Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

Wednesday, March 3L 1982 Reno Evening Gazette Mustang adoptions drop sharply REAM UPDMfE 5) PAGE 2B if nit i byiDt Pernio will ye miew jai Airily son sent to the jail. He said the county would build and operate the jail. With Reno's participation, the facility would have 528 beds, Galli said. Without Reno, there would be 350-375 beds. In other action, the council: Approved closing Virginia Street between Commercial Row and Second Street in June for the Reno Rodeo.

The council rejected a request from the downtown special events committee to close Second Street between Virginia and Center Streets. The decision appeared acceptable to the committee. The group's original efforts to close Virginia Street had been stymied by state highway regulations, which have since been revised. save the city about $200,000 a year. Based on that, city staff recommended approval of the county-city agreement.

Councilman Joe McClelland said he was "delighted" the city and county could work together on a project. He said it was time the city got out of the jail business. Councilman Jim Thornton said the city would have some control over the jail's location because the project would have to be approved as part of the city's planning process. Voters ultimately would have to decide on the suitability of the location when they vote on the bond issue, he said. Cherches said the city would probably pay the county a fee, to be negotiated, based on each per Sferrazza and Mrs.

Lehners said they opposed the plan because a location for the new jail has not been selected. Sferrazza said he did not oppose consolidating the city and county jails, but objected to the possibility of locating the facility in a residential area, such as south of Kietzke Lane, as has been suggested by Washoe County Sheriff Bob Galli. That location, however, is only one of several under consideration, said Galli, who attended the meeting. Mrs. Lehners said she also feared the city would have little say about the design and operation of the jail.

City Manager Chris Cherches estimated a joint facility would By RICHARD MORENO Gazette staff writer The Reno City Council today agreed to contract for services at a new Washoe County Jail if it's built and "get out of the jail business." The council voted 3-2, with Councilman Pete Sferrazza and Councilwoman Florence Lehners dissenting, to send Reno prisoners to the proposed new county facility. Reno currently operates its own jail at East Second and High Streets. County commissioners have indicated they will ask voters to approve a bond issue for the jail in September. I I FLORENCE LEHNERS Councilwoman BOB GALLI Sheriff HERE.OLLIE. TO NOT Yo SMASH -vear-old student OUR FINGERS defies stereotyping THANK By PAMELA GALLOWAY FAY Gazette staff writer When university students got into a shaving cream fight in Lincoln Hall this year, Bill Hamma didn't feel like joining in the free-for-all.

It was one of those moments of truth, as it were, when one is reminded Prison gang segregated i Ten members of the so-called "Black Mafia" or "Black Warriors" gang were segregated from the maximum security prison population Tuesday night to head off an alleged plot to kill a prison guard and-or take some guards hostage, Warden George Sumner said today. He said the men would be transferred today to administrative segregation in a bullpen area. He said the leadership of the Black Mafia group said to be involved in the October stabbing and beating of three correctional officers have been kept apart from the general prison population since that attack. But, nevertheless, he said, they managed last week to get word to their followers to "kill a specific officer." He said they had nothing against the officer in question but were seeking to "flex their muscles," show they are capable of doing it." Sumner said the prison administration had been advised by some inmates that the Black Warriors would attempt their hostage taking Thursday in the prison exercise yard, which has been off limits since the October incident for a renovation effort designed to achieve greater security. Sumner said earlier this month that, until recently, the Black Warriors" and their white counterparts, the Aryan Warriors, had been running the trouble and incident plagued 'max' prison.

He said the two groups, although sometimes antagonistic, made a pact that if the prison administration placed any of their members in segregation they would start assaulting guards. The October incident was one product of that pact, Sumner said. Sumner was recently released after being hospitalized with heart problems. that JUUltl and that immaturity it is accompames The campus newspaper, Sagebrush, printed an editorial by editor Charles Morse in which he said if he had known in advance what the outcome would be, "I would have urged you with all my deftness of pen and ink to defeat the man .1 expected Bill Hamma's paranoia and personal deportment to speak for themselves." Morse also raised questions about Hamma's racial attitudes, and there have been ugly rumors circulating around campus that he was once in a mental institution a false rumor, Hamma says. Late last week he survived an attempt to overturn the election.

If Hamma had to decide now whether to run for an office again, he says he probably wouldn't. But he adds that might be a knee-jerk reaction to the unpleasantness. Hamma defeated a 21-year-old student, Rob Rossi, who seemed the likely choice: fraternity president, student senate president, highly visible UNR student leader. Hamma, on the other hand, is anything but the young, polished student leader. He is an older, confirmed bachelor from Brooklyn whose appearance and manner defy the stereotypical politician.

His clothes are sometimes rumpled and torn. He is not a preppy. But supporters say their vote was no joke. They gone. But other than the occasional pranks, Hamma doesn't feel different from the students who recently elected him to represent them.

