Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

Cord Uranium Inside Our Home EVENING GAZE! RENO Lenten Guidepost PAGE THIRTEEN RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957 a divinely appointed task, and he told of visiting a Scottish kitchen. Over the sink were these words: "Divine service will be conducted here three times daily." Bill and I do try to make our daily duties a divine service. Take, for instance, the job of disciplining the children. We try whenever possible to deal with our children's waywardness in terms of the Bible. A DISCIPLINE PROBLEM I remember one time when Virginia, oldest, who is 10, had to be I've forgotten y.

5 51 which accompanies the school basketball teams to state tournaments, and performs also in Henderson, the site of Basic high school. (Christensen photo) STAR PERFORMERS Basic high school "Deserettes," 36 strong, form a star at the University of Nevada gymnasium Thursday evening between halves of the Basic-Reno basketball game in the state tournament. The girls comprise a marching group JUVENILE DETENTION HOME PLANNED HERE Action Urged to Keep Children Out of Jail at Session in Reno 'V, PHONE FA 3-3161 Cooling Off Period Is Set In School Row Panaca Classes Are Suspended; Board Under Fire PIOCHE Events were fast in the strife-torn Panaca-Caliente area today but there did not appear to be a solution in sight for the bitter dispute which has disrupted the county school system and kept a majority of Lincoln county high school students away from classes throughout the week. OUSTER SOUGHT Principal developments included: 1. Lincoln high school at Panaca has been temporarily closed until Monday for a "cooling off" period.

2. School board member Jack McKenzie has charged that the board meeting at which Richard Harmon, center of the controversy, was appointed superintendent of the county school system, was "illegal." 3. An accusation of "behind the scenes" politics was hurled at former school board member Ferren Bunker, who brought Harmon here from Utah. A request has been made that he be fired by the state from his post as county agricultural agent. 4.

A school board meeting is to be held tonight or tomorrow when the members will open a sealed letter containing recommendations of Byron Stetler, state superintendent of public instruction. MAIN CONCERN Demonstrating although they appeared on the high school grounds, have 'refused to attend classes all week. Their main concern in the school dispute which saw the threatened resignation of Frank Wilcox, long-time principal, and three teachers, is that the school turmoil will affect their college futures. A spokesman for the students said they fear that the resignation of Wilcox and the other teachers who have expressed opposition to Harmon and his educational policies, might also affect the standing of the school. Serious charges that' the school board meeting at which Harmon was appointed last Summer, was illegal have been raised by McKenzie.

The meeting, he has said, was held contrary to state law and the public was barred at the He said the vote on Harmon's appointment was taken in a closed room upstairs in the Pi-oche courthouse. Newest figure to enter the controversy is Bunker, the farm bureau agent. In a letter to officials of the University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Service, it is charged that he has "called the shots" in the dispute from behind the scenes. is charged with directing Harmon to "persecute" certain teachers on the Lincoln high school staff. The letter, signed by McKenzie, asks the removal of Bunker from his public post.

Police on Edge During Tourney High school basketball tournaments at the University of Nevada gymnasium, that have kept local police on edge for two weeks, provoked a beating and several brief fights, Thursday night. Two boys, students at Basic high school in Henderson, were beaten by "seven or eight" teenagers on North Virginia street. The youths were knocked down and kicked shortly after their team beat Reno high school 58-54. Police moved into the area around the university gymnasium when fights broke out in the parking lot after the game. The fights were broken up and the "loyal rooters" dispersed.

Three juveniles and two adults were taken into custody and warned, but were not booked. Mine Is Sold For $17 Million Utah Property Is Purchased By New Firm SALT LAKE CITY, March 15. UP) A new firm headed by a Baltimore metals expert today bought a southern Utah uranium mine for $17,000,000. The price was reported to be the highest ever paid for a uranium mine. The property is the Cord mine in southern Utah's San Juan county.

It was sold by a partnership headed by E. L. Cord, manufacturer of the pre-World War II Cord automobile and now a Nevada state senator. The purchaser is Jen, whose president is C. E.

