Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - May 2, 1975, Yuma, Arizona SERVICE COPY MICRO PHOTO DIV CO HILL OLD Rtf i OH 44691 i Garces Celebration of Arts Invites Yumans This Weekend BEEHIVE OF A DAY Yuma Center is the busiest place in town as the community prepares for opening of the seventh annual Oarces Celebration of the Arts This life-sized papier-mache giraffe and Rolle School students make an early morning silhouette in a noisy corridor No admission fee could most be the theme of this weekend's Garces Celebration of the Arts since only two require tickets Opening at p.m today at Yuma Center the story of Father Garces will be at p.m with the Gordon Piano Duo Con- cert at p.m Admission to that entertainment is for adults for students The only other ticketed will be Roar of the Greasepaint at 8 p.m day with proceeds benefitting Yuma County Assn for the Retarded Advance fee is or at the door Unlike other years all events will be held at the Civic Center so that it can draw the largest number of viewers From the Area of Garces also will open tonight with local contributors and Nadya and Steven Gordon being ored at a public reception lowing their performance The Desert Artist display Helen A review of Roar of the Greasepaint Smell of the Crowd appears on Page 3 of today's paper Also on Page 3 is the hourly ule of the Garces Festival Blair sculpture and area student work also will be exhibited From 10 16 5 p.m will involve viewing of the art shows continuous en- ethnic food ed at community organization booths and a chance to view demonstrating craftspeople working and selling their And the same activities will be offered again from 1 to 4 p.m Sunday with another crop of performing artists The hospitality committee will greet visitors at the Center entrance to present programs answer questions and give di- rections to the various centers of interest Garces is being headed by Yuma Fine Arts Board Member Carolyn Plath and supported by businesses and The Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities Sponsors are the City of Yuma and The Yuma Daily Sun WHERE'S THE A School Dist 1 teacher atop i ladder calls for more tape and one of her energetic charges responds Art work from area school children will decorate the Convention Center for Garces from telephone booths to long ways SUN Issue Year 52 Pages and ARIZONA x SENTINEL 15 Cents Yuma Arizona Fri May 2 1975 Telephone SENTINEL 43rd Issue Year U.S Helps Thousands Flee Vietnam Property Owners Gripe Over Construction Halt How Many To Come To America Unclear Ry ERNIE BUSH The Yuma Daily Sun The Yuma Chamber of Commerce hosted n luncheon yesterday for those affected by lie moratorium on tion in areas off the at tional Airport and MCAS Many of the developers who had land off the runways both in the city and county had questions for the officials present Bob Callas of Yuma Datsun said he thought not enough consideration had been given to action creating the moratorium Col Paul Frappollo MCAS commander answered Callas saying I think the action taken now is timely He said the Council has been ing with base personnel issue of encroachment for years City Administrator Jim venger told Callas no time is the right time Would it be better to wait three months from now when there is more housing in the Callas also asked what was wrong with the present zoning County Planner Bob win explained that present regulations are concerned only with of aircraft Zoning only prohibits tion of buildings into the air space and doesn't noise or airport hazard areas he said Planes don't always fly like they are supposed to and don't always stay on the craft Glen Curtis who is man of one of the county's committees creating n county map expressed concern that the result of rezoning would be to take property in the area without tion If a man has held property there for a long time I can't taking the property out A builder affected by the moratorium Charles Gilpin expressed a similar concern Bob of the Yuma Hacquet Club asked why the club should not be allowed to add more courts if it wants to I don't see based on past experience why additional courts would ble with base Frappollo said toM he would not like to see the air station put in a bad light in the Community We just want to show that present zoning regu- lations have not been enough to deal with the encroachment problem in other communities in the past He said the result has been millions spent in closing and moving bases which has cost the taxpayers money and gross disruption in the mies of the towns affected by the closures The colonel pointed out to The Sun this morning that the closure of the station also would affect Yuma tional Airport The station pays all utilities for the airport and maintains the runways and ramps he said Most operations off the north-south runway are ian WASHINGTON AP Thousands of South ese refugees today were being ferried by the U.S Navy to sanctuaries far from their meland But U.S Immigration Service officials expressed un- certainty how would come to America Department man Robert Funseth said the total number of South refugees has reached 110.1300 He said another South Vietnamese were in the United States before their country was overrun by the Communists The Pentagon said the ber of evacuees from Vietnam in the United States on U.S bases in the Pacific and aboard American ships totals more than and that there are an estimated aboard a Vietnamese flotilla The aircraft carrier Hancock will be the first of the tion ships to reach an can military base with an arrival time at Subic Bay in the Philippines of 6 p.m MST today Pentagon man Joe said Aboard the Hancock are evacuees including 101 Americans Vietnamese nnd 85 third country nationals he said He gave this breakdown of In U.S haws ic On the U.S mainland 4.381 Hanoi and Saigon today de- manded that all combat planes and ships taken out of South Vietnam be returned but Thailand said it would leave a decision on 130 planes and copters on its soil up to the United States A Hanoi broadcast said the Foreign Ministry of the Government in Sai- gon charged that dozens of warships freighters and hundreds of cargo and combat planes were taken away It said all property inside and outside of South Vietnam including gold owned by the defeated Saigon regime be- longs to the Vietnamese people and is at the disposal of the new government uder tional law ill I I Interstate Project to 4th St Jobless Picture Put Out to Bid by Arizona Looks Brighter ar Am lion