Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 23, 1969, Yuma, Arizona Editor's Notebook Shopping Around For a Deal By JONES OSBORN Everyone likes to shop around for the brat deal he can get And now U.S Supreme Court lias ruled Hint persons who are on public welfare also have in effect the riyht to around among he 50 to find the able deal for I li c They can if they wish and if they are able move into the states and im- mediately become eligible for welfare payments The court ruled that laws in slates including Arizona which require people to live in a stale a year before they become eligible for tance are unconstitutional Justice William J Brennan Jr in the majority opinion said poor people have a right o move into a state precisely because higher welfare ments are available We do not perceive he said why a mother who is seeking to make a new life for herself and her children be regarded as less deserving because she considers among other factors the level of a public assistance The Supreme Court was not unanimous about this Three of tlie nine justices including Chief Justice Earl Warren dis- sented argued hat Congress had authorized one-year dence rules for a to encourage the states to adopt liberal welfare programs But Monday's ruling may change all that I suspect that certain state legislatures struggling with rising costs and perhaps resentful of welfare costs to begin wilh will use the new ruling to reduce their aid to the poor in hopes tha poor will move to other states The pattern of state welfare payments already is irregular Monday's ruling will likely make it even more so The re- sult is the states rail bring pressure on Congress to put all welfare payments on a uniform basis throughout the nation with Uncle Sam ing the And maybe that is how it will have to be fov the federal government now collects two-thirds of all the lax dollars paid by Americans to local stale and federal ments IKE BOOK IS OFFERED An book nti lifo of the fate and is offered to readers nf Tito Sun today The book contains more tlian 125 including a number in color and covers life from boyhood in Kansas his careers American may be ordered through TJio Yuma Daily Sun for W and will sell later in at check rush nr money order lo ISook The Sun Til 1IIBI m SUN YUMA 137 22 Pages Per Copy lOc Yuma Arizona Wednesday April 23 1969 Phono ARIZONA Vol 37 IN GAS CHAMBER Jury Condemns Sirhan to Die Nixon Asks Million Judge r i i- Reversal To right Organized Crime unlikely WASHINGTON AP denl Nixon a SGI lion Wiir against organ crime asked Congress today to make corruption of police and local officials and uf illegal gambling rings federal offenses strike forces set up in the place of those we jail cities to coordinate activities I However if we can levy of all federal agencies engaged fines on their real estate ui investigation of rations if wv ran seek treble crime and racketeering damages against trucking At least a more chics I firms and hanks if we seize will added to the list within I liquor in their warehouses I two years he said think we can strike a critical In a special message which said the leaders tlie Nostra are more firmly en also the an- federal on gamblers And blow ill crime j contended I from to trenched and more secure than And in another request for during his lever Nixon said his ad- j he pruned a new j on the ministration is studying the broad general witness immunity sucs of violence illegal use of antitrust laws to He tain that under this a j organized crime's In- cripple witness immunity could i nitration of legitimate business lion of legitimate businesses 01 prosecuted on the basis by illicil revenues Nixon also said he wants the budget for the fiscal year starling July I to IK increased by million to record SGI million Muro Sleuths That would finance hiring more sleuths and help staff he immune from prosecution San Luis Man Held in Case of on Should the witness refuse to a he would lie liable to a prison sentence for contempt Musi Striking lite must striking NiNon outlined WHS of the laws or statutes incorporating theories to crack down on syi ill rolled business enterprises The arrest conviction and imprisonment or a Mafia I can curtail crime rate a great national While die federal effort against crime has in- since and many racketeers nave been imprisoned or deported Nixon said today These successes have not impeded the growth and power of organized criminal syndicates that not one of the Cos i Nostril has been destroyed he said they are in fact stronger than ever LOS han Sirhan was to today for assassination of Sen Robert K Kennedy Tile Jordanian Arab betrayed tin emotion hewing gum and shifting his yes toward the jury after was read at The seven men ami five leu by decision turned own a defense plea that an's sentence be limited to life the only ve to death in the gas er When formal sentence is approximately three hence Court ndge V Walker is em- to reduce the penalty o life imprisonment but this is unlikely YOUNGSTERS PROTEST Tots from several Sacramento area programs for the poor with parents teachers and others hold signs in the governor's outer of- fice in the California Capitol Tuesday Tlie group was protesting the possible vetoing by Gov Reagan of a federal war on poverty grant AP North Korea Claims U.S Plans War Flooding Swells Along Mississippi Carlos 32 San Luis Sonora is being in jail at Calexico on a charge I of being an alien carrying a concealed weapon was day ai the Calexico of Entry driving a car which contained purse and passport of Maria Sextos 18 Los Angeles The car contained also a the right air vent Three shots been tenant but out As as the property of a lottiritahmi and closed society organized crime remains new operating within an open am leaders will step forward to take I democratic he said vitally important tha does not put the syndicate j Americans ser this alien organ of he said for what H really is 3 Yumans Charged In Service Station Heist U.S Helicopter Collision Kills 16 THE WEATHER Invest this Gl at 11 today it Relative humility at II 231 Average this date SS Average Imv 57 FORECAST In Thursday Thursday Cooler winds 15 to mph with occasional blowing dust High this afternoon So tonight 5S 81 Sunset Sunrise TOKYO AP Korea claimed today the United States is building up its forces in and around Korea in for a new war II charged U.S in Sonth Korea fired into North Korean territory At Ilic same lime il upheld its to shoot down U.S planes which it said violate air space II contended a plane shot down pril 15 had lono this The United States says the lane never was closer than 40 lo North Korea