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Washoe County Welfare Procedure Is Criticised Stormy Session For Governors On Water Plan Would Retain Half of Surplus For Lake Mead LAS VEGAS, Dec. 5. (AP) The matter of how best to fill Glen Canyon reservoir when it's completed occupied representatives of the seven Colorado ri river basin states for the second day today. Govs. Charles Russell of Nevada and Ernest McFarland of Arizona, both on hand for a closed and reportedly stormy technical session yesterday, were joined today Goodwin Knight of California.

The governors of the upper basin states Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico were invited to the parley but chose to send representatives inE stead. The 421-million-dollar Glen Canyon dam-reservoir is now under construction in Arizona near the Utah border, some 280 miles upstream from Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam reservoir east of Las Vegas. The lower basin states went on record again yesterday as opposed to diversion of all surplus Colorado river water to the new facility. Proposing instead that one-half of all surplus water coming down the river be earmarked for Lake Mead. The U.S.

reclamation bureau has suggested that 28 million acre feet of water annually be diverted to the Glen Canyon reservoir. This drew fire from a spokesman for the basin states, who called it "unworkable, anrealistic and illegal," contending it contained no provisions for supplying firm power contracts in below-average years. FEAR DROUGHT YEAR "One drought year," he added "would wreck the power and water commitments to Arizona, Nevada and California and completely eliminate any cheap surplus power." The lower basin states want to maintain a constant elevation for Lake Mead instead of leting it fluctuate, but they haven't yet reached any specific elevation agreement. Asst. Secretary of the Interior Fred G.

Aandahl, attending the meeting, said: "We are here for the purpose of looking for ideas." He said the government's plan for filling Glen Canyon reservoir was designed for average water conditions and that there is no plan for what he called "un-average" conditions. Also meeting are the California-Arizona Boundary Commission and the Colorado River Water Users Assn. FIGHT DEVELOPS Something of a hassle reportedly developed in the closed session when Aandahl suggested that storage in Lake Mead, currently 25 million acre-feet, could be reduced to 17 million. However, Aandahl later told newsmen: "There's lots of room for adjustment of timing. We haven't around to wording a policy statement broaden that would apply.

under all water conditions." Lester C. Jones Funeral Is Held Funeral services were held for Lester Charles Jones on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the home chapel of Ross-Burke Co. with the Rev. John T.

Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church clergyman. The selections "Crossing the Bar" and "The Old Rugged Cross" were sung by Joseph Battaglia, accompanied by Mrs. Lula Grimmer, organist. Active bearers were William Daniel, Charles Dascombe, Arthur Tunison, Francis Savage, Warren Gould and David Jones. Honorary bearers were Ed Sontag, William Rast, Ernest Kleppe, Edward Reed, Robert Nash and Gino Questa.

Burial was in the Mountain View cemetery. Nevada Taxpayers Report Given to Commissioners Washoe county welfare procedures are criticized at length in a Nevada Taxpayers Association report released today. thath 60 report pages consisted of by more Neil D. Humphrey, executive secretary of the association, over a period of three months, June, July and August, and held until today to give Francis R. Bagley, Washoe county welfare director, an opportunity to prepare an answering report.

Washoe county commissioners, who, with the county manager, were given copies of the Nevada Taxpayers Association report on welfare services in Washoe county, had no comment on the report this morning. Ernest Kleppe, chairman of the board of commissioners, said the report had been studied, and that a reply would be prepared lat a later date. HIGHLIGHTS GIVEN Highlights of the association report are: 1. Bagley has granted the casework supervisor of the welfore staff time off with full pay to study at the University of Nevada, and clerks of the staff have "on several occasions been required to type term papers or reports used by the supervisor in her school work." 2. Excessive costs are incurred in placing children under the supervision of the department in homes in several states.

3. Two welfare employes are sometimes used to transport a child to a foster home, creating an "unwarranted" expense. 4. Cash is used in providing aid and in purchasing air line Street Plan Gets Approval Washoe county commissioners unanimously approved limited access for a new I street extension this morning at their regular meeting. They also discussed the present practice of allowing county employes a daily or monthly automobile allowance for their own cars, coming to the conclusion that it may be illegal, but it saves the county money.

