Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 24

2C Reno Gazette-Journal Monday, October 7, 1985 Oakland replacing court reporters with video cameras disruption resulting from news reporters constantly moving in and out of the proceedings. If a jury in deliberation asked for a rereading of testimony, the pertinent portion could be piped to the jury room for replay. But Dickey also saw possible inconveniences. He said some judges might object to always being on camera. The camera would need to be located so jurors are not filmed.

OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) The Oakland area's Municipal Court district plans to become the first in the nation to substitute video cameras for court reporters. In an experiment, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has authorized spending of up to $12,000 to install video and audio equipment in one of the district's 17 courtrooms. If the experiment is successful, the other courtrooms will be similarly equipped. As result, Court Administrator George Dickey says a half-dozen court reporters The audio tapes caused problems because lawyers had to stay near microphones and transcribers had difficulty in identifying the speakers.

With video speakers, identities would not be a problem. Dickey said video would have a number of minor advantages. A recalcitrant prisoner could be kept outside the courtroom and allowed to watch the proceedings on closed circuit television. The proceedings could also be seen in another location to eliminate a degree of reporters, mostly on a per diem basis. But reporters were often in short supply and the Oakland district sometimes used audio tapes when reporters were unavailable.

Employment of reporters also was expensive. Although the Oakland district has 16,000 misdemeanor filings annually, only 200 go to jury trials and last year only 23 cases were appealed. The reporters are paid to be in the courtroom, but most of the time transcripts are never requested. could be eliminated at a saving of about $200,000 annually. For decades court reporters usually were not required in California misdemeanor cases, but three years ago the practice was changed in criminal cases other than traffic.

The California Supreme Court ruled in the Armstrong case for the first time that a misdemeanor defendant is entitled to an adequate record to settle the facts on appeal. That caused municipal courts to employ Delay feared in 'Night Stalker' trial LOS ANGELES (AP) Wrangling over who will defend Richard Ramirez, the 25-year-old drifter accused of 14 "Night Stalker" murders, could delay court proceedings and hurt the state's case, a top prosecutor says. Ramirez's relatives have persistently sought to substitute a private attorney for the public defenders named to represent him in the case. "Any time a trial is delayed, you have the potential for the unavailability of witnesses," Chief Deputy District Attorney Gilbert I. Garcetti said last week.

Because so many witnesses are elderly in this case, "they may have died or they may have become mentally or physically unable to get into the courtroom," Garcetti said. mmf'mM what wouM voo ete 1 1 k.iif. 1JJI media about his private conversations with Ramirez because Barraza is bound by a court order that forbids such discussions. "My position is the gag order does apply to him," Hall said. "He is also a potential witness, and I would also expect him to abide by the attorney-client privilege." Barraza maintains he's been retained by Ramirez's relatives to help in the case and is trying to help Ramirez find a new lawyer.

He doesn't believe he's restrained by the order. San Francisco lawyer Melvin Belli told reporters he was contacted and visited Ramirez last month but was too busy to accept the case. Adashek says massive publicity may make it difficult for Ramirez to get a fair trial. Municipal Court Judge Elva R. Soper has determined Ramirez cannot afford to pay for his own lawyer, and if public defenders were disqualified, the judge would appoint a private lawyer at county expense.

Ramirez is otrfer felonies. R. Adashek and PJbliaendjHjUWh 'TOnrrT. HUT wTW 'are representing Tom SpitzGazette-Journal woman's name, officers arrested her on a felony forgery charge out of Oregon. The driver of the truck, Charles Jones of Arizona, was cited for making an improper turn, police said.

TRAPPED AUTO: Car driver Cynthia Petris of Bakersfield, escaped serious injury in this Sunday afternoon wreck at Kuenzli Street and Wells Avenue in Reno. But Reno police said that after making a standard check of the Ramirez, were concerned public comments of family members and El Paso attorney Manuel J. Barraza might prejudice the rights of their client. In an interview Friday, Hall said Barraza should stop talking to the news Body found at LA home for retarded Airport facelift McCarran Airport ready for future LOS ANGELES (AP) The decom who entered the home in February and posed body of a man believed to be a mentally retarded patient at a state-licensed board and care home was found in a closet that had been nailed shut, and police were seeking the home's manager. A neighbor said the six patients at the Heaven's Crest board and care home were often left unattended, screams could be heard from the home and the live-in manager, Rudolph "Rudy" Harris, 43, sometimes appeared to be intoxicated.

