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Menicucci named to new state ethics panel session, and wasn't aware of the effect of the tax increment legislation. The second question concerned Menicucci's participation in the study and development of a proposal for a parking facility in downtown Reno, which came before the off-street parking commission. Cavanaugh owned a portion of the site where the garage would have been located. The commission said there was no ethics violation here, either. The old panel suggested Menicucci could avoid future embarrassment by full revelation of any connections through which he or a client in his insurance business could benefit as a result of his council actions.

Menicucci, said today that as a member of the newly reconstituted ethics commission he plans to "treat someone else as I would want to be treated. "I think the experience 1 had will always be with me and always assist me in making any kind of determination. "People should not be pre-judged," said Menicucci, who once said the media publicity which followed accusations that he used his city council position to advance the interests of his insurance firm caused "anguish and heartache to me and my family." Menicucci said that "ethics laws are as good as the people who will be exercising them. "There isn't a law on the books that doesn't need CARSON CITY Reno Mayor Bruno Menicucci, who underwent scrutiny of a since-abolished Nevada Ethics Commission, was named today to a new ethics panel by Gov. Mike O'Callaghan.

Also named to the new ethics commission were Nevada Controller Wilson McGowan, Las Vegas accountant Joseph DeArmas, Las Vegas lawyer Dennis Simmons, Ely lawyer C. E. "Dutch Horton, and Ethel Warren of Reno, who has been active in civic affairs. The old Nevada Ethics Commission was shut down by the Nevada Supreme Court last year, when the high court ruled terms of the law under which the panel was formed were unconstitutionally vague. But before the panel went out of business, one of the matters it handled was an allegation of possible conflict of interest involving Menicucci.

The commission gave an opinion on two questions. One involved Menicucci's lobbying for passage of a tax increment district bill at the 1975 legislative session. The bill was aimed at permitting the financing of a downtown development plan, which was part of a proposal offered by developer John Cavanaugh, who transferred his insurance account to Menicucci's firm in June of 1975. The commission said Cavanaugh wasn't Menicucci's client at the time of the legislative some common sense Judgment doesn't need the balance of human judgment." Menicucci said he didn't think his being appointed to the commission reflects the feeling of Gov. Mike O'Callaghan that he knows the ropes because of his own experience or represents a form of vindication.

Nevertheless, he said he looks upon it "as a complete honor, particularly in view of the fact that I was up for a conflict of interest determination." The new ethics commission will elect its own chairman and must meet once each calendar quarter. The law which revived the panel, AB 450, also mandates financial disclosures by various state and local government officials and elective office-holders. The panel has power to issue opinions on potential conflicts of interest, which will be confidential unless officials involved authorize their release or fail to heed advice given. The panel has a budget of only $5,000 per fiscal year the same as the old ethics panel, nose members complained the low sum hindered their efforts. The law also outlines standards of ethical conduct.

Income to be reported by officials includes each money source which amounts to 10 per cent or more of gross income. The reports generally will be filed before or shortly after officials take office, and shortly before their terms expire. Violations of the act are punishable as gross misdemeanors. This evening's 4 JW" 1 Reno Evening Gazette Reno, Nevada, Tuesday, July 19, 1977 Thirteen Phone (702) 786-8989 in lnmwiiMcim7wl- Last of the Stardust The last of the Stardust Motel is being brushed away and banquet facilities, about 10,000 additional square availability of city sewer capacity. Sewer capacity to make room for an expansion to the Sundowner feet of gaming and another restaurant will be added for the first phase improvements was transferred Hotel-casino on Fourth Street and Arlington Avenue, in the first phase.

Plans for an additional 250 rooms from the now-demolished Stardust. A hotel-casino spokesman said today that convention (currently there are 349 rooms; depend on the (Gazette photo) Supermarket exec released Former Reno supermarket executive Jay Garrett, charged in the April gunshot slaying of his estranged wife, was released from Washoe County Jail on $100,000 bail Friday. Garrett is due to stand trial Sept. 12 on an open murder charge. He is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Marlene, in the Myers Realty office where she worked on April 15.

Garrett had been held in a hospital prison ward and then the jail until his release over the weekend. Bail originally was set at $200,000, but was reduced to $100,000 by Washoe Dist. Judge William Forman on June 2. Washoe Dist. Judge Grant Bowen denied a subsequent request from Garrett on July 13 that he be allowed to post a property bond rather than cash bail.