The I street decision is in line with comments at a public hearling on the subject the commissioners held Tuesday. With the commissioner's proval, the highway department is free to proceed on the route, which is to be a new Reno-. Sparks thoroughfare, beginning at I street and Pyramid way, in Sparks, it is to curve in a northerly direction for a a a a a a a a a a short distance, then proceed due west to Sutro street at the northeast corner of the rodeo grounds in Reno. The car allowance discussion was brought up by A. D.

Jensen, Washoe county district attorney. He said Grant Robison, state auditor, had written him that the county practice of providing car allowances is illegal according to state statutes. The allowances were also called illegal in a report on the county welfare department issued today by the Nevada Taxthe discussion that folpayers Association. lowed, County Manager Allen B. Carter said he thought taking the car allowance away and giving a corresponding increase in salary would be a a method by which the procedure could be made legal.

Carter said the county can't purchase cars and would have re to pay more than 1 the $1.50 a if the accepted ten cent a day mile mileage payment was made. Commissioner Raymond Capurro said "I'll bet if you add it up you'll find that handling it any other way will cost times as much." Stanford Group Meets Tonight Stanford University alumni i will meet Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. for cocktails at the Supclub. Dinner will follow at 7:30 p.m. special speaker, Prof.

Roger Gary, assistant economist with the Foods Research Institute, will address the group. The loyal Indians have extended an invitation to nonmembers to attend. Whitney's Divorce Action Filed Quietly in Lovelock Millionaire Cornelius bilt Whitney's divorce suit against Mrs. Eleanor Searle Whitney was filed quietly at Lovelock, last Friday, his attorney disclosed today. Attorney William Woodburn said the complaint charges extreme mental cruelty, a routine charge in Nevada.

The lawyer would not say why he chose Lovelock, 96 miles northeast of Reno, to file the suit. Whitney has been living in Las Vegas to establish his sixweek Nevada residence. Divorce actions occasionally are filed in remote courts to RENO EVENING GAZETTE PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957 PAGE THIRTEEN Court Rebukes Clark Board in Friedman Case Right to Work Refusal Held Wrong in Ruling LAS VEGAS -District Judge Frank McNamee has supported Maurice Friedman in his charge that the Clark County Licensing Board acted arbitrarily in refusing him the "right to work" as general manager of the Royal Nevada Hotel as the judge enjoined the county gaming and liquor licensing authority from interfering with Friedman's executive activities at the resort hotel. In condemning the county licensing boards action for denying Friedman a work permit, Judge McNamee said "the board has no more right to deny Friedman this constitutional right than they have to tell Ronzones whom they can employ." Ronzones is a large Las Vegas for department store. CURTAILS BOARD The ruling by the jurist is considered significant in that it curtails the licensing board in arbitrarily refusing centain employes in gaming establishments the right of employment.

Previously, the board had used this power as a weapon to prevent what it considered "undesirables" from being employed. It also was a weapon to use against undesirable interests. Judge McNamee the board still has the power to revoke or suspend a license which might have been issued to a club if undesirable interests are found. LIMIT AFFIRMED Harry Claiborne, attorney for Friedman said he was pleased with the ruling of the jurist and contended that the decision "reaffirms what the courts for a long time have held that there is a limitation on what restrictions can be placed on an individual's liberty. "I'm afraid that the damage already caused by this dispute is irreparable," Friedman said.

"Time and time again I asked the board for reasons why they wanted to deny me the right to work. If they had such reasons they should state them in open court and not continue this veil of insinuation." District Attorney George Dickerson who argued for the stand taken by the board before Judge McNamee, said he believed the ruling would be discussed at the next board meeting. Stolen Check Charge Faced William N. Thater, who has admitted stealing traveler's checks out of a coffin, will face federal charges of carrying stolen checks across state lines. Thater, 31, was arrested here a week ago for stealing traveler's checks from a coffin which he loaded for shipment from Reno to Oakland, Calif.

