Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - February 20, 1961, Yuma, Arizona visits Hie Far East By Mabel Osborn hotels In Japan offer us only Western accommodations At others we may choose either Oriental or Western Mineral spas are featured at Beppu Atami and Hakone ing water is piped into small square tubs and a pretty little maid standing by will obligingly scrub your back after you have been soaped Or if her presence unnerves you you may take care of your own ablutions We stayed one night at ku Inn in real Japanese style This means we sleep on thin straw mattresses to use as covers One must always remove his shoes before walking on the tatami covered floor Sandals and a ton kimono are provided for ing wear The kimonos called are proper wear for breakfast too Contrary to widespread opinion Japanese women do not spend all their time dancing flirting over V II M A I -7 kl THE Hishcst jj Unveil at 11 humidity n 74 Average low this date FORECAST In Tuesday Clear and warmer today and day Rusty northerly tonight today 1L loir tonight il YUMA 43 10 PAGES PER COPY YUMA ARIZONA MONDAY FEBRUARY 20 1961 PHONE SU ARIZONA 41 Six Are Executed No Whitewash in Treasurer Probe Is Promise Atty Gen Promises Assistance Assurances were given that would be no today their fans painting or of the investigation into the county treasurer's office and that the state would provide help Some 30 Yumans headed by the Yuma County Taxpayers We see hundreds of Japanese women working on road tion and toiling in the fields It is rice harvest time and they are busy cutting and winnowing the grain Many younger women are office workers railroad employees and hotel elevator operators Some have entered the political realm Beauty is important to the Oriental woman That needed touch of beauty may be provided by a miniature garden one ful scroll on the wall or a bonsai tree In Tokyo we were guests at a tea ceremony an elderly lady Powdered tea is used for the ritual making a thick green tea very unlike what we drink Rice wafers were served with it The tea cult is thought of religion of the art of and hey conduct formal classes In this traditional art Rep Rhodes Introduces Sugar WASHINGTON UPI Rep John J Rhodes today in- a which he said would open the door to raising sugar beets in Arizona Rhodes said his would vide a minimum quota of acres of beets for each of six states Arizona Nevada Mexico Texas Oklahoma and sas Arizona farmers long have ed to raise sugar beets Rhodes said but have not been able to get domestic quota under the sugar act There is no reason why Arizona and other western states should not share in production of sugar for the American Rhodes said Now that we have stopped importing sugar from Cuba it is time to rewrite the sugar act in such a way that the West will have a permanent of the sugar in- dustry The Arizona Republican said his would guarantee domestic beet growers a permanent right to supply at least 3 million tons of sugar for American market in- of the present million tons Under present legislation Rhodes said president could restore Cuba's sugar quota any lime he wants to nnd domestic sugar would be right back where they were before The present act expires March 31 and several hills already have been introduced to extend the act for nine months or more The Rhodes in addition to ing the domestic quota and giving a share of it to the six western slates also would extend act for six years sociation attended morning's meeting of the Board of Super- visors County Attorney Jeff ards told gathering There has been no attempt to whitewash the case and I do not wish to do so I have been in contact with state officials and the attorney general and they have assured me they would aid my office in making this investigation Richards said that he had ten the attorney general and had contacted Yuma County tors in the matter Charges Made The matter of the investigation into the county treasurer's office had come up at the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors For- Mrs Amelia had charged ert en IMC naa LOTS OF was a at the Board tion of the Yuma County treasurer's office Members of the Clarities inthe office and of Supervisors meeting this morning County attorney Jeff Board of Supervisors are Chairman Otis Shipp white shirt i Richards center rises to assure the Yumans that facing Jim Fuquay to Shipp's right and Bob of 40 y Mil f or aa to ney William H Westover Mrs McMorris had that the treasurer Mrs Coila Smith had made at one of tax land Supervisors Chairman Otis Shipp assured the crowd that everything possible would the matter was progressing He called on Richard C Weing ber of the state auditor's office who is currently auditing books of the treasurer's o Ewing said I under how you would feel that there is a delay There is a amount of work to be done going back to the late I Saturday and Sunday on mis job and have made a office I that this will go the attorney general and possibly to Hie governor I can assure you that there is action being taken and have no intent to whitewash She matter Will Take Time Richards also told the You can't unravel in two weeks what may have happened over a period of six years I do not wish Richards right center rises to assure the Yumans that there would be no of the requested Nissen behind Sun Staff to reveal at been found this time The county attorney later told Tiie Sun that preliminary investigation had indicated that a daughter of Mr Smith had ed land which was sold by the county treasu office Dennis McKeogh head of Taxpayers Assn was tiie Continued on Page 2 Col 3 is net e lately deed H WASHINGTON U.S Chamber of Commerce said today that