since Sept The Interstate 8 project from St to 4th St ing the 4th St underpass has gone to bid William Price state highway engineer said today The call for bids was first advertised Wednesday The bid will be awarded May he said Construction is ex- to begin before the mid- dle of June City Administrator Jim venger said that the city hopes to finish its share of the project at time the underpass is completed The city will pave from Gila St to 4th St and the 4th St extension to 4th Ave Some problems remain with ing El Paso Natural Gas Co gas lines in the area Clevenger explained The city also must install a main water line along Gila St before the paving begins The Interstate 8 bridge and the headworks to the city water plant are expected to go to bid in June The Arizona Dept of Trans- share of the project has been delayed several times The most recent delay red last month when Southern Pacific Railroad Co charged that the state had made an error in measurement of the underpass Price said today that the company survey team had begun its measurements at the wrong spot and that the state's plans were correct The Arizona Dept of Trans- today also unveiled a record million highway construction program for the next five years The program includes million for the Yuma freeway project and million to build Arizona 280 between the Marine Corps Air Station and Interstate 8 Yuma also is expected to benefit from the program cause the city is included in a list of cities to receive airport project funds It Is Now x Reno Gets Dist I Post WASHINGTON nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.9 per cent in April the government today but there were some bright spots in the employment ture suggesting joblessness may be nearing its peak The 2 per cent increase in unemployment was at a slower rate than in March and total employment rose for the first time in seven months Non- farm payroll employment also held steady and the length of the work week edged up for the first time since the fall 1 wouldn't want to say we're coming to the end of the said an analyst for the Bureau of Labor Statistics But he added There's room for encouragement Unemployment in April rose by to a total of following an increase of in March when the jobless rate hit 8.7 per cent But total employment which had declined by lion since September increased last month by to 84.1 million With employment and unemployment both rising the size of the U.S labor force rose sharply for the second month in a row to 92.3 million The Labor Department said adult males who have the greatest number of job losses during the current recession accounted for more than half of the April ment gain DISCOVERING AMERICA An elderly Vietnamese woman tries to understand directions by a guard as she arrives at California's El Toro MCAS She headed by Discover America bus to the nearby Camp Pendleton refugee encampment AP Wirephoto No Vietnamese Refugees Coming to MCAS Yuma By TERRY MIKELSON The Yuma Daily Sun Dr Thomas Reno of Apache Junction has accepted the post at Yuma Elementary School Dist 1 of Trustee President Theodore Moeller said today For all practical purposes tw IB it His contract will be approved at the Trustees ular meeting May added The Junction super- intendent caught the Trustees by earlier this week when he announced that he was resigning his present post to become Dist 1 tendent He apparently had not been given permission to release the news and later ad- mitted the announcement was premature Our Board felt very ly that we should not release the name of the person ed for the job until he had signed a contract that made his selection said in a prepared statement Unfortunately the mation that Dr Keno was leaving Apache Junction be- came public knowledge before his acceptance became cial The president explained that today's news release was required to clear up the con- fusion resulting from a ture announcement of a re- placement for Pete Woodard as superintendent of Dist 1 Woodard will retire July The Board gave Reno tive approval in a recent to Page 2 The Weather 85 59 79 High Thursday Low this morning Temperature at 11 today Low tonight 59 92 humidity at 1 1 Average high 90 Average low this date 61 FORECAST to Saturday Sunny and wanner thh after- noon and Saturday Clear and cool BULLETIN PHOENIX AP House Republicans today turned back Democratic attempts to broaden Arizona's open meeting law The measure defeated would have required that all final tion by governmental cies be recorded on a roll call vote The Senate has passed an open meeting but it has not been ered by the House Inside The Son Parker Pasa KM There are no plans to bring Vietnamese refugees to MCAS Yuma at this time according to the Public Information Of- fice PIO there The rumor started because the air station is in the com- mand structure of Camp Pendleton The PIO number of inquiries concerning the possibility According to the office the station sent six cooks to Pendleton to assist on a temporary basis with handling the refugees there As plans to move groups of the refugees to various tary installations across the country have been ed groups of citizens near the installations have protested and picketed against the gees Men Rank Sex as No 1 But Women Rank Music 1 st CHICAGO AP Men like sex a lot more than women do a Maryland psychologist re- ports Even young women rate music nature family job and travel higher than they rate sex Dr Paul Cameron ed at the Midwestern Association annual meeting Thursday But he said for men sex is No 1 at least until middle age when it becomes tied for No 2 Cameron and a colleague Fleming of St Mary's College of Maryland in St Mary's City asked 818 men and women in Angeles Louisville Ky and southern Maryland to rank 22 daily in order of import ance Men under age 26 ranked music and sex in a first place tic Those 26 to 39 ranked sex alone as No 1 Those -10 to 55 ranked family first and nature and sex second the ages of 56 and employment ranked No 1 with men with sex and sports tied for eighth After age 64 sex ranked 15th again tied with sports None of the age groups of women ranked sex as their mary interest Those under 26 ranke music nature family and el ahead of sex Between 39 they ranked sex with their jobs iu fourth place after ily nature nnd travel and music Middle aged women even ranked housework sleeping and television ahead of sex For them family came first Sex was And it was about the same for woman 56 to 64 who ranked sex 13th and for older women who ranked it 17th
