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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, COUNTY, CITY JOIN Plans Drawn For Summer Jobs For Youth Campaign A I I I By GIL MATTHEWS Citizen Staff Writer The Summer Jobs for Youth Campaign which provided employment for 3,015 young persons last year will be renewed in 1969 under the title "County-City Summer Jobs for Youth Campaign." County Supervisor James Murphy Mayor James N. Corbett Jr. and City Councilman Richard Kennedy met jointly yesterday to map preliminary plans for the project. Murphy said, "The purpose of changing the name is to identify further that many elements of the community are involved Also attending the meeting in Murphy's office were Oliver Switzer, director of the Youth Opportunity Center of the Arizona Employment Service, and James E. Baum of Baum Adamson Tire Automotive Co.

Baum again will be chairman of the campaign. The group reviewed membership of the project's subcommittee and discussed ways of encouraging more business leaders of the community become involved. Murphy said, "We also discussed the possibility of having one or more full-time coordinators to work on the program and possibly approach it through loaned executives as the United Community Campaign has so successfully done." A loaned executive is a person permitted a certain amount of leave from his regular duties with a firm so he can work temporarily in a community service role. Murphy, head of the Tucson Job Council, a private community service organization, said project officials hope to obtain Officials Turn Down Model Cities Pay Hike By BILL KIiMMEY Citizen Staff Writer By a split vote today, the Tucson Civil Service Commission denied a salary schedule aimed at designating the No. 2 man in the local Model Cities program.

The commission also, in a separate action, shot down any possibility that more jobs in the program would be filled by runners-up for the director's post without reexamination. Speakers at the hearing strongly criticized city officials for not yet involving residents of the five-square-mile program area, and said the coordinators could be hired from the area. Two coordinators' positions are at the second level of authority in the program's administrative structure. There is no single No. 2 position under Model Cities Director-designate Cressworth Lander, who was named last week.

That was the purpose of today's hearing. J. Thomas Via, city community development director, requested a higher salary range for one coordinator who also would be deputy director. Both coordinator jobs are set at an per month range Criminals Are Targets WASHINGTON (AP) A sweeping new anticrime bill aimed at the "far-flung cartels of organized crime" has been introduced in the Senate. Sen.

John L. McClellan, who steered last year's crime control and safe streets bill through the Senate, was the chief sponsor. He was joined by vSen. Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb.

Among other things, the bill provides for 30-year sentences for habitual offenders, professional criminals and organized crii 'eaders. Mc'JIcllan told the Senate that "today's power base of organized crime consists of 24 Costa Nostra groups operating as criminal cartels in the major metropolitan areas of our nation." Golclwater Gets Committee Posts Special To The Citizen WASHINGTON Sen. Barry Goldwater today was named to membership on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. The appointments were made by the Republican Committee on Committees in completing its organization for the 91st Congress. now.

Via asked authority for one to be hired al to $1,200 monthly salary range. Among those strenuously objecting to Via's proposal was Ruben Romero, director of the Tucson Committee for Economic Opportunity (TCEO). He said, "I feel the increase and change of authority is being proposed so a Mexican-American can get it to pacify Mexican-Americans because the director (Lander) is black. I don't think the program deserves this." Having a Negro as director will not hurt the program although most residents of the Model Cities area are Mexican- Americans, Romero said. The program would fail, he went on, only if the residents were not brought in to participate.

"The people in the areas have not participated in the selection of a staff, preparation of programs or anything else," said Romero. "The budget was changed and they were not in on il. I think they could have been organized by this time." Taking the same stand were Mrs. Thommie Thomas, an antipoverty worker, and Robert L. Horn, TCEO area council coordinator.

Mrs. Thomas said, "Model Cities is a peoples' program" and residents should be more involved in it. "I certainly don't subscribe to what I've heard as a plausible basis for this request," said Horn. "I don't think we envisioned any kind of an organization with two or three at the same (top) level." Commissioner George Borozan moved to approve the request; he and Commissioner Louis Felix voted for the motion. Navarctle and the other commissioners Macco Wells and Chairman David Ginsburg voted against it with Ginsburg breaking the tie.

Wells' motion to rcadvortisc for coordinators and have a new test, passed unanimously. Newsman At Capital Dies PHOENIX (UPI) Virg Hill, veteran political writer, collapsed and died on the floor of the Arizona House of Representatives today. Hill suffered an attack while sitting at, a press table near the speaker's chair. The house was holding routine discussion on administration matters when Hill was stricken. Hill is political columnist and reporter for The Phoenix Gazelle and is one of the best known newspapermen in state.

Rev. Bass Is Leaving Ministry, Seeking Job three trailers to use as job interview centers. "We had these last year at various locations in the community," he said, "and we hope to scrounge the trailers, as we did last summer." Of the total jobs the campaign netted last year, some 1,600 came from the private sector and roughly 1,400 were jobs in government agencies or jobs subsidized by government funds. Murphy said he hopes the county will be able to employ 50 to 100 youths this summer, depending on how much money is available. Last year, he said, about 50 young persons were given county jobs.

Supervisor Chairman Thomas S. Jay said the county definitely will continue to provide summer jobs for students. "We have been hiring students a long time on our own," he said. Jay said that in the past the parks and recreation and highway departments have been major employers of youth on behalf of the county. 2 Marines Killed During Ambush Bj Viet Cong Soldiers PAGE 5 Dog Falls 110 Feet, But Holds Quail A hunting dog belonging to Jeff Ware, 71, Tucson, was recovered unharmed yesterday after falling 110 feet down an abandoned mine shaft.

