Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 17

DON SCHELLIE YE OLDE PUEBLO: Where-but in Arizona-can a guy make use of sunglasses and raincoat (or windshield wipers) at the same time? Happened again last week. Nancie Papousek, of 21 W. Adams writes that her. mother told her this corner doesn't believe parakeets can talk. "Well," she notes, "then you probably won't believe this, either.

We have a kitten about months old and she sucks her thumb- rather, her paw--like a baby. Come and see for yourself. Her name is ChaCha." Noooooow Nancie. From Sam Turner comes a little election time suggestion. It's his idea to have all candidates remove their signs from the streets within 48 hours or face a $5 per-sign-per-day fine.

"How 'bout that?" he asks. How 'BOUT that? 0 0 0 The following postcard arrived in the Friday afternoon mail: Dear Sir: If you don't want your A Mountain, send it C.O.D. to W. D. Robinson, Alpine, Texas.

We have one, but would like a matched pair. W.D.R. 0 0 0 Smokey, The (Soap) Bar If there is anything harder to find 'these days than an old cigar store Indian, it's a live Indian who knows how to send smoke signals. Just ask Sidney B. Brinckerhoff.

No, Sidney is not a cigar store Indian. In fact he can't even send For Sidney is a Public Relations Man and his Tucson firm was hired to beat the tom-tom for a Colgate-Palmolive Co. product in the Old Pueblo. To make a short story long, Mr. Colgate-Palmolive chose Tucson as -one of its test markets for Choice Soap and he figured it would be nice to give promotion here a Southwesty flavor.

So ol' Mr. C-P thought up the smoke signal bit. All by himself. After all, when Back East type people think of Arizona, they think of Indians and cowboys and such. said the Boss, "hire some Indians to send up smoke signals telling all those nice people out there in the sticks all about Choice.

You know, Sidney, give them the loads-of-lather business and the bubbly-wubbly bit and all that." So Our Public Relations Man set forth in search of a smoke-signaling American Indian. Only there ain't no such person no more. "Well, what do you do when you want to send a message to somebody on the next mesa?" Sidney asked a prospective blanket waver. "Why, I use the telephone, of course," he said. "What do you do?" What followed was one of the biggest Indian hunts since Geronimo (that old scalawag) roamed these parts.

Finally, Sidney desperation--turned to Libby McNeill, occupational therapist at Tucson's Oshrin Hospital for Indians. Nope, Libby knew not how to signal with smoke. Either. But, by golly, she would bone up on the subject and teach one of her Indian friends the finer points of smoke signaling. Occupational therapists are that way.

So she learned and showed Claude Saunders, a Paiute from Nevada and a student at Lamson Business College, how it's done. They dressed Claude in what Back Easters would expect Indians to wear and he reluctantly sent up several signals the other day while a photographer snapped pictures. Silly business. "We used a wet rug," said Libby. And at Sidney's suggestion, they used tar paper for the fire.

"Plenty of smoke," he said. Sidney himself started the fire by rubbing two Zippo lighters together. "They used one of my good Navajo rugs," lamented Libby, "and now there's tar all over it. We're going to buy a cheap blanket to use for the rest of the promotion." About then the folks back in New York decided they'd better have TWO Indians sending up puffs about Choice. Sidney turned to the Arizona State Employment Service office here for assistance.

Maybe they could find an unemployed smoke signaler. "Strangest request I've ever gotten here," said the ASES man. "But we'll see what we can do. I'll go out to the reservation and send some men to your office for interviews. We'll have to figure out a job description and title for this.

Hmmmmm. Well, today is the day the job applicants will be filing into Sidney's office. He hopes. So, will Sidney find the right man for the job? Will Claude go along with the gag for the duration of the promotion? Or will throw in the blanket? Will Libby get the tar out of her Navajo rug? will Mr. Colgate-Palmolive able to peddle enough bars of his soap here to make it worth his white? And Sidney's? Ufh.

MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 8, 1961 PAGE 17 JAZZ TALK WITH ELLINGTON BRINGS OUT MORE MOODS THAN INDIGO --Citizen ly Tonr Kinl What's jazz? Well If you like it It's good! Jazz has changed Line Between Jazz, Classical Music Becoming Thinner, Says Ellington By JAY HALL Duke Ellington's definition of jazz: "If two people are doing the same thing, one of them's an imitator." That's why the late W. C. Handy's. famed "St.