Thater faces federal charges for possessing three forged traveler's checks stolen from a Chicago woman. No charges were filed against him for the Reno thefts, allowing federal authorities to take over the case. Thater tried to commit suicide at the Reno jail, detectives said. He slashed his wrists and was taken to Washoe Medical Center. Arrested with him at his East Fourth street apartment was an unemployed burlesque dancer Leona Mae Frederick, 32.

She pleaded guilty in municipal court to charges of being a "disorderly person." She was given a "floater order to leave Reno by 4 p.m. Tuesday or face a $250 fine or 180 days in jail. She left. Service Set For Scheeline Funeral services will be held for Harry H. Scheeline in Sierra chapel of Walton funeral home Friday at 11 a.m., the Rev.

John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church officiating. Private cremation and inurnment will follow at Mountain View cemetery. Friends may call at Walton funeral home Thursday, and Friday until service time. Mr.

Scheeline, who was chief underwriter for the federal housing administration died here Monday. LEADS COPS CHASE, LOSES $50 tickets, when county warrants or checks would be better. with overtime in the office." Bagley denied that the welfare staff had typed class papers the casework supervisor. 5. Credit cards are used for gasoline and other automobile purchases, when the gasoline obtained cheaper from the county gasoline pumps.

6. No mileage records are kept so that the county commissioners cannot determine whether or not mileage payments are excessive. 7. The county welfare department does not cooperate with the state welfare department. from the items listed abAside the report criticizes numerous department procedures, such as aid to transients, telephone costs, and general procedures.

Bagley's answer, also a mimeographed publication takes the taxpayer report and replies point by point, as follows: 1. casework supervisor was urged take courses at the university to improve her professional skill, and it to say she received full pay because "she took this work at her own and much more than expense, the time 2. Whenever possible, children are placed in the same general area, as close to Reno as can be arranged, but different children have different problems, and the bureau sometimes has to canvass several states to find an institution which can 'handle a particular child. 3. Children who must be escorted to an institution are usually taken by automobile because most children to be placed in institutions "present serious problems and in many cases cannot be sent by public transportation." It is not practicable have the person driving the car supervise a child.

4. Cash is used in giving aid because, many checks and recipients because could it simplest procedure. Receipts obtained for all cash. "We glad to know that are we can secure transportation through a purchase order. Cash is used in purchasing tickets because a county check cannot be obtained in an emergency.

5. and 6. On car expenses, "the district attorney advises us that the county's practice on automobile expenses is not illegal. It was adopted and followed as an economy measure." 7. Know of no basis for statling relations are not good with the district office of the state welfare department in Reno.

OPINION ITEMS On most other procedures mentioned in the taxpayer report, Bagley states that the administrative procedures are in many cases matters of opinion. Bagley identified the "casework supervisor" mentioned in the report as Mrs. Velma Jordan, who he reports is now on leave to take college courses in Los Angeles. In a letter submitted with the report, Bagley states that his department handled 2987 applications for aid during 1956 with eight on the welfare staff. On transients getting aid, the welfare director states that Reno is a crossroads town, and often transients are given aid so that can get to their home locations where they can receive aid, thus creating a saving for Washoe county.

Allen B. Carter, Washoe county manager, said after reading the report, "It is my feeling that if the welfare department is properly accounted and audited, there will be no further reason for criticism." Carter, who is also a director of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, has been revising accounting and auditing procedures in practically all county offices. Decision Near On Strip Access LAS VEGAS- State Highway Engineer Huston D. Mills advised operators of resort hotels on the Los Angeles highway today that a decision on the access roads to the proposed federal freeway will be made in about a month. Mills was replying to a request by the hotel owners who fear that unless easy access to the famed strip area is continued the businesses will suffer from the lack of traffic.

D. E. Eslick Dies Donad E. Eslick died in Reno Wednesday. He is survived by a son, Donald E.

Eslick, stationed with the army in California, and a daughter, Jeanette Eslick of Seattle, Wash. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Walton funeral home. Roy Sam, of Coleville, could think of nO reason why he led a Reno police car on a chase through side streets and a parking lot Wednesday night. He lost the race and it cost him $50. Sam, 23, was first noticed at 10:25 p.

m. on Lake St. by Patrolman Robert Cavakis. Cavakis tried to get Sam's license number, but Sam put out his car lights and drove away. The chase was on.

