Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 19

Reno Evening Cazette-19 State Education Asks $18 Million Budget Increase The Nevada State Department of Education, citing inflation student and teacher increases, recommended today to the administration an $85 million budget for the next two years "an $18 million boost over 1967-69. Burnell Larson, state superintendent of public instruction, said the total budget request to Gov. Paul Laxalt will be million, including federal grants. Larson told the State Board of Education the budget increase is necessary "just to catch up and keep pace with the infla tionary Impact of the last two vyeas." added that it was also necessary "just to maintain current public school programs" and to provide for a projected six per cent increase in student enrollment and teacher requirements. The bulk of the estimated budget increase, $15.1 million, would go directly to Nevada's 17 public school districts.

Another $2.1 million increase would be earmarked for a teachers' retirement fund, said John Gamble, assistant superintendent of public instruction. "During the last two years, and during the recent months, price increases have been frequent, especially in the areas of construction and salaries for specially trained employes said Larson. "Schools feel extreme impact of these inflationary forces be cause they must compete for the specially trained employe and they must purchase many items peculiar to their needs," he said. Historically, appropriations by the legislature for public schools and the University of Nevada represent 70 per cent of the total state budget. Nevada budgets for two-year periods.

Gamble said if revenues from the state's sales tax continue to rise, the education budget may deminish. One cent of the state's three-cent sales tax is specifically earmarked for public school aid. Thursday, Sept. 26, 1968 RENOvation--ls There a Stopping Point? ning firm has presented so far! A state highway department! suppress the tracks, but not fi Wednesday, fair board Paul Hamilton said he nancially feasible." doesn't think the board can le report estimates railroad track suppression cost between $11.5 and $16 million. It is a tremendous onus on all of us to have to make the choice," said Allen.

"Perhaps other alternatives could be given us." constitutes a good, solid foundation; Ask him to start presenting more graphic examples of what might happen downtown; Ask him to give much more study to traffic proposals. "We wonder if it is necessary to disturb the one-way street patterns that now exist," Allen said, and, "Tell him we have been given a limited choice in reference to the problem of the railroad." In Blayney's initial presenta Hunter said if trustees were going to look to the city for money, they must remember that projected airport improvements are expected to cost $10 million. "And it it came to a choice of improving the airport or depressing the railroad tracks, I'd have to go with the airport," Hunter said. State Sen. Coe Swobe, R-Reno, said a report from the railroad RENOvation trustees will ask planner John Blayney to tell them how much more can be done on a downtown Reno development plan with the money the trustees have left.

They decided today to ask the planner to suggest a logical, temporary stopping point in the event enough money isn't raised to complete the plan. The stopping point, they said, will be selected with the idea of continuation once the money is Also, trustees announced they will visit the Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board Fri Milton Sharp, a trustee, sug gested emphasis on the railroad gally use room tax money for RENOvation because of the absence of direct connection between the two. Ed Cardinal, RENOvation administrator, reported the corporation has $18,610.30 on hand plus $8,100 in pledges. Approximately another $40,000 is needed to complete Phase II of the $230,000, four phase development plan. Richard Allen, regional planning director, said a committee had come up with four recommendations and statements to make to Blayney.

They are: Tell Blayney what his plan fu h'i A-' problem with the money that is left. "That is the key to the whole thing. Until we can settle that question, it is hard to give Blayney much direction," Sharp said. Councilman Claude Hunter op concerning track suppression is tion, he suggested two plans for forthcoming. Publicist Mark Curtis said, "The only first concern now is to be able to conclude with what downtown Reno, one revolving around suppression of the South day morning in an effort to posed that idea because, he said.

ern Pacific Railroad tracks, and the other on the basis the tracks remain as they are. fc 7 SN encourage its members to donate room tax money to help pay for the RENOvation plan. "I've been of the opinion all rr.oney we have left without dam-along it would be desireable tolaging the plan for the future." Curtis said the question to ask Blayney is if he can bring "this to some sort of conclusion and give us another six months to try to raise the money." Casino Officials Unruffled By Ruling on Gaming Debts Trustee Warren Nelson urged optimism and said trustees would have to proceed with "a lot of guts." He said every ef fort should be made to complete Communicating for Good of Reno counts in the state. And, people Fnase II. just don't want to jeopardize their credit rating." Mayor Roy Bankofier said he thinks the money can be raised to suppress the railroad tracks.