Governor to speak Gov. Mike O'Callaghan will be the guest speaker at a luncheon meeting Tuesday, Aug. 9 lor the World Sign Association. The luncheon will be in the Lakeside Room of the Hyatt Tahoe, Incline Village. The association is holding its convention Aug.

7-10 at the Hyatt. Head Start grant Gazette-Journal Carson Bureau The Head Start regional training center in Washoe County has been awarded a $100,000 federal grant to further its educational objectives. Jack Peters, head of the center, said today the money would train people who would help parents prepare youngsters of "disadvantaged" backgrounds for school. Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, in announcing the grant, said the center, one of six in the United States, has trained 600 parents and teachers from 12 western states in the past two years.

Douglas in charge Investigation of the reported kidnaping of Michael R. Hathcock of Kings Beach has been turned over to Douglas County, a Washoe sheriff's spokesman said. Detective commander, Capt. Lome Butner, said that based on Hathcock's complaint, the reported kidnaping began near Cave Rock in Douglas County and not Incline Village as first believed. The young California man said he was held captive for 11 days by two hitchhikers he picked up.

He said he finally made his way to Lovelock on Sunday after the men released him in the desert. Butner said the motive is unknown. Lamb trial begins LAS VEGAS AP) Jury selection was expected to consume most of today, the opening of the federal tax evasion trial of Clark County Sheriff Ralph Lamb. Lamb, 51, was indicted April 13 on three counts accusing him of failing to report $80,000 in income and to pay $34,000 in federal income taxes in 1970, 1971 and 1972. In documents filed before the U.S.

District Court trial, the prosecution contended Lamb was living more lavishly than would seem possible on his $21,000 annual salary in 1972. The documents said he lived in a $145,000 house and his net worth doubled to $300,000 between 1970 and 1972. Lamb, in his third term as sheriff over an 800-member city-county police force, counters he is being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service. The prosecutor In the case is Asst. U.S.

Atty. David Spurlock, with assistance from a Justice Department tax attorney. Lamb is represented by Charles McNelis of Maryland, Louis Weiner of Las Vegas and Bruch Hochman, a Los Angeles tax specialist. McNelis represented Lamb's brother, state Sen. Floyd Lamb, who was acquitted of similar charges last year.

The maximum penalty for the charge is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count. Faculty Senate wants breaks egents to discuss state salary limit By PAT O'DRISCOLL Salary ceilings of state employes will be discussed on two fronts Friday at the University of Nevada Board of Regents meeting in Reno. The meeting gets underway at 9:30 a.m. in the Center for Religion and Life, 1101 N. Virginia across the street from the university's Reno campus.

The salary issue was taken up last spring when the Nevada Legislature voted to exempt physicians and surgeons from the state salary limitation of 95 per cent ($38,000) of the governor's $40,000 salary. That move brought several budget requests for salary increases into the range for university medical school professors and deans. One such appointment that of Dr. Donald Pickering as professor of pediatrics, at $55,000 a year is on the Friday agenda. The legislation exempting medical faculty from the state salary ceiling also includes a new section which allows state agencies including the university system to seek similar exemptions for unusually qualified staff members.

The UNR Faculty Senate seized upon that possibility and recommended that the regents seek removal of the salary ceiling for all employes in the university system. In addition, the senate wants the regents to declare that the state law limiting salaries doesn't apply to university system employes. The faculty senate also notes that the salary limit is just $31,665 for professors with 10-month contracts because their ceiling is scaled down as 10-12 of a full-year's pay. University chancellor Neil Humphrey opposes the faculty plan and points out that the governor's salary will rise to $50,000 in 1979, raising the faculty salary ceiling to $47,500 for 12 months. The regents also will discuss plans to officially abolish the central office of the community college president, replacing it with individual presidents for the state's three campuses.

(For details, see related story on Page 15.) Also on the agenda are twice-delayed reports on the Mackay School of Mines' accreditation prospects and the UNR campus' first Alumni Action Day. 1 he mines discussion was to coincide with a final announcement on whether UNR's mining school, beset with financial problems, would hold onto its national engineering accreditation. That announcement, expected by July 1, still hasn't been made by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development, the accrediting agency. The regents will hear a UNR request to establish a master's degree program in the Orvis School of Nursing. Bids will be opened and awarded for several university projects, including construction of the $803,000 third phase of the UNR medical school building complex and an $859,000 addition to UNR's renewable natural resources building.

