Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 16

Record Is Completed Five Hours Required By Talkers Proponents of a Third street freeway route through Reno quickly loaded the record of a public hearing here Tuesday with material supporting their aims. And then, hour after hour, people who do not like the Third street route recorded their com- plaints. NO DOUBTS LEFT There was no doubt where the marshalling yard for the one type of opinion was headquartered: on the Third street route. And there was no doubt but that the United Freeway Association, sponsoring a north rim route, and others who don't want one or any, downtown freeway, were much the more numerous, vocal and persistent at the hearing in the State building. One of the curious qualifications for vocalizing at the long meeting appeared to be stamina, or good timing, since the meeting finally ran from 2 to 9:05 p.

m. and obviously some of the late speakers had been out to dinner. HEARING RECORD Several hundred persons were present at the opening of the hearing, all of which was recorded, presumably for the benefit of federal officials in Washington connected with the Bureau of Public Roads. The crowd faded below 100 around little 'after. dinner time, increasedate Highway Engineer W.

T. Holcomb, who ran the meeting in pretty shrewd fashion, ing the difficulties, allowed breaks after the consultants, Wilbur Smith and George Richardson, and James Wallace, chief right of way engineer for the state highway department, had said their not unfamiliar pieces. About the only surprise in hours of talk was the speech of Reno City Attorney Sam Francovich, whose stand against the Third street route contrasted sharply with the official city view, the city council having resolved to back the Third street route Monday night. Francovich, talking as an individual, admitted to selfish interests in the form of family property on Commercial Row and around Arlington near Third in opposing a downtown route. He was about the only person who took any who flatly admitted to a selfish interest; and he put into sharp form some loose questioning of the experts on the stage that went on intermittently in the course of talks by opponents downtown way, most of whom (United Freeway Association members) favored north rim route around Reno.

Francovich got Holcomb to admit that he didn't know the exact route of a north rim route, frowned on by the experts, but once promised to be by Gov. Charles Russell. And Holcomb told Francovich that he believed no interstate federal highway funds would be availif the freeway through the Truckee Meadows doesn't go through the Reno city limits at some point. At any rate, Francovich came out flat footed against downtown freeways; cited his municipal experience in claiming that the tax loss would be important; admitted not minding the prospect of a Seventh street selection too much; and generaly favored a freeway north of town. FOLLOW ROUTE Most of those who favored the Third street route, the present darling of a fairly astounding bunch of bedfellows, but who number among them many of the community's most influential men, and most of those who want a rim route don't want one or any downtown route, spoke pretty predictably.

A possible tipoff to official thinking came in the remarks of the consultants, who still favor, for the record, the Court street route, but who pointedly don't find anything the matter with the Third street route. There was no doubt that a tremendously, influential group had found for the Third street route, nor that any public official who puts a Reno freeway there or anywhere downtown faces some diehard opposition. CASE SUPPORTED Chief case for the Third verria, another attorney streeters was put by Peter said he was appearing as a frivate citizen. It was backed most importantly by the City of Reno, in the person of Mayor Len Harris, and in the form of messages from Police Chief T. R.

Berrum and City Engineer Elliott Cann; by Raymond M. Smith, director of the Regional Planning Commission, and the man thought up the Third street route in the first place; Morgan Anglim, president of the Reno Chamber of Commerce, which ran a poll approving Third street; Oliver Thomas, Southern Pacific Co. tax agent, who found nothing the matter with the choice of the week; and Louis Paley, organized labor's representative in the matter. The word on any other side Sparks Leader In Route Fight Declares Stand Leader of SFA Talks in Favor Of 'A' Street Remarks aimed at the United Freeway Association during the freeway hearing in Sparks Monday should not be construed as a personal attack on leaders of the association, Dr. William J.

Bryan, president of the Sparks Freeway Association, said today. Dr. Bryan, contending that a secondary headline in Tuesday's Reno Evening Gazette tended to confuse his stand on the freeway matter, outlined his posttion in a telephone interview today. FAVORS 'A' STREET The headline: "Dr. Bryan Lone Voice Opposed to Selection" was in direct contradiction to the newspaper story which said that Dr.

