Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 15

RENO EVENING GAZETTE PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957 PAGE FIFTEEN Third Street Freeway Supported Health Unit Plan Studied For Washoe Joint Operation Considered for Reno, Sparks Area Washoe county commissioners discussed health department plans in a portion of their regular session Wednesday mornTing, only a day after the health boards of Reno, Sparks and the county discussed hiring a health officer under a joint operation. At the health board meeting Tuesday Dr. Daniel J. Hurley, state health officer, reported that there, are two top applicants post of health officer. STILL WORKING Dr.

A. R. Da Costa formerly served both Reno and the county, while Sparks had no health officer. Reno let Dr. Da Costa go last July when he asked for a pay raise, but he is still working for the county.

County Manager Allen Carter indicated Dr. Da Costa understands that he will be off the county payroll when a new officer is hired. Carter told commissioners that the three health boards will attempt to select a health officer Dec. 21. Until the end of the fiscal year, Washoe county will contribute toward a health officer's salary what it now pays Dr.

DaCosta ($410 a month), and Reno will pick up the difference. Sparks now has nothing budgeted. The county commissioners today agreed on another health department change. Two inspectors now are on the payroll, with the City cf Reno paying of Jan. 1, the county will pay one and one salaries.

As one full salary, and the City of Reno two, since it intends hiring another man through Dr, Hur- ley. OTHER MATTERS In other business Wednesday the commissioners: Took another step toward a study of juvenile detention home needs by presenting an apparently satisfactory agreement for a $1500 job to Joseph A. Spangler, consultant for the National Probation and Parole Association, which will do the work. Learned from Paul McAfee, county building inspector, that repair of one wall of the main building at Bowers Mansion is badly needed, and authorized Carter to find out how much it will cost. Signed right of way agreements with the state for the new secondary system Sun Valley road.

Discussed with District Attorney A. Dyer Jensen and Carter the necessity for emergency loan procedures, such as may be needed for Bowers Mansion and golf course repairs, where sufficient money is on hand but in the wrong fund, and directed further study. no action on subleases to prosepctive new Reno Ski Bowl operators, after Chairman Ernest Kleppe reported that a meeting, held of all shortly. interested parties Told Carter to see if budgets will allow payment of $3 a month per old age assistance patient at Washoe Medical Center, as was made in the past, but which payments have been stopped because $24,000 a year from the state stopped too. Clear Weather To Continue Reno and Sparks should have fairly clear weather for the next two days, according to officials at the weather bureau here.

Although there is a weak storm on the other side of the Sierra, a high pressure system on the Sierra ridge is keeping it away from western Nevada. The storm is centered in Alaska, but shows no signs of moving southward at the present time. Weather officials say there is no indication of precipitation here. Hottest spots in the nation today were Vero Beach (Dodgertown) and Palm Beach, with readings of 87 degrees, while the thermometer took a dive to eight degrees below zero for the coldest recorded temperature in the nation at Alamosa, this morning. PEANUTS I HAVE TO GO ITS GETTING SO THEY WANT TO POLIO, MUMPS, MEASLES, MY MOTHER DIDN'T RAISE TO THE DOCTOR GIVE YOU A SHOT EVERY SMALLPOX, FLU.

ME TO BE A FOR ANOTHER GOOD GRIEF! SHOT TODAY $428,400 Bid Low for New Stead School Harrington Offer Gets Approval Of County Board "Stead Air Force Base school construction can start within a week," said Earl Wooster, superintendent of Washoe county school district, "pending approval by state and federal authorities of a low bid of 400 submitted by the Karl Construction ComHarrington, night to the board of trustees at a recessed meeting. Wooster said the four-unit school is expected to be ready for occupancy by September, 1958. AHEAD OF TIME a basic need. BOND SUPPLIED The date is somewhat ahead of the completion date on the current construction of some 150, family living units at the base, which are scheduled to be completed Jan. 3.

Harrington's bid last night was the lowest among those of contracting firms, whose sealed bids were read at the meeting. His base price was $406,000 with $22,400 for the first alternate (two additional classrooms) and $4410 for the second (installation of an intercommunications system) with a ten per cent figure for special excavation costs. Other firms bidding included Johnson and Boscovich, 358 Staiger Construction $432,700 Frank Capriotti, $413,641 740); J. C. Dillard, $436,000 ($414,000 McKenzie Construction $442,937 ($419,937 Walker Boudwin Construction $459,285 and J.

