Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - August 28, 1977, Yuma, Arizona settlement is sought SUN SUN Issue Year 35 Cents Issue Year Yuma Arizona Sun Aug 28 1977 LUSAKA Zambia IAP Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen still in business despite tough opposition from both black and while Africans met with guerrilla leaders and their chief backers Saturday to try to sell a new peace plan for Rhodesia At the same time the heads of the region's two ments Prime Ministers Ian Smith of Rhodesia and John Vorster of South Africa met in Pretoria South Africa to study the plan Owen and Young the black American ambassador were expected to go to Rhodesia later this week to meet with Smith Young would be the American to visit Rhodesia in years The two face an uphill task on their current mission Both sides have at- tacked a key element of their plan for black majority rule in Rhodesia a reported proposal that the Rhodesian armed forces be disbanded and black nationalist guerrillas be disarmed during the transition A British spokesman said this was the central issue discussed in hours of talks Young and Owen held day with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe co-leaders of the Rhodesian black nationalist Patriotic Front The two mediators later conferred with the presidents of the front line states Mozambique Angola zania Zambia and Botswana The five nations are the main supporters of the Rhodesian nationalists This is serious talking and it is quite tough the spokesman said It means that Dr Owen and Mr Young are still in business Guerrillas of the Patriotic Front are fighting a old war to oust the white regime in the breakaway British colony a country of 6.2 million blacks and whites As the talks continued here the Rhodesian military command reported that three Rhodesian soldiers were slightly wounded in a border clash Friday with Zambian troops near Victoria Falls about 250 miles southwest of this capital city Young and Owen were expected to meet with Mugabe and Nkomo again Sunday before flying to South Africa for talks with Vorster and later in the week to Rhodesia Extended benefits to return PHOENIX AP Extended unemployment benefits for the jobless will be reinstated Monday for at least the next 13 weeks Department of Economic Security officials said Officials said Friday about will be paid out monthly to persons who qualify statewide The extended benefits program was curtailed about a month ago by federal officials Henry Haas chief of the DBS unemployment insurance bureau said the extended benefits program is being reactivated because the insured em- ployment rate the percentage of persons without jobs who qualify for benefits has increased The national insured unemployment rate rose above cent Haas said automatically reactivating the program About persons lost their benefits when the program was halted earlier Haas said many of those persons wouldn't be eligible for the new program Stab victim keeps moving A man collapsed at Winn's Gila Store east of Yuma on U.S 95 about five hours after he was stabbed in the back yesterday Yuma police reported that John Radford of Parker stumbled into the police station shortly after yesterday with a knife wound in his back Police said Radford had driven to the station from a trailer in the 1900 block of Maple Avenue where he was stabbed Police called the Yuma Fire Dept and Yuma Ambulance Service applied a bandage to control bleeding and then he was taken by ambulance to Yuma Regional Medical Center Radford didn't want to stay in thj hospital He was released at after a deep wound in his back and a shallow one on his arm were treated Radford showed up at Winn's store nearly hours later Yuma County deputies said Radford walked into the store ordered a beer and collapsed He was again take to again treated and released Police are still investigating the details of the stabbing Nobody was arrested as of last night FIRESIDE CHAT Carter to take Panama treaty to the nation WASHINGTON AP President Carter predicts the Senate will ratify his Panama Canal treaty and says he will go to the nation with a fireside chat to win approval because the consequences would be very severe if the treaty is rejected The President said he is concerned about public sentiment against the pact He called it his personal responsibility to sell the treaty to the American people and to the Senate to lessen the chances of violence in Latin America Carter spoke in an interview made public Saturday by the White House He was questioned Friday by editors and broadcast news directors from across the country who met with him in the Cabinet Room The interview was one of a continuing series for out of town journalists The President gave no date or time for his fireside chat Barry Jagoda his media and public affairs adviser said arrangements for the presidential address have not been completed It will not be this week or Jagoda said The address is expected to be broadcast nationally In the interview the President