Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 18, 1957, Yuma, Arizona ly JONES OSBORN Well they spared Yuma Imaginary enemy in 1 day's mock attack In across Canada Irom the A huge of power equal to 5 million tons of TNT was dropped on than AFB outside of Tucson r Another was dropped at Phoenix Residents had lour hours ing And anyone who failed to leave town was considered out by the shattering blast anc heat of the third out Hoover Darn cutting off tric power and perhaps releasing of radioactive water to the river In addition to fie thousands who would die in the Instant the detonation there is radiation to contend with Tons of dirt and rubble up in the vast nuclear fireball to become radioactive are still fall ing In just 20 hours bias deadly fallout would cover an area about 80 miles by 375 miles be cause of prevailing winds No one could set foot in tha region for one month And it woul be six months before a person coul return permanently In such fashion 100 big Amcr ican cities were destroyed in th mock attack Like Hiroshima mul 100 times over only mon hideous because we have mor devastating weapons That is why President er has said that with weapons war can no longer be ai answer to International differences Babes in Arms Unhurt as Two Mothers Killed By UNITED PRESS Two babies being held In arm by their mothers survived h seeming miracles when deal struck the women one from i lightning in Florida and th other from an automobile In One child was thrown unhurt upon tho top of n car that injured his mother Wednesday a New Albany Miss and the othe child was left unscathed whc lightning Instantly killed his moth cr Mrs G C Wilhile 23 of Albany was carrying her old boy In her arms along a coun try road whon she was struck b the car She died In a hospita lour hours later Mrs Harvey King 25 of Dad City Fla picked up her son Ron aid and walked into her yard t Inspect an oak tree that had jus been struck by lightning two day ago A second bolt struck the tree killing Mrs King The child fell to the ground be side the mother's body receiving the slightest injury from the bolt Navy Ship Blast Kills 3 Hurts 8 NEW LONDON Conn UP A charge of TNT use in experimental work exploded o the deck of the escort vess Somersworth Wednesday nigh killing three and eight others four seriously The blast occurred on the for castle deck at p.m when the ship was off Point conducting test operations with tile submarine Tirante th said The ship was not dam aged First indication caused Navy i to believe that a tim fuse on the charge may have bee defective the Navy said A boar of officers from the New Londo base began an investigation of 11 accident when the ship arrive here shortly after U.S Supreme Master Simon H Rifkind today re- fused to accept a i an toal account of the iWen by Sen Carl 1924 stating It WHS merely a tory book and not In the river suit as evidence AND Y UM RIZ O SENTINEL Highest yesterday 104 Lowest Jl today Relative humidity at 11 this date Average low this date 81 FORECAST to Friday Mostly clear today thru Friday ex- partly cloudy with scattered der showers this afternoon ana mostly over nearby mountains A wanner with lower humidity In noons today 107 low tonight 60 Saturday Holiday at luma by the Sun Co entered at Post M- rum Am as Secona Oasi Man Annual Subscription lUtw by mall UMA 169 18 PAGES PER COPY lOe YUMA ARIZONA THURSDAY JULY 18 1957 PHONE SU 3-3333 ARIZONA 167 Federal Pay Boosts Are Okayed Heavy Rains Wash Out 2 Yuma County Roads HEADS camera catches u section of he Hi reel light in the foreground The old the old building at 1st and Main as It Ing wus razed to the ground this morning with topples towards 1st Street On tho way down It nno workman narrowly missing injury or death tho wire Ural can bo seen lending to a center section of wall without Sim Staff Photo As Ammonia Gas Leaks RED BUD HI UP About of the residents here fled their homes today when smelling anhydrous ammonia gas enveloped the town Twenty-five persons became ill but none required Tree leaves grass and garden plants in the northwest portion of the city where the choking fumes were concentrated turned black and will die White houses turned brown The gas escaped when a hose broke as Claude Simpson was ing a tank truck with the lizer component at his bulk tion He repaired the leak in about an hour after finding a gas mask Mayor Waller Schuchmann said the night watchman at the bulk station called to tell of the leak about 5 Schuchmann turned on the fire siren and let it blast continuously went the town tele- phone switchboard and answered dozens of inquiring calls warning them to leave town Police Officer Henry Braun raced up and down the street in the hardest hit section to warn the residents In 10 to 15 minutes mann said about three-quarters of the population was on the way out some on foot and cars and trucks Everybody kept Schuchmann said I'm proud of the way the town acted in an emergency The alert was over about when wind finally carried away the colorless heavier than air gas Miss United States Title is Won by LONG BEACH Calif UP Leona Gage a black-haired derella from Maryland who en- tered the Miss Universe contest with only in her pocket Wednesday night won the coveted title of Miss United a The green eyed long legged Miss Maryland drew cheers from the audience at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium when she accepted the pearl crown from last year's Miss U.S.A and Miss Universe Carol Morris of Iowa The Leona and her cousin Barbara Gage had taken the two-way plane ticket Leona received as Miss Maryland and converted it into two one-way tickets figuring to work their way back home if she lost The girls arrived