South Tucson's El Independiente, 1980-04-04

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South Tucson's
By BRIAN MCGUINN
Staff Writer
South Tucson Police are still waiting
for the FBI to positively identify the body
of a man slain in his trailer at 450 E. 34th
St. The body was found Sunday, March
23, at about i p.m. -- approximately
seven to ten days after he had been bound
and stabbed to death.
The73-year-o1d man, known as "Harry
Horn" was discovered by his landlord,
Larry J. Naughton, lying face down near
his refrigerator with multiple stab
wounds.
Naughton said he had been in
California on business from March 9 to 15
and estimated the stabbing occurred on
March 13 or 14.
When the rent was not paid, Naughton
went looking for Horn in several local
hospitals as well as the Local Alcoholic
Ei Independiente
A 73year-oJd man knowii as "harry Horn" was found dead on was there for approximately seven to ten days before anyone
March 2: in his trailer home located at 450 E. :44th St. The both' found it.
Lan di ord fInd seÌ deny tenant dead
more thanaweek afterstabbing
Rehabilitation Center, but to ni avail, he
said. Another elderly trailer court
resident had suggested that Horn may
have gone to the hospital when the lan-diord
became aware his tenant was
missing.
Horn's trailer, 12, was padlocked from
the outside, a usual indicator of the
tenant being out, Naughton said.
Horn was a good tenant, Naughton
said. He received a pension, Social
Security and veteran's benefits.
The victim had a habit of drinking at
the Brown Derby bar on Fourth Avenue
and 34th Street, Naughton said.
Sometimes coming home from there
Horn would pick up transient "hippies"
and let them stay in the spare bed in the
rear of his trailer, Naughton said.
On one occasion the lonely man found
himself being "strong armed" by his
No change expected ¡n '80 census
I out of 3 families in S. Tucson live ¡n poverty
By MARIANNE OBEID
Staff Writer
The 1970 census showed that one out of
three families in South Tucson was below
the poverty level. Almost 15 percent of
these families had incomes lower than
half of the poverty level income.
The federal poverty index established
in 1969 for a family of four was $3,743.
In Tucson, 105 percent of the families
had poverty-level incomes, and 3.6
percent had incomes lower than half the
poverty level income, according to the
1970 census.
"There is no reason to expect that
these figures will change on the 1930
census," said Celestino Fernandez, a
minority relations professor at the
University of Arizona. "There is
research that shows that Mexican-
Americans are falling further behind the
white. middle-class community instead
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of making further gains," he said.
Census data is often in error,
especially for the Hispanic community
where many weren't counted, said
Homer D.C. Garcia, who has a doctorate
in Chicano studies and teaches at the
University. "I would argue that the
people who weren't counted weren't
highly educated and probably worse off
that those who were counted. I think it
would be more accurate to say one out of
two families in South Tucson are below
the poverty level.
Chicanos have the second highest
death rate in the- country--native
Americans are first, Garcia said.
Income,, he believes, - were
overestimated and the rate of poverty in
South Tucson is probably much higher
than the 33.2 percent the census bureau
found.
A person's social class, Fernandez
youthful guests, Naughton said.
Horn cried out: "Larry, come help me.
They won't obey," and Naughton rushed
in and kicked the troublemakers out, he
said.
Residents of the trailer park recalled
seeing Horn in the company of a "couple
of guys," Naughton said. -
Detective Sean deGuzman of the South
Tucson Police Department said they are
looking for three transients who were
seen with Horn a couple of days prior to
the murder.
"Nobody had seen him before that
and nobody since," deGuzman said.
DeGuzman said the police have a
problem with identification because the
face was partially decomposed.
Cecil Beckner, 66, of trailer 14, said
"Harry was a damned good man but he
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said, affects his whole life experience.
"There is no dignity in being poor."
Poverty is most often the result of
external conditions, Fernandez said, but
in the United States we tend to blame the
victim of poverty and supposed internal
conditions such as laziness, stupidity,
inferiority, etc.
He contrasts this to Latin American
countries where, he said, poor people are
able to retain a high level of self-respect.
Garcia has researched the
psychological effects of poverty and
assimilation on the Mexican-American.
"What I found is that Mexican-
Americans who are impoverished and
are assimilating into American society
have low levels of self-esteem," he said.
"It's like dominoes," Garcia said,
when one falls it affects all the others."
There is a strong correlation between
Public opinion
residents talk
about the Law
Editorial/page 5
Sinohuis
awarded
2OO,OOO
By JACK KNETZGER
Staff Writer
Superior Court Judge Ben C. Birdsall
awarded $200,000 to the parents of the
lateJoe H. Sinohui, Jr., ending months of
litigation of the civil lawsuit in the 1977
shooting death of their son.
Birdsall's ruling was the first, in the
three years since the incident, to place
liability for Sinohui's death with former
South Tucson policeman Christopher
Dean and the City of South Tucson.
Dean fatally wounded Sinohui with an
armor-piercing .45-caliber bullet through
the back in a discharge of seven shots
fired at the rear of the cab of Sinohui's
truck as it pulled away from Dean on
Sixth Avenue.
Dean fired at the truck while crossing
the street with a prisoner, one of
l5øcivilians involved in a disturbance at
the Jack-In-The-Box drive-thru, 3702 S.
Sixth Ave. , during the early morning
hours of June 2, 1977. Dean was one of
some 30 officers on the scene.
Wounded, Sinoflui drove his vehicle the
few blocks to Veteran's Administration
Hospital, where he died at 5 am.
"I feel very good. All of that cover-up --
now there's no ifs and buts about it. The
judge found him absolutely guilty," said
Mrs. Lupe Sinohui.
Birdsall ruled that Dean shot Sinohui
withoutjustification and ordered Dean to
pay $50,000 in punitive damages and the
city of South Tucson to pay $150,000 in
compensatory damages to the Sinohuis.
A dozen co-defendants in the original $5
million lawsuit were not held liable by
Birdsall.
"We're very pleased and relieved. We
feel that to have received any award
helps to vindicate the truth. The fact that
it was as large as it was is more than a
relief," said Sinohui family attorney
Michael J. Monroe. Monroe said he was
dissappointed that Birdsall did not find
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being poor and a lack of achievement in
school, Raul M. Grijalva, a school board
member for five years, said.One reason
for the lower achievement in the south-side
schools is political, he said. At-tention
is primarily given to areas of
town with political and economic muscle.
There have been few board members
who identified with this particular
constituency (south side), Grijalva said,
Students in South Tucson's elementary
schools score lower on standard
achievement tests than elementary
students on the east side. In the past,
school administra tors have said the tests
are culturally biased. But Garcia said
the poor performance as a group shows
some deficiency within the educational
system.
Garcia and Fernandez describe a
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Vol. III, No. 20 Published By The Journalism Department Of The Uni'orsitv Of Arizona April 4, 1980