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...approached, Republicans and Democrats alike were grumbling about Stew Udall's apparent attempt to shift part of the blame for Cuba to the Eisenhower Administration; more fuss was raised by his decision at Interior to dispossess farmers who had been squatting for years along the Colorado River in Yuma County...
Though he was favored to win (TIME, April 28), Moderate Mo Udall found himself in trouble on election night when the returns gave Yuma County to Arch-conservative Matheson. Only by scoring heavily in Tucson's Pima County did Mo Udall go on to win by the squeaky margin of 51,318 to 49,263, which was close enough to encourage Republicans for the future. At his victory press conference, Udall made no secret of his belief that his brother had hurt him: "I had counted on winning Yuma County. I lost it." In defeat, Mac Matheson...
...Church, Bruce Inc. of Yuma, Ariz...
JOHN H. MORAWITZ Yuma, Ariz...
...booming Hollis B. Roberts was one. Wiped out after five struggling years in the Texas dust bowl, Roberts sold his runty cattle, his house and farm equipment, bought a 1929 Chevy on credit, and with $75 in his jeans, started out for California. In Yuma, Ariz, he joined other stranded Okies who had run out of cash, cadged a job pitching hay at $2.70 a day. In return for milking his landlord's cows every morning, Roberts got a rent-free two-room shack for eight months...