Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 14, 1970, Yuma, Arizona die and ARIZONA SUN SENTINEL Issue Year Wed Jan 14 1970 SENTINEL Issue Year By JONES Where Did They Where did they The men and women we send to Congress are there to sent us and so have a right to know where they stand on the issues of the day The most direct way to find out where they stand is by their voting records When they vole Yea or Nay on a roll-call vote their record is there for everyone to see But when they fail to cast a vote or when they are absent from their job their may have trouble ing where they stand This np the tance of voting The number of times a congressman casts a recorded vote is called his ing participation score That score is compiled at the end of every year by Congressional Quarterly the Washington reporting service Voting participation is also the measurement we have of a congressman's dance record Hence the voting tion score is a useful guide to attendance as well as pation of our congressmen In 1909 the scores for five men in Congress were as MAY CHOP YUMA CO Remap Unveiling Kret and Stump Chief Architects LONG SPAN Sen Fannin Sen Goldwater Hep Rhodes 02 pel 47 pet 03 pet Diane teller at the First National Bank downtown sights in on a model of the long Interstate 8 bridge spans that will be built over the Colorado far left is the old bridge over the Colorado River with the railroad bridge just behind Miss Ro- land's chin is the Territorial Prison In the right fore- ground is the Valley National Bank across the street toward Miss Roland is the San Carlos Hotel at 1st and wide street is 1st Street The model will be on display in the lobby of the First National Bank for at least two model was made by California Highway Department engineer technicians Sun Staff Rep pet Shooting Mate Frowned Upon WASHINGTON One out of five persons answering a survey on violence say there are situations they can imagine in which they would approve of a husband slapping a wife's face While 20 per answered yes to this question 22 per cent said they conld imagine tions in which I hey would prove of a wife slapping a face But when it comes In ing your mate the percentage Nixon Hacks New Cuts from Budget Writer WASHINGTON AP President Nixon has ordered furl her substantial last-minute cuts in his forthcoming perhaps in an effort lo avoid seeking major new taxes from Congress in 1970 Press secretary Ronald L said today that Nixon informed his Cabinet at a three-hour session Tuesday substantial additional economies should be made what earlier bad been regarded as the final budget levels for the 1971 fiscal year thai begins July 1 acknowledged that eleventh hour budget sions could delay until early February presentation of the new federal spending print Asked if the President order- ed the new cuts in an effort lo fHE WEATHER Tim I i t- Inside The Sun Comics Crossword Editorial Markets Movies -1 2 Sports AFTER 15 avoid seeking hew tax revenues from Congress Ziegler said thai budgel could be ba- lanced either by cutting ing or raising some combination of the two He said he could nol on which course Nixon would lake However he acknowledged thai the budget as it stood before Nixon's new order already showed a surulus To some lhat suggested chief executive had decided that reductions in deral outlays would cally more palatable in an tion year than requests for Administration sources mate budgel message will call for a of around billion lo lion The budget reportedly will show a surplus of a very few billion an official said wilh the help of an ends package of lax increases user charges and in lax collections Still hanging fire is the billion appropriation for the departments of Labor and Health Education and fare it carries SI billion more for education than Nixon asked The President also has criticized a pending military and civilian pay which would affect be current fiscal year's budgel Ziegler said thai be budget will give lop priority lo ing lie health of the economy anil lo the ending of a ing and steady cycle of ruing prices Will Go Off The Air as of Jan Saving that market cannot support three television the owner of has an- thai the station will go off the after years of After several years of I lo convert operations of to a profitable basis Bruce Merrill of ix said in an open letter dav lo his siaff I have come to the painful decision lhat 1 have neither lire talent nor resources to accomplish this Bun Wheeler Yuma general ager of said thai HI employees would affected He said thai rill would make an ment laler concerning the dis- posal of equipment and physical plant Merrill who has owned the station for 10 years said il had shown an almost ed series of He added thai the never support three television stations on a profitable basis until it grows lo five times its present size He was referring to Yuma and Kl Centro Merrill said he will return the license to Federal Com- Commission and liquidate the assets of the tion as rapidly as possible PHOENIX unveiling of a new plan lo re- district Arizona along com- munity of lines was scheduled today in what would probably be the final act of the special session on ment Bolb House and Senate re- convened the session adjourned Monday at 9 lo look over a new realignment prepared chiefly by Sen David A of Republican majority but an foe of majority plan approved by the Senate Monday Kret said his plan hews lo a narrow deviation in while preserving the identity of in- recommended by the Supreme Court Kret and Sen Robert Stump minority whip are the two senators named to a joint conference subcommittee