"We are treating this case as a homicide," police Detective J.D. Furr said, adding that Harris was being sought for questioning. The body found over the weekend was believed to be that of Ray Walker, 31, an epileptic and mentally retarded patient was last seen at the end of August, officials said. Coroner's officials sought dental records to make a positive identification. The owner of the home in south-central Los Angeles, Yasmi Miller, found' Walker's body fully clothed and wrapped in blankets.

A handyman at the home had called Ms. Miller when Harris failed to show up for work Thursday or Friday, police said. The cause of death had not been determined and it was unclear if the man was dead before being put in the closet. Police Lt. William Hall said there appeared to have been attempts to cgml, ceal the body's presence in the closet-1: served by an automatic people mover to and from the central terminal.

Satellite one increases the number of gates at McCarran to 52. By the year 2000 with completion of four more satellites, the airport will have 136 gates. Automated transit system: A system of two 100-passenger shuttles which travel from the central terminal to satellite one every minute. It can be expanded in the future to double its capacity. Roadways: 6.9 miles of access roads and service drives.

Utilities: 35,000 lineal feet of underground piping for water and sewer. Jet fueling system: 1 .6 miles of underground piping designed for expansion of current 52-gate facility. Landscaping: 30 acres of grounds surrounding the central terminal and related parking and roadways with 20 acres of irrigated lawn, 5.7 acres of shrub bed and ground cover, and 2,134 trees. Crash, fire and rescue building: A 260-foot-long structure with six oversize bays for emergency equipment for a total of 22,500 square feet. Prime architects and engineers: TRA Consultants Inc.

Architectural, engineering, contractors and consulting firms: 61 companies. McCarran International Airport opened its central terminal and "satellite one" facilities Sunday, the first step in a $1 billion remodeling and expansion program to be completed by the year 2000. Capacity: 20 million passengers a year. Cost: $1 billion with startup costs financed by a $315 million bond issue. Self supporting through landing fees, terminal rents, concession revenue and slot machines.

No local tax money involved. Site: 2,000 acres south of Las Vegas. Central terminal: 800 feet long, seven-story expansion of the existing terminal and parking with 1.171 million square feet of new space. Baggage claim: 12 baggage claim devices in a ground level of the central terminal. Esplanade (mezannine) level: 127,000 square feet in the central terminal which is a connecting access to all other parts of the terminal containing the people-mover transit station, shops, restaurants and security-check facilities.

Parking: 1,500 stalls in the parking structure of the central terminal, 1 ground-level employee parking lots, 575-stall ground-level overflow parking, 27-stall bus plaza for arriving and departing passengers. Satellite one: 162,000 square feet of new space with 16 additional aircraft gates pld College From page 1C concessionaires. The 257 slot machines in the airport will dump $7.5 million into airport coffers next year. The 1985-1986 airport income will be $67.7 million, according to projections by McCarran budget expert Larry Larson. Landing fees and terminal rents paid by "lite 21 "airlines servicing Las Vegas provide the lion's share of the revenue.

"Tough beans," said Clark County Commissioner Paul Christensen in discussing airline complaints that rent is increasing from $85 a square foot to $117 asquare foot annually and landing fees are going to be $1,154 per thousand pounds of gross landing weight compared to 85 cents. "The airlines think we should throw the concession revenues into the pot and charge the airlines only what it won't cover to meet indebted requirements. It is presumptuous of them to ask us to share our revenues, including slot machine revenue, when they are not even willing to talk to us about more direct flights and better scheduling and fares for travelers," he said. Board room disagreements, however, paled this weekend amid nostalgia and hopes for the future. "Las Vegas was known as a good stop-pin' off point in the old days," recalled George Crockett who operated a tiny airport on the McCarran Airport site four decades ago.

"We used to drive the pilots seven miles to town free and established a reputation as the world's friendliest airport. The tower operator always greeted pilots with 'Howdy pardner, welcome to Las It became quite a trademark of the airport." Crockett was paid $125,000 in the 1940s by the Clark County commission for the present McCarran International Airport site. Dondero cut the ceremonial ribbon at noon Sunday during a public open house i'. tn. that attracted thousands of southern Nevada residents who have been inconvenienced for half a decade by the construction.

The same day the new facilities open, work begins immediately on expansion of the ticketing area at McCarran. The ticketing counter will exceed the length of three football fields when completed. "We are building with growth in mind," said a spokesman for TRA Consultants Inc. of Seattle. TRA Consultants are the prime architects, engineers and consul tants on the project, which so far has involved more than 60 companies.

