Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 2

2-Tuesday, March 14, 1972 Reno Evening Gazett His role in hoax Cheap leases cited McCulloch opposed Pollution Sparks hopes to attract conventions (Continued on page 1) Water flows seen as key to river trout Water flows will probably de Board suggested for Reno airport Irving reported writing a book starts petition Suskind to plead guilty in state said these firms have" erected buildings at the airport at their own expense, and the additions have benefitted airport land. It is unfair to look at the city's ney General's office and State Highway Department regarding the situation, and there may be a special meeting within two weeks. And Charles Schlegel, a mem ber of Civic Center Enterprises, said, "We're confident you'll be able to get the 25 feet. We're also willing to accept the project if we do not get the 25 feet. It would just mean we'd reduce the rent accordingly." The lease calls for the city to receive a minimum monthly rent of $4,500, based on current terms.

Schlegel asked approval of the lease Monday, saying, "We feel we can be open by mid-summer of next year if we can get moving." He said the developers may increase the number of rooms over the currently planned 200 And, he said, the development will mean increased convention facilities, "so Sparks can be come a convention city." Jerry Higgins, community re lations director for the Sparks Nugget, said his organization supports the development. "We're very much in favor of the proposal." Higgins said the additional rooms would improve conven tion facilities in the Rail City, helping the present problem the Nugget has of finding adequate rooms for its conventions. "The future of Sparks really lies in being a convention city," Higgins said. Schlegel said the lease calls for ownership of the hotel to go to Southern Pacific and possibly the city after 55 years. In the meantime, the devel opment will be operated by the five principals in, Civic Center Enterprises, introduced Mon day.

The five include Schlegel and two other members of a Santa Ana law firm to which he be longs, and Jerry Sweedler, Zephyr Cove, and Dean Luxton, Newport Beach, Calif. Schlegel said Civic Center En terprises also owns a major in terest in Rodeway Inns-Holiday Spa, a Reno resort. The firm acquired the motel a year and a half ago as its first introduction to the Reno area. Then a team was brought in to study sites for the hotel-casino development, selecting Sparks as the best. Eleven employe groups appeal to O'Callaghan A total of eleven employes groups have asked Gov.

Mike O'Callaghan to order binding arbitration of contract disputes with local governmental bodies. The governor's office said to day the Reno Firefighters Union and the Sparks Municipal Employes Association submitted formal requests Monday afternoon. Nine other groups had met O'Callaghan's Friday deadline for requesting arbitration. The Reno and Sparks groups had been given an extension of time to Monday, officials said. Under the Public Employes-Management Relations Act passed by the 1971 Legislature, O'Callaghan has the authority to intervene in contract disputes when requested to do so by either side.

O'Callaghan's advisors have requested responses from the opposite party in each dispute within the next week. The governor will then decide which issues should be subject to arbitration. Others which have requested binding arbitration include: The Clark County Teachers Association, the Las Vegas Police Protective the Mineral County Classroom Teachers Association, the White Pine County Classroom Teach ers Association, the Clark Coun ty Fire Fighters Union, the Las Vegas Fire Fighters Union, the Washoe County Teachers Asso- ciation, the Churchill County Reno International Airport's prime lease land has been tied up until the mid-l38U's very cheaply due to lack of proper advice and coordination, City Councilman Clyde Biglierl said Monday. Biglierl called for creation of an airport commission knowledgeable in airport affairs to keep its finger on all develop ments. The Councilmen nave neither the background nor the time to handle airport matters satisfactorily by themselves, he said.

Biglieri said lease prices are not only very low, but are also inconsistent with each other. One firm rents land at $171 per acre per year, while another gets it at $131 per acre; and third has two parcels, one at $224 per acre and the other at about $500 per acre, he said, Councilman Roy Bankofier Gunshots punctuate car chase Shotgun and pistol blasts sounded on Interstate 80 east of Sparks Monday night. Washoe County sheriff's deputies said they shot at a Reno man's car before an arrest in connection with a theft from Reno Auto Parts. Calvin L. Hales, 44, of 539 N.

Sierra was arrested for investigation of grand theft and resisting arrest, deputies said. The sheriff's office reported someone earlier in the day had placed five new tires and wheels outside the Reno Auto Parts fence. Three deputies in two cars staked out the area to see if anyone returned for the wheels. Shortly before 9 p.m., they said, a man drove up and loaded the wheels into his car. The deputies then approached him and identified themselves.

