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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, January 2, 1963 10 Heart Attack Takes Life Of Sen. Kerr Continued from Page One respiration and, drugs to.' no avail. . No member of the family was present at the time. The unexpectedness of hi death was reflected In the fact that Kerrt three sons and a I daughter had returned to Oklahoma after coming to Washington to see him In. the hospital. They believed he was recovering. THE SENATORS wife, Grayce, had remained in Wash: . ington. The death of the genial, wealthy and extremely powerful senator from Olkahoma was grievously felt by President Kennedy, both personally and politically. The President was counting on Kerr to be a guiding hand In steering his already controversial tax cut plan through the Senate. . ) JL.. ' . : . vr CV '- 4ft a. xV VM. 1 ' '- b f V-- X't - V. : vi w - :V A A t - V .... N ... X -- - mJ ' DEMOCRATIC National Chairman John M. Bailey said that "The death of Sen Kerr Is a sad loss to his state and the nation." The Senate line-u- p before Kerrs death stood at 67 Democrats and 33 Republicans. Oklahoma now has a lame-ducDemocratic governor, Edmund-son-, who win be replaced by a Republican, Henry Bellmon, after Jan. 14. -- - Kerr was elected., to the Senate In 1948. By that time he already had made millions in the oil business his total wealth has been estimated at 35 to 51 million dollars and had been governor of Oklahoma. k SnoctateS Prea Wlrephoto ... Soros of mm thaa a million person watch annual Tournament of Boaes parade move down Colorado Avenue In Pasadena. This float depicts Lindbergh's flight to Paris. Fill Fire Kills Pennsylvania Pasadena ' 5 Children of 1 Family For Parade Associated Press ;s - js. m-- . ...... By HE WAS BORN Sept 1L Angeles Times READING, PA Jan. 1 Five children died Tuesday in a 1896, In a log cabin In east which destroyed their home in neighboring central Indian Territory that PASADENA, CALIT, Jan. 1 s' Exeter township. later was to become Oklahoma. : A crowd estimated at 1 0 Los Ha became a millionaire after oil was discovered in the vicinity of the home where he was bom. He became an even big ger millionaire through his dealings In uranium and cattle. FROM THE TIME he entered the Senate, until his death he had a big Impact of Congressional affairs. But the peak of his Influence was reached during the 87th Congress which covered the first two years of the Kennedy Administration. An accomplished legislative fighter, he carried the burden of Mr. Kennedys foreign trade program, tax revision, welfare reform,public works acceleration program and the communications satellite corporation Byrd ia opposed to a tax cut bills. which would add to the federal HE HIMSELF said the budget deficit, "crowning achievement of the KERB PLATED the part of session was passage of the manager of the bill In the last trade expansion Mil, which he session of Congress when Byrd helped bring about But he also played the major stepped aside to emphasize his opposition to the administra- role In Mr. Kennedy's biggest senatorial defeat In the 87th tion's tax credit plan. Congress, the 5248 it was not .Immediately vote on the Presiapparent who would get the dents medicare plan. Job of managing the administration tax proposal in the million turned out Tuesday for STATE POLICE SAID THE PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs, the 74th Tourna- Henry E. Schwartz, were not at home but arrived soon after ment of : Roses the flames were detected about 3 am. The father to Parade under save the children, but was held back by firemen sought who told cool, lightly oven him rescue efforts appeared hopeless. ' ' cast skies. The dead Include twins, Jean and Jane, 12; William, 10; Slxty-twdaz: zling floats, 21 Cathy, 5; and Carol, 3. marching bands The eldest of the children in the family, Nelson, 17, made and n u m e r oua onto the roof and dropping to other units took his way to safety by climbing the ground, barefoot and In his night clothing in tra-In ; the part weather. dltlonal pageant, , Pasadena , police said the hundreds of thousands of persons massed along the parade route made up one of the quietest crowds In the history of the event o -- 1 Kerr s Death Opens Senate Vacuums? THOUSANDS OF spectators, mostly high school and college students, had spent the