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Nevada Today's tip Cinco de Mayo: A Reno shindig begins at 2 in the Armory Hall, Nevada State Fairgrounds, admission in Virginia City, there's a parade at noon followed by a chili cookoff on South Street. Saturday MAY 2, 1987 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL CITY EDITOR JOE HOWRY, 788-6305 Section 2C OBITUARIES 2C VITALS 5-1 7C CLASSIFIED Business 8B Saturday, May 2, 1987 Reno Gazette-Journal BUSINESS EDITOR: MIKE NORRIS, 788-6336 A one-credit course on touring Europe will be held today and May 9 trom 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in room 213 of the University of Nevada-Reno business building. Land travel and hotels are among the topics.

Today's tip Charges dropped in La Casa child-abuse case I Ambulance firm loses license fight round FBI boss: Claiborne deceptive in test WASHINGTON Former U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne failed a 1977 lie detector test to see if he was involved in planting illegal wiretaps, FBI director William Webster revealed this week. counts of taping the mouth of an 8-year-old girl sometime in January 1986. In her defense at the trial, Bartels testified that the Feb. 12 incident happened because the children were "out of control" and in danger of hurting themselves.

She said the taping incident actually turned into a game that the children laughed and giggled about. She denied an incident with an 8-year-old even happened. Bartels closed the shelter, which temporarily took in children removed from their homes until they could be placed in foster care homes, after the incident. But Wright agreed with Bartels' attorney, David McElhinney, that the language change would alter the whole theory of the prosecution case from what harm was done to what harm might have happened. Wright denied a motion to allow Aberasturi to either amend the language in the original indictment or to go back to the grand jury to get a new indictment with the new language.

Bartels was charged with taping shut the mouths of three boys, 3, 5, and 7 years old, Feb. 12, 1986, after they became unruly. She was also charged with two a motion to amend the gross misdemeanor charges against Bartels. An August trial ended in a hung jury on all five counts against Bartels when jurors said that they could not all agree that taping shut the mouths of young children constituted the mental or physical harm necessary for conviction. Aberasturi asked Washoe District Judge Robin Wright on Thursday to allow him to change the indictment to say the taping either did "or could have" caused mental or physical harm.

Aberasturi said the language was included in the state law Bartels was charged under. By Michael PhlllisGazetle-Journal The Washoe County District Attorney's Office dropped child-abuse charges Friday against Pearl Bartels, former owner of the La Casa temporary shelter for neg lected and abused children. 'I think it's wonderful," Bartels, 58, said. "I've always had faith in the justice system. Supposedly right always comes out in the end, and in this case it did." Deputy District Attorney John Aberas- turi said in his motion that the decision not to put the children through a second trial came after a judge Thursday denied NEW YORK The stock market posted a small loss in a quiet session Friday amid uncertainty about the outlook for interest rates.

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slipped 5.96 to 2,280.40, trimming its gain for the week to 45.03 points. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange slowed to 160.11 million shares from 183.06 million in the previous session. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about 5 to 4 in the overall tally on the NYSE, with 675 up, 857 down and 409 unchanged. The exchange's composite index of all its listed common stocks slipped .22 to 162.64. should have begun the solitary service April 22, but because of pending litigation, both companies still are operating.

James Hardesty, attorney for 911 Paramedics, said after the hearing his client might continue operating until May 6 under a separate decision reached Friday in U.S. District Court. Hardesty said that among other issues he is contesting the board of health's attempt to revoke 911's license without a hearing, and he contends REMSA and the county have violated his client's due-process rights. Hardesty also said he is trying to prove the license can't legally be revoked because it is automatically renewable. As part of his argument, he is also trying to establish that the statute allowing the board of health to restrict competition among ambulance operators should not apply to those with existing licenses.

911 Paramedics lost a March case in which its attorneys alleged violations of antitrust laws. By Lisa OvenaGaMtte-Journal A nearly 27-year-old Reno ambulance business lost another round in court Friday in an attempt to prevent the Washoe District Board of Health from revoking its operating license. But the attorney for 911 Paramedics said he will return Monday to file an appeal. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James H.