Tuttle of Baltimore. PRICE IS RECORD Buyers and sellers agreed the price was the highest on record for a single uranium property. Salt Lake City mining authorities knew of none higher. It eclipsed the price of paid by financier Floyd B. Odium's Hidden Splendor Mining Co.

for the Vernon Pick mine in Utah. This was considered the biggest uranium deal on record until Texas-Zinc Minerals Co. bought another southern Utah mine, the Happy Jack. The price paid by Texas-Zinc was never disclosed but was generally reported to be more than $10,000,000. Jen, officials said they believed the Cord mine contains more than 100,000 tons of high-grade uranium ore.

The property consists of six claims. Cord and his associates have been developing the property for the past three years. They be gan ore production last November. 250 TONS DAILY Since then, Tuttle said, they have been removing about 250 tons of ore per day. He said it will take until the end of this year to complete de velopment of the property and begin full production.

BILTZ PARTNER Cord headed the Auburn Auto mobile which made the Cord automobile. He now lives in Reno. His general partners in the mine were Norman Biltz of Reno and Edward Neuhoff of Los Angeles, Cord's attorney. Limited partners were Cord's son, Charles E. Cord of Reno; Ben Edwards and John Mueller of Reno, Peter Hummel of Midland, Cord's son-in-law; Robert C.

Phelps, New York, also Cord's son-in-law; Mrs. Wanda Murray of Reno, Cord's secretary; James C. Beazley of Reno, Cord's purchasing agent, and J. F. Dunn of Reno, Cord's auditor.

Neuhoff represented Cord at a meeting in Salt Lake the last two days with Tuttle and Snyder to complete the sale. Tuttle has been a banker and once was head of Pittsburgh Railroad and Coal Co. He was president- and chairman of the board of Rustless Iron and Steel until it was merged with Armco Steel Corp. in 1944. He now is a regent of the University of Maryland and is in charge of the university's uranium reactor program.

He is president of Jen, Inc. Other officers are E. H. Snyder, Salt Lake City mining industrialist, chairman; E. H.

Snyder, vice president, and C. M. Christensen of Salt Lake City, secretary-treasurer. Directors of the firm are Tuttle, E. M.

Snyder, -Jess Larson of Washington, D. head of the General Services Administration under former President Truman; David J. Stone, Lubbock, independent oil man, and E. H. Snyder, jr.

The Cord mine is about 43 miles south of Moab, Utah. Light Snows Due Tonight Light snows which were due to hit the Reno area last night "got hung up on the Sierra" the weatherman said today as he rescheduled the snow to hit locally tonight. Gusty winds preceeding the snow began in Reno this morning and increasing cloudiness is evident. More snow is forecast for the Sierra Nevada tonight with clearing weather Saturday in the mountains and in the vicinity of Reno. Occasional snow may hit the south and east sections of Nevada tonight and Saturday with variable cloudiness in the west Colder temperatures are in stor for Reno, Sierra Nevada and Nevada tonight.

Chains are required over highway 40 from Donner lake to Bax ters and are advised in the Truckee area and north and south from Truckee on California highway 89. They are also necessary off highway 40 on California high way 20 from its intersection with 40 to Washington junction. bpooners summit has not yet been posted snow began falling there at about 9 a.m. On Echo summit over highway 50 snow' began at the same time and chains are needed from Meyers on the east to Kyburz on the western slope. Highway 395 south is clear and to the north chains are necessary only over Fredonyer summit and controls are expected to be re moved at any time.

INSIDE OUR HOME By Mrs. Billy Graham of the Famed. Evangelist One of the peculiar things about iving in a preacher's family is the vay strangers expect to see halos from all our heads. I say strangers. Our friends know better, They'ye' seen little Franklin bite his sisters; they've seen Virginia and Anne and Ruth shouting or perhaps scrapping out on the front lawn.

Our friends are fully aware that, for all our striving to make God the center of our home, life in the Billy Gra ham household is not a matter of uninterrupted sweetness and light. And it's not just the children. Our friends might very well have heard me moan to my husband, Bill, about how I can never muster enthusiasm for doing dishes three times a day for a family of six. OH! THOSE DISHES! I love being a wife, mother, and homemaker. To me it is the nicest, most rewarding job in the world, second in importance to none, not even preaching.

