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Evening tte NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR, No. 83 RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 PHONE (702) 323-3161 15 CENTS (yCollaghah urges off -road vehicle stu Gazette Carson City Bureau In a strongly-worded letter, "In Nevada, I believe that the commissioners of the 17 counties, plus elected city officials, should all receive copies of the draft environmental statement regulating off-road vehicles immediately so they may make written, comments to you," the governor told the secretary. Furthermore hearings should be held by the Department of Interior in each county prior to the implementation of such rules," the governor continued. The Nevada governor said he agreed with Morton that off-road vehicle use should not result in what the secretary had referred to as "significant adverse environmental impact or cause irreversible damage to existing ecological balances." But, the governor said, we must be reasonable in our approach and work through and not around our Nevada residents. Gov.

O'Callaghan's letter was prompted by a memorandum from the secretary to his assistants regarding implementa tion of a Presidential Executive Order regarding recreational vehicle use on the public land. "I have great concern that the needs of local and state government will be ignored by your administrators," O'Calla ghan said. "As you well know, Nevada is 87 per cent federally owned and the people of Nevada have historically enjoyed the great open spaces." O'Callaghan said he was con-(Turn to page 2, col. 1) Gov. Mike O'Callaghan today urged Interior Secretary Rogers C.

B. Morton to seek further Information before imposing rules restricting the use of off-road vehicles on public lands. IENO Gaze ban ay y-. fr South Viet- closing in on "The enemy appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every treeline, every village," said an American adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Ur-bana, Ohio.

U.S. jet knocked out two 130mm artillery pieces and five trucks on the western flank of the advance. Behind the front lines, offi- cers said government troops had finished mopping up small groups of North Vietnamese soldiers who had been "overlooked" in the rapid South Vietnamese advance. mile from the center of the provincial capital which the North Vietnamese captured May 1. The marines on the eastern flank of the Saigon drive to recapture Quang Tri were reported within four miles of the city, and marine officers said their men could be in Quang Tri tomorrow if ordered to go.

However, there were signs of stiffening North Vietnamese resistance around the town. Field commanders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications. SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers drove to the southeastern edge of Quang Tri City today in a lightning assault against North Vietnamese troops manning defensive strongpoints, military sources said. Government troops raised the national flag at Mai Linn, a district headquarters on the fringes of Quang Tri located within the city limits. Government spokesmen in Saigon reported the recapture of another district headquarters six miles southeast of the pro vincial capital: The reconquest of Hai Lang and Mai Linh marked first reoccupation of any of the 14 district towns lost to the North Vietnamese in their three-month-old offensive.

The advance into Quang Tri -took place before noon, military sources said. Several hundred troops with U.S. advisers made the attack, killing at least 20 North Vietnamese and recapturing 12 artillery pieces lost in earlier fighting. At nightfall, the South Vietnamese were reported occupying positions about half a Will they or won't they? American chess champion Bobby Fischer, right and Russian champion Boris Spasslcy are shown when they met in chess at Siegen, Germany, in 1970. Fischer has reached Reykjavik, Iceland for their delayed world championship match but now Spassky has lodged a protest claiming Fischer broke the rules when he didn't show up for formal Sunburned man arrested in Washoe pot shot case (UPITelephoto) ceremony Sunday.

Spassky's protest world chess title A Lemmon Valley man believed to have taken pot shots at a fire truck was arrested early today at Pyramid Lake, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office said. Lt. Lome Butner said George LLeoni, 23, a former mental patient, was found on the beach on the southwest shore of the Dollar, pound continue slide Nixon invites world to pay visit to u.y SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) President Nixon issued a broadcast invitation to the world today to visit the United States on its 200th birthday in 1976. "Let America be known throughout the world as the "land of the open Nixon said in a live holiday radio broadcast from the Western White House.

He spoke from a prepared text. Nixon expressed hope that, "millions. upon millions of visitors" would help celebrate the U.S. bicentennial. Nixon said he would send formal invitations to foreign governments "extending a welcome to the people of those nations to visit the United States, as laws and circumstances permit, during the bicentennial era and especially during the year 1976." Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants from many lands, the President said it is time to say to the world's nations: "You helped to make us what we are.

