Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1969, Yuma, Arizona Editor's Notebook Ramparts In Senate By JONES OSBORN Towel's of of That's what an angry Now York business consultant called the United Stales l o r s who h e 1 ped to water down the tax re- f oi r m which was proved day in the Senate Pros Nixon was mad too He said he veto it if it is laid on his desk in the same form as it passed the Senate One tax specialist the changes made to the tax would benefit the middle class and the vith but rot the poor who need help the most Tax reform is important in itself The average American is willing to pay his taxes heavy as they are he feels the other fellow is paying m's fai share too But when he gets the idea that the rich and well-to-do are getting tax breaks at his expense he is no longer willing to support the system That feeling brought lalk of a revolt a year ago YUMA Vol 26 Per Copy lOc 18 Pages Arizona Friday December 1969 Phone ARIZONA 234 Tax Sent to Conference But there is another side to tax reform That is we mus halt Inflation The 10 per cen surtax was one attempt to slop it But it was too late and too Inflation still rolls on a than ii per cent annua Savings and pensions and Insurance policies and nest of all kinds are being The effective cost of bank loan to the best and corporate customer is now over 10 per a year this is no time to fuel to inflation by handing more tax benefits than you in via tax reform Christmas time alright But this is not the time to load tree with tax Rifts for those wno don't need in such as to increase the r c of inflation Both of Arizona's senators Barry Goldwater and Paul Fannin correctly opposed the in its present form Welcome Winter At Desert Holiday Mobile Mr and Mrs John N West Mt Vernon Ohio At Wyoming Tr Mr and Mrs hart Clay Center At Desert Holiday Mobile Mr and UK Jones Falls Oregon Mr and Mrs Fred L Ermey Wash At Yuma Trailer Mr and Mrs Kenneth Shirtz Taylor Mich Mr and Mrs Lester E Medina THE WEATHER Highest yesterday this 42 Temperature at H today Relative humidity at It 323 low this dats 42 to Saturday Variable hlsh through Slightly warmer Hich this afternoon 73 Low 45 Saturday 75 Sunset Sunrise Snake Sought WATER WATER EVERYWHERE A couple from Cannon Beach Ore didn't have to follow the sign to the beach as the beach came to them during a storm this morning High tides and heavy rains sent water cascading across the main street of this Oregon coastal community AP Killing VC Sympathizers j Sheriff's i lilies are combing Crystal Hills area miles north of Yuma for a man who reportedly used a band to summon The signal from the man who said he had been bitten by a rattlesnake was picked up in Alaska Illinois Alabama Tennessee California and Texas Thursday Calls were made to the local sheriff's office and the search was started Included in Hie search was an Arizona Highway Patrol helicopter Nothing definite has come up said Lt Dale morning We are not sure it was a real distress call Several sheriff's units are continuing the search but the has returned to nix pending more Information Mrs Pearl Jackson Decatur ni said yesterday she heard call saying Oh helicopter come back The caller apparently was referring to the helicopter The reason he radio signal was heard over such a large was an atmospheric called skip By GEORGE BOWEN AP A re- by two former stating they were to hire mercenaries rill Viet Cong male or female civilians of any is being brought to ho attention of U.S senators Tile statement the officers were told that frequent resort to the most extreme of was They said they were assigned o the Phoenix they were informed sought to accomplish through capture intimidation -ion and assassination what the United States up to this time vas unable to accomplish hrough the use of military power i.e to win the var The statement is on file in he U.S District Court for Maryland in behalf of the who sought and ob- Army discharge as con- objectors At School Francis T and Michael J Conn were attending combat intelligence school at Ft in Baltimore when they sought discharge after re- orders for Vietnam last December and January William 11 Zinman their Baltimore lawyer said day he is sending a copy to several senators of a statement ire had filed last Feb 14 It was a written offer to prove that instruction to each officer he might actually be re- quired to maintain a kill quota of 50 Viet Cong sympathizers a month helped crystalline their to lion in war in any form Reitemeyer and Cohn both about 25 years old were not called to testify under oath on their allegations of hiring killers because Judge Frank A Kaufman decided they had ported their conscientious objector claims without it Now in Vietnam Zinman snid and Cohn were in a class of 48 of- at Ft Holabird and presumably most of the others now