But I don't like washing dishes. To me there is no future in doing the dishes, nothing creative. And they are always there after each meal. I've tried placing a little motto on the window sill above my sink. It's a motto I've had ever since high school, and it says: "Praise and Pray and Peg Away." I made my dissatisfaction with the dishes a definite prayer concern and still I couldn't seem to dig up much enthusiasm.

But, as so often happens, my prayers were answered in an unusual way. I took sick at Christmas time. It was Bill, then, who had to take over and do the dishes. A GIFT What did Bill give me for Christmas An electric dish washer. That's not the end of the story.

When Dr. James Stewart of Edinburgh was at our home in Montreal N. a Summer ago, we were discussing housekeeping as Three Nabbed In Drug Case Arrested by police early today on a charge of possession and sale of narcotics were a Reno man and his two accomplices, a man and a woman, both residents of a local hotel. In custody are Ernest Jackson Irby, 45, 815 Aitken and Ber-nice Polliack, 35 and Nick Stassi. 45, the latter two, residents of the Blue Bird Hotel on Commercial Row.

Police said the threg were arrested with quantities of heroin in their possession after police trailed a woman drug addict while she made a "buy" from Irby. Police Chief T. R. Berrum said police and Washoe county sheriff's deputies had kept several known drug addicts under surveillance for many weeks before the successful contact was made, Thursday night. The woman "user," whose name was withheld by police, led officers to a West Second street bar where she purchased a quantity of heroin from Irby.

Irby sped away in a taxicab, but was arrested as he alighted from the cab in front of his home on Aitken street, shortly after 10 p. m. Irby was in possession of four capsules of the drug, one of which he attempted to conceal by dropping it down his pants leg while being booked at the Reno jail. The woman who led police to Irby was confined at Washoe Medical Center for treatment for drug addiction. Information obtained following Irby's arrset led to the capture of Bernice Pollack and Nick Stassi at the Blue Bird Hotel at 2:50 a.m.

Several empty heroin capsules were found in their hotel room, and a "bindle," or package of heroin was discovered in a dresser drawer. Chief Deputy Sheriff Frank Cole, who aided in the capture of the three, said heroin is listed as the most dangerous of all drugs. Users of heroin become addicted far quicker than with lesser drugs, and cures are ineffective in nearly 80 per cent of all cases. Addiction breaks down the human nervous system and mentality very rapidly, Cole said. Use, sale or possession of heroin was outlawed in tha-United States in 1924.

$50,000 Asked For Accident Suit asking $50,000 has been filed in Washoe county district court by a man whoclaims he was seriously hurt when he was hit by a car while changing a tire on his own automobile. William P. Brunlinger, who filed the suit through the Reno legal firm of Springer and McKissick, is asking that amount from Charles E. Burns and John Farley. He states that Farley was the owner of the car that hit him on highway 395 at Reno north city limits Dec.

19, and that Burns was probably driving. According to the complaint, Brunlinger's hip, back, head and leg were injured, and he still suffers headaches and has a "visual disturbance" es a. result of the injuries. Urging immediate and decisive action to keep Washoe county children out of the jails, representatives of more than 20 local or ganizations and agencies discussed plans for a juvenile detention home in a meeting in the State building Thursday evening. Joheph A.

Spangler of San Francisco, consultant for the National Probation and Parole Association in the Western States, was the major speaker. The meeting was sponsored jointly by the Women's Auxiliary of the Washoe County Bar Association and the Reno League of Women Voters. REQUEST SURVEY After a long discussion period, the group agreed to continue discussions with the county commissioners. It asked that the commissioners authorize at once a professional survey of local requirements as a preliminary to presenting' a bond issue in the next general -election to provide funds for detention facilities. Both houses of the present Nevada legislature have passed enabling legislation permitting the bond election.

During the discussion on how to finance the survey, Mrs. Douglas Busey, president of the Lawyers' Wives, said that when and if the county commissioners request the survey, her organiza tion could provide the necessary funds if they were not available through the county commissioners. Commissioner Ray Peterson replied that when the commissioners make up their budget in April, they may be able to budget for the survey. Mr. Spangler, who was introduced by the chairman of the meeting, Mrs.

