Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 1, 1965, Yuma, Arizona And tannin Voted Yes ly JONES OSBORN Both Senator Hayden rat and Senator Fannin Re- publican voted or it So it must have merit It is Senate Joint Resolution 1 -a ed amendment to the United Before the tion can be amended the resolution roust be approved by a two- thirds vote in the House and then must be ratified by three-fourths of the states in seven years Did know that in the rather brief history of the office of vice president has been vacant a total of more than 37 It has In this day of decisions involving nuclear caust every President needs a vice president to step into his shoes without delay I think the tragedy of ber 22nd made this danger clear to everyone From the moment Oswald pulled the ger the second time until bert Humphrey was sworn in the U S had no vice president The amendment which won the approval of Hayden and permits the vice dent to become acting dent if the President is unable to perform his duties it also provides for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president The President merely ates a man to be vice president He would take office after con- by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress Thus our Constitution great though it be is being changed mice again under the pressure of modern circumstances and modern thinking Our ability and our right to make such changes is what keeps our Con- a living document Halt Air Strikes on Viet Cong SAIGON South Viet Nam air strikes against the Communist Viet Cong have been halted in a Mekong Delta area after the American ers accidentally killed 4 South Vietnamese troops and wounded 15 Officers said the error ed from poor liaison between ground and air units Under the system of communication be- tween ground advisers and planes it takes about three minutes to call off an air strike they said Government forces with U.S helicopter support continued a offensive in the delta area 150 miles southeast of Saigon A large Communist force was believed to have been operating in the area There were no reports of damage to the Viet Cong but government forces came under heavy mortar fire this morning Two soldiers were killed and 18 others wounded Burglars Refuse To Be Hurried MINNEAPOLIS glare who broke into the State Bank Sunday saw an employe ar- rive and then run for help kept on working until a i police car showed up then caped The thieves took an termined amount at money from a night depository lOc THf low this FORECAST to today Cooler 10 to 30 High Til Low 44 High set II 16 PAGES PER COPY lOe YUMA ARIZONA MONDAY MARCH I 1945 PHONE SU ARIZONA County Aims for New Hospital Giss Defied by Civil Rights Marchers Senator Hits Pressure on Legislators By ROBERT K WALKER PHOENIX rights demonstrators quietly launched march of protest around the mall of the Arizona Capitol today About 30 pickets were on hand as the demonstration got under way They represented the al Association for the ment Colored people the Congress of Racial Equality and the International Union of Mill and Smelter Workers The majority were from Tucson Eloy and Hayden The march was a protest against House amendments put on by a Senate passed civil rights The amendments would remove criminal ties for discrimination and re- place it with injunctive action Also under attack was a statement by Senate majority leader Harold Giss that demonstrations while the legislature is in session can do nothing but harm to the cause He noted the Senate killed a civil rights last year after a massive demonstration moved in: on the Capitol Leader Giss said he has i been in con- tact with a leader and has advised him that it would be let the ture work without interruption The Senate appointed a ence committee to work with the House for a compromise on the while the demonstration was under way Giss Sol Ahee Rhodes John Laughlin and id Palmer were named to the group The march in the mall was led by Robert L Horn president of the Tucson Roy Cooksey state president of the NAACP and Frank Vettorel of Tucson an international representative of the Council We're not going to have a massive Horn said We want to keep it small so we can keep it under control Horn said the demonstration not only was aimed at civil rights but at personal interpretation of the First and 14th Amendments of the concerning the rights to petition Horn carried a sign which quoted Giss as saying At the least sign of a demonstration the is dead But we have no plans to lorce our Horn said He said the demonstration would end about 5 p.m today Not Limited Cooksey emphasized that the demonstration was not only Turn to Page 4 Col 5 please Invective Hurled At Kremlin Chiefs MOSCOW AP Pro-Soviet foreign Communist leaders gathered in secrecy in Moscow today to discuss fading for restoring unity to the broken ranks of the world Com- munist movement The Red Chinese continued to hurl invective at the new lin leadership accusing it of Mail List Refused To Congress WASHINGTON AP master General John A refused again today to give Congress the names of sons subject to mail covers over the past two years To provide