Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - October 12, 1967, Yuma, Arizona University Center Is Discussed THE WEATHER Highest yesterday Lowest IhU Temperature fit 11 Relative humidity at 1.1 Average date this date FORECAST to Friday Mostly clear with little In temperature through Friday Illch this afternoon 38 Low 67 Hler Friday Sunset rise 95 64 SI 91 61 Renewed interest in ing higher educational credit through a university resident center here was voiced at a meeting of the Yuma Association yesterday Dr George Hall president of Arizona Western College spoke to the teachers at the music hall at Fourth Avenue Junior High School He explained ing concents of colleges related statistics on population and higher education and opened the question of a dent university center here On the question of residency Dr Hall pointed out that state officials have said that no ior college in Arizona will be allowed to become a four-year college Although extension courses from state universities are being taught here a need was pointed out for a resident center where teachers and ers may receive more college credit Breakthrough Possible If enough persons will press we will make that Dr Hall said He said he is hoping for a downtown center where a university may offer courses leading to credit He pledged his support with the teachers in obtaining the gram During a brief discussion iod School District No 1 Super- intendent Pete Woodard said that considerable work has been done on the problem by the Yuma County School Board Association Although Dr Hall new at AWC this year said it was news to him Woodard ex- that San Diego State through their Calexico branch is interested in helping Yuma Woodard said other meetings this have been proposed by officials from San Diego State Hesitancy Noted Woodard also pointed out that there may be hesitancy on the part of universities in Arizona to overlap other university vices in other areas however Northern Arizona University may be interested in helping broaden educational services in Yuma There have been some overtures from the University of Arizona Tucson Dr Hall explained that a college such as AWC has on door policy Once in- side the college door a student is given placement tests to determine a course of study best suited to him Then needed remedial study is offered lowed by technical occupational courses or a eral arts program is offered and designed for transfer to a uni- versity This type of junior lege is known as a community college A junior college in a different sense would be con- cerned with liberal arts tion only Dr Hall explained On the other hand university gates Dr Hall explained are preceded by various barriers One barrier is high school grades another barrier is dency still another barrier is entrance examinations to mine if the prospective student will even be admitted there are placement examinations and high tuition To Double In Arizona Dr Hall said that 69 per cent of the college age young persons go to college On a national basis the percentage is 43 The projection is that this factor will double in seven years In a few months when the national population reaches 200 million there will be 85 lion persons 21 years of age or younger There now over million students in colleges like AWC This fall 44 per cent of persons 18 years of age tered for college every third person registered at a junior college The junior college is the test educational institution Dr Hall said This is where the action is YUMA 22 20 Pages Per Copy lOc Yuma Arizona Thursday October 12 1967 Phone ARIZONA 179 Seek 66 Missing in Cyprus Airliner Crash Crashes 1 Hour from Athens Stop NICOSIA Cyprus AP A Comet jetliner crashed into the Mediterranean off the southwest coast of key today and all 66 persons aboard are presumed killed a spokesman for the British Royal Air Force announced Operated by British European Airways for Cyprus Airways the Comet 4 jet was on a flight from London and Athens to osia with 59 passengers and a crew of The plane left London Wednesday night and stopped briefly before dawn in Athens It crashed into the sea about an hour later near the Dodecanese island of spokesman for BEA said Crash Seen Police on sale the airliner was seen to crash about 35 miles southeast of the island A spokesman said the is land's harbor dis patched a fishing boat to scene of the crash A BEA spokesman in London said most of the passenger were businessmen or vacation ers end that some children wen aboard The three-man crew was British and the tw Parades Celebrate Columbus Day Today and two stewardesses vere Cypriots The THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Columbus Day days ana a contest for the Miss Columbus title aid 32 passengers boarded the ilane at London and 27 in celebrate the discovery of their country by the Los Angeles a five-day Italiana opened Wednesday explorer Christopher the Hollywood Palladium Second with banquets parades an array of Italian and It was the second crash in variety of special show business people in- months of la passenger Jimmy Durante taking bound for Cyprus A every school child I Swiss Britannia rhyme twas in 1492 fiesta was started in 1964 