Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 11

Hatching Funds rE RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1956 PHONE FA 3-3161 Hotel Financing Plan Is Approved New Frontier Gets Transfusion Royal Nevada Permit Is Deferred Nevada's gaming control board Monday approved a $133,000 financial transfusion for the New Frontier hotel in Las Vegas, but deferred the application of a group that wants to reinstate gambling at the Royal Nevada hotel. The $133,000 is- in escrow pending licensing of Sidney Bliss, John Holler, Benjamin Ball, Hugh Conway and Robert Peccole, all of Las Vegas. The gaming control board approved a $168,000 invest- JS. 5 HAS ANSWER FOR TREE BULB THEFTS O. II.

Buffington, owner of the Vogue cleaners, 700 Wells has one answer to the numerous reports of Christmas decoration thefts which hav plagued police the last few days. He said he'd give a Christmas tree bulb to any youngster wanting one if he comes to his store and asks for it. Buffington, like many of his neighbors, daily has noted bulbs missing from his outdoor tree. he said, if roving nocturnal children are responsible, he'd like to do his part by giving the bulbs away. "After all," he stated this morning, "I hate to think of those kids standing around in the dark and cold burning their little hands stealing those bulbs." iment last week, represent- BEING WELCOMED to Stead Air Force base by Col.

B. E. Mc-Kenzie, the base commander (right), are Gen. Charles T. Myers, commander of, air training command (left), and Gen.

Carl A. Brandt, commander of technical training air force. The Air Force officers toured Stead Dec. 16 and 17 and departed Monday evening. Gen.

Frank H. Robinson, commander of crew training toured Stead Monday. An earlier visitor to the base was Lt. General Id-wal H. Edwards, (USAF, Ret.) the former commander of the Air-University at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

General Edwards, recalled to active duty to oversee the air force prisoner of war and code of conduct training programs, visited the base on Friday, Dec. 14. (USAF photo) WHITE CHRISTMAS HOPE GROWING DIMMER HERE Fair weather is expected to continue in Reno and western Nevada for the next 24 hours for the remainder of the week, as hopes for a White Christmas grow steadily dimmer. More warm daytime temperatures are forecast, with the mercury remaining about equal-Monday's high of 53 degrees and this morning's low of 15. Nevada Motel Association In Expansion Continued Growth As Meets Held in Winnemucca, Ely Continued expansion of the Nevada State Motel Association was reported today, following recent organization meetings in Winne-mucca and Ely.

At these two meetings it was reported that a motel association has been organized in Lovelock with 100 per cent membership, and another in Elko with only two motels not represented. GROUPS FORMED According to Pete Cladianos, vice president of the the state association, local groups have been formed in Las Vegas, Reno, Sparks and Carson City. Minden-Gardnerville is reported in the process of organizing and Wells is being approached. At the W'innemucca and Ely meetings, the object of the association was described by Henry Brigman, state association president, as being to build up Nevada and its travel business. According to Conrad Priess, American Motor Hotel Association governor for Nevada, another big reason is the protection of the interests of the motel industry through legislation and in appearances before public officials at all levels.

An example is the intended resistance to a motel-hotel room tax such as was proposed in the 1955 legislature. Also, said Priess, an organization can aid in keeping rates up, maintaining ethical operation for the long-term good of the industry, and in exchanging beneficial ideas and experiences. Member motels are listed in a Nevada motel pamphlet, with some 600 copies a week being dis tributed through the state department of economic development. Association officials pointed to other advantages of membership, including combination insurance at reduced rates and activities connected with zoning, building codes, industrial insurance rates, taxation and highway location. A new motel brochure is to be issued soon, with 100,000 copies planned as against 50,000 in the first printing, and prospective members are urged to enroll quickly so that they may be included in the new booklet.

Cladianos reported considerable discussion of highway location at organization meeting. He said this was particularly the case with Highway 40, where 58,000,000 in investment in key tourist businesses would be by passed under a federal plan. Brig-man said the association is encouraging legislation to strengthen community protection in such cases. Brigman reported efforts to se cure improvement of Highway 93 in southern Nevada and of im provement of the highway in Arizona. He said that a campaign is underway to have Highway 24 ex tended westward from Grand Junction, to Las Vegas and ix)s Angeles.

