Tucson Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - August 1, 1975, Tucson, Arizona STOCKS VOLUME 105 NO 183 Citizen Photos by P K Wets The border watch Mrs G resident of an old Nogales Ariz neighborhood overlook ing the international boundary looks out at the path through her yard taken by drug smugglers who cut their way through the fence along the border Windows in the neighborhood are shot out dogs are poisoned and the residents themselves threatened Smuggling is easy as Mrs G knows By LAWRENCE w CHEEK Citizen Staff Writer NOGALES Ariz The first thing one realizes sitting on the porch of this old home not 60 feet from the Mexican border listening to its elderly resident describe the drug smuggling that goes on right under her nose is how easy it can be On this particular morning there are four holes in a hun length of the high fence separating the two nations Three are large enough for a man to crawl through the fourth would admit a car or small truck once a makeshift wire latch apparently rigged by some smuggler is released They cut the fence faster than anyone can repair it says the lady who will be known in this story as Mrs G But if the increasing gush of drug traffic across the border is a for the authori ties consider the effect it has had on the residents of this old Nogales neighborhood Pet dogs including Mrs Gs have been poisoned pre because the barking threatened the illicit com merce with discovery Win dows have been broken with rocks and gunfire and Mrs G has had industrial wire mesh windows installed on the side of her home facing south One night one resident on this street was awakened by a rifle barrel that came crash ing through her window A in behind the barrel and warned her he would kill her if she ever saw anything Another time a neighbor answered a latenight knock on the door A man greeted her with a story that he had got ten his Cadillac accidentally bogged in a muddy dump site at the end of the street and had lost his female compan ions ring while trying to ex the car Could he bor row a flashlight She gave the man with this strange tale the light but also called police They nabbed him It hadnt been a ring he had lost It on in the day 10 11 oclock in the morning says Mrs G They drive a car or a through the fence pick up a load and drive back across The whole operation takes about one minute They even have wal It would be wrong to sug gest that the neighborhood is actually terrorized by the traf fic Mrs G at least seems resigned to living with it as a periodic irritant much as San Franciscans tolerate quakes or West Texans dust storms Law enforcement officials in Nogales confirm that it is a problem but they admit frankly they have no solu tions Lee D Voile US Customs director for the Nogales dis says it isnt even certain which government agency is responsible for maintaining the fence The Immigration Service has fixed it the De of Agriculture has fixed it weve fixed it but you fix it and theres another cut within minutes Nogales Police Chief Louis Sotomayor confirmed that the residents of Mrs Gs neigh are frequently ha even more often than Continued page 2 Drug crossing This frail fence separating the United States and Mexico is cut by smugglers faster than anyone can repair it says a resident of a Nogales neighborhood through which the drug smugglers trek dil STOCKS TUCSON ARIZONA FRIDAY AUGUST 1 1975 60 PAGES 15 CENTS Family is fearful Wheres Hoffa its a mystery BLOOMFIELD HILLS Mich AP Authorities planned to question a reputed organized crime figure in Detroit today in connection with the disappear ance of former Teamsters Union President James R Hof fa police said It Curt Grennier who is heading the investigation said Anthony Giacalone 56 was one of six persons who would be questioned Giacalone a longtime Hoffa friend and confidant was described in 1963 US Senate testimony by the Detroit police commissioner at that time as a big man in organized crime in the Detroit area Hoffa 62 has not been seen since Wednesday when his car was found abandoned in a parking lot There was no evidence of violence but Grennier said You always have to consider foul play considering Hoffas background Sources said Hoffas family fears the labor leader is dead My own feeling is that things do not look too good said Grennier Mr Hoffa is usually prompt in reporting his whereabouts Police say Hoffa was scheduled to meet someone at a Bloomfield Township restaurant Wednesday afternoon governor said last night that he understood Hoffa had arranged to meet Giacalone but Giacalone told The Associated Press Thats absolutely untrue Grennier said We dont have any firsthand knowledge of a scheduled meeting between Mr Hoffa and Mr Giaca lone But we have this report to that effect Were going to contact him today Were going to ask him What do you know about this The disappearance of Hoffa who has been trying to regain leadership of the 21 Teamsters Union the nations largest followed a series of violent incidents involving key figures at Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit Hoffa and his handpicked successor Teamsters President Frank E Fitzsimmons both began their road to power at Local 299 Hoffa had served years of a prison term for jury tampering and mail fraud when his sentence was commuted in 1971 by Richard M Nixon who placed a restriction on the commutation by banning Hoffa from union activities until 1980 He has been involved in court battle to regain the right to participate in union politics ever since He was to begin the fight by making a bid for a leadership position in his old home Local 299 but gave up the attempt when courts up held the clemency restriction Last month a car belonging to Local 299 vice president Richard Fitzsimmons was bombed in Detroit Some observ ers blamed the bombing on a rift between anti Hoffa forces in the Detroit local Fitzsimmons is the son of