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AID HUNTING ACCIDENT VICTIM Charles Chalifoux, IB, of 310 E. Main ii lifted by Patrolmen Wallace LaFleur and ambulance attendants Norman Champagne, and William Cote after he was wounded in left leg while hunting with two torm-ags companions in Clarksburg late yesterday. Investigation of incident is continuing. (Story on Page Two. I Contempt Action Against Barnett Is Delayed Again NEW ORLEANS, La.

(API- Final action in contempt proceedings against Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett in the University of Mississippi desegregation case has been delayed until next week by a federal appeals court. Barnett faces possible arrest and a 510.000 daily fine. An attorney for Barnett slarlled the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday when he said he had not been authorized lo say 10 days ago that Barnett would comply absolutely with all orders oi the court.

named (n Decide Attorney Charles Clark said Barnett would comply "insofar as he is physically able." He said Barnett would decide him-self when he could comply wilh the orders. Clark contended the court had misinterpreted bis language. Judge Richard T. Rives of Montgomery, who had been present at the previous hearing, commented: "We have indeed entered Alicr in Wonderland where language doesn't mean what it 1 The court delayed action in the contempt case pending a decision on legal questions raised by the Department's request for an injunction to prevent Mississippi officials from interfering with the position of James H. Meredith, a Negro, as an Ole Miss student.

II ordered written briefs be submitted by Monday. Temporary Order A temporary restraining order, now in effect against the state Four Die in Blazing House SEEKON'K. Mass. (API Four persons were killed enrly today when fire gutted a I'3 story wood frame house. The liou.se wfls occupied by Mr.

and Mrs. James Elderkni. (heir four adult children and grandchild. Dead are the three Elderkin brothers and their sister. They are Harold, 33, Charles.

36, Robert, 26, and Mildred, The father, James, 7(i. is listed in critical condition at Pawtucket Memorial Hospital. In fair condition at the hospital are his wife, Annie, 64. and a grandson. Anthony Viera, 1- i.

Dr. James M. Shamey. assistant Bristol County medical examiner, listed cause of death of all lour victims as asphyxiation from smoke inhalalion. Lt.

John Monsour, of the state fire marshal's office, said the fire apparently was caused by an explosion in a combination oil heating and cooking stove. Monsour said Mrs. Elderkin apparently awoke about 3 a.m. and went downstairs and lit the slove. She had just gone back upstairs when heard an explosion.

The woman ran from the house for help. Pres. Kennedy Barnstorms In 'Safe' West Pennsylvania WITH KENNEDY IX PENNSYLVANIA Kennedy carried his anti-Republican campaign deeper into largely friendly western Pennsylvania territory today, snapping at his own party's conservatives and plugging lor what he called a progressive Congress. Kennedy linked Southern Demo crats with Republicans as foes of progress in a cheer-raising speech to Democrats who packed the University of Pittsburgh field house Friday night. 'Safe' Territory In territory that backet! him by 4-3 or better margins in Kennedy urged voters to send the Democratic nominees lo the House, re-elect Democratic Sen.

Joseph S. Clark and support Democrat Richardson Dilworth as successor to Democratic Gov. David L. Lawrence. He concenlraled on that theme in sorties into McKcesport, Moiv esfien and and coal later today lo Indianapolis and Louisville' Both Indiana and Kentucky backed (ormer Vice President nichard Nixon in Bolli have Republican senators up for re-election against challengers Kennedy hoped to advance.

Anil while Kentucky has but one Republican in thr House. Indiana shows 7-1 GOP majurily. Applauding thousands greeted Ihe barnstorming chief executive when he arrived in Pittsburgh late Friday. Earlier he had appeared before multitudes in Columbus Day ceremonies at New York and Newark. This was his second venture into Pennsylvania in his effort to build up Democratic majorities in Con- gres.s for He is certain lo return again before election (fay, to Philadelphia and possibly other spots in Ihe eastern part of the slate.

