The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 71, No. 156, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1963 Page: 1 of 8
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CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA FRIDAY AUGUST 9 1983
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Kennedy s ' Son Dies 3 9 Hours After Birth
BOSTON (UPI) - Patrick Bou-
vier Kennedy newborn son of
President and Mr Kennedy
died of a respiratory ailment at
4:04 a m EDT today 39 hours
after his premature birth by Cae-
sarean section
The President was with his son
when the end came in a giant
pressure chamber at Children’s
Hospital Medical Center The
chamber was a last ditch move
by pediatricians to keep the child
alive
President With Child When Breathing Ailment Ends Life
But despite their efforts the! 4:30 am EDT announcement
boy died 39 hours and 12 min- the press secretary said
Air Force Base Mass later to-' Within hours of his birth the cline in the infant's condition
day (9:15 am) to join his wife 'child had to be taken by ambu- The child's breathing improved
who is hospitalized there He de-1 lance to the Boston hospital j after he was placed in the huge
cidcd to stay at the hospital un-
til then
Hadn’t Been Told
Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy had
not been notified of the death as
of the time of Salinger’s
available to handle his breathing
problem known technically as
idiopathic respiratory distress
syndrome
The boy’s condition seesawed
during his 34 hours at the hos-
pital Thursday morning doctors had
noted "some encouragement’’ but
The First Lady has been in ex-
cellent condition at the base hos-
pital since the birth 5'A weeks Kennedy was summoned back
premature of her son Wednes-ifrom Cape Cod where he had
nouiiced the 'death and uid Pres- j day But the infant had struggled been visiting his wife in the
ident Kennedy would fly to Otis I all the way
early afternoon because of a de-
needed oxygen for his tiny lungs
But at 2:10 a m EDT the
President was awakened in h i s
fourth floor room at the hospital
and advised to go to the chamber
on the ground level
About 20 minutes later he was
joined by his brother Atty Gen
Robert F Kennedy and his long-
time associate and White House
receptionist David Powers who
had been staying at the Presi-
dent’s downtown hotel and had
been called to the hospital to be j clergymen present when the in-1 when the First Lady would be
with Kennedy fant died He said he did not notified of her son's death and
Remained An Hour know whether last rites of the by whom it would be done
TTie President his brother and ' Catholic Church had been admin-
Powers went to an area near the istered
pressure chamber and remained
there approximately an hour
Salinger said the President
went back to his room at about
3:10 am EDT But about 3:40
am he was called back to the by Otis AFB Chaplain Joeph
pressure chamber area as were Seahill because of its premature
the attorney general and Powers i birth and the danger the respira-
The three were there when the : tory malady bore to the 4-pound
child still within the chamber j 10 '2 -ounce infant
drew its final breath Salinger said he did not know
Salinger said there were no 1 at the time of his announcement
Mrs Kennedy’s mother Mrs
Hugh D Auchinclosa had flown
by helicopter from Cape Cod with
the President Thursday afternoon
to see the child Mrs Auchincloss
returned to Otis Thursday eve-
Council To Rush
Library Project
The City Council’s purchasing
committee considered bids on re-
moving structures from the new
library building site after the
council’s regular session Thursday
night
The committee was expected to
recommend a bid in a special
session of the council which can
be called 48 hours after bids
were opened Thursday Council-
men indicated they want to ex-
pedite letting of the contract be-
cause construction of the new
building must begin by Oct 19
A S Hardiman submitted the
only bid for removing all struc-
tures on the site including the
Carnegie Library In his bid of
$2500 he specified Oct 15 as the
date for completing the job Sal-
vage from the structures would
become the contractor’s property
Two other bids were submitted
Good Words Said
ForTraffic Light
If traffic signals had feelings
those lights at Choctaw Avenue
and Fourth Street would be in
finer fettle today- Somebody final-
ly volunteered a good word for
them in public Thursday night
At the City Council's regular
session Councilman Charles Ro-
berts said a constituent from his
