Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 22

EVENING GAZETTE PAGE TWENTY-TWO RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1957 New Type Alfalfa Aphid Resistant U. N. Reports Development Of Southern Type Variety A new southern-type variety of alfalfa, highly resist-ent to the spotted alfalfa aphid, has been developed by the agricultural experiment station of the Max C. Fleischmann college of agriculture, University of Nevada, and the crops research division with entomology cooperating of the agricultural research service, Department of Agriculture. The new alfalfa, named Moapa, is the second variety developed in Nevada that is highly resistant to the spotted Sheet Metal Workers Given New Proposal Wage Increases Are Basis of Employer Offer Sheet metal workers are to meet tonight for discussion of a new proposal submitted by employers in an effort to end their work stoppage which began on July 1.

Clinton G. Knoll, representing the Reno Employers' council, released the new proposal, which provides for regular pay increases at six month intervals to arrive at a 42 and a half cent an hour increase by Jan. 1, 1959. The increases scheduled are 15 cents an hour immediately, another seven and a half cents an hour on Jan. 1, 1958, a ten cent alfalfa aphid, an insect that 1 1 i5l! f-.

I if'- i i Ir i i I f.rf..).- 4 nV' lH Of 1 1' i f-- At mn, mJ Mansfield, Mayor Len Harris, Gus Raptis, Laurance Etter and Mat Mathews, Fifteen mail carriers will meet another group Saturday morning at Tahoe City for 106 mile forced ride ending up in Auburn tonight. (Marie White photo) THEY CARRY THE MAIL Pony Express riders shewn above gathered at the post office in Reno before dawn today to collect mail sacks they'll carry on Sierra trail ride to Auburn. Left to right above are Postal Clerk Ed Paszek, Nick Mansfield, Pinky METER MOLLY PLAN READIED FOR COUNCIL Recommendations that Reno's "Meter Mollies" be returned to the direct supervision of the city manager will be made to the city council at its meeting next Monday night, Elmo Granata, chairman of the Reno Traffic Safety Council said today. But there will be no suggestion that the working day for the mollies be extended to a 12 hour period from 8 a. m.

to 8 p. m. nor PHONE FA 3-3161 Mother Asks Governor to Refuse Writ Young Husband, Father of Three Parole Violator A 21-year-old New Empire housewife who expects her fourth child late this year, has asked the governor's office in Carson to refuse extradition on her hus band, LeRoy Pine, 23, sought by Louisiana authorities for viola' tion of parole. Kathryn Pine talked to Gov. Charles H.

Russell's executive assistant, Mae Morirson Thurs day and requested an extradition hearing by the governor. GRANT HEARING Russell's office said this morn ing a hearing would be granted if extradition papers are received from Baton Rouge, author! ties and Carson police said Louisiana authorities have indi cated they will ask for Pine's ex tradition. Pine is being held by Carson police following his arrest Mon day in Reno on a reckless driving charge. A routine fingerprint check showed he is wanted by Louisiana authorities on a pa role violation charge. Pine told Carson police and a reporter from the Carson Appeal he was placed on a three year parole in October, 1951 after he and two other teenagers had broken into an unoccupied house, destroyed some fruit jars and stolen a coat, gloves, two foun tain pens and a pair of boots.

The theft, labeled simple burglary, occured when Pine was 17. GOT NEVADA JOB Pine was working as an ap prentice storm door and window installation man at the time of his arrest. He told police he was hitchhiking between Sulphur and Fenton. La. in 1952 and was picked up by a Nevada man who offered him a job at Dayton, Nev.

He married his 21-year-old wife in December, 1952. Her daughter by a previous marriage, Patricia Anne, now 6, has been legally adopted by Pine. They have two other children, LeRoy, 3 and Jessie Martin, 2. Mrs. Pine expects a fourth child in December.

Pine, described as a "well-behaved prisoner," by Carson police, told Carson newspaperman Bob Smith yesterday "I am bewildered and confused and worried about my family." His attorney, Richard L. Waters, jr. of Carson, said Pine has been an outstanding citizen around Carson and New Empire "He's never been in any kind of trouble here," said Waters. Pine's wife has indicated she will "stand by LeRoy all the way." She is now circulating a petition among Carson and New Empire residents which she wants to present to Governor Russell if he grants an extradition hearing. They All Saw It But Was It, Or Was It Not An Object? Lawyers who consistently win courtroom cases because witnesses can't identify faces or objects "I could never forget," would have found an abundance of legal helpers around Reno Thursday night.

