Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 16, 1959, Yuma, Arizona By JONES OSBORN the y problems of Re- monetary policy got t quarreling among selves as anyone who isn't already split right down the mid- Ale one side is Paul M Butler national chairman the crats the other side is Senator Lyndon B Johnson of Texas Sen ate majority leader demands a program He wants Con- gress to pass bills based on the Democratic platform of even if they are certain to be toed by Ike Johnson wants to f o 11 o w a course of constructive He thinks Democrats must balance their desires against the threat of a veto or be blamed for paralyzing the government Who will now the split runs deep X recent poll of congressmen and Democratic state party officials snows how deep majority of state party officials supports Butler majority of congress itien support Johnson never the twain shall meet Board Bribery Case Nears Jury In Pima County T U C S 0 N bribery trial of Gene Bogard Tucson truck dealer is expected to go to a six woman jury today closing arguments and Judge Gor don Farley's instructions -All testimony in the case ended late yesterday visiting Santa Cruz judge again denied an appeal by the de fense for a directed verdict of ac Farley said the mat ter should go before refused a Tues The day He denied expectet when he leased five autos chairman of the Pima county supervisors The testimony ended Farley denied the prosecution th right to elicit from rebuttal witnesses Both had been called in an effort t discredit the testimony of Kauten burger who had been on the slam Tuesday Bogard is being tried on a thre count grand jury indictment leging he bribed Kautenburger H is one of six Tucson men Kautenburger indicted in April Destroys Yuma Trailer A trailer was fire this morning at 7th Ave niie and 2nd Street i The Fire Department sai that no one was in the traile the blaze occurred Owne trailer was identified as ahne Hibnes The mobile home was situate in some 15 feet from house Cause of the fire was no reported Jury Selected in Case SAN DIEGO Calif prosecution opens its case toda Against a man and woman of killing the woman's tw small sons because they were bother A jury of six men and six won Jen was selected Wednesday jermine whether Mrs Wand Brogdon 33 and her lover Kei A Merriam 36 both forme Jy of Rockford 111 are guilty i murdering David 3 Virgi Brogdon 5 May 2 SENTINEL Lowest tills Temperature at Relative nt H Average Into Average low this FORECAST to Friday Partly cloudy with scattered and thunder storms by mountains and Friday temperature or times Expected high low except Saturday and Madison Ayr Yuma by thj Sun ana entered at Office at Ariz u Clan Man Annual Subscription Rates 114 by man UMA 168 20 PER COPY I Oc YUMA ARIZONA THURSDAY JULY 14 1959 PHONE SU 168 IMf f Warns of War 45 Killed by Typhoon Billie in Japan and Formosa Thousands Homeless on Flooded Isle United Tress International Typhoon Billie drove thousands E persons from their homes on Wednesday night In Japan flood waters from rains receded slowly eaving 45 dead Forty three crewmen from the Japanese ship Mansei took to lifeboats when the essel broke its anchor line and aground off Ishigaki Island of Formosa The crewmen were later picked p by a Japanese fishing vessel nd transferred to the American anding ship Thomaston Navy reports from Yokosuka aid there was no major damage the Mansei Maru and that from the Thomaston ere attempting repairs Most of Taipei Formosa's cap- was covered with water ng from a few inches to rooftop evel A housing unit for an can military mission was ed with residents wading to y in waist-deep water The U S Military Hospital near was evacuated and 42 of he more seriously ill were flown Okinawa some 800 miles away midst of the confusion of evacuation an Army doctor Ted a daughter to Mrs Irving y Lind Seattle a Navy chief boatswain's and he condition v The typhoon swung jts hardest punch at'Ta'ipci bringing 10 inches of water in 24 then veered to the China mainland In Kyushu Japan's most flood water from three days of drenching rains re- ceded somewhat but authorities kept disaster units on the alert in Continued on Page 3 Col 2 Study Urged of Yuma Water Radioactivity WASHINGTON Con- gressman Stewart L Udall D- Ariz today urged a special study of the Colorado River to detect possible radioactive pollution of the water Yuma takes virtually all of its domestic water supply well as its irrigation water from the Colorado River Rep Udall made his to Dr Clarence G Salsbury director of the Arizona Slate Health Department and George W Marx chief of the di- vision of sanitation State Health Department His recommendation was made in a