Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 31, 1961, Yuma, Arizona The Notebook JONES OSBORN Political scientists are mostly in short ballot They say that if try to fill too many public offices by tion the average voter votes ly on a large number of them He may know something useful about the top five or six men ning but after that he is usually just guessing But look at what is happening in A total of 71 persons running for the same Yes 70 Democrats and 1 lican all seeking the seat in the U.S Senate formerly held by Vice President Lyndon Johnson Well out of such a mob you are bound to get some beauts One man says he believes in the right of every citizen to gate himself Another candidate has a scheme for ending the recession He would offer a thousand dollars to every married woman with a job if she would quit work At least half of them would accept he says there by creating four million jobs for men And another two million jobs would be created when those four million women went out and spent their thousand-dollar bills a total of 54 The eyes of Texas are upon feat Senate seat for certain Hunt Continues For Lost Businessman ST JOHNS An sive air search began this morning for two Eastern Arizona men Virgil and E Farr Whiting missing since Wednesday on a flight from here to Phoenix Weather cleared over the state durng the night allowing a fuB Air Patrol search to begin By mid 50 planes scouring the area from Phoenix northeastward to St Johns and on to the New Mexico border around Lupton In addition to the air search the Apache ground search parties in several areas along the route headquarters at on the Fort Apache Reservation One of the heaviest tions of airplanes in the search was around Show Low where a plane similar to that of the ings was reported to have at- tempted a landing shortly p m Wednesday Bad weather forced the plane to turn around and head back for St Johns The Whitings left St Johns at 1 p m Wednesday for business appointments in Phoenix but er arrived Their last contact was a radio message at the Tonto tional Forest station in Show Low saying they appeared to be ing into heavy weather Virgil Whiting the pilot of the plane is manager of me Brothers planing and saw mill at Eagar Farr Whiting is manager of the Whiting enterprises quarters in St Johns The business operates in Ari na Mexico California and Texas The brothers are the sons of E I Whiting present head of the en- and grandsons of win M Whiting founder of the family business Famin Signs Ml UPI Gov Paul Fannin Thursday signed a outlawing the Communist party and requiring loyalty oaths ol public employes This was one of the most con- items of legislation from the recently adjourned first session of the legislature Fannin also vetoed a day It would have abolished office of post auditor and ed it with the position of tive officer SUN THE WEATHER yesterday M 51 Temperature At 11 73 Relative humidity 11 Avenge thli due 13 Average this date M FORECAST to Saturday Clear and warmer today and Saturday High today 88 low tonight 17 YUMA 77 20 PAGES PER COPY IDe YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY MARCH 31 1961 PHONE SU ARIZONA 77 Unveil Gib Valley Levee Plans Two Survive Crash of Jet Bomber in South FAIR QUEEN Dennis ter of Mr and Mrs LuA Dennis 316 19th Avenue will compete with 12 other girls for queen of the Yuma County Fair to be held April 5th through 9th Miss Dennis is sponsored by the Yuma American Legion Post Sun Staff Floods Threaten Damage In Middle West and South By United Press International Tornadoes cut destructive swaths across Georgia today and made almost sons homeless at embattled dar Rapids Iowa A 10 to 14 inch snowfall played havoc with communications and travel in the Southern Plains rains up to 8 inches in hours at Seminary Miss washed Dixie from southeastern Oklahoma to the Georgia coastline A severe flood warning was hoisted along the Pearl Leaf and rivers in southern Mississippi areas hard hit in the big February floods A tornado killed one person and injured 15 others at Unadilla Ga 40 miles south of Macon Three homes were demolished all com- lines were downed and there was extensive property damage More than families fled their homes to higher ground be- fore the raging Cedar River at Cedar Rapids The river rose to 19.51 feet at today and officials said it was near its crest More Volunteers Needed Authorities said the city's dikes were holding but more volunteers were needed to bolster the al guardsmen Army and Navy reservists ami volunteers manning Uic bulwarks Observers feared the river would hold its crest for 10 to 12 hours and accentuate the er shortage The Cedar already had wreaked an estimated million damage upstream in the Waterloo Iowa area Cedar Rapids Mayor James said his city could dle the if it could get sufficient workers and if seers would stay out of their way At Waterloo Iowa hard hit per gallon At most licr in the week streets the prices increased from Carl Fagerlind fainted on 23.9 to 3.9 cents a gallon flood duty and authorities said Gasoline prices have fluctuated they would interrupt his vigil for area for some good long rest prompting