Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - May 28, 1963, Yuma, Arizona EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Now Is Time To Check Your Assessments By JONES OSBORN This is one of my annual mons What causes me to write it are tiie memories cumulated over the years of troubled and distressed payers Most people who own property such as a house and lot or a piece of farmland never take the trouble to check amount at which it is sessed for purposes Until it is too late That is most folks don't know how much their property is sed for purposes of taxation I doubt if 1 in a hundred knows That's what causes the distress Along in August after the new tax rates for state county schools and special districts have been the tax bills are ed out THEN people look at their But that is too late It is too late because when tax rates are they are established on the basis of the which were on the books back in June When CAN the taxpayer do something about his State law sets aside the first ten days in June for this special purpose During those ten days the Board of Supervisors sets con- as a Board of tion Their only purpose is to hear complaints on assessed valuations H you don't know what your property is valued at you may find out by examining the ment books which will be able in the office of the Board of Supervisors during the same ten days All this takes place in the Courthouse ground floor first door to your first ten days in June Somerton Elects 4 Councilmen Four new councilmen were ed in the Somerton City Council election yesterday The new members are W B Miller Richard Jacoby Robert Russell and Bonner Gates Three re-elected are Tom Givens Dick Watson and Gilbert Ruiz There were 11 candidates The voting for the winners Givens 115 Miller 108 son 108 Ruiz 100 Jacoby 98 Russell 93 and Gates 91 Hudgens Sentenced to Death for Murders KINGMAN UPI Convicted killer Raymond Hudgens Monday was sentenced to death in the state prison gas chamber Aug 25 The Hudgens was convicted of killing his estranged wife and her parents near man last Dec 10 Mohave County Superior Judge Frank X Gordon passed sentence after denying defense motions for a trial and for a stay of sentence pending determination of insanity Attorneys for Hudges indicated the conviction will be appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court Bank Robber Caught CHATTANOOGA Tenn A man armed with a small re- volver robbed a Cleveland Tenn bank of Monday He was arrested hours later walking along a sidewalk with two sacks of money My wife needed an operation and I couldn't borrow the William Parks 41 told cers who arrested him I was just a spur of the moment thing AND MSUN THE WEATHER 97 b5 nt 11 humidity lit 11 OS UHs to Variable cloudiness today Wednesday A cooler Occasional winds tills afternoon and livening Low C2 Sunrise Sunset YUMA 126 18 PAGES PER COPY YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY MAY 28 1963 FHONE SU ARIZONA 126 Pope's Condition Called Critical House Dispute Slows Capital Outlay Bills Majority Triumphs in Test Vote UPI A dispute between the majority and ity over appointment of a House committee to investigate the zona State Hospital slowed action capital outlay bills in the special session of the legislature today The disagreement was touched off when Majority Leader Charles Moody offered a motion to appoint a subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee to handle the investigation and re- port back to the legislature in January The majority leadership ended up by bowing to the minority and appointed two minority members to the investigating committee Minority Leader Robert away Cruz immediately objected on grounds there are no minority members among those House Speaker Barkley said he planned to name to the sub- committee Minority Votes Needed Hathaway reminded the ity leadership that the votes of the minority will be necessary to suspend the rules for quick action on the capital outlay bills the major task facing the lawmakers during the special session Hathaway suggested that the subcommittee be named instead from the Public Institutions Com- on which the minority is represented The dispute raged for an hour before a vote was called on motion It lost He immediately moved for a dual committee from both groups but the morion was defeated on a voice vote Then the House voted 47 to 26 to pass Moody's original motion During the debate Rep Jim Young charged the majority's action was a wash of the Fannin regime Afler a recess and a meeting of the Rules Committee Barkley announced the majority would name two minority bers Rep Al Frantz and Rep Tony Carrillo to the investigating subcommittee Barkley indicated the majority would be represented on the com- by Derek Van Dyke Maricopa Rhodes copa Mrs Polly D- Pinal Frank Crosby and Marshall Humphrey copa After the compromise was reached the House gave first and second reading to the capital out- lay bills assigned them to com- and recessed until 3 p.m The Semite was in adjournment until 1 p.m to await lower ber action on the bills Work Stoppage Hits Brawley Melon Shed IT'S POSTED Signs have been popping out all over the place at area loupe sheds Dorothy Storjohann 2540 W Main Canal a sticker girl looks over this No Trespassing sign at the Olberg Shed this morning shippers were getting ready for trouble that has already developed in the Imperial Valley A work was pulled by