in this seaport with only between them that they had saved from modeling jobs In Leona's suitcase was a 545 gown she had bought at a sale in Baltimore She wore hat the first night beauty pageant Wednesday night she paraded down the runway in a gown borrowed front a small dress shop in Long Beach I went into see if I could buy a dress with our 520 and the man loaned it to knew I was Sedative Works Too SYRACUSE Mrs Doris Camerata followed doctor's orders a sedative to relax and calm her nerves She got so calm a burglar walked in stole worth of and walked out without disturbing her at she said an smile But now riches have come at last to Leona The prizes include cash a world-wide tour a complete wardrobe a er and she will represent the contest in Europe McKay Gets Job WASHINGTON UP dent Eisenhower today appointed former Interior Secretary las McKay to a a year job as commissioner on the International Joint Com- mission McKay now living in Salem Ore will succeed Lee Jordan who is resigning Each country has three members on the commission McKay resigned from his inter- ior post last year to rim for the seat of Sen Wayne Morse The joint commission which he will join at headquarters here has jurisdiction over oil ary waters questions between this country and Canada Adm Dufek Replaces Byrd in Polar Post WASHINGTON dent Eisenhower has named re- tired Rear Adm George Dufek a veteran Polar explorer to re- place the late Adm Richard E Byrd as supervisor pf the can South Polar programs Heaviest Rain In State Falls At Salome 1.67 Four highways in Arizona in- two in Yuma County were closed yesterday as the force of summer storms struck throughout the state More of the same was predicted today The local forecast was for scattered thundershowers ly this afternoon or evening The shower activity was spread yesterday In Yuma County water in dips closed Highway 72 between Hope and Parker and Stale Route 95 between site and Yuma Highway 95 was reported to have been reopened this morning but motorists are urged to proceed cautiously since water has piled up sand in the dips Highways Closed Other highways closed because of the same conditions were Highway 387 between Chandler and Casa Grande and State Route 93 ing Kingman and Congress The heaviest rain fall in the state was 1.67 of an Inch at Salome At streets were flooded and numerous trees felled by ning as 58 of an inch was ed One canal burst at Phoenix because of the overload but no major damage was reported The bridge of a new portion of also had to said traffic was routed along the Coolidge dam leg of the highway At Tucson Tucson had gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour yesterday after- noon and there were reports of more than an inch of precipitation at outlying points Here are some precipitation ures for the 24 hours ending at n m Bedridden With Asiatic W NEW DELHI UP Italian film producer Roberto was still and very weak today with influenza husband of Ingrid Bergman and romantically linked with a beautiful Indian script writer told United Press I am running a temperature and am very weak I am ill and at the present I am allowing no Close associates said it will be some time before he can leave New Delhi He was reported scheduled to Bombay where the script writer is living at the moment Death Takes 2 Tucson Pioneers TUCSON well-known died yesterday Helen Scholefield Brodie a tive of the Southern Arizona city for 34 years an employe o Pima County died at the age of 71 Mrs Vinson 82 former Tucson City treasurer also died yesterday She came to zona in with other members of her family Funeral services or Mrs Vinson will be held Friday morning Cigarettes Blamed for Lung Cancer UP An American Cancer Society expert told congressional investigators today that cigarette smoking is a cause lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases Dr E Cuyler Hammond the society's research director said evidence that smoking is a hazard has been cumulating slowly since about 1015 He said recent have produced dence that cigarette smoking is a causative factor of great im- portance in tho occurrence of lung cancer He taid bai been an alarming trend in the death rates from lung with the number of deaths rising from 1930 to an estimated 000 in 1956 Hammond said cigarette ing causes an increase in deaths from heart disease and has a severe effect on patients with peptic ulcers and Buerger's disease He also said there is evidence that smoking has an effect on death rates from respiratory dis- eases other than lung cancer Hammond the opening ness at a House Government Op- Subcommittee tion of filter cigarettes Earlier Rep Irit F Ga said Subcommittee Chairman John Blatnik had sured her that he is for the co growers and has no wish to penalize them in any way Mrs Blitch said Blatnik told her his subcommittee hearings are not in- tended to effect tobacco price ports Sen Richard L Neuberger D- Ore Wednesday introduced a that would cut off farm price ports and soil bank payments to tobacco growers Neuberger a said it was ridiculous government about alleged dangers of smoking while spending millions of dollars to tobacco grow- ing An Agriculture Department esman called Neuberger's completely unrealistic If we penalize tobacco because oC a possible health danger are we going to penalize corn because we make bourbon whiskey out of that he said Blatnik said his subcommittee hopes to determine during six days of hearings whether the lic is being fooled about the protection afforded to smokers by filters He said the subcommittee wants to determine whether have made false and leading advertising about filler cigarettes and so why federal agencies haven't cracked down California