In Pittsburgh Friday night he put Ihe emphasis on Democrats "who believe in progress," Hits Own 1'nrly Kennedy has alluded frcqnently in news conferences lo conservative Democrats who failed to vote for his programs or tlio.se oi the New and Fair Deals. While attacking Republicans as a standstill parly, he called in Pittsburgh and at nearby Altquippa (or Democratic majorities which will support his domestic policies. If his partisans sil idle until election day, Kennedy said: "We will be in the control of dominant Republican conservative Democratic coniilion that will defeat progress on every single one of these measures. And (hat is why I came here lonighl and ask your help in elecliiiR a progressive Congress." Virginia College Admits Negro Girl MARTINSVILLE. Va.

(AP) A 17-year-old Negro girl from nearby Pitt.sylvania County has been enrolled officially in Patrick Henry College here. The registration Friday of Hazel Ruth Adams marked tue end of the classroom color barrier ia southside Virginia an area with a heavy Negro population which has strongly resisted integration. official, is the basis for the contempt action against Barnett and LI. Gov. Paul Johnson Jr.

While the court was deliberating, Meredith left the Oxford, campus by Border Patrol plane for the weekend. Presumably, he was headed for Memphis, where he went last weekend to see his wife. The campus remained quiet. In order to forestall more violence, however. Dean of Students L.

L. Love ordered an immediate end to all demonstrations aimed al Meredith. He warned (hat viola- lions will "bring immediate and drastic disciplinary action." Second 'Purge' Hearing The New Orleans court hearing was the second at which Barnett and Johnson were to show they had purged themselves of contempt. They were convicted for their role in barring Meredith from Olc Miss. The.

court had said affirmative acl.s were necessary' to show they had purged thom.sHvc.s. Clark and Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe Patterson contended that Bar-licit and Johnson were complying with orders now because Meredith is attending Olc Miss. Chief Judge Etberl Tultle of Al- lanta commented thai Meredith was "barely" a student there.

Technicalities Delay Cuban Prisoner Deal MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Attorney James B. Donovan remained in seclusion today for treatment of bnrsitis while members of Ihc Cuban Families Committee professed confidence that be would return to Havana soon to complete arrangemenls for Ihc release of the l.li:i Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners. Donovan returned to Miami on Thursday from Cuba, where he said he offered Prime Minister Fidel Castro medicine and baby food in exchange for the prisoners. He saw a doctor about the Vmrsitis Friday nnd slipped into seclusion after briefing, the families committee on the negotiations.

A spokesman (or the committee said that only technicalilies held up the conclusion of the swap. Donovan, a Nfw York lawyer who worked out Ihc swap of Soviet spy Rudolph Abel for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hired by Ihc committee lo nrgo- ttalf Ihe freedom of tlie prisoners. North Maws 'Cmmcnpt North Adams Adams Williamstown Massachusetts WTHYEAR NO. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 12 PAGES 8 CENTS Storm Wallops West Coast-35 Killed; Portland Paralyzed-Looters Stalk City Movtot A ill Million To Cuba Daily WASHINGTON (AP) -The Soviet Union's assistance to military and now testing Russia about $1 million a day, says assistant Secretary of Slate Edwin A. Martin.

The military aid part o( it, he said, is running nt the rate of 5200 million for this year. Also, he asserted, tlie State Department estimates that Russia will have a $50 million to $70 million trade deficit with Cuba as well as supplying long-term economic aid this year of up to million. But, Martin declared, this Russian help "is probably just about enough" to keep Cuba's "head above a relatively low level." Marginal Living In a CBS radio interview Friday, Martin said: "We estimate the Cuban people are getting 25 per cent less income than they did before Castro (assumed power). This will not do more Jhan fceep them at thai level as far as we can see al the present lime." He predicted that the Soviet bloc's financial burden in Cuba would grow heavier niter Die United Stales clamps penalties on toreign ship's up in the Communist-Cuba trade. The to he imposed next expected among other things to deny U.S.

cargoes to ships and shipping companies involved in carrying to Csstro from Communist countries. "We feel insofar as they (die Communist countries) are unable to charter Allied shipping and other shipping for use in trade going to Cuba they will have to do what obviously is more expensive; namely, use their own shipping, which is not suiled to tlii.s particular trade," said Martin, the State Department's Latin American affairs chief. Meanwhile, the United Slates has in effect warned all maritime powers that vosscls in (he Cuban trade run some risk of attack by anti-Castro raiders. Universal IV.irnins The warning to all was implied when the United States declined Friday to guarantee the safety of British ships carrying cargo to Cuba, "There is no absolute guarantee against any incident taking 1 Stale Department press officer Lincoln While (old a news conference. Already there's been one hit- and-run attack on a British ship.

