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Spokane Chronicle from Spokane, Washington • 6

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6 Spokane Dafly Chronicle, Friday, July 19, 1963. Northwest News Roundup Two Inmates Are Sought WALLA WALLA (AP)--A search was under way today for two King County men reported missing from the minimum security building of the State Penitentiary. The men, William R. Prevette, 28, and Terrence L. O'Connor, 25, were counted present at 5:15 p.m.

yesterday, but were missing at the 8:15 p.m. check. Prevette was scheduled for release February of 1965 and O'Connor was due out a month earlier. Both were serving sentences for robbery. Loyalty Oath Ruling Made OLYMPIA (AP)-Failure to sign a loyalty oath does not result in an inference a person is subversive or a member of the Communist Party, State Atty Gen.

John J. O'Connell contended yesterday. O'Connell made the statement in a written brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court to counter a challenge to Washington's loyalty oath laws brought by 65 University of Washington employes, many of them professors. O'Connell's written arguments said the loyalty oath merely requires a person to disclaim his knowing participation in subversive organizations and does not impings on constitutional privileges against self-incrimination. Freeway Fund Authorized OLYMPIA (AP)-The sale of up to $18 million in construction bonds has been authorized to keep the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma freeway on schedule.

The State Highway Commission took the action Wednesday. The bonds will come from an original $75 million issue authorized by the legislature six years ago. About $45 million already have been sold. Family Adopts Girl TACOMA one can ever take the place of Ann Marie in our hearts." With that, Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Burr announced Wednesday they have adopted a baby girl. It gives them four children. Ann Marie Burr was 8 when she vanished from her home nearly two years ago. There have been no clues to her disappearance. Rosellini Dinner Slated SEATTLE (AP)-Democratic leaders announced plans yesterday for a $100-a-plate dinner here Aug.

22 honoring Gov. Rosellini for "25 years of continuous public service." Frank Keller, Democratic state chairman, said "Republicans as well as leading Democrats from all over the state have been named to serve on the silver jubilee committee." Virginia Burnside of Seattle, Democratic publicity director, said the dinner would "definitely not" be the occasion for an announcement by Rosellini of his political intentions. Goldwater Draft Is Seen SEATTLE -A quiet move to fill vacant Republican precinct committeeman positions with supporters of Sen. Barry Goldwater is under way in King and Pierce Counties, the Seattle Times said yesterday. As of a few days ago, 2,255 Republican precinct committee positions were unfilled, out of a total of 5,465.

About 900 of the vacancies were in King County and more than 425 in Pierce County. The Times said the drive to fill these spots with Goldwater supporters is a move to win control of the Republican party in Washington for Goldwater. It is being sponsored by the "Draft Goldwater" organization which was formed a few weeks ago. Lad Returns X15 Climbs Kennedy's to Record "Lost" Clasp WASHINGTON (AP) -A penitent high school boy from Indonesia showed up at the White House gate today to return a tie clasp he took from President Kennedy yesterday during a near-riot on the south lawn. Much to his surprise, he was ushered into Kennedy's office to return the clasp--and was given a substitute tie clip by the President.

Bowo Soerjosoedermo of Malang in East Java said he brought the clasp to the White House out prompting from anyone else because, "I felt bad for what I had done." The 19-year-old Indonesian, known to his American friends as "Bo," took the tie clip from Kennedy's hand as 2,560 foreign students milled around the President after a south lawn mony. Bo explained that, in the mad crush, Kennedy was rather frantically trying to fasten his tie with the clasp that had come loose in the melee. He then President had the tie his hand and saidas "didn't say no," when Bo asked if he could have it. Bo appeared at the White House gate this morning with the tie clasp and a personal note of apology to Kennedy. The youngster said he merely intended to leave the clasp and his note with guards at the gate.

However, the guards called secret service agents who contacted Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and Salinger, in turn, arranged a hasty appointment with Kennedy. Bo personally returned Kennedy's tie clasp with an apology and Kennedy, in turn, handed him one of the gold "PT-109" tie clips which he often gives visitors. Need Unfilled FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky now has 325 special classes for mentally and physically handicapped children. Education officials say these classes meet only one-fifth of the need.

1.0 Clasps Traded Bowo Soerjosoedermo of Malang, East Java, trades smiles with President John F. Kennedy today at the White House where he called to return Kennedy's PT109 tie clasp which he grabbed yesterday during a near-riot of international exchange students on the White House grounds. He said he returned the clasp "because I felt bad." The President gave him another clasp. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger took this picture with Bowo's own camera during the surprise visit. (AP wirephoto.) Garbage-Can Checker Proves He's No Bum KANSAS CITY, Kan.

-Police received a complaint that an elderly man was rummaging through garbage cans Thursday night. They rounded up Paul Peter Greco. 73, and were about to book him on a vagrancy charge when he produced: -Two bank books showing a Small Fire Noted SANDPOINT, Idaho The Kaniksu Forest reports one small man-caused fire in the Newport District. It is manned and under control. The storm heading through the Priest Lake, Falls Ranger and Bonners Ferry Districts has resulted in reports four fires.

Only one has materialized: it is manned and under control. Goldmark Case Data Readied OKANOGAN (AP) Pre-trial Preparations continued here yesterday in connection with the $225,000 libel suit by former Democratic State Rep. John Goldmark and his wife against the John Birch Society, four individuals and two publishing firms. A trial date of Oct. 21 has been set.