Louis Blues" always will be, in a sense, a new "They're still styling it," said the Duke. Incidentally, Duke looks on that tune as "our second national anthem." Ellington and his band were in Tucson Saturday, and gave a benefit performance, leaving immediately afterward for a Palladium engagement in Hollywood. Over a cup of coffee at the Ramada Inn, Duke didn't take long to ponder the question of how much of his time is devoted to music--playing, composing, arranging, conducting. With an easy smile, he answered, "All of it." Looking back over 45 years of music--he gave his first professional jazz performance in 1916--Duke said, "I've never had a vacation. It's great to wake up in the morning and go to work." One of the greatest jazz pianists of them all, he's still at a loss to put jazz in a neat little capsule.

"Jazz used to be," he said, "that broad range of music from Guy Lombardo to Lionel Hampton. "Now, it is very difficult where to draw the line between jazz and symphonic--well, serious--music. "Nowadays, the boys learn their music from the conservatories and, a i their own individualism, make it what they want to. In a lot of cases, it's purely academic whether it's jazz or something else. You can't label it." Another difficulty with explaining jazz: "The gays who follow it around just don't know it like the people who are in it.

You have to be in it to know it." He added, "Music is people --the people who perform it and create it it's personal. Everybody has his own personality of tune or sound. If you. like to listen to it, it's good, music." The 62-year-old, Washington-born musician reckoned that "Mood Indigo," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "Caravan" have been his best-selling compositions. He has just finished writing the music for "Paris Blues," a movie to be released next month.

The cast includes Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Louis Armstrong and "some the best musicians of Europe." Duke isn't in the cast. In comparison with his usual hurry-scurry bandstand- ing-composing-etc. routine, he regards the assignment as sort of a vacation. "I almost decided, "This is it--I may just stick to this line of he said. But he didn't really consider it seriously for long.

"I'm too dependent on the spontaneous reaction of an audience," he said. Sanitary District Plans 'Sound' Test By CHARLES GUDAITIS The Sanitary District is going to try something new in its tests to purify waste water. District Mgr. Kenneth Scharman reported today an experiment is being set up to use sound waves to separate foreign particles and algae from water. Ultrasonics (the use of ultra-high frequency sound waves) has been used effectively to clean laboratory glassware.

Scharman, for months, theorized that sound waves directed through water also should separate, particles. Last week, a query he had sent to an ultrasonics equipment manufacturer drew the encouraging response he needed to order a start in. the new line of Scharman said a small pilot plant will be set up by Eujene W. holder of a University of Arizona master's degree. Dooley works ointly for the district and for consulting engineer Arthur Beard.

As the district undertakes ts new data on over-all water reclamation is being prepared by University or Arizona Quentin Mees an application for a.Jjfederal grant. rtees and seveJtl of his students last year did 'basic research on the operation of the district's ponds. With the new technique, Scharman hopes to eliminate chemical treatment stage known as flocculation. In the atter process, chemicals envelop particles and settle them out With ultrasonics, Scharman lans to direct sound waves through a flow of water in such a manner ax to send articles whirling to one side of a divider. Thus, fairly pure water would flow on one side of a divider while the waste water would be carried off yn the other.

The purer water wouM then filtration at the final treatment stage. The district treats its sewage in a simple oxidation pond. Nature does all the work. Sewage flows in through a pipe and settles on the bottom of the pond. On top, a heavy emerald blanket of algae (microscopic plant life) keeps creating oxygen with the help of sunlight.

The oxygen feeds bacteria which breaks down the sewage. This simple, natural treatment eliminates a great amount of foreign matter. But in skimming off this water the district faces the problem of algae removal. Scharman is of the opinion he can do it effectively with ultrasonics. He doesn't want to lose any of the algae, for he can use it to reseed raw sewage coming into his ponds or collect it for use as a protein in animal foods.

