Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - November 15, 1970, Yuma, Arizona Toft 16 W wood 15 Kof a 8 Fresno 42 ASU 7 Utah 75 ON Fiery Jet Crash Kills Marshall U Grid Squad IB KENOVA AP A Southern Airways carrying Marshall Uni- football team rooters and crew crashed and exploded in flames near here Saturday night with no apparent vors according to State Police and Federal Aviation Agency spokesmen A spokesman for Southern Airways in Atlanta Ga said the million craft was 70 passengers and a crew of five They said it was the only plane Marshall had tered Witnesses at the scene near and ARIZONA Yuma Arizona Sun Nov 15 1970 this southwestern com- munity said the plane slammed side of a small hill at about p.m and exploded into a giant ball of State Police said at least 15 were counted outside the burning craft were too intense to probe the i nt e rio r of the plane This was the second plane in less than two months which crashed carrying a football team On Oct one of two chartered the Wichita State University ball team coaches boosters and others the mountains in Colorado killing 31 14 ball players Witnesses said they were rocked out of their chairs from the concussion of the ex- plosion John Young who a hah mile from trie site said he heard this loud noise I ran out to see what it was and all I saw was a big ball of fire Nobody could have ed Young said Albert whose house also is about a half mile from the scene said he first thought the loud noise was lightning He went out to see I heard this one bang and a minute later there was this terrific bang which shook the whole house 1 ran outside to see if there was a storm and I saw this flash over the Rich said He said the plane skimmed the top of an abandoned house just before it crashed A light rain hampered rescue efforts where the site was cessible only by a narrow dirt road which had turned mostly into mud Only a few emergency cles had made it to the scene including an undetermined number of ambulances No ambulances had left the scene however by p.m The National tation Safety Board said last Sunday the Wichita State crash was not caused by failure Southern Airways is a re- airline running flights in 13 states in ad- dition to charter flights Winds Push Fire To San SAN Calif AP A brush timber fire that out in the Bernardino In special session Friday City Council formally passed a resolution calling for the Dec 1st general election This was normal action before an election Marge Oliver deputy city recorder read the resolution outlining the city's 12 pre- thi voting locations in each precinct names of paid workers salary of election em- ployes and other election in- formation Xli City Council members in favor of the passage According to city officials the precinct boundaries and polling places are the same as those for the city's primary election It was also announced that absentee ballots for the upr coming general city election will be available Monday morning at the city who be out of the 1st election date should cast their ballot between Nov through Nov The office is open from 8 to 5 p.m five days a week Further information may be obtained by contacting the re- corder's office blaze charred more than acres and destroyed 36 homes fire officials There have been no reports of serious injuries Most of the fire fighters were trying to save the of Running Springs where residents Crews were stationed at the south edge of the community using a of the World as a firebreak The flames ped up to the edge of the Firemen halted the at the Some 600 residents from the two arid from the nearby San Manuel Indian Reservation began returning to their homes Elsewhere the flames were burning wildly but mostly in unpopulated areas There are hot spots all along the said Makel a U.S forest vice information officer We're just hitting when necessary trying to tect the populated added Jack McCurnin another Forest Service spokesman We're not even thinking in terms of surrounding it Mercury Pollutes Water Upstream From Yuma Notes Confab Speaker By BOB WERLEY Managing Editor Orren Beaty former Interior secretary aide and candidate had a ing word for Yumans and gates to the Arizona Parks and Recreation Conference here Friday night He noted that fish taken from Navajo Lake in Colorado had been found to have high concentrations of mercury in them That is on a tributary of the River and thus could have an effect on the drinking water of thousands of Arizonans was the speaker at the banquet at the Planet Room of the Stardust Hotel that drew about 200 persons He called for inspired leadership at all levels but added We are not kind of ship The speaker said two of the state's three congressmen led Town Hall meeting Speaking the effort to weaken an air of Reps San Steiger and John pollution abatement Rhodes but not naming them tion at the recent Arizona Turn to Page 2 Awards Given at Conference RARE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION Charlotte Burke Kofa High senior singles out an extremely to obtain rare coin collection of