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Reno EvemncT Gazette NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR, No. 202 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1972 PHONE (702) 323-3161 15 CENTS Big crackdown 151 it fl fogy res indicted Top box office Singer-actress Liza Minelli (above) and actor Gene Hack-man have been voted box office stars of the year by the National Association of Theater Owners. (UPI Telephoto) NEW YORK (AP) Twenty persons have been linked by indictment to rings that allegedly smuggled more than 500 kilograms of heroin worth $250 million into the United States. The indictments, unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Friday, named Christian David, 41, and Michel Nicoli, 42, both Frenchmen, as the leaders of two of the five biggest rings smuggling heroin from Marseilles to the United States. David and Nicoli, each being held in lieu of a record $2.5 million bail, brought from' Brazil to the United States Friday to face the charges.

Federal authorities said the two rings processed Turkish opium in Marseilles and smuggled the resulting heroin directly to Miami and New York or by way of South America, a route referred to as "the triangle of death." Brooklyn U.S. Atty. Robert Morse said the two rings smug- Censorship fight mam 5 ii4a 2f by Reno papers backed nationally gled $217 million worth of heroin between January 1969 and May 1971, concealed in cans of imported fish, in expensive European cars and in secret compartments of private and commercial airplanes. Narcotics officers estimated that the volume of heroin smuggled into the United States by the rings was enough to supply the nation's addict population estimated at 350,000 to 550,000 for three weeks. Planes seek missing pilot from Incline SAN DIEGO, Calif.

(AP) -Civil Air Patrol wings from two states planned an extensive search today for a 66-year-old pilot overdue on a flight from Carson City, to Pauna Valley, some 35 miles northeast of here. Offficials said Robert Wa-namaker of Incline Village left the Nevada capital Thursday af-ternoor in a single-engine Beech-craft 35, but had! failed to arrive at a private airfield in Pauna Valley by Friday. The California CAP wing planned to send up 12 planes today. Nevada CAP members combed the Carson City area Friday in six planes and planned to widen the search today. Wanamaker, CAP officials said, may have flown down the coast from San Francisco or across the southern end of California to the coast because of poor weather conditions in other parts of the state.

"He holds an instructor's as well as commercial pilot instrument ratings," a CAP spokesman said. "His records show that he is a very careful pilot and is known to land his plane on remote airstrips if faced with bad weather." Officials said Wanamaker was not heard from after he left the Carson City airport. He was believed to be alone his plane. School bus, truck collide; four killed GWINNER, N.D. (AP) -Four persons in a truck were killed and 17 pupils and the driver of a school bus were hospitalized as a result of a grinding collision between the two vehicles.

Another 18 persons were treated for cuts and bruises at Oakes Community Hospital following the accident Friday. "I've never seen anything like it," said Highway Patrolman Maynard Venett. "The wreckage of the pickup was in at least five different places." Take it easy Jimmy Zonneveld, 7, brother of a close friend of Miss Teen-Age Reno, Cindy Early (right), came to encourage Miss Early before she took off today for the Miss Teen-Age America Pageant in Fort Worth, Tex. But Jimmy, unhappy to see her leave, needed a little encouragement himself after he started crying. Miss Early, 16, will be seen on television Nov.

25 when the pageant is viewed nationally. (Gazette Photo by Mike Ritter) University athletic complex Plans board, Reno officials directed to pare down bids U. S. Steel hikes prices PITTSBURGH (AP) In an apparent move to head off a profit slump, U.S. Steel the industry's key barometer and No.

1 producer, has announced price increases on about half its product line. The company refused to specify the amounts of increase, saying only that the move's cumulative effect would be to raise prices over its entire product line by 2.7 per cent. The increase, the company added, falls within limits previously approved by the federal Price Commission. Crew foils Taipei hijack TAIPEI (AP) The crew of a U.S. military aerial refueling plane overpowered and disarmed a young Chinese who apparently was attempting to hijack their jet today, a U.S.

spokesman said. The 17-year-old boy, who was carrying a shotgun, penetrated security patrols at Tainan Air Base near Tainan City in southern Taiwan. He boarded the KC135 refueling tanker in darkness this morning, the spokesman said. He was turned over to Chinese authorities, the spoksman added. Index 2 Sections 22 Pages SECTION ONE Church page 10 Editorials 4-5 iSports 7-9 SECTION TWO Amusements 12 Ann Landers 13 Classified ads 15-21 Comics 13 Crossword puzzlS 19 Deaths 14 Earl Wilson 12 Family living 22 Legal notices 14, 15 Local, regional news 11 Television log 13 Weather table 14 Win at bridge 13 RENO EVENING GAZETTE A Spldel Newspaper, member of Associated Press.

