Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 18

0 iTTE Obstacle By Royal Cleared Nevada Information and enjoyment for A Newspaper PwENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958 Winter Carnival Welcome in Reno Fraternity, Sorority Houses At University Are Decorated Winter Carnival decorations were bigger and better than ever this year at the University of Nevada's fraternity and sorority houses. Prize-winning homemade spectaculars will not be announced until later in the festive weekend but that did not stop judges and the hundreds of townspeople from heaping lavish praise on the big show 6n the hill today. Judges toured the campus area Thursday night. I Control Board Gives Clearance; Tax Commission Still Must Act Owners of the Royal Nevada hotel in Las Vegas cleared the first obstacle toward reopening the gaming casino Thursday by winning a gaming control recommendation that a suspension order be lifted. The Royal Nevada operators face further grilling by Nevada Tax Commission officials Monday and must win final approval from that body before resuming the gambling operation, however.

The tax commission ordered the gambling closed in KINDLY ARMED BANDIT LEAVES FUND FOR KIDS An armed bandit took $50 from a cash register at a bar west of Reno-early Friday but left behind a much larger sum of money when told it was destined for crippled children. The bandit held up the Piano Bar at 12.03 a. Bartender Jack Whitfield told sheriff's deputies he thought the man was a customer. Whitfield walked behind the bar. All 9 19 it Theme of the 19th annual Winter Carnival decorating con test was "Old Fashioned Win-1 ter." This left the campus liv ing groups wide open to in terpret as they wished.

And interpret they did. The most liberal interpreta tion came from the Gamma Phi Beta sorority where a gigantic old-fashioned glass dominated the front yard. The drink was al most complete, at least the orange slice was there. TO DINOSAURS Phi" Sigma Kappa fraternity went way back to be old fashioned, to the age of Probably the only prehistoric beasts ever to be equipped with skis roosted at the Phi Sig house. A little early American.court- ing was depicted at the Theta Chi fraternity complete with papa on the front porch: The general store was revived by Lambda, Chi Alpha fraternity, cracker barrel and all.

Pi Beta Phi sorority suggest ed taking 'em for an old fash ioned ride, in an old fashioned car through the snow. A massive pot-bellied stove with a smiling" face appeared on the front lawn of the Delta Delta Delta sorority house. It wouldn't perc coffee so the coffee pot has flowers. And a happy cat posed before the fire. OLD FASHIONED A Valentine depicting "Old Fashion Passion" was the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority contribution to the Winter festivities.

Sigma Nu fraternity stole a page from the past and reproduced a Currier Ives print on a huge scale. "A Winter -to Remember" it was called. "Babe" the blue ox and Paul Bunyan parked themselves in front of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house. The cole-gians built' them almost as large as the legend of the northwoods-man says the pair were. Row houses in early American cities lined a snow-covered street at the Sigma Alpha Ep- silon fraternity house.

The scene almost had to be San Francisco because a cable car occupied a place of honor. Unless wind, ram or snow does a wrecking Job the 1958 Winter Carnival displays will be shown for the remainder of the weekend. Accused Driver Strikes Officer A 54-year-old Reno housewife was jailed Tuesday night on reckless driving but only after she struck a policeman with her purse. And Mrs. Zinaf Bennett, 27 Fairview posted a $5C bail on the reckless driving charge and a $10 bond on a charge of driving without an operator's license in her She was released pending her trail in municipal court at 11 a.m., Feb.

20. Police termed Mrs. Bennett "indignant and uncooperative!" They said she hit patrolman Ronald Haskell with her purse. Haskell stopped Mrs. Bennett at 9:50 p.m.

Tuesday. He said her sedan struck a parked car at the home of James Nan-is, 195 Pueblo St-, and knocked the parked vehicle 18 feet. She continued west on Pueblo Street, police said until stopped. Copy of Paper; Proves Cosily A Reno woman today ovns a copy of the Reno Evening Gazette that cost $20. Mrs.

Jane Ward told police she met a 12-year-old nevsboy in Douglas Alley at 11:30 p.m., Thursday. She bought a paper and proffered a $20 bill. She didn't have a dime, she said. The boy dashed awiy to change the bill. Mrs.

