Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 13, 1970, Yuma, Arizona yuMA SUN SUN Issue Year 10 Cents and ARIZONA A SENTINEL Arizona 13 1970 Telephone SENTINEL 102nd Issue Year BROUGHT UP AT NOON TODAY Mine Yields Bodies of Marines EXHAUSTED The job of determining that the two Marines still in the mine Saturday night were already dead was a tough one Dr U Duane Smith a Navy lieutenant made the determination He was accompanied by Deputy Gary Smith next to and Al Keyes second from right The three nearly did not get out when ran out of air Other two men are not identified Lunar Sought on Earth WASHINGTON AP 120 pounds of lunar samples brought back by the Apollo 11 and 12 moon missions have touched off a search for similar materials on earth according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration As the space agency has said before the samples indicate no life exists on the moon but scientists still are trying to de- termine why some plants grow better in lunar soil than in earth dirt NASA said In a news release in pation of the July 20 sary of the first ing on the moon a year ago NASA Although the gross cal properties of the moon rocks resemble terrestrial canic rocks in some respects the lunar rocks have some highly significant differences such as an unusually high con en I an unusual distribution of rare earth ments and low water con- tent Already closer equivalents of lunar volcanic rocks are being from Idaho Sweden Brazil and the mid- Hidge More than 150 scientific groups in the United States and abroad are taking part in detailed analysis of the grained lunar dust and the rocks In many respects Teamsters To Vote Tomorrow AP A vole Tuesday by Teamsters and borers sinking against zona's Aggregate Industry could ni to n virtual construction shut-down in the stale John of eral Mediation mid tion Service said the sters were to volo Tuesday morning and the laborers were to decide in the afternoon for or against ratification of n new wage ami benefit The strike hns stalled most construction shutting off of concrete the lunar material is similar to lava flows of Hawaii and other areas While there is ample dence of high-speed impacts by meteorite particles on the moon there do not appear to be major recent upheavals by the moon the agency added Exposure age nations on lunar rocks indicate that they have lain within a few feet of the lunar surface for 200 to 500 millions of years THE WEATHER Highest 109 lowest this morning 80 lure at H 103 High his afternoon 111 Low tonight 81 High Tuesday no Relative humidity at 11 tun 107 Average low this date 79 FORECAST Mostly clear through Slightly warmer this The effects of the meteorite impacts seem to be in the ture of a stirring action or of the lunar top soil The lunar rocks and num foil exposed to the sun by the astronauts also have shown evidence of effects of bombardment by solar wind greatly in excess of predicted values NASA said This has led one scientist to state that the proper way to study the sun is through ples collected from the moon it added Laboratory studies have shown no ill effects of dust on earthly plants or mals nor any sign of lunar life But one effect not yet un- is the apparent nutrient value of lunar NASA said The growth of liverworts and similar plants in lunar terial is significantly increased compared to growth of the same plants in earth al Huntley Finds Nixon Shallow NEW YORK AP NBC television newscaster Chet reminiscing in a Life magazine interview says that of the presidents lie was around he liked Lyndon B Johnson best He was kind to he snid As insufferable ns he could he was a gracious and funny man nt case I never tried to argue with him I just kept fil- ing his glass with Scotch and we talked breeding who will retire Aug 1 after 14 years with partner David Brinkley also ed on President I've been with Nixon ly I've traveled with him in his private plane I've seen him under many conditions The shallowness of the man over- whelms me the hut he is President frightens me Of the vice president he Spiro Agnew is appealing to the most base of elements Network coverage almost created him for God's Huntley said I resent being lumped in with his Eastern effete He also offered the was an exercise in boredom The networks nil got Most astronauts are dull ns hell nice guys mechanics The only ones who hnd a mind of their own didn't last long deeply concerns me 55 per cent of the can people nrc getting most of their news from TV These are people who for the most part are being confronted with news for the time And these nro the people who form the Agnew Rescue Teams End Tough Job liy JOHN BATTIN The Yuma Daily Sun The bodies of two Marines were removed by special rescue teams from the abandoned Senator Mine about noon today Dead are Robert M Knight 20 and George Lopez 20 both of MCAS Yuma It is believed the Marines died from carbon monoxide poisoning after being overcome Saturday about BOO feet deep The mine is a maze of levels and lateral shafts Special rescue teams reached the bodies after 12 hours of work Sunday and raised one of the bodies where it hung up at about the 500 foot level The rescue teams started work in a high humidity atmosphere about today Seven men from the Los An- geles Sheriffs Department emergency services detail four deputy sheriffs from Mohave County and three National Park Service rangers from Lake Mead entered the mine in teams to recover the bodies Roger Anderson with the Los Angeles emergency service detail said one of the bodies attached to a rope hung up on old timbers The passageways are narrow twisting and sandy The temperature was reported to be about 20 degrees lower than surface temperature the dead air is composed of bon monoxide One old-time miner in Yuma said the two men probably died within 15 minutes after they passed out Saturday evening The rescue began about p.m Saturday by the Imperial County Sheriffs Department when the call came from guna Dam Pfc Robert Knight 20 Buffalo and George Lopez 19 Omaha Neb had entered the mine with Cpl Julian Fontana 22 West Monroe La and Cpl Edwin