Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 20

Robbery, It earing rrests A eaos to Gain Is Shovn In Employment Working Force in Reno Up 1300 From April Is Report Nevada's Greatesf Newspaper PAGE TWENTY RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1958 PHONE FA 3-3161 Policemen Are Still Studying Stories Told by Two Victims Commendation Field Review Scheduled for hotels and the amusement and May nonagricultural employ recreation industries each added! Is Received 200 workers in the past month to total 1300 and 3600 respectively in May. These groups showed gains of 100, 200 and 100 respectively from the 1957 levels. Air Guards Transportation other than railroads employed 1000 workers during the past month to record oil Districts Group Leaders Of Two States Set Reno Meet an increase of 100 from April and hitting the level or a year Protective Job At Boise Fire Draws Praise ago. The finance, insurance and real estate group now currently 4, I A. i 7 i I ir i employing 1200 workers in the area was up by 100 over both Field day and joint meeting of took a fur cape and other items worth a total of $1500 and left.

He furnished -police with descriptions of the four but wanted to keep things quiet because "I'm afraid for my life." FOUR ARRESTED The four were arrested early Tuesday. Charged with armed robbery and being ex-convicts in possession of firearms are Gerald A. Nolan, 31, and Virgil M. Barker, 29, who were arrested at First and Lake streets at 1:25 a.m. Tuesday.

Charged with armed robbery are Mary Lou Nolan, 25, and Helen Constance Duprey, 52, who were arrested in a Sparks motel shortly after 2 a.m., Tuesday. All four were arraigned in Reno justice court Thursday morning. Bail has been set at $200 for each of the four pending trial at 10:30 a.m. on July 21. Police added that the man victim, sporting a black eye, was returned to San Francisco on Wednesday by a bay area bail bondsman-who revoked the man's bond.

men and two women have been arrested by Reno police in connection with the robbery and beating of another couple in a Hubbard Way home early Tuesday. And that isn't the half of it. Police are still examining the stories of the victims, a man and woman whose names were withheld. The couple told police they are living in Reno while awaiting trial in San Francisco on charges of prostitution and pandering. They're out on bail, the man said.

SAW OLD FRIEND? Monday, he explained, he saw some old friends in a "downtown casino. It was apparently a casual meeting. He and his woman friend returned to their rented home on Hubbard Way shortly after midnight, the man told police. Waiting inside the house were the four acquaintances, two men, two women. The victims were tied to chairs.

The man was beaten. He said the four acquaintances Nevada Air National Guard air policemen have been praised last month and last year. the California Soil Conservation Commission and the Nevada In the governmental group, by Boise, police for aiding ment in the Reno area was a gain of 1300 from April, and an increase of 700 over last year, according to a report given to Governor Russell today by Harry A. Depaoli, executive director of the Nevada Employment Security Department. The gain from a year ago in Reno is in direct contrast to the totals for the state, where 1958 employment continued well below 1957 levels.

Mining and manufacturing employment was 1,700 in May, showing no change from last month or from last year. Also remaining stable at April levels, were railroads with current employment at 900, and public utilities have increased by 100. With the Summer building season well under way, construction employment hit a total of 2500 in May for a gain of 100 from April and 200 from May of 1957. The seasonal industries of trade and service showed the effects of the opening of the full tourist travel period. Trade employment increased by 300 from April to hit a total of 6700, Soil Conservation Committee is Federal agencies employed 1400 in traffic and crowd control dur scheduled for Tuesday and Wed workers in May, and state and in ing a deparement store fire downtown Boise on June 18.

nesday, July 8 and 9. local agencies had 2900., Each total is now 100 higher than in Comendation for the guards Plans for the Nevada portion men's efforts was expressed by of the field review, which will April, 1958 and also than in May include work in the North Boise police chief Francis T. Truckee soil conservation dis of 1957. Miscellaneous services increased employment from 2400 in April to 2500 in May, but Demarest in a letter to Brig. Gen.

