Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - February 18, 1965, Yuma, Arizona Redding the Signs Of Town ly JONES OSBORN from a business trip I the Pacific Northwest with a fistful of scribbled notes It seems that people in th Seattle are have a cial talent fo thinking u amusing a n witty signs You see them all over So jotted down half dozen them to share with you first one I no- was i Ivar's famed seafood restaurant down On the water front One of their popular is an acre of du fresh from their ocean beds steamed and served with melt ed butter If you wish you can Order the clam nectar th juice of the clam But this nee tar is supposed to have lous regenerative powers fo men Consequently they post a public Not over 3 cups of Ivar's clam nectar to any married man without permission of his wife No At a used car lot not a ion store they have posted a i Our models have good rear ends Some public spirited body erected a huge sign along a crowded Don't learn our traffic laws quiet French restaurant tries to increase the of wine by printing this quotation from a famous Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and likes to iee us happy Benjamin Franklin Another eating place looks on Jhe bright side of their damp Yes That's why we're the Evergreen State One shop which sells bicycles managed to joke about slow business with a huge ed marquee which This Must Be National Don't Buy a Bike Month Finally this gem put up by a shop which repairs broken I God Bless Little Boys with Slingshots Crash Victim Believed To Be Aviatrix LOS ANGELES AP The first woman to fly the equatorial route around the world is be- to have piloted a small plane that crashed in the San Gabriel Mountains Wednesday Wiling the two women aboard Although the office declined official identification until her husband views the badly burned bodies the band said he had no doubt his wife Joan Merriam Smith 28 is dead Authorities believe the other woman was Trixie Ann bert 42 of Los Angeles who was writing Joan's life story Sheriff's deputies and federal authorities reported that the women took off toward the area of the crash from nearby Long Beach I don't have any doubt that Joan because the plane never came Lt Cmdr Marvin Jack Smith Jr her husband since 1960 said Wednesday night But I won't go down there to the office until tomorrow THE Average low thlt FORECAST to Continued air and warmer I Fair tonight 1 Low A YUMA 79 30 PAGES PER COPY lOe YUMA ARIZONA THURSDAY FEBRUARY II 1965 PHONE SU ARIZONA 217 McNamara Labels V Nam Key SP Train Smashes County Operator Is Injured In Crash By JOHN BATTIN The Yuma Dally Sun Staff A county tor narrowly escaped being tilled this morning in a crash The accident occurred about at Avenue and the Southern Pacific mainline when he northbound was crossing the track Scene was about two miles east of Araby load Angel Chavez 46 970 wood Drive sustained severe to his head and ered a dislocated shoulder in he accident He was listed as wing in fair condition at view Baptist Hospital late this morning Going 60 mph Deputy Sheriff Investigator Bob Araza said the freight train was moving east about 50 per hour Engineer M C ardson 50 905 10th Avenue told Araza that he saw the rader attempting to cross the rack at the grade crossing During impact the r was bounced about 90 feet ast of the crossing spun round and came to rest ng south about two to three let off the south side of the track The valued t second-hand was de- It was acquired last November A new one costs bout County Engineer Gene Brazeel said C W Stoddard roundhouse oreman for Southern Pacific aid the diesel engine was ged about The dis- bled engine was disconnected un onto a siding and the ex- tra freight train continued east Stayed in Cab Araza said the op- rator was in the cab of the machine and remained in the ab until the came o rest Wreckage of wheels and ears from the was trewn alongside the south edge f the track from the grade rossing and about 50 feet south f the track Two huge grader wheels were leered from the unit and lay of the track The blade f the fell from the machine in ront of the main wreckage Brazeel and Board of Super- visor chairman Jim Fuquay ar- at the crash scene to in- the damage together with Pacific personnel Chavez was working the road long Avenue both of the grade crossing Turn to Page 2 Col 4 Please county lay ed this morning beside Southern Pacific railroad tracks at Avenue County Engineer Gene Brazeel left and Board of Supervisors Chairman Jim quay inspect the damage Behind Brazeel are ern Pacific workmen who had arrived to help clear the wreckage blade is at left of picture two wheels lay nearer the crossing For a look at what the other guy looked like see Page 15 Sun Staff Photo Ranger 8 On Course For Moon PASADENA Calif AP Ranger 8 streaked on toward the moon today after what scientists say was an apparently successful maneuver designed to send it crashing onto the nar surface early Saturday morning Scientists at Jet Propulsion laboratory said preliminary are that