Alpha 6(i, an anti-C'nstro organization of Cuban exiles, which claimed to have carried off the attack, announced Thursday it is "declaring war' 1 on all ships carrying supplies to Cuba. Big Greek Contract To a Bostonian BOSTON (AP)--A Greek horn contractor, Thomas C. Pnppas, has won approval of the r.rrek government to build a S12S million industrial complex in northern Greece, the Boston Herald reported today. Negotiations for a iornial contract are expected to begin soon, the paper said. Nikita to UN? Gromyko May Say So Today Press Conference Called ANDREI A.

6ROMYKO Summons Newsmen PREMIERE KHRUSHCHEV May Visif UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko summoned newsmen today for another Wast at the United States on Cuba and Berlin. He also may indicate whether Premier Khrushchev will come to the General Assembly. The Soviet delegation declined to say why Gromyko called (lie weekend news conference a.m.

EST). But informed sources said he was sure to lash back (lie United States, which has accused Russia of endangering peace with military aid to Cuba and threats over Berlin. Gromyko asked for the assembly floor last week to reply Western attacks made during the policy debate. Then he canceled out, reportedly because of his heavy schedule. Secretary of State Dean has conferred twice with Gromyko since tlie assembly convened, ranging over Berlin.

Laos and other East-West issues, After the second meeting last Saturday, Rusk said lie probably would talk will! Gromyko again before the Soviet minister returns to Moscow Congress Tries to Quit, Fai May Adjourn Within Few Hours WASHINGTON (API-The 87th off SOS signals for truant members to hustle back tried to reach final adjournment today through a maze of parliamentary tangles. The drive to end the ISG2 session Friday night collapsed when the House had to quit because it fell short of the 218 members reeded to provide a quotum. This was the first time a thing had happened in that body since It'io. Cloakroom Huddling Both Senate and House had been in recess most of Friday afternoon and evening while (heir leaders tried desperately in cloakroom huddles to clear away Ihe last roadblocks. Veteran attaches at the Capitol called it the most bizarre windup attempt in memory.

However, after Ilie House had been forced to quit until today, loaders of both branches held an- otlicr session and worked out, a plan which they said should bring adjournment late this afternoon. The first requirement is that the House master a quorum, or majority, as soon as il mccLs. E3cm- ocratic Leader Carl Albert, D- said this had been assured. A number of members from Eastern stales had promised to come back. ff this is accomplished, the House then plans to complete action on the last bill it would have to put S5 billion public ivories appropriations bill.

The House was voting on this Friday nighl when il was forced 1o give up. Hr-slnrc i'rojrcls Refore piissing it, iiowrvrr, leaders plan to have Ihc House amend it lo restore some public, works projects far Oregon and other slates which were knocked (nit earlier in the Senate-Housr? conference on the legislation, The Senate then will have to act on only two public works money mepsure and a StM billion public works authorization bill agreed on Friday, This measure, containing projects for all parts of the country, had been the stumbling block to adjournment. Bui the dispute over it ended Friday, with Senate agreement lo elimin- ate about eight major projects the House adamantly opposed. The House then promptly passed the compromise version. II had passed the Senate Thursday night.

But Rep. Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, blocked il from going to conference because of a number of items the Senale added. Oregon Cnls Key, The supplemental had been considered the key to adjournment because the Senate had added lo it the Oregon projects eliminated from the public works appropria- tions bill. But if they are restored to the appropriations bill by the House today, pressure to pass the supplemental will be greatly eased. Cannon forced the house to quit Friday night when he demanded a roll call vote on an attempt to keep in the public works money bill a Florida project he opposed.

