Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - February 12, 1968, Yuma, Arizona Editor's Notebook Whom Can We Believe In By JONES OSBORN Barry Goldwater was right about the Vietnam war in one sense That is we have been following his advice abut more and more bombing of the North Barry has made another pre- n about this year's tion He pre- dicts that the ity of the Johnson tration will be the biggest i s- sue Already I Nixon and R o m n e y have charged with a gap Their charges may have more behind them than cal ambition Recent polls indicate more than half of all Americans feel their government has been less than candid about the war And that of course is where the trouble is centered The blitzkreig on South nam cities was a bitter pill especially after we had been led to believe that the war was beginning to go our way Sen McCarthy himself a said on Feb 4th that optimistic reports by the were products of their own self-deception Sen Morton of Kentucky a lican leader was more critical He said Viet Cong successes underline the unwillingness of the administration to level with the American people A day later Secretary of De- fense McNamara said that re- ports of enemy dead may be overstated On Meet the Me Namara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk both acknowledged that they be tain that our ship the Pueblo had not entered North Korean waters before it was seized By PAUL A crowd erday saw Leo Camarillo walk ft with as his share of nore than in prize y at the 23rd Annual Silver pur Rodeo Camarillo of Oakdale Calif ran the coveted silver spurs by Western Fashions iwner Doug Borg and the best cowboy title over last champion Anson mon of Fallon Nev Thurmon vas runner-up with a urse Over Although the skies threatened le crowd with rain over ersons attended swelling the total figure to more ban The livestock continued to thrills and spills for le crowd and re- as only six entrants vere able to stay aboard the b r o n c s and seven rides were made on le brahma bulls in the two ays of the rodeo Top single event money went o Buddy McQueen and Gayle anders both of Clifton Ariz won 5998 each in the team oping contest Fallon and Who shall we believe when the next crisis comes I think all of us would PRE- FER to believe what our tells us in times of crisis But it is a sad fact that many Americans today cannot accept it at face That is the credibility gap Barry is talking about New APS Manager Suffers Mild Attack Don Roberts recently pointed Yuma division mana- ger for Arizona Public Service was hospitalized on Phoenix Sunday He suffered a mild heart at- tack His illness will delay his family's move to Yuma for about six weeks In Roberts absence Phil Wuertemburg will handle Roberts duties Welcome Winter Desert Mr and Mrs Orson B ton Nevada Iowa Mr and Mrs Freeman Smith Boone Iowa Bow and Mr and Mrs Percy Saskatchewan THE WEATHER Highest yesterday Lowest this morning 00 Temperature at 11 today 62 Relative humidity at 11 Average high this date 10 Average low this date FORECAST to Tuesday Mostly clear this afternoon an tonight Warmer this afternoon slightly cooler tonight nj cloudiness ana mild Tuesday Hie tills Low tonight 46 High Tuesday 72 Sunset Sun rise e t of ire or c A e ti on day over the en- of San McCarthy for pres I dent The ADA voted 65 to 47 to back McCarthy THE UMA 124 12 Pages Per Copy Yuma Arizona Monday February 12 1968 Phone ARIZONA 285 Kremlin SEE Oakdale Poke Wins Coveted Silver Spurs Bucky Bradford Tucson took second money with 5618 each Third went to Fred and Darnell Rodeo 5505 each and fourth to James Casey Yuma and Earl Higgins nix 5140 each Calf Roping In the calf roping event it was Dale Smith Chandler 5802 Camarillo 5802 Mel Potter Tucson and Lee Ferris Sebastopol Calif 5115 A tie for first place was re- corded among those lucky enough to stay on the backs of the bulls Vidal Garcia Santa Maria Calif and Bob Berger Hallstead Kan wound up with the same number of points and 5614 each Third went to Sandy Kerby Woodstown 5351 and fourth to Kenny Grand Junction Colo 5175 Was First Thurmon was first in steer wrestling with 5506 but Walter Wyatt Lake View Terrace Calif was top money winner in the bulldogging event with Third went to Jerry son Tucson 5156 and a fourth place tie to Gene Smith Los Angeles 5272 and Will Semon Oxnard Calif Four out of the six persons o stay on bareback broncs won money They were first Valt Mason Las Vegas Paul Howard Phoenix 450 third Grady Sandifur 5333 and fourth Phil Hawkins Scottsdale Were Led Saddle bronc riders were led y Martinelli Oakdale Calif in first place nd went to Nelson San uis Obispo Gait 5374 third o Berger 5249 and fourth to Dennis Reiners Clara City Jinn 5125 Two ties were recorded the young ladies riding n the barrel race for the silver belt donated by Vangs Shop and a 5715 purse First went to Kathy Hall Las Cruces winner of the and A tie for second Barbara Bell and dy Potter both of Tucson 5155 ach A fourth place tie gave McFarlane and Sammy Thurmon both of Fallon Nev 107 and respectively Shots Just Spurred Yuma Escapee Jerry Anaya 21 Yuma decided he didn't like the business of being and fingerprinted at he City Hall yesterday He an Police Officer Richard Bauer ook off after Anaya who was headlong south of City in the alley between 1st nd 2nd Avenues Officer Bauer his service revolver and ired two shots in the air ng