Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - September 14, 1971, Yuma, Arizona COMP DIV CO 00 DAVID HILL OLD MENSFIELD SUN SUN Issue Year and ARIZONA SENTINEL 10 Cents 24 Pages Yuma Arizona Tues Sept Telephone SENTINEL Issue Year NO CUT THROATS Gunshots Killed Attica Hostages ATTICA NY wounds on the hostages varied forming the prison or from lawyers to be admitted to the hostages killed at Attica State Some he said had been shot guns which may somehow have prison today He said there was in the head while others had been in possession of the in- a danger of informal been wounded in the chest or mates sals against inmates adding rising died of gunshop Earlier in the day U S Dis- that virtually every prisoner in Some Edland said appeared John Curtin one faces criminal to have been beaten before Of issued an order in- prosecution and needs advice inmates their deaths one in the back prison officials not to from a lawyer and buttocks and the others interrogate prisoners on tne An A Correction Department about their Of the past four days al for the state Joseph J Ki- spokesman said it determined According to all official re- until the prisoners had been cotta contended that it would Tuesday that 42 inmates were ports Monday the only guns counselled by attorneys be dangerous for outsiders to injured The identification of rebel prisoners were carrying At a hearing in Buffalo at- enter the prison today He said the 10th hostage victim was were gas projectile guns Most torney Herman Schwartz ar- eight prisoners are still at large not disclosed at once nor was Of them were armed with clubs gued that it was imperative for in the prison his name ATTICA AP The fire bombs and makeshift knives officials said The gas projectile guns the Monroe County medical exa- officials referred to fire miner said today that all nine ters that are size of hostages killed at Attica State soft drink cans The medical Prison during the four-day examiner said the gunshot rising died of gunshot wounds wounds that killed the Dr John F Edland said tages were made by bullets of There were no cut throats or the type fired by standard any kind of mutilation firearms The bodies of two found The bodies of two more more prisoners were were found today today unofficial sources said sources said bringing the bringing the total dead to 40 total dead to 40 There was no immediate ex- planation of how the gunshots Merciful Convicts Spared Hostages ATTICA AP Acts When it was said of mercy spared at least three Fargo he was dead According to all official re- hostages during the violence The executioner assigned to ports Monday the only guns Monday at Attica Prison guard Elmer Huehn told The man behind me was an I don't have the heart to do were fired from where or by were guns Most inmate I had known for some it I'm only going to prick you blood whom But Deputy Correction knives officials said 98 hours The bodies of the nine He was recalling the moment This wonderful Puerto Rican tages a guard who died earlier Monday morning when leaders saved my life said Huehn but rebel prisoners were carrying inmate 1 had Known lor some of them with clubs said guard Richard executioner drew blood Tuesday firebombs and makeshift Fargo who was a hostage for and then fell on top of him to J hide him from other convicts Jim Van said there were witnesses to the And he said it and the prisoners were taken to of the rebelling prisoners he mourned other hostages was proven the prisoners had the Monroe County medical the slaying Bothers homemade zip guns This is definite BESIEGED CELLBLOCK examiner Carl Lupo a super- before state troopers prison didn't have help and they're These visor in the office guards and sheriffs deputies lying dead weapons were he said said the hostages died of closed in Philip another autopsies shot wounds and not slashed on eight of the nine slain throats tages The ninth victim guard Jerry Houlihan He whispered in my ear guard who was a hostage had that I would not be hurt He a similar experience The guy was supposed to stick a knife had time to kill me but he Police ant guards assaulting an Attica State Prison cellblock at Attica yesterday left this tered window All nine hostages were shot dead there was no throat cutting according to total of 31 convicts died AP Wirephoto Carl died in a hospital man for the prison said between my ribs He stuck the didn't Monday shortly after the day several of the hostages had knife just to prick the skin and said his on was recaptured The died of slashed throats said Now don't tell them I threw Him on the ground and tal said Valone died of gunshot There was no comment on didn't kill he threw fell on top of him as cover where the gunfire that killed me backwards and covered my Some prisoners were picked off M W IF M T0 Administer wounds The medical examiner said 5 of the gunshot the hostage guards had come body with said Fargo from whether from law officers It was th c prisoner's last act by police sharpshooters as they tried to kill their hostages Sid of Yuma was elected by lettuce growers of the Yuma area last one of 18 growers they help administer a proposed tuce marketing order in Tnv western stales Jack Consaul of the Consaul Co WHS alternate Appointments the committee must be made by the Secretary of culture Woods owner of the Woods Company growers and pers is one of the chief men for the lettuce marketing program If approved by ers the program will cover tuce marketed in Arizona California Colorado New xico and part of Texas T broad purpose of the marketing program Woods ex- to about 30 growers here last night is to put a the price of lettuce This will be done by ling the volume of lettuce being marketed in any given period When lettuce is over- produced the marketing order a reduction in the amount to be marketed in order to increase the price enough to meet growing and packing costs It is hoped that we will ii ve cost Woods He said the industry should be marketing about 300 mil cars per day and getting not less than per carton