J. Mathews, $463,400 The least variance in price on any one article by contractors was that on the second alternate in which bids from $4200 to $4600. However, this alternate is not included in the amount provided by federal funds, since it is not considered Each firm supplied a ten per cent building bond and a full list of sub-contractors. Sub-contractors who will be working on the project in conjunction with the Harrington Co. include Isbell Construction clearing, grading and paving; A.

Dunson, masonry; McAuley Iron Works, structural steel; Tuck Supply roofing, insulation and acoustical tile; Ray Heating Co. and Inland Chemical, sheet metal; Alpine Glass aluminum entrance and glass windows; Louis Michitsch, lathing and plastering; Tom Joyce, flooring; Curl painting and proofing; Acme-Collins, electrical work; Wes Newman Plumbing plumbing, heating and mechanical work; Paul Tholl, fencing; Armanko Office Supply Co. and Dorman's Supply special equipment; Flanigan metal doors and hardware, and McCaslin Lumber wood doors. The board approved the low bid by Harrington and moved that it be submitted to state officals in Carson immediately for their approval in the departments of health, education and welfare. It will then be sent to the San Francisco office of Housing and Home Finance Administration for final approval.

The construction project will include 20 classrooms in three (Turn to page 18, Col. 6) Business Leaders Form Group to Boost Project A Third Street route for the interstate through Reno has won well-organized support many of the city's most prominent businessmen. A vacuum which formerly existed in the freeway situation was filled almost dramatically day at a luncheon meeting in the Fable room Mapes hotel. The sudden move, which probably will bring selection of the Third Street route if all claims made are true, resulted in: 1. Sending of a telegram bearling 166 names, to Gov.

Charles H. Russell supporting the Third street route. The governor and other state highway board and department officials are in Chicago attending a highway efficials meeting. 2. Forming of a "committee to support a realistic freeway route" with George Probasco, local home builder, as its president, Louis Paley, secretary of the state AFL-CIO as vice president and Rodney Reynolds, West Fourth street motel owner, as secretary.

RAISE WAR CHEST 3. Raising of $2935 as a "war chest" to finance a publicity and educational campaign to support selection of a Third street route. 4. Adopting a general statement of policy which declared in part that delays in freeway route selection has created misunderstanding and bitter feeling and hurt the economic stability of the community. The Third street group was the second to be formed locally to support a specific route.

The first group set up was the United Freeway Association, which has route which advasateda the north of both Reno and Sparks. However, the state highway engineer, Huston Mills, has declared he will not recommend a north rim route because it will not serve local traffic needs. Thus there was no organized support behind a route that the engineers would approve until the Third street committee was formed. LAST CONSIDERED Of six possible routes proposed for the freeway, the Third street route was the last to be considered. An engineering study was made of the route upon the suggestion of Regional Planner Raymond Smith, and it was found to be feasible.

It calls for two railroad underpasses and a high level crossing of the Truckee river near the police headquarters. Members of the group today were claiming that the route would win official approval from the state highway engineer, the bureau of public roads, the Reno city council and the Washoe county commission. resolution Unanimously adopted in was that a declaring part "any attempt to achieve a route location other than along one of the central routes will disregard the collective judgment of our engineers and professional planners and would result in extended delay in reaching a final decision." Public hearings on proposed freeway routes will be held in Sparks next Monday, and in Reno the following day. PUBLIC HEARINGS The newly-formed group will make a presentation in favor of the Third street route at the Reno public hearing. Various speakers were presented to the approximately 200 businessmen who attended the Tuesday meeting, all supporting an immediate stand on the route to break the current impasse.

Robert Guinn, who emphasized that he was speaking as an individual, and not as the executive secretary of the Nevada Motor Transport Association, declared that there "is no organized support behind any free- (Turn to page 18, Col. 1) Vegas Casino Is Charged With Improper Operation Nevada gambling authorities today charged operators of the plush Royal Nevada hotel casino in Las Vegas with "improper operation" and ordered them to show why their state gaming license should not be revoked or suspended. It was the first such order issued against a major gambling operation since creation of the gaming control board full 1955. A revocation order entered against the Thunderbird hotel, also on Las Vegas' famed strip, in the days when the non-professional state tax commission had full control over gambling, was subsequently reversed in the courts. The citation against the huge Royal Nevada charges persons ineligible to hold a state license are active in the operation and that the licensees thus have shown contempt for state and county authorities.

