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Today's Chuckle Some people's idea of a hick town one. where there's no place to go where one shouldn't. Nashua Sfeleqraph Serving Noshua And Area For More Than A Century Weather Fair, Cold Tonight, Cloudy, Warmer Friday FULL REPORT ON PAGE TWO VOL. 1 NO. 26i October M.

UH NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964 Second Class Postage Paid At Nashua. N. H. Price: SEVEN CENTI A 9-year-old Hudson girl, Debra Kulingoski, was killed and five otters injured, two of them critically, when fire gutted their home on Rita st, Hudson, early this morning. Outstanding efforts bv Hudson firefighters, Hudson and Nashua Police Departments were credited with saving- the lives of the other children.

Scene of Tragic Hudson Fire 'Left is a photo showing firefighters working shortly after the blaze was brought under control. Center are the Kulingpski youngsters, children of Mr and Mrs Bernard Kulingoski. In front is Clyde, 2, who is listed in critical condition. Seated, left to right: Donna, 7, under treatment for smoke inhalation- Debra the 'victim, and Stephen, 4, also in critical condition. Rear is Edu-aiti, 6, who is being treated for smoke inhalation.

Right photo shows the remains of the two-story dwelling as passersby stop to examine Uic damage. The rear of the house is charred. Hudson Fire Kills 9-Year-Old Girl House Eyes Baker LBJ Gift Questioned WASHINGTON (AP) Rep H. R. Gross has called for a separate House investigation into Robert G.

Baker's business affairs in the wake of benate testimony that President Johnson once received a free stereo set from a Baker associate. "This scandal has so many ramifications that it would arjpear the House should set up a special committee to examine some of the tangents' of the Baker probe," the Iowa Republican told the House Wednesday Now In Senate The Bakerinvesligation is being conducted by the Sonate Rules Committee, which plans to i make public today personal Financial statements filed by the former secretary to the Senate Democrats in connection with applications for bank loans- Baker, a protege of Johnson when the President' was the Senate Democratic leader, resigned his post under fire last Oct. 7. The Senale committee is investigating whether the 35-year-old former page boy from Pickens, S.C., engaged in activities that conflicted with his official duties. has a law office in Washington and has been in the capital throughout the inquiry, as far as is publicly has refused to talk to newsmen.

-Johnson's name was Into the investigation by Don B. Reynolds, a local insurance man who said his firm lists Baker as a vice president. Gross said Uie proposed House investigation should include "the activities of one Matthew M. McCIoskey, contractor for the construction of many federally financed buildings and bridges, including a badly defective Veterans Administration hospital in Boston, Mass." McCIoskeyi a Philadelphia contractor, bad been. treasurer of the Democratic National Committee for eight years when the lale President John named him ambassador lo Ireland in June 1861 McCIoskey is giving up the post to return to fund raising for the Democratic party.

Wednesday the Washington Evening Star disclosed Uiat the Justice Department has started an investigation lo de- Icrmine if illegal collusion wts involved in the handling ot the D.C- Stadium construction project in Washington. The Mc- CIoskey firm built the stadium. In his testimony to the. Rules QUESTIONED age 2 Rocky'Echo' Of Democrats Goldwater WITH GOLDWATER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE (AP) Campaigning Sen. Barry Goldwater said 'today New York Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller is a Republican echo of President Johnson on a surprising number of points. The Arizona senator said he is "talking about anybody who sounds too much like a Democratic candidate" when he insists the voters should have "a choice, not an echo" in 1W4. Tm Surprised' "I'm surprised al the number of points that Gov. Rockefeller agrees with and would support," Goldwater told a news conference at Laconia.

The senator said he wins the Republican presidential nomination, and sees Red China admitted to the United Nations, he "would be inclined" to campaign for U.S. withdrawal. GOLDffATER Pige 2 HUDSON Fire here early today claimed the life of a 9-year-old girl and injured five others in the family, two of them critically. Fire Chief Oscar Campbell has notified the state Fire Marshal's office of the tragedy. State officials are expected to investigate the burned two-story dwelling to determine the cause of the blaze.

The victim was Debra Ko' igoski, 9, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bernard of 11 Rita av, a pupil of St John the Evangelist parish school. She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Nashua Memorial hospital in a citv ambulance. Dr Sidney Cnrelop, deputy medical referee, who examined the body, attributed death to smoke inhalation. Others Rescued Outstanding teamwork by the Hudson fire and police departments and Nashua police was a major factor in saving the other children's lives said the chief of police Andrew J. Polak.