Thompson ruled against a motion for a permanent injunction against the county and the recently created Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority. Thompson had issued a temporary restraining order April 21 allowing 911 Paramedics to continue operating past an April 22 deadline when the company was scheduled to lose its license. REMSA, a quasi-private authority formed to operate a single-franchise ambulance service in the Truckee Meadows, selected a competing ambulance operator to provide the service. Medic I Ex-deputy guilty of slot cheating Studeis put best foot forward Hardesty said. Years ago, Medic I went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

911 Paramedics is going through the bankruptcy process now, but Media I was deemed more financially sound, Ford said. 911 Paramedics has said revocation of its license would mean losses of $5,000. REMSA is required after the one-year interim period to conduct a nationwide search for a company to operate under a four- or six-year contract. While Hardesty argued 911 was not given due process. Ford said a third ambulance company.

Advanced Emergency Service, which is owned by Media has had its license revoked. Though Ford said he doesn't enjoy seeing any company put out of business, the revocation of 911 's license is a necessity. "There are larger community issues that need to be addressed. This all has been ultimately designed for the good of the community." Bank securities trading approval prompts lawsuit WASHINGTON (AP) A Federal Reserve Board decision allowing bank holding companies to enter the securities market was challenged in federal court Friday by the investment banking industry. The Securities Industry Association said it filed a petition Friday morning in the 2nd U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, challenging the Fed's 3-2 decision the day before. That decision said the Depression-era law known as the Glass-Steagall Act does not impose a solid wall between the commercial banking industry and the securities market that has long been observed. SIA lawyer James B. Weidner said the petition asks a three-judge federal panel to reverse the Fed's action on grounds it is contrary to law. The Fed's decision, if upheld, could mean a restructuring of the nation's investment banking industry the multi-billion-dollar business of financing Wall Street's deals.

Under certain circumstances, the board said, bank holding companies can underwrite some securities commercial paper, municipal revenue bonds and mortgage-backed securities. But the two dissenters including Fed Chairman Paul A. Volcker said that while they support broader bank powers, the legal contortions by the board's majority could authorize the nation's largest banks to affiliate with the nation's biggest investment houses. Such a result, they said, was inconsistent with the intent of a law that was written to insulate commercial banking and its depositors from the wheeling and dealing of Wall Street. Sen.

William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has insisted repeatedly that such a decision was beyond the board's authority. The board's action approved applications by J.P. Morgan Citicorp and Bankers Trust New York to underwrite certain types of securities commercial paper, mortgage-backed securities and municipal revenue bonds. Similar applications are pending from four other big banks Chase Manhattan Marine Midland Banks Chemical New York Corp. and Security Pacific Corp.

jJIh 8 A a J9al JPeBJjI raBfl liBr Marilyn NawtonGazette-Journal The board of health turned to REMSA after deciding the existing ambulance companies were not operating in the best interest of the public. District Health Officer Michael Ford said the Board of Health granted REMSA the right to run the one ambulance service itself, contract with a local firm or seek an operator from outside the area. REMSA opted to contract with Medic I for an interim period from April 22 of this year to the same date in 1988, he said. REMSA then put together a performance checklist in which to select an operator. "It's the same process used all across the country," he said of the selection process that involved written as well as oral presentations.

"Medic I had the better application," he said. "It wasn't perfect but it was superior to 911." Medic I has been operating in the Truckee Meadows for 10 years. 911 Paramedics has been in the area since 1960, increase others using a frequency selector. It could help eliminate distracting noise at work, for example, inventors said. Kleppe said "a lot of original thinking" went into the development of the device.

A wall-mounted, computer-operated "automatic fluid stream temperature control" that keeps the temperature of water for showers, pools and other uses constant. A self-powered alarm that would go off if property were moved. The student developers said it could be placed in construction equipment. A plug-in alarm system that could be used in apartments or condominiums where wall-mounted burglar alarms are prohibited. i We're a lender.