The control board did not specify names in the citation. But when the gambling license was granted the hotel several freeway from local Tuesof the about THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Managing Editors Association award brought pleased expresto the faces (left) Joe Jackson, managing editor of the Reno Evening Gazette and John sions Sanford, the Gazette's editor. The award was made officially today in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association. The award was made for outstanding cooperation by an Associated Press member newspaper in the United States during the past year. Gazette Voted Citation From Ass Associated Press Recognition for the part played the Reno Evening Gazette last February in giving immediate and accurate information to the nation-wide news system of the Associated Press about the Sierra street explosion and fire was given today by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at its annual convention in New Orleans.

A citation in recognition of exceptional coverage of a news event by one member in behalf of all AP members was received by Joseph R. Jackson, managing editor of the Gazette. ACCURATE DETAILS The citation spelled out the Gazette's contribution to the cooperative news agency. In this case the Gazette supplied details and photographs of the developing Sierra street disaster even before the newspaper could publish them. From the facts supplied to the Associated Press by the Gazette on that day of Feb.

5, 1957, the AP news wires were able to give national coverage to a straight and accurate account, and to offset some of the exaggerated and alarming reports that had been spread by excitable and poorly informed sources in Reno, and magnified by dramatic writers or announcers far from the scene. This is the second award that Two Arrested On Car Check Question of vehicle registration resulted in two Reno residents being arrested early Wednesday morning as they tried to drive off while police were checking the car. Clifford Anderson, 40, motel manager, pleaded guilty in municipal court Wednesday morning to a charge of driving with an expired dealer sale tag and driving without a license. Judge F. Kirby Unsworth ordered Anderson to pay $10 on each charge or spend ten days in jail.

He also ordered Anderson held ten days or less for investigation. Anderson, whose address is the Hi Ho Motel, plead not guilty to a disorderly charge, and Judge Unsworth set trial for Wednesday afternoon. Anderson's companion, Jennie Lee Anderson, 24, who also gave the motel as her residence, plead not guilty to a similar charge. Her trial was set for Nov. 27.

Anderson's difficulties began when he arrived at his car parked downtown while police were checking it. The car had no license plates and an expired dealer slip. He attempted to drive it off. Reno police checked with the Nevada highway patrol and found that Anderson had been ordered not to drive the car until it was properly registered. Western Tahoe Road Is Blocked SACRAMENTO.

(P) The division of highways said today that U. S. 89 at Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe is blocked by a landslide near Eagle Falls grade. Crews were reported working on the slide, which occured late last night, and hoped to have it open shortly. LION- -Howard Cannon, above, governor District 4-N of Lions International, is paying official visits to clubs in Western Nevada this week from his home in Las Vegas.

Lions District Governor Visits Clubs in Area the Reno Evening Gazette has received for its cooperation with the AP on the Sierra street disaster. Last June the Associated Press News-Executives Council of California-Nevada presented a plaque to the Gazette on behalf members of the of the California news-gathering -Nevada organization. In the letter to Jackson, Alan J. Gould, executive editor of the Offer Guide For Teachers Presentation of a curriculum guide for teachers in the Washoe county school district from kindergarten through the third grade was made to the board of trustees 'Tuesday night by Mrs. Dale Roberts.

She presented copies of the guide to members of the board for inspection, outlining the various sections in the neatly bound book. Mrs. Roberts said the guide, which is the result of more than a year's research by herself and other teachers in the county school system, is now in the possession of every teacher in the district. Sections in the guide include. aids for teaching reading, arithmetic, spelling, language arts, social studies, work projects, music, physical education, speech, audio-visual and even science.

Two other sections being prepared at the present time include health, safety and school Mrs. Roberts said that 10 copies of the guide have been sent to the University of Nevada as supplementary study material for education students. Probably the most used section of the guide, according to Mrs. Roberts, is the speech aid, in which students are taught to overcome speech defects as well as to master the use of the harder letters to pronounce in the alphabet. Mrs.

