Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 22, 1970, Yuma, Arizona and ARIZONA SUN S E N T I N E L SUN Issue Year 10 20 Pages Yumo Arizona Wed July 22 1970 Telephone SENTINEL 11 Year By JONES OSBORN Jobs and Money Leaving the U.S I expect that everyone under the of 30 knows what these names Saab Simca Porsche Mercedes Vial Volvo Austin Hover Datsun Opel Toyota wagen curs of course Lasl record high numbers of aulos were sold in the United Stales of them were delivered during June topping the previous one-month high of foreign cars in May The number of June imports was 19 per cent above the saint month a year ago So far this year foreign imports are ning 13 per cent ahead of last year cars are now caking from 12 per cent to 13 per cent of the U.S car market it least two of trie big U.S GM and Ford are joing to fight back with sub- impact models coining out fall That's good Every car manufactured abroad but sold here means both money and jobs leaving the U.S Our unemployment rale is inching upward Large numbers of sters haven't been able to find work The Labor Department estimates there are looking in vain for jobs A good many of them need work in order to pay for college in the Fall a connection be- tween increasing sales of foreign-made cars and adult aren't likely to hire mer replacements I mention the auto industry because it is so extremely cial to the U.S economy One out of every seven jobs in the nation is connected directly or indirectly to autos When we lose 12 to 13 per cent of the manufacturing market the slack is felt all up and down the line Our auto makers and their who stand to lose their jobs are asking selves I hope why so many Americans prefer to buy foreign-made aulos The peal of a foreign name can't be the whole reason price and value must also play a part Press Club Will Hear Phoenicians The Yuma Press Club will meet tomorrow at p.m to bear two Phoenix businessmen and an attorney protest con- House 102 also known as the Consumer Presenting the discussion will be Clinton Kox Kirby dis- in Phoenix and man of the state Direct Sellers Association Mike Bourner at- torney for Southwest Savings and and Leo Haddad Farm and Home food distributor and of Direct Sellers The meeting will be held at Press Cub in the 01 Trails Steak House Active and associate members and their guests nre urged to attend the panel followed by a tion and answer period THE WEATHER OS cl.ivs.ftnilhrrly lime mph AT FOOT OF INDIAN Hilt Murder Victim Found Here American Bombers Guns in North Vietnam SAIGON AP American attacked an- guns 66 miles inside North Vietnam Tuesday after the North Vietnamese fired on an unarmed U.S sance jet the U.S Command announced today It was the first American at- tack on North Vietnam ed in nearly a month A spokesman said neither the Air Force sance nor its two al 1 1 n m nl 11 n in corting Phantoms which made the attack were hit Damage to the North Vietnamese gun was not known the spokesman added A communique said the an- battery was about seven miles west of Dong The Inst such attack was on June 25 U.S reconnaissance flights over North Vietnam after President Lyndon B Johnson ordered the bombing Dr Knotts Pioneer Dies Here at 87 Dr Knotts 87 former physician at the Territorial Prison and longtime Yuman died about midnight at the home of his daughter Evelyn Fletcher Street Coining to Yuma in early 1908 Dr Knotts was at the prison for a short time while the structure still housed the badmen of the Southwest He was assistant prison physician under Dr Clymer and saw the last prisoner leave on Sept 11 1908 Following was physician for the North Slur Mine during the tion of the Dend road and a captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War I Dr came back to Yuma after the war and went into private practice Before he retired in 1950 he was city and county and director of the Department of Health for Yuma County Upon his return from the war he helped organize Post 19 of the American Legion He was a charter member and was the post's second commander serving two terms in 1920 and 21 During these early years the Legion met in Dr office He was a charter member of the Yuma Rotary and a member of Yuma Lodge Free and Accepted of North Vietnam slopped on Nov 1 1908 Since the ing halt five reconnaissance planes and four escorts have been shot down over the North and the U.S Defense Department has reported more than 60 retaliatory attacks by American planes Elsewhere in the war bodian forces battled a new at- tack on the highway between Phnom Penh and the country's only oil refinery the U.S Com- mand announced the loss of five more helicopters to enemy ground fire including one in Laos and four in South nam and the North ese stepped up attacks in the northern quarter of South Vietnam Ten Americans were ed killed and 56 wounded ing the past 24 hours one of the heaviest 24-hour American tolls in recent months In the biggest action in South Vietnam one American paratrooper killed and 25 wounded in all North Vietnamese mortar barrage and infantry attack on a Airborne Division position be- tween Hue and the Laotian border PROBE MURDER SCENE Border Patrolman Ron Dorr wearing dark uniform and U Dale Freeman of the Yuma County Sheriffs Department investigate the murder of Kenneth VV Wassum 54 by searching for his billfold None was found The occurred about 1 today near Indian Hill body was found concealed in bushes an embankment Sun Staff DR KNOTTS Masons and other Masonic bodies He is a past exalted ruler of Yuma Elks Lodge and past dis- deputy grand exalted ruler of Arizona Dr Knotts moved to Knotts Merry Place at Silverado Calif after his retirement but recently had been living with his daughter Mrs Fletcher heard a noise in the bathroom