This was a S203.000 item to complete pre-construction planning of the Florida cross-state barge canal. Cannon lost 120 to R4 in his attempt to block the project, but the vote disclosed the lack of a quorum. Money Bill Stumbling Block; Hasn't Happened Since 1945 WASHINGTON' (API "Mr. Speaker, how am recorded?" That question was asked dozens of times Friday night in the well of the House of Representatives. It was a delaying tactic, an effort to stave off the end ol a quorum call.

The idea was to wait a little lunger, and maybe enough members would show up lo allow the House to continue its business and reach a final adjournment. Rep. H. H. Gross, R-Iowa, demanded "regular order" and asked how many times members had to ask how they were recorded.

Can SHU Jolic "The roll call has not yel been completed," ruled Speaker John McCormack, amid much laughter. But (it-lay as they might, il didn't do any good. In the end. McCormack had to announce that only ail members were present, short oi the quonim or majority of SIS needed to transact business. There was only one thing leit to do: adjourn until noon today.

That motion was made and McCormack banged his gavel and declared it was carried. Cries oi protest rang out on the Republican side of the aisle, and demands to be heard. But McCormack already was marching down from the rostrum, and the great mace ol the Hon.se was being carried out of tlie chamber. The House was no longer in session, It was a highly unusual ending lo a long, lacklustre, irustraling day. as Senate-House conferred struggled to straighten out details on the last big bills of the session.

J.nst Occurred In The last time such an oddity occurred in the House, with legislation pending, was on March IS. 1845. That also came on an appropriation bill. The House was promptly adjourned and the hill finally was passed the next day. Another unusual aspect of Friday night's quorum vote was the confusion over just what was being voted upon.

Twice the roll call was interrupted by parliamentary inquiries on the Roll culls are never interrupted fur any reason, according to House veterans, except for tiling as momentous as an oncy message trow the President. Indian Fighter Dies, Had Chased Geronimo LOUISVILLE, Ky. Charles Fuhry, 101, of ville. one of survivors of Hie Indian wars of the IBfiOs. (lied Friday in a Veteran's Administration hospital.

Fuhry served witli the famed U.S. 6lh Cavalry much of the time in pursuit of Ihc elusive Apache chief, Geronimo, 4 mmcil in Homo Modern-Day Coal: Space Age Catholicism VATICAN CITY Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council began today its task of reshaping the centuries-old church lo meet Ihe urgent new demands of the space age. "We arc going to modernize many things, but that doesn't mean we will change them completely," said Bishop Gennaro Praia of La Paz, Bolivia, as the council fathers opened their first working session. Pope John XXIII hac made it clear, Bishop Praia added, that lie wants "progress without forgetting Ihe history of the church." Klccl Commissions The first job nt hnnd for Ihe council fathers was election of in commissions to debalc Ihe wide range nl issues thai Pope John the 2.70(1 prelates lo These issues lake in such problems as how lo improve rolalions wilh the non-Calliolic churches how to fight communism more effectively, as well as such internal matters as the boundaries of dioceses or the relations between bislions nnd parish priests. Balloting on Ihc membership of the commissions will run lo Ihe end of nrxt week in an series of voting sessions in which electronic computers will do the counting.

The Pope himself will pick tight members of each of the 2-1 meinhcr commissions, while Ihe council fathers will mark punch card ballots for all Ihe other posts. Tin- commissions lillnl faith and innral.s, bishops and diocesan government, Oriental churches, sacramental discipline, discipline of clergy and Christian pcriple.s, religions, missions, sacred litnr- No Unification 'In Our Lifetime' NEW YORK (API The arch-bishop of Canterbury snys he foresees no unification of Christian churches "in our lifetime." Upon arrival here. Friday, the archbishop, Ihe Mast Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, pri- mnle of all England, said that lie hoped Ihe Kcumenical Council in Rome I achieve "unification in trulli." seminaries schools, and lav communications r'nll Assembly Today The council made ready for today's (ull assembly by hurrying about Rome in Ilie rain Friday lo countless informal conferences. bishopr and (heir assistants in little groups in hold lobbies, restaurants and their council quarters.