They said the man sped off in his car. One deputy fired a warning shot with his. revolver, then shot once at the car, he said. Another deputy fired his shotgun at the car's tires. The officers pursued the car to near Dinotti Lane, where one of the front tires went flat from shotgun pellets, deputies said.

They said they then arrested Hales. China pandas set for zoo in Washington SAN FRANCISCO (AP) As the National Zoo in Washington prepared to welcome two giant pandas from mainland China, San Francisco musk oxen Milton and Matilda were being readied for a flight to Peking. The two were pronounced in "perfect-health" after a com plete recovery from colds which held up. their transfer. San Francisco Zoo director Ronald Reuther said, however, to be on the safe side the two would be kept off public display until they leave around April 1.

They'll be accompanied to China by National Zoo director Theodore Reed. The big panda-musk oxen exchange was arranged in connection with President Nixon's recent visit to China. PRESENTEO THIS WEEK BY: Clothes Rack i ri i Ifif group ert Stitser, attorney for the Pai-utes, and "we are trying to set up a meeting to explain to the Indians in detail what we're doing." Laurence Lawrie Associates, a public relations firm, set up offices in the Pioneer Inn this week to handle the Palomino Valley development. Assailant rebuffed and injured A man who tried to get into a Reno woman's car Monday night was rebuffed and injured when she drove off, police said. The woman said she stopped at a signal at Sixth and Center streets at 8:10 p.m.

She said a man walked up, tried to open her locked door, then reached in through the window. She sped away, police said, leaving the man in the street holding his hand. She also said she believes she ran over his foot. Mining laws topic of Washoe taxpayer session Legislation at both federal and state levels affecting miners will be discussed in Reno Thursday Edgar Hollingsworth, chair- man of the Nevada Miners and Prospectors Association, will speak on the legislation at a meeting of the United Taxpayers of Washoe County. The meeting will be held in the Washoe County library Au ditorium starting at 7 p.m.

Hollingsworth will concern himself with mining legislation enacted by the 1971 Nevada Legislature, and congressional legislation designed to eliminate the mining law of 1972. Under the proposed federal legislation all use and development of public lands would be by permit or license in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Interior. Miners and prospectors associations are being formed in Nevada and other states with the objective of stopping the legislation. Flag on seat of his pants brings arrest A Wooster High School stu dent went to jail for sewing an American Flag on the seat of his pants, Reno police said He was released Monday on $250 bail. Craig J.

Cox, 18, of 3285 Ev erett St. was arrested for in vestigation of "defaming, slan dering, defacing, defiling and showing a contemptuous man ner toward the Flag of the United States." A patrolman said he noticed the Flag on Cox's pants as the youth leaned on a railing of the Sierra Street bridge. The patrolman said the Flag also was upside down. Men ask for money, arrested Three men asking for money for "underprivileged blacks" were arrested Monday on the University of Nevada campus, Reno police said. Jailed for investigation of soliciting without a permit were Howard Wilks, 21, Leslie E.

Nichols ,28, and Lawrence E. Woods, 20, all of Oakland, police reported. Police said a resident of Nye Hall reported the men asked for money for job training for minorities and used the name of a California college. She said they asked for $5 cash or a $10 check. DON WATTS SERVICE "COMPUTERIZED" 358-6696 92Z St.

SPARKS QUI Supreme Court to charges of grand larceny and conspiracy. Irving, 41, and Edith, 36, each could face, between the federal and state charges, a maximum of 13 years in prison and $11,000 in fines. Suskind, 46, who was named a coconspirator but not a defendant in the federal indictment, could face up to eight years in prison and a $1,000 fine. Federal mail fraud charges against the Irvings were dropped, as were state counts of larceny, conspiracy and pos session of stolen documents against all three and of perjury against Irving and Suskind. In the court proceedings, the government said it had traced the $750,000 McGraw-Hill gave Irving, including a $100,000 au thor's advance and $650,000 in three checks for relay to Hughes, to various banks and brokerage houses Switzer land and the United States.