It all started when an object was sighted in the skies above Peavine mountain late last night. Today, after a wide assortment of descriptions, only one thing seemed certain. It was an object. Varied descriptions: It was shaped like an ice cream cone. It resembled a green banana.

What color? Why it was grey! It was green. It was almost as big as the moon. Yeah, it was real tiny. It was motionless. Sure, it moved, very, very slowly.

Looked like an exploding star. Not like any star I've ever seen. Summary: It was definitely an object maybe. THEFT REPORTED Harold Olsen, RFD 2, Box 258, Reno, told police someone stole four hubcaps, valued at from his 1956 pickup truck. Spotted Aphid Threat Faced, Agent Declares FALLON New Fall seedings of alfalfa in Churchill county face possible extermination from Spotted Aphid unless growers plant only the aphid-resistant Lahon-tan variety, Extension Agt.

Charlie York said this week. Last Fall several hundred acres of new seeding, mostly Ranger, was lost locally due to Spotted Aphid damage, including some units as large as 40 acres. IDEAL PERIOD Ideal planting period is from August 20 to Sept. 20, the extension agent said. Mr.

York further advised growers to keep a watchful eye on fields after the current cutting of second crop, so that Spotted Aphid damage to third crop can be prevented. During the past 30 days Spotted Aphid has appeared in numerous places in the valley, causing a sticky condition when the hay is cut in some fields. Mr. York advised cutting of all second crop hay regardless of aphid condition in any particular field, but suggested that third crop shoots be observed closely for possible control measures against the bugs. DAMAGE EARLY Within a couple of weeks after cutting, the new third crop can suffer damage.

Best control is application of Malathion spray by rig. Some aphid were observed in first crop just before cutting time, but little damage has been done either to first or second crop, the extension agent said. Damsel bugs have built up in population this year, and together with the lesser number of lady bugs have kept the Spotted Aphid under control here until recently. The aphid are now present in about the same numbers as they were around Sept. 1 of last year.

Driving Range Lights Studied Plans for changing the light' ing system at Reno Golf Driving Range, on South Virginia street, are to be studied by the Reno Board of Adjustment at its Sept, 4 meeting. Property owners to the west of the range have complained that the lights shine into their homes until late at night. At their reg ular meeting Wednesday night the board withheld discussion of the question for a month, to give time for study by lighting engi neers. Board members are to review the driving range variance, which called for a study of the operation after three years. G.

V. Kendall, operator of the range, was given 30 days to submit a plan for keeping the lights limited to the range itself. Kendall said he would seek information from lighting engineers in an effort to develop a plan which can be submitted to the board of adjustment at the September meeting. In other business, the board granted an automobile sales lot variance to Anna Frey Hill, for vacant property on Nevada street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. The variance granted carries a condition that the lot must be paved.

TRUCK TIRE TAKEN Theft of a new spare tire from one of their trucks has been reported to police by the Reno Brewing 900 East Fourth St. Touring Orphans To Be Guests At Shrine Circus These Montana orphans on a holiday will be back in Reno tonight after a trip to Disneyland and a big time is in store for them when they arrive. The youngsters, more than 200 strong, hit town by bus last week and remained overnight after a visit to Gov. Charles Russell in Carson. Montana Millionaire Ben J.

Brenton is sponsoring the 11 day trip which included a tour of California places of interest with Disneyland the highlight. When the tots arrive in Reno tonight they will be guests of Kerak Shrine temple at the Shrine-Polack Bros, circus and their other needs are being met by Robert Sullivan, tourist and convention director of the Reno Chamber of Commerce. Sullivan has arranged for girls on the tour to be quartered overnight at the California building in Idlewild park and the boys will bed down in the new national guard armory at the rodeo grounds. The trip back to Montana will resume Saturday. Tunnel Done At Caye Rock Traffic will again move through Lake Tahoe's Cave Rock next week following elimination of a hazardous condition at that tourist spot.

The announcement came Tues day from engineer William H. Smith of the bureau of public roads office in Carson. The new tunnel through Cave rock will be opened to traffic on Aug. 14. A partial lining will be installed in the existing passageway.

Smith said. The existing tunnel, which was constructed in 1931, will be closed about one month. Water seepage has led to cracks and falling rocks, he said. The new tunnel, east of the existing passageway, will serve two lanes of northbound traffic. Cimpletion of the second project is expected about Sept.

20. I has caused millions of dol lar's worth of damage to al falfa throughout many of the alfalfa producing states of the nation during the past three years. Breeding work for the new variety was headed by Dr. Oliver F. Smith, ARS agronomist, with Richard Peaden, ARS assistant agronomist, assisting during late phases of the program.