to get Anaya to stop Anaya an faster In Car Officer Bauer got into a trol car and sped south on 1st to 2nd Street The capee was nowhere to be seen Then an unknown man yelled that someone in a white T-shirt had turned toward 1st Avenue Officer Bauer found Anaya ing between two houses He was captured and handcuffed Anaya had been jailed on a charge of driving while Saturday night When captured Anaya said he was away without leave from Fort Ord Police officials verified that Police learned also that Anaya has escaped also from military authorities and from the Imperial County Sheriff's officers in the past pr- STOP AND Vietnamese Army ranger checks the back pocket of a civilian last week at gon while other civilians raise their hands and wait to be searched rangers and police checked several men who came from the direction of the huge fire which raged through the area Smoke from the fire rises in the background AP Negroes Try Boycott in Orangeburg ORANGEBURG AP turned to a boycott of vhite businesses today as they for civil rights gains and immediate removal of tional Guard troops from this city Also demanded was the immediate suspension of the aw enforcement officers sponsible for the police y in racial violence mat re suited in three deaths Thursday night The violence for four days last week in which 50 sons also were injured was sparked by attempts of Negro college students to integrate a bowling alley The Rev I D Newman state director of the National sociation for the of Colored People said action ivas wanted immediately with 10 nonsense More than 800 persons a cross section of Negro community met in Trinity Methodist Church Sunday and overwhelmingly en- the boycott and other de- mands sent to the governor anc the City Council They expressed concern for he course of race relations in city and objected to the presence of more than 600 Duel over Jordan TEL AVIV AP Israeli and Jordanian troops fought an hour-long machine-gun battle day across the Jordan River near Gesher in the Beisan ey scene of a heavy tank anc artillery clash Sunday the army announced SILVER SPUR WINNER Leo Camarillo is assisted by Perry Schuman as he tries on the silver spurs he was presented by Doug Borg owner of Western Fashions won the spurs and as the best all round cowboy in the 23rd Annual Silver Spur Rodeo Additional Photo Page 4 Sun Staff Korea Chief May Confer With LBJ SEOUL CAP South Korean President Chung Hee Park is re- ported considering a trip to talk with President Johnson if U.S presidential envoy Cyrus Vance doesn't resolve the Korean rift over Korean ty Vance and Park met for the first time today Vance's sion is to quiet South Korean fears that the United States is tending toward appeasement in the Pueblo incident and ing the increase in the tion of armed North Koreans into the South Johnson sent Park a personal letter last Thursday and Vance was expected to deliver another such letter today Informed Ko- rean sources said Johnson may have invited Park to ton and depending on the re- sults of his talks with Vance Park may decide to go In a move welcome to the South Koreans the American officers who head the Com- mand in Korea asked for a meeting with North Korea to air claims of Communist truce lations in and through the de- militarized zone Priest Is Fined MILWAUKEE Wis AP The Rev James E Groppi the white Roman Catholic priest who has guided Milwaukee's open housing demonstration's since they began last August was fined and put on two years probation today on a charge of resisting arrest Viet Warplanes Bomb Communists in Hue SAIGON AP Vietnamese warplanes bombed and strafed Communist forces holding out in Hue's Citadel today after U.S Marine reinforcements were sent into the walled fortress for the first time in the battle x The allied assaults were part of an all-out effort to drive the Communist North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong las from areas they have held since Jan 31 The Communists holding the Citadel's southeast corner put up a hail of craft fire at the attacking planes Cloudy cover lifted to permit the first air attack on the fortress in 10 days Two companies of about 300 to 400 the Citadel from landing craft sent up the Perfume River day and another two companies of Leathernecks were taken to the Citadel's northern wall by assault boats today The Marines have already re- captured the southern part o Hue in a series of street in the old imperial capital since the Communists attacked Hue in the early stages of their bi offensive against 35 cities ant towns South Vietnamese troop pushed the Communist troop into one corner of the but had been unable to drive them out The U.S Marine force in Hue was about men AP corre George McArthur re ported from Hue that the Ma rines were meeting only sniper fire in the southern part of the city 400 miles of Saigon Johnson Presses For Disarming WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson pressing for inter- national acceptance of a treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons promised today the United States will undertake with the utmost seriousness negotiations aimed at atomic disarmament Johnson mindful of ings about a draft treaty discussed the problem in a message transmitting to Con- gress the annual report of the arms control and disarmament agency Burglar Is Music Man Musical instruments valued at were