also If the United States grants full diplomatic recognition to mainland is undoubtedly going to be will into the future But Carter said Secretary of State Cyrus R Vance's visit to Peking last week was very encouraging As a result of Vance's meetings with Chinese leaders Carter said 1 think they understand our position better and we understand theirs When Vance landed in- Washington on Saturday Carter met him at the airport and declared that Vance had achieved a major step forward toward our ultimate goal of normalizing relations with China though he said Vance's mission was limited and exploratory in nature good morning SUMMER MAY NOT seem like the ideal time set off on a cross-country bicycle ride But Walter Shatsky did and finds even more heat as he passes through Yuma Page 17 A SNIPES took the lives of six men before committing suicide in Hackettstown Page 13 WHEN FACED WITH mandatory retirement a writer for The New York Times says he'd rather die on the job Like many people in their sunset years he has very few other interests than his work Page 5 PREVIEWS OF football seasons look at the schools strengths and weaknesses team members coaches and goals Pages 19 20 Accent on people Ann Comics 27 Doctor Movies 26 Sports Weather IB Petitions ask probe of Yuma flooding Alien amnesty aids lawbreakers and hurts those who Stump Arizona Rep Bob Stump says he opposes President Carter's plan to legalize illegal aliens now living in the United States The proposed plan will allow illegal aliens who have lived in the U.S since 1970 to become permanent legal residents Those who crossed the border illegally between 1970 and this year would be given a special status that would allow them to stay in this country for five years 1 challenge whether people who have knowingly broken the law to enter this country should be the kind of person who is allowed to Stump said in a prepared statement Many foreign citizens have waited for years to get into the United States legally By obeying the law they face said Stump who represents the congressional district which includes Yuma It is not fair to make them wait while this country absorbs large numbers of people who broke the Stump maintained Stump urges the President to withdraw his suggestions for legalizing illegal aliens ahd to crack down on all illegal alien crossings He pointed out that Yuma County has been hard-hit by crimes committed by illegal aliens Yuma County Sheriff Bud Yancey estimated that of his officers time is spent on border problems according to Stump He is working hard to prevent violence But as he has pointed out the local taxpayers arc footing the for a federal problem The extra expenses are not just for police The hospital in Yuma estimates that it writes off a year alone for emergency medical care for illegal Stump added Stump also is against President Carter's proposed plan to fine em- up to for every illegal alien hired He said this would cause problems for Mexican-Americans looking for work If business or agriculture needs additional workers U.S laws should be changed to create a program for increased temporary legal entrance to fill those jobs Residents of the Villa Hermosa II subdivision are petitioning the city of Yuma to investigate the drainage problem caused by Tropical Storm Doreen Petitions are reportedly being among some 250 homes in the subdivision calling lor the city to promptly resolve said problems by providing an adequate drainage pumping system to insure the sub- division future disastrous flooding of the type caused by storms and subsequent drainage of the magnitude experienced on August 15th and 16 Villa Hermosa built by the Jacobson Companies is in the vicinity of Avenue B between 20th and 22nd Streets by Crane Pueblo School Parts of the subdivision experienced water during the storm and several homes and garages were reported flooded Bruce Jacobson engineer told The Sun last night that the subdivision was built with several retaining areas designed to hold storm waters The drainage system was originally designed under county he said but this was an unusual storm At the time the system was designed four or five years ago it was adequate and could hold quite a bit of drainage But what was adequate a year ago may not be adequate row Jacobson stressed that the magnitude of Tropical Storm Doreen was greater than that for which the drainage systems were designed ad- ding that the amount of rainfall was twice the amount of any 100-year storm Villa Hermosa homeowners have planned a 7 p.m Wednesday meeting at Crane Pueblo to further discuss the matter and turn in the petitions to the city council Fire damage to Moscow embassy could take 5 months to repair Beanie calls SEC report hatchet job MOSCOW AP U.S Ambassador Malcolm Toon said Saturday it could take as long as five months to restore the American Embassy to full operation in the wake of a fire that ravaged the building's upper floors He said the embassy took extensive precautions to ensure that Russian firefighters did