telegram sent this morning Study Cited Udall refers to a recent tion study of the Animas River in New Mexico by the U.S Public Health Service He says that dy was undertaken at the request of the New Mexico State Health Department Thus Udall urges Arizona health officials to re- MAKING IT girls who Yuma's new high school as freshmen In September make the school's change This sign at entrance to the school temporarily changed this morning In honor of tho new name Kofa nt Kofa High School are from left Lois Sully and Sun Staff Photo Arizona Tourist Sought His Dog Bit Barstow Child SACRAMENTO Calif An Arizona tourist who brought us dog along on his vacation was in resort after his dog bit a child in Barstow Calif The dog owner is Forrest D Smith California highway men said he isn't found the child will undergo ex- tensive Pasteur treatments for Smith was believed en route to Carson City Nev by way of Yosemite National Park and Lake was driving a late model Plymouth station wagon with Arizona license plates 496 The dog bit the Barstow child July -.7 Argentine Navy Chiefs In Ultimatum BUENOS AIRES UPI Farmers Will Vote On Contract Aug Farmers in the tine navy rear admirals and he Gila Project will vote August on a repayment contract for a huge drainage their irrigation tains have threatened wholesale resignations unless President Ar- turo Frondizi fires Vice Adm Adolfo Estevez as secretary of the navy informed sources reported today The sources t said 12 of the navy's 15 rear admirals had voiced the threats to retire and captains with high commanding posts would follow them The afternoon newspaper Cor- reo de la Tarde said Frondizi's refusal to ask for Estevez nation had created a serious in the navy The navy was in the forefront of the revolt which ousted dictator Juan D Peron Sept 19 1955 turned the country back toward democratic processes World Radio Disruption A to Sun Spots em planned for district Approval of the plan will the construction of a million network of canals and veils to serve the ect Gerald Jones manager of tho Irrigation and Drainage Dis- ricl said that planning of the new system had been in progress for more than two years to design method which would give quate service to the new farming area at its fullest development work In the system will bo a long concrete lined canal miming lie length of he project and mi nel to carry the outflow from tlin edge of he district to the Colorado A series of deep wells will lift water from the underground wa- ter table and dump it into t h e concrete conveyance channel Complete In First contracts for the program United International Worldwide radio communica- tions slowly returned to normal today after 24 hours of disruption caused by sun spots and electrical disturbances The solar activity was described by scientists as the greatest in many years The sun spots resulted from an immense explosion of the sun's gases The huge flare on the sun was observed early Tuesday in Europe and its effects were felt 30 hours later on earth It was the second such the last 45 days and a Standards Bureau spokesman said its effects were expected to equal or exceed the record dis- of Feb 11 1958 A cosmic ray balloon was launched Wednesday by ty of Chicago physicists to ure tho subatomic by the solar blast Tho balloon was released from Field on the university campus and drifted high over city remitting radio signals tailing the intensities and imate energies of the particles Geigor counters attached to the balloon took continuous readings which the physicists said would take weeks to evaluate Detectors at the University of Alaska and a balloon launched by the University of Minnesota were also reported studying the sun spots MINNEAPOLIS Minn Lethal sun spot rays with an energy of 500 million volts could kill future space travellers revealed today University of Minnesota omers who launched balloons to study recent disturbances said the seriousness of such measurements of a solar flare May 1 Dr John R Winkler university physicist described the deadly beams as low energy cosmic rays Winkler said any manned flight within the magnetic on Page 3 Col Bank of Douglas Stockholders OK Name Change PHOENIX Bank of Douglas stockholders approved a new name for the bank in an election yesterday The shareholders agreed to re- name the institution The Arizona Bank However to make it legal officials filed a mandamus action in Maricopa Superior Court lo compel the Arizona Corporation Commission to accept the change in the articles of ration The court action charges the commission in an executive ing Inly 6 declined to accept the change on grounds he name plied for is deceptively similar to other banks