just to costs Hopefully of course the de- mand for lettuce will cause the price to rise higher than so that growers can make a it The amount which each grower can market in any given week is determined by his growing history Each grower may choose one of nine plans for computing his tion The program will be ed under the supervision of the U.S Dept of Agriculture and the committee of growers and shippers tions are recommended by the committee and issued by the Secretary of Agriculture The program is financed by an on shippers of about or per carton by the Secretary A final order will then be issued and growers are expected to vote on it about Nov 1st Present last night were Woods and Consaul Pete and Gary Pasquinelli Gaines Lesund Walt Kammann of Pasquinelli Kammann David Gipe of Bruce Church Hosford of Hogue Produce Co James F Barkley of Barkley Company of Arizona Ken Bingham Bob Meiser of sovitch Hardy Jr of Lee A Consaul Co John C Snyder of Produce Co Walton Williams George laher of Barkley Elwood Lee Harley Berryman Earl Stewart of Gunther Shirley Hine of Circle-H Farms Jerry Cullison George dock Art Blohm Fred Shut Down GM Plant PONTIAC Mich AP Chanting will not he bused and power to the opponents of school ing for shut down the General Motors Fisher Body plant in Pontiac today Several hundred pickets many of them representing the antibusing National Action Group NAG paraded in front of plant gates as the facility was due to open Many workers congregated on sidewalks across the street from the plant but few entered The demonstration had been called by NAG to show its clout in n running battle to undo busing to achieve racial balance in schools in this suburban De- troit city of NAG was unsuccessful last week in attempts to prevent buses beginning their rounds for the opening of schools I knew it would said a jubilant Irene McCabe chief spokesman for NAG She promised her group would be back in the afternoon to attempt to prevent the ond shift from reporting for work Later this morning the sembly line at an adjoining Pontiac plant was forced to close also because of a shortage of bodies The Pontiac plant receives bodies on a conveyor directly from Fisher Body Several workers who crossed the picket line to report said they did so because I have to earn a living Charles Warren of Pontiac a black Fisher Body worker said the picketing is thing you do anything about I accept it The purpose of last night's meeting was to inform local growers A whole series of baumer Floyd Spar John meetings is being held in the Norton John Arena and principal lettuce growing areas of the five states Ernest Holcomb a retired marketing chief of the U.S Dept of Agriculture has ed develop the marketing gram and is likely to become its administrator as an em- ployee of the growers Woods recalled that growers in the West had voted mally about 18 months ago in favor of a federal marketing program As of today the of Agriculture has issued a proposed marketing order Proposed amendments to the order are now being received Carpenter of Mel Finerman Hey Your Story Starts Today THE WEATHER Highest Lowest thh 11 and in aimed at shutting thorn down after they were opened Disturbances resulted in 48 arrests Low tonight Despite threats of discipline from the United Auto Workers nnd General Motors the com- pany said more than 60 per cent of the day shift failed to report for work no 107 72 Mostly clear cooler SimSet Press Club Will Hear United Fund A forum and press kickoff for the annual United Fund drive will be held at the Yuma Press Club tomorrow The noon luncheon will be at the 01 Trails Steak House Reservations should be made by calling The forum is open to all tive associate members of the Press Club Jim Deyo chairman of this year's drive will head a special panel A period will follow Today's woman has changed and is On the Women's Page in The Sun today a series will start on The Changing American and will explore woman's role in society and future tions The pill has given a freedom and power has never known she no longer feels ashamed to be or remain childless if she is ried she has a better figure than her mother had ami she has become more sexually re- and more demanding of her frequently is not her husband Inside The Sun Comics..........................20 Editorial 4 Markets 2 News 14 ONE IMAGE OF YUMA One need not look far to find desert areas around Yuma littered with trash and dumpings This scene is near Street and Arizona Avenue with the city's water tanks in the background It will be one of the areas given attention this Saturday as the Johnny Horizon tryside Cleanup starts Staff Johnny Horizon Rides Saturday Much of Yuma's Scout and Cub Scout population will be bending their backs for a good cause Saturday They'll be the vanguard of the Johnny Horizon side Cleanup Program which starts that day and runs through Oct 19th The boys will he heading for areas to give the Yuma tryside a fresh look part of the Bureau of ment's annual We're goin work very hard during the next month reports Larry Garrett man of the drive group Jack Fagan of the Boy Scouts and Wally White of the Cub Scouts have enlisted their troops in the effort And while the program is designed for one month 1 can't sec why local groups clubs and tions can't donate time to keep it going practically round Arras selected for day's work include Avenue A from Street to the MCAS probably most any other that meets the eye The BLM will provide two trailers for cleanup results and the city of Yuma two dump trucks More is needed reports Garrott Anyone or any interested can call him at THE PRICE FREEZE Questions and Answers complaints of Freeze violations have to be in Although the HIS prefers that complaints written runway the desert vicinity of to make referrals to the Office of Emergency Preparedness easier Arizona Avenue and establish whether there is any pattern if problems in Street and the area along a particular area all complaints are recorded analyzed and enue A near 24th Street And investigated
