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Valeria's Wife; RENO EVENING GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN RENO, NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1956 Know Your Candidates Republican Assembly (Editor's Note: This is another in a series of articles concerning candidates for election in November. Today's candidates are Thomas M. Kean, Howard F. McKissick, and Clifford E. (Johnny) Sanf ord, Republicans seeking election to the Nevada state assembly from the Reno district.) 121,555 REGISTERED VOTERS IN NEVADA FOR ELECTION OF '56 Exceeding all expectations, voter registration for the 1956 general election is 121,555, the highest in the state's history, Secretary of State John Koontz reported today.

He said that voter registration totals from two counties, Washoe and Humboldt, are unofficial, but were received from county clerks and little change in the official total is expected. The new figures show an Increase of 14,759 voters since the September primary, when the total state registration was 106,796. Koontz' new figures show a total of 73,838 Democrats and 42,521 Republicans. Koontz said the 1956 general election Is 13,182 above the previous record general election registration set in 1954 when 108,372 Nevadans were eligible to vote. The new figures also show a gain of slightly more than 20,000 voters since the last presidential election of 1952 when 101,248 were registered.

As it did in the primary, Clark county has the most eligible voters with 36,400. Clark has about 45 per cent of the total registered Democrats, 33,928 as against 12,112 Republicans. In Washoe county, 18,500 Democrats and 17,000 Republicans are the unofficial figures. The Increase in Clark county since the primary registration closed was 7595, while Washoe county shows 3320 new voters Of the increase In Clark 3755 were Democrats and 1375 Republicans. The unofficial figures show 2459 new Democratic registrations in Washoe county since the 1956 primary and 2248 new Republicans.

COURT BANS LOUD SHIRTS SPORT WEAR No more slacks or loud sport shirts in Washoe county district court after Dec. 31. Judges Grant L. Bowen, A. J.

Maestretti and Gordon W. Rice have signed a joint order to the effect that as long as they are going to start wearing judicial robes at the be-, ginning of next year, attorneys and witnesses are going to dress properly too. The robes, to add to the dignity of the court, will be worn in courts throughout Nevada in accordance with an agreement at the recent judicial conference in Elko. The new order specifies that attorneys, litigants and witnesses will wear" business suits and ties. Women attorneys, witnesses or litigants are not to wear informal attire "such as slacks." Attorneys bringing clients or witnesses into the courts are to be held responsible for enforcement of the order.

In the past, witnesses have-appeared in sport shirts, overalls and without ties. Some women have appeared in shorts, and have been directed to leave until properly 4 1 cy IV i vmrngmmm SOUTHEAST RENO AREA DEVELOPMENT REVIEWED An important phase in the development of a southeast Reno district was reviewed by the Regional Planning Commission at a meeting Tuesday night. An overall, tentative plan of bounded, roughly, by South Virginia street, Airport road, Apple street and Kietzke lane, was submitted to the planners for study. Generally, the pattern would zoning along Airport road and Wrondel way with a buffer of gen PHONE FA 3-3161 Smoke Control Ordinance Is Outlined Copies Are Sent Heads of Three Governing Bodies Long-awaited outline for a smoke control ordinance for the Reno-Spafks area was completed today by Edwin C. Mulcahy, Washoe county assistant district attorney.

Mulcahy, who volunteered for the drafting job some eight months ago, said he had mailed copies of the finished outline to Mayor Len Harris. Sparks city manager James Walt and Washoe county commissioners this morning. DELAYS CAUSED The delay in preparation, Mulcahy said, was caused by his having to draw up the outline by himself in his spare time. He was assisted only by Raymond M. Smith of the regional planning commission who did the vast amount of preliminary research, and by attorney William J.

Cashill who represents several heavy industries in the area, and is also a member of the mayor's smoke control committee. The outline is not a "proposed ordinance," Mulcahy pointed out, but is merely the first written plan for city officials and smoke control committeemen to use in preparing the ordinance. Other committee members in addition to Cashill, are C. E. Shepherd of the local weather station who represents Sparks; county commissioner Ray Peterson and city manager C.