Norman Samuel-son, president of the League of Women Voters, drew on his long experience as a consultant on methods for handling juvenile problems to emphasize the need for special facilities for juvenile detention and to outline the kind of survey necessary for a carefully planned program for improvement in Washoe county. DANGERS EVIDENT The discussion which followed provided evidence of the dangers of the present lack of facilities, referring to the present situation as "ridiculous." Speakers contended that the existing system of detaining children and hardened criminals in the public jails, sometimes for long periods, is a major cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also pointed out that state legislation as early as 1949 had made it mandatory for the counties of Clark and Washoe in Nevada to provide separate detention facilities for juveniles, but had neglected to provide permissive legislation for financing the projects in the counties. The bill passed by the current legislature makes financing possible for Washoe county. Mr.

Spangler, pointing out that most of the juveniles now detained are not criminals, described the present system using public jails as one that "breeds crime and delinquency." But he also cautioned against building a home without considering the special what the trouble was now. But that day I took heed of the proverb: Spare the rod and spoil the child. -Virginia was sweet as sugar for three days after that, and then she came to me and asked "Mother, why'd God ever create the devil and make me bad?" It was a good question? although actually it's not too hard to answer. We talked about temptation. We talked about how if there were no devil, there'd be no test of our love for God.

And we talked about the best ways to fight back, with prayer and with long talks with Christ. NOT LONG-FACED The question of our relation to Christ is, of course, a very serious one in our house. When I say serious, I don't mean long-faced. You aren't long-faced when you talk over a problem with good friend. But from the time they were first able to talk, we have tried very hard to teach our children that Christ is their personal Friend as well as their Savior.

And then, having prepared the soil, we let them grow in their relationship to Him. We try to start this relationship with the children's first nightly prayers. One time Franklin, who is four, was disciplined for continuing to pick up the cat by its tail, and that night he said in his prayers: "Please help Mommy to be a good Mommy and not shut me in my room any more." These first prayers aren't ridiculous in the sight of a child, nor in the sight of the Lord. They are a fine beginning. In time, we try to show our children, by our example, the different ways to live close to God throughout the day.

With four small the unexpected is always happening, like the time I heard little Ruth, who is five, break into a scream outside. I ran to see what the mat ter was and found her older sister smacking her first on one side of the face and then on the other. "What on earth's going on?" I asked the older child. "I'm just teaching her the Bible, Mommy, to turn the other cheek when she gets slapped." It took quite some time to straighten that out. We believe spiritual growth can't be forced without raising a brood of little hypocrites.

We prepare the soil and plant the seed, and water and weed and tend the plant faithfully. But it is "God that giveth the increase." We're willing to take our time and let growth come from the inside, through Christ; not merely from the outside, through our puny efforts. Yet, even if the motto I have out in the kitchen doesn't apply too well to dishes, it does apply to children and the problem of growing halos. Maybe the best thing, after all, is to Praise and Pray and Peg Away. The halos will take care of themselves.

Mother Brings Damage Action Six year old Dalesandro R. Barham's mother is asking in a Washoe county district court suit based on injuries she claims the boy suffered in an automobile collision. The suit filed by Mrs. Zelda Mae Barham names the First National Bank of Nevada as a defendant. Her complaint, filed by Attorney Clyde D.

Souter, charges that Bert L. RobeVts, a bank employe, drove a pickup truck into the rear of her car while the car was stopped at a construction zone on highway 395. Mrs. Barham claims the boy's injuries have required hospital care costing $732 to date. Three Sought In Abduction Badly shaken up and "emotionally upset" Thursday night was a 15-year-old girl abducted and molested here by three young men -who are sought by police.

The girl, a Los Angeles resident who is visiting in Reno, told police she was held captive by three youths in their automobile for 20 minutes. She said she was slapped when she resisted their attempts to kiss and fondle her. She said the youths followed her along the street while making obscene remarks. At Fourth and Quincy streets she was pulled into the car and driven to the vicinity of the Washoe county fair grounds. She told police the was re-leased at' the insistence of two of the youths who told the third to "lay off." SLUDGE FIRE Sparks firemen were called to extinguish an oil sludge fire in Southern Pacific railroad yards this morning after residents in the 2CO-300 block on street complained of heavy clouds of windblown smoke.