Okanogan County Court with King County Superior Judge Theodore Turner presiding, The suit stems from remarks allegedly made during Goldmark's unsuccessful attempt to be renominated during the 1962 primary campaign. Goldmark completed two days of testimony yesterday for depositions being taken by Ned Kimball of Waterville, attorney for the John Birch Society, Part of his testimony was given in secret. His wife, Sally, began answering questions after her husband had finished. The couple's lawyers took statements from 34 persons prior July 1, when the defense began taking depositions. Judge Turner will hear pending motions in the case 2.

Company Asks Suit Dismissal LEWISTON, Idaho The Washington Water Power Co. has filed a motion to dismiss the suit which Ralph S. Otto and Milan Norden brought against them for $25,000 damages. The plaintiffs alleged that the WWP was negligent in its operation of the gates at the company dam on the Clearwater River during flood season last winter causing damage to their property. Seventeen other suits are pending in Tenth District Court against WWP on the same charges.

Around the Region Pen Conditions Said 'Disgrace' CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) Mark Maxwell, vice chairman of the State Board of Corrections, says conditions at the state pendtentiary are "a disgrace to Idaho" and it should be replaced with a modern facility of greater capacity, He told members of the Caldwell Kiwanis Club yesterday that in one cell house with individual cells, there are no toilet facilities and the men use a bucket. Their water is given to them in a can, he said. Maxwell said overcrowded con- Accident Kills Young Mother KETTLE FALLS, Idaho A Kettle Falls mother of two was when her car went out of (control, traveled 677 feet and rammed a tree as she drove to work near here this morning. Dead was Mrs. Wilma De Darlene Ferguson, 22.

The accident occurred miles north of Kettle Falls, about destination, Barney's frontioner, motel: service station where she was a waitress. State Trooper Roger Harris said the car traveled 360 feet off the roadway, 38 feet through the air and then 316 feet more along the highway. Two Forest Service ployes whom Mrs. Ferguson had passed back down the highway said she was traveling then at normal speed. Death was instantaneous.

It was Stevens County's fifth traffic fatality this year, four of them being women. On Your Next Trip To or Thru Portland Be our Make Your Headquarters the Luxurions, New Guest COSMOPOLITAN For Reservations- MOTOR HOTEL Phone: LLOYD CENTER 235-8433 Collect Or Write: GRAND AT HOLLADAY Cosmopolitan Spacious, air- conditioned guest rooms at moderate Motor Hotel prices. Heated, pool. Free parking-24-bour 1030 N.E. Union coffee shop.

Portland, Oregon TOP OF THE COSMO 503-224-4605 and A AGATE LOUNGE Reeftep No Dining and Dancing Nightly Cover-Ne Minimum Buffet? Smorgasbord? What should you call it? The popular buffet dinners served at the Flamingo. Hot foods are really hot salads are chilled on ice. The dictionary refers to "smorgasbord" as "Swedish hors d'oeuvres." Bulfet, however, is referred to as "a sidetable covered with food where guests serve themselves informally." Possibly by this description "buffet" is the truer description of the appetizing display of food pictured above at the Flomingo, It isn't too important, though, what you choose to call it. The important thing is for you to try it. Buffet luncheon served daily 11:30 to 1.30 ditions at the penitentiary affect parole pollcy, are releasing many men in Idaho that we really shouldn't be releasing," he said.

"Of course we try not to turn loose any real bad ones." Maxwell said a state with Idaho's population should have itentiary population of 840 accord. ing to national statistics. He said with little more than half that number the Idaho penitentiary is still overcrowded. He also described the vocational program as inadequate, saying the prison school has 90 full-time and 40 part-time students, and only one instructor. The 1963 Legislature provided $275,000 to acquire a site and start work on a new penitentiary to be built with convict labor.

But objections of Boise residents to a proposed site have held up progress. Border Guards Fire 15 Shots BERLIN (AP)-East German border guards fired 15 shots Thursday night and apparently frustrated an attempt to escape to West Berlin. West Berlin police said they could not see whether anyone was injured. It appeared, however, that several persons were arrested. balance of $5,500 in savings accounts.

-A sheaf of U.S. Savings Bonds a half-inch thick and worth $22,000. "I have all this and they pick me up for a hobo," he said. Greco said he has saved some money each pay day since he arrived from Italy in 1927, most of it while working as a coal miner. truck driver and farmhand in West Virginia.

He said he was on his way to Sacramento, to visit a nephew and work in the vineyards. Police took him to the bus station. Licenses to Wed COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho--Ronald L. Selchert, Fairchild Air Force Base, and Linda Becker. Spokane: Marvin Raymond Peterson and Raynola Howretta Hendrickson, both Spokane.

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(AP) --The space agency's Joseph A. Walker, shooting far higher than expected, went an 67 miles high today to an X15 altitude record. The veteran rocket plane pilot went aloft with target altitude of 315,000 feet, only little higher than the old X15 mark of 314,750. But, for reasons not at once learned, his altitude angle on the upward surge was steeper than expected and he shot to an estimated 350,000 feet. No Change Seen WASHINGTON (AP) Little change was reported today in the condition of Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, critically ill after a stroke.

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