Yern Denlis Dies on Coast Vern L. (Denny) Denlis. a resi dent of Reno for about 11 years, died at a San Francisco -hospital Monday night after an illness of a year and a half. Mr. Denlis was service manager for Winkel Motors in Reno, and had been travelling to the bay area for medical services for some time.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kathryn Denlis of Reno; a sister, Mrs. Beryl Harvey of Oakland, and many nieces and nephews, all of Oakland. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the Robert Albert Engle funeral home, 3636 Telegraph Oakland. ing the unlicensed interest of Mrs.

Vera Krupp von Boh-len und Halbach and Louis Manchon. No action was taken on the pending license application, however, with the board ruling that investigation was not completed. NEED STILL, MORE Bliss told the control board that New Frontier group would have to raise another within the next' 60 days to put the hotel on the proper operating basis. The Royal Nevada lessee group is composed mainly of former licensees of the New Frontier, and they protested the deferral in an unprecedented, impromptu ses sion after the regular board meet ing was adjourned. Control board members learned during the regular session that a lease held by the operating company that wants to reopen the Royal Nevada casino expires Jan.

1,1957. They declared that William Simons, who granted the lease, already has received attractive offers from other groups and that if' the license is not obtained before the expiration date, the present applicants will lose out. The board voted to defer the license "because of certain events that have come to attention, involving leading principals in the new operating company." Board members continued that the events require further pursuing. Applicants for the Royal Nevada license include Maurice H. Friedman, 25.5 per cent; T.

W. Richardson, same; Bernard Shapiro, 4.25; Louis Marcus, same; George Williamson, 8.5; Harry Oedekerk, 20. In protest, Friedman asked the gaming control board members to tell what the events that lead to the deferral are, but his request was refused. He was told that the license ap plicants would be confronted with the case as soon as the gaming control board investigation had reached that stage, "If you have something against me, I wiir withdraw from the ap plication," Friedman declared. "There is no a for these others to be penalized if the action is against me." Joseph F.

McDonald Las Vegas attorney representing the applicants, and Robbins E. Cahill, gamine board chairman, at times exchanged angry words as the ap plicants sought to learn the reason for the deferral. But the board, for reasons of its own, and which were not revealed, refused to divulge specific causes for the action. Other gaming control board actions included denial of the application for a gambling license of Robert H. Crowley, King's cafe, Reno, without prejudice to Crowley, because of unsuitable methods of financing.

Also denied was the application of Joseph LaDue and Robert L. Wheelock for a license at Lathrop Wells, in Nye county between Beatty and Las Vegas, because of the difficulty in policing the establishment. Song, Dance Man To Get License Musical comedy star Donald O'Connor was recommended tor an interest in a Las Vegas gambling house Monday by the state gaming control board. If his license is granted, O'Connor will have nothing to say about the New Pioneer Club, however, because his 2 per cent voting control is assigned to gambler Milton Prell of Las Vegas. Prell has 382 per cent of the New Pioneer, including his own 10 per cent interest and the assignments of O'Connor and a number of others.

O'Connor was approved pending clearance of his fingerprints, a routine requirement for Nevada gambling licenses. Requested for Nevada Library $57,000 Needed To Qualify State For Federal Aid Nevada state library officials will seek sufficient funds from the 1957 legislature to qualify for federal aid under the library services act. Final regulations to qualify for the federal aid have just been received, and Librarian Constance Collins says the matching sum' is $79,190. State library spending at this level will allow the receipt of $40,000 the first year and $46,438 each of the next four years. WILL USE FUNDS She said that without sufficient appropriation by the legislature it will not be possible to send bookmobiles to the rural areas of the Funds also would be used to build a strong book collection at the state library for use throughout the state.

About $57,000 is needed to match funds under the federal program, the librarian said. First year federal funds are available immediately, and until the end of the fiscal year, but Nevada could start the program in July if the library appropriation is sufficient. The state library can use its own appropriation as matching funds, but no money spent prior to the date of approval of the plan can be used as matching money. The state librarian said that she has requested $282,000 for the 1957-59 biennium in a hear ing with the budget director and governor, although this sum includes a large amount for the law department, and this and money allocated for services to the state government can't be Ufced as matching money. STATE AS WHOLE The library service act says that expenditures for rural areas and the state as a whole count, but no others.