ward had paid him a visit just
to tell him she liked the signals
She said she was a pedestrian
Roberts said and added that the
Fourth and Choctaw intersection
seemed to her the only safe one
in town
He said that she told him she got
places on time by starting a lit-
tle early and suggested that mo-
torists who complain about the
length of the stoplight do the
same
Motorists Complain
The intersection is equipped
with lights that halt all traffic
while pedestrians cross Installed
after several car-pedestrian ac-
cidents the lights have been a
favorite subject for complaints
among motorists ever since The
controversy has been before the
council numerous times and came
up again two weeks ago when
Mike Cooper an employee of ra-
dio station KWCO presented re-
sult of a survey he said he con-
ducted over the air in which 40
listeners telephoned him their opin-
ions of the signal system He said
that 30 said they didn't like the
signals and 10 approved of them
and he asked the council to do
away with the “walk" light
A man who walks as well as
drives George Miller added his
comment in favor of the present
signals at the Thursday meeting
Mere Support
"I cross the intersection sever-
al times a day by foot and in a
car" he said “I prefer it just
as it is If I'm in a car it takes
a few seconds longer but that
doesn t bother me "
"It does look a little ridiculous
however working about 11 30 at
night" Miller added
He said that children attending
Southwest School which adjoins
the corner use the intersection
only three hours a day and then
only on school days and suggest-
ed the four-way stop would be
safer anyway because it would
end motorists’ rush to get
through a green light before it
turned red
Councilmen told him that the
lights had been installed at the
insistence of Southwest’s Parent-
Teacher Association which help-
ed pay for them They did not
sumit the subject for study but
one of them did offer a suggestion:
That DeKinder join the Southwest
P-TA and launch his campaign
from there
We Saw
Miss Margaret Honegger
heading west toward the east
and Japan where she will teach
at an Air Force base She end-
ed a summer visit with her par-
ents the A Honeggers Thurs-
day Bill Gentry making a
thorough search of his neigh-
borhood for his missing bulldog
Bill Trompler state fores-
ter back in his office after a
Colorado vacation
Mrs Eugenia White pleased
about the commendation her
son-in-law Maj Ernest Terrell
received at Fort Hood Tex
Dr Kenneth Young Oklahoma
College for Women dean back
from a conference at Stillwater
Leo Fowler Chickasha
High School's football coach
with a report praising the
coaching clinic this week at
Tulsa
for removal of the house at 411
South Sixth
Howard W’yatt submitted an ob-
fer of $660 to move the house
and Curtis McAdams Jr a bid
of $73740
Lots adjoining the present li-
brary site to the east and south
are to be purchased to provide
additional space for the new build-
ing Houses on these lots are in-
cluded in the removal job
Maurice Wood architect for the
building said the Federal Housing
and Home Finance Agency told
him that construction of the new
building would have to begin
within 100 days after the city ac-
cepted a federal grant for the
project or by Oct 19 The $258-
000 building will be financed by
a city bond issue in addition to
federal matching funds
Architects city manager and
and city attorney met with the
purchasing committee to consider
the bids
In other business the council
opened bids on chemicals for the
water supply Offers from Mc-
Kesson and Robbins Oklahoma
City Stauffer Chemical Co Hous-
ton and Ward Chemical and Sup-
ply Co Tulsa were turned over
to the purchasing committee for
recommendation
A resolution on the preliminary
estimate of costs in a new paving
district No 56 was approved TTie
district includes South 20th from
Utah to Texas Ninth Street from
Chickasha to Choctaw and Dakota
from Third to Fourth
Ev Expects
Witnesses
Businessman
Is Keynoter
ForJaycees
Tom Harris Oklahoma City
vice president and general man-
ager of Aero-Commander Inc
of Bethany will be keynote speak-
er for the state Jaycee installa-
tion banquet at 6:30 pm Sat-
urday in the Oklahoma College
for Women Student Union
Nearly 500 Jaycees and Jaycee
Jaynes are expected in Chickasha
today for the quarterly board
session Activities open today
with registration to be followed
by a mixer at the Country club
at 630 pm and a dance at 9
pm
Board meetings are scheduled
Saturday at the college for Jay-
cees and auxiliaries added Al
Stanford convention chairman
