Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 3, 1977, Yuma, Arizona the SUN 43rd Issue Year 1 5 Cents and ARIZONA SENTINEL 20 Pages Yuma Arizona Mon Jan 3 1977 SUN Telephone SENTINEL Issue 104th Year NEW YEAR'S BABY Mrs Karen holds Yuma Medical Center Mother and in Yuma in daughter were discharged yesterday lo their home at by Crace Delphi The lilUe arrived at sit MCAS was first baby of 77 in Yuma Little pound Bethany Dawn Moore probably had no idea her birth would make Page 1 news Hut the first baby born in the new vear does The daughter nf Sgt ami Mrs Moore both ol 1 Ave MCAS made her new year's entrance at -1 a in Saturday at Yuma Regional Medical Center She was delivered by Dl Kills Bethany and her mother were discharged Irom the hospital day The Moore Weill home In meet her Hutb Ann and brother Members nl the Hyacinth Blue Hird Troop were on hand at the hospital lor Bethany's departure They presented her u iih i blue bird- embroidered made bv the troop Yuma had foggy New Year's start The new year in was greeted irand Canyon Him and with a rolling fog Saturday and Sunday White Mountains Flagstaff reports Ml mornings See photo inches of snow had fallen this morning Moist air temperatures in the upper and 1 Lake had 23 inches oi snow high humidity caused by rains nnd on the ground light winds contributed to the foggy conditions International Airport officials The report visibility Saturday was 1 Kith of a mile Sunday's visibility dropped down to but say the airport was not closed The National Weather Servic trial started Colo iAP Claudine was escort eil into i he courtroom bv her ex Wiliiams as jury selection began today tor bei manslaughter in the death ot her lover The small lender Miss appeared calm as walked into the County District Court surrounded by Williams and her at- 1 ur re-ally just here to lend support at he to he with my kills reports humidity both mornings neared Weathermen say sprinkles on the area shortly after 2 today The moisture was part ot a storm system coming trom central and Nevada Winter storm warnings were in effect in the mountain areas around narcotics force to be bipartisan effort statewide narcotics strike force are expected to end in a hi part is an proposal when the legislature convenes Jan 10 iov Kaul Castro has recommended expanding the Border County Strike statewide He said the force should be separate from the merit ot Public and good evening Yuma TIIK START a Chamber of Commerce committee wants to he prepared on upcoming Legislature issues for the Silver Spur queen crown nation were writing new history during the tennial year 1 FORD'S POSITION on the Helsinki accords is finally vindicated by a recent study says columnist sports owner Ted Tumor hns been suspended by Howie Kuhn for tampering with another 11 Crossword Editorial 15 14 4 2 Parker 6 headed by a hoanl of sheriffs and county attorneys from all M counties Kep Tony West K heads a special committee that has been studying the need for a statewide The panel has boiled its conclusions down to two Castro's recommendation and a proposal that the force be a part ot DPS If we create an autonomous agency we can always move it under DPS it il isn't working properly West said Hut it would be very hard to take it cuit of DPS once it's established there The statewide strike force is en- visioned as an intelligence coupled with a battery ol prosecutors lo help local law enforcement officers arrest drug traffickers and bring them border county force spent million last year to provide mostly intelligence information on movement of Mexican through Vurna Cochise Pirna and Santa Crux ties DPS has been the statewide narcotics enforcement agency since There has been friction between the two agencies with DPS officers complaining that the strike force has been making cheap busts for pu icily and the strike force com- plaining that DPS agents do not cooperate well with local authorities would walk away from it if DPS gains said Terry Grimble strike force director lie denied that the strike force has gone too far into enforcement We definitely don't spend any on the street peddler unless it's at the a local agency he said DPS officials say they already have the personnel and facilities available for a statewide narcotics strike force at little additional cost to the taxpayer The state can't afford to have two separate drug forces said I A Col Larry Thompson chief of DPS criminal investigations Authorities from other states would he forced to deal with two agencies and the result would be a breakdown he predicted KENNERLY Beaver is chairman of county supervisors Marion Heaver a five-year member of the County Hoard ol Super- visors this morning was elected board chairman for the coming year Heaver a Parker resident who represents Dist succeeds Dist 2 Supervisor tilen Strohm as chairman