Ward waited and. wait ed and waited. i every member of the family for the Home The bandit, whom Whitfield described as about' 30 years old, 5'8" tall, 170 pounds, clad in a leather jacket and cloth cap and with a scar from nose to chin, gestured with his right hand in his jacket pocket. He told Whitfield to empty the cash register. Whitfield did.

The bandit then pointed to a huge glass jar on the back bar. It contained between $300 and $500 collected' from bar patrons for donation to crippled children. Whitfield ex plained and the bandit lett the jar untouched. He then shoved Whitfield into the back room, bound him hand and foot, gagged him, and left Whitfield 6n the bed under a blanket. He explained that he'd send someone to free Whitfield "in a couple of hours." a Whitfield freed himself within minutes and ran to a nearby bar to telephone deputies.

They found a footprint in the mud, but no fingerprints inside the bar. Sparks Matron ies Suddenly Sparks police said today a housewife who collapsed at her home shortly after midnight Friday apparently died of natural causes. Police and an ambulance crew were called at 12:50 a.m by Victor De Grosellier who said his wife, Mrs. Ann Frances De-Grosellier had collapsed at their home at 26 E. Street as she was preparing to leave for work She was employed as a change girl at the Palace Club in Reno.

Ambulance crewmen said Mrs DeGrosellier did not respond to artificial respiration, oxygen from an inhalator or to stimul ants administered by a doctor. She was pronounced dead on ar rival at Washoe Medical Center, Mrs. DeGrosellier had been a Sparks resident for three years. She was a native of Lexington, Ky. In addition to her husband she is survived by two daughters Billie and Betty DeGrosellier of Duluth, her parents, Mr and Mrs.

R. D. Chadwick of Baton Rouge, a brother, Ray mond D. Chadwick, of Baton Rouge; a sister, Mrs. Judy Clarke of Washington, D.

C. and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Catholic cemetery at Carson with the Rev. Gerald Case of the Carson Presbyterian Church of ficiating.

The Ross-Burke Co. is in charge of arrangements. Library. Shows Old Valentines A current display of old valentines at the Washoe County Library is proving of interest to a number of library patrons this past week. The library was loaned more than 100 old val entines by Mrs.

Leo Dringoli, Mrs. Frank G. Humphrey and Mrs. Grace Ellis, while Mrs. Jo seph E.

Gelder donated her val entines to the library's perma nent collection. The valentines range in age from 1901 to the 1930's. Some are very elaborate, and others are samples of the interesting handiwork that used to go into the make-your-own valentines of the 1920's. The display will be continued through Sunday, Feb. 17.

MATRON LEARNS OF FATAL FALL OF SON WINNEMUCCA It a learned here that Leroy K. Hanson, 32, son of Mrs. Robert Fleener of Winnemucca, was killed in an accidental fall from a cliff adjoining U. S. Highway 101 near Oceanside, Calif, last Monday.

Authorities in Oceanside said Hanson, who was returning to his San Diego home, was standing at the roadside overlooking the ocean when the rainsoaked earth gave way beneath him, hurtling him to his death 75 feet below. Funeral services were pending in San Diego for Mr. Hanson. FINALLY GAVE HIM ONE Of THOSE REAL CHEAP PAGE EIGHTEEN U. N.

Officials Dispute Totals On Enrollment Evening Classes Included in Local Figures University of Nevada officials said today that a U. S. Office of Education report on 1957 enroll ment at the institution is not correct because it does not show "a complete total of evening division registrations." The federal agency, in a re port issued late in 1957, reported that Nevada was one of three states showing a decline in university enrollment, reversing a national trend. CHALLENGE REPORT The report was challenged immediately by Nevada officials, who claimed that enrollment figures were setting new records at the local institution. Clarence Byrd, university registrar, said the Nevada gain in 1957 over 1956 was 7.97 per cent, placing it among the nation's leaders.