We expect to be repaid on the loans. We're not in the gaming business. We're in the real estate business. 5 Thomas Walker executive vice president Southmark Corp. Under terms of the purchase, the first and second mortgage loans must be repaid by Dec.

31, Walker said. The current owner of the resort, California rancher John Anderson, had until June 1 to find a buyer under the previous agreement with Valley Bank. That agreement was reached earlier in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The resort has been under Chapter 11 3 p.m.

and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 Proceeds benefit Shrine Hospitals and for children. Mark CrosMGazette-Journal INVENTORS: University of Nevada-Reno engineering students Tom Grothaus, left, and Scott Coleman display the microcomputer-run sensor device they invented to help skiers in their search for better-fitting boots. CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN: Patty, in the Kerak Shrine Circus, gets a Donoho Friday at the Lawlor Events Homosexual By Tim DahlbergAP LAS VEGAS A former Air Force captain and her homosexual lover were convicted Friday night of involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse in the killing of the 2-year-old daughter of one of the defendants. Georganna Lagen, the mother of the dead girl, showed no emotion as jurors returned the verdicts against her and Paula Martineau after about six hours of deliberation.

The women had been charged with murder and child abuse. a Claiborne has maintained he passed the test. But Webster now says the officer who administered the test wrongly interpreted it. He did not specify what CLAIBORNE questions Claiborne allegedly answered deceptively. Webster made the charges in a memo to Sen.

Chic Hecht, who had questioned him about alleged FBI abuses. Claiborne's attorney, Oscar Goodman, said the polygraph was checked with at least two other experts who said Claiborne told the truth. Claiborne was convicted of tax evasion in 1984 and is serving a wo-year prison yaw Claiborne voluntarily tooK a polygraph in 1977 to i himself of otarg private detective to bug the home of a woman. Metro police said it showed Claiborne was truthful. But Webster said FBI specialists "determined deception." Webster said a second test "appeared to be mechanically manipulated and was found to be inconclusive" by FBI experts.

Elko jail pact signed Elko County has agreed to limit the number of prisoners in its antiquated and cramped jail until a new facility is built this summer. A consent decree, approved and filed in U.S. District court on Thursday, orders many improvements in jail conditions and settles a class action suit filed in 1985 by the American Civil Liberties Union. The agreement calls for a housing limit of 27 prisoners and demands that inmates receive some form of recreation five days a week, daily showers and visits at least three times weekly. It calls for better jail food, regular medical treatment and ready access to legal help.

Elko County Sheriff James Miller said many of the improvements have already been made and will continue when the new jail is built. He expects the 50-bed facility, approved in a 1985 bond issue, will be completed by July. The decree takes effect in 90 days. If there are delays in construction, however, James said he might have to reschedule prison sentences for convicted drunken drivers or release non-violent prisoners in order to comply with the limit placed on the jail. He said the jail, which was built in 1910, often houses more than 30 prisoners at a time.

ponce seeking assailant Sparks police are seeking a suspect in the sexual assault of a 77-year-old woman in her home. The victim was asleep at about 5 a.m. Thursday when the intruder entered through a window, Lt. Tim Gonyo said. The man bound the woman, then assaulted her.

Before fleeing, he stole about $350, police said. He was described as Caucasian, 25 to 30 years old, about 6 feet tall and wearing a ski mask. It was the second such sexual assault in the area this week. On Tuesday, a man of similar general description sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in her Reno home. He also entered through a window, tied up his victim and was wearing a mask, but Gonyo said it is not known if the same man committed both crimes.

2 arrested in threat case Two Reno boys, ages 15 and 16. were arrested Friday for investigation of making four of nine recent false bomb threats at southeast Reno schools. Police labeled the calls pranks and said no bombs were found. The telephoned threats were made between April 20 and Friday at elementary, middle and high schools. Making a bomb threat is a felony punishable by a prison term of one to six years and a fine of $5,000.