Dr. Wayne Howe, ARS entomologist at Bakersfield, assisted with aphid resistance tests. Since 1954, when the spotted aphid caused serious damage to alfalfa in six southwestern states, ARS researchers, in cooperation with the Nevada and other southwestern agricultural experiment stations, have been working toward a spotted alfalfa aphid resistant variety suitable for that area of the United States. Moapa is the first product of this effort. Moapa was developed from spotted alfalfa aphid resistant plants selected from the susceptible variety African.

It is much like African in growth habits and is expected to give best performance in areas where African is now a recommended variety. In Nevada it will be used principally in Clark county. The new variety of alfalfa is also being recommended by the agricultural experiment stations ol Arizona and California for areas where it is adaptable and are joining with Nevada in its release. STANDS ARE GOOD Plantings of alfalfa were made at a number of locations in the southwest where the spotted al falfa aphid has been a serious problem. They show good stand establishment and unimpaired growth for Moapa, and either complete stand failure or greatly reduced growth for African.

Preliminary results from forage yield tests now in progress in Arizona, California and Nevada show Moapa is equal to African where the spotted alfalfa aphid is not a problem. However, it will take two or three additional years of testing to determine more accurately how this new variety compares with African in production and length of life of stands. Parent plants of Moapa alfalfa were taken to Mexico during the winter of 1956 and 1957 for seed increase. By growing one generation of seed in Mexico's warm winter climate this new variety will be available to farmers and ranchers one year earlier than would have been otherwise. The breeder seed produced in Mexico was planted in the United States during the spring of 1957 for production of foundation seed.

Seed for hay plantings will not bt available until late in 1958. If foundation seed production in 1957 averages normal or better, there should be a good supply of certified seed of Moapa available to farmers and ranchers by the fall of 1958. Allocation seed for establishment of fields for certified seed production will be made through the experiment stations of Nevada, California and Arizona. The U. S.

Department of Agriculture will not have seed cf Moapa for distribution. Beats Wife, Threatens Dog A 22-year-old local man, whose name smacks of a noble pugilistic heritage, leaded guilty in muni cipal court Friday morning to a charge that he struck his wife. Joe Louis Sullivan, 920 W. Sixth was arrested Thursday afternoon on a complaint signed by his wife, Robbie. She told police he had threatened to break the neck of the family dog if it took any more food off the table.

She defended the dog, she said, and Sullivan struck her. Sullivan admitted it in court. He was fined $25 which his wife paid. supply. She was calmed and put to bed.

Three Stead Air Force base airmen paused beside a Chism Ice Cream Co. truck. One of them reached from the window of their sedan and swiped a bottle of soda pop. Patrolman Carl C. Shoemaker who was watching said the youth was "very delighted with his accomplishment." But Shoemaker made him pay the truck driver.

Woman subject No. 1 told officers that woman subject No. 2 took her $10. No. 2 said No.

1 gave it to her. No. 1 agreed, but wanted it back. No. 2 gave it back, while police stood by.

an hour increase effective July 1, 1958, and ten cents an hour addi tional effective Jan. 1, 1959. Other benefits in the proposal are continuance of the present hospital and medical plan, which Knoll said costs ten cents an hour and continuance of the present vacation plan, which provides paid vacations and which Knoll said costs three per cent of gross earnings, or about ten cents an hour. At the beginning of the work stoppage, the sheet metal workers were paid $3.27 and a half cents an hour. The new proposal would take the hourly rate to $3.70 eighteen months from now.

In answer to earlier criticism by Stanley P. Jones, union business agent. Knoll said the sheet metal proposal offers more than agreements reached in other re cent labor disputes here. Jones had said the employers were offering an inferior labor scale. At their meeting tonight, to be held in the Reno Labor Temple, the metal workers are to accept or reject the proposal.

About 70 workers are involved in the strike. Assault Charge Here Dismissed Charges of assault and battery against local motel owner Edward Kurtz, 43, were dismissed today on the motion of Assistant City Attorney Roy Torvinen. Torvinen asked for the dis missal, he said, because the complaining witness, Mrs. R. W.

Newton, had returned to Bakersfield, Calif. Mrs. Newton had charged that Kurtz struck her at his Mark Twain motel, 2201 South Virginia early Monday morning. She said she wanted an extra blanket. but Kurtz would not answer an office buzzer.

When the leaned on the buzzer, she said Kurtz came out and hit her. Kurtz had asked that his trial be continued until Friday to allow him time to prepare his defense. Mrs. Newton left town on Monday. The incident marked the second time this Summer that an assault and battery charge has been dismissed against Kurtz.