University figures give only a breakdown between "regular students, non-matriculated students and evening division registration. CRITICIZE METHODS Nevada methods of computing enrollment were criticized in the 1956 McHenry report on the institution, and other methods were suggested by the team of western experts who invest! gated the school under a legis lative act. Efforts will be made between now and the 1959 session of the legislature to obtain for the lawmakers registration information based upon formulas applied to enrollment figures by the S. Office of Education. Various state budget and fiscal experts feel that such informa tion will provide an accurate guide to the needs of the institu tion when its money request is considered by ways and means finance committee members, University officials list enrollment figures for 1956 and 1957 at the institution as follows: 1957 1956 Regular students 2099 1944 Non-matriculated 313 350 Evening division 357 475 Totals 2769 2763 The figures for the two years are identical, with the evening division loss accounted for by withdrawal of subsidies for on rollees from Stead Air Force base and the Fallon navy sta tion.

The U. S. Office of Education report lists this way Total opening enrollment and first time enrollment of degree credit students. Fall, 1957, 2352 Rail, 1956, 2482. Loss in 1957 from 1956 is listed as 5.2 per cent.

The federal agency's report also includes the following en try: first time students. Fall, 1957, 749; Fall, 1956, 696, gain 7.6 per cent. 4-Hers Elect Nev Officers South Virginia 4-Hers elected officers for the year at a re cent meeting held at the home of Mrs. Carl Hoover. The club's new president is Mary Murphy.

Members discussed projects for Summer work and the duties of the new officers. They planned their next dinner to be a pot luck dinner for mothers of members. President Murphy and sister Linda made and served refresh ments. Other officers elected for the year were Joann Westbrook, vice president; Elaine Eikanas, secretary; Donna FreemoVit, treasurer, and Linda Murphy, reporter. Churches Join In Observance Congregation of the First Christian church will com mence its observance of World Brotherhood Week by attend ing the Sabbath evening serv ice at Temple Emanu-El to night.

Rabbi Myer Schwartz will speak at the church's fellow ship dinner Thursday explain ing "What Is Judaism?" Brotherhood week has been sponsored for the past 24 years by the National Conference of Christians and Jews during the week of George Washington's birthday. WAS ME NAPPY WITH IT? PHONE FA 3-3161 ublic Hearing Scheduled on School Budget Will Open Bids $'2 Million In'New Buildings Washoe county school will hold a hearing on its 1958 59 budget and open bids on an estimated half million dollars in new school buildings the evening of Feb. 27. The special dual purpose meeting will be held at the district's administration building, 139 W. Sixth street.

$5 3IILLION PLUS Administrators are still at work polishing the budget and cutting it. It is expected to be somewhere over $5 million and roughly half a million dollars more than the present budget. At a school board meeting Tuesday evening, Procter Hug, assistant superintendent of schools, told the board he had been able to shift $58,000 to ward an estimated $65,000 need ed to give teachers in the county a yearly $100 across the board raise. Board members have assured local teachers they will slice the budget to the bone to get the educators a raise. public hearing, which is required by law, will begin at 8:30 p.m.

Before the public hearing starts the school board will open bids on six school buildings at three sites in Reno. The six buildings will be additions to present schools, not new schools To be expanded are the Pea-vine, Hunter Lake and Libby C. Booth schools. WTien the new buildings are added these three schools will be the first com pleted unit schools in Reno. A similar school at Stead Air Force base, where three class room units and a multipurpose unit are being built as a single unit.

Under the county's unit school plan the neighborhood schools are expanded as new classrooms are needed. The three Reno schools each will have one classroom unit and a multipurpose unit added. The class units are expected to cost about $78,000 each and the multipurpose units in the neighborhood of $100,000 each. The multipurpose unit is about as versatile as its name implies. It contains a principal's office, library, clinic storage space for supplies and janitorial equipment, rest rooms, teacher's sanctuary, kitchen and a large auditorium like area.

The auditorium space is used as a cafeteria, assembly room, auaio-visuai education room and as a neighborhood meeting hall for groups like the PTA. LAY CORNERSTONE The school board this week voted to ask the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Nevada to con duct cornerstone laying cere monies at each ot the new schools. The cornerstones are to be part of the multipurpose units. The board also decided that where schools had been named for leading Nevadans, they, or their families if de ceased, be invited to attend. Each school will also be marked with a dedicatory plaque.