Last day for registration Today is the last day to register for the June 2 general election. The Office of the Registrar of Voters, 75 Court Street, will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Registration for the May 5 primary election closed last month. Those not registered for the primary may still vote in the general election if they sign up today. Staff and wire service reports barm. XT? MvJThBedft completed annually for the course, said Frank Cherne, who teaches it with John Kleppe, chairman of electrical engineering and computer science. In the six years the course has been taught, Cherne said he knew of one product a computer-controlled drill- Cress table that was actually mar-eted.

Other projects included: A computer-controlled dashboard digital display, which students said was accurate to "plus or minus a half-mile-per-hour" and would retail for about $60 for small cars and up to $300 for more expensive models. A "sound cancellation system" using earphones that allows a person to decrease or eliminate some sounds or Jury rejects plea of temporary insanity By Michael PhilllsGazettJournal A Reno jury convicted former Washoe County Deputy Sheriff Don Dalton Jr. of two counts of slot machine cheating Friday night in connection with stealing lead slugs from the sheriff's armory. In returning the verdict in four hours, the six men and six women rejected Dal-ton's plea of innocent by reason of temporary insanity, which his attorney said was caused by job pressures and emotional problems. Washoe District Judge William Forman set June 4 for sentencing Dalton, 40, for possession of a slot machine cheating device and unlawful use of bogus coins.

He faces from one to 10 years in prison on each count, and $20,000 in fines. Probation is allowed for the offense. Dalton admitted taking the lead slugs from the sheriff's armory July 27, 1986, and playing them in a slot machine at the Gold Dust West casino. When he hit a $100 jackpot and tried to cash it in, the cashier spotted a slug in the rack. Dalton complied with a request to show casino security the machine he was playing, but ran after the machine was opened and found filled with slugs.

A security guard followed him and got his car license number. When confronted by gaming agents four days later, Dalton confessed everything and resigned as a deputy. Defense attorney John Ohlson claimed stress from the job, emotional problems and a drug Dalton took for gout combined to make him temporarily insane the day he used the slugs. In closing arguments, Deputy District Attorney Richard Gammick said there was a level where people were not responsible for their actions, but Dalton came nowhere near it. He said stress was common to many occupations.

"If everybody who worked for a living, if everybody who had stress in their job could use that as an excuse to escape responsibility for their actions, we couldn't find anybody guilty of anything in this country," Gammick told the jury. He concluded, "What you have before you is a manipulative person. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, don't let him manipulate you into giving him a not-guilty verdict by reason of insanity." Ohslon said the jury had to answer the tough question, "How crazy is crazy? How nutty do you have to be before you're excused for your crimes?" He said temporary insanity was the only logical excuse for the crime. It did not make any sense that Dalton would risk his 14 years as a cop, his reputation and his livelihood for $100, he said. "Human beings are complicated creatures.

We're all complicated people. We live out our lives and things seem to get faster and faster. We try to get through the day. For some of us, all there is is to get through each day. This is about a fellow who didn't get through the day.

Who wiped out his life. Who did to himself in one day what it took a lifetime to build." helping fashion a compromise plan to trim hospital charges. He said the compromise prevents damaging governmental regulation over medicine and further erosion of public confidence in the profession. The central element of the compromise is a rollback of hospital charges up to 25 percent at some hospitals to increase competition between the for-profit and non-profit hospitals. Rawson envisions a "controlled release" of the rollbacks after 18 months.

Doctors in the next two years will give the profession a "narrow window of opportunity" to seize control of medicine from corporations increasingly setting professional standards, he said. Rawson urged support for a medical ethics institute controlled by physicians who would address issues ranging from surrogate mothering to who should receive costly medical treatment such as kidney dialysis. He also proposed a hospital commission, again controlled by doctors, that would advise on rates, adding, "If we put medicine back in the hands of physicians we would have quality of care and lower costs." i Farm payments suspended WASHINGTON Subsidy payments and price support loans to farmers have been suspended until Congress approves more money for the remainder of the year, the Agriculture Department announced Friday. Vern Neppl, acting vice president of the department's Commodity Credit said the agency has nearly depleted its $25 billion borrowing authority for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

takeover sought LOS ANGELES An investor group headed by former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon agreed to take over Southern California Savings Loan Association, declared insolvent by regulators two years ago. The move is the latest effort by Simon and former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Preston Martin to build a major presence in the lending industry in the Pacific Rim by buying up troubled thrifts. UAL changes name NEW YORK UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, officially changed its name Friday to Allegis Corp. The action followed a vote Thursday by about 73 percent of the shareholders to approve the name change.

