Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - May 27, 1960, Yuma, Arizona Bv JONES OSBORN We stepped off lip attack er Oriskany at Pearl And when wo turned back to look at her we saw a different ship THE YUMA 126 When we hoarded her a week our initial impression was confined to the image she pre- sents to outsiders We saw her island and radar screens ing feet above the high as an We saw her to reach from Yuma's past the San Carlos Hotel 12 PAGES FRIDAY MAY 21 THE WEATHER it It nl II l m IhK dale ftl to hut mostly I ami Slightly I lav Hiah PER COPY lOc PHONE SU ARIZONA VOL 126 But now H lien we look at her we see past those external sions We know that deep in her hull her engines are quietly producing enough electrical power for a city of 20.000 persons Higher up is a hospital Scattered throughout are six ferent kitchens prepared to feed 3.300 men and officers around the clock She operates her own fire de- and her tanks are filled with two million gallons of fuel Herter Admits U2 Gave K Excuse for Her ship's store is prepared to sell her citizens a thousand watches and 17.000 lubes of paste while below decks her are scooping up sea water and turning it into soft fresh water at the rate of Ions per day more than enough for her needs Her iceboxes are bulging with pounds of frozen ries and an equal amount of ping cream while more than 500 hungry engineers swarm over ship keeping her complex in operation Her men are shooting up rolls of film in their own cameras and the Oriskany herself is crammed full of missiles while a vast system keeps ture comfortable She publishes her own per operates her own soda tain tailor shop laundries ber shops and cobbler shop She carries eight different types of craft with the mechanics lo keep em flying and a combat tion center of electronic devices that is kept lucked to all but a few of her personnel In a few days this vast borne air base joins the Seventh Fleet keep the sea lanes open and stand as a powerful de- terrent to be aggressors We wish her well Probable Reasons for Act Listed UPP tary of State Christian A Herler acknowledged today thai Soviet Premier Khrushchev might have found it impossible to pedo summit conference had it not been for the American spy plane incident It is debatable whether it would have been possible for Mr Khrushchev to devise another pre- text for so radical and violent a Herter told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lead-off witness at the committee's historic inquiry into the events leading to the summit collapse cited Wo other major factors which in he said probably impelled Russia to scuttle last week's Paris Big Four apparent sion that in fhe face of western unity especially on the Berlin sue there was little likelihood of his having his way at the summit Red Chinese Influence questioning and pos sibly outright opposition in the Soviet hierarchy to Khrushchev's personal diplomacy and so-called softer line toward the West This probably was reinforced bj bitter Chinese Communist to Khrushchev's attitude toward the West President Eisenhower said Thursday that Khrushchev ma have scuttled the summit under pressure by the Stalinists and the Chinese Reds In a opening 3 Candidates Head West Seeking Votes WASHINGTON UPI The three active contenders for the Democratic presidential tion head West today to court tional convent ion in and California and other western slates The arc Sens John F Kennedy of Massachusetts the front-runner Stuart Symington of Missouri and Lyndon B Johnson of Texas an active hut still un- announced candidate Their trails will join or cross at the slate cratic al Spokane and Saturday and at cratic dinners in Tuesday and San Francisco Gov G Thrown of fornia favorite son in presidential primary June 7 also will be at the dinners hut Johnson will attend only the first one The Democratic convention will complete selection nf a to the tional convention California Democrats will name an delegation in their presidential primary June 7 Brown has no serious presidential candidate opposing him but has home state competition from George an advocate of old age pension plans Continued on Page 2 Col -i Boy Rescued from Quicksand below Painted Rock Dam GILA BEND UPI Sheriff's deputies have been warning per sons to stay out of the area belov Painted Rock Dam because of hi quicksand They will not have to warn 14 year-old Fred Gutrenez He spen