the carrying spacecraft will land on or near its target a broad and dusty plain called Mare the Sea of ty It will be 3 p.m Eastern Standard Time however before they can calculate Ranger's new path precisely Without the correction the spacecraft would lave missed the trailing edge of the moon by miles The maneuver at 5 came as Ranger 8 was miles out on its journey The maneuver involved a long series of commands to make the spacecraft twist around in space and fire a rocket for 59 seconds enough to change the course more than miles In a od before crash-landing on the moon's east-central portion danger S's six television as are to snap more than pictures the surface Bougainvillea Named Official Yuma Flower The City of Yuma now has n official flower It's the The bougainvillea was ed by councilmen yesterday after the Yuma Garden Club it because the is hardy and it is to this area Mrs Maurice Marks club chairman told the that the on was no overnight decision mt the bougainvillea has been since 1947 yet there no official information on a ty flower Mrs Marks said the on and recommendation came from the Yuma Garden Club and mentioned that other en clubs have seasonal as club flowers The is the official Yuma arden dub flower Recommendation of an al city flower was made now because the city is growing there ii a beautification gram on are what enthusiastic Marks aid She added that other clubs would not object in answer to a question by Mayor F AMI Councilman directed that a resolution be drafted ing the bougainvillea as the of- city flower that the be entered in the utes and adopted the tion The bougainvillea according to the dictionary is an mental tropical American woody vine with brilliant ple or red floral bracts One such vine flourishes in front of City Hall east of the main en- trance Double Value Days Featured Downtown Customers will be able to snap up savings during town Double Value Days tomorrow and Saturday In Section B of today's Sun member stores of the town Merchants Association are offering bargains in all ments In addition coupons on special items will be printed in today's center section Don Marshall Western Auto store manager is directing this special promotion for the Merchants Association More Shrine Bombing Plot Members Sought NEW New York police the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sought possible additional bers today of the thwarted plot to dynamite the ue of Liberty the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell Authorities refused to com- ment on reports the search had spread to Cleveland Detroit Washington Philadelphia cago Baltimore Toronto and Montreal With the aid of Raymond Wood 31 a Negro undercover policeman the dynamite scheme was uncovered day Police arrested three American Negroes and a white Canadian woman and charged them with attempting to blow up the three national shrines Twenty-two sticks of mite said to have been trans- ported from Canada by one of the four Michelle Duclos 26 were seized We know they have made contacts in other Commissioner Michael J phy said of the four We have no idea how many people might be involved Murphy cited the work of Wood in infiltrating the fro Chinese Black Liberation Front and gave the rookie policeman an- other promotion Wednesday Wood first won a promotion to detective third grade then later was elevated another step to detective second grade pushing his annual salary to an increase of over the Two Spies Confess DAMASCUS Syria AP Two men accused of spying for the U.S Embassy in Damascus told a military court that the embassy's second secretary paid them for information about a rocket and a boat Generally Fair Says Forecaster Today in Yuma will be fair and warmer but with increasing high cloudiness night and Friday The weatherman at the Yuma International Airport sees a high of 78 during the day and a low of 45 tonight Looking farther ahead our forecaster notices the possibility of a ing trend arriving Saturday Wednesday the high was 72 with a 44 low this morning The record temperatures for this date were 86 repeated in 1916 1923 1948 and 1950 and a low in 1910 Stem U.S Consulate JAKARTA Indonesia AP Some 700 the U.S Consulate in Medan Sumatra today and tried to seize the American library on the ground floor been a trolman The four accused in addition to Miss Duclos a Montreal tele- vision commentator are Robert S Collier 28 said to be the leader of the group Walter A Bowe 32 a supporter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and Khaleel S Sayyed 22 a former ing student who also is charged with disorderly conduct for demonstrating in front of the United Nations building last De- cember They were held in bails ing from to each Somebody Watched DALLAS Tex A Somebody up there was watching when three young hubcap thieves wheeled Into the parking lot at Love Field the city airport Swiftly popped the hubcaps from a parked car climbed Into their own auto and started a getaway It ended a block later as police stopped them Wednesday The hubcaps belonged