night sleeping on the ground beside the parade route. They began stirring to life at dawn in chilling temperature: During the procession the air warmed to 60, but most spectators remained bundled ; up and blanket! were common. , - O New York Times Service WASHINGTON. Jam 1 The death Tuesday of Sen. Robert S. Kerr Of Oklahomi, one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill, appeared certain to have many repercussions. THE MOST obvious was to complicate the administrations Job of getting its new tax pro The parade started at 8:50 posals through the forthcomajn. By then grandstands ing Congress. - and curbs were packed solid The administration had line of planned to rely on Kerr, the along the ' ... ytiasyK second-rankink, Democrat on Senate,. Commit1 Football fans in the crowd the powerful Finance Hie new second-rankinto manage Its tax bill In Democrat on the Finance Comtee, yelled for their favorites as the Senate. mittee IS Russell B. Long of first the University of Wisconsin Band and then the UniThe chairman of the pow- Louisiana. versity of Southern California erful Senate Finance ComBEHIND LONG on the DemBand marched by, blasting out mittee, through which the ocratic side of the committees their, stirring fight songs "On tax legislation must pass, is seniority roster stands Sen. Wisconsin" and "Fight On." Harry F. Byrd. George A. Smathers of Florida, a close personal friend of President Kennedy who, nevertheless, opposed Important parts of the Presidents tax program In the last session. A more difficult problem for the administration than simply picking a manager for the tax bill win be to find a By Associated Press met er as him a with - ; shotgun ' senator with power. ; A bunch Miller, the one with the twisted . DALLAS, Jan. 1 KERB IN THE last two of sky divers decided to bring knee, landed on the farmer's years had emerged as one of to the New Tear with a bang. lawn., most powerful men, and tn THE CLUB decided to ring the They did. the view of many observers, in New the Tear by parachut- the most powerful In the Bang. One broken leg. ing seven of its members so Senate. they would land at midnight Bang. One injured leg. ,When Kerr was against a Eight seconds before, mid- measure, ha made no secret of Bang. One twisted knee. night and at' 7,200 . feet they It, and the sponsors could exFOUR OTHER Dallas Sky Jumped anyway, although not pect difficulty in getting it Divers Club members reached yet over their lighted target through. On the other hand, the ground safely, although the area... he was 'credited with, being holiday bells had stopped ringable to bulldoze proposals Pinkston said the time Bobby Ray ing by they got to strong wind carried him through that otherwise would gether again. through utility lines and have stood small chance ' of1 "We were scattered all passage. across tops of buildings over the place said one of The loss of this element of the chutists. "f had broken my leg three times before," he said, "and certainty in the Senate wlD One, Nick Miller, talked real did It when I hit the create problems. fast and sincerely when a farm ground."again - Kerrs death would also apto remove a block to some THE pear INJURED THIRDDVIftTllIMKNT- A principal one is proposals. Is Bob Crump. Jumper medicare the administrations plan to provide for medical care for the aged under social ' security. Modal if New Kislotsrs THE MEDICAL- - care proHearing Aid Given . gram for old people already on the books bears Kerrs name thi A mo unique free offer of meand7 Kerr had dal ifitexe to those who heat but do not andentand words, has hut ously extending the Social Sebeen annwbKby QU AH TONE. curity System into the medical v care field. : 4 ii MU J: A trees riague Celebration in S.F. By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 San Franciscos "roughest New Years Eve to five years" left a trail of murder, rape, holdups, beatings and a successful tost of the city's snarling new police dogs. "POLICE CHIEF Thomas Cahill offered the roughest appraisal, then explained, . "the trend of the times Is outright defiance of authority and that's what we had Monday might," Troublemakers among a crowd of 10,000 that Jammed downtown Market Street may have defied police, but they didnt talk back to six police dogs summoned for riot duty. 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