Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 23, 1970, Yuma, Arizona SUN and ARIZONA SENTINEL Issue Year 16 Pages 10 Cents Yuma Arizona Friday January 23 1970 Phone SENTINEL Issue 95th Year By JONES OSBORN A Steady Diet Of Violence Does a steady diet if lence in the have any effect on those who view BANK FORECASTS Yuma Population Jump The Hollywood Reporter voice of the world une duy lust week put a headline story on its front URGE ACTION ON TV VIOLENCE Their story WHS based on the voluminous of a task force for the National mission of Causes and 1 linn of Violence The report was entitled Violence the Media As fur the adverse impact of violence programming TV the report said thai the weight of social science supports the belief that television mayhem does harm to the individual and to the society It explains Long-term exposure tti mass media of may audience insensitive or emo- neutral to response to real acts of violence making the audience more to use violence and to passively lerate violence Needs Beds Up with needs accommodations for 50 more student entertainers that will be coming to Yuma Monday We're over half way reports John Donica of the publicity staff And since we must type the completed arrangements and wind up a few other details this weekend we would like to have all our host families signed up today if possible Hosts will be asked to provide breakfast each ing and dinner on two nights of Cast B's three day stay The Up with office at or 2225 urges anyone who thinks they might like one or more guests to call them for complete information And if you are unable to be a host but know of someone else who might please contact them The really big show comes off Wednesday Jan in Post Auditorium at 8 p.m Tickets to The Yuma Daily attraction are on sale at most drug stores Race Board Pushed To Probe Tracks Well if there is anything we do not need it is a more passive apathetic citizenry What we need is more active tion by everyone in shaping a less violent more and more mode life in America mission The American public parents should become informed the of their own and their children's intense and prolonged In mans media portrayals of violence lou has responsibility should its lights to a v in what is on the air The task force report also the TV industry for but not delivering in violence over the years In testifying the sion the industry again asked for move time We hope they will put it to belter use than they did in the past Turn to Page 2 Please PHOENIX zona Racing Commission should seek funds from the slate legislature for an of owners of Arizona dog and horse Iracks Atty Gen Gary Nelson says Nelson in a letter to the zona Racing Commission gested that the commission either conduct the probe of the New Emprise Corp or turn the matler over lo a grand jury Nelson noted lhal an bv his office did not specific facts in- past or present minal Inside The Sun 9 Emprise of Buffalo is a substantial stockholder in six of the seven dog racing cor- It holds mortgages on all six dog tracks in the slate and has control of cott Downs horse track and Die defunct Tucson track and Phoenix Trotting Park There were early indications the commission would get funds for an investigation if requested If wisdom calls for the state to make an tion that requires public monies I think they should be said House Speaker John Haugh Pima If there's any question at all about this firm they lators ought to give the said Senate President William Porter Predict Here In Next Five Years DOWN IT FALLS This building behind McDonald's on 2nd Street east of Main is being razed in the demolition program in connection with the downtown parking program John Nabours 1737 10th Avenue a sales clerk at McDonald's the wreckage and looks trie demolition over Sun Staff Photo IN ARIZONA Senate Sets Final Vote On Easing School Budgets The population of Yuma County will grow to in another five years an increase of 25 per cent according to a forecast revealed today by ley National Bank The further sees Yuma County population at by the year 1985 That would be an increase of 46 per cent These forecasts were in the bank's monthly report on the Arizona omy The source of their fore- casts is the Unemployment Compensation Division of the Employment Security Com- mission of Arizona The bank said the forecast depends upon two factors One that the migration of people from other states will continue as it has during the past 10 years and two that the rate of Arizonans will in- crease moderately They did not explain what a moderate increase amounted to The bank said Arizona's increased last year 1969 at a rate nearly triple that of the nation as a whole According to the U.S Bureau of Census the projected population growth rate for zona is greater than it is for any other state except Nevada By Arizona is for It is now estimated at During the past 20 years the bank said more than half of Arizona's population increase has come from in-migration people moving here from other stales The bank noles that the growth rate for Yuma County is higher than for Maricopa or Pima the two gest counties in the state Here are the projected growth rates for all PER CENT OF GAIN FORECAST 1975 Maricopa Pima The bank also revealed some other interesting facts about the population of Yuma Persons with Spanish last names comprise 21 per cent of the total population The racial breakdown is as Caucasian excluding ish Caucasian with Spanish names 13.050 Forecasts Differ But All Promise Growth HOMER'S ODYSSEY PHOENIX AP Bills to relax the 6 per cent limitation on school budget increases and strengthen state control over property valuations were among those up for a final vote today in the Arizona Senate The Senate tentatively proved these and other bills Thursday in its first floor de- bate of the current session But a proposal to raise the interest rate on sale of state land from 5 to 7 per cent was sidetracked after being tagged with a floor amendment that The chief executive