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Daily Citizen Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Press it Mititiee eichisivety TO the use tor replication i ill the loom newt printer In this newspiper as at ill ncwi dispatches MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHED BY THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. Established 1870 Phone 622-5855 PAGE 16 THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1964 Vending Machine Control Useful In Fight On Crime The mayor and council took an important first step this week toward bolstering the city's defenses against Chicago-type criminal activity. They initiated an ordinance which will clamp useful controls on the vending machine business. In recent months it has become apparent that criminal elements have been attempting to move in on that business. Although the city's lawmakers were prepared to adopt the proposed ordinance on first reading last Monday, reflection dictated the advisability of some review and revision.

It is important that the law, which should be adopted in the near future, be both fair and firm-in its purpose. The basic purpose is to apply the to a segment of local business which, from the -experience of other cities, lends itself to the strong-arm tactics of would-be gangsters. The vending ma- business familiar cigarette dispensers and -various amusement devices--is an easy business to -operate providing an operator can place his machines sufficient live locations. Tucson police believe that a rash of dynamitings in Jrecent months was the beginning of a battle over machines. Police and city officials are deter- Jmined that Tucson's legitimate business establish- r'ments and Tucson's decent citizens will not be caught "in the middle.of such a war.

The ordinance being prepared here will be sim- 'ilar to laws in many other cities which provide for and regulation of vending machines. The 'Tucson ordinance also will prohibit persons convicted a felony or "any offense against the decency and 'morals of the community" within.the last five years "from engaging in vending machine distribution. The time to stop what appears to be an influx of undesirable elements into this community is at the start. If the recent dynamitings were a warning by those elements that they had arrived and were determined to take over, the vending machine ordinance is an effective legal weapon for defense. Christmas Helps, Too 1 Some of Tucson's economic assets are not as readily apparent as Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, where the Tactical Air Command's new fighter training wing is just beginning to take shape.

Before the year is out the training command will have more than 1.400 officers and men on duty here. Their coming will be a boon to this community's economy, and there is no reason to hide the fact that -this is an especially happy prospect at this time. It is -fortunate that both this adaptable air base and the Arizona climate are conducive to continued operations at Davis-Monthan. I The interest which Tucson takes in affairs and welfare, the spirit of coopera- between the community and the base are two Bother important, though" intangible, factors worth Beyond the obvious assets such as D-M, there are other assets almost unrecognized. Take this example --Christmas.

Anyone knows that Christmas--the retail trade, but that's not what we're thinking about right now (even though merchants already are looking hopefully a half-year ahead). Christmas, in these parts, happens to be a mine as well as a season. Christmas mine is almost 90 miles north of Tucson, and that Christmas is contributing substantial year-round economic benefits to Tucson. The revived mining activity at Christmas now is supporting a pay roll of 300 persons, some of whom actually live in Tucson and commute, and almost all of whom use Tucson as their trading center. Those jobs don't even count in the Pima County employment totals, but those paychecks from Christmas count toward the local economy.

Anything that bolsters activity in southern Arizona, from Nogales with its border trade and traffic to Ft. Huachuca to Christmas, benefits Tucson because of the growing stature of this metropolitan center. Tucson itself needs to keep that larger outlook in focus as it builds its size and strength for the future. DENMS THE MENACE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT--U What Arizona Ought To Do This is the second part of a two-part abridgement of an article on industrial development carried in the current issue ol Union Title News, published in Phoenix. Because much of its material Is as applicable to Pima County as to Maricopa County, It is being reprinted here.

Industrial experts offer several suggestions for additional marketing of Arizona benefits without resorting to the uneconomic programs established by other areas. 1. They recommend complete and detailed marketing studies of specific products with above average potential in the western states. Arizona does not control the mass markets required to support certain consumer manufacturing. Since Arizona is more attractive to high cost, low weight products, then the experts suggest we should seek out such industries, canvass them through direct mail and personal calls, and provide them with authoritative studies including facts and figures showing why such an industry could profitably locate in Arizona.

2. Although it is generally believed that Phoenix does not want heavy manufacturing, specifically the so-called "dirty" industries, the majority of experts concurs that there are locations in Arizona where this type of manufacturing would be an asset. No industry should be discouraged from considering Arizona even though it would not be welcome within the city of Phoenix limits. 3. A third suggestion calls for a common inventory of all industrial properties, complete with prices, compiled by a disinterested party so that prospects can see and consider all properties available in Maricopa County or-more broadly--Arizona.