Rollin Moore, commander trict and watershed protection of the 144th fighter wing, parent remained at the 1957 level. work sponsored by the City of organization of the Nevada Reno, were announced today by 152nd fighter group. Graham Hollister, Nevada SCC chairman, and Pete Baker, The action took place while the local ANG was in annual The Reno area's almost complete independence from the mining industry was a major factor in maintaining employment levels. Further gains are to be expected during the high North Truckee district chair Summer encampment at Gowen man. air base near Boise.

TRIP TO RANCH The Tuesday morning sched Chief Demarest, noting that Boise police were unable to cope employment months of the com ing Summer. ule calls for leaving the Hotel HEAVY HAND OF LAW; TO HANG OVER DRIVERS Mapes at 8:15 o'clock to travel to the Bella Vista ranch, where with crowds and heavy tratfic during a fire which destroyed the huge Mode department store, expressed gratitude for a review of conservation and de velopment work will be con ANDERSON CAMPAIGN MANAGER IS NAMED air police patrolmen who quick ducted by Howard Hamilton, The heavy hand of the law will ly set up firelines and rerouted ranch manager. actually hang over the heads of late evening traffic. At 10 o'clock the group trav traffic violators on Isevada els to the Peavine mountain wa ormal announcement was highways over the July 4th holiday as highway patrolmen seek Demarest said a call for help was answered within minutes by air police detachment headed by made today that Joseph F. Mc tershed for a review of the work plan by Duane Collins and Bruce Donald, former Las Vegas to reoeat the state's Memorial Lt.

Robert Ryan of Reno. Ryan Krater of the soil conservation Day weekend record of no traf fic fatalities. SPANNING 40 YEARS, E. R. "Tiny" Greenslet looks at the latest in conservation practices by te bureau of land management and recalls the policy of disposal of government lands which held sway when he went to work for the geological survey in 1918.

This crested wheat grass replaces a burned over area north of Reno. Greenslet retired Friday. E. R. Greenslet Retires; Looks Back on Forty Year Career in Federal Service service and Joe Mastroianm, and Washington, D.

lawyer, and journalism graduate of the University of Nevada, would be a patrolman on tne Keno ponce force, comands the Nevada ANG direction of the Anderson campaign. He has been working for the Reno candidate for several months. McDonald said that a campaign advisory committee, with members from each of the state's 17 counties has been formed. The campaign itself will in Reno city councilman. Highway patrol Robert Clark said today aux air police as provost marshal.

At 11 o'clock the group leaves the campaign manager for Dr. radio system. The unwary motorist is spotted by the pilot and his car's description and direction is radioed to patrol cars. Patrol cars are spotted near the scene with the aid of huge black circles painted on the roofs! More than 100 motorists were nabbed in the Memorial Day campaign. Most were issued warnings.

A few were "cited for reckless driving. 24 HOUR JOB Planning the accelerated July 4th patrols, Superintendent Clark said highway patrol headquarters in Carson will work a 24-hour schedule. The aerial patrols were a. big factor, Clark noted, in this Crowds of spectators pouring Fred Anderson, Democratic iliary patrolmen in light air for the Honey Lake soil con servation district and the Cali from an evening baseball game and 'from a nearby circus planes will again be used to spot speeders and reckless drivers in fornia pertion of the review. grounds were moved back from WORK REVIEW the fire scene, Demarest added Following lunch Dave Strath allowing firemen to keep the earn or tne iioney S(JD clude intensive presentation of Dr.

Anderson's views on national and state issues through various media, including newspaper blaze from spreading throughout candidate for. the U. S. Senate. McDonald is a Reno native and a 1941 graduate of the University of Nevada.

He practiced law in Las Vegas for three years, beginning in 1953, and in 1956, he went to Washington as an employe of the senate insular and interior affairs committee. He resigned this job to take over will review work in his district a repeat performance of the highly successful aerial program used here over Memorial Day. MORE PLANES There'll be more airplanes on the job this time. Two aircraft Recollections of a long career a business block. In the evening the joint session Colorado, northern Texas and Oklahoma.