Bryan favored the street route, which also apparently meets the approval of most other residents of the railroad city. First speaker on the program conducted by the state highway department in Sparks Tuesday, Dr. Bryan made a heated attack on the conduct of the United Freeway Association which, favors a north rim route. He returned to the stand later to explain that his opinions relating to the UFA were not necessarily those of the SFA but that his remarks favoring the street route represented the official thinking of the 'SFA. "I don't think the leaders of the UFA are responsible for many of the things that have come up in this situation," Dr.

Bryan said today. has been my opinion all along that this thing has gotten out of hand and that some of the members of the association, or others who are sympathetic to the views of the UFA, have simply gone overboard." COLD, HARD FACTS Dr. Bryan said his remarks at the Sparks meeting were made to build up his point that the selection of a freeway route through the Reno-Sparks area should be on a basis of cold, hard facts and not be made on a foundation of a controversy of personalities. "I have purposely, kept from mentioning the SFA leader said. "This thing should not be waged on personalities." Although bitter feelings have been created by the argument over the selection, "I have a high respect for the leaders of the UFA, and my remarks Monday were not made to engender more bitterness," Dr.

Bryan said. The SFA leader said the marks were also made to indicate to the Bureau of Public Roads the reasons why these various freeway associations were organized and of the things that have happened during the argument over the selection. The bureau should, he said, be given an idea of the strong feelings that have arisen over the route choice. The people of Reno and Sparks have given careful study and thought to all the factors involved and before a final choice is approved the bureau should give an equal amount of consideration to all these factors, he declared. ACCORD IS VITAL "We are at a point now," Dr.

Bryan said, "where we must get together on something these officials will accept, or blow the whole thing." Dr. Bryan said too that opinions on the best possible route are changing every day. He said that some of the most ardent supporters of the north rim route backed by the UFA have swung around and are now supporting Third street because they believe that to be the best answer. Reiterating that his contention that "illegal and reprehensible acts" had been committed during the heat of the argument was not aimed at officials of the UFA, he said he felt that the fact that such acts had occurred should be general public knowl-1869. edge, and he also declared that he felt the UFA should issue a statement to the affect that it also abhors these alleged illegal actions and in no way condones them "because such acts only hurt their cause." Official of NIC Has Heart Attack CARSON T.

L. Hutchings, labor representative of the Nevada Industrial Commission, is confined to his home after suffering from a heart attack, it was announced today. Hutchings, 42, will remain away from his post until after Jan. 1, according to Guy Perkins, NIC chairman. Hutchings is a former Pioche resident and was appointed to the NIC about two years ago.

RENO EVENING GAZETTE PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1957 Formal Charge Filed Against Royal Nevada Accuse Dealer Of 'Peeking' Dealing Seconds LAS VEGAS- The state gambling control board today had formally charged the Royal Nevada hotel with the employment of a dealer who had been observed peeking and dealing second cards on two occasions last August. The charges by the state board were issued as a result of a demand by the hotel's attorney, Thomas Foley, that the establishment be told when and where so it could prepare a defense to a blanket cheating cita- tion. CAUGHT TWICE Robbins Cahill, chairman of the board, said the "peeking" and "second carding" was observed in the casino of the Royal Nev. Aug. 18 at 12:20 a.m.

and again Aug. 26 at 10:30 p.m. The hotels licensees, T. W. Richardson and Robert W.

Ryne, both of Las Vegas and former Mississippi gamblers, Harry Oederkerk, Los Angeles industrialist, and Edward Chandler, Summerfield, N. home builder, were ordered to appear at a hearing Dec. 5 in Carson to cause why their state gaming permit should not be revoked, suspended or limited. 'The eight count citation against the Royal Nevada marked the first time a major Nevada casino has been accused of cheating and only the second time a large gambling operation has been threatened with revocation of its gaming license. SERIES CITED Cahill said the "existing situation at the Royal Nevada is a culmination of a series of situations rather than a specific instance." Richardson, hotel president, in reply to the charge, said that "this is an example of injustice to an establishment as large as the Royal Nevada.