The session will end at noon Sun-
day Harris attended schools in Chi-
cago then worked for Marshal
Field in 1935-38 until he started
work with American Airlines in
New York He was in the Navy
during World War II and in 1947
was named European Cargo man-
ager for American Overseas Air-
lines spending two years in Lon-
don and participating in the well-
known Berlin Airlift
Harris returned to New York
in 1949 and was named director
of International Cargo Sales ad-
vancing to director of cargo with
American Airlines in 1954
He became affiliated with Aero-
Commander as director of market-
ing in July 1957 and a year
later was promoted to vice presi-
dent in charge of sales In 196G
ha was appointed general man-
ager and elected to the board
of directors
Harris has been active in busi-
ness professional and civic af-
fairs inOklahoma City He is a
member of American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Economics Association
and Aircraft Manufacturers Coun-
cil In addition he is a member of
the board of the Oklahoma City
Community Council on the board
TO PRESIDE — Named one of
the nation's 10 outstanding state
vice presidents this year Bill
R Retherford new state presi-
dent of the Oklahoma Junior
Chamber of Commerce will
preside over a state board meet-
ig this weekend in Chickasha
Retherford is a member of the
Broken Arrow chapter and is
general manager of the weekly
newspaper The Southside
Times in Tulsa
day The baptism was conducted ning
The President had telephoned
Mrs Kennedy at least twice dur
ing the day to tell her not to wor-
ry the child was feeling better
President Appeared Grim
Kennedy was grim-faced when
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JFK Wife
T ogether
Two Hours
OTIS AFB Mass (UPI) — ebrated at 10 am EDT it was
President Kennedy consoled his I announced
grief-stricken wife Jacqueline to-
day over the loss of their two-day-old
son and then went to his
Squaw Island summer home to
visit his other two children
The anguished Chief Executive
his eyes red and swollen left the
base hospital after a 2 hour
and 10 minute visit with the
First Lady He made no immedi-
ate comment
The President was spared the
sorrow of having to tell his wife
their baby was dead Dr John W
Other Stories Page 2
Seven Given
Draft Calls
For Aug 21
Seven registrants of Grady
County Draft Board No 26 have
been mailed notices of induction
for the Aug 21 call
Notices have been sent to Rich-
ard Glenn Farris Oklahoma City
Darrell Lynn Williams Blanch-
ard William Lloyd Gibbs Alex
Bobby Lee Weddle Agar ND
Howard Wayne Cyphers Minco
and Walter Ben Beets and Floyd
Bunch both of Chickasha
Hie board had received notice
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Senate
GOP Leader Everett M Dirksen
said today he believes President
Kennedy is “fully prepared" to
show that the nation’s security is ! of directors of Chamber of Com-
safer with the pending nuclear merce of the Oklahoma City
test ban treaty than without it Symphony Society United Fund
The Illinois Republican's state-1 and National Association of Manu-
ment indicated he expects the facturers He is married and has
that the call for Sept 16 will be
for three registrants These have “n"j Holyhd
Kaah VJI k 4 MM AAA
Walsh her obstetrician broke the
news to the First Lady just after
she awoke in her hospital room
The doctor then placed Mrs
Kennedy under a mild sedation
it was disclosed Mrs Kennedy
then slept until her husband ar-
rived a few hours later
Press secretary Pierre Salinger
1 said that under the circumstances
Mrs Kennedy’s condition was
“satisfactory”
Kennedy’s brothers Atty Gen
Robert and Sen Edward rode
with him in a convertible on the
trip to Squaw Island where
Caroline 5 and John Jr 2
awaited him
President and Mrs Kennedy
were alone during most of his
visit Kennedy had flown here
earlier by helicopter from Bos-
ton where his prematurely born
son had died in a hospital at
4:04 am
Funeral Saturday
At Hyannis Port it was an-
nounced that the funeral for the
child would be in Boston Satur-
day There will be a private
Mass of the Angels in the chapel
of Richard Cardinal Cushing’s
President to produce Pentagon
witnesses who were reluctant to
endorse a full test ban but are
ready to accept the a 11-but -underground
test ban proposal TTie
four children
DEATH BROADCAST
LONDON (UPI)— European ra-
dio stations today interrupted
Big Three treaty went to the Sen-1 regular programs to tell their
ate Thursday with the President's j listeners of the death of Presi-