Come and see what (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Castro ends Soviet talks MOSCOW (AP) Fidel Castro today ended a one-week series of economic and political discussions with the Soviet leadership, Tass reported. The Soviet government news agency said the Cuban prime minister met with Communist party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev, President Nikolai V. Podgorny and Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin in the Kremlin and "concluded their exchange of opinions" on the development of Soviet-Cuban cooperation. Weather Reno, Sierra-Tahoe: Fair and hot with afternoon winds. Weather table on Page 8. pion, lodged a formal protest objecting that Fischer, the American challenger, "has violated the rules of the match" by failing to appear for its scheduled start on Sunday. Spassky told Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, that his decision to allow a postponement in Fischer's favor was unacceptable.

Then Spassky and his aides, who were expected to draw lots for tonight's match, staged a glum-faced walkout. Spassky was asked if there was a chance for a game today. He said, "It is not known." Speaking tot newsmen after the Russian walkout, Euwe was much more forthright. Asked whether he considered the Russian move threatened to wreck the whole match, he replied, "Certainly." Fischer arrived in Reykjavik about 10 hours before his first, scheduled match with Spassky. Euwe said the Russians gave no indication what action, if any, would satisfy "We don't know what they want.

Perhaps they want an apology," he said. Sent to find out were Fischer's second, the Rev. William Lombardy, and his lawyer, Paul Marshal. They to Spassky's hotel to get clarification from the Russian 1 champion. Because of the protest and walkout there was no drawing of lots to decide which player would play the white pieces and have the first move of the match.

A Tass dispatch said Spassky had refused to play Fischer until the American "is punished, by the International Chess Federation" FIDE. "Spassky is of the opinion that Fischer insulted him personally and the Chess Federation of the U.S.S.R. by "failing to appear at the ceremony opening the match on July 1," and "a little afraid," he said, and went back up on the highway' v'' "When a sheriff's patrol came past, they told him about the man on the beach. When deputies reached the beach, Butner said, Leoni was lying on a piece of canvas. "He was really worn out and didn't offer any Butner said.

Pyramid Lake is about 25 miles north of Lemmon Valley. Leoni had been sought since Friday night when gunshots apparently from his residence at 11865 Fir Drive hit a fire truck responding to an alarm and wounded Lemmon Valley volunteer fire captain Burl Suter, 52, in the shoulder. Offiers said they seized 20 rifles and two pistols and considerable ammunition at Le-oni's house. Officers conducted a widespread air and ground search north of Reno Saturday and Sunday. Corona goes to Yacaville SACRAMENTO (AP)-Juan Corona will be transferred from Sutter County Jail to Vacaville State Prison sometime next week because his physical condition requires treatment, a sheriff's spokesman said today.

Corona, accused of hacking 25 transient farm workers to death and burying them in graves along the Feather River last year, has been in Sutter County's custody since he was arrested May 26, 1971. Sheriff's Sgt. Thomas Loney of Solono County said Sheriff Roy Whiteaker of Sutter County asked for the transfer because the facilities in his county could not meet the defendant's medical needs. Since he was arrested, Co-. rona has been hospitalized twice with a heart condition and needs the continuing medical attention available at Vaca-ville's hospital facilities because of this.

sion and a railroad buff by avocation. She helps at the throttle of the train on weekends and holidays for the 40-mile round trip through eastern Arizona's mountains. It all started when she and lake north of Reno shortly after midnight. Leoni was badly sunburned, Butner said, and was taken to Washoe Medical Center before being jailed. Butner said Leoni had approached a young couple on the beach; asking for water.

The couple became suspicious 2.40 base that was predicted after sterling was floated 10 days ago. The dollar, weakened by the sterling crisis, continued to. trail the pound downward and opened in Frankfurt at 3.15 marks. This was a slight rally over Monday night's close of 3.1497, but only intervention by the central bank shored, it up then. The bank began buying up dollars again today to maintain it at the lower mandatory intervention level and head off panic selling.

But reports of the market situation in Frankfurt touched off a flurry of last-minute selling in Tokyo, and the Bank of Japan had to buy $80 million during the last 10 minutes of trading. In Paris, the dollar was near floor level at 5.0005 francs, down from Monday's 5.0015 close. But there was no sign the Bank of France was planning to step in to support the curren-' cy. The dollar weakened in Zurich to 3.75 Swiss francs, down from 3.7530. The Swiss national bank intervened Monday to keep the currency hovering above floor level, but there was no immediate sign it planned to step in again today.

