Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 8, 1966, Yuma, Arizona Puff Puff Puff That Cigarette By JONES OSBORN What effect has the cancer scare had upon THE THE WIATM tt Lowest at 11 today TO Humidity at U high date Average low Uilt date M FORECAST to Mostly clear little In temperature Higti 84 law 53 85 Sunset There was a 12 per cent drop in cigarette c o n s u m tion among blue collar workers after the U.S geon General made his re- port linking lung cancer with cigarette smoking But the decrease i didn't last They are back to their same old level YUMA 95 16 PAGES PER COPY lOc YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY MARCH 1966 PHONE ARIZONA 302 U.S Balks at De Gaulle Move Women hurt the averages Smoking has become more and more acceptable Nearly 60 per cent of women over 21 are smoking Only 53 per cent of men The richest source of new cigarette profits are the sters They enter adulthood at the rate of 2 million every year and up to 60 per cent start smoking or are already ad- Water Crisis on Gila River Abates Net result is that more rettes than ever are being sold Even the PER CAPITA con- sumption has not dropped over the past five or six years As I said the women and the youngsters high keep the average A survey finds that about one-half of all smokers toy with the idea of quilling Would like to but can't seem to manage It However there is ONE group that has cut smoking down Doctors In 1950 up to 65 per cent of doctors were smoking Now two-thirds of them have quit Viet Nam Air War Intensifies SAIGON South Viet Nam AP The American air war against North Viet Nam climbed to record intensity in the past 24 hours but also cost four U S jots and the crews of three ot them Pilots reported they knocked out a fuel dump and a missile site Air Force and Navy pilots flew several hundred sorties targets in the nist North a since the raids began 13 months ago an American spokesman said The total ber of planes was not disclosed but there were 53 missions the spokesman said Direct hits on the Son La oil storage center 130 miles west of Hanoi rocked the area with ex- plosions and sent up black clouds feet the spokesman said The U S blasted their second missile site in four days hitting one 22 miles west of Thanh Hoa and 80 miles south of Hanoi he said Gila River Dam Will Empty Soon The crisis on the Gila River is past unless more rains fall in the Gila er watershed until the spring runoff This statement came today from Leonard E Gene zeel county director of public works He reported that ed Rock reservoir now con- tains only about feet of water It has a capacity of million Yesterday the Army Corps of Engineers was releasing about cubic feet per second of water from the reservoir into the Gila River bed At this rate of release it is estimated that the reservoir will be empty by March 24th Snowpack Watched The next predictable threat will come in the spring when the snowpack in central and northern Arizona begins to melt The Soil Conservation Service and the U.S Weather Bureau estimate there are feet of water in the snowpack at present If large of this reach Painted Rock dam in a brief period of time it would force the Army Engineers to start releasing that water from the reservoir The Engineers purchased flowage rights from landowners upstream from Painted Rock dam But these rights do not give them the right to store water on such land Three Roads Yuma County Highway De- spent during the emergency to keep three important roads through the Gila River bed open to traffic and to open eight miles of new connecting roads north of the river Brazeel said the county spent installing underground pipe at Avenue in the Gila Valley Another was spent at Avenue the Dome road The largest amount was spent at Avenue the road The eight miles of new road on the north side of the river was opened up at a cost of 000 Blocked But the county road from FDA Moves To Ban Antibiotic Lozenges WASHINGTON AP The Food and Drug Administration announced action today to re- move from the market hundreds of antibiotic lozenges and other antibiotic preparations on grounds they are not effective against sore throats as claimed in their labeling A spokesman said the action adds up to one of the most sweeping drug removal orders the agency has ever issued All antibiotic lozenges without prescription and moted for treatment of sore Full-Blown Flu Outbreak Is Seen PHOENIX AP A blown influenza epidemic gripped Arizona today And an epidemic of measles was feared We don't know where it will said Dr George love acting state health director said that with 24 per cent of Arizona's physicians reporting there were 316 new cases of measles and of influenza in the state This compares with 245 les cases the previous week and 779 of the llu There is little question but that the Asian flu epidemic which swept California has now hit Arizona Spendlove said to Hyder is still un- der water At this point zeel explained the Gila River bed is wide and sandy He said the soil there would not have Turn to Page 8 Col 3 please Explanation Made on San Luis Shootings Deputy Sheriff Wayne sac has investigated an