A New York state couple left town early in June, before they could appear as complaining witnesses. Resists Arrest On Drunk Count A 26-year-old hatcheck girl who kicked the window out of a Reno police patrol car Thursday night pleaded guilty this morning to charges of disturbing the peace and public intoxication. Mrs. Sally Johnson, I2B Park Terrace, was fined a total of $35 on the two charges even though she told Judge Harry D. Anderson she didn't think "it was that bad." Police said it was pretty bad.

When they arrived at the Cantina Bar, they found Mrs. Johnson trying to force her way inside to a running accompaniment of curses and screams. Braced against the inside of the door was the bartender who also lives at 12B Park Terrace. He told partolmen he had ejected Mrs. Johnson because she was "too drunk to serve." Mrs.

Johnson said the bartender is her boyfriend and said he'd hit her in the eye. She sported a large, purple shiner. Police said she fought all the way to the station, kicking out the patrol car window en route. Citizenship was riding struck a cow on U. S.

Highway 50. Lander county officials placed the accident at about 8:45 p. m. Authorities could locate only one survivor, a brother Frantisek Kovac who lives in Komensk, Czechoslovakia. The victim had been living in Sunnyvale, where he was a member of the Golden Gate American Legion post.

He planed to enlist in the U. S. Air Force after his naturalization on July 13. George Abbott Is Appointed Aide to Seaton George W. Abbott, counsel for the house committee on interior and insular affairs, has been ap pointed assistant to Secretary of the Interior Fred A.

Seaton, ef fective Oct. 1. Abbott, an attorney, is the son of Mrs. Ethelyn B. Abbott, 320 Hill Reno, and is married to the former Marie Micheo of Gard nerville.

The couple lives in Wash ington, D. C. As assistant to the secretary, Abbott will handle assignments involving the formulation and de velopment of policies and proce dures throughout the depart ment. He will also maintain liaison with the bureaus and offices of the department, with congress and with other government agencies. Before becoming counsel of the interior committee Abbott was eneaeed in private practice in Grand Island, Neb.

He was born in 1923 in Burwell, attended public schools in Fremont, and graduated from h'gh school there in 1940. He received a B.A degree in 1948 and an LLB de gree in 1950, both from the Uni versity of Nebraska. His World War II service in the army infan try included 14 months in Europe and he was discharged with the rank of captain. Sues to Collect On Medical Fee Dr. Louis E.

Lombardi, seeking to collect the remainder claimed due on $10,555 in medical fees, filed suit in district court this week through Attorney William J. Cashill. Defendants are William Fel- stiner and Joseph A. Tiano, executor of the estate of Vivien R. Summerfield.

The complaint says that she paid $3700 on the bill, run up between Nov. 12, 1954 and her death Jan. 26, 1955, and that the estate executors have refused a claim for the $6855 remainder. And then the phone rang. A cashier at a local casino said a man was trying to cash the traveler's checks.

Police picked up one Leal Ghris-tensen, 38, and charged him with strongarm robbery. Padilla and Christensen spent the remainder of the night in separate cells. At 10 a. Padilla pleaded guilty to the drunk charge. Judge Harry D.

Anderson let him go on the stipulation that Padilla hasten to his mother-in-law's home in Los Banos, Calif, and explain things to his bride, a frightful punishment. i Christensen remained in the hands of detectives who learned that he's an ex-convict from San Quentin. does the safety council hold with the view that the primary aim of the Meter Molly brigade is to pour revenue into city coffers. 'The safety council realizes more than anybody that the meters are not there for revenue but to keep the cars moving and the parking spaces open, both for convenience and safety," Granata told a reporter today. Advocacy of a return of the brigade to direct supervision of City Manager C.

B. Kinnison came about at a safety council meeting this week. During the meeting someone made the suggestion, Granata said, that the working day be extended to 32 hours to bring in more revenue. But the suggestion was only casual, something tossed into the discussion and the response of the full council was immediate and negative, according to the Granata said the council doesn't feel that Chief of Police T. R.

Berrum isn't doing a good job in handling the molly brigade, but he said it is just too far from the police station to the downtown traffic areas for the job to be done effectively. "You see the mollies going, to the parking area from the police station at 9:30 or 9:45 when they ought to be on the job in the parking limit area long before that," Granata said. "If they started out from city hall they'd be in the middle of things. Our primary aim is to keep parking spaces open so anvers won have to go around the block so often and we want to eliminate double parking." Hit Run Car Easy to Find Police had no trouble finding an alleged hit-run automobile, Friday morning, but they're still waiting for its driver. The car, a 1953 sedan, was found parked on Evans Avenue at 7 a.

m. after Mrs. Addie A. Howard, 427 Quincy had reported damage to her car, also a 1953 model. Mrs.