Nearly all of the $750,000 was said to be intact and will prob ably be returned to the publish er before sentencing, the New York Daily News reported to day. In addition to the $750,000, McGraw-Hill is seeking restitu tion of another $15,000 it says it paid Irving for expenses and $135,000 it estimates it has paid for legal expenses, type setting and other costs. And. said a McGraw-Hill spokesman, "the meter is still running." The federal and county grand jury indictments, returned last Thursday, sketched the broad outlines of what has been called the greatest literary hoax of modern tunes. They said Irving hatched the idea while reading a newsmagazine article about Hughes, the billionaire recluse who has not been seen in public for 10 years.

On the basis, of exhaus tive research into a variety of sources of Hughes material, the indictment said, Irving and Suskind taped question-and-an- swer sessions alternating in the role of Hughes. Transcripts of these sessions were presented to McGraw-HiE as unique interviews witn Hughes that Irving Swore had taken nlace throughout the western hemisphere. City secretaries don't like 40-hour week Opposition to lengthening city secretaries' work week is the first complaint to go on a list the Reno Municipal Employes Association (RMEA) will pre sent to the city for arbitration rusuer, a sjvKesmau the city's 70-80 clerical secretaries, said about 40 of those attended a meeting Monday night to discuss a work week recommendation in the Jacobs Report, a city job evaluation study. The report recommended the secretaries' 35-hour work week be increased to 40 hours without additional pay, or possibly that the pay be decreased if the work week remained the same. Miss Kistler said RMEA at torney Paul Lamboley suggest ed the secretaries present indi vidual complaints explaining why they want to remain under present work-week condi tions and he would Include them in an overall list of complaints the association plans to present for arbitration.

Miss Kistler said a report will be written from the arbitration to be given to Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, who she said, would then present the problem to an arbitration committee. Lloyd Walker, president of the employes association, said different city department employes were working on complaints which would be included in an overall list. He said he would not be able to give any details on the specific complaints until each case has been worked out. "The biggest problem we have right now, however, appears to be the manner in which the city is trying to implement the recommendations." Walker said the recommenda tions should be arbitrated and not just imposed by the city.

RENO OPTICIANS "OMTACT UNSES STYLISH EYE WEAR Walt Immers Hewn A.M. I 5:30 P.M. Closed Saturday 1491 S. Walk 319-774 Fill PARKINS cide whether spawning runs of huge cutthroat trout will be seen in the Truckee River again. That was the picture drawn Monday evening by Nevada Fish and Game Department fisheries chief Tom Trelease.

Water in the lower river is too warm for both spawners and fry, Trelease told a gath ering of Trout Unlimited of Nevada in the Holiday Hotel. But, if it can be lowered by cooperative water management, the adult trout should again be seen heading upstream through Reno as they did by the thou sands years ago on their spawning runs from Pyramid Lake. If the runs can be re-estab lished, it will mean not only a colorful spectacle, but a big boost for the Pyramid Lake fish ery and the Pyramid Lake In dians' economy. In addition, Pyramid Lake's unique fish, the primitive cui-ui, would be able to spawn up stream once more. Neither the cui-ui nor the trout have been able to spawn significantly since the Newlands irrigation project was completed a half-century ago.

The Nevada Fish and Game Department and the U.S. Bu reau of Sport Fisheries studied the river last year. They diss covered that low flows and channel work have created the temperature problem. But, Trelease noted, the Pyramid Lake. Indians have been pressing for more water alloca tions.

This could cool the river enough for fishery purposes. Or, it may be possible to control flows so that a lot of water is in the chanel when the spawners come upstream in late March and a month or so later when the fry return to the lake. More studying is planned to determine if such controls will be feasible. If so, the information will help justify construc tion of the Marble Bluff Dam and fishway near Pyramid This project would make it possible for spawners to clear the shallows at the mouth of the river. The dam would store water for controlled release through a special channel, or fishway, deep enough for the spawners.

Congress has allocated for site location work, which is underway. If the project is proved feasible, Congress will be asked for further allocations. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin next year and be finished in 1974. Alterations would have to be made on the Numana irrigation dam fishway at Nixon, at the Derby Dam, where Truckee River water is diverted to Fallon, and at Wingfield Park in Reno. Fish screens would have to be built on the Derby Canal and the several ditches and canals upstream.