Private cars and taxicabs scooted through the city will) ecclesiastical passen- gus in red-trimmed black robes and pectoral crosses. Bishop Adolph Mnrx of Corpus Christi, said the tone of Ihe pontiff's opening address Thursday in pleading (or vigorous action "will lend lo make us get down and go to work," National Guard Units Called In; Worst Is Over PORTLAND, Ore, (API A howling storm with gusling to more than 100 miles an Sour left at least 26 persons dead and a broad band of devastation along the Wesi Coast today. Thai n.nde the two-day toll of killed by successive storms, with 13 dead, 11 in California, in Washington and 3 in British Columbia National Guard units and all avnilnhle police were on duly in Portland area to curb looting, which began after the smashed hundreds of win- Friday, Most Power Out Portland was virtually paralyzed Most power and telephone line.s were broken by winds that signboards sailing knocked down thousands of trees, tore ihr roofs off scores of buildings and blew in countless windows. The city sprawled in darkness Friday night, and residents holed up in their homes, fearful of flying debris outside, (1 was the same along the Oregon coast and in number of Oregon communities up the Willamette Valley in western Oregon, The storm was felt from northern California to British Columbia, but Oregon caught the worst of it, "It was probably the biggest disaster that Oregon ever had," said Gov, Mark Hatfield, who declared of emergency and alerted the National Guard. Some guard units went on active duty in the Willamette Valley.

Ilatfielri said be might decide later today whether to p.sk President Kennedy for disaster aid. Cairn After HIP Slomi The worst was over. were diminishing and the Weatii- pr Bureau said winds of only to 30 mites an hour were expcd- ed on the coast today. Oregon Public Utility Commit- Jonel Hill estimated it will at least four days to repair utility A fire broke out in Junction City, about 100 miles south oi Por 11 anti. a nri wo squa re blocks were leveled.

Dnmage was estimated at MUQ.OOtt. In Asioria. at the mouth of the Columbia the storm apparently Fish cannery wa.s flattened. The pe.ik force of the wind Portland not Power lines were knot-keel out al thr Weather Bureau before the height fj! I he storm Wind-nieasuriufr equipmenl repislerer! BO miles an lioiif before out of operation. Experienced weather observers estimated Hie gusts at well over 300 m.p.h.

12(1 MPI1 Winds They were measured af 1110 m.p.li. at. a station on the northern Oregon const. ML in California, JUA( north of San Kraiici.sco. registered m.p.li.

Hundreds of slrcrts. were hloj'kpfl by lopplec! trees. U.S. 101, mflior tuu'ili-pauih highway, was by dnwnrd redwood bmvcon Kiurku and City. The Pru-itir XcirtluveAl Bell Trip- plionc Co.

snJcl its repair bills alone will mount to or more, Sliipyunp disa.stCM',K were avoiu- ed. although nt one time there wore boal-s adrift at Seattle. Pori- liiiul and a number of ports The tury of ihr storm was t'rlf, as Ini 1 as 125 miles inland, where il wiw finally blunted by the Cascade At. one time ihroe Irairts were reiwrled misshig between Sea It If and Portland. II turned out they delayed by trees and debris nn tlie tracks, out all communications out, il took hours to locate them, A -UJ-focA-loiiK seel ion ot ihr PorUflnd Auditorium rool was blown off and carried a blink awny.

The Memorial Coliseum lind window.s and the roof wn.s leaking badly. nomah Stadium, where Ihc Wiish- Hilton-Oregon Slate fooUiiill pauif was scheduled today, lost part of its grandstand roof. California Rrapc growers they may suffer a $40 million loss been vise of storm-borne rnim that caupht them before comple- (ion of the harvest. Clear tonight, low nrmiml Sunny and rool tomorrow 1 hifih nrjir firt..