Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 24, 1953, Yuma, Arizona How much Is half a Not very any housewife or businessman might Bay Today's high cost of living ter understood in terms of But Uncle Sam is still having trouble with pennies The Post Office Department is running In the red this year to the tune of nearly Postmaster General Arthur wants to get his ment into the black and he gests doing it with half pennies At present the minimum copy mail rate on certain tions is of a cent The Post Office wants to raise this to one-half a cent That doesn't sound like much but It adds up One Corn Belt publisher who la a heavy user of the mails said it would cost him in hard cash if the raise is put Into effect Might put HIM in the red The Post Office comes back with the reply that the publishers are not paying to cover the cost of the services they get from the mails And there is where the delicate question Should the Post Office be by the taxpayers in order to keep its services within the reach all -or should it raise its rate high enough to put itself on a self- sustaining I think most people prefer the latter Either way the taxpaying citizen is going to foot the 1 in higher postal rates or 2 in taxes to make up the deficit Hot Check Artists Active in Yuma Woman Arrested Not only is the weather rather hot these days but so are the checks Mrs Joan Bridges 18 wife of a serviceman is now in the Yuma County jail as a result of ing a bogus check for at Richards Market The check was cashed yesterday morning and a check at the hank showed that there were no funds In tha count Owner Richard Loo turned the matter over to sheriff's of- fice Deputy Meador went to work on the case and after talking with the taxi driver who had taken Mrs Bridges to the market had her in custody within 40 minutes after she cashed the check Other checks have turned up on the attractive woinan Three were cashed at Bayless Market and it is believed that others have been passed The woman used several aliases Anyone holding hot checks on her is requested to turn them in to sheriff's office Mrs Bridges is described as being 5 ft 4 in weighing 110 Ibs and having brown hair anil brown eyes Meantime in the city two other hot check artists have been A check for 5100 was cashed at the Bell Lumber Co on the Farmers alid Stockmans Bank at Phoenix The man signed his name as Earl Brookshire It is also believed that he cashed one at Bayleas Market an E Franklin Buckwald cashed several bogus checks re- cently He passed them at lin's Department Store and at Sears Roebuck Printed Friday YUMA 173 YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY JULY 24 1953 TWO PART ARIZONA 173 i Test Station Projects i Big Expansion Ready Youth Held For Million Gems Stolen From Seville Cathedral LONDON British police today arrested nn old Spanish youth and accused him of engineering one of the biggest jewel thefts on record of antique sacred gems stolen from the edral of Seville The youth Emilio Garcia mez was arrested on a warrant granted at the request of the Spanish embassy here The jewels were stolen from the of Seville second largest church in the world on the night of March Spanish authorities said the thief apparently himself among some of the 32 immense clustered columns which support the ed roof Then when the last worshipper finished his prayers and departed the thief smashed a glass panel protecting the gems and fled with them of the gems were diamond pendants and rings brooches ear rings and heavily jewelled pins French police recovered a ber of jewels believed a part ol tlie loot from the Seville cathedral from lodgings Gomz had occupied on boulevard Pbf tif Royale and from a cleaning shop Mother of Yuman Dies at Douglas Mr and Mrs Blalack returned to their Yuma home from Elfrida Ariz where they attended funeral services for his mother Mrs Mary Blalack who died July 20 in a Douglas Ariz hospital Services were in the frida Baptist Church followed burial in the McNeil Cemetery at Elfrida which is near Douglas Born in Del KIO Texas Sept 7 1875 she and her husband steaded a farm at Elfrida in 1907 Her husband J R Blalack died in 1945 Surving are two sons Joe of trida and Rollind ot Yuma foul daughters Mrs Arthur Wills ant Mrs Andrew Morion both of Ajo Ariz Mrs Marian OL Eloy Ariz and Mrs Keyes of Phoenix 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren Shirley Roland Weds Bailey City Councilman J 13 Bniley married this morning at 11 in Las Vegas