dent at the border that took place several weeks ago which some members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle group were shot Deputy Sanasac said an im migration officer had gone to his car shortly after 11 p.m A group of Hell's Angels the car One of kicked the car The officer speaking in Spanish tried ti get them to leave Then sev cral grabbed the side of the car trying to overturn the vc hide The officer yelled more beginning to get out 0 the car Then three of the Hell's An gels pulled knives The office reached for his gun in a glove compartment nnd shot left handed out of the window H aimed for the ground and sho into the nir In the process of the Hell's Angels group go shot one in the foot and om in the elbow Orders Strikers Back SANTIAGO Chile government strikin Anaconda Co copper worker hack to their jobs today am decreed that anyone order to tired RUNNING RIVER Although water has slowed somewhat in the Gila River there is no help in sight for this crossing near that has halted the school in that area Note that the road picks up again at the right but depth of water has halted all traffic Flood threat blow this point has abated Photo by Art Mothers Committee Pleads for County Aid at Crossing throats and throat pains with coughs and colds are to be taken off the market Products estimated to number as many as 250 which are sold under some 500 trade names and made by more than 70 manufacturers will be affected the spokesman said Retail sales of the products are estimated to run about million a year No list of the trade names by the action was able but spokesman said crets is one of the market eaders The of four orders will apply to some of the products immediately and to some after a period unless the The Mothers Committee or Gila River Crossing took their case directly to the Yuma County Board of Supervisors Supervisors wore sympathetic but unable to promise immediate relief The flowing of water in the Gila River bed might about the formation of the Mothers Committee The vater flowed across the county road from to Hyder along with about 30 other y roads which cut through the Gila River bed This cut off all including the school Spokesman for the Mothers Committee was Mrs Mary ney of She urged the Supervisors to declare the at as a dis- aster and to set aside funds or immediate construction of a bridge over the Gila River She read a statement to the Supervisors which made si specific requests as 1 Declare a disaster 2 Find money to ly build a built county funds are needed rent temporary classrooms and also living quarters for teachers north of the river 4 Additional funds be vided for upkeep of these Our Weather Staying Warm skies will be mostly clear tomorrow while the cury takes a jump upward Today's high is set at 84 with a 53 low tonight tomorrow's high is slated at one degree more Yesterday the thermo- meter at International Airport ranged from an 82 high to a 49 low this morning Normals for these dates are 76 high and 46 low Relative humidity by con- trast has been it sank to 12 per cent and only hit 58 per cent this morning The hottest and coolest recorded here quarters but not from the school budget 5 Extra pay for four ers Who will have to teach be yond the normal school in order to period make days lost 6 That the school district not be penalized on its state and county financial help when the average daily attendance is ured since so many now are absent only because of the riv or Supervisors pointed out that state law requires each vidual school district to meet its own financial burdens And there are no more county funds available for emergency road work they said Leonard E Brazeel county director of public works said the county already has spent to put in culverts at three county roads and to build eight miles of con- roads of the Gila River He said the road is under water for a dis- of 800 feet The cost of a bridge that length would run to Stock Slide Halts Turns NEW YORK stock market interrupted a four-week slide with a brisk rally early this afternoon Later however it reversed again and headed lower in heavy trading Trading became heavy after an early moderate pace At neon the Dow Jonos age of 30 Industrials was up 5.95 points at 923.71 This turnabout came after average Monday plunged 14.58 points in its steepest drop since assassination of President Kennedy Nov 22 1963 Advances at midday included General Motors at Chrysler at General Electric at Zenith at RCA 75 cents at and Eastern Air Lines at Brokers attributed the rise to bargain hunting by traders and investors with no particular connection with the news ground which has remained fundamentally the same Airlines motors electronics and electrical equipments were higher steels barely changed sues and rails file a valid objection in this interim and request a public hearing FDA said such lozenges and many other antibiotic tions have not proved effective It said it based its actions on lack of any substantial medica evidence of effectiveness though there has been up to 15 year in use of some o he antibiotics It was explained that before he Druf Amendments of 1962 the law