Hundreds of employes and their families and the fine past reputation of the operators of the hotel have been seriously injured by the board's allegations." "The board should have known that if they had reported the incidents immediately to me, I would have taken steps at once to correct them if they had occurred, as never before in the history of our operations has any such incident been reported." Richardson said he would vigorously resist the charges at the hearing next week. Jury Indicts Fur Dealer A federal grand jury has indicted a Chicago fur dealer for possession of some $49,000 worth of furs stolen from the Kreiger Fur Corp. of Reno on July 26, 1957. The indictment charges 48- year-old Stephen Krezo, with possessing five he knew were stolen. Krezo's bail was set at 000.

Chicago FBI agents said the furs were found in Krezo's office there on Nov. 8. All bore markings identifying them as part of a total of 335 worth of furs stolen from the Reno establishment. Owner Louis Kreiger reported that 86 pieces were missing and that all were insured. The FBI had suspected a nahaven't yet revealed whether tionwide ring of fur thieves, but can Krezo's arrest has led to further information about the huge operation.

Mabel Benson Dies in Reno Mrs. Mabel Madeline Benson died at her home here Tuesday afternoon. She survived by her husband, Oscar Benson; a duaghter, Mrs. Robert Waterman of Reno; three sons, Eugene, John and George Steelman, all of Oklahoma City, and a brother, Carl Hammons of Hydro, Okla. Six grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in O'BrienRogers-Keiper chapel. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Expand Medical Service Program Welfare Head Explains Plan To Care for Aged and Blind deems it necessary, ling to Mrs. Barbara Coughlan, state welfare director.

She said a state-federal medical and remedial care program provides only $6 a month for each person to pay for outpatient doctor care and drugs. NO INSURANCE Mrs. Coughlan said that various insurance companies had been asked to submit proposals on care that could be provided for this amount, but no replies were received. The state, welfare department then signed a contract with the state medical association under which the physicians agreed to there provide were medical not sufficient exoney for full payment. 2600 COVERED Nelson Neff, the medical society program administrator, reported that about 2600 persons were, now covered, and that had met costs thus far.

Drugs are paid for before physicians receive any money, he said. Mrs. Coughlan said the program will be reviewed a few months from now and that it may be possible to allow for greater participation by chiropractors and other practitioners. NOT ENOUGH MONEY They were excluded originally because it was feared that the funds available would not go far and the welfare board felt that medical services and drugs were the most essential. The attorney general declared, however, that limiting the program to medical doctors and osteopaths was discriminatory.

In other actions, the commission ordered a study of the possible use of the old Goldfield hotel as a state tuberculosis sanitarium, or a school for wayward Chiropractors, dentists, chiropodists and other practitioners of the healing arts may sell their services to those protected under a state plan for medical and remedial care of old age pensioners and blind aid recipients, the Nevada Legislative Commission was told Tuesday. But the services of other than medical doctors and osteopaths will be available only if the family physician DIES Ulysses S. Hanson, 86, longtime Steamboat Valley farmer, died at St. Mary's Hospital Tuesday night following a brief illness. Ulysses Hanson Dies in Reno After Illness Ulysses S.

Hanson, 86, a pioneer Steamboat Valley resident, died Tuesday night at St. Mary's hospital in Reno following a brief illness. Mr. Hanson, a native of Wisconsin, came to Nevada with his parents when he was only: four years old, settling in Virginia City. He worked in various blacksmith shops while attending Virginia City schools, and following graduation went to the University of Nevada for one year, 1889-1890.

Returning to Virginia City, Mr. Hanson was engaged in the blacksmith trade until 1904 when he married Miss Christine Neilson of Steamboat Valley and then became engaged in farming until one year ago when he retired because of poor health. He was an active member of the Nevada State Farm Bureau for 38 years. Surviving Mr. Hanson are his widow, Mrs.