the union at Brawley today Sun Staff Photo Living Cost Continues at Record High WASHINGTON UPI The cost of living continued al a ord high or 106.2 cent during April the Labor Department re- ported today Ewang Clague head reau of Labor Statistics said food prices dropped three tenths of 1 per but the decline was offset by increased prices for housing used cars newspapers and clothing The consumer price index was 1 per cent higher than a year ago reflecting increased costs for food housing and recreation of goods and transportation ad- All major types services except shared in the vance Clague said the decrease in food prices in April resulted largely from drops in the prices of meats eggs and dairy products The price of meat was the lowest since 1957 he said Meat poultry and fish prices dipped 2.4 per cent Beef and pork prices led the way with a drop of about 3.5 per cent Alabama Governor Plans To Ignore U S Hearing MONTGOMERY Ala UPI Gov George Wallace dismissing a subpoena served on a civilly dead household servant has en every indication he intends to boycott a federal hearing aimed at preventing his interference in the integration of the University of Alabama A source close lo Wallace said the governor would not under any circumstances appear at the hearing next Monday in ham U.S marshals Monday served papers on a Negro maid at the executive mansion in an effort to assure the governor's court Wallace staunchly disagreed with Justice Department officials in Washington who indicated he serving of the subpoena ed proper service Ridicules Action Wallace said the maid is a con- vict who works at the executive mansion and whose civil rights were removed because of a conviction It is ridiculous that they the marshals served a Negro maid in my Wallace said illy she's dead A source close to the governor said Wallace would not the hearing because he contends the federal court does not have diction in the case and for him to attend the hearing would make it appear that the governor recognizes such jurisdiction The source said however that Wallace's attorneys could appear in the federal court as a special party and make motions for dis- missal of the case on grounds the court has no jurisdiction On Wallace flew to Decatur day night and was ringed by IS state troopers when he stepped off he plane The troopers a guard throughout the evening although Wallace dis- missed some of them A suit filed last Friday by the U.S Justice Department seeks to bar Wallace from carrying promised intervention when groes Vivian and Davie attempt to enroll at the University of Alabama next month Radioactivity below Danger Limit in River LA JOLLA Calif UPI Radioactivity in the rivers of Uie system has dropped well jelow any possible danger point a researcher reported at a con- ference of representatives of 2n river basin slates The conferees resolved to turn their attention to the problem of high salinity in the basin These developments highlighted Monday's fourth session of the Conference on Pollution of he interstate Waters of the Colorado River and its Tributaries The rivers of the Colorado system are all now in excellent condition so far as Radium 226 said Dr E.G Tsivoglou research expert from the Robert A Tafl Sanitary neering Center Cincinnati Ohio Radiation in river is well below any possible danger point Radium 226 derives from m washing operations the re- searcher explained He noted Unit in January 1960 Ihc radium con- centration was 5.5 micromicro- curies per lifer at some points ol the main river and up to GO per liter in some tributaries The U.S Public Health Service permits a concentration of up to in drinking Today the surface water of the asin contains an average ration of less than 1 micromicro- curie per Tsivoglou said Reduction of the radioactivity evel was credited to the ative effort of the federal ment and the industry by ray Stein chief of the branch of the division of water supply and pollution con- rol of the U.S Public Health Service Stein presided il the meeting water without cautions extraordinary pre- Tommie Thompson is a keen eyed gal who knows a lot about people As a vate nurse she's constantly involved with interesting and exciting situations You'll meet her Monday on the comic page in Apartment Fallout Prediction Here today's fallout with San Diego as ground zero high level or winds predicted for the next 24 hours l be 50 degrees NE in the di- rection of Julian and Salton Sea Fallout would travel ly 120 miles in three hours A work stoppage in the Arena cantaloupe shed in Brawley this morning may have signalled opening skirmish in deadlock over melon deal Clive Knowles executive tary of the melon union told The Suu that the stoppage was a demonstration to protest the re- usai of the shippers labor com- to live up lo he old con- tract while negotiations are going He threatened further slop t rations whenever such action is appropriate said it was not a strike Shippers Position A spokesman for the shippers answered accusation of the un- ion concerning the oW contract lie said The position of the pers is lhat this is the start of the season and we intend lo continue complying with major sions of the agreement These include maintaining wage rates maintaining the same working conditions and granting preference in hiring based upon the ity under the cancelled ment To us il does not seem cal or equitable lhat the union can the contract and