The library service act allows local funds spent for rural library services may be used as matching funds too, but requires that the state library guarantee supervision over such funds, which is not considered feasible. The present state library budget is in the neighborhood of $123,000 for the biennium. In addition to the first year requirement the state library appropriation for those services whose moneys count under the federal act would have to continue at the $79,190 level or above for the state library to continue receiving the $46,438 a year. Highway Forty Route Chosen SACRAMENTO, (m The State Highway Commission today completed the selections in the long- range program to make U. S.

40 a freeway in its entirety between Sacramento and the Nevada state line. The final sections adopted are a 13.7 mile stretch between Blue Canyon road and Hampshire Rocks and a 10.3 mile be tween Soda Springs and a point about three fourths of a mile east of Dormer lake. The two sections lie in Placer and Nevada counties. A commission spokesman said no target date for completion of the U. S.

40 freeway program has been announced. Last week com mission officials said the project couldn't be finished in time for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. At present, 28 miles of U. S. 40 east of Sacramento have been improved to freeway status.

An additional 27 miles" are under con struction or budgeted and routings have been adopted for the remaining 90 miles. The department said the cost of constructing the freeway sections selected today are estimated at approximately 26 million dollars, including rights of way. Start of construction will depend on the availability of funds. Between Soda Springs and east of Donner lake, the freeway will run north of the, existing highway. Between Blue Canyon and Hampshire Rocks, the adopted route generally follows the existing highway.

$2000 Is Loss In Car Burglary More than $2000 worth of photographic equipment and clothing was taken Sunday night in one of the biggest auto burglaries in local police records. Paige Hall of Eugene, told Reno police that his car was parked in downtown Reno on Second street when a window wing was broken and contents taken. The loss soared to $2,254.95, largely because the presence of three expensive cameras and various additional lenses and other photographic equipment, as well as clothing. PAGE ELEVEN "2 Woman Relates Story on Stand The woman who claims Norman M. Foster assaulted her in an attempt at rape described the events leading to the charge in an 'hour on the witness stand in Washoe county district court Tuesday morning.

Dixie G. Sherman, 31, a dark haired attractive casino change- girl, who said sjie had been mar ried and divorced twice, told the jury that she struggled with Foster for hours in a remote area west of Reno on the night of July 16. She said she escaped over and over again it seemed like a hundred times" and that each time Foster brought her back to the car where he "mauled and pawed" her. The testiminy was probably the main point of the state case against Foster, a 42-year-old bus driver. Preceding witnesses were Steele Houx, service station attendant, who said Mrs.

Sherman bad asked him for help when she was left at the corner of South Sierra and Court streets tiie night of the 16th and Capt William Brodhead of the Reno police department. Brodhead testified as to a statement made to him by Fos ter. He said Foster had told him he had been' accused on the same charge, assault with intent to commit rape, 18 years ago in Maryland. At noon Mrs. Sherman was still on the stand, and had just finished saying that Foster had brought her back into the city when she promised not to prose cute him.

The defense has not yet pre sented any of its side of the case Attorney Harry B. Swanson, renresentine Foster, said the defense would wait until the prosecution is ended to make its initial argument. Assistant Washoe county Dis trict Attorney William J. Rag-gio made an extensive opening argument Monday in which he outlined essentially the same facts given by Mrs. Sherman this morning and said the state would prove them.

Both attorneys picked the jurors with extreme care. The iurv box was not filled until 3:30 p. m. Jurors hearing the case are Dorothy Samdahl, Claire Taber, Albert Palmer, Ethel Gadda, Walter Brozzinski, Ida Harvey, Lois Saxton, Jessie McCarthy, Thomas Morton, Claude Atkins, Leslie. Herron and Lloyd Searcy Two Draw Fines For Drag Racing Drag-racing in pickup trucks cost two men $50 each Tuesday morning in Acting Municipal Judge Kirby Unswortrrs court.