A remaining water reclamation problem will be that of sue- yet ACROSS BOARD City Employe Pay Hike Enacted By Council By PETER STARRETT The City Council today enacted a pay hike for city em- ployes and established a downtown assessment district that will pay part of the costs of the new Broadway tunnel. Both actions have long been planned and were unanimously passed without discussion. The assessment district detergent removal. No cessful technique has been devised. resolution sets up the machinery for assessments against all properties in the downtown section to supply $1 million to pay about two- thirds of the cost of the new, shorter and wider Broadway underpass to be started this winter.

The pay raise, promised last year, amounts to an increase of about 5 per cent across the board for nearly all city em- ployes. It will go into effect Oct. 1 and the difference will show up in the bi-weekly paychecks city workers will receive on Oct. 20. A study made several months ago showed that city workers were paid less than those doing the same work in private industry here.

The pay increase, coupled with a new group insurance plan-with the city footing half the bill--is intended to make up the difference. The mayor and city councilmen, along with the city manager, city clerk and city attorney, are the only city workers not included in the pay hike. The increase involves a general amendment to the city employment ordinance and five new civil service classifications were thrown in at the same time. These i for positions of criminalist, chief plan examiner, administrative assistant to the chief inspector, air- conditioning mechanic and communications operator. Under the new pay schedule, police patrolmen and firemen who formerly made a top salary of $420 monthly can now make up to $440; a top-rated clerk typist, who formerly made $315 monthly, can now make $330; a garbage collection laborer can make a top of $330 monthly, an increase of $15.

On the executive level, assistant city are two of managers (there them) can now make up to $1,100 monthly. The directors of public works can make a top of $1,200 monthly. The fire chief goes to a top of $1,000 monthly and the police chief goes to a top of $1,050 per month. In the morning session, i a James Kirk moved that the council pass an immediate emergency ordinance closing bars and liquor stores during tomorrow's primary election. The other councilmen laughed and the motion failed for lack of a second.

But it's still personal Man Killed In Crash On Lemmon Truck Plunge Hurts Woman A Mammoth man was killed and a woman companion injured seriously yesterday on ML Lemmon when the pick-up truck in which they were riding bumped an auto on a curve, went off a cliff and rolled to a crushing stop between two trees more than 300 feet below the highway. 43--John Frank Elsworth 44--WHO John Frank Elsworth, 44, a passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, Lamona Jacobs, 35, of Globe, was in fair condition at Tucson Medical Center with a broken back. A double search to locate a third person the woman said was riding in the truck turned up nothing. Deputies said the woman was apparently dazed and suffering from shock.

Deputy Robert Lewis said the truck hit the rear of an auto driven by Arthur Lampert, 65, of 615 W. Alturas SL, while the two vehicles were moving downhill near Catalina Trailer Park, about two miles below the Palisades Ranger Station. THE DEATH raised the Pima County traffic fatality toll to 43, which was the same number killed in traffic at this time a year ago. "Lampert said the truck was tailgating him, so he slowed to let it pass," Lewis related. "It wouldn't go by, and he speeded back.

up. When he came around a curve, he suddenly got hit in the back end, looked around and the pickup had gone over the bank." Lewis said the truck went over the bluff between two rock piles on a left-hand curve for downhill traffic shortly after 6 p.m. The truck apparently started rolling after the bed hit a tree limb as it went over the bank, Lewis said. The woman was thrown from the vehicle. Elsworth was found lying across the floorboard.

LEWIS, who was patrolling the highway, arrived at the scene minutes after the accident where he foun Lampert and a few other motorists stopped. They carried the injured woman to the highway and later fanned out to search the mountainside after she told Lewis there had been a third occupant in the vehicle. See Picture, Page COULD BECOME HAZARDOUS Radioactivity Soars In 13 States WASHINGTON UP) -Radioactivity attributed to Russia's nuclear testing In tbe atmosphere has reached levels in 13 states which would comprise a health hazard if maintained over a long period of time, Secretary of Welfare Abraham Ribicoff said today. The a actual phrasing a negative Utat tiw hazard would not exist unless the level were long maintained-but a spokesman for his off ce said that language also covered the positive state- merit. Ribicoff said the service's radiation surveillance network field reports showed sharp increases in ground level atmospheric radioactivity over the wedtend in 13 eastern and northern states.

