Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 11

9 '0 MENING GAZETTElMayr Promises lENO RENO, NEVADA7 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1961 -PAGE ELEVEN Public Airing Of Meet Topic Mayor Bud Baker today promised a public-re-' enactment of a meeting held last week which rumors that Police Chief touched off a flurry of new Elmer Briscoe will be fired. It is tentatively scheduled at 4:30 this afternoon. The mayor's announcement came during this I1 if 1 1l 1 kit! i 1IIPM iflti ii llilllllll morning's meeting of the nied that firing Chief Briscoe was the topic of th NEW BANK BUILDING First. National Bank of Nevada has announced plans for. an 16-story bank and office building at Firsthand Virginia Streets here.

Bind -to Build Skyscraper Hgitg NOBLE H. GETCHELL LIBRARY DEDICATED Stanley Sundeen, center, master of the Nevada Grand Lodge of Masons, presides at Sunday's cornerstone rite dedicating the new $2.8 million library named in honor of a Nevada leader in mining and political fields. Broaden Experience More Foreign Students Sought by University the United States, will be serviced by a group of four high-speed automatic elevators. The latest air-conditioning system for summer and winter comfort will be incorporated in the building. The lower level of the building will include safe deposit facilities, storage space and building maintenance service area.

The main banking room at the Virginia Street level will have glass windows recessed 10 feet in from the sidewalk on both Virginia and First Streets, which will provide a landscaped terraced area. TOP LEVEL The trust department and installment loan department will be located on the second floor and the operating and cashier's departments wifl occupy the third and fourth floors. The bank's executive PHONE FA 3-3161 Nevada Report Airs Racial Bars in State Hotel, Cafe Barrier Highest, Group Declares WASHINGTON (AP Neva da's Negroes have a harder time breaking the barriers of racial discrimination in the state's ho tels, motels and restaurants, than anywhere else. That is the major point of a re port from the Nevada Advisory Committee to the National Civil Rights Commission. The committee reported that the state's Negroes meet more cuscnnunation in that field is public accommodations than any where else.

The report went on to say that discrimination, tha field is more widespread than just the Reno and Las Vegas areas, but exists in every community where the committee has held hearings. Moving to the area of employ ment, the committee found that discrimination against minorities other than the Negroes is nearly non-existent. LACK EDUCATION Only a small percentage of Nevada Negroes have more than a high school education, and limit the number of Negroes qualified for jobs with that reason. But the committee found three areas where qualified Negroes have trouble finding jobs: office work for girls, building construc tion trades, and in restaurants, bars and similar establishments. The committee reported that it has received allegations to the ef fect that several Negroes were fired from their jobs in Haw thorne several years ago when one triell to buy a house in a previously all-white neighborhood.

The committee said It has further word that since the firings, Negroes have had trouble finding jobs in the community. PREJUDICE LACKING The report goes on to say that prejudice is lacking in the ad ministration of justice. Where the committee held public hearings, was obvious that admdnistra-ion of justice is fair and equit able to all persons, regardless of race, creed, or color," the report stated: The committee found a com paratively few number of cases where Nevada Indians were dis criminated against. The report said this was because most Nevada Indians are engaged in agriculture and live rural areas, in contrast to the city-based Negroes. Indians are Nevada's second- largest racial minority, the larg est being Negro.

With a 1960 population of 278, a total of 13,484 Negroes comprise 4 of the population, and 6,681 Indians make up 2 per cent of the otal. Speaker Chosen For Lions Meet James J. Matthews, head of Consolidated Construction Co. of Reno, will be the speaker when the South Reno Lions Club holds regular meeting Tuesday eve ning in the El Cortez Hotel. Matthews, a graduate of the United States Military Academy with the class of 1932, will use as his topic: "The West Point Story." Long time resident of Reno, the speaker is Washoe County Republican chairman.