are in Vietnam The statement said they were officially instructed they were to be American advisers in the Phoenix Program when they arrived in Vietnam The paper for each petitioner The Phoenix Program was described to him as a policy of the United States ment which sought the tion and destruction of the Communist infra structure in South Vietnam Your petitioner was in- formed that he would be one of many Army officers os an adviser whose function it was to supervise and to pay with funds from an undisclosed source 18 aries probably Chinese none of whom would be officers or enlisted men of the U.S tary who would be explicitly directed by him and other ad- visers to find capture and-or kill as many Viet and Viet CODE sympathizers within a piven number of small villages as was possible under the circumstances Male or Female Viet Cong were meant tc sympathizers include any male civilians of any age in a position of authority or influence in the village who were politically loyal or simply agreement with the Viet Cong or their objectives The petitioner was officially advised by the lecturing United States Army officers who tually recounted from their own experiences in the field that the petitioner as an American adviser might actually be re- quired to maintain a kill quota of 50 bodies a month Young petitioner was further informed at this intelligence school that he was authorized to adopt any technique or em- ploy any through his mercenaries which was to find and ferret ou the Viet Cong of the Viet Cong sympathizers Frequently as related byj the lecturing off jeers resort toj the most extreme forms of for- Body Found In Channel A in- the bypass channel near morning has been tentatively identified Dial H sient Henry Smith a winter visitor from Flint Mich discovered the body about today while he was fishing in the channel Deputy Joe Aguilar reported condition of body cates it had been water at days The investigation is ing into the cause of death The body was taken to Dixon's Yuma Mortuary A social security card In Dial's name was found on the and investigators believe Dial has been booked several times by Yuma Police The description of the body matches that of Inside The Sun Churches 18 Comics 13 Crossword g Editorial 4 Markets 2 Movies 12 Sports 10 11 Jenie the daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Gilpin 568 20th Place is participating in contest for crown of 1970 Silver Spur Rodeo Queen A senior at Kofa High she plans to attend Arizona Western College Gilpin's Welding is her sponsor The queen will be during the Dec 20th Rodeo Dance at the Jaycee Clubhouse according to the contest chairman George Sybrant Sun Staff Police Pressure Has Black Panthers Reeling r By KKN WASHINGTON AP Self- exiled Panther Cleaver is seeking lo arrange his the where his armed revolutionary under hurting for ship Twenty-four hours after two Panthers were stain in a out wilh sources said Cleaver contacted U.S officials in Algiers and asked for a passport to return to America where he is wanted on a fugitive warrant Cleaver didn't gel the port Hie sources added hut in later discussions was told he could get a certificate of ly thut would him lo el to the United Stales Signs As Cleaver was making the inquiries in Algiers signs were mounting in America that the Panthers are revolutionaries on the ropes On Monday a police raid on Panther headquarters in Los in a four-hour gun battle that left three men and ture was necessary COMING IN Camper Owners Must Declare for Tax Here By JOHN BAITIN The Yuma Daily Sun Motor vehicle registration slips will be moiled Dec by County Assessor Otis Shipp For persons owning pickups a new slip will he included in the envelope Tt will be a declaration on a mounted camper You might have guessed will bo a tax on campers In by February Both the camper declaration slip and motor vehicle registration slips must be in th'c assessor's office or postmarked in otherwise a flat penally of will be added to motor vehicle registration tees Shipp said there will be renewal registration slips mailed this year plus camper declaration slips Last year there were over registration slips You'll receive a license sticker to date your motor vehicle license for 1970 For the camper you'll receive a decal The camper declaration is being sent out because mobile home owners complained about being taxed for owning mobile homes and because all ty in the state is subject to taxation according to Shipp and he Department ty Valuation The only properly exempted is specifically slated in the constitution Property cally exempt is slate federal and municipal property table properly religious ty used for worship and de- clared veterans and widows ex- The personal properly tax on household goads was voted out by the people in 1958 The law relating to all