B. Kinnison and Sparks Mayor C. E. Richards. Mayor Harris heads the committee.

A major problem that will face ordinance drafters, Mulcahy said, is the controversial Ringlemann Chart used in the outline as a means of deciding smoke density. Mulcahy has "serious doubts" as to whether the Ringlemann will stand up in court. However, he said it is the only known method for determining smoke density. TROUBLE SPOTS Other trouble spots in the outline, Culcahy pointed out, lie in Section II which describes the allowable amount of smoke from any single source based on the shaky Ringlemann Chart published by the U. S.

Bureau of Mines. Cashill has inserted a suggestion in this section that asks for certain area limitations on location of smoke sources. Section III is tentatively designed to prevent additions or alterations to existing fuel-burning plants without inspection by a city inspector. Cashill asks for an amendment here that would make the section applicable only to newly-built plants, not to plants already operating here. Section VIII may cause controversy, Mulcahy said, because its asks that all wholesalers and retailers report to the city any sales of smoke-producing equipment.

Some problems will arise, Mulcahy said, from Section that (Turn to page 14, col. 4) CLOUDS COMING OVER MOUNTAIN SAYS FORECAST Reno's fair skies will cloud up tonight and the local area may get some light showers Thursday. Cooler weather is also expected Thursday, the weatherman said, with a high of about 65 degrees. Today's high should be near 75, and the low early Thursday, 30. Frost touched the city early this morning as the mercury dropped to 26.

The unsettled weather in the next 48 hours should hit most of northern Nevada and even in the Sierra where cloudy skies are foreseen and cooler temperatures Supreme Court May Rule Today On Tax Vote Justices Hear Arguments on Combined Appeal Members of the Nevada Supreme Court are expected to rule late today or. Thursday if the state's voters will be permitted to decide at next month's general election whether the sales and use tax will be retained or repealed. Arguments on a combined appeal from a decision of the Orms-by District Court refusing to grant an injunction which would have blocked the vote, and a plea for a write of mandamus which wrould prevent county clerks from putting the question on the ballot, were heard before the court this morning in Carson. David 2enoff, Las' Vegas attorney who sought the injunction and the writ of mandamus, told the court the referendum petitions placing the issue on the ballot were defective intwo respects: 1. Persons verifying signa-natures on the petitions failed to sign them as he claims the law requires.

2. They are signed in many cases by electors, instead of ac tual voters. Zenoff declared that there is a vast difference between an elec-J tor and a voter, and that if thej petitions are ruled valid unreg-! istered persons will be allowed to i participate in a move to change I the laws of the staete. "The petitioner," Zenoff said, "is not taking something away from the voters of the state" but is merely assertingw that those backing the repeal movement must comply with the laws and then their matter will go on the ballot. Named as the petitioner for the injunction and the writ of the mandamus is Betty Beebe of Las Vegas, Zenoffs secretary.

He said that she was a resident, voter and taxpayer of the state and thus qualified to challenge the validity of the petitions for the referendum. Attorney General Harvey Dick-erson. representing John Koontz and the county clerks who were named as the target of the proceedings seeking to halt the Nov. 6 vote on the sales tax issue, declared that granting of either plea would be judicial interference with a legislative act. He declared further that Miss Beebe had failed to show how she would suffer damage separate and apart from the general public.

He said such a showing is essential if an injunction is "to be issued. Dickerson said that the term "elector" and "voter" is used interchangeably in Nevada statute and constitution. The attorney genral also declared that the writ of mandate is not the proper remedy either, since many courts have ruled that such a writ "is a remedy for refusal of a public official to act, not to undo something that has been done." George Rudiak, Las Vegas attorney named a "friend of the court" before the arguments cipened, supported Dickerson's stand. He struck at Zenoffs contention that there is a difference between an elector and a voter as the term is used in setting forth the requirements for initiative and referendum petitions. Zenoff argued in rebuttal that Dickerson and Rudiak, who has been in the forefront of the sales tax repeal movement, looked to other states for their arguments.