Cavakis said Sam drove at "high speed" while turning through a parking lot, running a stop sign, and driving up and down Lake street, Mill street, Holcomb avenue, State street and Rock street. He was caught on Rock street. Charged with reckless driving, Sam pleaded guilty in municipal court Thursday morning and was fined $50. He didn't give reason for his mechanized antics. Wilbur Clark Yule Seal State Chairman Wilbur Clark, president of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, has been named State Seal Sale Chairman for the Nevada Tuberculosis Health Association by Lester W.

Scott, president of the Nevada group. Clark, in accepting the honor to head up the state-wide sale of Christmas Seals, said, "Tuberculosis is America's number one infectious disease. disease that we are particularly concerned with in Nevada since we are second highest among all states in tuberculosis death rate per 100,000 population." "Citizens of our state should recognize TB for the killer that it is and help stamp out tuberculosis by buying and using Christmas seals that will be arriving in the mails within the next several weeks. Ninety-six per cent of the funds derived from the sale of these colorful, decorative seals stays right here in Nevada to help reported Clark. The Nevada Tuberculosis Health Association sponsors low-cost X-ray mobile units and skin testing programs throughout the state to help discover active cases of TB and arrest the spread of the disease.

The association also carries on a program of public education about health and TB cortrol and provides X-rays for persons suspected of having tuberculosis who are without funds. The association actively legislates to promote laws and ordinances to help control TB. Clark, well-known for many state and community activities, is the Nevada chairman for CARE and belongs to Al Malikah Temple of the Shrine. Clark will be assisted by the following county representatives: Mrs. Louis Bernkrant, Clark; Mrs.

L. K. Frakes, Douglas; Mrs. J. J.

Sullivan, Ormsby; Mrs. Vern Schonfeld, Pershing; Jeanne Duart, Humboldt; Mrs. Gene Schumaker, Eureka; Mrs. Zimma Phelps, Lander; Mrs. Fred Brown, White Pine; Leonard Holley, Elko; Mrs.

Lyle Smith, Washoe; Mrs. William Marks, Storey; Mrs. John E. Billingsley, Lyon; Mrs. L.

Montgomery, Mineral; Mrs. Geri Palmeri, Lincoln; Miss Eleanor Bateman, Esmeralda and Nye; Miss Betty Mills, Churchill. The annual Christmas Seal Sale is now in progress, having raised to date $6340 toward a $38,000 goal. Large Pahrump Ranch Purchased PAHRUMP-Purchase of one of the large ranches of Pahrump valley by a trio of Californians was reported today with the deal involving approximately Jack Lotterer, and Cy Blagg said they have sold their thousand acre plus ranch to Maynard Carlson, Floyd Williams and Bob Ruud. The new owners plan to plant the allocation of cotton acreage but hope to make an alfalfa seed ranch in the near future.

Ruud will be in charge of the ranch operations. Lotterer and Blagg plan to return to Vista, where they operate a furniture store. Control Board Starts Case Against Hotel Royal Nevada Hearing Opens On Monday Phase The state Gaming Control Board today opened a hearing in its case against the, plush Royal Nevada Hotel Las Vegas--a case which undoubtedly will have echoes in the courts, in the 1959 legislature and in the 1958 election campaign. In essence, the board is trying to put the current operators of the Royal Nevada out of business on a number of charges ranging from cheating to a lack of money to pay off potential gambling losses. The hearing opened with the deletion of Los Angeles industrialist Oederkerk as a defendant.

relinquished his Harry. interest in the Royal Nevada yesterday to major stockholder T. W. Richardson. The move reportedly cost Oederkerk 000.

The deal to sell to Richardson was started last April. Remaining as hotel owners are Richardson with 62 per cent, Edward Chandler of Somerville, N. J. with thee cent and Robert Ryne, Casino's night shift manager, with one per cent. Hotel attorney Thomas Foley attempted to have the cheating charges discussed first as the hearing opened today, but gaming board attorneys Charles Springer and Howard McKissick were successful in starting with the financial phase of the inquiry.

