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Ex-lawman, author Arturo Carrillo Strong dies
Arturo Carrillo Strong, a former sheriff’s deputy who observed the drug trade up close as an undercover agent, then wrote about it in his book, ”Corrido de Cocaine,” died at his downtown home yesterday, two months after being diagnosed with liver cancer. He was 67.
Mr. Strong’s 1990 book chronicled the lives of drug lords and the drug trade between Mexico and the United States.
John Espana, Mr. Strong’s grandson, said the family would worry when he went to Mexico for research.
Mr. Strong wanted his information to be firsthand, Espana said. If it meant going to the home of a feared drug lord, that is what he did, Espana said.
Mr. Strong, born in Tucson Feb. 21, 1930, was the great-grandson of Leopoldo Carrillo, a prominent rancher and businessman, and the namesake of Carrillo Intermediate School, 440 S. Main Ave.
Mr. Strong was the family’s unofficial historian, said Leo Carrillo, his cousin.
”He loved to write and tell stories that he heard from the grandparents about early times in Tucson,” Carrillo said. ”He researched all those stories because he wanted to find out what was true and what wasn’t.”
”Corrido de Cocaine” was Mr. Strong’s only published book, but Carrillo said he recently finished a second one about the drug trade that should be published in a few months.
Strong served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1948, mostly playing baseball for the Navy team. In 1951, he married Josie, who died in 1991.
For a short time in the early 1950s, Mr. Strong worked in the family business, now known as Tucson Mortuary. He was born in an upstairs apartment of the mortuary, which was founded by his grandfather.
In 1952, Mr. Strong joined the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, where his family said he developed the desire and the know-how to write about the underworld of drug trafficking. He worked in the department until 1962.
”He wanted people to know and realize how drugs have really not changed,” Strong’s daughter, Vera Espana, said. ”He felt that people thought drugs were a new thing, when really they’ve been around for a long time and they’ve always been a problem.”
Mr. Strong, who family members referred to as ”the last of the real macho men,” was said to have been toughened up in his youth by his grandfather, Arturo Carrillo, who would hire neighborhood youths to fight him.
The winner would get a nickel, the loser, a penny, family members said.
”He was a very loving and caring person,” Espana said. ”But ultimately, he always had that veneer about him that he was the tough guy.”
Espana said Mr. Strong once gave him a .45-caliber handgun he said belonged to an infamous Mexican drug lord who had killed many people.
Mr. Strong moved his family to Tracy, Calif., in 1964, but returned to Tucson in 1984.
He is survived by his daughter, Vera Espana; a son, Arthur Espana Jr.; three grandchildren, John Espana, Brian Strong and Tara Strong; and a great-grandson, John Espana Jr. All live in Tracy, Calif.
A visitation is scheduled for Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Tucson Mortuary South Chapel, 240 S. Stone Ave.
Rev. Monsignor Arsenio Carrillo, a distant cousin, will celebrate the funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Augustine Cathedral, 190 S. Stone Ave.
(Dated Feb 12, 1998)
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Surveyor Anderson wise teacher
Gene E. Anderson’s children remember him as a teacher whose wisdom, strength and generosity helped them and many others start their careers.
Mr. Anderson, founder of Anderson Engineering Corp., one of the first surveying and engineering companies in Tucson, died at his home Saturday of leukemia and cancer. He was 69.
”When I was 6 and my brother, Ted, was 4, my dad took us out surveying. He paid us 25 cents an hour,” said his eldest son, Jeff Anderson, 46, of Tucson, who followed in his father’s footsteps. ”I joked, when he worked for me (off and on), that I paid him 25 cents an hour.”
Jeff Anderson said his father, who helped build 240 subdivisions in Tucson, must have trained 100 others in the art of surveying.
Many of them have since become prominent engineers, surveyors and architects with their own businesses,” he said.
”It’s a wonderful gift, to get this from my dad.”
Mr. Anderson, born in McAlester, Okla., Sept. 25, 1928, graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1950.
Before starting his own company here in 1956, he was a combat engineer and cavalry officer in the U.S. Army’s 2nd Armored Division.
