Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 12, 1970, Yuma, Arizona yuMA SUN Issue Year and ARIZONA SENTINEL 90 25 Cents Yuma Arizona Sun 12 1970 SUN Telephone SENTINEL Issue Year TWO OTHERS SAVED 2 MCAS Men Die in Mine CLOUD Do we have smokestack pollution h uur At first glance look so as clouds came structure on Interstate 8 Friday to make look like spewing smokestacks They are really for the 4th Street photos Page Staff v Drug Buyers Better Beware Of Being TUCSON the beware Fear of narcotics agents may become secondary to fear of the seller himself in the minds of drug purchasers who come here with wads rjf money ing to return to the east to sell their merchandise at possibly seven times the original cost Would-be buyers of mostly coming here in increasing numbers Many are by the seller who pushes a pistol instead of the weed A young New York man came to Arizona According to authorities he telephoned a friend in San Francisco this week asking him if he wanted to join in a marijuana purchase and make some money Luckily the friend didn't meet him The New Yorker and two other friends were terms used when the money is handed over but the goods aren't delivered William Ramsey Tait 111 WETBACK 22 of Merrick was shot to death sometime before dawn last Wednesday as he rode with two friends in seat of a car traveling along an ed stretch of highway east of here A friend Tait John Cast 24 Phoenix was also killed The third companion David An- derson of was wounded when the passenger in the front seat of the car whirled around and emptied a pistol into the trio Anderson jumped out of the car and notified authorities who found the bodies of Tail and Cast several hours later The trio held a total of One third of which was stolen Two Phoenix youths were arrested the same day and charged with murder and bery Southern Arizona and Tucson is a likely area for the young drug chants to come for marijuana at its lowest price The weed is harvested near Sin Mex some 650 miles south of here It is sported northward and hustled across the border via body car and plane Any of six border crossings can be used but smugglers don't have to go through the towns because of miles of stretches of international line Since highways from five of the border towns funnel ly to Tucson this of some has be- come a big business area for trafficking marijuana ing to Capt Clarence Dupnik chief of detectives Dupnik said his department handles about two cases each involving bilked buyers Pima County Sheriff Waldon Burr said he hears of at least two or three cases a week Both admit most buyers are unlikely to report they were robbed by the pushers Two Men Charged With Pot Smuggling Bond has been set at each for two men accused of being involved in n smuggling operation broken Friday by Customs agents and Force Hay A 27 Isl Street and V 21 of Imperial were arrested near about Agents had a out when Corpus and driving separate cnrs met Highway Confiscated in the arrest were 60 kilo bricks of and about white pills resembling Both men were charged with smuggling nnd conspiracy to smuggle marijuana According to the agent in charge of the operation two Mexicans brought Ihc mari- juana nnd pills across the lorado River and Rl ashed them near the The cans escaped buck across the river could be nabbed by agents The agents and Force watched the location and moved in when saw objects into the two cars was driving a Mustang while had a 1070 Charger rented in ix U.S Commissioner F Lewis Ingraham heard the case day morning and set a tive preliminary hairing date of July Location Is Southwest of Imperial Dam By JOHN The Yuma Daily Sun A military doctor reportedly confirmed that two Marines died trapped 600 feet deep in an abandoned mine shaft a mile southwest of Imperial Dam last night The two Marines were as Bob Knight 20 and George Lopez 19 both of MCAS Reports from the scene were that Navy Lt Dr Dwayne Smith was able to get to the two reported that they were dead Rescuers said they believed Lopez was deeper than Knight Knight had the shaft to help Lopez and then apparently became un- conscious from the bad air Two men were rescued They were identified as Julian tana 22 MCAS and Ed gomery 21 Yuma and MCAS Fontana said Montgomery Knight and Lopez had gone into the shaft last wtek and talked him into going along this week We were just ex- Fontana said trapped men estimated be trapped 300 to GOO feet down in the shafts were being tossed air packs but cuers didn't know whett packs were being Late last night special mine rescue were being called for from Kingman and possibly Los Angeles Military aircraft were standing by to fly the teams into the rescue area The barren mountainous area is between Imperial Dam and the Senator Wash voir Kocky roads require four-wheel drive vehicles or vehicles The mine shaft is almost straight up and down Rotten timbers and narrow shafts make rescue highly difficult Sufficient equipment had been moved into the area by dark to rescue the men but the narrow shafts and rotten air made the rescue difficult The shaft is an abandoned gold and silver mine One of the men who got out alive said one trapped man was hanging with his head fallen back As the night wore on ing facilities and more ment were called for Dye Oxy- gen donated at least two tanks of oxygen to keep air packs supplied The Yuma Proving Ground backed up the U.S Marine Corps with doctors personnel and equipment were being used to fly equipment and men into the area The first call for help around p.m yesterday when Knight got out of the shaft first and drove to Dam There he called for help at the home of Wallace Green reservoir superintendent at Senator Wash Dam The original call brought the Imperial County Sheriffs De- the Winterhaven Fire Department followed by the Yuma County Sheriffs Department the Rural Fire Department and Ambulance A Marine Corps helicopter arrived soon with a doctor who went into the mine shaft to do what he could for the men in the hole said the men in he hole were sitting on one of the levels Lopez reportedly came dizzy He was tied to n cable had been tied to a in the mine shaft Other cables Turn o Page 2 RESCUERS AID VICTIM Julian Fontana 22 MCAS is lifted out of the mine shaft by a cable on a truck came about 8 p.m after he became the shaft Two of his buddies were reported dead deep in the shaft Sun Staff Photos GOOD AIR Ed Montgomery 21 hanging his head and breathing in good clean air is near collapse upon his rescue from an abandoned mine shaft At right is tana sitting with some of the rescuers and rescue ment standing around the men Russ Missile Buildup Soviets were day tu close to 300 giant SSI missile launchers now ready for use or under con- struction Tlic new will in the ing debate over such matters ns the nnd the talks The loom largo in U.S calculations localise they are rated able to knock out the U.S siles designed to deter the ets from launching a war Secretary of Defense Mclvin R told newsmen day the Soviets are proceeding apace with their tal ballistic missile program including new construction since the strategic arms limitation nt Vienna in mid-April The new U.S findings ing heavily on intelligence from satellites supersede various unconfirmed reports in recent months that the Soviets had stopped or slowed down ICBM expansion since the SALT talks first last November Inside The Sun