The first witness, chief auditor Dave Malcolm of the gaming board, testified the hotel was repeatedly behind in payment of state and federal taxes as of last Oct. 31 and on that date had a bankroll of only 757. LOSE $26,000 He noted that the bankroll in his definition is money readily available for payment of gambling losses. He added that the loss on a single day last Summer amounted to $26,000. Malcolm noted that the casino's peak bankroll between July and October was $59,419, while the low point of $34,757 came at the end of October.

He called the bankroll "dangerously low" and said Richardson had acknowledged to him that the club was in critical financial condition. Federal and state taxes owed as of the end of October amounted to $103,000 and of that amount $45,000 was money collected by the club payroll and similar levies, said Malcolm. On cross examination, Foley obtained the acknowledgement from Malcolm that there has been no general audit of the hotel since October. "Then you don't know, do you, how much of the back taxes have been paid or how much the bankroll has been increased through the collection of IOUs and other debts," asked Foley. Malcolm agreed.

Richardson and Ryne were present for the hearing, but the third owner, Chandler, sent his own attorney, Charles Gaines, Jersey to report that the New house builder was in the hospital. Also conspicuously on hand was Maurice Friedman, to whom the gaming board earlier refused a gambling license. It is Friedman and two others form the basis for the board's charge that the casino owners have been permitting persons unqualified to hold in license to be active in the casino. Friedman has been general manager of the hotel, only yesterday winning a Clark county district court decision holding that county authorities had no right to refuse him a work permit. The hearing will continue tomorrow, the and gaming possibly board Saturday makes its recommendation to the state tax commission on whether the license should be revoked.

The board's ironic position of being the policeman, prosecutor and judge in these kind of cases came under heavy attack during the last legislature and the question is bound to be at issue again in the 1959 session. Likewise, there have been more and more indications that Democrats trying to unseat top Republican officeholders in the state will use gambling for a campaign weapon next year. RITES PLANNED Funeral services for Mrs. Alma May Salisbury will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in 'BrienRogers-Keiper chapel.

Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. PEANUTS 1987 U. by 5. 12-5 ScHULZ NOBODY BUT LIKES ME. Copter Training Slated for Stead New Program to Be Added To Survival Work at Base ing fall from tion Las ing, mation the Stead air force base will become a helicopter traincenter for new pilots in a "program expected to be in swing by the first of the year," it was announced the base today.

The helicopter training will be conducted in addito the base's primary program of survival trainaccording to Capt. William J. Reslie, Stead inforofficer. Right now members of the helicopter school staff are familiarizing themselves with local conditions, and are training two Turkish pilots. Capt.

Reslie said the school here would be operated as an advance training center teaching high altitude flying and mountain indoctrination. Reason for the school is that helicopters do not function in the thinner air of high altitudes in the same manner as they do nearer sea level. The officer, says Stead is the ideal place for such training. Pilots will be schooled here following basic training at Randolph Air Force base, Texas. SEE WHIRLY BIRDS A number of the whirly-birds have been seen in the Reno area in recent weeks as the staff trained itself.

There are 12 Sikorsky H-19 helicopters at Stead now and 21 are expected to be on hand when the first trainine, session by 700 starts. horsepower They aircraft engines. One problem be faced here which should improve the quality of the training and make the course interesting in the weather Capt. Reslie says. Each class, of 17 to 20 students, will be training for 30 days at this special flying school.

Classes will be extended if weather interferes. The winds here pose a number of special flying problems. Stead's first helicopters have already proven themselves in Nevada on a number of occa- sions, the captain added. SEARCH MISSIONS He listed several search rescue missions in which the locally based "choppers" have participated: 1-Rescuing injured cowboy near Gerlach. 2-Searching for mountainclimbing airman Earl Siebert who died in a fall from a Sierra Nevada peak.

3 -Searching for a navy jet pilot whose plane was never found, and 4 Searching for standed hunters during an early season snowstorm in Lincoln county. The 21 Stead based helicopters can be ordered into action on future search and rescue missions by the Fourth Air Force with headquarters at Hamilton Field, Calif. The air force is also 110 acres of public land in the vicinity of Stead for air-navigation sites. The army corps of engineers has asked the bureau of land management here for permission to withdraw the land. When the notice is published in the federal register and posted here, this is expected shortly, then the public will have 30 days in which to file objections at the Reno office of the BLM.