Roberts explained to the board, that methods suggested in the guide are purely optional, and are given to the teachers to help them in classroom activities. She added that other school districts had requested copies of the guide, which may become more widespread throughout the state. Reno Resident Gets World Trip Carl Hicks, a new Reno resident who plans to enter the real estate business here, was the winner of the "In 80 Days Around the World" contest sponsored by the Holiday Hotel. The award was presented to Hicks by Jackie Jensen, outfielder with the Boston Red Sox, who is a resident of Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe. Hicks was awarded an extra $500 bonus for being on hand to collect his prize, which will take him on a trip around the world, starting any time in the next six months.

The journey begins in San Francisco, where Hicks and his wife will fly to New York. He will have a suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City for three days and will then fly to London to start his world tour. Associated Press from its general offices in New York, said in part, "Associated Press men and women everywhere, constantly mindful that the AP news and picture report can only be as good as the extra enterprise of its members make it, salute your newspaper." Upon receiving the citation Jackson said, "The citation is the result of every day attention to accuracy and detail which Gazette readers have come to expect from their paper." AP Correspondent Ed Olsen at Reno had this to say about it: "Managing Joseph R. Jackson and Editor John Sanford made the entire facilities of the Gazette available to despite the fact that the blast occurred on the Gazette deadline. "Teamwork between the Gazette and the AP not only got the story into the Gazette but into p.m.

editions across the country. Subsequently when San Francisco news and photo reinforcements arrived, the Gazette made available its reporters, its desks and typewriters, its telephones and its darkroom to help the AP clean up the story for for ams a cleanup of news and pictures which the Gazette itself wouldn't be able to print until the next day." Third Street Plan Favored Members of the Regional Planning Commission Tuesday night unanimously recommended Third street in Reno and A street in 1 Sparks as freeway routes through the two cities. The recommendation to Reno, Sparks and Washoe county came after some discussion, but there was no dissension. Commission Director Raymond M. Smith originally proposed the Third street route to the state highway department as a possibility.

The commission approved an interim report on the city-owned Moana area which stressed a new swimming pool as the first necessity in a long-range plan for developing the recreation area. The report goes to the City of Reno. Planners were authorized to proceed with right of way inquiries in connection with an extension of Ninth street from Wells to Evans avenue, after the commission was told legal difficulties had been cleared up. Designation of I street extended as a limited access route was recommended to the county commissioners, who have set a Dec. 3 hearing on the subject.

The commission staff was authorized to make right of way investigations on the proposed extension of Kirman street to Grove. C. J. Lehman was turned down on a request to change land use on Peckham lane to allow a building per third of an acre instead of a building an acre, because of lack of sanitary provisions. CARSON RITES Funeral services will be held in Carson Friday at 2 p.m.

in the Capital City mortuary for Vera Clevenger, with the Rev. Gerald Case of the First Methodist church conducting. Burial will be in the culinary workers' plot in Lone Mountain cemetery. Place of a Lions club in the community was discussed in western Nevada this week as Howard Cannon of Las Vegas, governor of District 4-N of Lions International paid his official visit to various clubs in this area. Cannon visited the South Reno Lions club Tuesday night at the Circle RB lodge and the Carson Valley club in Gardnerville today as he reached the midway point in his visitations.

He will address the downtown Reno club Thursday noon, the Fallon club Thursday night and will attend an anniversary celebration of the Sparks Lions club Saturday night. He visited Carson, South Tahoe and Reno Arch clubs earlier in the week. Friday will be taken over by a meeting between Cannon and Clarence L. Sturn of Manawa, second vice president of Lions International, who will be the main speaker at the Sparks session on Saturday night marking the 35th anniversary of the chartering of the club in the railroad city. Cannon said today that Lions International is the largest service organization in the world, with more than 13,284 clubs in 83 countries and a total of more than 562,000 members.

Membership gains in clubs in the district have been impressive during the last several months, he said. With more members in Nevada than any other service organization in the state, Lions have as their chief objective of service, aid to the blind. They also foster other charitable projects and in addition sponsor such youth groups as Boy Scout troops. Another project is a student speaker contest, the topic for which this year is "Community Service A Way of Life." Scholarships and prizes are offered to encourage participation of high school youths in the contest. Cannon is also chairman of the council of governors of district 4 which sets policies relating to Lionism in Nevada and California covering 12 districts with more than 650 Lions clubs.