President Kennedy's proposal to boost the minimum wage would force employers to raise prices lay oft workers and buy foreign goods But Walter president of the Department denied that an hour minimum would he inflationary and said it was needed lo spur indi toward greater efficiency Tiie conflicting views were pre- sented testimony tcf a LIouse Tabor subcommittee ering Kennedy's proposal to crease the wage floor gradually from SI to SI 25 an hour nnd ex- tend coverage to 4.3 million more workers Stand The stand ag the President's plan was outlined by Dr P Schmidt chief economist and Eugene Jr of Richmond president of Southern Department Stores Inc Schmidt disputed Hie argument that the wage would increase purchasing power and thus aid in combatting the lit contended the measure WMU Castro Shipp Drive He Rebels me UPI Raul Castro forces chief and brother o sre premier today was reported leading the drive a fresh band of invaders in eastern Cuba s invaders said to number o 50 men were believed go refuge in the to escape the e from Oriente Province the rebel band landed near Plata on the south coast about miles east of the U.S at Bay reports said the group was rer by Maj Nino Diaz a former of Raul's a native of Oriente once before had been re- leading an insurgent band iat the province but had to disband for lack of support believed Hie invaders seeking to open a against the government to pressure on the rebels n Cuba where official admitted the government 3 was losing 30 men a oup Hears 2 Wage by increasing and cost of living said that if is extended to the 32 in his firm it would Wave buy more imports boost prices to 10 per cent and lay off 30 40 of its 739 employes He said of the workers employed by iat Department Stores Inc earn less man SI an hour id More Needed testimony presented the subcommittee by IUD ad- director Jacob supported the previous contention that Kennedy's did not go far enough the administration's plan said the vehicle is and the pace too slow said raising me wage to an hour pump billion inlo the and stimulate industries in need of buying power c wearing apparel housing home and small appliances proposal would raise minimum wage for presently workers to Ihis year next year and at of two years Newly covered would be brought in with 11 minimum which would be to after ywi WASHINGTON Kennedy sent Congress today a education gram which would authorize billion in federal grants and loans to build public schools boos teachers salaries and increase college opportunities Key provisions of the dent's special message federal grants o 52.3 Million for public school con teachers salaries three years will struction and for the next each deciding how the money would go for eacl function would a minimum of for every pub lie school student in average daily attendance a five-year program of scholarships for up to talented and needy college students at an over-all federal cost of 5577.5 lion The average scholarship would be 5700 the maximum would be Colleges and uni- would gee 5350 a yeai additional for teaching each eral scholarship studeni States would have to pass out competitively without re- gard to sex race creed or color the college housing loan program for five years al million annually and provide 5300 million a year in loans for five years to help build college classrooms laboratories libraries and related academic facilities Excludes Schools Kennedy the first Roman to serve in Die While House made a- special point of notin that and private mentary and secondary schools would be excluded from the gram in accordance with the clear prohibition of the Constitution no elementary or secondary school funds are allocated for ing church schools or paying church school teachers the President said Kennedy in an effort to win over fearful of federal control of schools said education must remain a matter of state and local control and higher cation a matter of individual choice But he said the nation's twin goals must a new standard of excellence in the availability of such excellence to ill who are willing and able to pursue it This is a with Kennedy told Congress For some 40 years Congress has wrestled with this problem and searched for a workable solution I believe lint ve now have such a and that this Congress in this year will make a contribution lo merican education lid M bt tot elementary and secondary public schools would be distributed under a formula giving poorer states such as Mississippi a bigger tive share than richer states such as New York Up To Slates Administration officials said the states themselves would decide how much of the money they get would be used for construction and how much to pay teachers There would be no strings at- except that each state would have to maintain effort or contribution and to allot more for education if its share falls below the national average Federal funds could go to ly segregated schools under tiie bill's provisions if states so choose officials said But the money could not go to any vate schools established to get around tion The school construction teachers pay program would assure every state of no less than 515 fnr every public school student in average daily attendance The total would be million in the 1962 fiscal year starting next July 1 million in the fiscal year and 5866 million in the following year Funds could be distributed un- der an equalization formula by which a state's average income per pupil is measured against the national average of Those below the national average would funds than those above it to a floor of 515 per pupil The highest figure per pupil is 529.07 for Mississippi The lows of listed for Alaska cut