to W J Shelton who works in the airport control tower He had a bird's eye view of the theft and all sorts of com- to call police The youths were turned over to Juvenile authorities Invited to Paris PARIS AP Prime ter Harold Wilson of Britain has seen invited to visit Paris April to talk with President Charles de Gaulle and Premier Georges Pompidou French announced today Deny Pact on Water MEXICO CITY AP No secret agreements have been made by Mexico and the United fates to solve the problem ol he Colorado River's salinity officials from both countries iay But U.S congressmen visiting Mexico for the annual conference and their Mexican counterparts agree hat rapid steps are being taken or a solution Many said that action is in light although actual details were not made public A spokesman for the Foreign said today there is nothing new to report and at reports from nix Arizona that a secret pact lad been made After Rumor Shortly after the rumor was reported Joseph F Friedlin of he U.S Water and Boundary Commission also denied it U.S congressmen here in- Sen Paul Fannin of Arizona denied secret pacts They said everything possible is being done to reach a solu tion to be acceptable to U.S farmers and to Mexicans whose soil is being ruined A joint communique issue after the interparliamentary meeting With regard to the proble of the salinity of the waters o the Colorado River which are received by Mexico under the 1944 treaty their points of view were aired together with such as both delegations possess and they recognize that here is a need to provide vn corrective measures The delegations are optimistic that hose will be taken as soon as possible in view of the im- and urgency of the Headache The salinity problem is con- the biggest headache remaining in elations On a related subject the com- They were able to confirm hat both Mexico and the United States are highly interested in urther pursuits of the studies and experiments aimed at the of sea water Says U.S Must Stay In Fight WASHINGTON AP of Defense Robert S said today the present in South Viet Nam is rave but by no means ess McNamara stressed that the outcome in South Viet Nam is he key to stemming Communist expansion throughout strategic Southeast Asia and other emerging areas of the world Considering the great stakes in this he declared I see no other native for the United States han continuing to support South Viet Nam against the Red rilla onslaught McNamara said this country cannot pull out He discussed the Viet Nam war and its wide implications in a statement prepared for a session of the House Armed Services Committee set up to hear McNamara outline the general defense situation Great Effort Leaving the committee room after delivery of his told newsmen that greater efforts will be required of South Viet Nam in the next 12 months including a boost in its military force This may re- quire a small Increase in the number of Americans sent over to help with training as well as more combat hardware But he questioned whether any practical number of tional troops could completely protect against sneak attacks by Viet Cong guerrillas Gen Earl G Wheeler chauv man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed there could er- be an airtight security un- der these circumstances There was no mention of such developments as Communist mortar and bomb attacks on U.S installations in South Viet nor American retaliatory air strikes against North Viet Nam Censored McNamara's public statement was a censored version of a much longer secret report he made to the committee It red his estimate of the world m general and his proposals for strengthening U.S military power under a ion defense budget The stakes in South Viet Vam are far greater than the oss of one small country to McNamara said We may be certain that as oon as they had established heir control over South Viet lam the Communists would ress their subversive ions in Laos and then in and The We would have o face this same problem all ver again in another place or them to have all of Asia by default AMBASSADOR'S WIFE COMING Maxwell D Taylor wife of the U.S Ambassador to South Viet Nam waves as she boards plane in Saigon today Taylor stands beside his wife to see her off to the U.S In the fore- ground is Sgt Ralph Otte of Truman Minn of the U.S Air Police one of many guards posted around the plane and airport to guarantee safe departure of erican dependents from Viet Nam AP Charge Boats Shell Village SAIGON South Viet Nam AP North Viet Nam barged today that four South commando boats a North Vietnamese age and that two of the raiding were damaged by North patrol boats Commando ships of the d States and Saigon tration shelled Quynh Lap in Nghe An Province t Col Ha an Lau chief of the ist liaison mission told the In- Armistice on in Hanoi find Explosive Cache PHILADELPHIA AP A former Army ives expert was turned over to he FBI for questioning today police raided his North Philadelphia home and found a ache of explosives TNT and blasting caps Tbt SM