Gaming Board Meet Slated Applications from resorts on the Mt. Rose road and at Crystal bay, Lake Tahoe, will be considered by the state gaming control board at.a regular meeting in Carson, Thursday. Seeking a license are the operators of the new lodge, downhill from the Christmas Tree. The applicants are Denny Hill and George Dehy of Reno and Harry Vonderhaide of Sacramento. Lake Tahoe applications include Edgar Miller for "Fabulous Eddie's Stardust club" at Stateline, Richard Miller of New York and George and Thomas Abdo of Las Vegas for the Monte Carlo at Crystal Bay and Ray Warren and Stanley Parson at the Sierra a lodge, Crystal bay.

Las Vegas applications to be considered include Maurice Fortney and Stewart Kennard, both of Los Angeles, the Bird Cage; Maxwell Rubin, $240,000 investment in the Sands; Alan Sachs, one per cent, Tropicana. Reno applications include Irwin Siegel and Stanley McDonald, new owners of Lawtons on west highway 40; Carl Dowler, Elite Turf club; Maurice Swartz, Eddie Moore Publishing, a race wire. WALLET MISSING Ervin E. Clark told Reno police Wednesday morning he is missing his wallet which he presumes he lost in a downtown theater. The wallet contained identification and $35 in cash.

VICTIM Arthur R. Small, above, was one of three victims of a shotgun foray by Elza W. Eaton in the Veterans Hospital Monday. Slayer Shows No Remorse; Jury to Meet Sheriff's deputies at the Washoe county jail said Wednesday morning that Elza W. Eaton former Reno veterans administration guard whose shotgun foray through the hospital here Monday resulted in three deaths "shows no remorse." Eaton has given the deputies no trouble since his arrest shortly after the shooting and appears to be a sound man "who carried a grudge" too long.

WILL NOT TALK The accused slayer has refused to take part in a press conference, preferring to have nothing to say about the fiveminute shooting fray. He says he "wants nothing to do with the newspapers." Assistant U. S. Attorney H. F.

Ahlswede has filed murder charges against Eaton for the slaying of Arthur Small, VA personnel director and Phillip I. Keables, assistant engineer. Ahlswede said a federal grand jury will convene in Carson Monday to hear the evidence against Eaton. The attorney intends to file no charges in the death of Earl Lombardi, who died 18 hours after the shooting. If the jury returns an indictment, Ahlswede said Eaton would be arraigned before federal Judge John R.

Ross in Carson Nov. 29. Funeral services for Mr. Keables were held this afternoon in the Ross-Burke chapel. Arrangements for Mr.

Small's services will be announced by Walton Funeral home after the arrival of Mr. Small's son, Jerome, who is on duty with the army in Germany and is enroute home on emergency leave. Last rites for Mr. Lombardi will be held Thursday at 9:30 a. m.

in the Ross-Burke chapel, thence to the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Sparks for a requiem mass at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in the veterans' plot of Mountain View cemetery. Recitation of the rosary will be held this evening at eight o'clock in the Ross-Burke chapel. months ago, the applicants represented that Maurice Friedman, Leslie Cohen and Frank Casone would have no part in the operation. Friedman is a Los AngelesLas Vegas promoter, Cohen a San Francisco bookie and Casone has been identified as a gambling debt collection "messenger." Carson sources say all three have been active in the Royal Nevada casino operation.

Also to come under scrutiny at the revocation hearing set for Dec. 5 are the hotel's finances, capital structure and method of operation. The establishment reportedly has been in financial hot water for some time. Licensees against whom the revocation citation was issued are T. W.

Richardson, Las Vegas gambler who formerly operated at Biloxi, Harry Oedekerk, Los Angeles industrialist; Robert Ryne, former Mississippi gambler; and Edward Chandler, Somerville, N. builder of prefabricated houses, Lumber Load Crushes Youth Eugene E. Johnson, 19, of 640 Moran St. was fatally injured at Reno Millwork, 251 Ralston early this morning when a load of lumber being raised by a fork lift slipped and fell on him. Police and ambulance were summoned at 8:37 a.

m. and Johnson taken to Washoe Medical center. He died there at 9:40 a. m. Coroner William R.

Beemer is investigating the death. Johnson was apparently on the far side of the load, away from the lift driver, when the load tumbled and hit the youth in the head. Known survivors are his wife Peggy of the Moran St. address land a brother, Charles Johnson of Portola, Calif. Funeral services are pending at Ross-Burke company,.