Christine Hanson; a son, Andrew H. Hanson; a grandson, Robert Hanson, and a granddaughter, Barbara Hanson, all of Steamboat Springs; and a brother, George Hanson of St. Petersburg, Fla. Funeral services have been set for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. from the Ross-Burke Funeral Co.

chapel, with the Rev. John T. Ledger of the Trinity Episcopal church officiating. Burial will be in Mountain VView cemetery. Mishap Fatal To Lyon Man smelter's stockpile.

He appartently was dislodging sulphur from the hopper of a trailer when the driver, unaware that he was under the vehicle, moved his rig. He died en route to the hospital in Yerington. Mr. Stallard was employed as a bulldozer operator by Wells Cargo, which holds the sulphur hauling contract. Moving of sulphur was completed Tuesday night and Mr.

Stallard had only a few hours more work to complete his shift. He was born at the old Kaufman ranch south of Yerington on Dec. 12, 01901. grandHiser parents, Henry and Harriett Pursel were among the first families to move to Mason valley. They settled in the area in YERINGTON Cecil Stallard, 55, member of an early Mason valley family, was fatally hurt Tuesday afternoon in an accident at Anaconda Company's Weed Heights plant.

Mr. Stallard was crushed beneath a trailer which had unloaded sulphur at the copper He attended Yerington schools, worked on the highways and was a heavy equipment operator for various freight and hauling firms. He was married June 14, 1926 to the former Miss Alice Hen- rich also a member of an early western Nevada family. She died in 1946, and Mr. Stallard married Cecile Hume the next year.

He is survived by his widow, Cecile: a son, Vernon, and a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Zunino, both of Reno; two brothers, Fred Stallard of Yerington and Oscar Stallard of Reno, and a sister, Mrs. Elsie Allum of Yerington. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and funeral services will be conducted either Friday or Saturday by that lodge. The services will be announced by Freitas funeral home, Yerington.

The hotel was one of the state's fanciest hostelries during the mining boom in Goldfield, but it has not been operated for years. Other welfare matters, the new department of motor vehicles and the study of fish and game commission operations also came in for attention Tuesday afternoon at the windup of a two-day legislative commission meeting. The welfare board was asked to liberalize its policies on licensing group care facilities (boarding homes) for aged persons to observe the rights of pri- girls. FANCY HOSTELRY vacy for self-supporting guests. HIRE TECHNICIANS Hiring of salaried technicians to assist a special consultant committee studying fish and game operations in Nevada to poured up also its was work and authorized.

issue a reLegislative Counsel J. E. Springmeyer was given authority to hire such help as needed. In connection with the new motor vehicle department, Director Robert A. Allen was told that the legislature wanted him to purchase tabulating equipnient to speed the work of registering motor vehicles and issuing license plates, instead of the kind of addressing equipment which Allen had favored.

Firemen Fight Blazing Hay Burning hay bales brought Sparks firemen to a point eight miles east of Sparks Tuesday afternoon bales, twice. 75 of them, were dumped by truck driver Lawrence E. Devine when he found his load on fire in midafternoon. Devine's truck-trailer rig was carrying bales from Lovelock to Modesto, Calif. Devine said the fire probably began from truck exhaust sparks.

The load wasn't covered sparks apparently flew from the exhaust stack behind the rig's cab. Burning bales were strewn across 100 feet of highway 40, but firemen collected them and put out the smouldering fires. And at 7:50 p.m., they had to do. it all over again when the blackened bales caught fire again. PEANUTS I IN THE SOME GO FALL OF THIS, OF by MERRILY ON THE YEAR COURSE, United THEIR WAY ANIMALS ARE IS NOT TRUE DEPENDING ON HARD AT WORK OF ALL Syndicate, rights MAN AND NATURE MAKING THEIR ANIMALS." SOMEHOW TO PREPARATIONS SUSTAIN THEM." FOR SCHUL2 High Sierra Fall Fatal To Airman MANY CARDS Nevada shown sorting the hundreds of ing the Reno freeway hearing at the State building.

