Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 11, 1960, Yuma, Arizona Bv JONES OSBORN The Third House of Congress After Uio and the House of Representatives come the It is said that lobbyists serve a useful purpose by educating and informing Congress of the views of particular segments of our ciety Tiie new report on tiie money spent by lobbyists during 1959 is just out and it shows much dough was spent in this useful pursuit Leading the parade is Jimmy Hoffa whose union spent more than principally in an unsuccessful effort to defeat tiie labor of it was spent in a three-month period when the House of Representatives was de- bating the labor Their total of is the largest amount spent by one group in the past six years But labor unions aren't only ones who spend money to ence Congress Professional groups were in there too group including doctors demists teachers and hospitals spent and social welfare groups such as the NAACP and the WCTU reported spending The farm lobby shelled out 5311 000 on behalf of ils interest in federal legislation The veterans lobby invested in the halls of Congress JOc E s f r I i THE WEATHER nl 11 7.1 nt II II in this this In liWi I Linv YUMA 60 18 PAGES PER COPY YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY MARCH II PHONE SU ARIZONA 60 And business like Assn of Amor Railroads U.S Chamber of Commerce insurance companies trucking spent die Altogether more than lions was spent last year It takes heavy sugar to get whai you to keep what got Congress Ford Named Successor To Doerfer WASHINGTON UPI John C resignation under fire as chairman of the Federal Com- Commission FCC appear today to portend tougher government action against payola and other radio-TV deceptions Frederick W Ford named to top FCC post after Doerfer quit Thursday to avoid possible embarrassment to President said the FCC must sue a clear definition of payola and then crack down on the tice Ford's views given to United Press International in an inter- view a few hours before he was appointed chairman were in con- trast to repeated tion that the broadcast industry should he allowed to clean its own house without government inter- ference Payola is a term used to de- scribe payments in cash or gifts to broadcasters for favored ment of certain records Some congressmen have the FCC for not taking sterner action against such payoffs told Doerfer in a lelier that his decision to quit was a wise one House investigators whose hearings led to the nation concurred Ford takes over trom at tiie close of I ness Monday Both men arc Republicans Members of the House gating committee and Car Owned Victim WILLIAMS AFB A year-old from rhe Chandler area admitted today he killed two gation workers whose bodies were found riddled with bullets beside a pump The youth was near Safford about an hour after the bodies were found HOO yards south of the main gale here Victims vere identified as Porfirio Casas Chandler and Manuel T nudio a Mexican national both about US The bodies of the two men were discovered by fellow from the Raeker Ranches Sheriff's said more than a dozen caliber rifle slugs had been fired into the victims at close range At Safford officers said Donald St Johns 15 son of and Mrs Edward of Williams AFB had admitted rhe after he was picked up in a car belonging to one of the victims US Survival Depends on Moral LOS ANGELES UPI Rep Chester Bowles told students at UCLA today that the United States was faced with ing a national Either we rally ourselves in a vast national effort to create a dynamic society dedicated to the dignity of man and expanding economic opportunities both at home and abroad or else we sit back in fatness and complacency and suffer tiie fate of Rome and Versailles The former ambassador to In- dia said in a speech prepared for delivery at the noonday gathering that the U.S is entering a period in which its survival depends on the moral and intellectual fiber of the people The time of is over Bowies said He referred to what he called a tendency in recent years to blame the admirals and generals in the face of Russia's military threat and passing the blame to politi cians and diplomats for Russia's economic throat The Connecticut Democrat said he nation's hope rested upon its which represents a great reservoir ot ability and idealism Rescuers May Reach Trapped Miners Today Va operations Thursday night in cue today prepared j hopes it would be forced into the for a final drive they hoped would i trapped miners j push them through a Tiie mines director said coal mine blockade to reach IS trapped men The crews battled throughout the night to subdue a smoldering fire that stood between the en- tombed men and themselves and to cool the area to enable them to continue tiie operation Faint optimism was and -9 that the imprisoned miners might Creek Va escaped by SCHOOL at Yuma Union High School turned out in droves this morning to cast votes for student body officers Following one of the hottest campaigns in recent school history it appeared today that students were in record numbers Slm staff Rest cf March To Be Warm Says Weather