Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 8, 1971, Yuma, Arizona COMP DIV CO OO DAVID HILL OLD KD OH 44691 By JONES OSBORN The Lawmakers By NEIL JOHNSON The Yuma Daily Suit What the citrus growers have been waiting a ttt warming is coming soon but it may be too late The National Weather vice forecast calk for a freeze ttt warning tonight but it may be the last one of this cold snap It will be a marginal one ttt Are Gathering Ft 6 9 The new Arizona ture convenes Monday But tomorrow morning the ty members of the House of Representatives are called into a meeting to prepare for the opening For State Senator Harold C Giss with 22 years of ence in the upper chamber the opening of a new legislative session probably holds no prises But for me preparing to serve as a state representative for the first time it is different it will take some time the as they say I expect irwill take some time too to know the 58 other state representatives Elwood Bradford and I will comprise tieth of the membership of the House Maricopa County oh the other hand has one-half of all state representatives arid One-half 15 of all state senators We will have to learn to work with those numbers as best we can for the benefit of our district Mr Bradford and I have each been given two tee Brad is signed to the Agriculture Livestock and Municipalities With his 14 years of experience on the Board of Regents it is a shame that he cannot serve on the Education Committee But as freshmen legislators I suppose we cannot expect the choice assignments My committee assignments are Governmental Relations and Highways Transportation I expect to write a few col- from Phoenix about matters that might be of interest to this district No how this first eion will last Perhaps eight weeks perhaps longer I aim to be in Yuma every weekend during that period whenever the legislative schedule mits Letters to your state and state senators are always welcome They can be addressed simply State Capitol ing Phoenix Arizona Wide Stretch of South more freeze warning but it will be Vic Cotten reported this morning What growers have been calling the worst winter since 1937 has taken a heavy toll in the citrus still on the trees I believe there is 65 to 75 percent fruit damage out Yuma reported Russell Braman of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp Many growers have thrown in the towel and predict a com- plete crop loss We won't know for sure for a week to 10 days but in view of the low temperatures I don't see how the fruit can said Art Warner of the Yuma Citrus Co He termed the six freezing days result on the citrus as a complete disaster Still the county's wind machines continue to turn and burn a million gallons of fuel a day in an attempt to protect the trees from freeze damage Last night saw the coldest temperature ever to be ed at the Weather Service of- fice at Yuma International a 24 degree reading The coldest ever for Yuma was when the weather of- fice was downtown and that was 22 in 1911 and again in 1937 It was just more of the same last said Glen Curtis of Curtis Woodman and Roach He said the effect l urn to page 2 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter maintained its long siege of arctic cold in the Southwest today and hurled a wave of snow and freezing rain into a wide stretch of the Deep South Four inches of snow ed Greenwood Miss and half an inch of ice glazed chez Schools were closed in com- in northern Louisiana and Mississippi because of icy or snowy roads Most schools also remained shut in northern New Mexico including Albuquerque be- cause of fuel shortages Six persons died in related auto accidents in the South Three were killed by a skidding truck as they stood on a central Louisiana roadside to flag traffic away from their car that slid into a bridge The National Weather vice advised that the worst of the Southern storm was yet to come It issued warnings for parts of siana Arkansas Mississippi Alabama Georgia and see warnings were posted over interior Louisiana southern Mississippi and northern Alabama and gia Before swinging into the Deep South the storm swiped southeast Texas and hit the Houston area late Thursday with freezing rain Telephone SUN lime Year SENTINEL Issue Year Yuma Arizona 8 1971 FIRST TIME EVER A group of Kofa seniors crowd around Shirley ki a secretary in the superintendent's office as tion for national elections The students all 17 years old art from left Joanne Zermeno Greg Cubric Marie Corona Jacquie Blank David Smith and Bob Rojas The voter registration will be a regular ture of the school's services as long as the students are eligible Jobless Rate Hits Six Pet Soviet Sub fender on Way Home WASHINGTON AP A Soviet submarine tender center of concern about a possible Russian sub base in Cuba is in the mid- Atlantic heading in the tion of home the Pentagon re- ported today Jerry W Friedheim a top Pentagon porters that the sub tender and a Foxtrot class submarine were northeast of Bermuda on Thursday proceeding in a northeasterly This heading would take the two vessels toward Russia if con- WASHINGTON AP Un- employment climbed to six per cent in December the highest rate in nine years despite the return to work of men ed by the General Motors strike the Labor Department reported today The development contra- the forecasts of tration officials who had con- tended that joblessness which hit 5.8 per cent of the labor force in November would di- minish when the auto strikers returned to their plants The report snowed there were 4.6 million idle men and women in December This was the same as in November but the seasonal contraction of the labor force caused the adjusted rate of joblessness to rise by about persons in the seasonally adjusted annual rate Average weekly earnings of factory workers increased by Uruguay Guerrillas Nab Britain Envoy MONTEVIDEO Uruguay AP British Ambassador Godfrey Jackson wad kidnaped this morning and is in the hands of the Tupamaros rillas Montevideo police an- Persons claiming to be of the abduction tele- phoned radio stations saying it was carried out minutes before 10 when the ambassador his driver and two guards ar- rived at the British Embassy at and Buenos Aires streets in Montevideo They said the ambassador's aides were beaten into sion and the car carrying the ambassador was driven away by the kidnapers The auto which bore markings was reported found l short time later a few away The information was carried