Cost of the entire project is roughly estimated at $4 25 million, Trelease said. The project is a cooperative venture including the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries, the Ne vada Department of Fish and Game and the Pyramid Lake Indians. French train jumps tracks, four killed PARIS (AP) A four-car turbotrain, one of France's lat- est railway developments, jumped the tracks near Paris today with 172 passengers aboard. Authorities at the scene and at the state run railway: head quarters said four persons had been killed and 41 injured.

The Paris-Caen-Cherbourg train left the rails near a small station a few minutes out of Paris. Cause of the derailment had not been learned. The train is driven by a tur bine similar to the type used on some airplanes. It has been in service two years and this was the first serious accident. Advertisement DON'T READ THIS unless you want an exciting, fun-filled day for the whole family.

Because last year's show was a huge success, the Com-itock Arabian Association is again sponsoring a ''Spectacular Horsemanship" exhibition. The show will be indoors a' the Washoe Fairgrounds, Satur rfav and Sunday, April 1 2 Performances start at 1:30 PM; grounds open at 9:30 AM so you may visit the barns and talk with the Tickets sold at the door. For advance tickets, call 322-4955. a NEW YORK (AP) Sources close to author Clifford Irving say he Is writing another book this one about his publicly admitted role in the $750,000 Howard Hughes autobiography hoax. Proceeds from the sale of the book would go toward repaying the duped publisher, McGraw-Hill, the $900,000 it is seeking in restitution for advances and expenses it paid, the sources said.

Much of the total is reported to be intact. Irving hopes to complete the new manuscript by June 15, the day before he, his wife Edith and researcher Richard Sus- kind are to be sentenced in the case, it was said. The Irvings pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Tuesday and were joined by Nixon urges military aid restoration WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Nixon urged Congress today to honor his full request for $2.15 billion in foreign military aid, saying a firm U.S. commitment to its allies is especially critical "as we begin to make adjustments in our international role." Nixon sent Congress a special message on the assistance pro gram for the fiscal year starting next July 1 as Secretary of State William P. Rogers testi fied on the subject before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Nixon's message made two money requests not covered in the federal budget he had submitted earlier: $100 million for refugee re lief and humanitarian aid in South Asia, including Bangla desh. This would be in addition to $200 million already appropriated. million "for the sup port of international narcotics controls activities." The President noted that Con gress acted on the current 'for eign aid program after two-thirds of the bookkeeping year had passed and had made dras tic cuts. The fiscal 1972 appropriations for both security and development assistance "are below the minimum level required to at tain our foreign policy and na tional security goals," he said, Rogers testified that the ad ministration's request for $2.15 billion in military aid is neces- sary "to establish a stable and peaceful long-term relationship with countries which have been adversaries." Silver Club to expand in Sparks The Sparks Silver Club ex pansion will start Thursday, one of the casino's owners, Karl Berge, said today. At the same time, the Sparks Shoe Service, 210 11th will go out of business, when its lease in the casino building expires Wednesday.

Berge said about 900 addition al square feet will be added for a keno lounge, in space now housing the shoe repair business. Work is expected to be com plete on April 1, he said. The remodeling will extend the club to the rear to an alley running parallel with Street, he said. Berge said he will be taking over a lease for the space for merly held by Robert Manker, who has operated the shoe ser vice. The lease is from Bill Buck and Lyle Ball, who own the entire building, he said Manker has operated the re pair service since Oct.

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The Center for Air Quality Monday joined Pyramid Lake Indians in opposing the McCulloch Properties, Inc. planned community northeast of Reno, saying it would increase air pollution. The center's director, Bill Fine, said a petition began circulating this morning and will be presented to the Washoe County Commission when Mc-Culloch's Palomino Valley plan comes before them. Wells O'Brien, McCulloch vice-president and resident chief of the Palomino Valley project, said today studies are being conducted to answer complaints by the Paiute Indians and ecol-ogists. O'Brien said the studies on water availability and environmental impact will be completed the first week in April.

The petition reads: "We the following, as citizens of Washoe County, oppose the proposed development in Warm Springs Valley of Washoe County by the McCulloch Oil Corp. because of the potentially adverse ecological and economic impact upon the surrounding region from Pyramid Lake to Reno." Fine said the community of 64,000 would include more than enough autos to push air pollution past the "eye irritation level." He said 10,000 additional autos in the area would probably increase pollution to that point. "An average family of five with two cars would mean about 25,000 autos in Warm Springs Valley. Auto population potential estimates indicate that figure could run as high as 40,000," Fine said Fine said the center would set up booths in shopping centers or other heavily-traveled areas of Reno to request signatures. The center's office is located across from the University of Nevada at 1029 N.