Paul Garwood, managtr of Ball of Novado, Itft, tolls Martin Johnston, protidont of RENOvation of utility's $1,000 donation to tho downtown dovolopmont planning projoct. (Oazotto Photo) Frank Johnson, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board said the ruling "doesn't change anything at all. Even in Nevada the courts will not Justice Leonard Friedman said in the opinion that California law says that the owner of a gambling house who accepts a check from a patron for money to gamble "cannot recover on the check." A representative of the Club Cal Neva said management has not taken definite action on the issue and won't until after a meeting of the Nevada Check Investigation Association tonight. The association made up of Northern Nevada Casino Credit managers and law enforcement use their offices to collect gaming debt. by counties in Nevada and Placer and El Dorado counties in California, will discuss the ruling at its regular Thursday night meeting.

The meeting will be held at the Centennial Room of the Sparks Nugget at 8:30 p.m. Although aware of the implications the ruling 'might carry, casino officials generally were not alarmed. "We really don't have too much-trouble with this sort of thing," one official explained. "Through central credit, we can notify, or be notified, within 30 seconds of any bad credit ac- Major (casino officials in Northern Nevada appeared generally unruffled today following a California Appeals Court ruling that a Nevada casino has no legal) recourse to collect checks it accepts from California patrons. The -3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento Wednesday handed down a unanimous decision that Merle C.

Gibbs did not have to make good five checks totaling $1,900. Gibbs wrote the checks at two Lake Tahoe casinos, and all were returned unpaid. Patent Medicine With Soft Drink Blamed in Death of Boy in Desert "Possibly sometime in the fu ture," he continued, "there may be a move to make the collection of gaming debts legal in Nevada, since it is a legal industry in the state, but otherwise the situation remains un Public Health Service officials A Sparks boy whose body was' was treated at a Reno hospital I The jury said Gaspari died where doctors said he was dis- of accidental causes due to bcl-oriented and hallucinating, ap-ladonna stramonium poisoning found in the desert last July have taken measures to have that medicine removed from the open shelves. died from the effects of a patent changed." officers from Washoe and Orms-I parently from the effects of and exposure. Authorities said the youths ap medicine mixed with a soft drink, a coroner's jury ruled Wednesday.

parently had taken asthma remedy which contains a small Case Threatening 72-year-old Professors BanKrupi cy The boy, Harry Gaspari, 16, amount of narcotics. The rem son of rancher Emilo Gaspari, edy is available without per scription. had been camping with a com Plan Meeting Resists Call Reported panion who was. found wander At the inquest, a 17-year-old ing naked in the desert near Procter Hug High School youth Holiday Hotel Complaint By Stale Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau The Nevada Gaming Control Pyramid Lake Road. was called to the stand.

He Of Millionaire Continued On Salaries Problems in the salary sched The 16-year-old companion told how he and another 15- By Cunningham Robbery year-old youth had gone to the campsite to spend the night with Gaspari and his friend. ule for Nniversity of Nevada professors was to be discussed Washoe County Commissioner i A would-be robber entered a downtown Reno jewelry shop Jack Cunningham told fellow The youth said he bought the til Oct. 10 by bankruptcy referee A hearing ort a proposed' plan today at a meeting of the Reno Wednesday and punched the commissioners Wednesday he Bert Goldwater. campus Faculty Senate. patent medicine.

"We had all heard about this stuff and we store manager in the mouth al Reno Police Arrest Man For Canada A man charged in Canada by millionaire Charles Steen to pay off some $6 million in debts received a threatening telephone Board filed a complaint today against the Holiday Hotel in "The plan as presented now ter he told him "This is a stick Dr. Don Driggs, senate chair just wanted to try it," he said. call Tuesday evening. won't work," Goldwater said, up." downtown Reno, claiming: man, said a new scale, pre The 16-year-old who survived was continued Wednesday Federal bankruptcy court. The hearing was continued un- 'but it could work.