Program chairman for the ses sion, scneauiea to start at, o'clock, is Harry Cherniss. Taken by Death Elton F. Cornell died in a local hospital Sunday. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Cornell, San Francisco.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Walton Funeral Home. tit' -r I rN (A t-4r MKvfeM.tiu'.fe frri i lij lirtj. dining personnel meeting. the dis meeting was held to cuss firing Briscoe are not true," the mayor said, "at no time during the meeting was mention made of firing any city employe." The rumors were touched off by the action of a Federal Court jury in Carson City which 10 days ago freed fired Reno policeman Robert Taelour of charges of violat ing rights of prisoners. TRIAL TESTIMONY During the trial Briscoe charged that Taelour artd city councilman John Marshall "got him his job" and later offered him $1,500 "with no questions asked." This was believed to be the reason for the new "fire Briscoe" rumors that swept city hall last week.

It came on the heels of an ear lier move for the chiefs' dis charge that followed the dismis sal of perjury charges against Marshall. The charges were based on aconflict of testimony before the grand jury by Briscoe and Marshall. MISCOXSTRL'KD' Baker said, however, that the reasons for last week's personnel meeting were "misconstrued." He said the fact that Taelour's attor ney, Peter Echeverria, and assistant City Attorney Richard Breitweiser, who attended the Taelour trial, were at the meeting led to misunderstandings. He scheduled the meeting for 4:30 because he said Echeverria is in Las Vegas and will not re turn until late this afternoon. He promised that Briscoe also will be present to avoid criticism that followed Wednesday's meeting that the chief was not allowed to present his side of the contro versy.

In other action during the coui cil meeting gfficials: 1. Approved by a 5-to-l vote a measure calling on federal officials to reject resolutions intro duced by Rep. Walter Baring to block further construction of In terstate 80 Federal Freeway in the Reno area. The council urged the Bureau of Public Roads to authorize resumption of building of freeway areas east and west of Reno until settlement of the fight over the route of the free way through downtown. NEW ORDINANCE 1.

Heard on first reading a proposed ordinance to permit con struction of churches, schools and recreation areas under a special use permit on land zoned for sin gle family residential use. Lack of such an ordinance last week blocked plans for construction of a new Catholic church and school on Kietzke Lane. 3. Approved an ordinance mak ing it illegal to ignore the sig nals and instructions of author ized school patrols at school cross ings in the city. 4.

Introduced an ordinance for restricted rezoning of the area around Ninth and North Virginia Streets to allow construction of a motel facing the University of Ne vada campus. The plan has been opposed by school officials because rezoning would open the area to construction of bowling alleys, bars, vulcanizing shops and other uses officials called bad neighbors" to a university. APPROVE BONDS 5. Authorized issuance of $78,982 in general obligation bonds to fi nance this year's street improvement program. 6.

Heard introduced an ordi nance to authorize a $66,890 bond issue to finance this year's sanitary sewer construction program. 7. Agreed to donate a $1,426 re fund from the city's $30,000 1960 Winter Olympics Fund either to the city ditch fund or to the rec reation department to use for a junior recreation program. 8. Rejected a proposal to spend $1,000 to finance a National Fire Prevention Week campaign on the local level Oct.

1 to Oct. 14. Councilmen agreed, however, to support such an observance lo cally if the funds can be raised privately. Jack Ashford Dies in Hospital Jack Ashford of 744 W. 2nd died in a Reno hospital Sunday.

He was 59 years old. He is survived by a brother, Dickson Ashford, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Walton Funeral Home. THE ANALYST 5CQME A PARENTAL flSUK TO THE PATfENT: city council.

The mayor de Marion Hicks Clark Casino Owner Passes LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) Marion B. Hicks, Nevada gambler and president of Las Vegas' Thunder-bird Hotel, is dead at the ege of 57. He died Sunday of cancer at a a Jolla hospital. He fought thf disease for two years His body was to be accompanied to Las Vegas today.

Funeral arrangements were pending. Hicks, born in Joplin, was in various, businesses in Southern California before moving to Las Vegas in 1939 and building the downtown El Cortez Hotel. He built the Thunderbird the fourth hotel on The Strip in 1348. He retained an active part fa its operation through his illness and held 72 per cent of its stock at the time of his death. He also owned the 108-unit Algiers Motel next to the Thunderbird and had' a part interest in the downtown Silver Palace Casino.

He owned a Reno casino in the early 1910s. Earlier this year Hicks backed out of a deal to lease the Thunderbird to a group of Las Vegas gambling figures. He said he was regaining his health and wanted to keep control. He sold out his El Cortez holdings some years ago. He bought an ocean-going cruiser recently and planned a ieep sea fishing trip, his favorite port.