Another project to be awarded is for remodeling of UNR's Mackay Science Building to be used for the medical school. And resurfacing of UNR's tennis courts on a $56,500 budget will be decided. Also on the agenda is a change in the regents' handbook to bring student government groups under the state's new Open Meeting Law. Student body officers, as well as state and local government officials, can lose their positions if they knowingly violate the open meeting law. But student officials also will be liable for disciplinary action according to university codes if an amendment is approved Friday.

County water conservation law: Should it apply to well owners? LOOK A I GOT A NEW BASEBALL GLOVE Tombola raises $21,000 for Women's League The Washoe Medical Center Women's League is $21,000 closer to its $190,000 goal with funds raised during the 26th annual Tombola festival held Saturday in Pickett Park. "We are absolutely delighted with the figure," said Mrs. Carol Howard, chairman of the event with Mrs. Rosemary McMillan. "Last year the net.

figure for two days was what we netted this year in one, so we feel we had a tremendous success again this year." She said the amount included $1,800 earned by the hospital's Candy Stripers in ticket sales and booth activities. "That is also a record," Mrs. Howard said. Purpose of the festival was to help the league raise funds for the purchase of linear accelerator simulator. The machine will be used at Washoe Medical Center to design therapeutic treatments for cancer victims.

Describing the Saturday festival, Mrs. Howard said: "We had a park full of people right from the start and it held that way all day long. We ran out of food just about the time we had planned to close, and we got nothing but compliments on the way things went." Crowned Tombola queen during mid-day ceremonies was Kathy Royse, Reno High senior and hospital Candy Striper, who sold 560 tickets and recently won recognition for having worked 900 volunteer hours at the hospital. She received a $100 savings bond, a rose bouquet and a handmade afghan. She was crowned Dy.Lori isom, of Las Vegas.

Miss Nevada 1977. Receiving a $25 savings bend as runner-up in the Tombola Queen contest was Reed High sophomore Belinda LaRue. She has been a Washoe Med Candy Striper since March. "That puis him on the spot to agree or disagree with us, and I think he'll agree with us," said commissioner Bob Rusk. Westergard, with "the weight of his position," could be valuable in recommending registration to apply the law to all residents, Rusk said.

The commissioners approved a final set of amendments to the ordinance. A new amendment introduced this morning further defined the term "excessive" use of water as "any immoderate or unreasonable consumption of water which results in water: "-Running to waste in any gutter, drainway, swale, sewage system, or any place for the disposal of water in a steady stream or flow for 20 minutes or more; "-Running to waste or collecting in pools or In depressed areas to a depth of six inches or more; "-Applying the water supply (of) any public water system in violation of any other water conservation regulation. i Another amendment, added at the urging of Sierra Pacific Power would include a groundwater shortage among the findings which commissioners could make before declaring an emergency water scarcity and invoking the more restrictive portions of the ordinance. Proposed restrictions include a ban on hand watering, a limit on hours for outside watering and a ban on using water to clean sidewalks and other paved surfaces. The second reading and final adoption of the bill introduced in May is scheduled for next Tuesday's commission meeting.

The cities of Reno and Sparks are considering similar ordinances. By DOUG MCMILLAN County Commissioner Bill Fair said this morning the county's water conservation law should apply to individual well owners as well as those served by municipal water companies. The ordinance, scheduled for final adoption next week, does not apply to individual well owners nor to water-rights holders because they come under state jurisdiction. But Farr suggested submitting a recommendation to state engineer Roland Westergard that Nevada include water-waste prohibitions in issuing permits for the use of ground or surface waters. "It should apply equally and effectively to all people," said Farr.

"He (Westergard) could enforce it." Deputy Dist. Atty. Larry Struve, the commissioners' legal counsel, said the legislature wrestled with the problem in its 1977 session. At one point, AB 443 would have given county commissions power to control individual wells. Struve said the provision was struck because of agricultural interests, who feared it would damage their businesses.

"Individual well owners have the right to use water," said commissioner Ken Gaunt, "but I don't think they have a right to waste water." Struve told the commissioners their only recourse at this point would be to wait until the 1979 legislative session to recommend changes in the law. However, the commissioners decided to. send their recommendation to Westergard anyway. (liv ullmannTJ WHAT KIND? HANK AARON? PETE ROSE? RE6GIE JACK50N.