re quired that preparations contain ng five antibiotics and thei derivatives be given FDA pre- marketing clearance on a batch basis to prove ind efficacy These five anti are penicillin cin and bacitracin Riebe Bids Low On Jr High Job N J Riebe Enterprises Yuma is the apparent low bi der to build a complete ne junior high school plant Yuma Sealed bids were yesterday hy Yuma Coun Board of Supervisors Only two bids were receive Construction Inc of Tu son a base bid SI Riebe submitted a base bid of 575 about lower A long list of alternates al on this date are 93 in 1957 and north of 31 While the bridge is bein Turn to Page 8 Col 4 Please were bid by the two firms Bo bids were turned over to of dais ot Yuma School District 1 for stui and recommendations Prese lor the district were Attorn James B trustee ai G Givens assista district superintendent techt John Sins who d the proposed s c h o plant was also present Taxpayers of the district vr ed n to issue 000 in general obligation bon to build and equip the ne school It will be located on acres if land already owned district The site is locat in the 2200 block of 8th Avenu adjacent to Par The school is planned to approximately 600 st of the 6th 7th and grades The full Board was for the Superv Jim Fuquay and Robert Chairman Clark and Clerk William Under Won't Turn Bases Over To France By JOHN M WASHINGTON AP nt Johnson has told French resident de Gaulle that De proposal for radical organization of the North At- Treaty Organization ry system strikes at the heart the alliance and can have a effect on an relations The U.S response made ay night a few hours after a etter from De Gaulle reached he White House implied that he United States would remove military from France rattier than hand them over to French and control as De Gaulle reportedly wishes Will De Gaulle has been informed however that the United will discuss with its allies this and all other NATO raised by De Gaulle Thus Bie door has not been slammed on negotiations according to In- formation available here vided the French want to In Paris a Foreign spokesman said Johnson had re- plied to De Gaulle but added the response was only a provisional one not going into the substance of the dispute De deadline of 1989 for a French takeover coincides with the date when may quit the NATO tion The French ter was considered in Paris at the opening gambit In his diplo- matic confrontation with he United States over NATO's ture De Gaulle's letter it was learned raised primarily the question of making new ar- rangements concerning the us of foreign forces and lations in France U.S officials say there are about ican troops stationed mere on about a dozen bases which ly provide supply and backup facilities for NATO forces In West Negotiable On this point De Gaulle's demand was understood here to be that the French take over control On this pant alone if the French want a nominal command the issue has been considered negotiable so far as the United States is con- cerned However parallel with the ter to Johnson Gaullist officials in Paris have been advising the U.S and other members of the Atlantic alliance that France intends to remove French forces from NATO com- mand completely That would mean a pull-out of two French divisions and a number of air squadrons in West Germany Check Engine Failure In Crash Landing Here Investigation of why an plane engine failed in flight is cording Roy Evans r of Yuma al of a lidht monoplane narrowly death yesterday when their plane crash landed west of Yuma International Airport Evans said such things as the carburetor the tras bowl and gas s and the of whether water in the gas are being ed The Mooney Mark had copie in from the west and was approaching for a landing on CRASH LANDING This low wing monoplane crash the mishap The pilot was identified as R L Fulgham landed yesterday west of the Yuma International Lafayette Calif and two passengers were port after reported engine failure on approach to the as L Proctor and V A Fink California Craft is a east-west runway Three occupants escaped injury in Mooney Mark based at Concord Calif Sun Staff ttv runway Federal Aviation Agency officials re- ported craft lost lower through engine failure Evans said the plane began altitude fast after th en- tine failure and first touched tlv earth near the Yuma Cabana The plane had clipped cahle pinning from a power tn the Holiday Inn sign The top of the tal section broke the cable This hud of ing the plane to lose air speed and to seUle fast After the touched down near the Yuma Cabana sign it rolled on toward the Wind chine road and rolled across the mad where the right ins gear crumpled Evans expressed surprise that the craft did not flip and crash when the tail section caught the cable running to the Holiday Inn He said the pilot the tail section caught the cable running to Holiday Inn sign He said the pilot R L Kham handled the plane ex- in landing he did rather than get into a grove Of trips bordering the west side of the airport Passengers in thP craft were Proctor and V A Fink both from California Nobody was hurt The So Comics Editorial Sporta Women