But last week his condition aecame worse and he was taken to Scripps Clinic. His wife, Lillian, was at his bedside when he died. Hicks, in earlier years, was a behind the scenes power in Nevada's Democratic party. He was a confidant and strong backer of the late Sen. Pat McCarran.

Hicks' partner in the Thunderbird, Las Vegas attorney Clifford Jones, was lieutenant governor of Nevada from 1946 to 1954. Other than his widow, his survivors include a son, John 16, a daughter, Marianne, 17, two sisters and three nephews, all residents of Las Vegas. Lavish Addition Reported for Harrah's Club Plans for a lavish new addition to Harrah's Club in downtown Reno at Second and Center Streets leaked out today in a meeting of the city council. Officials said the club plans to tear down the building housing the Grand Cafe, the former drugstore site at the intersection's northwest corner which houses a portion of the Bingo Club, and the former Grand Bar west of the cafe. They will be replaced by next spring by a major building project, officials said they have been told.

They theorized that the club plans construction of a major theater-restaurant on the corner. City councilmen also theorized that the move means that the First National Bank, which has denied it will sell its main branch buildins at the northeast corner of First and Virginia Streets, must have given the casino an option on its neighboring prop-: erty. Bank officials last week an-. nounced plans for a major bank-: ing complex on First Street between Virginia Street and Center to replace its existing facilities. Attempts for an early confirmation from Harrah's Club officials of the plans for the new building or an estimate of costs were not successful.

The olan came to light in "rou tine" business before the council when Harrah's applied for a permit to make obrines of sub-sur- face ground through Second Street. Such samples are neces sary in preparing foundation plans. Collision Here Brings Citation Reno taxi driver was cited, for a right of way; violation Sunday afternoon when his car and an auto collided at Sixth and -Virginia Streets. -Police cited Lawrence P. 29, 605 Lake St The driver' of the other car, Cecil A.

Small 56, 3300 Neil Road, was attempt-' ing to turn onto Sixth Street, police said, Plans for a 16-story office building to be constructed at a cost of $4,500,000 at First and Vir- giniaStreets have been announced bv the First National Bank of Nevada. TERRACE EFFECT The first three floors of the new building will cover 100 feet on Virginia Street, from the Arcade Building to the corner of First and Virginia Streets, and 140 feet on First Street to Lincoln Alley. The next 13 stories will consist of a tower 60 feet in wMth on the Virginia Street side and 140 feet in length on the First Street side. The exterior on the first three floors, which will be the base of the will be of selected marble and the 13-story tower will be of gray solar glass and aluminum window-wall assemblies. The rbuilding, which will be one of the most modern structures in Widow of Former University Head Succumbs Here Private funeral services will be held for Mrs.

Euphemia M. Clark Wednesday at 2 p.m. the Si erra Chapel of Walton Funeral Home. Rev. John T.

Ledger of Trinity Episcopal Church will officiate. Burial will be in the Masonic Section of Mountain View Ceme tery. Friends may call at Walton Funeral Home Tuesday. Mrs. Clark, the widow of Dr, Walter E.

Clark, president -of the University of Nevada from 1917 to 1938, died at her home, 524 Cheney Saturday night. Her husband preceded her in death May 1, 1955. "She was born in Hartford, Feb. 20, 1880, and was educated at schools in Hartford and at Cornell and Columbia universities. She met Dr.

Clark in New York City while he was a professor at New York University and she was employed as a social worker. They were married In Hartford, Conn, in 1906. The couple moved to Reno in 1917, when Dr. Clark became president of the university. Mrs.

Clark was active in music circles and initiated the Reno Community Concert Association. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, University Women's Faculty Club, and Twentieth Century Qub. i Survivors include two sons, Walter Van Til burg Clark of Mill Valley, and Dr. David Clark, Albuquerque, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. James Santini and Mrs.

John Chism, both of Reno: a sister, Mrs. Warrer Currier, La Jolla, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 1 1 i 7 i State Officer Says Low Bid Award Stands Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau State Purchasing Director Francis Brooks said today he will stand behind his decision on the award of furniture contracts for the University of Nevada Noble Getchell Library, despite protests by the Board of Regents. "I entered into a binding con tract with all the successful bid ders last Thursday, and I am willing to back up my decision," Brooks declared. "The Board of Regents, State Planning Board and everyone up there left the decision to me, and I have made the decision," he added.