lo work out a revised plan acceptable lo bulh houses House members are Reps Scott Alexander Pima and Jack Brown D- Apache minority leader Stump going over copa County realignment Tuesday night said It's superior to the earlier plan in sticking to community interest lines in Maricopa County Stump said he hadn't had time to study it from a party standpoint Krel said the only bent reshuffled by Hie plan is Rep James Maricopa a Queen Creek dent whose district would be stretched into the agricultural district embracing Chandler Casa Grande and Coolidge The proposed fourth con- gressional district was regarded as the most parl of the reapportionment by most of the 12 conferees The House named five members to the group and Senate seven Sen John Conlan Maricopa chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and head of the joint group is the advocate of de- fining boundaries of the new fourth district now The House sets up a manent commission to deal with reapportionment al lar intervals in future Conferees apparently have agreed on a proposal which would give legislature days to act before turning he mutter over lo the sion House Majority Leader Burlon Barr said 1 admit I'm disappointed but we'll along wilb be compromise lo gel something Let's face it that's where votes are The legislature would have to lu come np with an acceptable compromise there are differences over the ing Next a of legislators in both parties are aloof to the idea of leaving reapportionment lo a sion I here is the vl to might be one hurdle loo many The cleared its decks of all other business lo spend the full day on menl Barr said We'll work into the if necessary The Senate was scheduled to resume the regular session al 2 p.m In any case il was probably the last day of the special sion because the legislature will adjourn for a long weekend Thursday to permit its to go on annual Flying Farmers lour which is to parl of time in Hermosillo and Ha ja California Parker May Be Lost in Reshuffle Parker I and 2 have to in- cluded in I ho districts of Hop Gladys in a plan sion prepared by the Joint Committee in Phoenix Mrs Gardner had lost Sedona and inherited part of County under a plan to which she vehemently Sen David Kiel H- Maricopa said that under the plan Mrs Jardner would he relumed lu Yavapai ami Mohave and re- Kret added lhat she would still be about 3 per renl shy of equality in population the f Yuma Comity will not Rep Charles Johnson Yuma lold The Sun this morning that plan afler plan was being drawn np and inn through to mine accuracy of tion We may come out wilb a yet added but so fur we haven't found one that wilh There's a that wiK Welcome Winter Al Mr and Mis Mao Okla Mr and Mis Joseph Mr ami Mis Oscar T Wash Mr arid Mrs son Wash IN STATE Hospital Vote Held Today rails for the Hospital Dis- One election will lie open until 7 p.m in the lobby uf today Contestants in the election arc George Lindsay bent Edward and Dr Dale Webb It is the three-way context since the district was formed Opens Tax Barrel to Cities PHOENIX A to reserve collection of certain taxes to the state was in he House today which met briefly ad- to to the cial session on The hill sponsored by Majority Leader Barr would make state the of in- come anil privilege xes open the door lo the revenues wilh the Border Spraying Critics Blossom ANIMAL FRIEND Cheryle Mclntyre 10 2213 17th Street found day's warm weather a good chance to let her hamster Mathew play in the grass outside her home The little animal takes time out to on a hamster crunch his favorite snack Sun Staff Photo WASHINGTON AP A tiny agency that has worked for years in obscurity trying to keep the clear of weeds and heavy un- has found itself part of the growing controversy over environmental control For 15 years the tional Boundary Commission of the United States and ada routinely used chemicals to help sections of the der Then last October Sen Gaylord A Nelson wrote the Slate Department to question the practice of using a chemical he said is also a defoliant in Vietnam In his letter to the State De- Nelson said 800 to miles along border had been sprayed and ough the chemical would not directly harm fish and wildlife there is an intrusion into the balance of nature And all of a sudden and other critics dis- covered the phone and mail business for the six people in the office hup been brisk Mrs Marie Sheehy officer for the sion said from 250 lo 300 sons have phoned or written to complain but about 90 cent of them arc ists who haven't even been lo the border to see whal we are doing Conservationists are ing to erroneous conclusions on some misinformation ed about the scope of ject she said Mrs Sheehy said the cal is similar to that used as a defoliant by utility highway nursery and agriculture de- in nearly every state ing rily We're mil trying lo take this money away from said Barr We're just trying lo avoid messes like one in Tucson where dying to collect city anil state that aren't compatible Speaker John 1 laugh and Hair agreed thai the lerm in the past is too strong to describe state's position We plan to offer the use uf stale machinery in collecting these said Haugh We can't have a of local taxes thai conflict with our own collection machinery Legislative action in this field was forecast lale last ing after Phoenix adopted a special luxury tax on liquor and cigarettes It certain with new 2 per sales lax on nonfood items by son as a financing pay for city employes which would the valuation formula on gas and electric lities was introduced by Hep Tim Harrow row was of a Ways and Menus subcommittee In