He has served in every state take this means," Chief De in government service and a host of friends are left to Edmund R. Also planned, McDonald said, marest wrote to Gen. Moore, "of Tiny" Greenslet today, almost west of the river, ex are personal visits to voters in every section of the state. cept Texas and Washing. Now extending to you, Lieutenant Ryan and his men my personal of the California and Nevada state groups will be held at Susanville.

Wednesday morning, the commission and committee continue meeting and a meeting of the northern area of the Cali 40 years after he joined the federal government. state's record of no traffic deaths over Memorial Day Coupled home will be Reno with his commendation. wife, Abbie. will patrol highway 40. Two more planes are scheduled to patrol southern Nevada highways.

And the aerial traffic cops will also repeat their Memorial Day patrols over highways 395 Greenslet, who will be 69 years with extra motor patrols and old in September, has been state electronic clocking, Clark hopes fornia Association of Soil Con supervisor for the bureau of land to maintain the record in the Sacramento Youth Sought As Clark Slaying Suspect servation Districts also wall be management in Nevada since state over the coming four-day Under oreenslets management the largest land exchange in history was undertaken in Nevada, the historic trade of acres of government land for 110,000 acres of private land held. and 50. It's done by an air-to-ground weekend. 1954. His last official day on the job was Friday.

According to George Hard Brown Files For Sheriff The federal officials career man, secretary of the Nevada committee, items scheduled for The death weapon, found near Boling' body, was stolen from offered by Curtiss-Wright. LAS VEGAS. UP) Police are seeking a Sacramento youth in the slaying of a Las Vegas used consideration by his organiza Nevada's only successful oil a motel where Yarrington spent of four' decades began and ended in the department of the interior. He was appointed to a post with the geological survey in 1918 Ask Conditional Pardon For Kidnap Convict, 16 i tion include: the night before the slaying, they strike took place while Green slet was managing the local of State prison facilities which car salesman. Marvin O.

Brown, Reno real where he performed land classi fice, the Kauroad valley one- mignt De available tor repair and maintenance of district estate man, has filed as Detectives said yesterday they want Terry R. Yarrington, 21, of fication work. Land and the well booomer. Democratic candidate for the equipment; cooperative ar But over the years he has seen 2957 34th Sacramento, for added. Officers said Yarrington told his brother, Halsey, in Sacramento, he had stolen the car and planned to go to Mexico or Canada.

A warrant charging Yarrington with grand theft range has been his field since. OFF WORK ONCE post of Washoe county sheriff. questioning in the death of Al the government's policy on public lands grow from one of dis rangements between soil conservation and fire control districts; need for additional re As the graying, cigar-smoking bert Boling, 45, whose body was The new filing insured a pri5 mary race for the sheriff's office. Another Democrat, Rudy land expert recalls, he was off found Tuesday on the main high posal to one of conservation. The government is still disposing of sources for state coTimittee use work once in 192o he took auto was issued in Sacramento.

Police there said he also took Hoganson, filed a few days ago. ten days off to have his tonsils in assisting distr ts; need for land but it must be classified way 4.0 miles north of here. He had been shot twice in the back with a deer rifle and his wallet Brown was born in Washoe out. And he's missed a few days state participation in soil sur some money and the automobile first and adaptability must be here and there for colds. veys; needed amendments to title from the car owner, whose county and has lived in Washoe county for about 40 years.

He proven. He also remembers a citation state law, and the state commit The Greenslet BLM empire in was educated in Reno schools, tee meeting schedule. for distinguished service given him in 1956 by then Secretary son he knew. Boling is believed to have been killed and robbed by a motorist who gave him a lift as he hitch During the second world war, Nevada was 57 million acres of land in Taylor grazing districts Taking part in the Tuesday was gone. Investigators said a car found abandoned in Las Vegas with two bullet holes and blood in the front seat was stolen over the weekend from an apartment house where Yarrington lived.

the new candidate was a deputy of the Interior Douglas McKay, field review work here will be Springer and McKissick has volunteered to present the case to the parole board. With the commutation application are 32 letters of reference from doctors, lawyers and school and church officials from the youth's Chicago neighborhood. Included is a letter from Stanitz' church bishop offering to take him for the Summer months and supervise his activities. The youth was convicted of the first degree kidnaping of a Churchill county deputy sheriff and a police matron in February. A man and a woman companion both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life in prison while a 17-year-old girl participant was remanded to youth authorities.

