Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Yuma, Arizona AT TIJUANA SUN Issue Year SENTINEL 125th Issue Year Yuma Arizona Man Aug 8 1977 Parker girl crowned Miss Indian America Grade Welsh 19 of Parker is the new Miss Indian America She was crowned recently at the national pageant in Sheridan Wyo Miss Welsh who served as an alternate last year was crowned by Miss Indian America Kristine Harvey Rebecca King Miss America of 1974 assisted in the ceremonies Miss Welsh of blood is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Russell Welsh of Parker She was Miss Colorado River Indian Tribes two years ago and later that year won the Miss Indian Arizona pageant She was the youngest contestant and just made the minimum age requirement In the recent competition Miss Welsh exhibited her beadwork for the traditional talent presentation and did a routine in the modern talent event Twenty-five girls Miss Welsh will now act as for Indian people throughout the country and travel to foreign countries GRACIE WELSH New medical starts The Sun today begins a new daily column of medical advice from Neil Solomon Ph.D Dr Solomon 43 puts in a week that includes serving as Maryland secretary of health and mental hygiene with employees under his supervision and as assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins Hospital and University School of Medicine in Baltimore Besides his nationally syndicated newspaper column Dr Solomon produces a weekly half-hour television show and weekly radio show on family health He has written two The Truth about Weight Control and Dr Solomon's Easy No- Risk Diet Dr Solomon's studies have focused on endocrinology and metabolism obesity physiology biochemistry biophysics child health and human development His first column in The Sun is on Page 9 today y I DR NEIL SOLOMON Yuma Border Patrol checking for illegal alien buildup here Yuma sector U.S Border Patrol agents are checking to see if a large amount of illegal aliens are massing in San Luis Son The New York Times reported yesterday that between 200.000 and destitute Mexican migrants are waiting in Tijuana for a chance to slip into the United States before Congress acts on an amnesty plan for illegal aliens Benny Barren who works public relations in the Yuma sector said he read the Times report in the Arizona Republic this morning and called his counterpart in the Chula Vista sector He told me that there have always been a large amount of aliens at the border there and that there doesn't seem to be any more than usual Barren said Apparently Tijuana has been used for quite some time as a staging area for aliens who want to sneak into the United States They usually catch a large amount in the area anyway They'll almost always get about 1.200 in a 24-hour period and sometimes they get as many as Barron said he was told In addition he said he was told that that number hasn't increased very much recently good evening YUMA'S AMERICAN LEAGUE All-Stars won their first game of the Babe Ruth Pacific Southwest Regional Tournament here last night beating Nevada Page 11 RESEARCHERS IN NEW YORK have developed the strongest evidence yet to support suspicions that the chemical benzene may be linked to leukemia and other blood ders Page 6 PROTESTS AGAINST NUCLEAR power over the weekend saw thousands of balloons drifting across American skies The protests were meant to symbolize the possible reach of radioactivity Page 10 YUMA COUNTY Outpatient Clinic manager Carson Bench will attend a jail health care conference in Milwaukee sored by the American Medical Assn Bench will join discussions and panels concerned with the quality of health care in jails Page 6 YUMA GARDENER felt she was betraying nature by making artificial flowers until she began doing silk blossoms Anne Orto tells how she developed her love of nature when she was a child working on her parents farm Page 7 Accent on people Comics Crossword Editorial 13 Markets 9 Movies 13 Sports Weather 10 Barron said because of the report he plans to got to San Luis Son today and talk with Mexican officials to determine if aliens are gathering there Each night at least 3.500 of the migrants attempt to elude border patrolmen and enter the U.S with about 1.000 being caught and returned to Mexico the Times reported The newspaper said in Tijuana migrants are reportedly paying professional smugglers each to guide them past border patrols and take them to Los Angeles home of a large Mexican community In addition for an extra the smugglers offer phony backdated documents including rent receipts utility bills work permits and Social Security cards The smugglers promise that the documents would insure that the migrants would qualify under President Carter's amnesty proposal the Times said Border Patrol agent Robert McCord was quoted by the newspaper as saying most of the migrants are living in sleazy hotels garages and hovels or camping along roads It's a surging mass of humanity and with the limited manpower and facilities we now have tens of thousands are bound to get past us McCord said We are simply being overwhelmed The migrants at Tijuana wait perhaps several days for their turn to cross the border After darkness the will herd them along with six or eight other mojados through the tattered remnants of the border fence a mile east of Colonia Tijuana's slum up the ragged walls of Spring Canyon onto Mesa and through the chaparral brush to a waiting truck lor the trip over back roads to Los Angeles Each night or more of the migrants massed around Tijuana at- tempt to make it across the border hoping to elude Las Migras the Border Patrol and the terrifying gangs of who wait in ambush on the mesa poised to beat knife and sometimes kill them for what little money they carry Of those who start across probably will fall into the hands of the Las Migras to be dumped back into Mexico But for each one apprehended three to five others can be expected to slip past the patrols most of them along a desolate stretch of the California border eastward of Tijuana that American and Mexican officials say is a funnel for more illegal aliens than any other spot along the frontier Their places in Tijuana's waiting throng will be filled in a matter of hours by new arrivals from the interior all determined to reach the United States and escape from the abject poverty and lack of jobs from which they have fled They will take any American job none is too menial for pay that is often less than the California minimum wage but still seems bountiful by Mexican standards Although a majority are men who left their families behind the number of women and children has been increasing in recent weeks as hopes have risen among the refugees that they can somehow obtain American amnesty according to Tijuana Police Chief Escobedo Lopez The chief of the Tijuana sector of the Baja California State Judicial Police Francisco Altomirano ex- that although authorities were cracking down mercilessly on the professional