crashed in April as it was sailed the ocean blue raise funds tor Casa Italiana ing on the island in a observance of cultural center for the storm killing 126 persons came in 1792 when and visual arts in Los were German and British City celebrated the of the The BEA spokesman said the Comet sent no distress New York City more than persons march up Escapes before going down today to the beat of some Wall just disappeared The weather was reported clear at the time Naval and passenger ships in the area were alerted and There was also a parade scheduled to step off at 2 p.m in Boston but marchers Calif AP Garrett 18 was working with the Santa Barbara U.S Air Force base in the awesome prospect flood control crew j sent a plane to to join the search for survivors Five RAF planes were conducting the air search An RAF spokesman said while the pilots spotted wreckage they were not sure it was from the plane to lure spectators away from the final game of the World In Columbus Ohio representatives from 21 American cities named Columbus gather for a Columbus Day USA a stream bed Suddenly a concrete block toppled from the dirt wall nearby falling toward Garrett Luckily for Garrett he was standing in a hole and fell to the ground as he saw the concrete no survivors were annual observance Cotton Surplus Reduced WASHINGTON AP Now that the nation's big cotton plus has been reduced sharply the government will encourage cotton farmers to produce 65 per cent more next year than they did this year Two years ago the cotton plus and reserve reached a ord 16.6 million bales Under a new control program used in 1966 and 1967 production was reduced sharply under sions offering growers tial federal payments for idling some of their cotton land Crops Fell Crops fell below market needs providing an outlet for extra supplies from past years The cotton reserve is expected to be down to 6.5 or 7 million bales by the end of the 1967 crop marketing year This ply is considered by the to be an essential minimum reserve Under a 1968 cotton program announced by the Agriculture Department Wednesday ers will be encouraged to plant around 11.1 million acres com- pared with 9.6 million acres this year Grower payments under the 1967 program totaled about 5900 million Next year's program offers slightly lower payments The aim is to encourage growers to plant larger acreages The grower payments are expected to total about million The 1968 program will relax regulations pertaining to called skip row plantings ol cotton a planting practice that had grown in many ducing areas The department will hold a grower referendum Dec on the question of continuing al marketing quotas on the cotton crop PLANS LETTER South Vietnamese elect Nguyen Van Thieu right will send a letter to North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minn left posing that they meet to talk peace a spokesman for Thieu said in Saigon Statement Alleges Murders Planned By JANE K PHOENIX statement which Robert Benjamin Smith allegedly gave police said the youth had planned a mass der at a Mesa beauty college for more than three months The statement was admitted into evidence Wednesday over the objections of the defense counsel While the prosecution ued to present its case steps also were taken to point two psychiatrists to mine whether Smith is capable in his own defense If Smith is found insane the rial will end and the Dld Mesa youth will be ed to the state mental hospital Statement Smith's statement to police elated how he got the idea of ailing some people at the Mar Beauty College about three months before seven perr ons were shot last November I got up at and ook my paper sack with a 22 gun knife string etc that I Manned on using to kill U.S Can Meet NATO Troops WASHINGTON AP The United States the Pentagon says is fully able to meet its timing commitments for of NATO forces and will not be one division short of its 1968 quota as claimed in a newspaper report New Yumans Welcome At Fine Arts Reception pr nan for- the Amy In The call ember and ban the October of Inducted 03 Ue New residents as well as those established in the area are cor- invited to join members and guests around the punch bowl this Saturday evening marking the fall opening of the Yuma Fine Arts Association galleries There will be special exhibits in the Yuma County Historical Society rooms as well as Art Center exhibitions from the League and of Los Jovenes young people's roup The reception will be from six to nine p.m at the galleries 248 Madison Ave There will be music in the gardens which con tain water nymph sculptures on extended loan from the nix Art Museum Gallery hours for the season will be noon to 5 p.m Tuesday through Friday 2 p.m to 5 p.m Saturday and Sunday p.m Ninth Arizona Annual from the Phoenix Art Museum The ert Artists will be showing in the Century House according to j Louise Tester director Art Works The gallery wilt feature works of art as well as books and note paper ing scenes of historical interest in the Yuma area The Arizona Watercolor Association tion will be displayed in this gallery as well as in the Yuma Library Hostesses for the occasion will bo members of the Women's to p.m Thursday