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Other rates on request. It was one of six resolutions on freedom of information adopted by the professional journalistic society of more than 25,000 members and 250 chapters. An umbrella resolution condemning several freedom of information problems including "suppression of names of witnesses or jurors" declares: "That the 63rd convention of Sigma Delta Chi condemns judicial repression of the news media and calls upon the public to recognize and oppose all actions which inhibit the First Amendment rights of the people to full knowledge about actions of their government. "In particular, the society condemns the use of contempt citations against the media, the jailing of reporters, the attempt to use search warrants against news organizations, the mounting use of restrictive orders curtailing dissemination of information, the attempts to prohibit publication of information about events which transpire in open court or which are part of the public record, suppression of the names of witnesses or jurors, efforts to invoke prior restraint upon, publication or broadcast of information about trials obtained outside the courtroom, and the closing of trials for purposes of judicial censorship." In the Reno case, Washoe District Judge Grant Bowen issued an order forbidding publication of jurors' names in the Bean penalty hearing in November 1970. The Gazette and Journal promptly appealed the order through the courts and now have an action pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

The action of the Reno papers earlier was commended at a meeting of Region 11 (Western) delegates and was reported to the convention as a commendation from the national resolutions committee. This resolution includes the commendation to California newsmen who are resisting the order of Judge Richard C. Garner of the California Supreme Court not to name prosecution witnesses who testify in open court in a murder trial. DALLAS The Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal were commended here today by the national convention of Sigma Delta Chi for appealing a court order which prohibited publishing names of jurors in the Thomas Lee Bean penalty hearing. DANIEL BREWSTER Sen.

Brewster will appeal his conviction WASHINGTON (AP) Lawyers for former Maryland Sen. Daniel B. Brewster say they will appeal his conviction on charges that he accepted from a mail order firm) lobbyist to influence his vote on postal legislation. A U.S. District Court jury Friday found Brewster guilty of accepting an unlawful gratuitya lesser offense under the federal bribery statute with which he was charged.

The crime of which he was convicted involves no intent to be influenced criminally. The lobbyist, Cyrus T. Anderson, was found guilty of three counts of bribery of a public officialthe offense under which both men originally were charged. And the mail order firm Spiegel pleaded guilty after the verdict was announced to two counts of payment of an unlawful gratuity. "I'm just a natural born baccarat dealer," she boasts.

Her tutor, Matt Paratore, agrees. "She did an excellent job," he says. "When I was training her I told her from the very beginning that she could not just be an average dealer because she's a woman and I didn't realistic in planning." he told the board. Van Rossen, who was one of several persons consulted by the university on what type of pool should be built, said, "With two pools you can have instructional and recreational programs going at once." The board agreed to put in two 25-yard pools. It also rejected various plans which would have changed the original plan by the university.

They included a dual gymnasium and the construction of a dome over the complex. In another item relating to the UNR, the regents gave Miller authorization to look for a planner for the development of a master plan for the main station farm east of Reno. Miller will return to the regents in January and request approval of a contract for the land use study. It is expected to cost $20,000. UNR student body president Rick Elmore also told the board at its meeting here Friday that the decrease in interest in physical education was due to the poor facilities.

He said the students also are interested in athletic activities that are not now available at UNR, adding the "building as proposed would maximize student interest." The new physical education complex would include such things as handball and squash courts, gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, a track and classrooms. Part of the discussion of the new complex centered on what size swimming pool should be installed. One of the proposals was for the construction of a 50-yard Olympic sized pool, while the other was for two 25-yard pools. Don Van Rossen of the University of Oregon, the former chairman of the NCAA swimming competition rules committee, recommended against the Olympic sized pool. "Mark Spitz does not come out of a community such as Reno, Nev.

and you must be LAS VEGAS (AP) -The University of Nevada regents have directed Reno campus officials to meet with the state Planning Board to accept a bid for construction of a new physical education complex. The plant and property committee of the University of Nevada-Reno is scheduled to meet with the state board in Reno Nov. 22. The groups will be faced with the task of trying to pare down bids already larger than the $3.7 budgeted for actual construction. The entire complex will cost $4.5 million.

UNR President N. Edd Miller said the old physical education complex is more than 30 years old and "very inadequate." Weather Reno, Sierra-Tahoe: Increasing cloudiness today leading to rain and a chance of snow tonight. Increasing winds today with little temperature change. Partly cloudy Sunday. Weather table on page 14.

"There's so much money involved, the dealers have to have a little more on the ball." Mrs. Brancucci says she decided to switch jobs after her doctor said getting off her feet might alleviate a back problem. She lost a bid to be the first woman baccarat dealer in this Doctor advised her to take Waitress first a sit-down job woman baccarat dealer on Las Vegas Strip Chuckh There are two sides to every question as long as we are not interested in it. To match the attire favored by the men, she bought two tuxedo jackets, which she wears with black skirts. Has she dealt a blow for equal rights? "I think any field a woman moves into for the first time is a boon to women's lib," she says.

gambling town by about two months to Dorothy Stevens, a 27-year-old Briton, who works for the downtown Union Plaza Hotel. Mrs. Brancucci works for the Stardust Hotel. Although baccarat dealing jobs are scarce, Mrs. Brancucci said she has felt no resentment from male colleagues.

tore said. "It's the king of the card games because the most money that is bet at one particular time is bet in baccarat. "The game is played mostly with cash. In 21 you see a lot of chips and it's not as impressive as if you look at a baccarat table and see a quarter or a half million dollars sitting there." want people to get the wrong idea that because she's a woman she got a baccarat job." Although baccarat is simpler to play than other wagering games, it is considered the most prestigious because the stakes are ofte higher. "In Europe only the very wealthy play baccarat," Para LAS VEGAS, Nev.

(AP)-A blonde former cocktail waitress advised by her physician to find a sit-down job has become the first woman baccarat dealer on the Las Vegas Strip. Shirley Brancucci, a divorced mother of four, ages 7 to 22, had never dealt cards until she enrolled in a Las Vegas dealing school..