At left is and at right is Oren W. Walker, drew the most applause out the long day, and, before Holcomb squelched it, the same group offered considerable booing of those not with them. Perhaps the strongest opposition to downtown routes came from Mrs. Dorothy Ward Ginocchio, who said she represented some truckers and business men in the East Fourth street area; Clel Georgetta, leader of the anti-Court street committee; Tom Macaulay, president of the United Freeway Association, and Francovich. Among them, they contend that a rim route is cheaper, by about half (20 against nearly 40 millions), quicker, least disturbing, least hurtful to the town's beauty, and generally best of all possible proposals, Macaulay, particularly, contended that the will of what he said was 18,000 petition signers is being ignored.

Several antidowntown freeway speakers charged bluntly that gambling interests are behind the Third street route movement. Mrs. Hazel Bussey, president of the freeway, association, claimed that anybody against any downtown freeway location actually is for a northern bypass, which the professional engineers claim just isn't feasible because too much traffic ends in downtown Reno. And there were wheels within wheels. The motel people were pretty fascinated with interchange locations, and of different minds about the Third street route.

Rodney Reynolds, an officer in the Third street ment, reported that business men in west Reno didn't object to the Third street route -but want a lot of off-ramp concessions. Pete Cladianos, representing the Sparks Motel Association, asked lot of questions about how strangers arriving in Reno on a ramp posslibly could learn that there are highway department employes are cards turned in by those attendTuesday afternoon and evening Denton Hays, division engineer, chief road designer. (Dondero photo) lodging and facilities on say, East' Fourth street, where one of the Cladianos motel properties is located. And there were anti-Court streeters; anti-Seventh streetjers (chiefly Ken Bovard, the last speaker); questioners and people of vociferous view and sometimes no perceptible stand. Some of the many others who spoke: Wiliam Cashill, seeking action on a freeway on Third street to serve the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley; Gene Shoupe, saying the Nevada Highway Users Conference backs the Third street route; Stanley Jones, of the Reno Central Trades and Labor Council, also backing the Third street location.

Also backing the Third street route was D. G. Pilkington, director of the Western Nevada Industrial Commission, and Manford I. Hardesty, representing the Home Builders Association. The rim routers, antidowntowners, were more numerous.

A few of them included Mrs. Ruth J. McCord, Joe Braun, O1- iver C. Custer, Jack Deal, Gordon B. Harris, Thomas Cooke, W.

T. Aust, Ethel Zimmer, Parker Liddell, James R. Bush, Nat I. Brown and Harold Walter. Of the two non-involved engineers who spoke, Gene Menke wondered if instructions to consultants didn't limit them, and the consultants said not at all; Howard C.

Wickes suggesta dual Commercial rowThird street project for onewaying traffic on each. Most of the persons who filled cut the highway department's cards on entry didn't speak; some asked questions the cards; and many speakers on both sides included masses of material in the record which they either did or did not read. Sportsman's Wife Sues To Halt Nevada Divorce LOS ANGELES. (P) The wife of Charles S. Howard, sued yesterday to prevent the millionaire sportsman from divorcing her in Nevada.

Mrs. Rowena Schneider Howard, 54, said she was recently served with a suit which the 55-year-old Howard had filed in Lovelock, Nev. His action asked for a divorce or annulment, and Missing Craft Turns Up Safe A two-place army helicopter missing en route from Reno to Elko turned up safe today at the "Old Buffalo" airport near Battle Mountain. The two Army fliers, subject to a search by Stead Air Force planes and helicopters, were forced down because they ran out of gas. Stead called off the search of two helicopters and three C-47s when Battle Mountain Power Co.

officials reported the army craft had been found, refueled, and sent on its way to Dugway Army Ground near Salt Lake City. The craft had refueled at Stead last night en route from Sharpe General Depot at Stockton, then vanished. Layman in Pulpit Lay sermon will be delivered Sunday Community Baptist churenosy Dr. Garold Holstine, dean of the college of education at the University of Nevada. Dr.