The facility is built for expansion to five airline satellites if the master plan provision for three satellites is insufficient in the 21st century. United, TWA, Jet America, American, Muse and Southwest Airlines are assigned gates in satellite one. United Airlines parked an aircraft at one of the new gates for the Sunday open house and began using its new gate assignments today. School, which is just not duplicated in this i- Money would remove Old College's other stumbling block accreditation by it. the ABA for its law school and by the Northwest Association of Colleges and Schools for its humanities school.

"Perhaps we can clear this up," De Guilio said. "We have not been denied accreditation or put on hold. The accreditation process is controlled by the institution itself. When an institution is ready to go forward, it declares itself and seeks accreditation. "While you have heard previous people say accreditation is just around the corner, the accreditation process has been in the hands of those same people and perhaps the raising of funds has prevented them from moving forward." Since Old College opened in 1980, officials repeatedly have predicted accreditation within a couple of years.

De Guilio's prediction is it will become reality within a couple of years in 1987. "The difference is I have never said it before and I hope that doesn't sound like an immodest statement. The board of trustees made a very serious commitment when it asked me to come here. "I didn't come as a founder or creator but as a person they know had a track record of achievement, especially in the accreditation process." As proof of Old College's potential, De Guilio points to "the phenomenal success" of its law school graduates this year, when 14 out of 21 students passed the Nevada State Bar examinations. "Only about 16 percent of students from California unaccredited schools passed their exams last year.

Many accredited schools in California have less than 40 percent of their students pass their exams. So our 14 out of 21 is a heck of a number." Old College's claim that it was financial resources, not quality of education, that has prevented it from receiving accreditation won the law school a compromise last January from the Nevada Supreme Court. The court said graduates of the school can take the bar exam, but if they pass it they cannot practice law in Nevada until the school is accredited. De Guilio believes accreditation for both the college's schools will happen. "We can't do it alone.

We're a community project. We're not going to be able to exist in spite of Reno but because of it; because the people want us." From page 1C it's beortfiwrejaficult with the falling enrollment." Leary said last year the law school had 109 students, compared to 70 this semester, and he termed the School of Humanities drop from last year's 50 students to the current 40 "pathetic." "It seems it's a very hard job Dr. De Guilio faces, but one he seems to relish," Leary said. "I wish him well." De Guilio believes Old College's decline is due to its past problems of administrative dissension. "When that type of turmoil occurs, your recruitment program gets no attention at all and that's what I discovered when I arrived here in August.

We're projecting very healthy numbers for the coming fall term." De Guilio said Old College is solvent, having entered the year with a balanced budget, no operating deficit and loans common to all institutions. And a new era of administrative cooperation and support from the board of trustees has dawned, he maintains. The key to making the marriage work will be obtaining a $5-million dowry for Old College during the next five years. "It's the one ingredient that will put us over the top or cause us not to scale the heights we think we can scale." De Guilio said the college needs about $2.5 million for operating costs and to achieve accreditation with roughly another $2.5 million to establish an endowment fund to perpetuate the institution. "That doesn't mean we need $5 million by Tuesday or the sheriff comes knocking.

It means both our operating cost needs over the next five years and endowment needs over the same period and we're home free." De Guilio estimates a quarter of a million already had been raised under renewed efforts of a fund-raising committee. "I think we have several things going for us. One we're not greedy. We're looking at a reasonable amount of money. Two we're looking for money to support this state's only law school and I think that's important.

I think if we can get some of the exploits of the past behind us, we can catch the imagination of Neva-dans to support the law school and the liberal arts approach of our Humanities Obituaries Joseph H. Bigger ELY Joseph H. Bigger, 84, died Thursday in an Ely care center. A native of Billings, he was born Nov. 8, 1900, and had lived in Ely for the past 64 years.

Bigger was a retired manager of the Ely branch of the Nevada Bank of Commerce. Bigger was a World War II Navy veteran and a member of Ely Elks Lodge 1469. Surviving are his widow, Jeanette of Ely. A Funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Wilson-Bates Mortuary, with burial at the Ely City Cemetery.

A memorial is being established with the Elks Lodge, P.O. Box 1088, Ely, 89301. brated at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

Burial will be at the Fallon Cemetery. Frederikke K. Mortensen Frederikke Kristine Mortensen, 94, died Saturday in a Reno hospital. A native of Alborg, Denmark, she was born Nov. 25, 1890, and had lived in Reno for the past 75 years, coming from Denmark.

