Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - October 25, 1960, Yuma, Arizona By JONES In my last two columns I told about The Eye in the Sky That is the remote-controlled airplane that flies over enemy and takes photographs day or night Then the airplane is brought back to earth and its tures studied for information about the enemy The U.S Army at Fort chuca this method for us last week at its National Press Show But a newer faster method is already being developed Some day.soon the trolled airplanes drones will cameras As they fly over enemy territory they will scan the ground below and send a continuous image back to our Army commanders That is just one of the ments which the Army Signal Corps at Fort Huachuca and Yuma Test Station are working on Here's That soldier you see is talking to Washington from Forl Huachuca Ariz Must least miles operators from WW2 ind Korea how it was to communicate tome of that early equipment even a few dozen miles But day's portable radios mounted on Jeeps and carrying a an- tenna developed by the Marines can talk from here to the Penta- Remember laying telephone wire from those heavy spools stumbling through the falling into every Nowadays they can do it by helicopter ing 15 feet above the ground at a speed of 100 miles of wire in an hour Artillerymen will remember how much time it took to figure a field of fire on a division It took from 12 to hours But today the Army is eagerly awaiting its first mobile electronics computer for use in the field The computer will do in en minutes what used to take 12 And with total Some interest to all Yumans whether they or not Students Gain 146 Pet In Yuma Co IQc THE THE WEATHER Till yesterday 76 60 Lowest Till fill Temperature at 11 today SI humidity at u Average this date Average low this date 59 FORECAST to Wednesday Mostly clear and warmer to day and Wednesday High today 35 low tonight 60 YUMA 253 14 PAGES PER COPr I OB YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY OCTOBER 25 PHONE SU ARIZONA 251 Fire Destroys Building Burglar Cracks Sunken Electric Safe Here Escapes Pry Job Netted Last Night A bold safecracker tore open the safe at Junken Electric ice Virginia Drive last night and left the building 5300 richer According to Cy Bombard 851 Rosewood an employee at the company he went to the office about 10 p.m last night and while he was there thought he heard footsteps but decided it was ing It appears Bombard was wrong because evidence leads police to suspect that the burglar finished his work and left before p.m Bombard said he stayed only about 10 minutes The burglar apparently gained access to the company yards by sealing a block wall to the side of the company property After he was in the yard he placed a der at the wall for his escape in case ot a hurried retreat Crossed Yard Then he crossed a well-lighted yard area and entered the ing by prying open a padlock on a side door Apparently he brought no tools with him because he borrowed a crow bar from one of the com- pany trucks to open Then on the inside he helped himself to tools in the tool room for opening the safe he attempted to pry off the pins through the hinges but they proved too tough An attempt to pry the tion part looe and spring the lock open also ended in failure The final attempt consisted of brute strength With he wedged between a crowbar the double The average daily attendance at Yuma County high schools has in- creased 146.7 per cent in the past 10 years This increase ranks Yuma ty third among the state's 1 counties of increase Figures were released today by the Valley National Bank In the average daily at- tendance at Yuma County high schools was In the school year the average daily at- tendance had jumped to for an increase of 146.7 per cent For the state as a whole high school attendance increased 120.6 per cent for the same riod Here are the lop five counties in order of percentage Per Cent door and pulled the doors apart He went through everything in the safe but only took the cash boxes These he took into a back of- fice and pried open taking only currency and leaving checks HG found more cash in the ister and about a dollar in one desk drawer He searched all the desks and filing cabinets but didn't disturb anything but cash Saturday night two were surprised in the act at the Imperial Hardware Store town and were forced to leave their tools behind in their un- planned departure In this case again must have been surprised but was not discovered Leaving by the same route he gained his entry the burglar left the company not penniless but with 17 coppers left untouched in the same desk drawer he found the dollar UN Troops Act To Halt Col Mobutu LEOPOLDVILLE THE CONGO sources disclosed that United Nations forces have taken up positions along the Thj Highway today in an effort to prevent Congolese strongman Col from bringing ments into the Joseph Mobutu troop capital The sources said the forces are armed with heavy equipment including guns If tu presses ahead with plans to bring the armored gade from a military clash could result Gen I special military adviser to the forces was reported to have issued a strong warning to Mobutu not to try to bring in the elite armored Mobutu whose grip over the Congo political situation has been slipping recently and whose lee army troops already in have been rampaging