The Nevada courts already have ruled, Zenoff declared, that if the remedy sought is not the legally correct one, the courts will act to right obvious wrongs. He said that referendum petitions were posted "in grocery stores" in Las Vegas by members of the repeal movement, and that therefore the proper verification could not be signed on all pages of the petitions. Shows Strain After Testimony Six Days on Stand Under Heavy Fire From U.S. Lawyers Showing the strain of six daj'S on the witness stand, Mrs. Leta Valenta today still was under the heavy fire of the government attorney who is cfoss-examining her in the income tax evasion trial of her husband in federal court in Carson.

Only the second defense ness, Mrs. Valenta has beenon the stand since Oct. 9. most "of the time testifying about the mass of Dr. H.

J. Valenta's financial records which were producjed. CLAIMS SHE ERRED Clyde R. Maxwell, assistant regional counsel for the internal revenue service, has been attempting to show Mrs. Valenta erred in some of this testimony, and has sought to impeach the witness by comparing testimony with a statement of July 2, 1934, to IRS agents.

Mrs. Valenta, during cross- examination, has been cautioned a number of times by Judge John R. Ross, and once by her own counsel, to answer questions directly. When he has been unable to get a "yes" or "no" answer at first, Maxwell has patiently continued to ask the question, with apparent cumulative effect. The physician's wife, who kept most of his records in 1949-52, and who admitted Wednesday" she is an experienced bookkeeper, but not a skilled one, has displayed considerable poise Tt seemed most shaken when Judge Ross and Maxwell both displayed concern about the strain of her long testimony at the opening of the Wednesday session.

But Maxwell soon was back on the offensive. ROLES ARE ISSUE In the cross-examination the chief issue has been the compara tive roles of Mrs. Valenta, Dr. Valenta and J. Rulon Bastian, who made up their income tax returns, in producing and evaluating the information that went into the returns.

Mrs. Valenta consistently stated that she had supplied information to Bastian, or he got it from her records, and that Dr. Valenta talked to the accountant "just as a matter of conversation." Mrs. Valenta said she and the doctor counted on Bastian to "properly prepare" the re turns. Bastian brought out that pay ments to Bastian were only $30 one year and $50 another and asked at length about information sources.

When Maxwell produced a 1934 statement Tuesday Mrs. Valenta. said she signed the last page when it was blank, that she had not written the "LRV initials on each page, and that the an swers were not hers. Wednesday Judge Ross allowed her to make a statement softening this testimony to the point that she did not recollect signing her initials nor seeing the origi nal document. READ ANSWERS Maxwell read answers attrib uted to Mr.

Valenta in the state ments which said that Bastian sometimes would ask Dr. Valenta for explanations of records and that on cattle and hay sales Dr. (Turn to page 14, col. 4) Navy Secretary To Visit Nevada An intensive campaign for Republican candidates will get underway in western Nevada Friday following the arrival of Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas.

Thomas is scheduled to arrive by air at Fallon's Naval Auxiliary Air Station Thursday afternoon. Following an informal inspection of the Fallon station, Thomas will be driven to Hawthorne where he will spend Thursday night. He will inspect the naval ammunition depot there Friday morning, concluding his Nevada military duties. Returning to Fallon he will take part in a Republican open house and luncheon at Fallon Fraternal hall beginning at 11 :30 a. m.

Everyone is invited to attend the Fallon luncheon, hear Thomas give a brief address and meet GOP senatorial candidate Cliff Young and congressional candidate Richard Horton, Churchill county GOP Chairman Russ Turner announced. The secretary of the navy will then be driven to Reno, arriving at the Mapes Hotel at 4 p. m. At 7:30 p. m.

Thomas will make a television appearance with both Young and Horton and at 8 p. m. all three will take part in a GOP rally at Sparks in company with Massachusetts labor leader Tin McCarthy. McCarthy seconded the nomination of President Eisenhower at the GOP convention in San Francisco. Thomas will stay overnight ir, Reno and Saturday morning will drive to Haw thorne where he will informally visit the naval installation and take part in a Hawthorne GOP rally at noon there.