The report for one city in each of 12 states and the District of Columbia, with the radioactivity in micromicro- curies per cubic meter of air as measured Sept, 11 and then on Sept. 17, showed: Hartford, a jtrmp! from 1.37'on Sept. 11 to S5.SJ on Sept, 17; 15.18 and 72.6; District of Columbia, 2.59 and 35.3; Indianapolis, 3.5 and 34; Baltimore 0.92 and 30.9; Lawrence, 1.05 and 25.3; Lansing, 1.8 and 28.7; Trenton, N. 1.54 and 35.26; Albany, N. 2.73 and 46.3; Harrisburg, 2.7 and 35; Providence, R.

.92 and 45.6; Columbia, S. 0.94 rpd 15; and Richmond, 1.1 and 50. 37 Killed In Mysterious Electra Crash CHICAGO UPI--The pilot's last distinguishable words--a shout of "no control! "--added to the mystery today of what caused a Northwest Orient Electra propjet to crash a minute after take-off, killing all 37 persons aboard. r-- Official investigators refused even to guess and indicated a thorough study would precede a diagnosis of the crash which scattered the four-engine plane into' fiery pieces over the outskirts of O'Hare Field yesterday. It was the Chicago area's second major crash in 17 days and the world's fourth airliner disaster this month.

THE ELECTRA, on the last leg of a flight from Milwaukee to Tampa, apparently was in perfect operating conditions, authorities said, when it roared off the runway at 8:56 a.m., with half a load of passengers, many of them Florida-bound vacationers. But the plane reached a height of only 200 to 300 feet. Its right wing dipped suddenly. The plane sliced through power lines. The right wing crunched into a railroad embankment.

The plane seemed to blow up in an arc of blue flame. It plowed the length of two football fields. Three explosions tore it to pieces. While firemen still were pouring foam on the blazing pieces, investigators began searching for the probable cause. From Washington, i i Aeronautics Board Chairman Alan S.

Boyd and Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb E. Halaby headed for Chicago. "I would not hesitate to fly in on nor would I hesitate to let my family an-Electra." That statement was made by Halaby after he personally gave an Electra a rigorous test-flight not long ago. However, the Electra death toll today stood at 278 in less than three years following yesterday's crash. BOTH URGED that "nobody jump to conclusions until the facts are in" about the cause of the Chicago crash.

It was just short of a year ago when the last a crashed, killing 59 persons just 27 seconds after taking off from a Boston airport. The CAB has yet to issue a final "probable cause" report on tha Oct. 4, 1960 Eastern Air Lines crash. A The CAB has determined, however, that the plane encountered a large flock of birds just after leaving Logan Airport. At least two engines and possibly three lost total or partial power when the birds were sucked into engine air intakes.

The shout of the pilot of "no control!" clued the investigation that happened to the airplane at Chicago yesterday was devastatingly sudden and so disabling as to wash out any attempt to prevent the explained--bank to Nancy Kills 175 In Japan; 3,186 Injured TOKYO OB Typhoon Nancy was blowing itself out in the North Pacific today after cutting a swath of death and destruction across Japan. The human toll rose to 175 dead, 18 missing, 3,186 injured and more than 600,000 homeless. Crop damage was estimated at $130 million and property loss at another $100 million. The storm struck a blow at the Japanese economy and the price of fish in Tokyo, which escaped the brunt of the wind, rose 20 per cent Flood waters began receding, but rail traffic was still suspended in many regions. The full force of the storm ripped through a string of cities on the Japan South Sea coast and through northern Honshu and Hokkaido.

Ni- igata, north of Tokyo, was hardest hit with 33 dead. An American spokesman said damage to U.S. military bases in Japan was light and no Americans were reported injured. 'Capital' Punishment Gets New Definition WASHINGTON UPI -Sen. Karl Mundt, yesterday offered his constituents this definition from an unidentified southern editorial writer: "Capital punishment is when the government taxes you to get capital in order to go into business in competition with you and then taxes the profits on your business to pay for its losses." TUCSON TONIGHT, TOMORROW Unktt otherwise all nwttlnfs listed in this column an open to tbt public without dnrfe.

TONIGHT P.M.--Tucson Gem and Mineral Society. Room 111, BPA building, UA campus. P.M. Public night. Steward Observatory.

UA campus. Speaker, Dr. Gtnrd P. Kuiper discusning and Then- TOMORROW 9 tton for a a Afltfcm. YWCA, 7M N.

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