legislative Meahan said ments for in investigation of the No 1 with price wars However the flood preparation during the night i posed inquiry never got out o taxing to ban all but committee in titter house gendy traffic across four town Cedar Rapids bridges The deep South still digging out from February's floods found new misery brewing in lower Parish in Louisiana and the Leaf and Bouie River lands of southern Mississippi Belated Search Gulf rains part of a widespread shower pattern from the southern Great Plains to the south Atlantic states dumped an inch of water at numerous points in Alabama and Mississippi Thursday night Hail three-quarters of an inch thick pelted Shreveport Ka and high winds tore down utility poles at Opelousas La near Larto Lake La officials ordered cattle moved to high ground In the West snow mounted up to 6 inches and brought traffic nearly to a standstill in the ern Texas Panhandle New co officials Thursday blamed the year's worst snowstorm for four fatalities Another grim reminder of ter took shape at Independence Iowa 20 miles east of Waterloo Authorities issued a call for volunteers to launch a search for Jimmy Franck farm boy who wandered away from home hours before a blinding snowstorm de- March 7 A heavy snow cover much of which melted and contributed to Iowa's floods de- layed the massive search for more than three weeks Two Killed 4 Missing Feared Dead DENTON Air Force jet bomber with eight men aboard apparently exploded in flight Thursday night and crashed in flames near a group of rural farmhouses Two of the huge crew of eight were known dead and two of the men survived The four others were missing and a cold rain and deep mud slowed a search for them in wooded lands near here today An Air Force spokesman said he feared the missing may be dead and their bodies buried in a deep crater gouged in the sandy clay where the main wreckage of the multimillion lar plane fell Flames Continue The crater described by as big enough to drop a louse was smoking and ing more than 13 hours after the crash despite the rain The age was too hot for rescue ers to search it The two survivors parachuted from the plane which plunged to earth from high altitude while on an aerial refueling mission An Air Force tanker plane was in the vicinity but apparently was unaware that the intercontinental Dow Air Force Base Maine was in trouble when the crash occured Another parachute was found hanging in a tree nine miles from the scene of the by era The rains began shortly after the bomber plunged into rural countryside with a flash of turned me scene into a sea mud Four Air Force helicopters in- jet copter were grounded by the rain and tow Cars Mired in Mud Rescue vehicles patrol cars reporters automobiles and radio buses trying to go to and from the scene were mired The plane plunged into the farmlands near a number of farm houses but the telephones were five to seven miles from the scene The two survivors one of whom walked seven miles to a house after were Maj F nich 40 the navigator of Des Plaines 1st Lt ham 26 of Loveland Colo the electronics warfare officer Both are married and each has two children The plane an intercontinental jet on an aerial refueling mission carried no nuclear weapons the Air Force said The crash scene was a smal of woods sprinkled with Page 2 Col FLOOD dotted line starting at Prison Hill in the center fore- ground shows location of the proposed the Gila Valley Plans call for the start of construction as early as June Points of interest include the old river bridge Territorial Prison and the proposed county park area Sun Staff Photo Rusk Back Encouraged By WASHINGTON UPI tary of State here from key r conferences on today with a he was much encouraged cent developments -in the crisis stressed anew that the Southeast Asia Treaty tion allies would take ate action if peaceful negotiation with the Communists fails Rusk returning from meeting in also ed the United States an unofficial cease-fire in Laps rather than a from the Kremlin What is Rusk said is the cessation of hostilities If the fighting and clear the fighting has stopped an opportunity would afforded for negotiations and-discussions Rusk landed from a trip to the Bangkok meeting a talk en- route home India Prime ister Jawaharlal Delhi Nehru in New State Offices Close 3 Hours on Good Friday PHOENIX UPI offices were closed today between noon and 8 p.m in observance of Good Friday Gov Fannin suggested private firms do the same City county and federal offices remained open Algerian Rebels Cancel Peace Talks in France PARIS UPI The Algerian today announced they will cincel peace talks with France scheduled to Evian where extremists mayor with explosions A rebel spokesman in Tunis did Body of Phoenix Man Recovered From Calif Gulf UPI The body of Leroy Davis of Phoenix was returned here today after being recovered from the waters of the Gulf of California near Cholla Bay Davis his brother Floyd drowned while fishing in the gulf last Davis body was recovered the following but searchers were unable to find LeRoy's body until Thursday The Davis brothers opera ted the Davis Auto and the Davis