anil hat arts of its wreckage were re- overed miles off the shore The North Korean charges aine in a dispatch of ill official Korean Central and from The monitored here said he firing from Korea ook place from n today in rcas of i southeast of hy and of calibers in- THE Residents the pi River in towa and Illinois maintained patrols on dikes and levees today as one of the est flood of the century i rolled southward The Mississippi was above flood stage from Minn to Cape Girardeau Mo The crest was to reach Prairie du Chicn Wis today and Iowa Saturday The Weather Bureau said the river would crest at 6.6 feet cause the earthen levees ened by river pressures would be vulnerable to softening Sonic communities slill have not fully recovered froin the worst Mississippi flood on Roberl Johnson 100 Avenue ivas arrested last fired night on a warrant To Return him with armed robbery Tho had Johnson was allegedly in- Yuma in April on in the aimed robbery way to San Luis Sonora to of Bill's Shell service station visit her mother She Sth Street Wi Avenue goini to return morning His arraignment so she could catch a bus i in Justice Court is perilling in when County Sheriff with sons fled their homes and age lo million In Minol where the overflowing Souris River earlier had sliced the community in two the waters pushed through a plugged culvert Tuesday flooding an additional 109 homes Virgil Bohanan Mill Avenue and Street and Alex Crawford known address have been arraigned in Calexico Police Court here on back lo Los Angeles She not been seen since The Yuma Sheriff and above flood stage at Dubuque Most riverside communities were confident that reinforced defense systems would save them from the spring flooding that has already caused an mated million damage to the north Hut Army Corps ot j k urged constant j over the seawalls heightened jsl m levees emergency dikes and: Overflows subsided on drainage areas and warned tributaries of most dangerous period was yet i particularly Minnesota am to conic Mho tVs Rill only Sioux of South Dakota The aftermath of the crest j from stage and would be critical it returned to its banks One-third of the towns 35.000 t residents already had evacuated but officials re- moved many more because of tile leak beneath the Soo Line rail tracks Army lo have investigating the case Two front Yuma P r o v i n g Ground searched the Colorado Paver and All American Canal day but found nothing The search has Meanwhile Calexico police have been whu has arraigned on the charge charges of armed robbery and burglary Are K The two men are inspected of robbing Spears early Tuesday morning at he Bill's Shell service station and of burglarizing McDonald's town same night Bonds on the pair have been Meanwhile Judge C Byrd said Johnson has been charged with armed robbery since men came into the service One man hit Spears on the head with lie of a gun while tun others slole cash ter containing The cash register was recovered yesterday morning at Carver lust ice Couri officials said Rohanan and Crawford possessed coins their The coin carried identification of San School officials said Inside The Sun Airport Authority OKs Restaurant Lease Restaurant and food facilities for new terminal building at the Yuma County tional Airport have been leased i on a long-term contract with owners and operators of Sir George's according to an an- made today by Theo L Moeller president of the Airport The group consisting of Herb Gollis George Kronwald and Tom Tafe in a joint statement said that the most modern of facilities are now being for the new ment Management will he under Iho direct supervision of Gollis who now supervises the operation of Sir George's nt 2550 Avenue The other two associates have similar of The i in area we ire We plan to have menus that have attract patrons froni all parts of the Yuma said Gollis with an eye at all times on patron No beverages will be served in tlie restaurant area Service will be available to the daily from 30 utes prior to arrival of the first flight until 30 minutes after the last Stainless steel fabrications are being made by specially concerns on the West Coast while furnishings are being plied by firms A name for restaurant has not been selected said lis but he added he and his associates arc seriously con- J tor tt the new said I feel tain that we can promise the public she very best of quality and service Accenting to Gollis plans are in an attempt to prepared for the formal he within the next few weeks The lease was unanimously by the Authority which in addition lo Moeller consists of Paul Hurch James R Rolle Jr S Self and The lease was negotiated by airport ager AI preliminary hearing is pending them SAIGON AP The U.S Command today announced the loss of six helicopters including a fiery mid-air collision that killed American and Smith Vietnamese soldiers and left no survivors The oilier crashes three Americans and wounded U.S soldiers and 20 South Tlie collision occurred 1 today 35 miles of gon Iwo Army carrying infantrymen on a night assault Kight American men and eight South soldiers uere killed when thr helicopters plunged the ground in flames U.S headquarters said cause of the crash is in- Olbers other helicopters were I lost to fire within an period Tuesday two miles the eastern flank of the First a big U.S Marine helicopter landing South infantrymen on a hilltop crashed apparently hit an my land mine and exploded Two American crewmen were killed and three crewmen and 14 South infantrymen were wounded All the dead wounded i were lifted out by another i copter except a South company commander and his radio operator who were A smaller helicopter that came to pick them up -I hours later hit a mine while landing One U S crewman was killed and South Vietnamese diers wounded CHOW TIME A U.S Marine shares his with his puppy at Dong Ha South Vietnam Many U.S servicemen have adopted pets to help while away the hours between fighting AP Eye Transplant Performed HOUSTON Tex IAP A total human oye the first on has been med Methodist John Madden 51 received the eye the body of 55 of Houston who I had died 24 hours earlier of a brain tumor Dr Conrad O Moore who performed the transplant said j Tuesday that Madden owner of a photography studio at Tex was in excellent condition Moore aided it was too early to whether the patient I would be able to sue with the i eye The operation 13 simple but the problem is keeping the optic i nerve cells said Moore Even with a perfected procedure it could be used only with the loss of whole eye such as in an ha said The type case we had here might happen once in a thousand