hours in the quicksand las night the waist and belt from death only by rocks tha cluttered fhe pit He said he and two companion were exploring the area and wer in shallow water when earth in under him The boys were un able to pull Gutrenez free so the summoned help Howard Dixon calle military personnel stationed al Oa man Flat and 12 soldiers pulle hoy free using planks and Bracero Drowns in River Here A 21-year-old bracero whose lother had recently written him i come back to if gets hot it's not worth in the ado River near Yuma yesterday Sheriff deputies identified the as Lorenzo Leon 1 survived by his mother living state ot Hidalgo Mexico The young contract laborer was al Bruce Church nr camp six miles north of uma in Gila Valley Chief Deputy Jack Chavez quoted four braceros as giving While sitting on a sand bar on he river yesterday afternoon p.m Lozada saw a log down witli the current towards the group He tolf he others to help him pull the log nit of the water The others de saying they know o swim who also could no Avim went into the river and soon was lost from sight Two of tin braceros stayed at the scene whili two others went for help The bod was recovered about 30 minute later Chavez said among tiie victim personal belongings was a lelle recently received from his mothe saying If the weather gets toe hot son come hack home It's no worth the money you get death marks the fift drowning in Yuma area fo 1960 David Wayne Boling drowned in an irrigation near bis home in April On Marc Cth Richard Hogard 33 a civi employee at drowned Martinez Lake Moses Silver 33 of San Diego drowned near Imperial Dam Apr when he attempted lo swin near a lube An the body of Sgi Willis W Russel the area's 4th drowning vie tim was discovered early Hi month in an irrigation canal i Dome Valley Mrs Trial Delayed to June 9th GRADUATION DAYS 400 Yuma Union School graduates received their diplomas as ment exercises held on Doan Field last night The girls wore white robes the hoys were dressed in The address was given by lean E and the class was Matthew Wong Sun Slaff Photo U.S To Cut Off Aid to Cuba Dec I WASHINGTON UPI The United Slates announced today it will cut off all economic aid to Cuba in ISO days This would be about Dec 1 The Slate Department said ident Eisenhower determined that continued aid lo Cuba would not be in and hemispheric interest It was the major U.S re- prisal against Premier Fidel tro's government and first lime aid has been cu off lo any Latin American country The President acted under the Mutual Security Act of which Halt Cibola Channel Plan Urges Yuma Co Group provides that no economic aid be given unless Hie President decides it is in national and hemi- spheric interest Current economic aid lo Cuba has run between and a year Habit Fatal LOS UPD Mi- Florence attorneys la plans today to seek dismissal charges accusing her of LOS UPH tiling to delinquency of her office reported today daughter Beverly IT Ilial Waller habit nf Scheduled start of Mrs Ad- chewing on stems of grass and land's trial Thursday weeds while mowing the until June fl when her at- proved falal A pointed by the Yuma County Board of Supervisors has urged Bureau of Reclamation In hold up plans in Colorado Paver through the Cibola Valley In a recent lefler to A I ell regional river control neer the committee stated project should he held in ance until further studies arc made as ai present Ibis seems lo be harmful to Yuma County Members of Cibola Valley Committee include Glen II Strohm and members Lodge Blasts Gromyko for Distortion oilier work proposed along Hi The immediate of Dam on the liams RKer This would relieve flood dancers to Palo Verde and Cibola Valleys would protect i dams and irrigation installations below Parker Dam and eliminate largo inflow of silt into Lake Government Leaders Are Jailed By Turkey's arm y control of government in a midnight revolution ind Premier Adrian because if said his regime was leading to at i lime of grave crisis The army struck in lie dead nf the night in what was believed he a bloodless coup There he no signifir-ant opposition the powerful army Thorp reports of shooting on thp of Ankara parly today but late diplomatic dis- patches reaching London said fhe situation urns now Gen Cemal Kl com- mander of Turkey's American trained and equipped ground forces became the sole ruler of the country He immediately pledged that