Engineer Blasts Arizona Books By BAKER United Tress Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO UP A California hydrographic engineer spent the full session of the Col- River water suit Wednesday going over Arizona's red one a white one and a blue one Witness Clayburn Elder opened lis attack on two Arizona ments the White Book and the Blue Book Both include Bureau of Reclamation compilations of water supply of the Gila River a Syrian Troops Reinforced on Israeli Border BEIRUT Lebanon ways leading to the tense Israeli border are clogged with Syrian troop reinforcements ing Into the area reliable sources said today Syria also was re- ported to have cancelled all army leaves The same sources quoted Syrian army officers as saying Israel had massed artillery and men at its border with Syria and in the demilitarized zones where Israel used tanks last week against ian guns in a ten-hour border tle A report from Damascus said an army alert was declared in Syria at start of the troop movements but it was not established here whether the alert was regional or nationwide The Damascus reports said the Syrian government attitude was to expect lie Israeli not to he caught un- prepared it a major attack comes Colorado tributary He told Special Supreme Court Master Simon that he bund discrepancies in the Blue Book that would drive a master crazy if he had to enforce decree on them Elder testified that the White Book carried more weight than the Blue Book in his opinion He also stated that the Blue book upon which Arizona based a subsequent called Book an unworkable method of calculating virgin flow of the Gila The Red Book was data com- piled by the U S Bureau of upon which Arizona based its needs for the proposed Central Arizona Project Elder said the formula which was compiled by Arizona engineer R J Tipton was taken from a method used and later proved unworkable in the upper basin states He testified that the upper basin used 26 measuring stations for their formula which proved in Tipton used only one Army Plans Second Cut WASHINGTON sources said today the Army ex- to make a second cut in its strength possibly by next June The new cut plus the cut ordered this week would re- duce tho Army to the same strength as the Air Force will have at that time The Army announced day night that it will trim its monthly draft calls as a result of the first cut It said it could not say at this time how much the draft calls will be re- Yuma Bar Owner Fined A Yuma bar owner has paid a 5100 fine in Yuma Justice Cour for selling liquor to a minor Carmelita paid the fini to Judge Ersel Byrd yesterday through her attorney Glenn pie The complaint had been sign ed by James Daly bation officer charging Mrs May hew with selling spirituous liquor to Diego Medina 17 Also in Justice Court Leonart Dobbins 50 was charged with a high misdemeanor second of fense drunk driving and reckless driving The complaint signed by Police Patrolman charged Dobbins was drunk driving Sunday night when h e had an- accident It also that lie was found guilty in City Police Court on Oct 14 1956 on the same charge Bond on Dobbins was set at and the case continued until Fri day for trial setting In Superior Court Clifton Ear Ferrell 22 charged with assaul with a deadly weapon impo sition of his sentence postponed for two years by ly Ferrell was charged with at tacking Shelby with kitchen paring knife Judge Kelli placed Ferrell on the ear probation on the conditions that hi secure a job slop drinking and vis iting saloons and break no laws Committees OK Increases for Civil Servants WASHINGTON congressional committees over- riding President Eisenhower's op- position voted today in favor of ay increases for the ment's civil servants In developments on both sides of the House Civil Service Committee approved pay boosts totalling 530 million dollars a year for the civil service workers Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee favored million dollar annual in- crease to the same federal em- ployes The President has argued against this and federal pay increase proposals on grounds they would aggravate the inflation Together two increases would add about 850 million lars a year to the cost ol running the government Other congressional School The House Rules Committee cleared the federal school aid for a voto by the House Speaker Sam Rayburn said the long delayed measure ably will be called up for action next Wednesday The would authorize In school construction aid over five years President Eisenhower has edly called for federal aid to schools but most congressional leaders doubt the measure will pass the House Cabaret The House Ways and Means Committee voted to cut the 20 per cent cabaret tax in half The Treasury opposes the cut which would cost it about 21 million dollars a year in revenue lobbied for the reduction They tax for the closing of many hotel entertainment rooms Civil Senate Republican Leader William F Knowland said advocates of President er's controversial civil rights are ready to make some concessions to southern opponents He declined to be specific Foreign Death of a ber put off a showdown vote in the House on President er's appeal for of a tentatively approved 200 million dollar cut in foreign aid Flu Epidemic Hits in Baghdad BAGHDAD Iraq UP The day that Asian flu has hit victims in Baghdad Five tals are operating special exclusively for handling disease and nil public recreation spots have been closed to halt the epidemic HOUSE on tho anil on tho ground fought a flro in a nl 1st Wednesday p.m Tho occupied by Pedro was a loss with damage estimated at Yuma Fire Department pumpers were right Hint had the house In- It from on an open porch Sun