still have full benefits of it out being ed its rights under contract the Union cancelled On Hie union side also said that his group had boon ad- vised by the shippers that notices were on the Yuma sheds that is no seniority and that no union representatives will be allowed on the sheds The union spokesman stated that he had advised Commissioner Jules Medoff of the U.S lion and Service who lind silling in on the that the union intends to Melon Shipments Increasing Here Shipments of cantaloupes from Yuma today arc expected lo be 13 by rail and 30 truck Yesterday's was VI rail loads and 27 I ruck equivalents bringing the total shipped so far this season to 23 rail car loads and 58 truck equivalents Prices on cantaloupes range from pony at 53 to dard ill Sn to SO jumbo at lo and jumbo at to At this lime last year nothing had been shipped by rail truck enforce Uie 1962 contract by ever means necessary Said Knowles The membership n Ihc union voted to work while negotiations continued providing hat the terms of Ihc contract were abided by on the part of the employers From the very ning of the negotiations it's been obvious lhat the shippers were in- in provoking a strike Whether this has anything to do h using the situation to get a higher price for cantaloupes his season or lo got higher ng from the farmers is open to speculation Bui it is our ion much more is involved here Hum simply negotiating a contract with the union Knowles said lhat he had idea how long the down would lasl He added that hu expected to have them in er sheds Yuma sheds were working ly and the next round of contract negotiations is set for day in El Centra 6 Cardinals Mentioned As Successor VATICAN CITY UPI A small group of five Italians and one been consistently mentioned possible successors lo oiling Pope John XXIII The question of succession has been asked us with every Pope pe J 1958 at Pope almost from time Pope John himself elected Ihc of The mentioned most often in speculation now is lhat of Giovanni Battista Cardinal tini Ihc liberal archbishop of Milan Others Gregory Ihc head of missionary Cardinal 63 successor to Pope as arch of Venice and Ihc only leading born in the Cardinal Lercaro 71 of Bologna Cardinal 75 archbishop of Palermo Cardinal 79 of the Sacred tion nf the Religions Cancer Is Believed To Be Cause VATICAN CITY The Vatican announced today that Pope John is suffering from nn abnormal growth in stomach which medical sources sit id means lie has cancer Vatican sources said the year-old Pope's condition was critical there were fears for his life An official communique said Roman Catholic pontiff is continuing to suffer internal resulting from the or gastric which has afflicted him for about a year is a Greek word meaning abnormal Medical sources said the gastric could mean Pope lias Wording Kept Vague The wording of the nique appeared to be deliberately but it was as close ns the Vatican has come In saying tlic aging Pope's ailment is cer Medical authorities were in interpreting the wording of the communique but said from what they have read they have no doubt the Pope has cer The chief librarian for the Brit- ish Cancer Research Council in London said the term applied to the Pope's illness could mean but not necessarily so he said it means Ihc development of mal tissues but the ment of normal cells Jn the place on the other hand would mean new and definite cancer The Vatican's use of could be a euphemism Could Anything Dr secretary of the British Association for cer Research another leading cancer expert Gastric might be H could mean cancer Equally it could not When Hie Pope first showed signs of his illness last ber the described it as stomach trouble and said the blending he suffered had caused severe The ailment forced the Pope into bod and it generally was considered at the time to be a bleeding ulcer But since then there have been numerous re- ports that his trouble really was cancer The Vatican neither con firmed nor denied the reports Last Tuesday the Pope a relapse with severe new He was forced lo cancel all his audiences and It was announced thai he was a nine-day in for Pentecost June 2 His condition worsened and he was given frequent blood sions A crisis report occurred lasl Sunday morning and he was presumed close to He lied but his over-all condition continued to decline Gas Tank on Burning Truck Explodes Here FIRE REMAINS Yuma City Firemen under direction of Chief Bonnie Rachel are wetting down the fire blackened ground and the remains of a 1953 Chevrolet semi er after a fire last night The flattened sheet of metal in the foreground is what is left of the truck's fuel tank after it exploded scattering flaming gasoline around the area Fire was at 2680 Avenue Sun Staff Photo A caused by Ihc explosion of gasoline lank cm a truck being worked on al Brady's Garage 21180 nue kist broughl occupants out ol neighboring businesses in a hurry The Iruck was owned by Harold Hurst It was a 1953 Chevrolet Hurst had brought Iruck lo Ihc garage lo do some welding on the trailer A fire stared in cab or the truck on Iho opposite side from where welding was being done Id workmen al the age spread enveloped cab and reached Ihc tank It blew up spraying the immediate area with gasoline The Inick was parked away from the buildings and there was no damage lo any of It was reported a total loss Value was at about Fire was quickly extinguished by the Yuma Fire