The dog still was holding a quail in its mouth, rescuers reported. Ware said he and his son, Jeff were hunting quail with the dog, Ginger. They wounded a quail and the dog, retrieving il, fell down the mine shaft. Members of the Pima County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team entered the shaft to find Ginger unscratchecl, and still holding the bird. The incident happened in the Twin Buttes area.

SAIGON A Viol Cong soldiers attempt ing to break out of an allied cordon on Eatangan Peninsula caught U. S. Marines in an ambush, i i a reported today. Two Americans were killed and five wounded, the spokesmen said. Enemy casualties in the ambush Wednesday were not known.

With military activity picking up, four more Americans were killed and 16 wounded in the Da Nang-Quang Ngai City sector. U. S. forces killed 36 enemy soldiers. Two more helicopters were shot down, one an observation craft supporting troops near Quang Ngai City.

All three crewmen were killed. The losses raised to 983 the number of American helicopters downed by enemy gunners. Five U. S. Navy men were killed and five wounded Thursday when their harbor boat hit a mine in the Cua Vicl River south of the demilitarized xonr's eastern a flip Navy an- nnuncod.

In a H)-niinutp fighl near An eight North Vietnamp.se soldiers and three U. S. paratroopers of the Airbornr Brigade were killed and 11 paratroopers wounded. The paratroopers wore riding armored personnel carriers on an offensive sweep. The rising scale of i i a operations was reflected in the U.

S. Command weekly casualty report: 151 U. S. battle dead in the week ending Jan. 11, compared with 101 in the previous week.

The U.S. death toll in the war rose to 30,795, approaching the Korean War high mark of 33,623. The number of U. S. wounded in the war rose to 194,234, with 548 wounded and hospitalized and 850 wounded but returned to duty last week.

Another 1,251 Americans arc listed missing, captured or interned. South Vietnamese troop losses last M'cck were 1S3 dead and S22 wounded as compared to 150 killed and wounded a week earlier. The U. S. Command figures put a enemy losses since the war began at i 2.102 killed last week compared to 05fi the previous week.

Famed, Retired Gen. Holmes Dies Here Lebanese Regime Takes Militant View By United Press International A new Lebanese government dedicated to a militant policy toward Israel took over today and ordered a defensive buildup on Israeli borders. In Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Israel will keep "hitting back with an iron fist" if attacked by Arabs. Dayan said his country was "not ready for a phony peace at; any price." Israeli and Jordanian troops battled along the Jordan River ceasefire line, today, a military spokesman said in Jerusalem. Israeli farmers said Israeli jets streaked in for air strikes against the Arabs.

Premier Rashid Kara mi said the four-point, program for Lebanon's new government calls for compulsory military conscription for all Lebanese young men and women, fortification of Lebanon's border villages on the Israeli frontier, coordination of Lebanon's foreign policy with the Arab bloc and agreement to abide by decisions of the Arab League and Arab summit conferences. One of Great Britain's famed generals, 'Sir William George Holmes, 76, died today at Tucson Medical Center. Sir William came to the United States with his wife in 1945 and in 1950 they settled in Arizona, making their home in an ancient adobe house next door to the Tumacacori Mission. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Sir William was commissioned in the British army at 19. His military career spanned 43 years and included service in India, a a the Sudan and Egypt.

In World War Sir i i a served as a second lieutenant with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in France. In World War II he went, to France again, as commander of the 42nd Territorial Division. He was a lieutenant general at the time of his retirement. He was knighted after World War II, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order four times and was a knight of the Bath. In Tumacacori Sir William spent much of his time painting.

He started drawing at 11 and, although he had no formal ail training, his work attained a professional touch. He was an ardent sportsman, playing tennis, golf and polo, as well as training jumping horses, until an accident to his left foot in 1957 necessitated amputation of his leg. He is survived by his widow, the former Yvonne Dorrine de Bourbon, daughter of Prince George de Bourbon of France. Sir William's body will be cremated and the remains sent to England where memorial services will be held at Westminster Abbey. Swan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Four Nixon Nominees Approved IT, WASHINGTON (UPI) Four of President-elect Richard M. Nixon's Cabinet nominees won approval from Senate committees Thursday, clearing the way for swift confirmation after he is inaugurated Monday. Recommended for confirmation were Michigan Gov. George Romney to be secretary of housing and urban development; Clifford M. Hard in to be agriculture secretary; Maurice Stans for commerce secretary and John Volpe.

trans- a i secretary. School President Dies At Height Of Protest By Unileti Press I a i a Dr. Courtney Smith, president of Swarthmore College, died of a heart attack in his office today as about 25 of the school's Negro students occupied the admission's office for the eighth day. A spokesman for the college said Smith, 52, had been under "quite a strain" since members of the Swarthmore Afro-Ameri- can Society (SASS) look over the office last Thursday. i suffered the heart shortly before he was to meet with a faculty committee which had been studying demands made by (he blacks, the said.

The SASS has been demanding greater participation for blacks in the affairs of the Quaker school. The Rev. James D. Bass, pastor of the South Side Presbyterian Church the past four years, is resigning the ministry to "seek a related position in Tucson." The Rev. Mr.

Bass, 4(5, came here in IflfiS after serving the Southwest Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kan. He is a native of Jacksonville, Fla. The Rev. Mr. Bass said he was making the move "after much self-examination and con- gtructlve thinking.

I am convinced my productivity in the community will be realized best in a field allowing more flexibility and self-assertion." Employment probably will be in the field of teaching or social work, he added. A student at the University of Arizona working on his doctorate, he has been active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Tucson Committee on Economic Opportunity and the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson. The Rev. Mr. Bass resides with his wife, Mary Alice, and two sons at 305 W.

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