Figuring prominently in the rescue efforts was a neighbor, Robert Lacoy, 28, of 11 Rita av, a mechanic for a Lowell firm. Lacoy carried oul Donna Ku- Kngoski, 7, after he bumped into her as he raceu up the stairs to the children's second-story bedrooms. The blaze broke out shortly before 1 am. Debra's brothers were carried down ladders by firefighters. Two Children Critical Listed in critical condition are: Stephen Kulingoski, 4, under oxygen in the Memorial hospital, and Clyde, 2, under treatment in St Joseph's hospital.

Both suffered smoke inhalation. 7 nder treatment in the Memorial hospital are Donna, 7, and brother, Edward, 6, for smoke inhalation. Their father, Bernard Kulingoski, 30, sustained first and second degree burns about the face and chest but he was able to leave the Memorial hospital. He received the bums when he tried to reach his sleeping children. 'At the time, he was reportedly asleep in one of the downstairs rooms.

Mrs Kulingoski, the former Elaine Smith, was at work- in the Sprague Electric co, Nashua. She works on the midnight shift. She is pregnant, relatives reported. At the chydren's bedside in the Memorial hospital early today was Mrs Irene (John) Bartisavitch of 66 St st, Aashua, their grandmother. Initial Investigation Deputy Henry L.

Shepherd who assisted Chief Campbell in the fircfighting operations, said an initial ivestiga- tion showed the fire may have started in the kitchen, near the refrigerator. Damage to the two-story house was unofficially estimated at Flames gutted large sections of the'build- ing as they swept upward. Aiding firefighters was a two-truck detail from Tynes- uoro under the fire chief Robert Duff. One Hudson firefighter, Robert Buxton, 35, sustained injury to his fingers. He returned to duty after being treated in the Memorial hospital.

Victim Debra, Deputy Shepherd said, was hi a second-story section where fire and smoke were the heaviest. He said she was carried down the stairs, through the house. The Rev William Kelley of the Sf John the Evangelist church, gave her the last rites of the Catholic church. He also accompanied the children to the hospital. First aid and rescusitator use at the scene helped the HUDSON FIRE a ShOW Yields Pamela Clues House Passage of Rights Bill by Feb 7 Likely MANCHESTER, N.

H. (AP) The use of Air Force snow melting machines has helped to uncover new evidence police hope willlead to the slayer of 14-year-old Pamela Mason. Investigators declined today to reveal what evidence was uncovered but Police Chief Francis P. McGranaghan said, "lam most hopeful that this will help crack the case." The West High School freshman's body was found in a snowbank alongside Interstate Route 93 Tuesday, about two miles from the spot where the body of Sandra Valade, 18, was found three years ago. 'Identical Murders' Police now believe Pamela" Medical examiner Lionel La- was attacked and lulled else- voie of Hillsborough County said where, the body taken to the he hated to say it but 'the two spot where' it was found in a murders arc almost identical." car.

They asked the horrified citizenry to keep an eye out for an abandoned car bearing Wood stains and lo report buildings where the slaying may have occurred. both girls is the same person-a Manchester resident possibly living on the west side of town. Pamela was last seen the night of Jan. 13 when she drove off in a snowstorm with a man who picked her up after telephoning her with an offer of a baby sitting job. The name the man gave on the telephone, and the address, proved phoney.

Pamela had been shot twice in Uie head, stabbed four limes, and slashed in the throat. Dr. Lionel D. Lavoie, i borough County medical examiner, attributed the girl's death to "multiple stab wounds, multiple wounds, and a deep gash that severed the jugular vein." Blood samples and internal organs of the victim rushed to a New York City laboratory yesterday for examination by Dr. Halpcm, a noted pathologist.

i i a could 1 not say how long it would lake for the examination to be completed. Police said they are fairly well convinced that Pamela was murdered someplace other than where her body was found. "This appears to have a sex crime," said County Atty. Kmile Bussicre. He added, how- cvw, that no final dctermina- tion could be made until the completion of laboratory tests.

Pamela's blouse a ripped, and her bra and a missing. Her schoolbooks and PAMELA Page 2 A bipartisan majority o( the committee is preparing to seize control and cut off hearings on the bill in lime to gel it passed before tho House lakes its annual Lincoln birthday recess. The Valade girl had been shot in the head four times and slabbed four times. Pamela was killed by stab wounds, but she also had been shot, Bolh girls 'sew ally molested. DOUBLE-CHECK SPECIAL CHECKING Accounts MATXOKAX.

BANK 0V KASHX7A.K.K. EST.1SJS. MtNICR F.O.I. C. Police theorize the killer of Jtoi arrived Tribute 10 JOHN F.