Stanley Underwood, 28, of 115 Stanford Way, Sparks, and Walter H. Miller, 29, of the 102 Ranch, both pleaded guilty to charges of reckless driving. They were arrested the night before by Officer Robert Taelour on South Virginia street near Moana lane. Pickets Moved From Vegas Food Markets 30 Day Period Is Set Aside For Negotiations LAS VEGAS Pickets were re moved from all Las Vegas area food markets today as an agreement was reached between em ployers and the two affected unions which it was said will lead to the eventual settlement of the labor dispute which resulted in a five day strike of retail clerks and butchers. It was announced that both sides have agreed to resume ne gotiations which will continue for 30 days if it becomes necessary.

If, by that time, no agreement is reached the matter will be sub' mitted to arbitration under the laws of the state of Nevada. RETURN TO WORK Pickets were removed and all employes of 19 markets remaining struck had returned to work today. Originally 22 markets had picket lines established but three signed union contracts before the arbitration agreement was reach ed. It was agreed also by both em ployers and the unions that there shall be no discrimination and that all employes were to return to their old jobs. Under terms of the agreement, which was approved late Monday at a membership meeting of clerks and butchers, an arbitrator will be selected by mutual agreement.

If such agreement is not reached, District Judge Frank Mc-Namee has been named to appoint the arbitrator, and it wras agreed that the decision of the arbitrator will be binding on both parties. EARLY DECISION The arbitrator will submit his decision within seven days after both parties have completed their presentations. The strike developed when employers turned down a new contract request of the unions for a 40 hour work week. The butchers, making $116 for a 48 hour week had asked for a 40 hour work week at $106 while the clerks, making $99 a week for 48 hours, asked for under the 40 hours. Employ ers argued that the overtime necessitated by the shorter work weeks would be excessive.

Doctor Testifies In Damage Trial No objective findings of nervous or brain damage were found after Mrs. Herta Buttgereit was injured in an automobile crash at Center and Pine streets, Dr. Lowell Peterson told Washoe county district court jurors shortly before noon Tuesday. Jurors are hearing trial of a $66,000 damage suit in which Mr. and Mrs.

Buttgereit are suing Mrs. Maude Dimmick, driver of the car in which they were passengers, and Richard E. Gleim, who drove a car that was involved in the Center and Pine street collision. Another doctor, Dr. Harry B.

Gilbert, testified earlier in the morning that x-rays had disclosed two fractured ribs. Monday afternoon the first witness was Sgt. James Sale of the Reno police department. He told the jury of the circumstances of the crash, according to his investigation. The suit is a three way affair, with the Buttgereits, represented by Attorneys Leslie A.

Leggett and Sidney Robinson, seeking damages from either Mrs. Dimmick or Gleim. Mrs. Dimmick, represented by Attorneys Frank R. Peterson and Edward Moraj, claims Gleim alone was responsible for the crash.

Gleim is represented by Attorney John Bartlett. Mrs. McCabe Dies Mrs. Madge McCabe, mother of William McCabe of Verdi, died at a Steamboat, rest home this morning. Mrs.

McCabe had lived at the rest home for the last four years. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the O'Brien-Rogers Co. iary of the Washoe Medical Center for the traditional Winter ball, and the society leaders took another look at Reno's newest hotel. On Saturday the Holiday played host to the local and visiting press for cocktails, dinner and an impromptu show by a few Hollywood personalities including Mr. and Mrs.

Preston Foster, Mr. and Mrs. John Conte, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Massey, Bill Thompson, Mr.

and Mrs. Herb Polesie, and Perry Botkin, all personal friends of Norman Biltz who is financially interested in the Holiday. Sunday was set aside for one and all to see the Holiday. Monday, business as usual. Rezoning Plan Hearing Set In Reno Tonight Another hearing on comprehen sive re-zoning plans for the entire Truckee meadows and a revised Washoe county subdivision ordi nance are the main items of the Regional Planning Commission meeting to be held in the city hall council chambers tonight at eight.