he no He promised early elections and snid Turkey would lo the NATO and a bane PS Promises Rule Gursel also Celal Bayar President Refik Koraltan other government leaders The army indicated they an 1 es he brought to Gursel a national NATIONS U.S Lodge today accused Soviet cign Andrei j report lo the nation i and said President's of committee and ordered where Th Ray H Thompson Jack K lowe Louis C Bishop and William L They asked for ies of all and dations relative to the channel Said Hie We under- stand that there is the ale Appropriations Committee a request for an appropriation for Hie liver work We aslo j stand that it is important that we 71 o make partial to the committee in ing the of this request The local committee then made the recommendations of Immediately a bHow Cibola in re- move aod keep all sand bars from bridge lo Lake This bank erosion increase river carrying and reduce mosi of I be sediment flow mro I be Imperial I winch is the Bureau's prime reason for the The com mi 11 en Continued on Page 2 household word the world the il Thursday night thai had brink of war by declaring I in his Wednesday night speech that the i lo Us v nf I and Soviet that f the Ilial he said no Mich thing i western were j 1 lhat Gromyko j would a small of hulks under to take over the y were made it clear he was Hie determined to a clean and honest order ill the country as soon as possible I hasten to fellow thai f am not by any of a said in a broad to lias hy weeks tiie unpopular J ed tr the I truth about U.S i aerial spy ties a responsibility for flights of plane Secretary of State Herter told a Senate committee He was cut and bruised bu apparently was all right fhey needed more time to prove charges against her were without foundation Mrs 53 is accused of five counts of lo delinquency grew Monterey Park died Thursday in general hospital after munching IONIC May It A casior bean g Poppy Day Is Observed In Yuma Mayor announced day that Poppy Day ill be ob- served today and He said the annual memorial to American war dead winch is sponsored by tiie American gion Auxiliary will last ail day Friday and until noon Saturday Volunteer workers Inn liary anil Junior Auxiliary bers will he on street Yuma offering p to the public Poppy Day enables every American personally wear a memorial this uar dead said Al Ih sam the in: a red s as a tribute disabled j of j I hereby Saturday and to I Poppy Diy in tiie city I all our i zens this day hy j sa Mrs Betty tiie Auxiliary said i patriotic observance has horn Unit the poppy FIRST Hilley left Yuma's Poppy Queen sell the first Mayor George Shackleford after the latter proclaimed today and tomorrow as Poppy to serve as a memon Day in Yuma Mrs Betty Badgley center is the American Legion for the nation's war dead and as man for Poppy Day Staff i tribute w all disabled veterans years the American I Lesion and the American Legion Auxiliary originated me idea of Poppy Day after World War I the program has two basic ob- a FIRST CAB Smiling Harold Hosford manager of the Hogue Co here stands in the doorway of the first carload of melons to be shipped out of Yuma This was the first of two cars which weer shipped to Pittsburgh yesterday Melons came from an open field at Avenue G and County Street Warming is expected to start moving Yuma crop in a hurry Staff s apparently was j inspired by success he Korean riots brought of I The nuts followed Korea's by a few days and through the same massive cries for freedom Gursel promised the nation that freedom in a series of and over Ankara Radio tfic main of the government imposed and he nation's borders Pilot of Strayed Plane How Blames Shift of Wind Germany UPD Toe pilot ot a U.S plane forced by Soviel fighters the fnm Curtain tins his barge That wrong information from a Danish airport made him cross the Kasl German Air Korce Capt James P Lundy Ohio told a news conference Thursday that wrong on winds between and had made him tne Iron accidentally An Air Force spokesman that told Hie of enquiry the dent Thursday thai were apparently un- til the plane reached the Island of Then the winds changed denly ind plane off course the spokesman quoted as The Danish air force re- fused official comment on h e by in i I s news conference plane was reed by t h e Soviets Wednesday after having bson held five days the Iron Curtain It hack with its five crewmen and passengers ot them a woman