to Mrs Shirley Ro land of Flagstaff The couple were by District D W Priest They will return to Yuma Monday Mrs Roland has been living in Yuma recently Daily Sun Will Move To New Location Soon The Yuma Daily Sun is pre- paring to move its entire per operation into its new location on the southwest corner of 3rd street and Madison avenue it is announced today by Jones Osborn publisher The Sun expects to the move late next month or early in The thing which could postpone the move any longer would be unexpected delays in the delivery of new printing equipment The building at Srd and Madison secured by the Sun on long-term lease from owner George Phillips is now being remodeled and re- decorated Cooling and heating equipment lighting fixtures rooms tion systems and special cal facilities for printing ment are In the of lation Workmen are now pouring a special foundation and pit for the rotary newspaper printing press which is expected to be delivered Ifl August The press weighs about 25 tons and has twice the page capacity and ten times the speet of the press now being used the Sun In addition to the press soon to arrive The Sun has also purchased a press now being used in Tucson Ariz and expects to get delivery on it next year Having these two presses gives the Sun a ber of it can combine them in different ways to provide a press of 24 32 or page The press to he installed month will be shipped from ark Ohio in early August and will require two full weeks to be erected and tested After i is made ready for operation thi newspaper equipment now in HSI in the present plant at 241 Main street will be moved on the follow Ing weekend It Is not Sun will miss any of Itf regular publication days The building now occupied by The Sun Is the property of Mrs J H or Yuma WHERE MILLIONS WILL RE above aerial photo quarters building 2 Imperial Dun 3 Post Engineer's area taken about II o'clock this morning shows the main post area construction 4 three barracks buildings under of Test Station site of more than million construction tion 5 Neighbor's Village for permanent personnel sort 6 which will begin immediately Commanding Officer Colonel W Officers Mess Hall under construction with W Abbey announced today that Washington had given the green BOQ on the right Army by light to some projects Shown here 1 News Briefs DROUGHT FUNDS OKAYED House today by voice vote a hill providing the lull amount of ed by President Eisenhower for emergency assistance loans in the Southwestern drought area The measure now goes to the Senate The House acted soon after the Appropriations Com- proval of the legislation KOREA FUNDS ASKED WASHINGTON today asked that of defense funds be used to start post-armistice rehabilitation in South Korea RELEASED OMAHA Neb Husky Joe Kuykendall accused of ing his wealthy wife to death in their luxurious trailer was free on bond today Kuykendall horse who insisted he cannot remember what happened to his brown-haired heiress wife was when he left the jail where tic has been held since June 18 GLUCKMANN RETURNING DECATUR III Peter ter watchmaker and air pilot took off from Municipal Airport lit today on his way home from a trip in his plane UNION CHIEFS CONFER WASHINGTON labor was In a turmoil day over growing reports of a major realignment among the most powerful unions Secret meetings among top un- ion lenders have led to tion that the of the AIM and United Mine Workers representing clow to he altered in the future ALBANIAN CABINET CHANGED LONDON The Telegraph Agency announced day that Premier Enver ha's Communist Albanian In being reorganized Hoover Farley Named by Ike Search Continues M n D j For Lost Jet On New Reorganization Board WASHINGTON UP dent Eisenhower today formally appointed form or President bert Hoover and James A Farley former postmaster general as members of new Commission on Government Reorganization Mr Eisenhower also named At- torney General Herbert and Defense Mobilizer Arthur S Fleming to the com- mission Vice President Richard M Nixon anJ House Speaker seph W Martin Jr are to name the other eight members Mr Hoover is expected to be elected chairman by the sion Farley now an executive of a soft drink company was chairman Hospital News Patients admitted to the Yuma hospital July Donna Van 845 8th Mrs Alvena MeDaniel 3rd St Donald McCollum 1340 3rd St Eleanor Keoton P 0 Box 1767 Seaman Box 107 Wintorhaven Calif Mrs Lucille Acciani 3733 10th Ave Juan lo 1116 1st Ave Mrs Bertha holin Box 111 Somerton