The dollar also weakened in Brussels, falling from Monday's close of 43.81 francs to 43.80 despite a brief rally when the: market opened. The Belgian national bank supported the dollar Monday with some cautious buying, but there was no sign yet it planned to do so again today. Overalls, peaked cap and grease-stained face not withstanding, the engineer undoubtedly is female and a pretty one at that. She's Pam Wingo, a 24-year-old dental hygienist by profes clouds match the official Soviet news agency said. "Fischer jeopardized his moral right to play in the match.

The dispatch was filed to Moscow from Reykjavik and distributed in the agency's international service. The 29-year-old American challenger flew from New York after accepting London banker James D. Slater's offer to match the $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Feder- (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Index 2 Sections 24 Pages SECTION ONE Amusements 9 Deaths 8 Editorials 4 Family living .....10,11 Thedoctor 3 Travel 6,7 Weather 8 SECTION TWO Ann Landers 17 Classified ads Comics 17 Crossword puzzle ,21 Earl Wilson ...17 Legal notices 18 Local, regional news ..13 Sports 14,15 Television log 17 Win at bridge 17. RENO EVENING GAZETTE A Speide! Newspaper, member of Associated Press.

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LONDON (AP) The dollar neared its lowest permitted level on European money markets today, triggering intervention by the West German central bank. The pound sterling continued its downward slide. The pound was close to the Carson kidnap threat told By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A 16-year-old youth was in custody in Carson City today in connection with an alleged extortion attempt against the manager of a Nevada National Bank branch. Authorities said the arrest was made not long after someone called Fred A. Paulson, manager of the bank's Capitol Branch, and threatened to kid- nap his son unless a sum of money was paid.

Spokesmen for the Carson City Sheriff's Office would not say how much money was involved and refused to release details of the incident which occurred Monday. Paulson notified the sheriff's office after receiving the threat and an alert went out for a man in a vehicle which police said had approached Paulson's 16-year-old son earlier. Sheriff's Lt. Charles Newton said today the suspect was nabbed before he left the Carson City area. Young Paulson was not abducted.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Hours after Bobby Fischer ended his holdout and gave the world chess championship new life, Russian Boris Spassky put the match in doubt again today. Spassky, the world's cham- Child killing suspects held LOS ANGELES (AP) -Three young men were arrested early today in the killing" of a 4-year-old girl hit by a shotgun blast while playing in a front yard. The men, all from suburban Norwalk, were booked for investigation of murder in the apparently motiveless slaying of Joyce Ann Huff of Hawaiian They were identified as Donald Paul Antel, 21, Michael Ramirez, 18, and Oscar Hernandez, 22. None offered resistance, deputies said. Neighbors said a yellow 1966 car carrying three or four young men pulled to a stop Sunday where Joyce was playing in the yard of a friend.

One of the passengers pointed a shutgun' out the window and fired. The girl died 90 minutes later in Pioneer Hospital in Ar-tesia. She had been hit by 42 shotgun pellets two lodged in her brain. A deputy at the scene called it a "joy killing." Sheriff Peter Pitchess called the murder wanton and appealed to citizens for help in tracking the assailants. Ramirez and Antel were arrested at the latter's home, deputies said.

Hernandez was arrested a short time later at his home, where a car matching the description of the assailants' vehicle was found, deputies added. the engine with water. Wanna help?" She did and rode the rest of the 'trip on the engine, asking questions of the fireman and engineer. Two weeks later she was an unpaid crew member and a What's a pretty girl like you doing in that cab? short time later she was acting as the train's engineer. She said the most difficult maneuver to learn is getting the train moving from a stop, particularly on an uphill grade where the old, Western-style steam engine has its problems.

her parents struck up a friendship with conductor Bob Echols shortly before taking' the sight-seeing trip. When the Wingo family rode the train Echols said to Pam: "The fireman needs help filling McNARY; Ariz. (AP) Casey Jones would do a quick double take if he saw one of the engineers climb down from the locomotive of the White Mountain Scenic Railroad. 1.