Chicago-based Allegis also owns Hertz Westin Hotel Co. and Hilton International Co. Subsidiaries combined OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Corp. will combine two subsidiaries into a single operating company called Union Pacific Resources Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Cook said.

Cook said the new company will combine Champlin Petroleum and Rocky Mountain Energy Co. He said the change will enable UP to make further cost and productivity improvements in the natural resource businesses and to manage them more effectively. Tenneco earnings decline Tenneco, a diversified company with large energy holdings, reported substantially lower first-quarter earnings Thursday, mainly because of lower oil and gas prices. Houston-based Tenneco said its profit fell 76.6 percent to $29 million, or 8 cents a share, from $124 million, or 73 cents a share, in the same period of a year ago. Dollar falls against yen NEW YORK The dollar weakened against the Japanese yen and most other major currencies in thin trading Friday, as traders withheld judgment on efforts by President Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone to patch the two nations' simmering trade dispute.

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Prosecutor Bill Cooper told the jury Lagen resented and hated the 2-year-old for interfering with her homosexual relationship with Martineau. He contended medical testimony showed the girl suffered massive head injuries that would have rendered her immediately unconscious. claim experience legal background and skills to serve as municipal judge. "A lot of attorneys are making an issue out of the jury trials but I've been in probably a dozen jury trials in the last year or two," Cray said, referring to a federal court ruling that drunken drivers can request jury trials. Cray said he has logged more than 4,000 hours of in the courtroom as Reno Justice Court's chief bailiff, responsible for See SPARKS, page 5C Sparks' Department 1 judge hopefuls UNR team's invention can help people find better-fitting ski boots By Mike NorrlsGazette-Journal A team of University of Nevada-Reno students has invented a device that skiers should find fitting.

The microcomputer-run sensor, which inventors say will retail for $375, uses sensors to provide data buyers could use for custom boot fitting and skiers could use to improve their techniques on the slopes. "This is a good thing for Reno," said team member Scott Coleman of Reno, suggesting the invention's potential application to the region's large skiing industry. In engineering terminology, the machine is "a real time data acquisition system used in dynamic foot pressure analysis in ski boots." It was one of 10 innovative machines developed by 50 UNR students for an engineering design analysis course. The projects are aimed at helping students learn business-world operations. They study product design, entrepreneurial skills and how they work in the marketplace.

Each five-member firm operates as a "company" with its own name and members assigned to management and technical tasks, including not just engineering but also marketing and budget and cost analyses. At the end of the course, teams present their products, explain how they operate, their potential uses, the amount of time spent developing them and what they would cost if marketed. Inventions must be workable, but most are in too rough a form to be marketed. Among other microcomputer-operated devices demonstrated at the university Friday, there were two burglary and theft alarm systems, two temperature control devices, a dashboard digital display, workplace noise-reduction system, frequency-lighted music, a bilingual alarm clock and a motorized mouse that can figure its way through a maze. An average of eight to 10 projects are $2.6 million ordered paid in toxics suit BUFFALO, Minn.

(AP) Tonka Corp. must pay more than $2.6 million to a former employee who said the toymaker encouraged him to dump some of its hazardous wastes on his farm near Annan-dale, a Wright County District Court jury has decided. The jury ruled Tonka was negligent in allowing Ted Woyke, 38, to remove hazardous materials from its Mound plant, where Woyke was employed as a machine operator for 17 years. The jury also found the company was negligent in instructing him on how to dispose of the materials. Woyke said Tonka violated state and federal laws by using his farm as a dumping ground for company waste and the company intentionally exposed him and his family to toxic waste, causing them severe emotional distress.