Stead school is scheduled to be completed in June, administrators say, and the three schools being added to are to be completed within 140 calendar days after the bid is let. John Fant, who is in charge of the new buildings and construction for the district, says he expects several contractors to bid on the schools and further, that he expects prices to be good. The unit schools were de signed by the Reno architectu ral firm of Vhay and Grow. Course Offered In Mathematics A new non credit general mathematics course will be offered by the University of Ne vada evening division starting Monday. The course, a 12 week review of mathematics, will cover al gebra, plane geometry, trigo nometry and advanced algebra to help businessmen and per sons wishing to review math before entering college.

Prof. Chauncey Oakley of the university mathematics department will teach the two-hour course which meets from 7 till 9 p.m. Mondays in room 225, Mackay science Registration will be held in room 302 Morrill hall Saturday, Feb. 15, from 9 a.m. till noon; Monday, Feb.

17, registration will be held from 8 a.m. till noon, 1 p.m. 'until 5 p.m. "and 7 p.m. t'o 9:30 p.m.

The fee for the course will be $15. and persons registering are asked to have the money with them. TWO 'LOST' BOYS EAT OFF MANTLE LAS VEGAS, Feb. 14. UP) "Mike is going to be eating standing up for a while." That was the comment of the father of 9-year-old Michael Joy after the boy and a companion, Dewey Thom-ason, 10, were found playing in a wrecking yard yesterday while more than 100 men hunted them.

Jeeps, helicopters, private planes and searchlights were pressed into a day and night search for the boys on nearby Sunrise Mountain after the boys vanished from their homes Tuesday. In the doghouse with the boys are three bungling bloodhounds that led searchers to the mountain. The boys told sheriff's officers they found a $100 bill floating in a gutter. With it they bought knives, cap pistols, a hammer and an axe they were carrying in a suitcase when found. They said they slept in an abandoned shack two blocks from the police station.

la the suitcase was a note one of them had forgotten to leave at home. "Dear Mom," it read. "I've rnn away. Don't look for me Sheriff W. E.

Leypoldt turned the youths over to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomason and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Edmund Joy.

Reno Couple Hurt in Crash LAS VEGAS Four persons, all over 60 years of age, were in jured last night in a two car col lision near Railroad Pass. Taken to Boulder City Hos pital for treatment were James C. Tuckness, 62, and his wife, Mildred, also 62, both of Las Vegas and Noah J. Welty, 80, and his wife, Clara, 77, both of Reno. All suffered bruises'and contusions while Mrs.

Welty may have received a skull frac ture. Investigators said that the Tuckness car collided with the Welty vehicle at the intersection of the highway at Railroad Pass. Both cars were badly damaged. All four of the injured were taken to Boulder City Hospital where physicians said all except Mrs. Welty were not seriously hurt.

Mrs. Welty was reported as resting comfortably although the extent of her injuries have not yet been fully determined. Changes Urged By Assessors Nevada county assessors requested that state tax commission bulletins on assessed valuitions of automobiles and utilities be issued earlier at a meeting of the commission, sitting as a board of equalization in Carson this morning. The assessors asked that the bulletins on utility valuations be issued before Nov. 15.

They have been arriving at assessor's offices in "December. The assessors also want motor vehicle assessment for mulas decided upon by May 1 each year in time for study before they go into use during the June licensing period. The county officers also asked the state tax commission to review assessment practices on gasoline and oil bulk plants. They asserted current valuations were too low Former Vegans Go to Prison INDIANAPOLIS. UP) A former Las Vegas, Nev.

card dear and his wife have been sentenced to prison terms for the $3323 robbery of the Clarksburg State Bank Jan. 7. Federal Judge Cale J. Holder sentenced Curtiss Angell, 24, Greensburg, to 15 years, and his wife, Nancy, 24, to 5 years. Both pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges.

Clarksburg is about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Uanuary on the ground that the" casino operators did rot have enough money in their bankroll to pay off should some player hit even a mod erate win streak. FKESII $300,000 W. Richardson, who owns 55 per cent of the operation, told the gaming control board Thursday he had obtained about $300,000 in new funds to start the casino wheels turning. More than $200,000 of that amount was a loan from Joe E.