about mid- night and got up to find her father dead Cause of death is believed to be a stroke Funeral services are pending at Dixon's Yuma Mortuary Arabs Seize Jet in Athens ATHENS com- mandos seized a Greek and held its occupants hostage at Athens airport today for more than seven hours Then the plane took off after all of the 53 passengers except six commandos were released An Olympic Airways man said one of the plane's eight crewmen was also ed off The spokesman said tle Onassis owner of Olympic Airways and husband of the former Jacqueline Kennedy had made an unsuccessful offer to turn himself over to the jackers five men and a woman as a hostage IV River Bridge Is Ours To Keep for Imperial County yesterday gave a negative reply to an zona Highway Department's request to share the cost of inspecting and maintaining the old U.S 80 bridge from Yuma to Indian Hill The steel truss span was turned over to Arizona during the after a boundary dispute arose from the changing bed of the lorado River Before thai time the boundry was considered the middle of the river Before being to Arizona the two-lane bridge built by the U.S Indian vice in 1914 was taken care of by Imperial County When the boundary dispute was settled with the awarding of about acres to Arizona the Arizonans insisted on an access road within the ries to the acreage west of the river The joint Boundary Commission granted Man Drowns at a portion of the highway which included the old bridge to Arizona Imperial County's answer to the recent Arizona Highway Department request was that an inspection of the structure was indeed proper but declined to share in any of the cost Inside The Sun Transient 54 Is Victim in Rock Slaying Yum a Da ily Sun Yuma County Sheriff were piecing clues in a mystery murder lowing the finding of the body of a man at the foot of Indian Hill this ing Late this morning Lt Freeman identified the victim as Kenneth Walter Wassum a killed by blows on the head with a large rock neat the Southern Pacific Railroad track His assailants are at large The body was removed to Johnson Mortuary where Sgt Roscoe Ivey was taking finger prints late this morning An autopsy was ordered by Judge C Byrd Two Navajo Indians heading into the jungle area found the body concealed in tamarisk hushes about today The Indians were identified as Willie Henio New Mexico and Jerry Thomas Winterhaven They notified a passing U.S Border Patrolman Ron Dorr 2052 6th Avenue Dorr was first on the serene and secured the area knowledge of ing Dorr ately identified significant tracks of shoes in the area around the body up the hill and along the railroad tracks All of the area was searched during the next four hours by Sheriff Travis Bud Yancey Sgt and Lt man The victim lay on his right side He wore a brown shirt gray pants and boots Lt Freeman said a large rock was found beside the railroad track A large piece of skin was found on the rock His believed the site of the first blow on head occurred in that area Officers said beer cans were found in the area They theorize that there might have been an argument or a fight of some kind and at some time a robbery billfold was gone After the blow on the head drag marks indicated that the body was rolled down a rocky Turn to Page 2 Please Sen Wash Plan Crackdown On Maids body of a Yuma Proving Ground soldier was found afternoon at Senator Wash Reservoir Victim of the mosl accident in the area was Ronald G Brown He was attached to Army Hospital at and had served here since July 20 1968 The was found by lien Knoll a U.S Bureau of mation employee Investigators believe that was at an outing at the reservoir Saturday but nobody sow him drown He not missed as friends thought he had left the early is survived by n step- father Merl T of The body was taken to the Johnson and will be to Mortuary in Krawley for further men I AERIAL CHAIN GANG Eighteen count thorn members of the Antioch Calif ferent airplanes in order to accomplish he font join hands over Antioch to form a unique was taken from fellow chutist who Several other chutists are trying to join with a helmet mounted men slide Break a AP The fire lent this week sold 23 i the men slide liou by firemen Immigration and Service officers said that they will crack down on illegal maids working in the Officers said the penalty for conviction of U.S citizens is or a five-year prison tence or both for aiding sporting or concealing an gal maid An estimate is that at least maids are working in the Yuma area however tho exact number is unknown The officers said the maid often shows a visitors card be- fore she goes to work Bui women of the house rarely read it officers said The card is printed with ink in tho form of safety paper The printing says U.S Immigration nnd Naturalization Service Over is black ink On the front is n red border Also on the front is statement that the cnrd docs not allow em- ployment in the United States On the buck of the curd ire conditions printed both in En- glish and Spanish lhal allows the bearer to visit within 25 miles of the for 72 hours Some illegal maids come through holes in the tional fence Some of the maids have two visitors cards If one is taken away from her and she is merely up the second card the U.S and doesn't mils a day of work officers said Officers said they caught 24 illegal maids in two days re- cently through investigation al the San Luis Port of Entry ll is estimated that the average salary for illegal maids is a week in the Yuma aren In Kl Tex illegal maids earn about M R week Some of the tricks pulled by illegal maids after the of the houst leaves is to Black things from the house in the That evening the items are gone has revealed working with the mild hid re- moved the items from Iky