Holstine will replace the Rev. Theodore Clossen at the 10:45 a.m. service. The educator has chosen as his topic "Christion Answers for Life's Decisions." Stead Air Force Base ground safety officials are conducting an investigation in the fatal plunge taken by Earl B. Siebert, 22, of Fort Collins, whose body was found Tuesday afternoon at the base of a 6,980 foot cliff in the High Sierra near Echo Summit at the south end of Lake Tahoe.

Siebert, airman first class, who was a survival training instructor at Stead, apparently died while trying to scale precipitous "Lover's Leap" peak. He fell an estimated distance of 150 feet, according to members of an air force rescue party who found his body. He was last seen Saturday when he embarked on the climbing expedition alone against the advice of his fellow airmen. A friend of the victim told authorities Siebert had left instructions to file a missing person report with the base if he did not return to duty Monday. This was done, and an air search crew was organized immediately under the direction of Siebert's commanding officer, Capt.

William McMahon, who accompained. Capt. Stanley Richard Swanson Bragg in and a helicopter. Siebert's car was spotted near Strawberry, and positive identification was made after the 'copter landed near the vehicle. A ground search party led by Sheriff Ernest Carlson of El Dorado county, five deputies and four Stead airmen spotted a rope which was dangling from a piton, or metal spike, about 150 feet up the almost vertical cliff, and a short time later discovered Siebert's body.

Siebert's body was accompanied to Placerville, pending funeral arrangements in Ft. Collins. Parents of the dead airman, Mr. and Mrs. Earl B.

Siebert, were expected to arrive in Reno today, according to air force officials. Well known in skiing circles in the Reno-Sparks area, Siebert was vice president of the Stead Ski Club, which fielded championship ski teams in the air force Pacific coast tournaments here. Work to Begin On Stead School for cancellation of a financial settlement signed here in October 1954. The settlement was reached just before Mrs. Howard obtained a decree of separate maintenance, she said.

It gave her $1900 a month until death or. until her remarriage, plus a guarantee of $100,000 in Howard's will. Mrs. Howard's action here alleged that Howard's Nevada suit charges her with obtaining the settlement through fraud. She said he contends that they were wed in Juarez, Aug.

9, 1951, before Howard was finally divorced from his first wife, Dorothy S. Howard. During her separate maintenance action in 1954 Mrs. Howard testified that she and Howard, her fourth husband, were wed after he had obtained a Juarez divorce from Dorothy. Howard is the son of the late automobile distributor and racing stable owner.

Mrs. Howard once was wed to Baldwin Baldwin, grandson of E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, gold mining multimillionaire. Two Marines End Training Two marines, one from Nevada and one from adjacent northern California have completed training courses at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Pfc. Richard Poplis of Reno completed the personnel administration course and Pvt. Thomas Ferguson of Westwood, has finished four weeks of combat training. Another Nevada marine, Sgt. Robert G.

Maine of Elko is serving with an attack squadron unit of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Iwakuni, Japan. Work can start immediately on the construction of Stead Air Force Base school, according to Earl Wooster, superintendent of Washoe county schools. Wooster said he received confirmation from Home Finance Housing Administration authorities in Washington, D. this morning on a contract awarded to Karl Harington for $428,400 in federal funds to construct the four unit, 20-classroom school building. He added that confirmation from state officials was given earlier this week.

In conjunction with the construction of the school at Stead, a contract for offsite development (sewage and water system) was awarded to the low bidder Tuesday among six contractors. The George Miller Construction bid of $8795 was confirmed by the board of trustees. The work will be paid for from county school funds. Other bids submitted by construction firms included Isbell, $9500; Dieterich, $9741; Helms, Wes Newman, Fred Schopper, $14,746.10. Asian Flu Cases Mild Cases of Asian flu have been proven in Washoe, Ormsby and Clark counties during the past six months, Dr.

B. A. Winne, state director of preventive medicine, reported today. There have been no deaths from flu or from flu complications anywhere in Nevada, the doctor said. Reports from seven counties ending last week showed 2899 cases of an influenza-like disease in the state.

The same week there were 3728 absentees from schools in the counties reporting. There are no schools in the state now closed, the doctor added..