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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1960
Page
3
About 300 Yuma County employees will enter the state retirement system on July 1. The Board of Supervisors announced the move, making Yuma the first county in the state to join the program. The board also considered a 34 percent pay raise to offset employee contributions to the retirement plan.
Humble Oil Co will drill a new 5,600 foot well on the Navajo Reservation in Apache County, 18 miles west of Four Corners and 1.2 miles south of Red Mesa Trading Post. The No 2 Navajo follows two prior wells with mixed production hindered by high gas. Drilling to start soon.
University of Arizona meteorologist William D. Sellers walked 24 miles in five hours without water to study desert dehydration. The Army found water needs match body weight. tests in California desert weighed troops before and after stress and showed irritable onset at 5 percent weight loss and death near 20 percent. Sellers, 31, 6 feet tall and 145 pounds, daily walks 21.4 miles between home and office, starting at Grant and Country Club.
Sellers describes extreme exertion during a long run noting he stopped at 3:15 p.m. exhausted after a mile at most remaining, yet finished with only an 18 minute longer second circuit. It took two hours before he could swallow water comfortably.
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