Frank E Fitzsimmons James R Hoffa Missing since Wednesday Clouds gone its HOT This sunny Accrual Spells an end To our cool B Swelling What started last weekend as a nice sunny respite from the almost daily monsoon storms of the season has stretched on long enough to shove temperatures back up to the sweaty sum mertime norm The high tomorrow will be about 100 And for the first time in more than a week the weatherman is offering no odds on afternoon showers Tonight and tomorrow night will be mild with lows around 72 Yesterdays temperature peaked at 98 Gila Bend cally suffered through the nations worst temperature a high of 110 Elsewhere torrential storms that have dumped about 17 inches of rain on parts of a area of northwest Florida for four days were ending But in the nations drought parched midlands where farmers sorely needed a soak ing rain to save scorched crops the problem was quite the opposite Story and pho to page 31 Full weather report page 8 Ford urges cutback of troops in Europe JL JL HELSINKI Finland UPI Saying peace is not a piece of paper President Ford today urged large cuts in East and West bloc military forces and challenged Communists to honor the Helsinki summit pledge of respect for human rights Then he and the other 34 summit leaders sat down at a long table and signed that piece of paper a controversial document acknowledging the political divisions of postwar Europe and ing 10 principles for peaceful relations In a address near the conclusion of the security summit Ford repeatedly shook his finger for emphasis and warned his colleagues they must carry out the documents grand humanitarian pledges or risk bitter popular backlash at home people of all Europe and I assure you the people of North America are thoroughly tired of having their hopes raised and then shattered by empty words and unfulfilled pledges Ford said We had better say what we mean and mean what we say or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer The Finlandia Hall audience heard Ford out in silence and then gave him a final ovation perhaps the longest salute of the conference Leonid I Brezhnev the Soviet Communist party chief clapped heartily even though the thrust and tone of Fords remarks ran counter to his own call yesterday for each nation to mind its own political business A Soviet delegation source said the Russians considered Fords remarks positive and realistic Mindful of criticism that the summit document ratifies Soviet domination of eastern Europe in return for vague promises of respect for human rights Ford put heavy stress on the need for practical followup action It is now time to reduce substantially the high levels of mili tary forces stationed in central Europe Ford said and he offered to meet the Soviets halfway to break the stalemate The United States stands ready to demonstrate flexibility in moving these negotiations forward if others will do the same An agreement that enhances mutual security is feasible and essen tial He also promised Washington and Moscow would give top pri to further limitation of nuclear armaments Jobless rate declines slightly Peace is not a piece of paper he said Detente a twoway street must be He referred specifically to the stalled EastWest negotiations on mutual reduction of military forces in central Europe which have made little headway in two years WASHINGTON cupi With a surprising spurt of jobs for teenagers and women the nations unemployment rate dropped of a per centage point to 84 per cent in July the Labor Depart ment said today In an encouraging an for the recover ing economy that many labor officials had not expected the government said 630000 per sons were added to the job rolls last month It was the biggest jump since 643000 persons found jobs 30 months ago in February 1973 Total employment went up to 851 million persons in July from 844 million in June in the face of normal summer business doldrums the report said The number of unem ployed was 78 million down 100000 from June The jobless rate would have improved even more over Junes 86 per cent the de said except that 95000 workers were on strike last month mostly in the construction industry New Yorks chance of going broke 50 NEW YORK UPI New York City has frozen wages for public workers and ordered higher commuter fares and tolls But the finan cial community warns the city still faces a 5050 chance of going broke within a month New York City has been the richest in the world The average income for every man woman and child is But for more than a decade New York City has borrowed money to finance its services and is now billion in debt Banks refuse to lend the city any more money unless the city tightens its belt Over the past few weeks New York has tried to meet the banks demands with an austerity program including freezes for thousands of public work ers of thousands of public workers increase in bus and subway fares from 35 to 50 cents increase in the Staten Island ferry fare traditionally a nickel to 25 cents 25 per cent increase in fares on the areas commuter railroads Mayor Abraham Beame also announced yes a series of other austerity measures in one the could end free tuition in the city university system There will be a wage freeze if not tary then imposed Beame said at a news con ference A deal was made sometime during the night which we were not a party to said union chief Michael Maye He said it would force us into a position we are not going to accept I dont like the deal as it stands said Ken McFeeley head of the police union The barebones plan announced by Beame yesterday climaxed a week of talks among city officials bankers union leaders and officials of the Municipal Assistance Corp the agency imposed on the city to help with its economic recovery Action Bridge 7 Crossword Editorial Financial Focus For Better For Ann Lewis George Movie Public School Lunch Eugenia Weather Your 29