Marine Hero Speaker for GOP Banquet Joe Foss, World War Two Marine air ace and governor of South Dakota, will be the featured speaker at the Nevada Young Republican convention banquet in Reno, Saturday, March 23. Ralph Casazza, YR state chairman, said Foss will deliver a major address in his colorful political career during" the public meeting. The banquet, to be held in the Fable room of the Mapes, will highlight the three-day session which is expected to draw hundreds of Young Republicans from throughout the state. In charge of the banquet arrangements is Nick Lusich of the Washoe County Young Republicans. Foss is one of the country's outstanding military heroes.

His leadership, ability and bravery in the South Pacific won him the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, which was presented to him by the president of the United States in June of 1943. Joe Foss was elected state representative from Minnehaha county in 1948-50, and He ran for governor in 1950, was defeated by a narrow margin and ran again in 1954 and was reelected for another two-year term last year. Recently, several national publications have tabbed the Marine hero as a presidential contender. Foss achieved world fame when he blasted 26 Japanese planes out of the sky over Guadalcanal to tie Captain Rickenbacker's record of World War I combat kills. He has been frequently called "the greatest U.S.

air ace of World War II. Banner Cable Hazard Posed High gusty winds which have recently reached velocities as high as 67 miles an hour today caused the City of Reno to take an apprehensive glance at its free billboard space. City Manager C. B. Kinnison asked Fire Chief Karl Evans to submit an opinion concerning "the potential hazard" of the city's two remaining banner cables strung across Virginia and Center streets.

Banner space on the cables is loaned to organizations of a civic nature for advertising purposes. The American Red Cross, the Community Chest and the local recreation program, for example, are some which have used the cables. Last Friday, the Red Cross' banner strung across Virginia street blew down, wrapping its halyards around the cable and nearby light poles. Both Evans and Kinnison agreed this morning that the halyards could have torn the cable loose and sent it whipping across the street with a lethal potential. The city manager said only two of the city's four cables remain.

He said he doubted if the advertising value of the aerial space was worth the cost of replacing a torn banner. The fire department has always strung the banners early in the mornings with its aerial truck Kinnison said no organization is ever charged for this service, which is gained through cty council approval. Mannequin Stolen A burglar with widely different tastes stole $337 worth of tools and a wooden artist's mannequin, from the Graphic Arts Studio at 133 W. Third Thursday night Studio owner George Ingram said someone forced the rear door of the one-story building and removed an electric drill, grinder, two spray guns, tools and the mannequin. TIRES SLASHED Slashing of two of his automobile tires worth $30 has been reported to police by Eddie Feltz, needs of the community, SCOPE OF STUDY He stated that a professional survey, working in co-operation with a representative local com mittee, should consider requirements for a suitable location for a home, outside crowded city districts, workable plans for the building, requirements for staff, and necessary policies and functions of the home.

The survey should also, he indicated, analyze the functioning of the various agencies closely ie-lated to a detention home the courts and the health, education, welfare, and law-enforcement agencies. He pointed out that good begin-ings had already been made in the preliminary studies by the League of Women Voters and other groups, but that a professional technical survey is now needed. Representatives at the meeting agreed in recommending that such a survey, which could be completed for $1500 because some preliminary work has already been done, should be authorized at once. Besides the sponsoring organizations, local officials, and wel fare and law enforcement agencies, groups represented at the meeting included Parent Teachers Associations, the Reno Women's Civic club, the Nevada Relief Shop, PEO Sisterhood, the National Business and Profession al Women's Club, the Salvation Army, the Reno Federation of Jewish Women, the YMCA, the Washoe County Bar Association, the Scroptimistg, and the Washoe County Ministerial Association. Phone Strike In Susanville Susanville entered its eighth day of temporary telephone serv ice today as 34 operators and linemen continued to stay away from work because the phone company and the local union failed to reach an agreement on wage increases The strike also includes Elk Grove, Rio Vista, Burney, Alturas, Buntingville.

Beiber and Fern- dale exchanges, company officials report. General manager of Citizens Utilities company, D. H. Steele and union representatives are meeting now in Redding, in an attempt to resolve their dif ferences. Switchboards are being manned by supervisory personnel during the work stODDase.

Service is described as good" but it is takine "time to get calls through." The phone company employes are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers Local No. 1245. Services per formed by linemen are also being handled by employes not affected by the strike. from continuing operations, a hotel spokesman emphasized. The casino, formerly headed by Mrs.