He was elected lo the post by and incoming Disl 1 Supervisor Hob Kennerly The new chairman a Democrat was elected lo his second board term in the Nov 2 general election He defeated independent candidates Dennis lowland and Dr K Walter Schuessler and Republican Stanley Kennerly who replaces I lenry on board was sworn in along with new Assessor Alberta Smith belore lie meeting County Superior Court 1 mine William W conducted the ceremony Kennerly defeated in I he September 1 primary and then out polled Republican William Hlair in the general elect ion Mrs Smith a Democrat independents A inn vi sea and John Tansey and Republican Morris Court right Jr in the genera I election In other business the supervisors learned that a tor federal funds to replace five bridges had been turned down by the Development Administration However a request to KDA for money to build a new county jail complex is Mill pending il was reported The county had requested trom KDA to replace the bridges are located at Street and the Kasl Main Avenue and the Kasl Main Drain Somerton Avenue and the West Main Avenue between County and and on K between Counly MHh and County Manager reported the jail complex is si ill in limbo He KDA bin that I lie county's request lor million was being sent to a law agency Inr consideration The jail if funded would lie a single slory struct lire wil h a base men I which would serve the and the city pointed mil thai to fund the bridge project was not unexpected it ol the number of requests for In nils through the public works program The county was in competition with other governments in the stale for the million allotted lo Nationally he program provided billion lor public works projects I said requests lor the hinds total mitre than billion The supervisors continued the pointment ol all department heads and opened bids lor I wo The count v is seek a grader for the highway department and a pickup for the grounds mil maintenance ment A decision on reversion to acreage for Mesa Mobile Homes was postponed tor study A on thai property was also held without public The planning and has mended The board learned that highway ol I trom t he governor s ol lice have completed a i rat tic study ol county roads The which cusi the stale more than mads in I he lour put a led in County h will be presented to the supervisors -Ian 17 NKW Kill i lelm new Yuma County Superior ol Division 2 is helped Into his rolies bv his wile and Supreme Court Chiel JusLice lames Duke Cameron Cameron who presided at this morning's swearing in noted the robe he has on is the same one lie wore when on the County I 2 Superior bench in Additional Quips dot Helm's The of County Superior Court Division 1 Judge Hill I lelm this morning was it solemn ceremony tinged with lillle barbs and chuckles Remarks about the new quarters courtroom and two sides lo a campaign ad prompted surprised bursts of laughter throughout the ceremony Chief ol the Supreme Court Duke a former County Division 2 judge himself performed the He spoke of his time as a judge the installation of new office carpeting and wall hangings since his time As chief justice I get to quartern not just look a round he said Attorney Tom president of the Bar Assn praised judges He assured Helm of the support of all Yuma at- including those appeared in a Daily Sun ml supporting Helm's primary election opponent Wm Michael Smith commented on framing and display of the ad in his office saying he sure the ad would not sway I lelm in his judgments Helm's quip that it was those names on the ncl opposing him that gnt him elected was met with a burst of laughter Also on hand lor The ceremony held in the Division I were County Supenor Conn courtroom at the county courthouse Judges William and Douglas by Keddie ami retired John of local attorneys county whom Helm is replacing courthouse personnel am Land fraud figure is stabbed to death N SiTra r ill the Land and Cattle In death ill Suite Prison Warden I Card well said Serra was servim chilli to Id years un II fraud in ion with land firm which in after bilking thousands ol nut ol an million There were inmates in the industrial when ii happened said Cardwell A murder has been found A shank was found outside the building in a trash barrel Serra was slabbed twice in chest and once in the head as he worked in the warden said hail been a witness lellow ol Ireal who also were com and sent lo The Male agreed to tile only one lelony Sena ill lor his jury but later reinstated the when said his was meat Southwest snld lots in several subdivisions and several million dollars woth of worthless lo investors nationwide Serra was convicted of making sales lo investors of monies signed bv persons who had no intention payments on them The Iliad's were signed by drunks in taverns and other persons in exchange for in some cases said