Saturday the Board of Regents passed a resolution protesting the award of the contract, alleging the furniture which Brooks was buying for the library did not meet specifications. Brooks announced Thursday he was awarding contracts on the low bids for 27 lounge armchairs to Armanko Office Supply of Reno for $10,159. At the same time he also awarded a contract to Armanko for $65,803 worth of wood shelving and cabinets. Brooks said then the low bid awards saved the state about $35,000. By awarding the contract to Armanko for lounge chairs, Bropks in effect rejected a recommendation by the Board of Regents to buy another type of lounge chair, which cost $50 more each.

However, the Board of Regents, in the resolution proposed by the building committee, protested the award of contracts for the lounge furniture, wood shelving and other technical wood furniture. The resolution said the building committee has "reason to believe" the furniture being pur chased under the contracts does not meet specifications prepared by the university and issued by the purchasing director. Brooks in saying today he would stand behind his decision to award the contracts, said they have been entered into and have to be executed. "He explained that when the contracts were entered into by both the state purchasing department and the supplier, the sup plier agreed to furnish the equipment according to the specifications and the state agreed to accept and pay for it. Gov.

Sawyer said he has asked Brooks to prepare a findings of fact on the entire matter and pre sent it to him and the regents. The document prepared by Brooks will be made public, Sawyer added. "I am advised that there is an approximate difference of $50,000 between the bid which is desired by the Board of Regents and the one that was let by the purchasing department. "That is an appreicable sum. It has always been our practice to let contracts to the lowest bidder if the specifications are met," Sawyer added.

I "The purchasing director, I understand, has also requested that he be permitted to meet with the board of regents at its next regular meeting and discuss the entire matter," Sawyer said. 'iVI Ml anp THEN I WANTED AND'- centage of foreign students of any state university in the United States, although it will have stu dents from India, Iran and Korea attending during the fall semester, Regents noted there might be difficulties in providing off-campus housing for students from certain ethnic groups, as well as problems in admission standards for foreign rormer students are sun a problem for university financial officers, according to Business Manager Neil Humphrey. Humphrey told the regents former students owe about $13,000 to the student loan fund for loans dating back to 1910. Regents approved a streamlined procedure to collect the outstanding loans, authorizing use of a collection agency. Several major gifts and grants were accepted by the regents.

Mrs. Mary B. Weeks, widow of the late Seneca C. Weeks and a sister-in-law of the late Sen. Pat rick McCarran, presented an irre vocable trust of $104,400 in securi ties to the school.

She will receive the income from the trust which upon her death will go to the uni versity. Another important gift was pre sented by Harrah and Lelah Gray of Reno. It is one of the nation's most complete collections of the works of Robert Burns, the Scotch poet. ine collection includes many first editions and other rare vol umes. They were purchased from Dr.

G. Ross Roy, who is consid ered the ranking Burns scholar the United States. Arrange ments ior ine purchase were handled by Dr. Charlton Laird, English professor. Of the 66 volumes already re ceived by the library, some of the most valuable are: Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, Edinburgh, 1787, of which only 1,500 copies were printed; Poems ascribed to Robert Burns, 1801, which contains the first printing in book form of "The Jolly Beggars," "The Kirk's Alarm," "The Twa Herds" and "Holy Willie's Prayer;" a rare, early (1809) printing of Reliques of Robert Burns; and a 1925 edition of Scottish poems of Robert Burns, giving correct pronunciation in parallel texts with the spelling as Burns wrote it, which makes it possible for a non-Scot to read Burns as he would have read his own poems.

The balance of the collection. which will amount to about 300 volumes in all, is currently in storage in Canada, but will be shipped by Prof. Roy this month to be housed in the new Noble H. Getchell Library. The first editions and other rare volumes will be kept in the Lester D.

Summerfield Special Collections room on the second floor of the new building. The collection was begun Prof. Roy's grandfather, W. Orni iston Roy, who was born near Montreal of Scottish immigrant parents and who got a love of Burns from his parents. He bought his first volume of Burns in 1890 with the first money he earned at a new job.