doing business in the The mandamus action asserted that David Saunders state ing examiner had no objection lo name are expected to be let in ber and the basic works should be completed by March 1961 Steenbergen head of the Yuma Bureau of tion office the tion would be divided into four separate contracts but that a 11 contracts would be let within a short period so that most of the work will be carried out Legislation Is now pending be- fore Congress to appropriate tho Initial million lie spent ing the first of tion All federal funds used will become a part of the District's construction costs and will be repaid over a period of years by the landowners Mechanics of tile drainage gram are in the hands of the USER whose Denver office is now preparing plans and cations Steenbergen said the channel will start in the Texas Hill area and run through the heart of the valley farming area to the C i 1 a Siphon at the west end of the project A subsidiary channel will serve the Snyder Ranch area and will join the main canal at a crossing of the River In the eastern part of the dis- the channel will he very row possibly even a pipeline at Texas Hill and will gradually widen to a point at the western terminal where it will have a foot bottom and a 300 second-feet carrying capacity Four Siphons In its course the concrete on Page 3 Col 2 Arizonan Killed By Lightning Bolt HAPPY JACK Florcz 23 an employe of South west Lumber Mills was killed yes when a of lightning struck a tree under which he was standing Company officials said Florez employed at the camp took shelter under the tree when rain started Lightning struck tree and a charge passed his body Army Satellite Disintegrates At Canaveral CAPE CANAVERAL Fla UPI Juno II rocket will n all-purpose scientific salel in a tremendous cloud of smoke and flame today n what was supposed to have the most complex ering trip into space yet under aken On a huge puff of smoke erupted from the rocket Instead of lifting from the pad the rocket was en in a huge ball of fire Ii was not known whether the rocket actually left the ground Several fragments of the rocket could be seen around the aunch site The white smoke soon turned black and a tall smoke col umn rose into the air The Juno rocket was to have carried the Army's Explorer VI satellite toward space on a mis lion to bring back information ran ging from the origin of weather to obstacles man will face in inter planetary travel Pieces of the flaming rocket landed only 50 yards from the blockhouse but all military and civilian personnel inside were re- ported unharmed The explosion occurred at An Air Force officer said the cause of the malfunction will not be known until all data have been collected and analyzed A large corps of newsmen and high ranking military and civilian officials watched the rocket blow up dashing hopes of sending a 91.5 pound miniature laboratory into orbit the study of the Colorado liver The study of the as River made at a cost of 00 revealed serious radioactive The chief offender was he Vanadium Corporation of erica's refinery at Durango Col- Tho Animas Kiver empties in- to ho Sun Juan River Anil the Snn Into the Colorado The Vanadium refinery in op- 11 years has ed food and water supplies for residents of Farmington Mexico residents of tec New Mexico and ately persons strung along he banks of the Animas River About acres of farmland are irrigated with radioactive wa- ter from the Animas The Public Health Service study points out that none of the radio active material is removed by the water purifiers at the two New Mexico cities The report predicted that if the river flow is average over t h next 12 months then pollution will reach 3.8 permissible limit for drinking wa ter The Telegram telegram to Arizona health officials Animas pollution un doubtedly is greatly diluted befor reaching Arizona communities via Colorado River the potential dan ger is such that I urge you to re quest U.S Public Health Service to undertake additional detailed studies of the Colorado River As you know much of the West's tir mining area is on the Col River's watershed and in creasing production poses growing threat Udall's telegram While Yuma is largest city ii state now drawing water supply from Colorado River future plan would bring Colorado River wat er into Central Arizona so it i obviously a matter of great con cern to us to sec that causes are removed at carlies opportunity I will be happy to co operate with you in any way L UDALL Actress Divorces TV Addict Mate LOS ANGELES UPI Tele vision actress Caroline Van Dyk was awarded a divorce from he husband Bernard Goetke HI Wed when she testified lie was TV addict From the minute