the names he told Sen Edward V Long D- Mo in a letter would hamper investigations injure personal reputations and even endanger national security A mail cover is an ive technique by which postal personnel record the tion about an envelope being sent through the mail The mail Is not opened Senate subcommittee ed by Long ordered the Post Office Department last week to produce the names of all those whose mail has been subject to covers in the past two years deepening the split while talking about unity Leaders from 17 foreign Com- munist parties were scheduled to meet today with Soviet Com munist party Presidium ber Mikhail Suslov There was no official tion on the location of the talks Western correspondents outside the Soviet party's Central Committee building and other possible sites reported no sign of a meeting The Communist party paper Pravda published the names of 47 delegates from 18 parties including the Soviet one who it said were in Moscow They were from Argentina Australia Brazil Bulgaria Cuba Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Hungary India ly Mongolia Poland Syria and the Soviet Union Three American Communists were listed as observers The British Communist party was expected to send a delegation after a last-minute decision to drop their opposition to the meeting The Communist parties of China North Korea North Viet Nam Japan Indonesia Albania and boycotting the meeting iThe Chinese and their allies have warned that the meeting originally called to prepare a world Communist summit ing later this year would be the first step toward a final split in the world movement Territorial Prison Has Its Visitor Visitor number clicked through the Territorial Prison turnstile yesterday about p.m She was Esther Maruschak 1735 Avenue A who brought her two children Karen and Beverly and her aunt and un- cle Mr and Mrs Floyd Lew and their two children Ronnie and Lucinda Lynwood Calif Awaiting the party to enter the prison on Prison Hill were state county and cal dignitaries State Parks Di- rector Dennis McCarthy nix came to Yuma for the casion Others in the ing party were Sen Harold C Giss Board of Supervisor Chairman Jim Fuquay Mayor F AUt and Clarissa museum aide and Thomas Winsor curator Sen Giss who spoke to the visitor and her relatives and to the other sons who had gathered for the ceremony said to Mr and Mrs You are making history here today It was the first Yuma for the Lew ily Sen Giss gave Mrs chak a boxed gift and Mayor Tom Allt gave her a key to the city Mr and Mrs BUI Brent gave the honored visitors autographed copies of Hell a prison history The speaker of the day was Sen Giss who told the party that many years ago Clarissa Winsor began gathering the artifacts on display at the seum He explained that the site was first chosen for the Yuma Territorial Prison to serve the area that is now both Arizona and New Mexico But some prisoners escaped into California and extradition problems was one problem that led to the moving of the prison to Florence Sen Giss said Sen Giss pointed out the burial grounds east of the on and said the prison grounds contains much history and lore of the Southwest POLICE HOLD FATHER Richard Donaldson center Seattle attorney held down by police to prevent him from running back into his burning ment yesterday in the belief that other members of his family were trapped inside Mrs Donaldson and three children were rescued by firemen Damage to the apartment was estimated at AP Negroes Find Whites Ahead SELMA Ala AP Scores of Negroes returned to the courthouse in Selma today to try again to register as voters but they found approximately 50 white applicants in line ahead of them Similar drives were under way simultaneously in five neighboring counties for the first of two registration days this month The prospective new voters at Selma had priority numbers assigned earlier by Board of Registrars acting under federal court order The numbers were given to more than who tiad put their names on a ing list while the board was not in session Trainer Is Mauled By One of 12 Lions THOUSAND OAKS Calif AP An animal trainer ding 12 lions onto pedestals in a cage was attacked and severely one of them Sunday during an amusement park Chet Juszyk 36 the trainer was treated for lacerations over lis torso arms and legs at Valley Hospital He was listed in satisfactory condition VISITOR Mrs Esther chak in turnstile at left center her two children Karen and Beverly Yuma extreme left are to the Territorial Prison yesterday by state and county dignitaries Mrs Maruschak brought her uncle and aunt Mr and Mi's Floyd Lew and their two children To right of Mrs Maruschak are State Parks Director Dennis McCarthy Senator Harold C Giss Board of Supervisor Chairman Jim Fuquay and Mayor Tom Allt In front of McCarthy is Clarissa Winsor curator at the museum Sun Staff Former Yuman Dies At His Prescott Home William A Steenbergen 62 former Yuma projects manager for the Bureau of Reclamation died suddenly in Prescott Ariz last night It is believed that he had a massive coronary His wife Josephine was with him at the time but he died before she could