From that time on, for the next 65 years, according to Prof. Roy, "He bought everything which interested him, whether he had it already or not." This re sulted in a great many duplicates, which form part of the collection being received by the University of Nevada. Increase in the number of foreign students al tending the University of Nevada is the goal of a special committee appointed Saturday by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada. Named to the committee were Dr. Fred Anderson, chairman, and Regents Molly Magee, Dr.

Louis Lombardi and Archie Grant. Faculty representatives and oth ers will be selected soon. Dr. Anderson called for forma tion of the committee on the basis that increasing foreign enrollment would help broaden the experiences of Nevada students, as well as providing trained persons for other countries. Dr.

Kenneth Young, the univer sity's executive vice president, said Nevada has the lowest per- Vinton Resident 55 Years Dies; Funeral Is Set Special to Gazette-Journal PORTOLA, Calif. Recitation of the Rosary will be held for Orsla Sobrio Monday at 8 p.m. in the Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Loyalton. Requiem Mass will be celebrat ed at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Holy Rosary Catholic Church.

Burial will be in the family plot in Vinton Cemetery under the direction of Anderson Mortuary of Portola, Mrs. Sobrio died Saturday night at her home in Vinton after a lengthy illness. She was born in Switzerland, March 10, 1885, and had lived in Vinton about 55 years. She had operated the Vinton General Store and Post Office for many years with her husband, the late Julio Sobrio, who died in January 1960. Mrs.

Sobrio had been a mem ber of the Sierra Valley Grange for more than 25 years. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Marie Schilling, Reno; two grand daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Jane Flury, Portola, and Shirley Ann Shepphard, Reno; a sister, Mrs Netta Solari, Modesto; three brothers, Jack and Ermino Peter- posten, both of Modesto, and Alex Peterposten, Orland, an other sister residing in Switzer land; one great granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews. Sparks Building Tops Million Sparks building permits climbed to an unprecedented $1,694,352 dur ing August, according to Leo Gardner, building inspector.

The rail city's building during August exceeded Reno's construction in July by more than $400,000. Of the 46 permits issued, fees to the city were $12,821. Included in the total were 138 new resi dences with a value of $1,626,336. New homes to be built in Sparks are: 106 residences in the Sierra Heights Subdivision, by 1 Homes; four homes in the Mea- dowvale Subdivision, by Comet Construction W. W.

Wiede mann, nine homes; and Geo. A Probasco 19 new houses. 1 auc Atfuu i.n THANK? Unit I si THt pocrei c5 offices, directors' and conference rooms will occupy the 14th and 15th floors. The balance of the building that is, the fifth floor through the 13th will be made available for rental office space. The 16th floor will house the air-conditioning system and mechanical equipment for the building.

The First and Virginia bank and office building is scheduled to be demolished starting Jan. 15, 1962, and construction of the new building will begin during April, 1962, with scheduled occupancy in August, 1963. PARKING PLAN Parking facilities will be provided through the construction of a garage for between 400 and 500 cars and will be located on the property purchased from the Pio-need Title Company and the City of Reno. This part of the project must of necessity be delayed between 12 to 15 months for the reason that the Reno City Hall property, under the First National Bank of Nevada contract of pur chase, will not become available until March 30, 1963. It is esti mated that the cost will approxi mate 51,000,000.

The architects for both projects are Langdon Wilson of Los An geles, and associate archi tects are Ferris Erskine of Reno. TENANTS FAVORED Jordan Crouch, bank vice president, said present tenants will be assisted in relocation and will receive favored status in applica-tionsfor space in the skyscraper. "It would be the highest building in Nevada were it not for the Sahara's projected 24-story skyscraper to be built in Las Vegas," Crouch observed. He said special tours for schoolchildren would be conducted when the structure is completed. He said flowers, shrubs and ter raced lawn on First and Virginiai Streets are expected to delight Reno garden lovers.

I LA TLr it in its rrsssrz i LSr-it i SB1 fr-flpf TrtC OocTog x-ti- 1 1 IJUiinl''. i TlV UNIVERSITY STUDENTS START REGISTRATION A new, ctntralizsd system designed to speed registration for fall classes at the University of Nevada was inaugurated this morning. Students shown here are reporting to the "administrative island" in the gymnasium to receive registration materials. Registration closes Sept. 22, but classes start Sept.

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