balance scale pesos in choice at more than It is currently on display at trie annual that ends The display in the Planet Room of the Stardust Hotel opens at 10 and runs through 6 p.m Staff Wave foil The Arizona Parks and Association while meeting at its 21st annual con- ference in Yuma paid special tribute to Gilbert Ray tive director of the Pima County Parks and Recreation Department and to Gene C Reid superintendent of the Tucson Parks and Recreation Department hy conferring on both of them Fellow Awards the highest category of an award to be offered by the State Association Both Reid's and Ray's awards were given in tion of Special Achievement and Dedicated Service in the field of parks and recreation The Association also red its Presidential Citation on outgoing 1970 President son Hall Hall serves as super- intendent of Recreation in the City of Tucson Parks and Department The late Fred J Weiler state director of the Bureau of Land Management received the Association's posthumous Special Service Citation for his outstanding contributions to the fields of conservation and recreation throughout his public service career The Association also ed Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department the Paradise Valley Kiwanis Club and the Adolph Coors Company of Golden Colorado with its Service Commendation Awards IT GOES LIKE THIS Banquet speaker Orren Beaty left gets in a word with two recreation officials at the conference here Friday night of the Arizona Parks and Recreation Assn In center ia Charles Reitz former Yuma recreation man who is now asst field director of the national association At right is Emerson Hall president of the state group Sun Staff DACCA Blast Pakistan AP A cyclone and tidal wave that struck powerful blows at East Pakistan's ern coast may have taken lives a Rescue sion official said Saturday After flying trip to the coast to see the havoc wrought by Friday's storm however the head of the commission A M refused to make any estimates beyond saying the death toll is quite high The number of confirmed dead stood at 699 including 300 Island 20 miles the Bay of Bengal and 125 on the island of Bhola part of which was washed away by the raging sea A magistrate on Hatia said he feared thousands drowned when the big wave inundated the island with 20 feet of water There were no reports from many of the islands dotting the sea off the coast Nor were there any estimates of the number of ships and small craft that may have been lost Of the ships one that may be lost is the an Indian freighter out of Calcutta on her way to Kuwait Yuman Elected Secretary of Historical Group Mrs Howard Gwynn of been elected tary of the Arizona Pioneers Historical Society The election came at the annual meeting at Tucson Saturday Harry Montgomery of Phoenix was re-elected president At the meeting mery announced that the tury House al 240 Madison Avenue in Yuma had been given to the society Donation was by Mr and Mrs Howard Gwynn The early day home of the Sanguinetti family of which Mrs Gwynn is a ter now houses the Yuma County Historical Society A shipping official in ta said the last word from her was a message saying she was in in the proximity of a cyclone He added it was feared she may have capsized She carried a crew of 49 The cyclone with its 150 miles an hour winds and foot waves devastated about 250 miles of the coast Cyclone is the Indian Ocean equivalent of the hurricane in the Atlantic and the typhoon in the Inside The Suh 18 7 Real Estate 6 rth foreign evening in the of trie dust show which opens at 10 runs through 6 p.m B by Coin the free to the the exhibition is the cte coin play many coins of Mexico that have seen s collection on display is that of Hal Birt Jr of 50 balince scale pesos valued at- more on display Arizona State holds its quarterly and at the Stardust as part two-day coin show This is the first time lias met in Security measures for the coin provided by Yuma Security Investigation Coming to nts Dr Ellis L Armstrong U.S Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation will address the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce's annual Banquet Monday Nov 23rd at the Stardust Hotel It is most appropriate to have Dr Armstrong in the light of current discussion on Colorado River tion conservation and the im- portance of water in Yuma's said the subcommittee chairmen Larry Baker and Ernie Johannsen Armstrong appointed com- missioner by Pres Nixon has had sonic 20 years of tion with the Bureau inter- with other mental vate practice as a consulting engineer He first joined the Bureau in V t V A cocktail hour j scheduled poolside at p.m banquet set for i are available 1 i all members and to the general first come first i after The dinner buffet K cost per plate Armstrong holds many national and 1 tional bodies and is currently of the U.S Committe on the World ergy Conference Born in Cedar City grew up on irrigate ed Utah and entering Utah where he of science degree Swill engineering A at several i to an honorary degree fark