plea for its swift ratification Ident Kennedy's son Patrick
not been notified yet but notices cemetery jn suburban Brookline
wll go out within the next couple 0nIy members of imme
0 wee’ diate family will be admitted to
Board officials reminded youth the Mass whjch wil ceI
that they are required to register
with the board within five days
after their 18th birthday
In addition registrants are re-
quired to keep the board notified
of any change of status such as
getting married becoming fathers
or moving to a new address Pa-
rental status or employment often
can have a bearing on military
classification
The burial which also will be a
private ceremony will be in
family plot which has not till
now been used
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said the cardinal
a personal friend of the Kennedy
family would say the Mass
President Kennedy was born in
the Brookline area and lived
there as a boy
No Information Fortcoming
There was no information
forthcoming from inside the hos-
pital Mrs Kennedy’s press sec-
retary Pamela Turaure had not
accepted calls this morning
There was no indication wheth-
er Kennedy had called his wife
to tell her of their sorrow before
his arrival
Hie area around the hospital
burst with excitement when Ken-
nedy arrived
It was learned that Kennedy’s
brother Sen Edward M Kennedy
was flying here to be with the
first family in these moments of
grief
Kennedy showed lack of sleep
and the sad ordeal he had suf-
fered through for the past couple
days hoping against hope that
his son would pull through a lung
complication that developed at
birth
There was no way of knowing
how Mrs- Kennedy who had been
making fine recovery from Caet
arean surgery was taking the
tragic blow
TTie President was red - eyed
and his face was swollen ap-
parently from crying for the boy
who never had a chance to live
No other members of the big
Kennedy clan had come to the
hospital today Neither did Mrs
Kennedy's mother Mrs Hugh D
Auchincloss who had been stand-
ing by at the base
Relatives and friends alike ap-
parently were told to leave the
First Lady to the privacy of her
sorrow over the death of the
baby she wanted so much
The President with great con-
cern on his face looked neither
right nor left as he entered the
building where his 34-year-old
wife waited
A tense stillness hung over the
base in the hours preceding the
President s arrival
Property Owners Protest LawCharging For Paving Costs
he returned to the hospital dur-
ing the afternoon after getting
word that the baby's condition
had worsened But as ihe after-
noon and evening wore on he
seemed to be just a bit more at
spectators who shouted their con-
gratulations to him upon being a
father again
The arrival of the attorney gen-
eral accompanied by Salinger at
the hospital led to speculation
that had news was in store They
got there at 2 32 am EDT At
4:03 am EDT Assistant White
House Press Secretary Malcolm
Kilduff bustled into the hospital
lobby and waved a "follow me’’
to the newsmen who had already
assembled there on their own or
after being called
14 Exiles Say
They're Haiti
invasion Force
SANTO DOMINGO Dominican
Republic (UPI) — Dominican au-
thorities in the northern border
town of Dajabon today questioned
14 Haitian exiles who said they
were the remnants of an invasion
that was routed by Haitian gov-
ernment troops
Paul Verna top Haitian exile
representative here discounted
their story He said the main
force of at least 300 men was still
intact in northern Haiti and
would fight on to topple Haitian
President Francois Duvaiier
A spokesman for the 14 uni-
formed exiles said they had es-
caped into the Dominican Repub-
lic after being cut off from the
main invasion group He said the
bulk of the invaders had “fled
into the mountains”
Their story jibed with Haitian
government claims that the inva-
sion force had been crushed by
loyal troops within hours after
launching its first attack early
Monday morning Haiti charges
that the invaders entered the
country from the Dominican side
of the border with "complicity”
of Dominican authorities
The Dominican government has
denied involvement in the invasion
Wirfz Calls
More Talks
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Labor
Secretary W Willard Wirtz called
in representatives of the five rail-
road operating unions today ia
new talks aimed at averting a na-
tionwide rail strike on Aug 39
Wirtz originally had planned to
meet with engineer and firemen
but shortly before the talks were
to start the conference was ex-
panded to bring in negotiators
from the conductors trainmen
