page C-ll TV Programs C-10 educated unskilled workers. of those questioned said yes, about half said no. Those replying in the affirma- Women's Pages Ruddell said last year's rate at this time was about 5 per cent.

"The difference indicates about 10,700 more people are employed in Lake County this year than last," be said. RUDDELL said the .6 per cent increase is nothing to be alarmed about Seasonal trends usually mean a slight November employment dip. "It doesn't indicate any downgrade of employment in the area," he said. Ruddell said the picture for the C-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 month but was still far below November, 1963. The rate rose from October's eight-year low of 2.2 per cent to 2.8 per cent "This means about 6,000 people are out of work," M.

W. Ruddell, director of the Hammond office of the Indiana Employment Security Division said today. The area's work force is about 214,000. first months of 1965 is bright Your Birthday D-10 uve saia intelligence knows no sex and that ability transcends "We expect manufacturing and industry to retain high levels of employment," he said, "but a Today's Editorials, A-10 gender. However, the "no's" said women might do better as engineers if they didn't have pri Better Ditch Laws (proposed); Child's Play? (kiddie slight slowing in non-manufacturing company employment will probably come." mary responsibility for reproduc work week); Brotherly Love (the Dixmoor story).

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