Mrs. Mortensen was a homemaker. Surviving are daughter, Marguerite Kitchen of Reno; six grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Walton Funeral Home, Reno, with inurnment at the Mountain View Cemetery.

A memorial is being established with the United Way, 275 Hill, Reno, 89505. Nathan Jones Visitation is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Walton's Sparks Funeral Home for Nathan Jones, 73, who died Sunday in a Reno hospital. A native of Tuscaloosa, he was born July 18, 1912, and had lived in Reno for the past 37 years, coming from Birmingham, Ala. Jones was a meat cutter for several supermarkets and a member of the Lake View Southern Baptist Church.

Surviving are widow, Catherine Jones of Silver Springs, son, Don Week of Reno; daughter, Marion Grimm and sisters, Lula Cole and Eldra Shehady, all of Sparks; daughters, Ouida Wingfield of Del City, and Linda Miller of Rose-ville, brothers, Kenneth of Merced, and Rebra of Alabama; sister, Elsie Vazquez of Mississippi; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with burial at Mountain View Cemetery. Myrtle B. Chase CARSON CITY Recitation of the rosary is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

today at Walton's Chapel of the Valley Funeral Home for Myrtle B. Chase, 59, who died Saturday in a Carson City hospital. A native of San Francisco, she was born Feb. 16, 1926, and lived in Carson City for the past six years, coming from South Lake Tahoe. Mrs.

Chase was a hotel desk clerk at the Carson Valley Inn in Gardnerville. She hadretired earlier from Harvey's Hotel where she was a desk clerk for nine years. Surviving are husband, Charles, son Charles and daughter, Pamela Sauer, all of Carson City; son, Mark of Gardnerville; daughter, Lee Anne Chase of Genoa; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Stewart.

Buria will be at the Genoa Cemetery. Doris J. Zimmer A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at Walton Funeral Home, Reno, for Doris Jean Zimmer, 52, who died Saturday in a Reno hospital. A native of Los Angeles, she was born Nov.

5, 1932, and had lived in Reno for the past two years, coming from California. Mrs. Zimmer was a registered nurse and a member of Our Lady of Wisdom Catholic Church. Surviving are husband, Paul of Reno; sons, Walter Scott Robbins of San Diego, and George Scott of Tucson, Ariz. daughters, Laurie Cowdrey of Springfield, Pamela Ekstrand of Tulsa, and Mary Lynn Hanselman of Hailey, Idaho; and five grandchildren.

Cremation was at Sierra Crematorium. A memorial is being established with the American Cancer Society, 605 Washington, Reno, 89502. A- Emilia Manna FALLON A Christian wake service is scheduled for 6 p.m. today at the Austin, Matson and Smith Funeral Home for Emilia Manna, 88, who died Saturday in a Fallon care center. A native of Flores, an island in the Azores, she was born Oct.

6, 1896, and had lived in Fallon for the past 45 years. Mrs. Manna was preceded in death by herhusband, Alfred, and daughter, Lillian Webb. Mrs. Manha was a homemaker and a member of the VFW Auxiliary and the Roman Catholic Church.

Surviving are a son, Maurice and daughter, Lorraine Shoemaker, both of Fallon; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. AiLass of Christian burial will be cele and evil makes no distinction" between races and people. "The strange thing about chains is that they bind us together," he said. "I remember a preacher who said 'the only difference between a slave and the slave's master is the end of the chain he's tied Thompson, who officiated at Sunday's service, said he is reminded of the Bull Conner days of law enforcement in Alabama, with dogs, whips and fire hoses, when he thinks of South Africa's apartheid policies. He also likened it to Hitler's regime.

"This has been going on in South Africa since 1948," he said. "We are concerned, as most people are, about the brutality and cruelty, and also about the denial process there: the denial of citizenship and the right to exiL," Day of Prayer From page 1C Africa's racial policies. Eight Reno clergymen, along with Dr. Rupert Seals, president of the Reno chapter of the NAACP, and Earl Collins, chairman of the Washoe County Republican Party, participated in -the service. "We're praying that the chains of tyranny will be loosened and others will be free," Chaplain Harry Wolrath of the Veterans Administration told the congregation.

"Our friends and brethren in South Africa are now in that struggle. We don't know when it will end, but we're hoping it will be soon. Tyranny is death and freedom is life." Rev. George Green, pastor of the South -Southern BaptisfJChurch, said "sin.