Conditional pardon is sought for 16-year-old James C. Stan-irz, who was convicted of kidnaping in Churchill county Li June, through a hearing July 16 before the state board of pardons. Petition of some 400 Churchill county residents declaring the verdict a gross miscarriage of justice asks Gov. Charles H. Russell as chairman of the board for executive clemency.

A conditional pardon would place young Stanitz, who was sentenced to life imprisonment here, under the authority of the Illinois Youth Commission. The youth's older brother, Nick Stanitz, has been leading the campaign to keep his brother from serving the life sentence and the Reno law firm of and three million acres in lease sheriff in Richmond, and for outstanding service in gov lands. representatives of a wide varie ty of organizations, mainly agri hiked to Las Vegas after his car broke down. worked there in the identifica ernment covering more than 37 And the navy attempt to ap tion department of a shipyard years in the field of range con cultural, political. propriate nearly three million personnel office.

He also work servation and acres in northern Nevada took In 1936 Greenslet was one of ed in government security opera place while Greenslet was in seven persons transferred from tions during the war. charge. Following hearings and Oldest Living Renoite Sought in Unique Contest Brown said his campaign will the geological survey to form other evidence the navy settled be based on consideration for the rights and welfare of indi the new grazing service which was to control the public range Drunk Driver Goes to Jail for 700,000 acres. REVIEWS BATTLES viduals, with special emphasis through the Taylor grazing act. Reviewing the navy and other He was one of the early leaders land acquisitions and battles to apply the science of range on attention to young people in the county.

He is the owner and operator of Brownie's Real over the years. Greenslet savs surveys and inventory methods An oil painting by Dorlon A. Peckham now being shown in Armanko's window depicts how Virginia street appeared to residents of 1869. At the time, Myron C. Lake was collecting tolls at 25 cents administering laws is one of the ty Co.

at 318 Mill St. to the west. LED CCC CAMPS Pleading guilty to drunk driving earned a 27-year-old most difficult jobs he encoun Fourth of July Holiday Fire Warning Is Issued tered in his career "trying to He coordinated the range de Reno man ten days in jail Wed across Virginia street which was later removed to make way by the growing town. 'In connection with the window display a $25 government savings bond will be given to the oldest living resident of Reno at the present time. The bond has been donated by Security National Bank of Reno.

To enter the contest an entry blank may be obtained at Armanko's. The contest will close the night of July 11. velopment activities of 100 Ci control people in such a way that nesday afternoon and per wagon ana live cents per vilian Conservation Corps camps they feel you have been genuine sparKs woman nas pleaded in located in grazing district areas. Retired Artist Succumbs Here ly fair and still consider you nocent to a like charge filed As the Nevada division of for In 1943 Greenslet became act a decent sort of person." here by Reno police. estry reassembled itself Thurs pedestrian to cross the Truckee river on his bridge.

Also shown in the painting is the Central Pacific railroad, almost one year old, with its new depot and platform extending Life hasn't been dull, the land Sentenced to ten days in jail plus a total of $165 in fines ing chief of the interior department's range management branch and in 1944 became re day morning after its 20th fire of the year, the forest service chimed in with a Fourth of July supervisor adds, thinking of the bribery attempts from the $5 Wednesday afternoon was Ernest A. Reels retired commercial artist and a resident of gional grazier in New Mexico, offers to the big ones. "It's fun George Robert Jones, 4605 warning. Ine torests are closed Wyoming and Nevada Cali Virginia who pleaded guilty to fireworks, the brushland is Reno-for the past four years, died in Reno Thursday morning. ny how people think money can solve their land problems," he fornia.

closed to fireworks and local laws make virtually everywhere According to McKay, Greens Reno justice court. Jones was arrested June 27 on high Mr. Reels wras a native of declares. $7 Million Hotel Stardust Opened on Las Vegas Strip division forestry crews were still mopping up at a late hour. The area was checked for hot spots Thursday morning.