property is still in effect rompers included Law Requires Further the law requires that owners declare certain property when asked to do so by the stale Failure to do so is a Enforcement of the law comes under the county attorney according to Jack Turn to Page 2 Col 3 Please cd A score of Panthers were ar- Two well known lead P Newton and by were in jail Stokeley quit last summer Oilier leaders are dead Dave Panther chief of staff faces trial on a charge of he life of President Nixon If returns to nia he faces imprisonment as parole violator and for jumping bail on charges of assault wilh intent lo kill assault with a deadly weapon But the ing crisis pre- has increased pressure on him lo up his claimed exile Black leaders say police raids have brought an upsurge in sympathy yet the are without the widely to lake full advantage of the silua lion latest The and Los Angeles raids were the latest in a series of police that the Pan thers say have resulted In 28 Panther figure th Panthers failed to and which Justice officials say is exaggerated But the frequency and ly of clashes are seen bj some as having an impact on America's ghettos more found than anything could muster wilh ideology and j ways lawyer Charles ry of San Francisco says in- add up to a campaign of genocide on the Black Panther party Senate Oks It by Vote Of By JOK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP The Senate has overwhelmingly passed its tax reform sending it to a conference committee where House members wait with their own quite different version The conference committee has a heavy chore in reconciling but lending members of both delegations say they ex- to come up with a mise President Nixon can sign Tile Senate which ended most a fortnight of debate by approving the day afternoon sparked Nixon's ire by providing n 15 per cent increase In Social Security fits nnd 1 boost in personal in- come tax exemptions from to No The House makes no iston for cither matter hough that chamber is ring a separate Social Security Opponents railed the Thursday charging its differences between ax relief and revenue gain amount to 55 billion and is fiscally irresponsible It was this cost that Nixon cited when ho said he will veto the it it's unchanged However It seems certain thff 15 per cent Social Security fit boost and many of the tax breaks will bo retained ther in or In arate legislation The Senate raises the present personal deduction to 5700 In 1970 and 5900 In 1971 The House version provides a cut in Income tax rates ning in 1371 fay Git Nixon contends a tax cut in 1970 would hurt his fight against inflation and would take too much out of the Treasury The Senate's 15 per cent increase in Social Security benefits and a provision raising the minimum payment from 555 a month per individual to 5100 both exceed the President's suggested total 10 per cent increase in benefits Another major difference but Turn to Page 2 Col 3 please tit HOSPITALIZED Douglas 80 is in a Hudson hospital only two weeks before She gained fame when she wrote to a newspaper asking if there really was a Santa Claus The famous editorial Yes Virginia is a Santa Claus resulted AP Votes No on Tax Reform WASHINGTON AP zona's two Republican senators opposed the tax reform and relief Thursday but one approved of the removal of some of its costliest ments Sen Paul Fannin In favor of removing several amendments from the tax re- form Sen Barry Goldwater was absent The measure was rejected by a vote Fannin voted the tax reform and tax relief The measure was approved j Sen Barry Goldwater was ab- sent but paired his vote with Sen Stevens of Alaska Paired voles are used to denote ing positions of senators when cne or both are absent Phoenix Murders Off 21 Per Cent PHOENIX AP Crime in most categories in and Tucson during the first three quarters of 1959 according to FBI statistics There were some bright spots Phoenix shewed a 21 per cent decrease in murder and a slight reduction in cases of larceny Tucson showed a drop in ceny and auto theft But all other categories ed increases Nationally there was an over- all 11 per cent increase in crime and a 12 per cent jump In crimes of violence Reported rape cases were up 17 per cent Reported murder eases in Tucson almost doubled during the first nine months of vear from 7 in lo 13 in Phoenix police reported 132 forcible rape cases compared to 86 during the same period of a 45 per cent increase Tucson reported a 12 per cent increase in rape from 161 to 181 reported cases in Phoenix increased from 742 reported cases to 818 aggravated assault jumped from to burglary from 691 to and auto theft from to Larceny declined from to In Tucson aggravated assault cases rose from 224 to 268 and burglary increased from to Larceny cases declined from to and aulo thelt dropped from to 943