If there are sufficient objections then the BLM will schedule a public hearing. 14 Foot High Tree Is Stolen Reno police are searching for a Yuletide thief whose must have an immense living room. He stole a 14-foot high Christmas tree from its place outside the Reno Pet Food Market at 745 S. Virginia St. Monday night.

The tree is valued at $20. Police are sure of one thing. They won't find it in a bungalow. MEET PLANNED Monthly meeting of the shoe county jeep squadron will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at squadron headquarters.

A special program has been planned for the session. Geologists Set To Organize State Society An organizational meeting of the Geological Society of Nevada: will be held Friday at 8 p.m. in the Mackay School of Mines building, University of Nevada. All persons interested in geology are invited to attend the meeting and join the society. GIANELLA SPEAKER Speaker for the evening will be Dr.

Vincent P. Gianella, professor emeritus geology at the Mackay School of Mines. Gianella will discuss the geology of the Virginia City area and will review two recent publications on the subject. The publications are "Geology of the Virginia City Quadrangle" and "Outline of the Geology of Comstock Lode District, Nevada." Gianella made a detailed study of the Silver City district some years ago and was the first geologist to satisfactorily work out the complex stratigraphy and structure of the Virginia Gianella" also will discuss stratigraphic correlations of Nevada and adjacent California areas with which he is familiar. REGULAR MEETS Regular meetings for the Geological Society of Nevada are planned for the review of recent geological literature and for the presentation of research.

Membership is expected to include. Mackay School of Mines geology faculty and graduate students and area mining geologists and consultants. Members of the organizational committee for the new society are Dr. Lon S. McGirk and Dr.

David B. Slemmons of theMackay School of Mines, and Dr. Robert L. Rose, Robert C. Horton and Beal of the Nevada Bureau of Mines.

Meeting Set By Governors DENVER, Dec. 5. (P) Governors of the 11 western states will hold their 1958 conference at Colorado Springs, Feb. 23-26, Colorado Gov. Steve McNichols, chairman of the group, announced yesterday.

conference is an annual. event. 1957 meeting was at Reno. Expected to attend are the governors of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. A special invitation to attend is being issued to Gov.

Harold W. Handley of Indiana, McNichols said, since Handley has expressed interest in seeing how the conference operates. McNichols said Handley and some other midwestern governors have expressed interest in setting up a similar organization in their areas. The Western Governors Conference always is a preliminary regional meeting at which plans are drafted for the national governors conference. It is sponsored by the council of state governments.

McNichols said the program will be announced later. Brief but Smoky Blaze Damages Gazette Building attorneys to obtain service of a summons on the defendant before the filing becomes widely known. Mrs. Whitney has asked a New York court to restrain her husband from proceeding with a Nevada divorce action, but it is unlikely any such order would have any effect upon him unless he returned to New York. Whitney has announced that he plans to marry Mrs.

Mary Lou Hosford, 32, Phoenix, star of one of the movies he has backed, when gets his divorce. He and Mrs. Whitney 'have been since 1941. An overheated piece of plastic on a photo engraving machine, not red hot news, was the cause of a brief but smoky fire on the second floor of the Gazette building Wednesday evening. The 9:30 p.m.

blaze began in the photo engraving room on the second floor. The engraver machine is used in making newspaper pictures. Undiscovered for several minutes, the fire spread into five cartons of highly inflammable plastic material used for engravings. A woman proof-reader, who also operates the photo engravers, found the fire. Employes failed in their efforts to halt the fire, and then fled when smoke filled the second floor offices.

Journal sports editor Ty Cobb climbed onto first story roof where he remained cornered and alone while firemen poured water into the second and third floors. Damage was confined to the photo engraving room, but flames crept into walls of an adjacent men's room and the newspaper "morgue" where files are kept. Water and smoke damage were held to a minimum. Portions of the second floor were closed today as repair crews worked Both photo engraving machines were put out of commission by the fire, and representatives of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. which owns the scanagraver machines, arrived here this morning.

They will furnish two new machines and place them in operation late today..