he got horn at night he was glued to that set she said I even had to serve hi meals there Actress Harris a for Miss Van Dyke said I neve saw anything like it He was lik a hypnotized House Passage Of River Is Predicted WASHINGTON A rivers mid harbors was called up for House action Backers said the measure was certain to be approved because it had unanimous approval of the House Public Works Committee and contained no projects opposed by the administration The would authorize Congress to provide funds for the projects in later appropriations bills It would harbor improvement ects costing a total of in 15 states and Hawaii new or modified floo control projects in five states a an estimated total cost of This includes work at a reservoir on the West Fork of Mojave River con- struction to the area at and below Creek Calif from flood damage totaling in previously authorized outlays for work on comprehensive basin plans The basins include Los Angeles River and Columbia Kiver Urges Soviet f Consider UN Participation GENEVA UPD Secretary of State Christian A Herter today calling on the United Nations to help police a Berlin ruce agreement He warned that another Berlin crisis flareup might plunge the world into war Herter appealed to Russia's Gromyko across the Big Four conference table to consider an adequate U staff nlo Berlin The staff with free access to both West and East Berlin would report on propaganda activities that might disturb the public der or seriously affect the rights of others Herter described this as a form of international scrutiny over one aspect of Berlin's life Herter delivered the appeal ns the conference headed towards what may be a crucial East-West showdown on Russia's Berlin de- mands The key item in the Soviet posal is establishing of an German Committee in which the Communist East Germans would have an equal voice with the West Germans Warning Frum Russia The western powers fear such a commission ultimately would re- sult in handing all of many lo Communist domination Gromyko already has warned he Soviets not sign a Berlin truce agreement unless the West accepts the demand The Big Four foreign ministers held their third plenary session since the conference resumed Monday after a three-week ing off recess The gloom over tho deepening deadlock at Hie conference table was slightly lifted when Gromyko lifted his veto on secret talks Russia has substantially raised its price for a Berlin interim and in doing so has caught the foreign ters off base and undecided what to do next French Foreign ister Maurice Couve de summed it up Wednesday when he said we nrc in complete confusion Russians Hint Concessions Russia meanwhile has begun to hint it might offer some sions but its price for a lin settlement already was so high that any of the so-called concessions accepted by the West would in reality be a series of minor Soviet victories One such concession would be an agreement to resume secret sessions here Soviet Foreign ister Andrei Gromyko said day there would be no such sions unless East Germany at- tended as a full negotiating ner Gromyko invited British For- Continued on Page 3 Column 3 Defense Depi Is Under Fire in Congress Probes WASHINGTON UPI The Defense Department was under fire on two congressional fronts today One armed services sub- committee was investigating ges that armed services enlisted men have to do degrading jobs as servants of officers And Rep F Edward Hehert ID- chairman of another sub- committee looking into defense contracts charged that the Penta- gon was trying to sidestep the proble Charles C assistant secretary of defense told the power subcommittee that the use nf enlisted men ns officers aides is based on a definite need and on justifiable and tions He denied there is thing demanding or degrading in work and said many GIs seek such jobs There have been complaints thai enlisted men have been into such jobs as and housework Hebert's subcommittee has been investigating that retired military officers and former officials employed in de- industry have exerted in- on behalf of their It also has been looking into alleged waste in the defense ram Heberl said the Defense ment is trying to keep reports and records from the General ing Office which oversees ment spending If there is ing wrong why cover he asked Oilier congressional Sen Stuart Symington D- Mo urged again in a Senate speech President Eisenhower sot up a to study both sides of steel strike issues Symington said in negotiations to date ters would seem lo have gone backward The House continued debate of the labor reform with differing sharply on how the measure should bo Republican members were Continued on 3 Col 1