I'm not going The call referred to Wednes Victor' Wolfe, 72, told police The organization has not pared by Chancellor Neil Hum his overdose, according to a to throw it out or approve it. phrey, will be examined by both a man, entered the store at 34 E. Second and priced a listed one stockholder; The organization has violat I'm going to see' if we can't with absconding with prisoners day's hearing before the commission which resulted in a special use permit for a List Cat Reno professors and faculty at make it work." pathologist, later reported the last thing he remembered was telling the Gaspari boy he was taking too much. ring and a matching watch. Nevada Southern University in ed a regulation requiring three persons to count pit game win Steen has filed a petition for tle Co.

gravel pit. After going to the store's rest Las Vegas. funds from an Edmonton, jail was arrested Wednesday by Reno police. Ronald E. Burkholder, 33, Edmonton, was held on a Canadian Real Property Arrangement room in the rear of the build- "I was threatened if I voted "The chancellor submitted the The next morning one of the under the Federal Bankruptcy for it," Cunningham told the youths testified that Gaspari Mining to Grow Rapidly Bible WINNEMUCCA Nevada's mining industry is on the threshold of its most productive years, Sen.

Alan Bible said to scale to the regents for budgetary purposes only on the under ing, the man returned and threw a piece of paper on the counter and said he was going to rob commission. He did vote for it Act. Steen's plan, if granted, would allow him time to liqui nings. The board said the Holiday hasn't listed Jack Straus its stockholders. The board said he was issued a stock certificate for 11,000 shares ort was "just acting sort of funny." warrant charging him with ob Today, he told the Gazette, A doctor testified the boy ap standing the scale eventually taining money illegally.

date some of his assets to pay the store. "My life wasn't threatened or adopted would be one approved his debts in full. Royal Canadian Mounted Po parently was delirious as he wandered through the desert i He then hit the jeweler and anything like that, it was more by both campus faculties," lice reorted that $10,000 in pris Under the plan, Steen divides my business life. day. and finally collapsed and died.

Driggs said. his creditors into several class oners funds was missing from knocked him down. "I fell to the floor and he kept kicking me and saying, 'stay In a talk prepared for deliv "It was one of those deals Since Gaspari's death, Nevada "There are problems each es. For the plan to be approved, the Fort Saskatchewan Jail, where Burkholder had been em I suppose everyone gets at some creditors representing two-thirds ery to a joint service club luncheon, Bible pointed not only to year with the matter of keeping up with the cost of liv time they kind of tell you of the money in each category ployed as treasurer. $300 STOLEN spectacular gains in gold min to lay off or they'll take steps.

ing, but, for instance, on the March 19. On Aug. 9, these persons were listed as stockholders: Tom C. Moore, Austin C. Hemphill, Phil lip Willborn, and Felton D.

Mc-Corquodale. The board said state agents were in the Holiday Aug. 6 observing that only two persons were making the count, rather than the required three persons. must approve. Burkholder was arrested in a Reno hotel where he was regis "It was kind of an innuendo, Mark Walkenhorst, 2690 Fair new scale there is just a $150 In a June 24 financial state ing, but also to solid advances in copper and iron ore as a increase in the base for the ment, Steen listed his assets but it was the most strenuous I've received in my political tered under the name Ron Burke.

Police said he had no harbinger of prosperous days to at $11,738,676 and debts, at Circle, told the Washoe County Sheriff's Department that a burglar entered his home and took an envelope containing $300. come. life." lowest rank of assistant professors. That isn't much of a boost." Wolfe told police. Finally, the would-be robber left the store empty-handed, after unsuccessful attempts to make Wolfe stay out of the sight of people passing the store window.

A passerby noticed the man, who was dressed in a heavy top coat with the coljar pulled tightly around his neck. He then saw Wolfe with a bloodied face. $5,989,112. money in his possession at the time of the arrest. "One big victory was the re Cujningham was county trea moval finally of the gov surer from 1941 to 1962 when ernment ceiling on silver," he Mass in Spanish Planned in Reno said.

he retired to run for the county commission. He was elected and has served since. Students Found 'Free University Now, Bible noted, silver has gone from the controlled To celebrate the feast of St. an-ounce to well over the $2 The witness, Fred LeBlond of Commission J. C.

McKenzie, who voted against the permit, i mimeographed brochure stated Michael, a Mass will be cele mark a development he said Portland, said the man By TERRANCE OLIVER "An experiment in learning, said he received no calls pro would help reopen mines in Ne looked very strange wearing the brated Jn Spanish at St. John Vianney Church at Manogue vada that could not afford to heavy coat in 80 degree weather LeBlond followed the man into or con" before the meeting. Also reporting no calls was commissioner Howard McKissick Sr. High School, Sunday at 5:30 p.m operate at the low price level. Father James J.