Thomas will conclude his Nevada political visit with this appearance according to Cliff Young's headquarters here. Speaker Tells Alternatives to Sales Tax Loss A 'no vote on the sales tax. question No. 8 on the Nov. 6 bal lot will wreck the economy of the state of Nevada and prove disas trous to the public schools, members of the South Reno Lions Club were informed Tuesday night.

State Sen. Forest B. Lovelock of Washoe county told the Lions that if the sales tax repealer question carries, schools and public offices will be without funds until additional revenue raising legislation can be enacted, and that such legislation could not be come effective until. mid-1957. TAX NECESSARY siad the sales tax became necessary when the school population, which had increased 17 per cent between 1935 and 1945, jumped 200 per cent between 1945 and 1955, while the state's population was raised 43 per cent.

He said that the 1949 legislation failed to pass the sales tax by a single vote, and at that time school provisions could have been met for one-third the present cost. Failure of the sales tax legislation in the 1949 legislature was followed in 1951 by provisions of an additional S400.000 in 1951 and the lawmakers went home in 1953 hoping that re-enactment of the property tax equalization legislation might solve the problem. But in 1954 it became necessary for the legislature to be called back to appropriate more money for schools. At the same time Gov. Charles Russell appointed a citizens committee which made a detailed study supported by the Peabody survey.

It was this which led to school legislation in 1955. POSITIVE SUPPORT The legislation for the first time in Nevada history provided for definite and positive support of the schools, he said. There is a popular conception that the sales tax was designed to meet all of the costs of education, Lovelock said, "but we legislators knew Appropriations for all public functions in 1951 and 1953 had come out of surplus funds, which were drained. Other branches 'of government had to be supported, institutions, the highway patrol, and aid. to dependent children.

"We had to have up to $12 million in a few years," he said. As to possible revenue sources. Lovelock said gambling, which had paid $2J2 million, would face a raise of 500 per cent to meet the increased costs, it would have been necessary to raise property (Turn to page 14, col. 6) II. F.

MCKISSICK, JK. Howard F. McKissick, Republican candidate for the assembly, is a member of the law firm of Springer and McKissick. The 29 year old candidate is a member of one of Reno's oldest families. His grandparents owned McKissick's Opera House, well known by old-timers here.

His father is Howard F. McKissick, a deputy U. S. marshal. At the University of Nevada, McKissick was a Fleischmann scholar.

He obtained his law degree at Hastings school of law, where he was third in his class. He was employed by the Nevada Statute Revision commis sion, which re-wrote laws of the state written since 1864. During the last session of the legislature he was employed as a legislative bill drafter. He is married to the former Barbara Taylor. McKissick is a member of the American and Nevada bar associations, and of Reno Lodge 597, B.P.O.

Elks. He is also a member of the Exchange club and the Air Force Reserve. He is president of the Washoe county Young Republicans. Horfon Seeks Baring Debate Richard W. Horton, Republican seeking election to congress in a speech in Reno last night accused his opponent Walter S.

Baring of running on a platform that Nevada voters have rejected in two previous elections. "I am not interested in debat ing with my opponent issues that are four years old," the young attorney said. "We, as Nevadans and Americans are looking toward the future not to the past. To my knowledge, my opponent has failed to tell you of a single principle of government in which he believes and upon which he would base his decisions if elected as your congressman." Horton, who is back in Reno after a statewide tour, earlier in the day challenged Baring to a public debate either in Reno or Las Vegas, or both. Baring could not be found for comment.