Bureau WASHINGTON UPI The Weather Bureau's chief climatolo- gist predicted today that March would make up in ils declining days for the bad behavior of its you til Dr Helmut E Landsberg of- this prediction ns a note of cheer to the millions of suffering from March's sub- normal conduct to date In ibis part of the country at least we have never had March that was colder than ruary on a month-to-month ba- s Landsberg said He said he expected the er of the latter part of March to equalize the weather of the fore part Nature always comes back to normal sooner or later berg said It never gets very far or very long from the average Tire Blowout Damages Truck Driver Injured Good for Yuma Lettuce Demand rood on the Alex 51 of 9th Avenue escaped with minor ies when a blowout j caused him fo lose control of i highway dump truck on Route to Patrolman II ir said driving west when the right rear res blew out This caused bed remained deeply ed about the fate of the men Until we get there have to presume they are Wilson said Originally 20 men were trapped behind the slate fall but two Willis Carter W Harts ing feet around a barricade ot fire Is Expected horn WASHINGTON UPI Con- gress settled down today to grind out a moderate voting rights after the Senate decisively slapped down liberal attempts to gag de- bate and broaden its civil rights measure The Senate Thursday rejected a cloture motion to choke off four Southern His SI Si III Hili Special Both congressmen from lie area voted in favor of debalo on the 11 o u s e version of a civil rights hill Fifteen hours of general debate were allotted Rep Stewart ID- Ariz and Hep S S a u n d both voted in favor of the limited debate The proposal also received a Yes vote from Kep John J Rhodes of Arizona's congressional district against civil rights The vote was 22 short of the two-thirds majority needed to curb the debate It then turned down 55 the so-called part lo give the attorney general to seek injunctions in civil rights cases The liberals vowed to try again Tiie same posal was defeated when it was offered as part three of the 1357 civil rights House Continues Debate The House meantime ued ils debate on a less stringent civil rights proposal There were broad hinls that whatever ure the House approved would be accepted by the Senate and sent to tiie White House Senate Democratic Leader don B Johnson told ed Press 1 h e two Senate votes demonstrate that a majority of the Senate is of having a reasonable and effective voting rights Some House members indicated Continued on Page 14 Col 3 gnt be readied this morning barring any additional unforeseen dents Stale mines director ford L Wilson announced at mid- night that ho believed rescuers could begin pushing through from the farthest point of the fire within an hour Frustrated How Jong it would take to reach ihp trapped miners was anyone's guess in view of constant ries of frustrations that had pre- seined themselves during the cue operations The miners have been sealed in No 22 mine of the Creek Coal Co since Tuesday A slate fall ripped down electric cables and caused a short circuit that ignited ing timbers Wilson entered the mine late Thursday night io determine the progress crews were making in their battle to cool the tunnel area several times after they were believed extinguished ed states Italy Canada and Crews trying to clear fallen j on the ines western policy should A compromise was announced yesterday French sources indicated today kept them from working for more that he compromise the than 10 or Ib minutes at a stretch Race Against Time Working in shifts the crews struggled against the ever-present smoke and deadly carbon slate were subjected to tures that soared to as high as 150 degrees The extreme heat Allies To Present New Proposal at Disarm Parley PARIS The west wi ask Russia to join in creation of an International Disarmament to carry out three-stage world disarmament diplomatic sources said today The United States and its foul allies will present the proposal for the IDO next Tuesday when they meet the Soviet Union and four Communist bloc nations in va for disarmament talks the sources said France claimed victory in the drafting of the joint western plan i after weeks of opposing the to the idc feet below the surface of the ground and aboul rwo miles from the pithead They raced against time be- cause no one knew how much air space the entombed miners had Wilson said air was being into the area during the western policies closer I French viewpoint Tiie agreement was the result of a tangible approach toward French ideas the sources said The United States was under- stood to have favored a plan for ending nuclear tests as a first I step 2 Cabinet Members Are Reported III WASHINGTON kept Eisenhower j net members confined io their homes Thursday Secretary of State A Herler suffered a and cancelled ail his ments Tiie said Herier believed he a bin a cire Cor p also horn with aides described as a or He with destruction of nuclear to follow later Britain Italy and Canada agreed with the American stand But France wanted the west to propose destruction