KENNEDY A motion pielurt in a MM for Aemc motiit Yellow Tag tXEARANCE SALE Opta rnif nil 'lil FOTOMART in Mate Strrtl Niit lo ttttt Tniatri SEE OUR WEEKEND AD IN WED. PAPER ON PAGES 12 13 WASHINGTON' (AP) House passage ot a civil rights bill by Fob. 7 appeared a strong possibility today as the result of a revolt in the House Rules Committee. Conflict Commissioner Is Asked To Quif or Sfop Sales Seek Clues in Slaying Police with Airforce firefighters steam machines" at Manchester to melt the snow at spot where the body of Pamela Mason, 14, of Manchester was found beside rojjtejff. The girl was last seen the night WALLPAPERS off Affis Paint Supply Co.

II A I rr MAIN IT, NASHUA of Jan 13, when she drove off in a swirling snowstorm with a man who had picked her up at her home for a "baby-sitting job." The machines normally are used to warm up aircraft engines at nearby Grcnier Field. (Claudtttc Durochcr) The conflict of interest battle over city sales insurance continues to gather momentum. And Ihc resignation of John Ijtvis from the Park Recreation Commission is called for and failing that of Mayor Mario J. Vagge. The latent round in Ihc conflict was fired this morning by a a a insurance executive.

Archie Slawsby, head of the Slawsby Insurance Agency, said today. 'Shook! Not Accept 1 "We don't believe that Commissioner Ijlvis should accept the insurance business from the Park Recreation Commission even though the latest action of a majority of the 'men ol cjlibcr' wtwH indicate that they fell that having him write the Commission's insurance was more important that what we feel in the public interest. Slawshy origin.il ly brought out fllloKCft irregularities in the distribution of city insurnmv sale 1 in a letter to the editor in the Tclccraph last week. The present conflict of interest charge brought oul by Slawshy who poinl- oul that Lalus. an in- the P-R commission has been handling part of the insurance of the commission for the past ten years or so.

Lalvis has Ixcn a P-R commissioner for 12 years. In a vole Tuesday night was upheld by his fellow commissioners and retained as insurance agent. Mayor Vagge backed the commissioners saying that Ijlvis should be retained as agenl until the problem is ironed ojt. "We are not interested in the Park Recreation insurance business for our agency as a piece of business. Put we do say that Mr I jtvis should not write it," Slaws- by continued.

"If Commi.vMoticr Ulvi? persists then wo must concur wilh city solicitor Lalvis Major Brand 14.9 per FUEL OIL Gal. tilt si least 1 day a (or Wed. or Thuri. dtlmry Cail) on. only.

n'. m'n. SAV-MOR OIL CO. gMK FREE! $50 Food Certificate SEE NASHUA AUTO AD PAGE Ig Major Brands ft 0 Regular GASOLINE SAV-MOR OIL CO. Nltl R.

R. ig. liquor Ifert "If Mr Lalvis persists in writing this insurance and if the commissioners who supported this resolution to have him continue wrilinj insurance for the Park fi'rcrcation CommKMnn we have totn 3 member of committees where it is always agreed that every majority act becomes sn unanimous act'ion in orilcr In present 3 solk! front) rfo not Tfsifn- then (he Mayor iho rcappointcd the commissioners should resign. Lattsl in Dispute The commission insurance haggle is the latest in a scries of disputes over (ho city's insurance policies. The conflict of interest question rovfi.rrr Smilh Target The revolt is aimed at Chairman Howard W.

Smith, leader ot the Southern forcos opposing the bill, who had planned lo-continue the hearings until tfip end of Smith headed off any attempt to end the hearings Wednesday by hastily adjourning them (or the day while hU chid adversaries Here absent plotting strategy. Bui a showdown today ap- pcared inevitable. Rep. Richard Colling, D-Mo. leader of the forces trying to speed action on the bill, said Wednesday night he is prepared to force a vote on ending the hearing; at today's sr.ssion.

is counting on the support of the committee's Republicans in his maneuver. There arc 10 Democrats and 5 Republicans en the committee but of tho Democrats are from the South. Both Press Pressure on the Rules Committee to move the bill quickly is coming from both the Democratic and. Republican loaders in the House. The.

Democrats are feeling the heat from President and the Republicans have decided they would be in a better posilion to hold bncoln Day if they had helped pass a civil rights bill. Boiling has toll Smith of his r'sn in hopes won't be ne- to use force to cut off the hearings. TONIGHT IN THE TELEGRAPH Ibby 21 1 Classifieds 21 18-13-20! Jaccby tutorial Comics Crossword fVTiite Around Town Hal Boyle Lawrence 4 Bridge 21 Sports 18 TV-Radio WiiVall St. 21 15-17 20 21 1 I.

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