summon a doctor The had ed in Yuma for many years at 607 8th Avenue They moved to Prescott early in 1964 lowing his retirement here neral arrangements are not complete but it is believed that services will be held day afternoon in Prescott to be followed by cremation Mrs Steenbergen asks that in lieu of remembrances donations be sent to the Arizona Children's Home in Tucson Although Steenbergen had been in ill health recently his death came as a shock to his long-time friends here The ular Reclamation official had retired Feb 15 1964 after 18 years on the Reclamation staff here The last IVa years he was projects manager here Steenbergen as born July 21 1902 in Yakima Wash A resident of Arizona for 57 years he was graduated from the University of Arizona He received his professional degree in civil engineering in 1939 Prior to that he was an or at the U of A after ing a degree in civil ing in 1929 He worked at engineering and land ning jobs in the Tucson area through June 1941 At that time entered the armed forces and was a colonel upon his leaving the service five years ater Shortly after Steenbergen came to Yuma with his wife and family son Bob and ter Ann Steenbergen was active in various Yuma civic affairs He was a member of the Society of American Military Engineers the American Society of Civil Engineers Yuma County ning and Zoning Commission tlie Yuma City County Joint Tbt Sun Newt WM STEENBERGEN Planning Council He was president of the Ki- wanis Club For his service with the reau of Reclamation he re- an ance rating a superior award in 1960 He also received a special ices award in 1963 Upon his retirement Regional Director A B West noted that bergen had made exceptional managerial accomplishments in the progress of Reclamation construction operation and maintenance work in the Yuma area Supervisors Ok Study By Engineer The first formal step toward possible new Yuma County General Hospital was today by the Yuma y Board of Supervisors By a unanimous vote of its three members the board proved and then signed an agreement with an engineer for a feasibility study The study will not cost more than The vote of approval came after Supervisor Robert K sen insisted upon getting two things straight First he ed it made clear that the study will not plate the remodeling of the old county hospital on Avenue B Second he Insisted that the minutes of a previous meeting be amended Those minutes ported the Supervisors had ready authorized a feasibility survey Nissen said this was premature because the Super- visors were not certain at that time that funds for the study were available So the minutes were amended to read study was approved if funds are available To Make Study The engineer who will make the study is R B civil engineer with offices at 2372 4th Avenue He will be by Marvin Williams architect The Williams study will in- clude the following 1 Current of the county's hospital requirements At present the county's cal and surgical cases are treated and convalescents are cared for at Smoke Tree Manor Con- Home 2 A projection of future re- of hospital facilities in Yuma County Baptist already has announced plans for a addition 3 A projection of future tient load 4 A comparison of patient care costs 5 Land requirements 6 Estimate of initial con- struction costs 7 Estimate of operational costs No Cost Estimates No estimates of initial con- struction costs were mentioned at today's meeting However previous discussions have Tum to Page 4 Col 6 please Barry To Speak Here Thursday Barry Goldwater former zona senator and Republican presidential nominee will be in Yuma Thursday for a raising dinner for the Yuma County Republican Central Committee The 7 p.m dinner in the Planet Room of the Stardust Motor Hotel will be preceded by a social hour be- ginning at according to Wesley Davis Yuma County Republican Central Committee chairman Goldwater flying his own plane is expected to land at She Yuma International Airport about 4 p.m A press conference is uled for 5 p.m after which will with Yuma precinct workers in the Caballero Room TWU Takes Breather Gives Army Time To Act A breather was called today in the Transport Workers Union strike against three Army in Arizona E M Mitchell of Cocoa Beach Fia international of the union said the union decided here Sunday night to call off the four-day strike to give congressional leaders and the Army time to act Today Mitchell planned to confer with attorneys in Tucson to seek an injunction preventing Bell Aerospace and Land Air hiring nel to fulfill their contract Bell Aerospace was awarded a million contract to ate the Army's electronic ing facilities it Ft Yuma and Gila Bend starting March 16 Since 1960 the electronic have been operated by Pan American Airways Mitchell said the union has information Pan Am also will seek an injunction to halt the strike and this was the main reason for recommending that more than 200 strikers go back to work at the fort Yuma and Gila Bend The union has no quarrel with Pan Am slid Mitchell because it has paid union waxes and provided fair conditions He said Ben and Land Air have Pan Turn to Pagt 2 Col J