Virginia St. O'Brien said, "We're going Into great detail and when we're finished I'm certain the studies will show there is sufficient water in the valley and there will be no great hazard to the environment." He said he has met with Rob- Missouri denies Finch license to practice JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, (AP) Dr. R. Bernard Finch has been denied a license to practice as an anesthesiologist by the state Board of Healing Finch, convicted California wife slayer, was subject of a weekend meeting of the board, according to John A. Heiley, executive secretary.

The board's denial was based on an opinion by Missouri's attorney general holding that no one could practice medicine in his state without a state license, which Finch does not have and has not applied for. The board contended the administration of anesthetics is a part of the practice of medicine. Finch is working at an Eldorado Springs hospital while on parole from California. Nixon plans April visit to Canada WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Nixon will visit Canada April 13-15, the White House an nounced today. Elaborating on a brief state ment issued simultaneously here and in Ottawa, deputy White House press secretary Gerald L.

Warren said Mrs. Nixon will accompany her hus band. The Nixons will go to Ottawa and, possibly, other cities in Canada. "The precise itinerary has not been fixed," Warren said. The joint anouncement said Nixon will make the trip at the invitation of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau to dis cuss "current international issues and matters of bilateral interest." Warren declined to elaborate on the agenda tor the Nixon-Trudeau talks but it was assumed that across-the-border trade and investment questions would bulk large in the discussions.

Trudeau visited Washington last Dec. 6-7 and talked with Nixon. airport program only in terms of lease prices, he said. Re-RENTALS Biglieri said the city rents Reno Flying Service 20 hangar spaces for $2,515 a year, and Reno Flying Service re-rents them for a $13,200 a year. He wondered whether the city might not have retained the hangars and rented them itself.

For its 60 prime acres, the city gets only $9,258 a year, or an average of $168 per acre, far less than the value of the land would warrant, Biglierl said. The city also owns 50 unleased acres south of Budget Rent-a-' Car, he added, "but this area would have to be developed and the location is hard to get an airplane into and out of." Biglieri complained that none of the existing leases provide for raising rates in line with rising land values and the ris- ing cost of living. "I don't think anyone in the past had any real idea of the value of what we were in effect giving away," he said. Biglieri said he is not criticizing new Airport Manager Gene Juilfs, who has been on the job only a few months. "He's aware of all this, and I think he's doing a great job," Biglieri said.

Maheu goes to court Wednesday Robert Maheu, fired over a war aon nc rhipf tt cfaff fnr Howard Hughes' Nevada oper ations, takes his case to the Nevada Supreme Court Wednes-. day. Oral arguments are scheduled before the five-member panel on Maheu's bid to overturn a preliminary injunction issued by a district court in Las Veeas in December, 1970. The ininnrtion unhelrl the dis missal of Maheu by the Hughes Tool Co. board of directors and harrerl the nne-time aeent from reclaiming his $520,000 -a year job.

Six weeks ago, in another rap tfio Riinromo fVinrt rnlprl Maheu could not be prevented from taking a deposition from Hughes for use in a $50 million suit against the recluse billion aire and the tool company. Last month Maheu filed another $17.5 million libel and slander suit against Hughes. claimed he made defamatory remarks about him during a telephone news conference Jan. 7. At issue Wednesday will be whether District Judge Howard Babock acted properly in issu ing the preliminary injunction sought by the Hughes Tool Co, Fire calls Fire fighters responded to these ell ii aii Ht viunuay iu 1 1 hi, luuay RENO 12:09 p.m., 100 N.

Sierra auto leaking gas, washed down area. P.m., 945 Virbel Lane, aaraoe. sloreroom and workshop, major damage. 4:35 p.m.. Lakeside Plaza, auto fire, no damage.

8:10 p.m., 725 W. Sixth couch, total loss. 4:22 a.m., Reno International Airport, plane engine backfire, no damage. SPARKS 2:35 p.m., Ml Mil Circle Drive, con. trolled burn out of control, no damego, 3:31 p.m., 1547 shed, $100 damage.

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