Horton told his audience last night he has taken action so the voters may better compare the legislative abilities and beliefs of the two candidates. Horton said the action "is another step in a principle upon which I have based my entire campaign, and that is I do not expect anyone to vote blind'." In one of the hardest hitting speeches of his campaign thus far, Horton told his audience that unfortunately, "you cannot, and apparently will not be able to compare my beliefs and principles with those of my opponent be cause he has refused to state his beliefs." Horton arrived here Tuesday morning from Elko where he had met with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson for a conference on the problems facing the agricultural industry of Nevada and he left Reno early this morning for Las Vegas. He will cam paign there until Friday when he returns to Reno. On Friday, he is scheduled to meet with Secretary of Navy Charles" Sparks Thomas. Motor Scooter Rider Injured A 15-year-old boy suffered minor injuries Tuesday when the motor scooter he was riding struck a left-turning car in Sparks.

i The accident, Officer DeRay Fair said, occurred at Stanford way and Glendale road at 3:50 p. m. Lucien Smith, 1963 Citron was taken to Washoe Med ical Center with leg injuries following the accident. Farr said Smith's scooter hit a car driven by Mrs. Wilma Hirn-ing, 28, 105 Sparks.

Lucien was discharged from the hospital following treatment. HUBCAP TAKEN Joseph Holzmar, 656 West told police he is missing a hubcap valued at $16 from his parked car. THOMAS M. KEAN Thomas M. Kean, 47, was elected to the assembly in 1954 and is now seeking re-election.

He served in the 1955 regular session and the 1956 special sessions of the legislature. He served on the judiciary, taxation, insurance and banking and corporation committees. Kean trained as an engineer at Oregon state college, and worked as an engineer before coming to Reno. He is now president of Sierra Oxygen Co. here.

In connection with his work in the oxygen company, Kean is on the board of directors of each of three national oxygen trade organizations. He is married, and the father of two sons. Kean is a member of Reno lodge No. 13, F. and A.M., the Royal Arch Masons, Reno Rotary club and the War Manpower commission.

JOHNNY" SANFORD Clifford E. (Johnny) Sanf ord received 3,497 votes in the primary election. A native Nevadan, he was born in Fallon, and was educated there and at the University of Nevada. He is now 45. Sanford has gained many friends while employed at the Chism Ice Cream Co.

in Reno, at the Senator in Carson and in his present position with the Mapes hotel. He has been with the Mapes most of the years the hotel has been in operation. Sanford is a member of Carson Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is married and lives at 1775 Allen and has three sons and a daughter. Parents Patrol Group Organized Fifty-two Sparks parents 47 women and five men were sworn in Tuesday night as special officers of the Parents Patrol.

Their job, Police Chief Robert Galli said, will be to guard intersections near five elementary schools. At least 15 more parents will be sworn in next week, Galli added, bringing the patrol's rolls to nearly 70. Swearing-in ceremonies were conducted in the city council chambers at the city hall. Clerk Claude Cauble administered the oaths. Mayor C.

E. Richards spoke briefly to the group and congratulated them. G. J. Rosengren Taken by Death Funeral services are pending for George Joseph Rosengren of 2045 Coleman Reno who died Tuesday night in a local hospital.

Mr. Rosengren, age 37, and a native of Tacoma, had been a Reno resident for several years- He was employed by the Roberts Construction Co. here as a timekeeper. He was a veteran of World War II. His wife, Vivian L.

Rosengren, of Reno survives. O'Brien-Rogers Funeral Home Is in charge of the services. streets and zoning for the area permit heavy commercial (C-3) Vote Questions Are Published Eight of the ten questions which will appear on the- general elec tion Daiiot rsevaaa isov. appear in tonight's issue of the Reno Evening Gazette. As required by state law.

the full, legal language of the propo sition is published on the legal ad vertising page of this issue, this being the second official publi cation of the notice. A suffix to each of the eight questions is in eluded, which shows the voters exactly how "the proposition will be worded on the voting machines in ashoe county. Third publication of the same notice will take place on Oct. 27, while first official publication was on Oct. 6.

Harry K. Brown, county clerk, has asked that the matter be brought to the atten tion of the voters, so that persons going to the polls will be fully informed of all propositions on the ballot. Questions nine and ten are not includefl in tonight's legal publi cation, the two matters which refer, to the Washoe County School District. yuesuon xso. requires a yes or no vote to the question of "Shall Washoe County School Dis trict issue $4,000,000 worth of ne gotiable, coupon, general obliga tion bonds?" Question No.