He was Marana’s planning and zoning administrator from 1985 to 1987 and served on Tucson’s planning and zoning commission from 1969 to 1971.
”He knew Arizona like the back of his hand. He probably surveyed all of it,” said his youngest son, Erik Anderson, 29, of Providence, R.I. ”There’d be some peak somewhere, and he’d always have a story about it.”
He remembered hunting trips with his father, also an avid fisherman and skier, at the tender age of 6.
”He always ended up carrying us. He always had two guns and us on his shoulders. He was so strong, he never would tire. He was a powerful, dynamic person.”
Mr. Anderson’s daughter, Amy Perez, 33, of McLean, Va., said her father was always learning new things.
”He rode his bike in El Tour de Tucson, (a race around the city) at least 10 times. He didn’t start biking til he was 50 years old,” she said.
Mr. Anderson was active in Tucson’s civic and political life, running unsuccessfully for a seat on the City Council in 1971, and the state Legislature before that.
He was involved with Toastmasters and the Rotary Club, as well as many charitable projects in Arizona and Mexico.
”He lived many lives,” said his close friend of eight years, Bobbi Lefferts.
Mr. Anderson is survived by two former wives, Barnetta Anderson and Jeanne Bourke, both of Tucson; three brothers, Ben Anderson and Jack Anderson of Tucson and Jerry Anderson of Phoenix; four children, Jeff Anderson and Ted Anderson of Tucson, Amy Perez of McLean, Va., and Erik Anderson of Providence, R.I.; and two grandsons, Hunter Anderson and James Perez.
A memorial service will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Faith Community Church, 2551 W. Orange Grove Road, which Mr. Anderson helped survey.
Donations can be made to the Gene Anderson Memorial Fund at the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Arizona, 85721.
(Dated Feb 24, 1998)
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Julian Hayden dies at age 87
• With no formal education he was still one of the area’s best archaeologists.
”I never got a degree, and I’m damned glad I didn’t. This way I have a lot more freedom. I do what I want, when I want, and I take the heat for what I say.”
That was the straightforward philosophy of Julian D. Hayden, known by many as the finest field archaeologist in the Southwest – with or without paperwork.
Mr. Hayden died early yesterday of the long-term effects of emphysema. He was 87.
Among other accomplishments, Mr. Hayden defined the Malpais Culture in the Pinacate region of northwest Sonora, Mexico.
It was, he theorized, a culture that could date back as far as 70,000 years – much, much earlier than the generally accepted date of human habitation here of about 12,500 years ago.
While ”mainstream” academia still disputes those dates, growing evidence is accumulating that human habitation may, indeed, go back to a much earlier period.
Joseph Wilder, director of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, said Mr. Hayden ”was the kind of person that we don’t see any more.”
”A so-called ‘amateur’ – without formal credentials, he became one of the real giants. He had enormous respect in the profession,” he said.
Wilder said the Southwest Center was working with Mr. Hayden on publication of another of his books, titled ”Sierra Pinacate,” with bilingual text and photographs by Jack Dykinga. The book is scheduled for release in July.
Jefferson Reid, UA professor of anthropology, said, ”He was tough, just as raw and rugged as the Pinacates. In addition to that, he had an unquenchable curiosity, boundless intellect and energy.”
Reid said that while the Malpais Culture, like ”black holes” in space, has not been proved to exist, ”we have given it a certain credence which I think it deserves, because it fits what should be there.
”Julian Hayden was able to see something that others were not able to see.”
He added, ”He made significant contributions, and his unpublished papers will continue to make significant contributions.”
One of Mr. Hayden’s advantages, Reid said, was the fact that he was not associated with any academic program. Most archaeologists must teach during the cooler months, and do their archaeological excavations in the summer – something that would have been impossible in the Pinacate area because of the heat.
The Pinacate has been described as a ”moonscape” – a 600-square-mile region of lava flows, craters, basalt fields, barren peaks and volcanic cones, hot, dry and unforgiving.
Bernard L. Fontana, a retired UA field historian, author and a friend of Mr. Hayden, wrote the preface for one of Mr. Hayden’s books, ”The Making of a Field Man.”
