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GIDIi WMMM Mexico town reeling from Texas deaths Triple-digit days eouid be here as soon as today the National Weather Service saya II not today tan probably tomorrow when the high is expected to 'Jr hit U)I said Clnrs Hasmussen a meteorologist with the National Weather Service: Yesterday's high was md the low was 68 This morning's low 57 the mimfcers Let yea the temperature irst rut 100 May 17 The earliest recorded date far TDO-deqree day Is Acnt 13 T3S9: the latest is JiineZZ T905 UJS Mexican lawmakers call for changes now The Arizona Republic Federal officials worry that tractor-trailers are becoming migrant smugglers' favorite mode of transportation following Wednesday's deaths of 18 people abandoned at a Texas truck stop Lawmakers on both sides of the US-Mexico border called for a guest-worker program that would help avoid such tragedies and outlined stiffer punishment for smugglers Arizona officials said using tractor-trailers isn't new but is growing as smugglers attempt to elude an ongoing crackdown on ilk'gil immigratioa During the past 14 months (JS Border Patrol agents in the Yuma sector have discovered undocumented immigrants being hauled inside semitrailers at least Bve times including 74 migrants found inside a tractor-trailer in March 2002 said Pat Tuohy supervisor in charge of the anti-smuggling unit of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Yuma sector US continuedPage 2A Charity to give $L5M to select groups Citizen Staff Report newsjcsoncitizencom Fewer than half of the 82 agencies that applied for United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona hmding will share $15 million in undesignated money Undesignated funds are contributions made to the agency not earmarked for specific charities The funding decision reflects a shift in the way the agency will fund various organizations: giving more money to fewer agencies According to a press release the United Way has decided to put more resources toward each program it funds The average amount given to a program is $25000 an increase of more than 300 percent from last year For the past few months memlKTS of three councils including community volunteers subject experts agency representatives funding partners and consumers reviewed 120 proposals the United Way said in a press release Instead of relying on what agency needs were councils made recommendations to create a grealer impact encourage collalx-rations and achieve economies of scale and measurable results the agency said A new partnership includes a program between the United Way and Junior League of Tucson to increase the numbers of youths in quality after-schx)l programs by funding several school -community partnerships These part nerships will Ix- announced next month United Way would not release names of groups denied undesignated funds from the agency nor did it 'IMPACT contPage 13A f-Ht')ctliJ s'V" 1 Facnq 51am UA foot-Sail Jonn Mackovic believes outside influ-isiees played a major fac-tor'Ji a player revolt last season td 1a ftnirpBat San Antonio urns tie ids Anqetes Lak-iffs season IC Assoaaed Press phots Lourdes Cam of the central Mexico town of Pozos was among those who died attempting to cross into weeps yesterday upon hearing her brother-in-law the United States in a semitrailer Brothers perish during trek to escape grinding poverty PAGE 2A SfiuiSpje Wazss Prefers acKiing three fires in auffiem Arizona IE Fair fling: OA President frer 'Jims idamarrfc 'jrutuates wil not toss tor-uias irourta 'dcKaie Canter Hiring jraduanan tomorrow people discovered dead at a Texas truck stop after being locked inside a sweltering semitrailer in Victoria Texas Two other's from Pozos survived one of whom identified the three bodies The grisly discovery was horrifying but nothing new to families in Mexico Hundreds of migrants die each year trying to cross the bor- MEXICAM contPage 2A The Associated Press POZOS Mexico Fed up with earning $7 a day in this sweltering strawberry-growing town in central Mexico Roberto Rivera followed his brother as he headed for a Florida tomato packing plant The two never made it Wednesday the brothers and their neighbor were among 17 Officials cover one of 17 bodies found in a trailer Wednesday in Victoria Texas 'Roberto went because his wife was pregnant and there was no other option Scr-afin left because he was boking for a way to support his family He was desperate' Julian Rivera on what drove his brothers to cross illegally Into the United States Texas holds suspect in smuggling case Tyrone Williams (above) charged with transporting the illegal migrants allegedly told authorities he was to be paid $5000 to transport the crossers in his trailer Three others are being sought apnasite canonists' new Tan defta- hi icross-te-toard fecane jncas that isn't as jcaosinq iounas 7A Fa'tinq morfrjagH rates Frect-'nis TwtqaQe interest -rae uts i Beard aw aqatn 7311 1 JDOd cnears 0 tie means Twpts 'tome jncas 13 Safford liorrified' by 3 baby bodies found in storage unit Ta sit Itiniie uasses Ed alien reoacacn: tjiil TOst remised jwtti -taise rjon 4A truck driver Then I saw an eye and lips His grandson railed uthori- 7 these people are not caught I hope they are dead I hope they are paying for what they did Molly Bright whose husband Tom found a mummified newborn among auction items bought last week that yielded two more corpses By CARLOS MILLER The Arizona Republic SAFFORD At first Tom Bright thought a rat hid climlx-d into one of the boxes and died "It was the smell of deith" said Bright 58 who paid $125 at an auction last weekend for the contents of two abandoned storage units He pulled the small object from the box and unwrapped three lay- ties Within minutes (iraham County investigators arrived and found two more corpses inside boxes One was wrapped in plastic and mummified the other had been wrapped in a tx-dsprcad and had rotted to a pile of dust and STORAGE continued-Tage 4A aa ii i to ten 'C WillcoxJ VTucson jf ltTI Benson purchased Saturday at the Safford auction The first thing I noticed was a small skull" said Bright a cement ers of plastic bags What he found horrified him: The mummified remains of a full term newborn baby among the contents he had i Retiring UA professors leave behind thiiving legacy 3uT'i uiiiw takes jnriiar vampire isw nrv nt Slit Ter "'J amir hi -wta a7 ievpn f-im in Lwq Likins issues tortilla warning University of Arizona President Peter Likms threatens to cam el commencement events it UA graduates throw an art that he snys ofends Hr-parics and Naffe Americans Page 4A Arizona will commence a new life of their own leaving (heir careers as a new wave of students enters the work force Myra and Ix-onard Inn-nerslein will leave two thriving programs and thousands of sculpted minds as a legacy They are making the rounds of retirement parties and preparing to leave the world of work PflOfTSSORS contPage 4A After calling frnir amval hors in 1370 'a mistake' trtey rained a family and ran two dcpartrncrts By BLAKE MCRL0CX Thousands of graduates will -t tomorrow with i Uhh of their raps and poriips a Img-irg of ti at com-mi ni'n-i-nt Myra Dmnersteffi oversaw the and growth of few Unrversrty of An-zona women 't studies drpart-merrt wtiite her hushand Leonard nurtured UA' Judaic studies program i 1 1- i mih Two professors who devoted a rnmt iiH-d ears to the I laver-ity of 1 1 1 -'1 ft om 1 V- 1 I 'j i.