Closing the forest to fireworks was done officially last month by the regional forester in Salt Lake City, Utah. He reminded in a later action that throwing or placing burning items, like cigarettes, cigars, pipe ashes, is prohibited in national forests. No smoking is allowed while traveling afoot or on saddle animal over forest or range lands. Campfires are allowed or.ly in designated areas and should be put out completely with let more than anyone else in the Kansas, born there March 23 For example the fellow who closed area as far as the way 395 south of Reno by sher bureau of land management was Fourth festivities are concerned. 1896.

He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the iff's deputies. His blood-alco told Greenslet "I'll bet you $500 this land application doesn't instrumental in bringing together livestock and wildlife inter As the forest service explains hol test indicated a .250 per American Legion. pass." This after Greenslet was 3y BOB THOMAS it, "go ahead and have a good centage of alcohol, deputies ests. Mr. Reels is survived by his out looking over a land area and LAS VEGAS, July 3.

UP) The noted. time on your camping or picnic trip, but let us have a good time. oreensiet Decame supervisor widow, Mrs. Alice Reels of Reno; had been shown three corners of investment in this land of Released on $25ybail Thurs two sons. William E.

Reels of We don't want to fight forest a 640 acre stock grazing appli here in 1954. In 1956 he won the interior department's highest cactus and crap tables a seven day morning was Sparks house until 2900 investors were cor-raled to put up the finishing money. The hotel's 1065 rooms far exceed the capacity of other hotels on the town's Strip. For an opener, the Stardust imported the celebrated Lido show from Paris. Never in Las Reno and Lou Waltz of San fires over the holidays." cation.

Greenslet asked to see wife Mrs. Evelyn M. Hammond, award, the distinguished service Francisco, and a daugh Nevada foresters fought a million-dollar tourist attraction called the Hotel opened last night with a Holly the fourth corner. It was up a 40, 2190 Prater Way. She was award.

ter. Mrs. Zena Reels Ervin of water before leaving. Build draw and the draw was a pit arrested at 4:40 a. m.

Thursday, Now that work has passed, Van Nuys, Calif. them no larger than needed, too, with a six foot vein of qual wood and Parisian whoopla. Tiny" Greenslet intends to go ity lignite coal. Searchlights and stars like Vegas history were so many police said, after her car missed a turn from Liberty street and slammed into a parked car back east for the Winter, leav Graveside services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the veterans plot in Mountain the forest service warns, and put them out when the wind comes up.

three-acre fire Wednesday night on the slopes of Peavine mountain at the end of Peavine road. Battling the grass and brush blaze were five pumpers from the state forestry organization and the Reno fire department. Instead of the bet, Greenslet showgirls covered by so little ing his Reno home to visit nu Bob Hope, Ethel Merman, Marie McDonald and Polly Bergen scratched 40 acres from the ap Also adding to the spice were owned by George B. Keller, 320 merous friends in the eastern View cemetery with Ross-Burke State law prohibits throwing plication the coal corner, hailed the opening of the Strip's Holfomb Ave. Keller's car, part of the country.

And he Co. in charge of arrangements the clothed but talended Bluebell Girls from England. and told the applicant to file for newest luxury notei. it was parked in front of his house, plans later a little work on sev Crews had the fire whipped into burning matches or smoking materials from moving or parked vehicles. a coal lease.

once the dream of Tony Cornero The Stardust show offered just eral acres of land he owns in was knocked 12 feet by the im pact. shape in less than an hour, but Another concerns a fellow who Stralla, who operated gambling southwest Reno. about everything possible from a swimming pool below the stage wasn't familar with U.S. land Mrs. Hammond was treated And in about a year, when to an ice rink above it and at Washoe Medical Center for a Remmer Gets Five Years Switchmen Win In Union Vote Switchmen's Union of North laws but who thought money would solve everything.

He was bare-busted belles descending cut nose. Her husband Samuel other projects are complete, the land expert is going to put his knowledge to work as a land from overhead. ships off the California coast in the 1930s until beached by the then Atty.Gen. Earl Warren. Stralla died at a crap table here three years ago while trying for 10 the hard way.