The commission has scheduled" the fourth public hearing on the new overall zoning plan for tonight. Raymond M. Smith, regional planning director, said members of the commission wish to be absolutely certam all concerned have had an opportunity to comment on the new plan. The overall zoning regulations are expected to be the basic guide in land use within Reno and Sparks and in the Truckee mead ows for the next ten years. Smith said revisions to the county ordinance are mainly to coordinate the county zoning regulations with provisions of the overall plan, and to tie in county zoning with Reno and Sparks land use provisions.

Two other items scheduled for discussion tonight are a tentative addition to the Rivermount Park subdivision, south of Plumb Lane and an annexation program for northwest Reno. Band Concert Set Wednesday Reno's municipal band will present a Christmas concert in the auditorium of the State building this Wednesday evening, commencing at eight o'clock, it Was announced today by N. A. Tinkham, bandmaster. The concert is being presented in conjunction with the Business and Professional Women's club in urging a more religious concept in the celebration of Christmas.

A feature of the concert will include a special talk, "The Christmas Story" by the Rev. Felix Manley of the Federated church. The program follows: State song, Home Means Nevada, Ralfetto; March, King Cotton, Sousa; Overture, Omar Khayyam, King; Popular, Mari-anna, Singer; Waltz, Skaters, Waldteufel; Novelty, Toy Trumpet, Scott; Selection, Red Mill, Herbert; March, U. S. Field Artillery, Sousa.

Intermission. Special, The Christmas Story presented by the Rev. Felix Manley; March, High School Cadets, Sousa; Popular, Intermezzo, Provost; Descriptive, Sleigh Ride, Anderson; Waltz, Danube Waves, Ivanvoci; Novelty, Trombonium, Wi throw; Overture, Pique Dame, Von Suppe; March, Adeste Fidelis, Crosby; National Anthem, Star Spangled Banner, Key. Whitton Rites Set Wednesday Funeral services, to which friends are. invited, will be held for Miss Sylvia Lorene Whitton at the Assembly of God Glad Tidings church, 524 Bell Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock with Mr.

and Mrs. B. H. Givens officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.

Friends may call at Walton Funeral Home, West Second and Vine streets on Tuesday. Miss Whitton who was an in surance clerk at Washoe Medical Center and who resided at 321 7th Sparks, died at a local hospital Saturday in her 29th year. Reno. I SHOPPING fj 11 DAYS TO It CHRISTMAS II Ely Gang Fight Leaves Youth Badly Wounded ELY (Special) One youth con tinued in critical condition from a gunshot wound sustained in the aftermath of a planned gang fight here Sunday, and another was held in the county jail today. Harvey Craig, a 19-year-old miner, suriered an abdominal wound from a .22 caliber pistol, and Sheriff T.

J. McLaughnin said the fate of another 19-year-old may hang on his condition. MARINE IS HELD Held for questioning in the shooting is George M. Allen, an Ely marine who is home on Craig was reported to have spent a good night, but a crisis was expected to be reached, so far as his chances for survival are concerned, tomorrow. Sheriff McLaughlin, meanwhile, reported that all was peaceful in the Ely area, but he expected things "to break out again." Seven carloads of law enforce ment authorities Sunday night frustrated two rival gangs, one composed of long-time Ely residents and the other of young new comer miners, who were intent on a battle to settle their differences.

Some 150 youths were reported involved in the plan, with the battleground to be a remote road off the Ely-McGill highway. SHOT IN STOMACH Sheriff McLaughlin said that Craig was shot in the stomach after he tried to prevent a 15-year-old girl from telephoning police. The sheriff said that Allen, two other boys and three girls, after the gang dispersal by police, left in one auto, and that it was chased by one containing Craig and others. McLaughlin said one of the girls in the Allen car became frightened and they stopped at a private home. The sheriff said the occupants of the other car forced their way into the house and attempted to take a telephone from one of the girls.

The sheriff said Allen, who had taken a pistol from the glove com partment of the car in which he was riding, told Craig to leave the girl alone and when he did not, fired. Trouble between the two groups, containing teenagers and men up to 24 years of age, apparently came to a head after a high school student administered a beating to a 22-year-old miner. Each then began recruiting friends for a showdown. Former Sparks Resident Dies Mrs. Carrie Gill Willard, a for mer resident of Sparks, died at her home, 12232 Firestone Norwalk, on Saturday, Dec.