Yvonne Stoehr Walnut Ave For- rest Warren 410 Ave lace P Cave Crook and Mrs Laverne Larson 3rd St Patients admitted July Mrs Leona Grouse 2025 Miple Ave and R R Box 1077 Somerton July Mrs Evaline Rhoa 407 Ave Mrs Ruby Howard Mrs Alvena McDaniel 1490 3rd St Mrs Josephina ico Sam Loo 601 3rd St Mrs Rita Box 185 Mrs Mrs Hazel sen 836 8th Ave Herman Box 1042 Fay Smith Somerton Mrs Hotly Lynns Box and Mrs Dorothy Gipson Samuel p ft Box 8 Sun Luis Mox and Murray Ewing Births July Mr and Mrs Clark Yarwood girl 7 pounds and Mr find Mrs Kenneth Keeton boy 7 pounds 7 ounces of the National Democratic Com- in the early years of the late President Roosevelt's Farley broke with Franklin D Roosevelt when he decided to seek a third term as president President Eisenhower White Yuma Civil Air Patrol planes today continued search for the jet plane missing froni a flight from Luke Field since day it was announced this ing by Neil Weidner commander of the Yuma Air Rescue The low level aerial search is Million Projects Due To Start in 1953 Some million will be spent at Test Station during 1953 on new construction projects This was the information received today as Col Walter W Abbey commanding officer announced that the government has unfrozen projects totalling more than million for immediate construction Work projects planned to begin much earlier this year had been frozen when the new administration began gating defense spending However Secretary of the Army Robert P Stevens and Secretary of Defense Charles E son declared the Yuma projects absolutely essential in an order releasing the work this week Some 18 projects -are included the new thawing order When these projects are com- the added facilities will bring some 1.000 new residents mostly civilian the Yuma area Col Abbey said The commanding officer declined to comment on the total size the base would reach at the tion of construction stating ly that it would bring a tial increase 5 Under Construction Already under construction at the Test Station are three bari racks buildings an officer's mess hall and a technical service ing in the Research and ment area Largest of the new projects to installation ot utilities in the Research and De- velopment area will open up an entirely new section of the Station to 24-hour UMu Other jobs on the immediate con- struction list include a ical station radio receiving transmitting building gas blending facilities building munitions shop experimental shop building at Blaisdell Post En- administration building lire station Ordnance vehicle shops warehouse and sales Rhee Accuses U.S of Two- Faced Pledges SEOUL Korea Rhee said today assurances ed granted to the Communists make it impossible for him his pledges to abide by the Korean armistice The South Korean president the United States of making certain promises to him and giving exactly the opposite pledges to Communist truce negotiators If these contrary promises have been made Rhee said either he or the Communists will be left holding an empty bag Truce Signing Near Rhee said however he would make every effort to abide by the armistice the of which is believed to be only hours away un he must use other House statement thanked Mr beine ver for responding to this call to toward Blythe and northeast Mr Eisenhower said that the government is fortunate in having Farley on the commission Jaycees To Tour on July 28 Yuma Jaycees will be guests of Col Walter W Abbey at the Yuma Test fetation on Tuesday July 28 President Joe Farkas announced today The Jaycees will leave Yuma about 2 p.m Tuesday afternoon and tour the base until late after- noon when they will sit down to dinner Cost of dinner will be 85 cents President Farkas requested that ali Jaycees going on the visit con- tact Russ Phillips before ward Salome Yuma pilots con- I ducting the search are Wayne Wright Harold Woodhouse ner and Henry Duwe They are assisted by two Et Centro pilots Jerry Robertson and O L Ash noon Saturday to make Former Yuman Hurt in Coast Accident Mrs John Redmond the former of Yuma was iously injured in an automobile accident in the Los Angeles area Wednesday when a car in which she was riding overturned ing to word received by local tives Mrs Redmond who now lives in Los Angeles sustained fractures of the iaw and both arms and a cut on the chin Another woman in tho car sustained a broken back but her husband and two children and Mrs Redmond's two children with minor cuts artd scs Mrs Redmond is in n Monica hospital A