His mammoth development wasted P. Hammond, a passenger in the to hold some land to get graz ing rights on other. "This is the end," exclaimed car, was treated for face cuts For Evading Income Taxes consultant. WATCHED GROWTH America has won the right to Rather than work this out he Mrs. Hammond submitted to the well traveled Hope, and most He has watched the Nevada of the first nighters agreed.

a blood-alcohol test, police invited to Greenslet to visit his truck out front of the office Ignoring a plea for a fine in land office grow, doubling since added. 1954 and with over 100 employes where the sheep man reviewed his troubles. Then he reached in stead of a jail sentence, Federal Judge John R. Ross today or now. Greenslet has seen the in FILES FOR POST the pocket of his bib overalls Six Automobiles Wrecked In Rear End Crashes Here dered California-Nevada gam continue to represent switchmen on the Southern Pacific railroad, the union's local chairman announces here.

The union defeated the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in balloting July 1 by 1357 votes in a representation election. Chairman Blaine Jensen said the union won 2587 votes to the he is suffering from a moderately severe arthritic condition. Asking the court to fine him instead of sending him to jail, they said this would give him a chance to start anew for the few remaining years of his life. Judge Ross observed, how terest in desert lands grow from nothing to the large scale pro pulled out a healthy roll of bills j. f.

iiarriman nas tued as a candidate for re-election to his duction it is now with various bler Elmer (Bones) Remmer to prison for five years for evading and handed them to Greenslet saying "you fix up my troubles." post as constable of Bald Moun cept Texas and Washington. income taxes. Greenslot did. He told the tain township (Vya). The can didate, who filed his declaration shep man to take the roll and.

The sentence was less by a ever, that a pre-sentence report tracts, Pittman act acquisitions and desert homesteads. And he has seen the theory of dust mulch land care blown away and $20,000 fine than that given the did not indicate that probation brotherhood's 1230. The election applies only to the South buy base property so he could get grazing rights under the of candidacy with Washoe coun ty clerk Harry K. Brown Thurs day morning, is a Democrat. gambler for his 1952 conviction.

create the dust bowl of eastern law. ern Pacific system. I is warranted. He added, though, that his age and health should be considered in determining in the same court. That conviction was overturned by the U.

supreme court, resulting a where he is to spend his prison term. new trial here last month. Judge Ross stayed the sen The sentence imposed by the IF THATJdD ONiy KNEW ROW SILLY" HE L00K5 SITTING THERE WITH THAT Rear end collisions smashed six automobiles in Reno on Wednesday and three motorists were cited by police for following too closely. The first crash occurred at 7:50 a.m., police said, when a 1958 model truck driven by Frank M. Stauts hit the back end of a 1953 model truck driven by Earl W.

Jones, 37, of Golden, Colo. It happened on Booth rear Idlewild drive and Stauts, 45, 1920 California was Cited. It happened again at 5:03 p.m. on E. Second St.

at Wells police noted, when a 1956 sedan driven by Ray Clifford McNeil hit the back of a 1953 sedan driven by 59-year-old James Henry Berry, 1639 Prater Way, Sparks. Berry had stopped in traffic. McNeil, 22, 1566 Mill was cited in that one. And at ,5:12 p.m. it happened ence more, Police found Stanley A.

Nichols' 1950 sedan jammed against the rear of a 1956 station wagon owned by Richard A. Bilman, 23, of Provo, Utah, at the intersection of S. Virginia and LaRue streets. Nichols, 25, of 1101 Foothill road, Reno, was cited. tence for 24 hours to permit de judge actually was five years on each of six counts on which the fense attorneys to file a notice of appeal designed to continue jury found Remmer guilty, but Remmer freedom on $15,000 the terms are to run concurrently, meaning a total of five years.

bond. Remmer formerly owned Cal- Neva lodge at Lake Tahoe ar.d Attorneys John Bartlett of Reno and Spurgeon Avakian of San Francisco noted Remmer's age of 61 and told the court that operated several card rooms in 7-3 the Bay area. i i---t- i hi- 1 Hi i tm I i mm mtm.