not take or see secret materials So far as we know there has been no compromise of our classified material or Toon told a press briefing He commended the 200 Soviet firefighters who extinguished the blaze early Saturday for doing a splendid job under very difficult conditions Toon said that despite two requests by the Soviet fire marshal none of the Russians ever went to the building's highly sensitive top floor which houses military offices and sophisticated electronic gear Toon admitted that some safes containing classified documents had been left open when American personnel hurriedly evacuated the building The top floors of the embassy are normally off-limits to Russians Officials were scrutinizing safes and secret files Saturday to ensure that they had not been disturbed or harmed NEW YORK AP Mayor Abraham D Beame says the Securities and Exchange Commission did a hatchet job on him with its report that charges he misled the public about the city's finances Beame who faces six Democratic opponents in a mayoral primary Sept 8 received the report from Washington Friday afternoon At first he declined comment but later came out of his City Hall office to read a statement and to say he would have a detailed response to the report at a news conference today The Securities and Exchange Commission has produced a shameless vicious political document regarding the officials of this city which comes out 13 days before an Beame said My sworn testimony before the SEC which I have already made public and thousands of pages of documentary evidence which the city has submitted contradict the conclusions In particular the SEC said the city sold billion in shortterm notes from October 1974 to April 1975 even though officials knew the city was reaching the brink of bankruptcy For 75 years BR has helped make West green It was wet night on Jan 20.1910 for these Bureau of shows the workers sloshing at the level during Reclamation workers in the Colorado River siphon at construction of the siphon under the Colorado River Yuma This view from above on the Arizona side Photo By JULIAN RHINEHART Public Affairs Projects Office During 1977 the Dept of the In- Bureau of Reclamation will be celebrating its 75th birthday in Arizona and throughout the West The of the bureau in this three quarters of a century are im- pressive both and in Yuma County The agency was created in 1902 by the Federal Reclamation Act to develop the arid and semi-arid lands of the Western United States by conserving and supplying irrigation water to make them productive Since then the mission has been expanded to include multipurpose water management which sometimes involves municipal and industrial water supplies Yuma's water river regulation and Hood control Hoover hydroelectric power generation Davis and Parker Dams and water quality the Yuma desalting Some of the most notable BR cesses have occurred in the Lower Colorado River Region and Yuma County This is statement when one realizes that during the past 75 years the bureau has constructed throughout the West 313 storage dams miles of canals 134 pumping plants and 50 hydroelectric plants These facilities irrigate over farms with 9.3 million acres supply water to about 18 million people and generate of the hydroelectric power sold in the United States today Most but not all of the projects are eventually paid for by the people who benefit from the water and power users Taxpayers initially fund the construction and about is paid back by the users on long-term repayment contracts An Arizona venture in the planning stages when the Reclamation Act was passed was the Yuma Project Although not authorized until May 1904 this irrigation project of nearly acres is also about 75 years old For years the Colorado River had provided residents of the Yuma area with too much or too little water Spring runoffs from the Rocky Mountain snow melt coupled with large flows from the Gila River frequently brought destructive floods into Yuma Following the floods August and September flows in the Colorado would often be too low to furnish adequate irrigation water The Yuma Project was planned to improve this situation and to give the Yuma and Bard Valleys a reliable source of agricultural water Its two most notable features were Laguna Dam 15 miles upstream from Yuma and the Colorado River Siphon which is still in operation today in the vicinity of 2nd Avenue Initially a larger dam was considered for construction at a location to be known as the Yuma Dam Site 22 miles upstream from the town Because of an absence of bedrock in the area the design of this dam was abandoned in favor of a smaller structure a one mile in length which would span the Colorado River Channel Construction started in 1905 and Laguna Dam was completed in 1909 In the absence of bedrock a surface weir design was selected Since construction of this type of dam had not been attempted in the United States similar structures in Turn to Page 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