Born. To Mark Odom Hatfield, 37, Republican Governor of Oregon, and Antoinette Kuzmanich Hatfield, 31, a longshoreman's daughter who in 1957-58 was dean of women at Portland State College: their second child, first son. Name: Mark Odom Jr. Weight: 9 Ibs. 7 oz.

Born. To Kwame Nkrumah, 50, Ghana's first Prime Minister, who under the nation's new constitution becomes President this week, and Fathia Halim Ritzk Nkrumah, 30, an Egyptian who first met her proxy-picked husband on their wedding day: their second child, first daughter. Name: Yawa, for Thursday, the day she was born.*

Married. Oscar ("Big O") Robertson, 21, University of Cincinnati Negro basketball star, history's highest-scoring college player; and Yvonne Crittenden, 25, a teacher; in Cincinnati.

Married. Carmen Burr Johnson, 33, widow and a trustee of the $5,000,000 estate of Arnold Johnson, owner of the Kansas City Athletics; and Warren Hume, 38, man about Palm Beach; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Powel Crosley Jr., 73, longtime manufacturer of low-priced radios, refrigerators and autos, president of the Cincinnati Reds since 1934; by Charlotte Kay Wilson Crosley, 38, his fourth wife; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in Cincinnati.

Died. Frieda Hennock Simons, 55, an attorney, who served from 1948 to 1955 as the first female U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner, a crusader for educational TV; following brain surgery; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Robert Peter Boylan, 68, stock broker, who started as a grain broker's clerk after quitting school at 14, served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1935-36, board chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1947 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. John Bernard Kelly Sr., 70, millionaire boss of one of the nations biggest brickwork contracting firms, longtime Philadelphia Democratic leader who was narrowly defeated in the 1935 mayoralty election, two-time Olympic sculling champion, World War II National Physical Fitness Director, father of Princess Grace of Monaco; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Youngest of a onetime County Mayo farmer's ten children. Jack Kelly was barred from the Henley Diamond Sculls (won in 1947 and 1949 by his son John B. Jr.) not, as legend has it, because he had once been a bricklayer, but because British officials ruled him a professional. In 1956, when his daughter announced her engagement, Kelly said: "I told the Prince that royalty didn't mean a thing to us and that I certainly hoped he wouldn't run around the way some Princes do."

Died. Mrs. Worthington Scranton, 76, suffragist widow of a member of Scranton's founding family and duchess of Pennsylvania politics, who was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1920 to 1948, a National Committeewoman for 23 years, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936 to 1938, only woman member of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense during World War II; of a heart attack; in Dalton, Pa.

Died. Henrik Shipstead, 79, son of a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, who in 1922 became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms--the last as a Republican--before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn.

* Nkrumah's own given name means Saturday.

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