Brown, millionaire Las Vegas gambler. The remainder comes from loans from various individuals, including $49,500 from Sam Baker, Clark county gambling figure, who will receive 11 per cent of the operation as a for making the loan. Baker will be the casino gen eral manager, sharing responsibility with Richardson, the control board was told. William Gallagher, gaming control board member, ques tioned a $48,000 loan that was listed with the fresh capital, but his reservations had little bearing on the final control board vote. FOUR ARE OUT Richardson assured the gam ing control board that four per sons found objectionable would no longer be associated with th enterprise.

The "personae non gratae" in clude Maurice H. Friedman, who was hotel manager when the operation ran into trouble, Frank Casone and Mike Brown, who "collected" gambling debts from various Royal Nevada patrons who left "markers" or IOUs with the management after a sojourn on the Clark county strip, and Les Cohen, a former San Francisco horse race bookmaker who had frequented the Royal Nevada. None of the four men would have anything to do with future hotel operations in "any way, shape or form," Richardson as sured the control board. He also informed the board that various trade creditors, who have $113,000 due them had agreed to a payment sched ule which if carried through, will see the debt slate cleared by next October. ON CASH BASIS Meanwhile, the hotel will be paying for supplies needed for daily operation on a cash basis, Richardson said.

William Deutsch, tax commissioner from Las Vegas, who attended the control board meet- said he wanted Baker and Richardson to appear before the commission when gambling mat ters are considered next Mon day. He also asked for transcripts of past hearings on Royal Na vada matters, declaring that he had to be convinced that repre sentations made by the operators would be carried out. Police Seeking Child Molester Reno police, alerted by reports of a child molester operating near local schools, today urged parents to warn children against accepting automobile rides with strangers. Chief T. R.

Berrum warned both parents and children to be ware of any man loitering near school playgrounds. "Tell your Children not to accept rides with anyone," Chief Berrum said. He also urged that both children and parents report any instances of attempted molestation to police at once. A child molester has made at least three attempts to lure young girls into an automobile in the last four days. One mother said her 11-year-old daughter was approached after school Monday as the girl was walking to keep a dental appointment.

The man walked three blocks with her, trying to get her to "take a ride in my car." She didn't, and he walked away. Also on Monday, a father told police, his nine-year-old daughter was followed by a man in a The man has toliowed on the father sairl And on Thursday, a father told police juvenile officers, his seven-year-old daughter was approached by a man in a car at Third and Washington streets while she was walking home from school. He called to her from the car, then got out and tried to entice her into the vehicle. She refused, and he drove away. THEFT REPORTED Theft of two portable sewing machines worth $349.95 each from a parked 1955 panel truck has been reported to police by Eddie Mays of the Nevada Sewing Machine Exchange, 426 Vine St.

mm tt Lashed by resh Storm Full-scale Winter storm be gan lashing the Sierra Nevada last night and the weatherman promised it would get worse before it got better. The mid-winter storm is ac companied by strong winds and fairly mild temperatures. Snow was falling-, generally throughout the Sierra Nevada this morning. NO LET UP No let-up is in sight for the weekend, according to the local prophets who predicted that at the University of Nevada's 19th Winter Carnival, which began at 1 p. m.

with a cross country race, skiers would most likely have to jump "with in-' struments." The entire carnival is being run at Reno's popular ski areas. Reno is in for a little inclement weather, occasional rain or snow tonight and Saturday. Northern and central Nevada will also receive a rain or snow quota in the next 48 hours. The weatherman set the snow level at 5000 feet in the northern Sierra Nevada and S500 in the south. HEAVY WET SNOW What began as powder snow in the Donner-Truckee region last night had switched this morning to heavy wet snow but as fast as it fell, 'round the clock crews of the" California highway department cleared it.

Two inches of new snow fell on Donner during the night and one inch in Truckee. The Donner pack is 105 inches. Chains were needed to travel Donner summit, from the lake gate to the drinking fountain on, highway 40. Motorists traveling west over highway 50 can use chains or snow tires up the Clear Creek grade but will need chains to traverse Echo summit from the foot of Mevers grade to Strawberry. Mt.

Rose road is open but icy and chains or snow tires are required to reach Reno Ski Bowl from Skv Tavern. Highwav 395 is open and dear south into California. It is open northward but chains are advised in thp Secret Val ley region of California. The mechanical assists ar neces sary over Fredonia and Morgan summits on California highway YMCA Dinner Tickets on Sale Charcoal-broiled steak dinners are on sale for $3 at the main desk of the Reno YMCA. The dinner is a once-a-year the annual meeting of the YMCA, scheduled Feb.