There is no central location where an industrialist can obtain a complete listing of all properties available. 4. Standard industrial summaries of all municipalities in the state, containing pertinent data on schools, utilities, roads, population, employment, transportation, taxes, government and recreational facilities would be useful. This can be handled as in California through regular community audits printed on plain fact sheets, and updated regularly. 5.

Experts mention a need for availability of risk capital to new businesses. Perhaps a council comprised of leading bankers, stock- brokers and other lendeis should be formed to review new businesses with capital shortages and suggest appropriate methods of obtaining needed funds. Arizona is just ahead of mid-way between a frontier state with strong rural entrepreneur motivation and a mature, sophisticated, highly competitive, cosmopolitan sleeping giant, according to Boyd C. Gibbons, special assistant to Gov. Paul Fannin- on industrial development.

This has resulted in strong sectionalism and poor communications, even some competition among areas within the state. To alleviate this problem, it was suggested that a strong drganization be put together consisting of all chambers of commerce and all industrial development agencies within the state. 7. Another program calls for establishment of an active committee composed of aggressive representatives in business, industry and government to evolve a master plan for industrial development and then support it financially and physically. Every leading businessman and citizen understands the importance of industry to Arizona during the past few years and should be willing to accept a vital role in continuing this industrial growth'.

8. Companies presently established here must be solicited to help sell Arizona to others in like industries or to their suppliers. Industry begets industry and our best salesmen can be our own satisfied industrialists. All of these programs require funds and a realistic budget is needed for industrial development. Today all monies appropriated from public funds are divided between promotion of tourism and industrial development with heavy concentration on Arizona's attractions for vacationers.

Although tourism is an important industry for Arizona, we need equally heavy promotion for industry which will provide year-round employment, one expert asserts. Notwithstanding the overwhelming advantages to industry of establishing in Arizona, they are not effective unless they are promoted, Industrial development should be everybody's business, not just those who are specifically charged with the responsibility. A growing, employed population means a strong expanding state economy and increased prosperity for every Arizonan. UTTL RASCA.LS/" HOLMES ALEXANDER Sixty Minutes In Space Letters To The Editor Half a dozen senators, in 60 minutes, disposed of the debate on our authorization to spend $5.2 billion this year on space. Then, the bells sounded, the floor filled up, and the vote went 78-3 for the high figure.

Hardly ever was so awesome a subject so summarily handled, by so few debaters in so brief a time. Weariness from the civil rights hassle, boredom and ignorance in these matters of celestial nature, petty politics and personal spite far outdistance erudition and responsibility in this discussion as important a one as we shall have this year. To put the essence of it into a thimble, these senators set the contrasting arguments: SYMINGTON: The nation that controls space, controls the world. Therefore, let keep the program rolling 1 toward a moon landing by 1970. FULBRIGHT: The most important "space" in the universe is the one between human ears.

Ergo, let us slow down the space race, using the money for education and peace-on- earth. Both arguments are elevated and cogent, but it's doubtful if Symington won, and Fulbright lost on a matter of merit. Symington's thesis of world domination was bold and valid. The USA has no desire to straddle the earth, but if we don't, the Russians, the Chinese or the French will do so, and this must not happen. Unfortunately, however, the space program was launched by President Eisenhower as an exercise in peaceful pursuits.

He was out to "catch up" with Russia, and Mr. Kennedy was out to "get ahead" of the Russians. The national prestige of scoring space spectaculars, culminating with a manned land- ing on the moon, has become the central motivation. BUT WILL IT GIVE US space supremacy? The direct military benefits in this bill amount to only $1.4 billion. The most warlike item in the whole program is the MOL (manned orbital laboratory) from which, conceivably, a nuclear weapon might be launched.

It is a trifling investment if we are honestly trying to become a military power in space. Any of the rival nations, by scheming in secret, could obtain a superior weapon in space while we are toying around with harmless gimmicks. In short, Symington's domination argument is sound, but the administration's domination policy is non-existent. Fulbright did not make this point he's against military "domination," he said but he did correctly finger the real reason why these huge space expenditures will always get congressional majorities. There are "goodies for everybody," Fulbright noted.

He more than hinted that he might be supporting the big spending if more of it went to Arkansas. MORSE OF OREGON represented the petty politics and personal spite which made up some of the opposition. He was in one of his customary rages. "My state is at the bottom of the totem pole," was his unbiased reason for voting to keep space funds away from other states. He was angered because on the previous day the Senate had denied him $5 million for an Indian reservation.