and switchmen’s unions
At the same time Assistant La-
bor Secretary James J Reynolds
scheduled a conference for the
fourth consecutive day with rep-
resentatives of management and
labor for continued negotiations
on the size of train crews involv-
ing conductors trainmen and
switchmen
Thunderbirds
Await Bellmon
ployees at the county court bourse tricts and with the way it is in- cause very few houses front on
IT CHAFFEE Ark UPI —
The Thunderbirds of Oklahoma
Chickasha property owners had A second objection dealt with name hut said that his mother- property owners who would be in-'way down the block Owners of may be made in cash within 39 Divl jdavo
a couple of bones to pick with the matter of who pays for pov- in-law is among the property own- volved in paying for the paving property nearest the side street days after assessments are made m
Councilmen also said that em- Mate law governing paving dis- ing side streets a problem be- ers assessed in the new district are notified They have 39 days pay the largest proportion because without any interest Otherwise P0 s r f f sturdav
charged that it is real estate de- to file protests if they oppose the they are judged to benefit the payments are extended over a to- jknJV
ve toper who benefited in her project If owners of more than most Bowers said year period widi a Nth due an-yS
ease and who were interested in half the property involved do pro- Owners of the third of the btock nually phis seven per cent inter-
the project and that therefore it test the project is suspended nearest the side street pay hah esl annually on toe balance owed
they who should pov the cost Otherwise it continues and all pro- the cost owners sf the middle If payments are not made tax- "'V? i I M a I7-m sn-
Several cases were reported of perty owners are assessed a pro- third 31 per cent of the cost and books are rimed aver to the p
terpreted Thursday night them and consequently few peo-
About haK a dozen people spoke pie are anatom to bear the full
up in a public hearing to pirkert cast of poring them
Dr H G Little street commit- the costs of Chickasha s most re- But the 49 people who attended
tee chas-man told Cooper that an cently completed poring district the hearing and City Council meet-
answer to his request would be No 59 which includes II btocks mg heard no so totems to the ob-
recom mended at toe next council in southwest Chickasha They ex- jectisns They were told that the
meet ng after toe pofcce had pressed two major objections j city acts as an agent
had time to survey traffic at toe But it appeared that neither of owners who ask to
crossing them could be answered except districts formed and that to
Tutored Flephanto’ by a change to Oklahoma law capnetv Mows stale law to
Lights to stall another stoersec- Seme indie arid that they didn't rymf out toe projects
I7to and Miswwn were Idee toe paring district plan to “Afl they can ds is
is red green and write itself because Ike sack ether law ’ hfevor M SnBri
to a letter to toe un- methods of financing as hand is- leering to the hoard of
ci from Ben E ItoKtoder wha snes A imposes a tax m auy which divides toe com of tortnrts great
asked toot they be replaced in property owners rvhs eppnwe toe That's toe law and there s
toe interests of safetv and effin- project as wefl as on tome 4 anr ether war they can ds S
ay cp signs wm A J
the district portion of the ports
they were nnsfrle to poy Woodrow Bowers the city en-
of from about 945 to gmeer said during the hearing
that Chiekasha s method of asess-
Creatien of paving districts he- tog them costs is to accordance
with general practice elsewhere
toe and with a 123 stale law which
city to act m agent to n i nuring states that each court er -Mock wifi
to get toe jab done If sderert pny for
ter -block South Nth from Annum to Care-
to jmtify A the city Thus cost of pm mg a side street lina South 21rt from Grand to hnsi
of N it divided among owners of pro- Georgm nod StMth !h from Ala- bond
to petty m the mtreupetmg front hama to Virginia rote I
owners of the third farthest from county treasurer for
the side street per cent he with ad valorem taxes
said The cost of intersections also per cent penalty is
u divided so that owners f cor-1 Although there n aa legal pre-
ner lets are not assessed the fel vision far any dunce sthe than
cost an immrditor paynwnt to full or
Total mrt of the u Mock dis- the N-year
bid 56 was S947 T (
said The paved streets me to arrange con- hr §
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