Brothers Auto Salvage firms in Phoenix Their boat apparently capsized during a sudden storm which struck the gulf Saturday dreds of Arizonans were in the area for the annual Cholla Bay Fishing Derby held last weekend Three other Phoenicians still are missing on a fishing trip to buron Island 200 miles south of Cholla Bay on the Gulf Phoenix Gasoline Prices Up Again UPI Gasoline prices were up again in Phoenix today At some stations the price for regular gas jumped from 27.9 to TIGHT G 34 of Yuma was in front seat of the damaged truck at the right after it hit a car left at Sth and Magnolia yesterday Murdock suffered severe facial lacerations and leg injuries City Patrolman George tinez is in the background Staff not refer to the bomb murder day pf Blanc bu said would be in- France had torpedoed them in ad offering to talk with rival rebel groups The spokesman said Taieb Boul Algerian rebel tive in Switzerland and Rome would leave shortly to in- form Swiss of the de- Switzerland was being informed because the rebel peace planned base there He said France had not been informed officially was one of the rebe emissaries who made ments fo the ill-fated peace con- in Evian a French resort town across Lake Geneva from Geneva Soon after the mayor Evian was rilled this morning both French government rebel authorities said the tragedy would the peace talks But the rebels said they would cancel the talks if France went ahead with plans to talk with rival rebel groups Guardsmen To Aid ti Needy Food Distribution UPI The na National Guard will aid in distribution of surplus ties to needy families in Arizona Gov Paul Fannin asked me guardsmen to transport the food stuffs to the county seat where county officials will handle dis- in various communities Construction Could Start In June By HOFFMAN The Bureau of Reclamation un- plans this morning for the South Gila flood control evee Paul Oliver chief of river con- rol from the division officer in Boulder Colo announced the evee one of the last remaining lood control projects in the area originally planned to be d in December but because of the Kennedy administration p program it will be advanced s much as Oliver explained the district not be taxed for the con- traction or maintenance of the evee project Flood Risk He said with the present dams here is still a risk of floods in the Gila Valley the levee the other side of the river he laid this would tend to shove the into the low lands on this side plans cafl for about an eight to dirt structure running from Prison HSU in a southeasterly direction to a line one quarter of a mile north of the extension 8th Street going east along this line and then turning southeast and angling into the Gila River The levee planned to teet flood water The levee require a 250 foot the Bureau planned to the undergrowth in the Hood area between river and the levee from Prison Hill guna Dam to allow and even flow during a highwater period Agriculture In this area he said large cultural developments would-be encouraged to area He said small operations be discouraged because of fences and so forth that would again inter- rupt the flow He said the levee include about 55 acres of private land and 20 acres of city land The old bridge over the rado is he because the water will have to be narrowed at this point and a large Door area will have to be left hind the bridge between the river and the levee Without the levee Oliver said it is possible that flood waters could be between six and 10 feet deep as far south as 8th Street PUas Gene Price who identified self as an interested party in the recreational plans for the river at Yuma questioned Oliver about the plans for a county park along the river Oliver said he thought if should not interfere but it kept Continued on Page 2 Cot 1 Eighth Street Accidents Injure Two Yuma Drivers Two persons were injured here yesterday in separate accidents on 8th Street Russell G Murdock 34 900 Magnolia Avenue was trapped in- side 1960 Volkswagen delivery Iruck for several minutes before could be freed after an dent at the intersection of 8th Street and 15th Avenue about p.m yesterday Murdock driving the truck owned by Calls Floor Covering 236 E Street was going west on Sth Street when a south bound 1955 Ford on 15th Avenue failed to yield the right-of-way after making a stop at a stop sign and pulled in front of Murdock cording to City Police Driver The Ford was driven by Helen 0 Ochoa 26 462 Avenue She was cited for failure to the right-of-way at a stop sign Sgt Keith was in charge of the investigation and estimated the to Volkswagen at and to the Ford Murdock was reported in fair condition at Hospital this morning A Yuma boy was In- jured while driving a motorcycle about p.m yesterday after- noon on Sth Street near the in- on Avenue A Florentine M Munoz Jr 14 2944 Avenue B received minor hW jury while driving his 1960 Motorcycle a 1950 Chevrolet driven by Douglas James GuMen 31 250 20th nue made a left tun in front at police reported Munoz wax driving MJ on Wh Street and Gulden was GuMen attempted to Mm left in front of and MUMC cmM into him Gulden WM lor to yield the for no Mi IBM aad no