He said, ”With Julian, we lost one of the giants of Southwestern archaeology. We also lost one of the great ‘desert rats.’ He loved the desert.
”The remarkable thing about Julian was that he said what he wanted to all of his life. He was his own person. And he was certainly the world’s authority on the Pinacate.”
Mr. Hayden was born in January 1911, in Hamilton, Mont., son of Irwin Hayden, who had earned a master’s degree in archaeology at Harvard University.
The elder Hayden was working as editor of the Hamilton newspaper at the time of his son’s birth. Young Julian learned to read at age 3, and was soon engrossed in his father’s archaeological reports.
When the family moved to Riverside, Calif., after World War I, father and son became involved with a Southwest Museum-sponsored archaeological investigation near Overton, Nev.
Recently graduated from high school, Julian Hayden discovered a beautifully fashioned chert atlatl projectile point atop a butte, and said later that he was immediately ”hooked” on an avocation that would stay with him for the rest of his life.
Father and son worked on an archaeological project at Casa Grande National Monument in 1930, and four years later did archaeological work at Keet Seel on the Navajo Reservation. The same year, 1934, both were hired by Harold Gladwin to work with Emil Haury, Ted Sayles and Erik Reed at Snaketown on the Gila Indian Reservation.
In addition to full-time work with the excavation, the enthusiastic younger Hayden spent his evenings interviewing an elderly Pima tribal member about the O’odham creation narrative. It was published in 1994 by University of California Press as ”Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles.”
It was during the Snaketown project that Mr. Hayden met Helen Pendleton, who soon thereafter became his wife. Mrs. Hayden died in 1977.
Mr. Hayden attended two years of college, but was not particularly ”taken” with the world of academia. During summers he pursued other interests, including silverworking and leatherworking – hobbies he continued throughout his life, along with drawing and other artistic endeavors.
Mr. Hayden worked with Haury on other projects, as well, including the famed Ventana Cave excavation. He also worked with archaeologist Malcolm Rogers at a site near San Diego.
During World War II, he worked as a civilian employee with the U.S. Army Engineers at Yuma and at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
After the war, he and his family moved to Tucson, where they built a home near East Bellevue Street and North Columbus Boulevard, using adobe blocks they made themselves.
It was in 1958 that Mr. Hayden was introduced to the Pinacate region – which would become the archaeological love of his life – by former U.S. Border Patrolman-turned-archaeologist Paul Ezell.
When Mr. Hayden made his first trek into the unforgiving region, he was guided by Alberto Celaya, who had guided another desert-lover, Carl Lumholtz, into the region a half-century earlier.
”This is where I belong,” Mr. Hayden would tell friends who accompanied him to the Pinacate.
One of those friends, who made three trips to the area with him, was Bill Broyles, a teacher at Rincon High School.
”He was proud of the fact that he was a laboring man, sort of a blue-collar scientist, a scientist in work boots,” Broyles said.
Before retiring, Mr. Hayden operated a construction company in Tucson, doing backhoe work, installing septic tanks and building concrete manhole systems.
Broyles recalled Mr. Hayden scattering the ashes of both Rogers, who died in 1961, and another Pinacate researcher, Ronald Ives, on a slope there that overlooks several prehistoric campsites.
”I wanted them to be together so they could argue with each other (about archaeology),” Mr. Hayden told a reporter in a 1992 interview.
He then added: ”By God, when I go, I hope half of me will go there, too. I just want to be able to listen in.”
Broyles said Mr. Hayden’s wish will be carried out.
Agnese Haury, widow of the late Emil Haury, said she had been acquainted with Mr. Hayden since 1964.
”He was just a giant of a man, with tremendous qualities of every kind, intelligence and charm,” she said.
”His storytelling was fabled, he had had so many wonderful experiences. He was very kind, and gentlemanly from the old school.”
Haury said no funeral service is planned. Mr. Hayden’s remains will be cremated.
Survivors include two sons, Julian Hayden Jr. and Steven Hayden, both of Washington; two daughters, Mary Hermans of California and Serena Hayden of New Hampshire; and several grandchildren.
(Dated Mar 07, 1998)
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