McGrath the casino notifying security officers. who voted in favor of the permit, WALLET STOLEN SAC, pastor, will be celebrant tract a cross section of people from the community. He has contacted Elmer Briscoe, Reno chief of police, about possible courses on law enforcement and drugs. Briscoe said a decision has not been made. Clayton said he has the active support of several University of professors including George Herman, Dr.

Robert Harvev, Dr. James Lewis and John Lord. Enrollment Clayton estimated, would be from 100 to 250 students. He said registration for the first quarter would begin Monday at booths on the University of Nevada campus. Some of the classes planned include a guitar workshop, current events, transcendental meditation, and mountain climbing.

and will also preach the homily, that "A free university does not believe in class rankings, grades, credits, or other devices of either encouraging or denying the individual of the further acquirement of education. Instead, a free university believes in allowing a complete investigation into all areas of information." Clayton said he hopes to at involvement and action" is being organized by University of Nevada students Don Clayton and Bill Metzker in the form of the "Nevada Free University." Clayton hopes it will give individuals the opportunity to discuss problems and exchange ideas. The precepts described in a A procession and sacrament A Kent, man has told police his wallet containing $200 was taken while he was in a small cabin near Fourth Street. Police arrested a man they Identified as Calvin K. Rust, 28, of Bellingham, and charged him with attempted will follow.

And Warren Neuebaumer, chairman of the Washoe County Board of Adjustment which twice recommended approval of the permit, said he received no All Spanish speaking people in Reno and surrounding dis robbbery. The man said he thought someone came into the room threatening calls during his tricts are invited, said Father Wolfe, suffered a cut lip and board's deliberations. McGrath. while he was in the bathroom Picollo: Cost of 'Superior Buildings Would Have Been Double a swimming pool is considered will rule a lot of them dards." economical. If we are criticized jare in communities which spend the educational consulting firm'; was to tell us what is in the future and not what we know a necessary part of a school.

as much supporting the schools as we do for all of government." of Davis-MacConnell Ralston, which completed a district that some of our buildings "The consultants point out a are old. for that, we have to accept it. "It is simply a matter that our Board of Trustees makes every effort to economize. And great many things we'd like to have but I don't know that they He said the district would like to have some of the recommended building innovations, but "it all comes down to a point of money. "While we're aware of some master plan.

"It is quite a blow to be told Many of these recommendations can't be accomplished without a great increase in cost. "The consultants really are telling us that there are certain things that are happening in education. The whole purpose Picollo said present buildings, even though many are old, are not inadequate. "All of our buildings meet or By MIMI LaPLANTE Washoe School Supt. Marvin picollo said today district building costs would have been at least double in order tor present facilities to have been rated superior by an educational consulting team.

should be kept in mind these consultants rate facilities it must be kept in mind that very few districts would earn would receive the highest priority. "Other things in the educational program might be considered you have below-average facilities," Picollo said. "But what if the consultants had rated our facilities as excellent and our "What we can't do and don't want to do is abandon all the facilities we have just because they are old. We have proved we can do a good educational job in them." He said persons should realize "Washoe County is an old of these marvelous things, cost exceed safety and health stan superior ratings. Those that do higher.

The overall thing is tot educational program as I THOUGHT MV KISSES IdERE SdJEETER THAN U)INE IF HE EVER TRIES IT AGAIN, I'LL CLOBBER HIM fremiti PUATSTUPIP "We received excellent and outstanding ratings as far as community. Many other areas haven't a building that is over let the community and us know that Washoe County is a long way from building palaces for schools. "We will be doing more in the way of internal flexibility in buildings walls that open and that kind of thing. We can develop some of these. But we build very conservative achools.

against those that are elaborate. We just never felt we should build elaborate facilities," Picollo said. I He was referring to -a report presented to trustees Tuesday which indicated many buildings are inadequate for the needs of education today. The report was prepared by '5 our educational programs are concerned," and we are accomplishing this even in buildings that are average or Picollo' said he agreed with the consultants that local schools 15 years old. "And our community has never assumed that schools should have all of the facilities in them that other schools do.

For example, at one area in California, 1 are "fairly modest and fairly (9.