10 reads "Shall Washoe County School District assume the bonded indebtedness of the abolished school districts which were within Washoe coun ty?" Publication of legal notice for questions nine and ten was han died by the school district after a resolution for placing these questions on the general election was passed by the school district board of trustees. This notice has already been published. Since they are not a question of statewide concern they will not be included in the legal notice in this issue. The legal notice takes up 31: columns of space. Trial to Open In Clark Beating LAS VEGAS The long delayed trial of Troy Otis Nance, 42-j ear-old unemployed former uriion muscle man, is slated in municipal court tomorrow.

Nance will face charges of as sault and battery on Walter Vick-ers, business agent of the sheet-metal union which deposed Nance. The trial has been twice continued on request of attorneys for Nance. Vickers has charged Nance with attacking him after he was called to the office of a local plumbing firm. Vickers was hospitalized briefly following the alleged attack and after his release swore out the complaint. Governor Improves Medical reports from Santa Barbara, say Gov.

Charles Russell is now up and around following recent surgery for the removal of his gall bladder. Doctors say the governor is progressing rapidly and may be discharged from the hospital this weekend. A week or so of rest at home is expected to be needed, however, before he can return to work. eral (C-l commercial zoning. Balance of the big tract would be zoned for duplex (R-2), with an area for multiple residence (R-3) provided east of Wrondel way and northerly of Airport road.

A park site is indicated, which would be in the southwest center of the tract, and a proposed school site is designated south of Apple street. Yori avenue extended would be the main north-south thorough fare, although a second north- south street to the west of Yori extended is included in the plat. East-west streets are laid out, as well as alleys which are required in commercial zones. Frontage roads, parallel to Kietzke lane, also provide north south access. In other action the commission denied a change of land use for the new Northridge and Amphitheater tracts, which lie just over the city line in the northwest.

In essence the board told the applicant, John Robinson, a requested change from present agricultural designation to (R-l), single residence, would have to await annexation of the tracts by the city. The commission pointed out that present county developed tracts fail to tie in with city patterns. Also stressed was the point that the city will not now extend sewers into areas outside the city. Vegas Hacienda Casino to Open LAS VEGAS The first new hotel to open on the famed Strip in almost IS months bows in tonight when the six million dollar Las Vegas Hacienda stages its official debut. Operating as a hotel since June 6, the Hacienda had to delay its official opening pending issuance of a casino license, awarded recently by the state and county.

The hotel is less than a mile from McCarran airport and is at the far end of the Strip area. Warren Bayley, chairman of the board of the new hotel, said the establishment will depart from the usual operating methods of Las Vegas by launching a wide spread publicity campaign to "generate nw business through books aimed at. groups not previously acquainted with Las Vegas." Bayley said also that although the hotel will offer entertainment it will not engage in the dollar battle for top performers, a trend that has had its effect on Las Ve gas hotels in past months. Youth Admits Theft ChaYge A 16-vear-old Reno bov. arrest ed for stealine hubcaps, tires and other auto accessories, has impli cated an 18-year-old Meaa airman, police said today.

The bov admitted stealing 14 hubcaps, two tires and wheels and an exhaust pipe extension last week. Some of this equipment was found in use on the airman's auto, but he told police he bought it from the youth. Officers said" the younger one will be turned over to juvenile au thorities and the oJaer xo aieaa officials. CIRCLE TO MEET PORTOLA. Calif.

The Friend-shiD Circle of the Portola Com munity Church will meet Thurs day evening at eight clock with Joe Sheely as guest speaker on Our County Projects. The public is invited to attend. 'A i i dies' activities include a trip to Virginia City. The board of directors met today. Left to right: Kenneth M.

McCaffree, executive secretary, Seattle; Karl M. Glasoe, Los Angeles, president; E. E. Saberhagen, vice president, Seattle; K. M.

Thomson, secretary-treasurer, Los Angeles. (Christensen Photo) INSULATION CONTRACTORS OPEN CONVENTION The Associated Insulation Contractors of the Western States opened their annual meeting in Reno today at the Riverside Hotel with some 100 persons attending the three-day sessions. Labor leaders, as well as contractor representatives, will address the meeting. La.