His dog- in-the-manger yelping was several octaves below the general discussion which, in itself, was not what the important subject matter deserved. It deserved a full-dress debate on whether space programs should not be frankly militarized. We can afford to spend the extra $5 billion a year if it makes us stronger -but not if it merely buys spectaculars and spreads "goodies" among the states. Copvrlr ht FOR TRT, ORCHIDS NOT BRICKBATS To the Editor: Orchids for the deserving, who frequently are recipients of only brickbats and over-ripe tomatoes. Shortly after coming to Tucson to live less than two weeks ago I called at the general office of the Tucson Rapid Transit Company to inquire about city bus routes and schedules.

I was promptly given citywide bus maps for my wife and myself, plus schedules of the routes with which we would most likely be concerned. I was treated very courteously. The office was out of schedules for one route we wanted but when I requested these schedules by mail a few days later they were sent by return mail with the notation "thanks for asking." This pleasant treatment was in direct contrast to that by the bus company in another major Arizona city to which we had also considered moving from Pennsylvania. There, it was very difficult to obtain bus route information and the company seemed to adhere to a "public be damned" policy. Our choice of Tucson as a city in which to LIVE has been bolstered by both the TRT and the friendliness and help of others here.

W. LOWRIE KAY 2557 E. Water St. WE USED TO CALL IT INDECENT EXPOSURE To the Editor: This picture in your recent paper, entitled "Girl, Getting Something Off Her Chest, Draws Crowd." Why give pub- licity to a handful who will be the instigators of a style that will further lower the morals of our people? Our rules and laws are supposed to be made by a majority of the people in favor of themselves. Just who hopes to gain by promoting these extreme styles? Even to the point of indecency.

Must we let a small minority of ruthless, sex-minded people rule? We used to call it indecent exposure. Why are alibis made for it now? MRS. BERT A. BLOM 3235 N. Flanwill WANTS REFERENDUM TO SETTLE QUESTION To the Editor: I wonder whether the people as a majority fully agree with their representatives on the City Council that voted "yea" on the public accommodations ordinance recently passed.

When a minority group pressures the elected officials of our city to pass such an ordinance, I also wonder what the result would be if all persons opposed should use the same tactics used by the minority--and threatened or put in force a boycott ol all places business for a period of two weeks. I believe that the income received by the one per cent city sales tax would diminish to a point that would express the feeling of the general public, and such an ordinance would be repealed immediately. Why not a referendum vote to settle this question? A. J. ECKERSON 3726 N.

Estrella DRIVEL ABOUT SUPREME COURT To the Editor: Holmes Alexander was allowed too generous a corner on the June 26 editorial page for his absurd commentary on the Supreme Court's decision on apportionment of seats in state legislatures. As I read him, Mr. Alexander proposed that these seats would best be allotted, at least in part, on the basis of the number of "oaks and walnuts, pines and spruce" in a given jurisdiction. This he said he preferred to equal representation of human beings because "trees outlive men and influence the minds and attitudes of generations of men." That nine competent jurists were hotly divided on the decision testifies to the fact that precarious points of law are involved. No doubt all nine judges would have preferred a clearer law and I imagine they would welcome congressional reconsideration of the whole problem.

Perhaps, instead of devoting himself to the kind of drivel he has produced recently, Mr. Alexander should take up agitating for new legislation more to his liking. He would learn that no United States court has ever made a law and that any judicial decision can be reversed by revising the law itself--sort of a legislative review. WILLIAM E. DENNIS 2361 E.

Hedrick Dr. Letters te editor must carry tht complttt name street ait- dress of writer. I'l extreme and unusual circumstances, the writer'! identity may bi helil confidential and pen name used for publication Short letters are given preference. The normal maximum allowed li 3M words. The rliht it re- lerved reduce the lenith of letters.

ART BUCHWALD The Flood Of Clean Movies 1 OOt HONfY The Supreme Court is having a terrible time defining obscenity. Everyone is agreed they're against it, but no one really knows what it is. In reversing a conviction on the French film, "The Lovers," six opinions were filed on the case with six judges all expressing their own views on the subject. The irony of it all is that since "The Lovers" was first shown in the United States several years ago, there have been far wilder pictures shown in America without any complaints at all. Many people are worried about obscenity, but we're worried about something which we consider far more dangerous to America -and that is the flood of clean movies that are now being released on the market.

No matter where you look these days there is a clean movie playing in some theater in your neighborhood. Of course these movies are advertised as dirty movies and you would not know from the posters outside that they are clean, but once you get inside you find yourself treated to the worst kind of wholesomeness imaginable. Scene after scene is devoted to children and pets and sports and domestic tranquility all aimed not to advance the plot, but only inserted for shock value. THE MAKERS of these pictures led by the most notorious clean producer of them all, Walt Disney, defend these films as works of art. But then they add "We wouldn't make them if the public didn't want to see them." One director said "If other companies would stop making clean movies, so would I.