Montgomery 21 2636 1st Street Yuma All men are attached to 18 Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron Group 10 Fontana and Montgomery are Vietnam veterans Fontana and Knight ed from the mine after all of them became dizzy Knight drove to Laguna Dam to call for help Knight and Fontana the mine Sgt Jim Moore of the Imperial County Sheriffs Department said his deputies reported Knight fought his way by the ties and attempted to reach Lopez Knight was quoted as saying I want a buddy not a body About 8 o'clock Saturday night rescuers removed tana and Montgomery from the mine Dr U Duane Smith Lt USN reached the other two men late Saturday night and reported them dead The Marine Corps Search and Rescue unit kept copters shuttling men and equipment from MCAS to the mine located about n mile southwest of Imperial Dam A truck hauled n com- pressor to the scene while a detachment of military police aided civilian authorities in controlling the activity Bottles of oxygen were being lowered today into the mine shaft to form n pool from which rescuers could draw from The rescue teams were using scuba diving gear to port their own life Rescuers worked 12 hours Sunday Imperial County Deputy Sheriff Smith and ly Al worked about 000 foot deep reaching the bodies Saturday night with Dr Smith Deputy Charles Turn to Please SCENE OF TRAGEDY For 12 hours under the hot sun rescue attempts were made to bring the Marines to the surface at the Senator Mine Because of fatigue the job be given up yesterday bodies were brought tp the surface shortly before noon today photo Page 3 Sun Staff Photos Israel Suggests Pre- Peace Talk Conference Be Held TEL AVIV AP Foreign Minister Abba Eban proposed today that Israel and Egypt send delegates to an agreed place to discuss procedures unconditionally for later peace talks Addressing the Knesset Israel's parliament in lem Eban said preliminary talks could be of the most un- official nature Such contacts could pre- pare the ground for a real which is the only exit from the present he said Eban's statement was re- as significant in that il constitutes acceptance of an element understood to be in the latest U.S proposal for a Middle East settlement This proposal by Secretary of State Rogers calls for contacts under the auspices of Swedish t t t U.S May Sell Jets To Israel WASHINGTON Senate Leader Hugh Scott said lodny the may agree to sell new jet wai planes It Israel nt to downed Israeli aircraft I would like that may in wind Scott told newsmen he had il with Stale officials ami with Henry A Nixon's national security ad- viser Scott said and Srn Jacob K will mcel Tuesday n group of semi- tors who have I he planes bo sold to Ho said will whether to nny now call for approval of be sales II not Iw Scoll snid diplomat Gunnar a special envoy Also notable was Eban's omission of the phrase direct with regard to the preliminary talks This appeared to be a soften- ing of the Israeli stand which has been adamant that any talks should be facs to face without intermediaries This has been unacceptable to the Arabs The minister also reaffirmed Israel's acceptance of the cease-fire as stipulated by the Security Council in 1967 This was seen as a veiled re- minder to Rogers that Israel would accept no cease-fire in scope and duration but only a total nnd tional truce as called for by the Security Council ington is believed proposing a three-month cease-fire Elian blasted the latest et peace proposals as designed to endanger Israel's security and to maintain continuous tensions in Middle East by an exact reconstruction of he situation that produced war He laid down three criteria for testing a peace a manent peace drafted and agreed upon by the Arab states and Israel and not an formula like in the past and agreed frontiers to be free and mal negotiations without a dictation of restrictive tion degree to which it is founded on an equal and com- plete sovereignty of the tory states and their able right to maintain their culture their security and their human composition as they see fit Israeli troops fought a ning battle with Arab las in Lebanon during the day and one woman was wounded in the fighting the inside The Sun Crossword military command ced The pursuit when a guerilla squad which had across the frontier opened fire from Israeli ry on an Israeli army patrol west of in northern Galilee a spokesman said The troops followed the bushers into Lebanon and en- gaged them the spokesman wounded woman was taken to Israel for medical treatment There were no de- tails as to how she was hit Israeli troops also crossed the Jordan Hiver and wrecked a Jordanian army cluster of bunkers and trenches used as a forward base by guerrillas the Israeli military command announced New Italy Chief ROMIC AP Giulie An- a Christian Democrat leader often dubbed the most powerful man after the Pope was officially made of Italy night 51 the job with tions Proxmire Denies Giving Classified Information WASHINGTON AP Sen William Proxmire D- Wis lias denied an assertion classified informal ion was involved when he recently Defense handling of nn electronic device Proxmire in n statement re- leased Sunday demanded that Sen Harry H criticizing him In a July Proxmire charged that device on which be snid the Pentagon may spend up lo billion may well be an indiscriminate weapon unable to distinguish between friend or foe tant nnd civilian He said already hns been spent on the device On the following day Gold snid the device is so highly classified Hint even the Armed Services Committee has not been able to hold hearings on it but so long ns he mire has sprung it so to speak I cnu mention I nm here to say now the statement wrong ant Hint tho senator from Arizona was Proxmire said Sunday I did not spring nny classified or secret information If anyone sprung this in- formation about the electronic it the from Arizona himself Proxmire snid the system first mentioned publicly Minn speech by Gen C Westmoreland Army chief of staff The device mentioned in at leant two added and tho wnn inserted in Record by Goldwater two Inter