He said he hauled about 300 55-gallon barrels to his farm from 1972 to 1982 and that Tonka officials told him the barrels contained waste oil and could be safely used on his farm. Woyke said he sprayed some of the waste oil on a dirt driveway to supress dust and spread some of the liquid on the floor of his chicken coop to rid the building of lice and rodents. Jurors awarded Woyke, his wife, Sandra, and their two children, Jody, 13, and Jesse, 9, almost $2 million in punitive damages, $550,000 in actual damages and $110,000 in property damages. Dallas conglomerate buys mortgages on Dunes By Lenita PowersGazette-Journal Four candidates claiming varying degrees of legal experience are running for Sparks municipal judge, Department One. The candidates are bailiff Andy Cray, businessman Terry Flower, attorney Neil Grad and Carole Jones-Kelly, an employee at the National Judicial College.

They seek the post being vacated by John Morrison, who's retiring 28-year-old elephant bath from trainer Tom Center. Performances lovers convicted Prosecutors had contended that Lagen, forced out of the Air Force because of her homosexuality, and Martineau, beat little Michelle King to death in July 1984 at the home the two women shared. Michelle's father and Lagen's ex-husband, Air Force Capt. Peter King, said the trial ended more than two years of effort by him and his present wife, Linda, to get the women to trial. "It's a relief but I'm not happy," said King.

"Before, I could tell my son his sister was dead. Now I have to tell him his mother did it." after 21 years on the bench. Morrison said he doesn't plan to endorse any of the candidates. "It should be up to the voters to decide who they want in office, but I suggest they take a good look at the qualifications that the candidates are saying they have." Grad is the only attorney running for the municipal judgeship, which does not require a law degree. Cray, Flower and Jones-Kelly claim their job experiences have given them the departments ii mm 4 Legislative moved to reinstate the department's Elko office.

The governor's budget proposal recommended the office be eliminated. Meanwhile, Sedway quickly led his Ways and Means Committee through 44 relatively minor budgets. But allocations for full state divisions, such as the Treasurer's and Controller's offices, also were approved. However, Assemblymen John Marvel, R-Battle Mountain, and Jim Schofield, D-Las Vegas, questioned an $80,000 appropriation to set up a centralized system of mailing state checks. The pilot program is sought by the treasurer and controller to prevent mishandling of state money.

"Why spend money if we don't have to?" Schofield asked. Sedway agreed to delay acting on the appropriation until the committee receives more testimony. The only large amount cut by Ways and Means came out of the state Fire Marshal's budget. The office had asked for $27,900 to pay for a safety check of the proposed Lovelock prison. The committee eliminated the money and recommended the cost be covered by raising fees.

are today at 11 a.m., p.m. and 6 p.m. their medical programs Panels approve budgets Rawson assails government, corporate control over doctors for 75 state protection since November 1985. A plan to sell the hotel in a $144.4 million limited partnership package fell through in February when the E.F. Hutton Co.

backed out of the deal. Kirk Kerkorian, who built the MGM Grand Hotels in Las Vegas and Reno before selling the resorts to Bally had discussed purchasing the Dunes but dropped the negotiations in February. Insiders said Kerkorian pulled out because of a number of problems involved in the deal. Southmark has a wide range of real estate investments, with assets estimated at about $10 billion. The company owns 37 percent of Pratt Hotel which owns the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.

Last year Nevada gaming authorities approved allowing Southmark to share in gaming revenues from the Silver City Casino, which is operated by Circus Circus Hotel and sits on land owned by Southmark. slot licenses serve local customers. Allen Rosoff of the Mirage Motel said he was "concerned by the arrogance and greed" of the resort operators. "It is hard enough to compete with their $23 rooms," he said. John Ball, who operates a tavern and restaurant, said the large resorts' "specials on lunches and dinners hurt me more than my slots would hurt them." Emmett Sullivan of the Nevada Coin Operators Association said "gaming was legalized to help support the government.