Delaware Illinois setts New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island and the District of Columbia Meet Unique Problems Ten per cent of the funds lotted to each state in the first an equal amount be used help meet the unique problems of each state's areas of special al need These would include problems of students in depressed areas slum neighborhoods and other sections Officials said the unique lems also conceivably could in- clude difficulties in adjusting to desegregation of schools An ex- Continued on Page 2 Col 1 Big Airlines Are Closed By Strike NEW YORK UPI Strikin flight engineers stayed away from their jobs for the third straight day today making it almost cer tain that five major airlines begin about 60.000 em- ployes across the United States Three of the airlines appeared ready to shut down entirely and a fourth promised only skeleton service The airlines had planned to be- gin layoffs today unless the Bight engineers resumed their jobs But the engineers their cat strike and American Airlines and Trans World Airlines an- they had cancelled most all flights until noon Labor Secretary Arthur J berg planned to confer in ington with Francis O'Neill head of the National Mediation Board to seek an answer to one of the worst crises in commercial tion history In New York alone more than 600 flights into and out of the three major airports were cancelled About passengers were American Airlines said that as a consequence of the strike it would begin laying off workers beginning at noon Other similar action today unless the strike With Trans World can tied up the only carrier op- directly between New York and the West Coast was United Airlines Lyndon Johnson Plane Crashes 2 Pilots Killed JOHNSON CITY Tex Vice President E son's plane crashed Sunday night seven miles from Johnson's LBJ ranch killing two pilots who were on board Texas Department of Public Safety agents radioed from the scene today that they had found the wreckage and the two dead Harold Teague and Charles Williams The plane which Johnson used or business trips crashed Sunday night shortly after it had radioed at p.m CST that the weather s too bad for it to land at Johnson's private and that t was turned back lo Austin 65 miles away Teague and Williams were the plane from Austin to the ranch There is one lighted runway at the ranch There are ment landing facilities at Austin UN Council Shocked Adjourns UNITED NATIONS UPI followers of slain Patrice Lumumba were executed after their deportation by Congo dent Joseph Kasavubu into the Congo's violently Kasai Province Secretary-general Dag told the curity Council today Soviet Ambassador Valerian A Zorin charged that the Kasavubu government is carrying out a campaign of systematic of the national leaders of the Congo He put full flame on skjold and Belgium for support of the Congo regime of Kasavubu secessionist leader Moise be and army strongman Maj Gen Joseph D Mobutu Zorin de- manded the arrest of and Mobutu The council adjourned once after hearing announcement shock It agreed to Liberian Ambassador George A request far adjournment until 3 p.m EST to permit him to consult other can delegates U.S Ambassador Adlai E venson said he was instructed to express our shock revulsion and indignation at ple of barbarity Zorin seized upon the ment as the speech He recalled that rie had opposed the council's end adjournment last Friday and said every day's postponement is untying the hands of Uie regime which is now ing in Leopoldville and Katanga We are Zorin said that if the United Nations con- its passive attitude in the adoption of decisive measures against the Belgian aggressors and their stooges we will have further victims and will be faced with a complete catastrophe The six political prisoners were transferred from Leopoldville to in the strongly anti- province last week Rajeshwar Dayal of India and special ative in the Congo informed the secretary-general this morning he had been notified by the called minister of justice of South Kasai that they had been executed Hammarskjold protested trans- fer of the political prisoners late last week in a stern note to Continued on Page 2 Col 3 35 Face Hearing On Riot Charges At El Centre EL CENTRO group of Imperial Valley farm workers and union organizers faced preliminary hearings today in justice court on charges of riot trespassing at- tempted arson and assault with a deadly weapon The charges arose from an at- tack Feb 9 on a Brawley labor camp housing Mexican nationals braceros during which four sons were injured none ly Sheriff's deputies arrested 35 workers claiming they tried to prevent braceros from leaving the camp to in the fields vesting remainder of the ley's estimated million tuce crop Pickets Sunday paraded in front of the Imperial County Jail signs reading Sheriff ire you and One deputy for every four agricultural ers The pickets were led by union organizer John Soria one of the two men free on hail each Sheriff's and El Centra police stood by in case of a disturbance but there WH none The dispute has been under 40 AND 8 of the 40 and 8 Clubs from Arizona and Southern since the middle oC Urt month fornia met in Yuma yesterday to initiate new members From left are Charles West Sam Lankard El Centre Louis Perez Yuma Mrs Carmen Bory Colton Calif W Tony Moreno Somerton Harry L Powell Yuma and Ed Brown Phoenix Mrs Bory mm is surrounded by four of the to sell her a subscription to Star Magazine a publication of the 40 and 8 to help support Carville Hospital in for farnl and an tt Hansen's disease The two on the ends are members helping with the initiation 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