in drunken violence in parts of the city apparently planned to bolster his position with the armored force The lates action seems to by fears Mobutu wanted to use the armored brigade to put added pressure on the to push through his claims Mobutu repeatedly and bitterly has complained that the lias refused to recognize his regime and prevented him from arresting Lumumba The officially isv pledged to support the Lumumba council of high announced earlier in Mobutu's missioners the day that it has legally de- posed Lumumba And it warned that it might indict the be- fore the International Court of Justice at the Hague if the refused to recognize it as the Congo's only lawful authority The colonel had been expected to speak at the United Nations in New York Mobutu was having troubles with his troops who have Leopoldville for days by wildly through the African quarters Pedestrians were beaten women were waists in the stripped to the streets and there were unconfirmed reports that drunken troops broke into homes to rape and molest women In view of the deteriorating Mobutu decided to cancel his scheduled trip to New York to plead case before the United Nations pours from an office building at office comptroller and disbursing office The mail and late this morning as station firemen try to check money was saved The fire was brought under control the blaze Destroyed was the building housing the post about noon Photo Two Hurt in Yuma Auto Accidents Two Yumans were injured in traffic accidents yesterday but the injuries are not considered serious Richard Sousa 31 264 21st Street injured when his collided with a car at the intersection of 24th Street and zona Avenue Sousa was traveling west on 24th Street when ho struck a car going south on The car was driven by Robert Alex 30 2714 Nogales Avenue Gollnick was cited by City Police Continued on Page 2 Col 4 2 Plead Guilty To Extortion Try PHOENIX UPI Two men have pleaded guilty to trying to extort 000 from a grand- daughter of the late William dolph Hearst in Phoenix The two Benjamin Crosby IS of Arcadia Calif and Lamar Ro- mero 23 of Phoenix will be Nov 7 Rank County 1 Coconino 2 3 Yuma 4 Pima 5 Final Increase 169.8 148.7 146.7 135.5 102.0 I Castro Seizes 167 More US Firms Completing Business Communization Mail Money Saved from Office Blaze Fire roared out of control Tata his morning at complete- destroying a building housing three vital station offices Breaking out at about in the fire quickly raced through the roof of the building housed the post office ion comptroller and disbursing of- ice There was no immediate re- rart from the station as to how he fire may have started Station fire fighting personnel crews and security nent people fought the ng fire which a huge col- imn of smoke boiling into the sky By noon there was only a wisp of smoke coming from the ruins Quick work by nel saved all of the mail in the lost office The money in the dis- bursing office was housed in a safe and this too was saved The pay records of the Nation were also rescued Size of the building was about 40 feet by 120 feet There were no injuries reported to office workers or f i r e n officials could not give an immediate estimate on the fire loss HAVANA Cuba UPD The revolutionary govern ment an- the seizure and forced today of 167 ican companies and firms in re- prisal for the U.S economic embargo against Cuba The decree virtually wipes out all important remaining American business interests in Cuba Ten days ago Castro killed capitalism with the seizure of 282 firms and today he has given it the coup de one man said The decree charges that the U.S government continues to carry out each day more un- scrupulous criminal aggressions Thousands Welcome Kennedy By WILLIAM THEIS United Press WITH KENNEDY IN ILLINOIS Sen John F Kennedy brought out thousands of crats in a tour through Republican country of suburban Chicago today and told them that Vice-President Richard M Nixon had deliberately created a cal bogeyman to defeat federal aid to education Kennedy and his parly were almost trampled in the astic surge of a crowd of at home of Democratic presidential persons former nominee Adlai E Stevenson Kennedy urged voters in the crowd to decide whether they want to be comfortable or con cerned There were evidences of the usually Republican of the electorate in this area along the route of Kennedy's fast-moving caravan and there were crats in large numbers along the motorcade route at DCS Wheeling Libertyville Lake rich and Harrington The Democratic president i a 1 nominee said Nixon's expressed fear that federal control would result from federal aid for ers salaries raised a flase issue Illinois Democratic leaders were enthusiastic about Kennedy's in Monday's whirlwind nation's Cuba's economy The decree covers 31 categories of companies from flour mills to dry cleaning establishments Tlie decree was signed by Pre- mier Fidel Castro and President Osvaldo and specifically said the measure was imposed in response to the embargo imposed by Washington last week The move came only 10 days after Castro's took over another 282 firms in a drive hat Youth Arrested In Stolen Car A Oregon youth was arrested yesterday ir a stolen car after he aroused the suspicion of officials at the Arizona Inspection Station because he could not open his trunk Joel David Clarke was arrested