Howard told police she at tempted to drive her car at dawn and "heard things rubbing." It was damaged, and bore traces of green paint. In its parking place, she found a headlight rim. Police prowled around until they found a parked green sedan with missing headlight rim and matching damage. They towed it to the station and are waiting for its driver to show up. HUBCAPS GONE Theft of two hubcaps worth $30 from her 1948 jeep has been reported to police by Hrs.

H. J. Grellman, 2985 West Plumb Lane. Irby Is Guilty On Drug Counts Federal court jurors in Carson Thursday found Ernest J. Irby, 45, of Reno, guilty on two counts of possession of narcotics.

The conviction carries a sen tence which could range from 10 to 60 years, with no chance for probation or parole. Conclusion of Irbys tria brought to a close the narcotics case which began when Irby and two companions were arrested in Reno March 14. One of the companions, Bernice Pollack, 35, has already been found guilty and sentenced, but U. S. Attorney Franklin P.

Rit tenhouse said today that a new sentence will have to be set to meet the minimum five year pen alty established by federal stat ute. The other companion, Nick Stassi, 45, recently pleaded guilty to a charge of narcotics posses sion, but has not yet been sen fenced. Rittenhouse said both Stassi and Irby have previously been con victed on narcotics possession charges. uunng tne two day trial, in which Federal Judge Sherrill Hallbert presided, witnesses were former Reno Police Capt. Reno Ferretto, Reno Police Cnief T.

Berrum and a woman who bought narcotics from Irby. Police made the three arrests after following the woman addict, whose name was not revealed until she bought narcotics from Irby in a downtown bar. Irby was then followed to his home on Aitken street, where narcotics were found, and further investi gation led officers to a local hotel room where Stassi end Ber nice Pollack were arrested, and where additional narcotic drugs were discovered. Ralph Aronson Taken by Death Ralph S. Aronsen, operator of the Sagamore Motel at 5850 South Virginia St.

died this morning in a local hospital. A native of Rochester, N. Mr. Aronson made his home in Reno the last 11 years. Surviv ing is his widow, Mrs.

Mary Aronson of Reno. Friends are invited to attend funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sierra chapel of Walton Funeral Home, West Second and Vine streets with Rabbi Myer Schwartz of Temple Emanu-El officiating. Cremation will follow at Mountain View. Friends may call at the fun eral home Saturday.

BUT I LL BET HE WOULD HAVE LlKiD ME EVEN BETTER! Missing Bridegroom Told To Visit Mother-in-Law John Padilla of Oakland, left Reno today leaving behind a trail of confused but happy policemen, a bemused judge and an extremely unhappy ex-convict. Padilla turned out to be a veritable storm center when he was arrested early Friday morning for public intoxication. Police booked him, and then learned that he had been reported missing by his bride on the day of their marriage, Tuesday. They turned to Padilla who easily topped that one. He said he'd been "celebrating" his nuptials and had joined two strangers for a "drink on the river bank." The strangers relieved him of $125 in cash, a $300 ring, a $160 watch and $30 worth of traveler's checks made out in his wife's maiden name.

Strange Incidents in Reno Show up in Police Reports Highway Mishap Puts End Police complaints in the last 24 hours were about evenly divided between people who were asleep when they should have been awake and vice versa. Checking out a "drunk woman in a phone booth" at the Southern Pacific depot, police found a lady who merely fell asleep while waiting for a call. Also asleep was the operator at a local telephone answering service. Police called on her in response to a complaint of "trouble at the answering service." Hysterical on the front lawn of a Greenridge Drive home was a 19-year-old Indian housemaid who got into her employer's vodka To Hopes for A 34-year-old Czechoslovakian who had served with the U. Army in Germany, died instantly in a traffic accident, Wednesday night near Austin, just eight days before he would have become a naturalized U.

S. citizen. Funeral services for Julius Ko- vac are pending in Fallon where he is to be buried in the veterans plot. Kovac was killed instantly Wednesday about 35 miles west of Austin when the motorcycle he i Vt Fl 1 UI0NDEP IF HEDIDNTLKEK DO YOU REALLY BEETHOVEN WOULD) VERY MANY HE WOULD V.TMfNK 60? J( SURE) A. I HAVE LIKED ME? PEOPLE, YOU HAVE LIKED W.

Thousands of Values in Reno Dollar Days Friday and Saturday.