closed Monday Special tours by pointment he statement said It described how he told the women to go into a back room and forced them to lie down When they were all down I hot them in the head twice I had to reload three the statement said I didn't think there would be any kids when I planned he added Introduced The document was introduced during testimony by Gary L Johnson a Mesa patrolman who was the first to enter the school Johnson said Smith admitted the crime and said he wanted to make a name for himself Johnson the state's ness identified a number of items Smith carried in a paper sack the day of the shootings and the uses Smith gave for them They box of plastic bags He packed them with the idea of putting them over the victims heads to suffocate them Will Ask One Week Bomb Halt By Associated Press Writer SAIGON AP With shifting monsoon weather already ing the air war against North Vietnam South Vietnamese Chief of State Nguyen Van disclosed today he will soon propose a one-week pause in the bombing and a meeting with President Ho Chi Minn American officials disclaimed prior knowledge of the peace in- by the head of the tary regime who recently was elected president had promised some such proposal during the campaign and a spokesman said he intended to make it formal with an official letter to the North Vietnamese leader shortly after his ration Oct 30 Thieu's announcement with a general slackening in the ground and air war though there were scattered Shelling U.S Command reported con- Red on a reduced scale of Marine out- posts south of the demilitarized zone and another Red mortar attack on a big Mekong Delta town the second this week The latter shelling of Chau Doc hard by the Cambodian border killed four civilians and wounded 25 Some American and South Vietnamese military casualties also were reported but the number was not immediately known 103 Killed The slackening in the war was reflected in the weekly casualty report from U.S headquarters which said 102 Americans were killed in action last week the smallest weekly number in two months while 890 were wounded and 26 were missing or cap- tured The week before 150 Americans were killed wounded and three were ing Despite the reduction In U.S casualties South Vietnamese casualties climbed sharply while the number of enemy re- ported killed increased 231 over the previous week to The South Vietnamese reported 254 of their men killed last week 687 wounded and 52 missing compared with 114 killed 461 wounded and five missing the week before Federal Debt READYING FOB Walter Varner Jr president of the Yuma Fine Arts and Louise Tester up a painting for showing in the current Ninth en to works by Arizona Annual ltS art department It Arizona Annual is open to works by Arizona head ol the Ato St Elvis Presley Selling Trailers Tonn AP vis Presley is going to auction off five house trailers that have been used by guests some farm equipment television sets and a coffee bar not that the millionaire entertainer needs the money but he's Retting out of the business will raise horse instead pinds 200 Sniper Rifles SAIGON U.S ry brigade commander in nam said Wednesday We're delighted to see these sniper ri- les He referred to 200 brand-new Russian SKS rifles uncovered by American troops n a Viet Cong tunnel complex 30 miles east of Saigon Twelve telescopic sights also were found The infantry commander Col Donald A Seibert College Point explained he was glad to have the rifles out of enemy hands because his com mand the 1st Brigade of U.S 9th Infantry Division lost about 25 men killed by Vie Cong snipers over the last tou months rolls of masking to fasten the bass 22 caliber pistol to hoot them He said it was a ift from his father cord to tie heir hands and feet pair of rubber surgical gloves and powder to make lis gloves slip on easier T-shirt fashioned i mask Johnson said he asked Smith he would do if his mother and sister walked into the room at the time of the shootings and Smith said he would have them also However Johnson testified the polite ative and did whatever police told him WASHINGTON The federal debt soared above billion this week for the first time in history the Treasury Department reported today Total debt is subject to a billion ceiling fixed by Congress earlier this year rose to lillion last Monday the nent said At that time the billion n now cash borrowed last week vent on ths department's books The previous high was on Sept 28 when the debt subject to the ceiling reached billion the debt at the end of the last fiscal year June 30 was 5326.47 billion Treasury officials now say they must borrow about 517 billion in new rash during the six months which end Dec 31 to pay the government's bills Congress has failed thus far to raise taxes About billion of this has been borrowed The need for new cash had been fixed at billion if the 10 per cent tax surcharge had gone into effect as proposed by President Johnson on Oct 1 for individuals and last July for corporations Inside The Sun Comics Crossword w Food B 1B Women Stocks Ed The N Y Ex- change closes at ing figures win lip by last sales Scott Co reports that at today tne Tones Industrial average was