stolen from Music Store 1446 4th Avenue sometime Saturday night Police said the burgla smashed a door glass at tin front of the store When he en tered night lights were turner out both in the front and of the store Items stolen were as guitars an amplifier stand and cords police reported In another burglary at th Pizza Village Inn 2630 Avenue someone took a mon ey bag containing 5272 Thant Sees Russ Chiefs In Secret By ANTHONY 0 MOSCOW AP The Soviet publicly urged on the Vietnamese Communists to new while Kremlin secretly discussed peace respects with General U Thant After his talks Thant d for London to confer with rime Minister Harold Wilson le had come to Moscow from ndia where he met with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi U.S Ambassador Chester Bowles and a North Vietnamese diplo- mat Britain is with the Soviet Union of the Geneva con- which ended the Indochina war in 1954 India is a member of the International Control Commission for nam Supports Hanoi Complete Soviet support for the peace programs of Hanoi and the Viet Cong and ises of continued aid in fighting United States were given here while Thant was meeting with Premier Alexei N Kosygin Communist party General Leonid I Brezhnev and President Nikolai V Podgorny Thant refused to talk to re- porters before he left Thant's London schedule called for a meeting Tuesday morning with Secretary Seorge Brown and luncheon with Wilson before departing for New York i Wilson said Sunday after a visit to Johnson that he ed President Johnson's San Antonio formula as the road to peace in Vietnam He said he had carried the proposal to Ko- when he visited Moscow Jan Johnson in a speech in San Antonio Tex last September promised an end to the bombing of North Vietnam when there is assurance from the Communist side that this will lead to prompt productive peace talks North Vietnamese Foreign ister Nguyen Duy Trinh said last week the talks could begin as soon as the bombing stopped Wilson was interviewed on the CBS program Face the Nation British Conservative party leader Edward Heath accused Wilson on his return to London Sunday of lecturing Johnson instead of supporting the dent when in a speech at the White House Friday night he advised the President to ignore impatient and exasperated de- mands for intensification of the fighting But the New York Times said it was thought son spoke with the President's advance knowledge and al In other words Mr Johnson used his visitor to strengthen his own hand against advocates of escalation Inside The Sun 9 Crossword 8 Markets 2 Movies 8 Sports 7 Women 5 AIR CARGO Yuma To Spread Products around World By DENNIS PEARCE The Yuma Daily Sun A lot of people in this world have never heard of Yuma but if all goes well Yuma products both agricultural and tured will spread its name around the world thanks to air cargo It all started in November of last year at the Air Cargo inar and lias grown to the point that major airlines are keenly interested in flying air cargo out of Yuma Five Airlines Boyd Chambers chairman of a task force on inter- national trade and commerce said fivo different airlines are optimistic about the idea In fact TWA Pan American SAS BOAC and Air were at a meeting last week to set up free deliveries to trade fairs in don Stockholm and Hamburg Chambers and Charles son committee board liaison will go to London March 6th to 14th to represent Yuma area growers and arc agents to demonstrate and promote sale of tile products Arc Chambers praised the help of the Commerce Department He said We are getting outstand ing help from them They are bending over backwards to help us He speculated this area was being used as an ex- ample of what might bo in international trade bers added Wa haven't made a request that they haven't helped us with they have made suggestions and done the work He said William F Dins head of the international trade fairs division of the De- of Commerce has been a great help Dobbins in- attended and spoke at the Air Cargo Seminar Chambers said None of the airlines are saying no to air cargo shipments at the port here In fact several have said that when we have duce they will a plane here Steps Ho gave three steps which air cargo shipments out ol Yuma must go through First get the orders and go through Los Angeles second an aircraft when a certain agreed upon quantity of produce is ready and third scheduled flights out of Yuma In- Chambers said The coming growing season is the test If we develop a market and show the airlines we'll have it He said the emphasis now is ba- on agriculture but I think that is of a temporary nature Ho pointed out that though the Chamber of Com- merce Aviation Committee started the idea both the culture and ment committees are presently working on developing tional markets Raising Monny To cover expenses at the coming London trade fair has been raised of which came from agriculture interests and from the Chamber Chambers gave an example of the reception Yuma citrus products have received in Eur- ope He said a shipment of gelos were sent to Italy not too long ago He said They went wild when we sent the sample and are ordering them in ton lots He added that SAS is istic about the chances of berg lettuce in Scandinavian countries and Pan Am TWA and BOAC are optimistic about greens and citrus He 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