of Em- prise Jerry Jacobs has said We're as clean as clean can in response to allegations that his father Louis Jacobs has had business dealings with the underworld I I i Harmony I Gals Sing Saturday HER DIDN'T SHOW UP AT THE LAST lion for Miil them er Therms Ai Yuma will be flooded with harmony tomorrow night as the Hi Chapter of Sweet becomes hostess for the Region 11 Desert West Song Fest More than 250 women from 35 chapters in Southern fornia Arizona and Nevada will present the show at 8 p.m in the Post Auditorium ets will be available at the door Among the quartets will be regional winners and tional finalists The re- winners will also appear Those regional winners were the Phoenix Kachina Chorus first the San Diego Chorus second and the Verdugo Hill Chorus third Welcome Winter Al Shady Mr and Mrs John W scoll Ohio At Yuma Overnight Trailer Mr and Mrs son Salem Oregon would allow the rate to range from 5 to 8 per cent The final vote on the school budget limitation was put over until Monday today after it was discovered that a para- graph defining limits of for pupils was ing Sen Harold C Giss of Yuma made discovery Sens Dave Kret Maricopa and Boyd Tenney were the principal duelists in the land sales placed on the urgent list by Gov Jack Williams Kret in pinning on the floor amendment by arguing that a sliding rate with a higher was the only sensible course in the current money market Tunney chairman of the vestock and Agriculture Com- had worked with Kret on the and felt the floor amendment weakened it The Giss Returns To His Desk Phoenix Senate Leader Harold G Giss returned lo his desk today after an absence of ly two weeks Giss still pale but looking much fitter said I'm feeling fine and the doctors think I'll be able to stay out of the spital He was hospitalized for treatment of a condition de- scribed as fluid in the Cause of the ailment was not disclosed and Giss said x-ray findings had turned out tive so it could have been the result of a virus ailment THE WEATHER Senate backed his motion to return the to his committee for further study Two other bills of prime im- portance lo school districts also won tentative approval in Thursday's debate One would permit schools to operate 12 months of the year at the op- tion of their school boards and the second provides for a cial assessment on properties lying outside school districts The special assessment amounting to 25 cents per valuation would apply mainly to utilities pipeline companies and railroads The population forecasts for Yuma County by Valley tional Bank are large larger than either Maricopa or Pima Counties but at the same time they are substantially below the fore- cast made late last year by a Los Angeles consulting firm The firm of Daniel Mann Johnson Mendenhall was employed in by the Yuma County Planning Commission They produced a re- port on the economy of Yuma County which became a part of the county's comprehensive plan In their report made several population projections for Yuma County All of them were substantially higher than those revealed yesterday by Valley National Bank The said their figures came from the Unemployment Compensation Division of the Employment Security Com- mission of Arizona The firm arrived at their own forecasts based on a variety of studies ad- mitted in its report that By the year 1985 the projection of this study is higher than that of any of the other well sources of tions Both forecasts place Yuma County's population as of 1969 al about But for 1975 fore- casts a population of or 39 per cent while the bank pre- dicts or a gain of 25 per cent For 1985 forecasts or an increase of 142 per cent while the bank mates or a 46 per cent Yuman Heading New Arizona Fair Assn ya today e humidity it 1 1 a FORECAST lo Will Silut diy ind noi Gustly KMi laph ISA tto 77 SO 73 6 03 Sunrifc A Yuma man has been ed president of the Arizona Fair Assn Frank Deason executive cretary of the Yuma County Fair was elected to head the group at its organizational meeting last Friday Joining in the state group were all 13 county fairs including Yuma the Northern Yuma County Fair and two Indian Fairs Also a member is the Arizona State Fair Deason reporting the tion to his own board day night said that this joins all the fairs in the state in an organization for the first time It will allow us to borrow needed items from the State Fair and from each other Also it will help us exchange mation concerning commercial exhibitors carnival scheduling and operation Rex Leonard president of the Yuma Co Fair Board said I feel it is a great honor to have Frank as the state dent Floyd Estes past dent of the local board said the organization will be of treat advantage to Yuma and would prevent the county fairs from overlapping FRANK DEASON At the local meet the board accepted suggestion for a theme for the 1970 Fair Do Your Thing at the Yuma County Fair Dates for the five-day event are March Deason reported that Yuma alternates with other fairs for dates on the California circuit and that this is the first time that Yuma had had to take Easter Week But Yuma must keep to the dule said Deason so that the carnivals and outdoor tors can make the circuit In a report to the board Leonard said that Riebe Enterprises Inc had the low bid on the new livestock ing at the The footings are in for the ing already Contract is for The building will re- place all the old junior tock pens and will also house the poultry and rabbits The building will be dedicated on opening night board action mission was granted to the Boy Scouts to hold their Rama on the fairgrounds April Hundreds of Scouts will camp out on the grounds day night and the commercial building will be used Saturday for the Scout exhibits Attending the Fair Board meeting were Rex Leonard president Jean Wisener vice president Jim Willis surer Floyd Estes past dent and members Dr Ochsner Dr William Lyle Dr Ben Ham Lewis Elmer Emrick plus ex-officio 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