of nuclear stockpiles during an early stage of disarmament That would inale the weapons gap between France which has just exploded CAPE CANAVERAL F 1 a A near perfect space shot today sent a beach ball sized American satellite into orbit around the sun Dr Abe Silverstein of the tional Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration IN AS A said in Washingion the num sphere was on a path around sun inside the orbits of Venus and the earth A jubilant scientist here said launch by a three stage Able rocket was as close to fect as anyone could expect The satellite Pioneer V was designed lo radio back to earth a wealth of information on tion cosmic dust and magnetic fields to be found in deep space The silvery globe reached a velocity of miles an hour to escape tjie al pull within 150 miles an hour of the planned speed The trip to the sun and the orbit of Venus will take several months Radio signals from the intricate package were being received loud and clear from tracking stations around the world The satellite is expected to re- main in its huge orbit for roughly years If it follows course it will go into an orbit around the sun inside the path followed by earth and outside the path of Venus It will touch each neighboring orbit once every cle a trip of 295 The ambitious but into deep space was launched only a few hundred from the pad where an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile blew up Thursday night The space shot had been poned earlier Thursday because of rocket trouble The slender rocket broke loose from its pad clamps and rose slowly into the air Tee which had formed on its liquid oxygen cooled hull fell from the booster in a brilliant shower It plunged behind clouds about 20 seconds later as it soared into the sky The rocket one of the nation's most reliable but a failure in all three previous at- YUMA TEST STATION I was announced today by Yuma Test Station that tiie U.S Army Trans- Research Command of i Ft Va he a or about May as a permanent test facility Details of proposal are to be its first atomic bomb and the to launch space probes other nuclear nations which navel appeared io he functioning well climbed steeply and producing them for years Lunar Visible Sat provided at tiie annual planning i night board M held here I IV hrst par: n April Tne new An eclipse of ilic moon will be visible tomorrow as it appeared Tracking stations around the world were tuned 10 373 mega- cycles tiie frequency on which the compact but Continued on Page 14 Col fi in on a temporary hasis for tiie purpose of summer climatic n be in Yuma in a basis G Vale professor of science aj j ASi said tiie eclipse will at p.m and will become tal at Sunday Southern Arizonans can clear skies during the period ol the lunar eclipse Troops for Hew payola one of the toughest loins facing FCC He said there was a gray area if which might or might not be payola bna on State i institutions In- i a today to riate to the Legislative i Council to aid in i the state's de- against v brought fcy Southern to alleged tax Yuma Basks in Sunshine While Nation Freezes Across the land temperatures ratine 30 degrees below normal week in Yuma they're 10 degrees above normal Tie cr and said fields and has kept a crip on tiie try and slee but in Yuma man just u-i and relaxed grip to a The Bureau at Airport that our highest temperatures this first part o were 9 degrees on the and the lures continued true ranging from four io lu degrees above average on great plains from a trace io 20 inches crops in major That mark was IO de- grees above tiie average high for that date However no recent ords have been set ilore in are up winter lettuce deal and Alone Avenue that pool business is better than ever as enjoy the winter sun numbers of boats and have begun to con- on Dam and Martinez Lake water sports The HAVANA lUPO Premier del Castro summoned sands of his civilian soldiers to the capital Sunday for a meeting expected io provide another mass forum for denouncing the United Stales members of student worker and farmer tia in the Havana area are ex- 11 converge on city Most will be armed The official reason for the sembly is to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of a student sault on tiie presidential palace in which more than 50 youths were killed in an unsuccessful at- tempt former tator Batista regime has en every public opportunity re- cently to berate the United States on such charges as economic enslavement Yankee ism and insults Batista finally fled the country Weather Bureau reports i five-day forecast calls AL during the for continued warming trends SUN most of nation visitors in Yuma basked in the sun ho two weeks in March Sim photographer visited the Fourth Avenue ury hotels and recorded sun pool and people at he Flamingo The weather here will continue to warm up Staff 1 1950 but the Jan in Cuba is io link the United States to crimes laid to him revolutionary militia now encompasses all walks of life in Cuba occupation and profession has its branch mentary school too young to shoulder arms have youth patrols and learn to drill at the age of 10