by City Police at p.m and a check of his automobile revealed that it had been stolen earlier that morning in California now has put virtually all private businesses and industrial prises in government hands Among the 167 firms ated today are many which have been under intervention for the past several months But among the new ones are Bunjis Flour Mills Coca Cola Canada Dry F Sears Roebuck t Co Genera Electric Westinghouse Electric Remington Rand and Harvester The new ones also include the Reynolds Aluminum Co and insurance companies representing such firms as Pan American Life Insurance Home Insurance Co Hartford Fire Insurance Co Maryland Casualty Co and the United Life Insurance Co There also were at number ol supermarkets and drug houses seized The seizures came in tiie mid- dle of a massive campaign by the press radio and government ing the Cuban people to prepare Continued on Page 2 Col 3 House Group Is Probing Withholding of Reports on U.S prestige been withheld on WASHINGTON UPI House investigators launched a ly potent inquiry today in an fort to find out whether ment reports abroad have White House orders A spokesman said the House government information expected a report on the subject today from U.S tion Agency USIA Director George V Allen The spokesman said me USIA hnd invoked executive privilege and withheld Congress re- cent studies of America's standing abroad He said the monthly polls usually are classified and not re- leased to the public but in the past they have been made able to Congress Executive privilege usually is invoked on orders from the White Campaign U.S prestige among foreigners has become a major campaign issue Democratic presidential tour of mixed farm and in- nominee Tofin F Kennedy con centers in stale SAFE Bombard studies the safe at Junken Electric Service Inc 2495 Virginia Drive A safecracker tore open the doors of the vault last night and was still in the building when Bombard returned for about 10 minutes but the burglary re- mained until this moraine Staff Sen Paul Douglas running and favored for reelection predicted Kennedy will carry Illinois Kennedy's first day of in that state was marked by a fresh series of campaign ex- changes MM tor between and the tends American prestige has de- under the Eisenhower ad- ministration GOP candidate ard H Nixon it never lias been higher House investigation was launched following a Columbia System CBS But a USIA re- port contains evidence ican military prestige abroad has slipped badly Tile network said the Aug report shows a of America's Allies believe is the world's strongest power Kennedy and Chairman J liam Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations tee have asked for any recent USIA studies of America's tige A USIA spokesman said there have been no recent studies and Fulbright charged there are such reports are being suppressed for political reasons Full Inquiry A House government information subcommittee spokesman Rep John E Moss a Go ahead investigation to mine on what grounds executive privilege was being invoked to withhold prestige reports from Congress a bitter foe of secrecy has charged in the pas that Jic administration has invok ed executive privilege to information that put it in a bac light The congressman accused the Office of Civil and Defense Monday of try ing to suppress a report criticizing the nation's air raid alert at Downgrading Of America ABOARD NIXON TRAIN UPI President Richard M on whistle stopped in West ginia and Ohio today with a charge that Sen John F Kennedy was playing into the hands of Communist propaganda at- tempting to downgrade America in his campaign criticism of the Eisenhower administration Starting out in Williamstown W Va with the avowed intention of putting the heat on Kennedy and other leading Democrats on drove across the Ohio River to Marietta Ohio where he re- Ws attacks on cratic opponent I am tired of hearing our op- ponent downgrade the United States and letting our enemies abroad have the benefit of Nixon said Refers To He pointed out that Pravda the official newspaper in Moscow Monday devoted two columns to statements by Kennedy and Adlai E Stevenson 1952 and 1956 candidate to the effect Nixon said that American tige is at a new low He also said Stevenson was being quoted by the Russians as saying the Communist world looks more dynamic This the GOP candidate said was not the way to along with the particularly when the ed States is not second place to anyone Nixon's steamy efforts to dis- credit the campaign statements of the Democratic candidate will be displayed nationally tonight over television The vice president will make his first nationwide paid political television speech of the current campaign from Cincinnati Drone Test To Close US 80 90 Minutes FT HUACHUCA A Ft Huachuca spokesman said sections nf two major highways through Arizona will be closed for 90 utes sometime next year during testing of a new jet drone lance craft Dates have not been set The spokesman said 10 miles of U.S 89 the Nogales and part of U.S 80 near Yuma will be closed He said the drone in effect an electronic spy plane trill be used as part of the range being constructed between and Ft Huachuca It is an all-weather delta wine craft 36 feet long designed to By at the speed of sound Two jet planes will follow tht drone in case anything gow wrong