15, and funeral services were held on Tuesday in Norwalk. She made her home in Sparks at Nineteenth and streets for many years. Surviving are her Harold Willard, and two sisters and a brother, all of Norwalk, and a son, George Rogers of Sacra mento. She was the former sister- in-law of Mrs. L.

L. Reckler of Reno. Mrs. Willard was a long-time member of the Order of the Eastern Star and of the Rebekah lodge of which she was serving as secretary-treasurer at the time of her death. Las Vegas Man At Fort Stewart Army Pfc.

James L. Lee, 21, son of Catherine M. Lee, North Las Vegas, is participating with the 220th Antiaircraft Artillery battalion in pre-firing exercises at Fort Stewart, Ga. Lee, a radar operator in the battalion's Battery arrived at fort Stewart from an assign ment in Japan. He entered the army in 1952.

The only possibility of a break in the current pleasant weather is in a storm now centered in the Gulf of Alaska. However, the chance that the storm front will bring snow here for Christmas is "pretty remote," the weatherman said. Skiing at Squaw Valley and Reno Ski Bowl has languished in the current "thaw" and no snow is forecast anywhere at present. Despite the impending lack of a White Christmas here, few local residents would contemplate a repeat of last year's Christmas snowfall that came in the nick of time to halt rushing flood waters that had already crept into the business district. Precipitation figures for the local area at the moment are equal to the 1955 total for the Fall season 1.78 inches, but it was at precisely this time a year ago that heavy rains began in the Sierra and continued until the entire Truckee Meadows area was flooded.

The only difference in this year's weather is that nighttime temperatures are much colder. Only one Nevada town was colder than Reno in the last 24 hours, and that was Ely with 9 degrees above zero. Lucas Brockbank Taken by Death T. Brockbank, a retired mining engineer who lived at the Hotel Golden, died Monday afternoon at a local hospital. He was 84.

Mr. Brockbank was a native of Salt Lake City where he was born on Dec. 22, 1871. He had been a resident of this area for many years. He is survived by two sons, W.

H. Brockbank of Los Angeles, and Lucas T. Brockbank, of Schenectady, N. and a brother, Locke Brockbank, of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday in the Ross-Burke Co. home chapel with the Rev. Blake M. Franklin of the First Baptist church, clergyman. Burial will be in the Masonic section of Mountain View cemetery.

Elks has arranged to help 203 and others are scheduled to aid another' 114 families. Welfare officials were impressed by the general willingness to" help the needy families. They told one school class of ten-year- olds who have "adopted" a family and are going to provide with a decorated tree from the classroom, clothing, toys and food. All the planning for helping the family has been done by the school children themselves. The welfare staff is still prepared to add names of needy families to the list.

Names can be added by telephoning the de partment at FA 2-8631. Even though many generous people have been donating clothing, food and other items, there is still a need for gifts suitable for teen-agers. Most toys and other items brought in have been for those in the younger 'age groups. CLEARING HOUSE LISTS 363 FAMILIES IN NEED Crowd Exceeding 15,000 Has Holiday Hotel Preview Christmas plans are proceeding on schedule at the Washoe county welfare department, with 363 families scheduled for assistance. The welfare department is acting as a clearing agency for other welfare organizations of the community.

Toys are already filling the office of county welfare director Francis R. Bagley so that he can barely get to his desk. Most of the toys have been brought to his office by the Marine Corps Reserve "Toys for Tots" program. Value of the work done at the welfare bureau was shown when the Reno Kiwanis club brought in a list of 110 names of families scheduled for aid. Welfare department records showed that all but 46 of the families had already been scheduled for aid from other organizations.

As scheduled now, the Kiwanis are to aid 46 families, the BPO Following a series of private and semi-private showings, the doors of the new Holiday Hotel were thrown open to the general public Sunday and more than 15,000 people passed through the building. Beginning on Thursday, at which time some 2500 service workers consisting mostly of cab drivers, service station attendants, reservation clerks for the airlines, raliroads and bus services enjoyed a sneak preview, the hotel began to take on the look of a going organization. On Friday the first floor was taken over by the Women's Auxil Stores Open Until 9 o'clock Tonight for Christmas Shopping.