Vera Krupp and Louis Man-chon, also owes the state government in back gambling taxes but the tax commission has agreed to let the debt ride while the hotel struggles to get into a stronger financial position. Mrs. Krupp's investment was designed to help put the hotel into the black but she recently surrendered the management rather than invest further. SPEAKER at Nevada Young Republican convention banquet March 23 in Reno will be Joe Foss, above, governor of South Dakota and World War II Marine air ace. Wild Driving Brings Arrest Three motorists were arrested in Reno, Thursday for shenanigans with their automobiles, including "peeling rubber" and registering "near misses" on pedestrians and street barricades.

Charged with violating the right of way of pedestrians and failing to heed a police officer was John Louis Canepa, 18, of Verdi. Police said they observed Canepa make a right turn from N. Virginia St. onto Fourth Street through the midst of a bevy of pedestrians. No pedestrians were struck, but all were forced to scatter wildly as Canepa dashed down Fourth street with a police car in pursuit.

He eluded police temporarily, but was picked up within the hour after other patrol cars were notified. Canepa posted $160 bail. Earl John Neal, 50, of Lafayette, Calif, was arrested for drunken driving after he "ran a stop sign at First and Sierra streets and dashed through disaster area barricades. Police caught Neal when barricades at the south end of the Sierra street bridge halted him. Neal posted $250 bail.

William Michael Tessler, 19, 393 Morningside was charged with reckless driving after he "peeled rubber for ten feet" from a stoplight at First and Virginia streets. He was arrested in front of the Riverside Hotel, and has posted $50 bail. MEET IN SPARKS There will be a meeting tonight at the Sparks city hall at 8 o'clock for the purpose of reorganizing the rail city's Little League baseball teams. All interested parents are encouraged to attend, Mrs. Louise Allen said.

radio, Albert drove up in, lo! and behold, a city garbage truck. He took one look at the situation and did a fast U-turn, explaining to Stefanski, "I must be lost." Paulson arrived on the scene and ordered Exhibit Elmo's loaded pickup truck, towed to the police station and Elmo arrested. When they got to the station, Albert, having returned the garbage truck to the city garage lot on East Second street, and DePaoli arrived to surrender themselves, Kuenzli said he had but one question to ask. Was Albert planning to use the garbage truck to push the pickup in order to energize its defunct battery or "was he really planning to go into business by loading the big truck with plumbing supplies?" Police said all three have admitted planning to sell the supplies for junk. All were released in due time after posting $100 bail each.

DAY IN COURT AWAITS DISSOLVED JUNK FIRM FEDERAL AGENTS GRAB NEW FRONTIER ASSETS- Operations at Hotel, Casino Continue After Funds Confiscated for Taxes Due LAS VEGAS Although representatives of the U.S. Treasury Department have seized more than a million dollars in assets for failure to pay required taxes, the New Frontier Hotel will continue to operate as in the past, hotel officials said today. The agents yesterday confiscated the assets to raise about owed the government for coin machine fees, withholding taxes, The Basso Moonlight Junk will have its day in court March 27 at 2:30 p. m. It will be sort of a bankruptcy proceeding before Justice of the Peace William R.

Beemer, although the firm was legally dissolved early Sunday morning by a Reno merchant policeman. E. and Elmo P. Basso, ages 27 and 31 respectively, and Lawrence J. DePaoli, 32, were arrested by the policeman, Joseph Stefanski, and City Officer Paul Paulson and charged with grand theft.

Elmo's 1949 pickup truck, its battery dead, was spotted by Stefanski parked at 10 Giroux St. in front of John F. Kuenzli's Hill-crest Plumbing and Heating Co. The truck's cargo box was loaded to the gunwales with pipe and pipe fittings valued at $250. Elmo was behind the wheel.

Albert and DePaoli were nowhere Xi fnimrl Ac RtofnncVl urac calling the police station on his and cabaret taxes for the fourth quarter of 1956, Largest asset taken was a note for $1,065,000 held by the New Frontier for a loan to the Last Frontier casino less than two years ago. The internal revenue oftice said the assets, which include a lease agreement between the Silver Slipper and the New Frontier, will be sold individually to the highest bidder April 12. Seizure of the note in no, way prevents the hotel and casino 481 Locust St..