smugglers and weeding out aliens from other Central American countries there was little that could be done to stem the invasion into Mexican border zone Circle Ks are robbed by Argentina debates accepting Castro Two Circle K markets were robbed late Saturday night within a half-hour Yuma police reported It is believed that both were robbed by the same bandit because the descriptions provided by both clerks were nearly identical Both clerks who were robbed said the bandit was a Caucasian man wearing a straw hat a blue shirt blue jeans and blue tennis shoes He had hair a a goatee and beard stubble Police said the Circle K Market at 2200 W 3rd St was robbed at about p.m by a bandit armed with a large butcher knife The clerk a year-old woman said he walked up to the counter and demanded money The clerk said she asked him if he was kidding and he showed her his knife Then she gave him the money and he left the store on foot About was reported stolen A bandit with a butcher knife also robbed the Circle K Market at 798 W St shortly before midnight cording to police The clerk at that market a old woman said the robber walked up to the counter and asked for a pack of cigarettes When she put the package on the counter the bandit pulled out the knife and demanded she give him the money or he would cut her She said he left the market on foot But it is believed that he got into a car parked in a lot across the street A patrolman who said he was at the market about one minute after the robbery was reported said he didn't see anyone walking in the area Nearly was reported stolen in the second robbery In both robberies the bandit was described as in his 20s about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds PHOENIX API The name of Arizona Gov Raul Castro has been submitted for approval by the Argentine government as U.S an authoritative Argentine newspaper says The newspaper Clarin citing diplomatic sources said the U.S government submitted Castro's name to Gen Jorge Videla 52 an army commander who led a coup that toppled President Isabel Peron 16 months ago Clarin did not say whether the Argentine government had approved the nomination and there was no confirmation that it had been sub- mitted either from Argentine or White House officials Some Argentine conservatives reportedly oppose the nomination contending that appointment of an ambassador of Latin descent smacks of paternalism Tom Rippey press aide to the governor said We've been informed the papers have been in Argentina for the past four to six weeks We have no idea how long before the nomination is approved by the Argentine ment Castro 61 was born in Mexico and moved to Arizona in 1929 He has served as ambassador to El Salvador and Brazil The United States has had no in Argentina since Robert C Hill a Republican left shortly after President Carter took office Carter hesitantly signs 3rd explosive test set water project funding by AF south of Wellton The Air Force will conduct the third in a series of conventional high ex- plosive tests Thursday on the Luke Air Force Range 12 miles south of Wellton Engineers and technicians from the Air Force Weapons Laboratory tland AFB Albuquerque will measure the structural response of a model missile shelter to airblast pressures created by the detonation of pounds of high explosives The explosives will be at one end of a long diameter arch facility and the test model will be at the other end The facility will be partially buried to confine the explosion for a fraction of a second This brief confinement is necessary to apply desired pressures to the test model The test was first announced last October and will be conducted by the weapons laboratory over a two-year period A total of eight experiments are scheduled in support of the Air Force's advanced ICBM technology program which is managed by Air Force Systems Command's Space and Missile Systems Organization SAMSO in Los Angeles The SAMSO program involved conceptual strategic missile systems collectively known as MX for Missile System X The goal of the Arizona tests is to evaluate blast and shock characteristics of possible Weather High yesterday 108 morning 11 temp 95 High today near 107 tonight mid High tomorrow near 1 11 humidity Average high Average low this date W Forecast for Yuma and Continued hot and humid Fair this afternoon through Thursday Sunset Sunrise 5.58 MX protective structures No missiles or nuclear materials will be involved in these airblast and ground shock ex- Dennis Construction Co of Yuma under contract to the weapons laboratory is constructing this facility and three additional facilities at an overall cost of more than Approximately 35 technicians are assigned to the test program and live in the Yuma area with their families A draft environmental impact statement entitled Buried Trench Construction and Test Project has been filed with the Council on Environmental Quality by the Air Force The project is to occur between February and September 1978 PLAINS Ga AP President Carter today signed a containing more than billion for public works including nine of 18 water projects he wanted to kill and a clean air law which he described as sound and comprehensive Carter noted that the public works measure contains funding for projects he wanted to delete I remain very concerned about these he said An aide I wouldn't be surprised if you heard the last of water projects even for this year Under the law Carter could send Congress what is called a recission and deferral message in which he can list previously approved spending he wants to either delay or delete from the budget This would force Congress to vote again on the water projects My administration is developing water policy reform Carter said and will continue to carefully all ongoing and proposed water projects Considering the legislation along with a stack of proposals for his tax program interrupted a five-day vacation the President began in his hometown last Friday Carter and his family ducked taking sides in a bitter dispute over racial and other issues that have divided their Plains Baptist Church They attended Sunday school there but went to services at the new Maranatha Baptist Church formed by a splinter group The public works contains money for 500 water projects Although he gave in to Congress on nine Carter has won acknowledgement that because of his review of 30 of the projects and his fight to kill 18 the pork barrel will be harder to fill from now on Carter reviewed the original 30 projects for their safety and en- and financial costs Last April he announced that 18 failed to pass the test 04 86 40 -30 I A WINNER'S ATTACK Susan Parke left attacks a defenseless watermelon ring on her way to first place in the contest held as part of a Detroit eastside block Doing damage at right is Nasser Kado also 10 Residents along the street gathered for the old-fashioned picnic that included food contests and a bicycle parade It was the second year for the party AP