tire blowout caused the dent All were e n r o u t e to the beach Mexicans Get Prison Terms For Burglary Three Mexican Nationals who pleaded guilty to second degree burglary have been sentenced to from one to two years in the state prison They were charged with izing the home of William E Crone of the on June 17th The men were nabbed by Crone and The men were Ortiz Jose Hernandez and Faustino zalez Ul he finds tactics Rhee's statements of today and yesterday failed to slow the pace of officers making final armistice arrangements at Panmunjom The pagoda shaped building in which the armistice is expected to be signed has been completed and the chief Swedish representative of the neutral nations Armistice Supervisory Commission said his work would start before the end of July Rheu Is Worried In addition to Sweden the com- mission is composed of members rom Switzerland Poland and India Rhee whose warning day that the Chinese Communists must get out of Korea six months after armistice day or South Korea will take action had touched off new charges of United States con- by the Red radio said le was worried about the truce situation He said Assistant Secretary of State Walter S Robertson had granted him assurances that there would be a definite time limit on a postwar political conference torts to unify Korea On the other hand Rhee said the Communists claimed that Lt Gen William K Harrison the chief U N negotiator had told Reds thee would be no time limit on the conference Yuma Soldier Due Back From Korean Servite Pvt Herbert Aguerro of Yuma was among Arizona servicemen scheduled to arrive today in San Francisco from service in Korea according to a United Press dis- patch The Weather Temperature at 11 a m today 08 Relative 11 Average high this date 106 Average low this date 81 Forecast to Saturday Night Clear today through Saturday Southerly winds 16 to 25 miles per hour by Expected high today 108 degrees AT ROBERTS Pvt Candelario Olguin of erton has been assigned to Camp Roberts Calif to begin military training Olguin whose parents live in Fresno is assigned to Co A 17th Medium Tank Battalion store for permanent cold storage plant building Signal photo laboratory additions to the power substation transformer capacity increase mess hall in the Research and De- velopment area and a gas station in the new area Some 18 additional projects to tolling about million will be started between now and January 1 Col Abbey said A school building will be started about the first of August due for completion for the last hall of the next school year But all this construction 1s only a beginning Col Abbey said requests are ready being considered in ington for an additional 15 million construction program for fiscal year JM Millions When the present projects are completed the Yuma Test Station installation will valued at more than Future plans may expand that figure to the 000 mark The post the only one of in the United States will to test Army equipment from high explosives and new tanks to false teeth As a research and development installation we test nearly all equipment in use or planned for use by the Col Abbey ex- Asked whether or not he would be able to remain at Yuma to Cont on Page 3 Col 0 Bodies of 3 Slain Americans Are Found in Canadian Forest QUEBEC CITY cial Solicitor General Antoine ard said today three American hunters mutilated in the forest were murdered Rivard told a press conference that the of one of ihc hunters had traces of a bullet entering at the heart level and coming out at the Rivard said The remains of two of the crs were found spread along the bank of a creek by a provincial police search parly yesterday Most of the skeleton of the third was found last men were Lindsey 47 his son Robert 17 and Fred Claar all from Pa Photos Rivard said police were ing photographs from the era of one of the hunters and these helped In the of the remains of the bodies Rivard who will direct the de- investigation Into the gruesome triple slaying said everything at our will be used to find the culprit or Robbery Motive Bodies of the three hunteri last reported seen June 12 were found at the end of a bear trail long the St Jean river 85 from Only one skull found Bean were believed to have hauled the other two heads deeper Into airiest Impenetrable Capt J crime investigation expert of the Quebec provincial police said robbery waa the obvious motive for tha murder He said the elder carried between 1700 and Only In coin haa own found