I can't understand restricting it." Sullivan said retail businesses also invest substantially in the economy. "We don't do business in tents," he said. LAS VEGAS (AP) A Dallas-based real estate conglomerate has purchased the first and second mortgages of the troubled Dunes Hotel and Country Club, a company spokesman confirmed Friday. Southmark Corp. bought the mortgages from Valley Bank of Nevada and First Security Leasing Co.

at a discount from their face value, according to Thomas C. Walker, executive vice president of the Texas firm. "We just stepped into the shoes of some other folks, on a favorable basis," Walker said of the transaction. Walker refused to discuss the amount Southmark paid for the two notes. He would not confirm reports the two mortgages totaled in excess of $98 million.

The Southmark executive said the company was not interested in becoming the operator of the troubled Las Vegas resort. "We're a lender," Walker said. "We expect to be paid on the loan. We're not in the gaming business. We're in the real estate business." Clark County OKs LAS VEGAS (AP) A plan to increase from 15 to 25 the number of slot machines allowed in smaller businesses has been approved by Clark County authorities despite objections from the Nevada Resort Association.

John Schreiber, the executive director of the resort association, said the change would endanger "the stability of the gaming code" by setting precedent for changes. The plan was approved by the Clark County Liquor and Gaming Licensing Board. It applies to businesses with Class A gaming licenses. Bob Faiss, attorney for the resort association, said resorts have made major investments in the local economy and should he able to rely on stable laws. more slots for small businesses By John RoIIap CARSON CITY State Sen.

Ray Rawson, caught in a political storm over hospital costs, urged Nevada's doctors Friday to wrestle control of their profession away from corporations and government regulators. "We're losing the ability to govern our professional lives to the corporations," Rawson warned the Nevada State Medical Association. Rawson, a dentist, said corporate and government controls over medical care force doctors to engage in "subtle compromises, maybe subtle dishonesty." Chairman of the Senate Human Resources Committee, Rawson, R-Las Vegas, has been a chief player in the legislative battle to control Nevada's highest-in-the-nation hospital costs. "We are No. 1 in the country.

We have the highest bill charges; we have the highest (hospital) profits in the country," he added. "I don't know if we have the highest quality." He told the doctors that failure to deal with that problem in 1987 could mean even more governmental interference down the road. Rawson has come under harsh criticism from hospital administrators for CARSON CITY (AP) During a series of rapid-fire meetings, the Legislature's two budget committees approved 75 state departmental budgets Friday for the most part following spending recommendations from Gov. Dick Bryan. Ways and Means Chairman Marvin Sedway, D-Las Vegas, said he wants to process all state budgets by May 7 to allow time to negotiate with the Senate Finance Committee on allocation disagreements.

Taxation committees in the Senate and Assembly are waiting for the money committees to complete the budget-closing process so they can determine what shortfalls exist and how much additional tax revenue will be needed to meet the budgets. While Ways and Means concentrated on relatively minor budgets, the Senate Finance Committee approved spending proposals for the governor's and lieutenant governor's offices. The Republican-controlled Senate committee cut Democratic Lt. Gov. Bob Miller's travel budget by about $3,200 for fiscal 1987-89.

The panel also sliced $20,000 from Republican Attorney General Brian McKay's special litigation account. The Senate committee delayed action on the Department of Taxation budget softer Sen. Dean Rhoads, R-Tuscaora, But board member Paul Christensen said with "major hotels going into the retail business, wouldn't it seem logical that retail businesses could add slots?" Christensen said a new retail complex planned at Caesars Palace would include "high-line shops from Paris" and other areas, not local retailers. "They want to keep people in their hotels," said Christensen, a Las Vegas jeweler. "They build them so you can get in easy and out hard." "I don't understand why the NRA would oppose a small businessman accommodating customers," said board member Manny Cortez.

He said most of the slots in taverns, bowling alleys, convenience stores and other small businesses that have ClassfA.