But this is a very competitive business." Attempts to set up some kind of code to eliminate wholesome scenes from films have failed. A SPOKESMAN for the industry said, "The problem is no one can seem to agree on a national standard for cleanliness. Until the Supreme Court decides this question the motion picture industry cam do nothing to stop the sudden rush of unsullied productions now being produced in Hollywood." An American civil liberties lawyer told us "Trying to eliminate clean movies would be an abridgment of the first amendment. If we are going to put up with dirty pictures then we'll have to put up with clean ones as well." Until the experts can decide what constitutes a really wholesome movie it will be up to each individual to decide for himself whether he wants his family to see a clean movie or not. Arizona Album RAILROADING IN ARIZONA'S HISTORY Edited By Albert R.

Buehman 1 Future Outlook Bright By SAM DAWSON More money in the hands of more people even if on a quick in-and-out trip is how the majority now sees the rest of this year. Consumers are counting on it witness their present spending and borrowing rates and their confident plans for the near future, all based on belief there'll be more jobs, higher incomes, less tax erosion, more of a helping hand government in now backward sectors of the economy. BUSINESS IS counting on it witness its rush of new orders, i i production schedules, a payrolls, plans for expanding activities and plants. Government is counting on it witness its revised estimates of more revenues from lower rates on larger corporate earnings and personal incomes. Even the economists, often a dour lot, are counting on it citing the momentum of an upswing that so 'far has revised the old laws of economic gravity, and the absence of excesses and weaknesses that have tolled the knell in past cycles.

RECORDS SET in the first half of the year have fed this confidence. Still rising at midyear are industrial output, personal incomes, profits, dividends, stock prices, retail sales, employment. The summer slowdown In industry is now expected to be milder than usual, and to be offset by rising activity in many of the services. Predictions for the fall are for i n.u economic growth. Almost the only, reservations concern its rate.

Will business activity expand at the fast pace of the first half of the year or at a slightly more sedate one? AUTO MAKERS, having set a first half record, now predict output and sales will top the previous high of 1955. Steelmen talk of 1964 being a 118 million ton year, against the record 117 million of 1955. The total national output of goods and services, estimated to have been at an annual rate of $620 trillion in the second quarter, is believed by some to be moving toward a $645 billion pace in the fourth quarter, against $600 billion at the end of 1963. All of this has been done without inflation. The cost of living has crept upward too slowly to be alarming.

The increases and declines in wholesale commodity prices have a a each other. The money market, both supply of credit and interest charges, has been remarkably stable. The dollar has improved its international status as the deficit in the balance of payments has been trimmed, however temporarily. SO THE HORIZON looks more than usually bright for the rest of the year. But this doesn't mean there aren't some clouds.

There always are. Labor negotiations ahead that might raise production costs enough to start another whirl on the wage- price spiral. DAILY DEVOTION OLD WOOD-BURNING ENGINE, 'THE IS MUSEUM PIECE This is Locomotive No. 37, with the built-in saddle tank, as it looked in 1880. It had four 22-inch gauge chilled tread drive wheels, bumed wood, and weighed 13,000 pounds.

Its name was changed from "Coranada," as shown here, in 1884 to "The Emma." The locomotive was hauled overland to Clifton, from La Junta, a distance of 600 miles, by bull team. Henry Arbuckle was its first engineer, han- dling the engine from 1880 through 1883. In 1884 the engineer was George B. Gamble, who gave the photo to Anton Massanovich, the historian, who later donated the picture to the Pioneers' Society. The engine for a number of years has been exhibited as a museum piece in front of the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Co.

store at Clifton where it may still be seen. (Courtesy Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society.) the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall bt free 8:36 When the traffic light fails at a busy intersection, one sees vehicles lined up in all directions. Cars inch forward, no driver sure of what the others are going to do. There are near collisions. Brakes screech.

After watching something like this-, or being in the midst of this kind of traffic jam, we complain less about traffic ights. Freedom in everyday life means adjustment and harmony with rational laws and regulations. It is quite as true in our relationship with God. Living apart from Him may give the illusion of liberty, but such independence really curtails our freedom and self-fulfillment. To come to the best in life, we need the direction and guidance that God gives us through Christ.

PRAYER FOR TODAY: Father, forgive us for rebelling against Thee. Teach us that harmony in our spiritual life and poise in dealing with others corr2 when we are in close relationship with Thee. May we walk with Thee today. In name. Amen.

Courtesy Tucson Council of.

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