20. Featured speaker will be Jack drtice, new football coach at Stonford University. He is a former head coach at the University of Utah where his teams captured the Skyline conference title four times. Dinner begins at 6:45 p.m. and will be followed by entertainment where members of the will present the.

YMCA. story in living pictures. The interpretations will be done in a huge frame. Ed Pine, president elect of the Washoe county school board is to be announced as the 1958 YMCA president. COINS STOLEN Theft of the coin box containing $3 from a soft drink machine at his Texaco service station at 900 East Fourth has been reported to police by Clifford Letarti.

present plans do not include another term. George Miller of the Island district and board president E. S. Berney, Harmon and Beach district representative have declined to run. Miller said his 24 years on the board was "as much time as one man should," put in.

Berney has moved to a district where the incumbent is not up for re-election. H. H. Shoffner of Stillwater may be planning to retire from the board. Other directors whose terms expire are Jack Olson of the Fernley area and John Thornton of Swingle Bench.

Fillings will open Feb. 18 and close March 20, according to Hannifan, and the election is scheduled April 8. DELEGATE Mrs. Tex Rit-ter, regional vice president of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations, who arrived in Reno this morning to attend the Pacific Regional convention to be held here Saturday and Sunday. Reno Greets Delegates fo Delegates were arriving In Reno today for the Pacific Regional Conference of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations to be held Saturday and Sunday, after it was transferred from San Francisco.

Already in Reno last night were Dr. Chase C. Atwood, na tional convention director, and William of Sacramento, regional convention director, Eighty rooms were reserved for the delegates from six western states at the Riverside, conven tion headquarters. Arriving tms morning were Mrs. Tex Ritter, wife of the cowboy singing star, who is the regional vice president for the Pacific states; C.

Temple Mur phy, of Roncho Sante Fe, presi dent of the UCP in California; and Dr. Elena Boder, California co-chairman of the UCP Med ical Advisory Board. Delegates from Arizona, Idaho, Washing ton, Oregon, California and Nevada will participate in the conference which is educational in nature and not in any sense a drive for funds. FR03I NEW YORK Samuel K. McConnell, national UCP executive director, and Brewster Miller, M.

national medical director are coming from New York to the Reno conferences. Registration will start this evening in the lobby of the Riverside Hotel, according to Robert Sullivan, convention director of the Reno Chamber of Commerce. Eight separate conferences, touching all phases of the work of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations will be held Saturday morning, with a noon luncheon in the Sky Room of the Mapes at which time Mayor Len Harris will officially welcome the delegates to Reno. Elmo Granata, president of the Reno affiliate and Ross Barengo, president of the Nevada affiliate will preside at the luncheon. Saturday eyening's dinner will be devoted to Legislative "Project 53" and will be attended by Governor Russell, Lt.

Gov. Rex Bell, Secretary of State John Koontz, several assemblymen, county commissioners and coun-cilmen. "Project 53" is the theme of the conference, and has been adopted by the national organization, representing that every 53 minutes a child is born who suffers from cerebral palsy. Contrary to popular belief, cere- bral palsy is not a disease, but n.Cu.u profession nas made great progress in the re search that is necessary to learn how to overcome those struck by cerebral palsy. The conference in Reno is one of education and cooperation, using information gathei'ed across the nation and making it available to those in Nevada through the affiliates of the United Palsy Associations, Inc.

Special meetings for the doctors of the Reno area are being held Sunday as part of the conference, showing how cerebral palsy can be and how those afflicted can be restored to usefulness. It is expected that more than 100 delegates will attend the sessions in Reno this weekend. Palsy Session IRRIGATION DISTRICT TO ELECT OFFICERS Five directors of the Tiuckee- Carson irigation district will be named at an April election, John Hannifan, district clerk las an nounced in Fallon. i Holders of two of the fife open directorships have said they will not run again and a third said WHEN YOU'RE A BROtON. YOU REALLY DON "EXPECT TOO MUCH.

Jt fl DID YOU 6IVE CHARLIE BBOUN jgh 7 A.