on Radio Station Espectador in Montevideo The Tupamaro guerrillas a leftist urban terrorist group that has operated for several years in the Montevideo area has held two other foreigners as hostages for more than five months Claude L Fly a U.S soils expert has been in Tupamaro custody since he was ed from his place of work last Aug 7 Aloysio Dias Gomide a zilian consul was kidnaped by the Tupamaros from his home on July 31 and has been held longer in custody than any other political kidnap victim A third kidnap victim Dan a U.S police expert was executed by the mai os shortly after he was naped on July 31 in December as a result of a slight increase in average hourly rates and a gain of one- tenth of an hour in the factory work week to 39.7 hours The unemployment rate for white workers remained at 6.5 per cent in the month but the rate for Negroes which ed slightly in November re- turned to its October level of 9.3 per cent Long-term unemployment continued to climb The number of persons out of work for at least 15 weeks passed the one million mark reaching the highest level since This brought the average spell of unemployment to 9.8 weeks up from 9.4 weeks in November Joblessness was greatest among construction workers at 11 per cent In turing the unemployment rate in durable goods plants Was unchanged from November but rose in soft goods production from 6 per cent in November to 6.9 per cent in December Employment declined ly to in December a dip of from November the latter figure was slightly larger than the decline in the entire civilian labor force In seasonally adjusted terms the decline in ment and rise in the labor force were somewhat smaller New High School Program Features Voter Registration Kofa High has a new gram registration of eligible students for voting in national elections Beginning Monday morning secretaries will ister students who will be 18 by Nov the date of the next general election Today the secretaries went through a practice period by registering a few students and staff Yesterday afternoon the were sworn in at the Yuma County Of- fice as deputy registrars The secretaries are Shirley kowski Marilyn Eades ma Amstutz and Jackie liam Crashes In Lake Michigan CHARLEVOIX Mich AP An Air Force bomber with nine men by witnesses to have exploded in a ball of into Lake Michigan Thursday night off the northwest tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula Coast Guard aircraft and vessels at the scene reported finding wreckage and debris from the aircraft including two empty life vests and a met but no sign of survivors A Strategic Air Command investigating team was to ar- rive today CLARENCE JONES Yuman Named To Arizona Racing Body Clarence E Sambo Jones owner of Southwest Meat Co in the Yuma Valley has been appointed by Gov Jack liams to the Arizona Racing Commission Jones takes the seat left cant by the resignation of Al A Marth of Phoenix Marth resigned last month for health reasons His term runs to June 30 this year at which time Jones will be eligible for pointment to a full six-year term Donald Butler former Yuman now living in Tucson and a longtime member of the Racing Commission recently resigned His seat has been filled by Phoenix banker Frank Brophy Jones served as a director of the Yuma Chamber of Com- merce and was president in 1963 He is a charter member of the Caballeros de Yuma a former director of Yuma Cooperative Assn ami a member of the governor's advisory council on civil de- fense and disaster Members of the Racing Commission receive no regular salary but are paid their ex- penses for the days on which they discharge Commission duties Probe Soys Fire At Pioneer Arson During free time students can register at the main guidance and offices At Yuma High plans for a registration program are being finalized and students there will be able to register in the counselor's office by the mid- dle of the week Warren Conrad is handling the drive Any citizen of the United States born Nov 6 1954 or before can register No literacy test is given due to Supreme Court decisions In addition proof of age is not necessary as the student's record at the school contains the correct date of birth At the present time the under 21 registration is for tional federal elections only as the state and local ments still are 21 or over However when the state lature meets this month a ther clarification about voting age limits is expected TUCSON AP A blaze which claimed 28 lives at a Tucson hotel Dec 20 was the work of one or more arsonists ing to a special Tucson board of inquiry The board in a report ed Thursday night said the blaze began on the fourth floor of the Pioneer Inter- national Hotel after two rate fires were touched off The thing that indicates Fire Chief L F son said following the release is the fact two fires started in the fourth floor way about 60 feet apart The conclusion read in The fire was intentional and not by some de- vice failure and the cause is concluded to be an act of arson The board said its conclusion was based on a preliminary re- THE WEATHER yesterday 48 this morning 24 at 11 today 42 52 56 Low tonight 28 Relative humidity at 11 high this dote 66 40 FORECAST to warning tonight high and slightly winner through Saturday Protection will bo for fender and pipes tonight port by Holmes a fornia forestry arson tor Holmes is expected to have a more detailed report for the inquiry board within a week The Tucson City Council shortly after the blaze began selected three of its members to compose the board The re- port Thursday followed more than two weeks of secret hearings Firemen said shortly after the blaze many of the hotel's 112 occupants were awakened in the upper portion of the building only to find the ways aflame and no means of escape except through dows While releasing the report the board presented a film showing firemen trying to start a blaze on the Pioneer's damaged third floor After several ways of ing a fire were tried the film concluded books of matches were used to ignite it The report made no attempt to identify arson suspects inside Sun 6 RETURNED PROPERTY A red teddy bear was among the items picked up day by Phillip Douglas 2402 Mary Avenue Some worth of items taken in burglaries was returned by police to Douglas and Russell 2451 Carol after the items were recovered George Washington Jr 33 was arrested in connection with the case and is also being investigated for a pair of Tucson Sun Staff Photo