Hamma, 42, is the new president of the associated students of the University of Nevada-Reno (ASUN.) Like many of his predecessors who were ASUN presidents, Hamma is a political science major who plans to attend UN Sagebrush cartoon Outgoing UNR student president Dominic 'Doc' Bodensteiner Is depicted as handing the gavel to the Incoming president, Bill Hamma. someone who isn't just looking for something for his resume." Hamma says he plans to work to form club or junior varsity football, a book exchange to help cut costs, more parking near the campus and a greater variety of concerts. BILL HAMMA Student president sincerely feel he will better represent their interests. Many are dormitory residents who say student officers from fraternities have been ignoring their needs over the years. "We're tired of Blue Key and Greeks," one Hamma supporter said recently.

Blue Key is a men's service organization. "It's time to have law school. In 1980, Hamma ran for the Nevada State Senate against Republicans Bill Raggio and Sue Wagner. He was soundly defeated. Two weeks ago he was a winner.

But his victory soon turned sour. Hamma says he grew up in Brooklyn with an: List record at Please see BILL, P. 2B ujnrv is Inadequate' Civil liberties group plans Ford intervention By RICHARD MORENO Gazette staff writer Gov. Robert List is resorting to personal attacks to hide his "sorry" and "inadequate" record as the state's chief executive, Attorney General Richard Bryan charged Tuesday. Bryan, the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, referred to remarks made by List on Tuesday when the Republican formally anounced his re-election campaign and also accused the Republican incumbent of distorting his record as a state legislator and attorney general.

List had blasted Bryan for his "horrifying liberal voting record in the Legislature, and sorry, unimaginative" record as attorney general. "It's obvious that his tact is to attempt to shift, attention away from his own inadequate record as governor by making attacks on me personally and on isolated votes I cast in 10 years in the Legislature," Bryan said. "I don't think there's any question he's doing it because he's running behind in the polls. This is a desperate attempt by a governor whose record is so sorry that he must attack rather than emphasize his accomplishments." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Bishop case despite an ACLU challenge.

He said Mrs. Ford's case was a good case for an ACLU challenge because "she's mentally ill and we don't think the jury gave sufficient weight to the overwhelming evidence of psychosis." Siegel said the ACLU also doesn't believe individuals should be in a position to let the state kill them. He said the organization opposes the death penalty in principle. Earlier this week, Mrs. Ford told a television reporter she did not want to appeal the death sentence, saying, "I can't wait in line for the appeal process." A source who was close to Mrs.

Ford during the past year told the Gazette earlier that Mrs. Ford believes deeply in reincarnation and is "anxious to get on with her next life," rather than being sent to prison. interested in finding out what the Public Defender's office will do should Mrs. Ford reject an automatic appeal to the state Supreme Court. Siegel said there is a question of how far the Public Defender's office will go with the case.

However, he credited defense attorney Lew Carnahan with doing a good job representing Mrs. Ford. Siegel said Mrs. Ford's situation is similar to that of convicted murderer Jesse Bishop. In 1979, the ACLU unsuccessfully tried to prevent Bishop's execution Nevada's last.

He said in that case Bishop refused to appeal his sentence and the Clark County Public Defender's office would only appeal the death sentence as far as the Nevada Supreme Court. Bishop was convicted of killing a newlywed Baltimore, man in a Las Vegas casino holdup. Siegel said the ACLU wants to have the Nevada death penalty law reviewed by the federal courts. The American Civil Liberties Union is closely watching the fate of Priscilla Ford and will intervene on her behalf should she get close to reaching Nevada's gas chamber. Richard Siegel, president of the Washoe County ACLU, said Tuesday that his organization is prepared to appeal Mrs.

Ford's death sentence after the Public Defender's office has exhausted its avenues of appeal. He said the ACLU also wants to challenge Nevada's death penalty law. Jurors on Sunday sentenced Mrs. Ford to die in the Nevada State Prison's gas chamber for killing six persons with her car in a Thanksgiving Day 1980 rampage down a crowded downtown Reno sidewalk. Twenty-three others were injured.

Siegel said his organization is particularly State board orders halt in airport-employee negotiations By HELEN MANNING Gazette staff writer undermine the union and replace it with the employment association that management prefered. If the board agrees, it could reinstate Local 39 as the bargaining representative for about 90 airport employees, or order an election to determine what representation the workers want now. Attorney Larry Leslie, representing Local 39, replaced at the bargaining table by Stationary Engineers Local 39. Nevada's Employee-Management Relations Board, which issued the stay order near the end of a two-day hearing, promised a ruling by April 23. At issue is Local 39's charge that the Airport Authority used anti-union bargaining tactics to asked that negotiations between the Airport Authority and the Airport Authority Employees Association be frozen until the decision is made.

"It seems to me fundamentally unfair not to do so," he said. Board members adjourned to a closed-door session Please see STATE, P. 2B Negotiations between the Airport Authority of Washoe County and its employee association were halted by a state hearing board Tuesday, pending a decision on whether the association should be INDEX TODAY'S NEWSLINE ALMANAC 3B 7B ENTERTAINMENT 4B.5B OBITUARIES 2B WEATHER 3B More local news, Page 11D, 12D First St. Police said the Nevada National branch in Sparks was robbed the week before. The bandit in each of the robberies is described as 25 to 30 years old, about 150 pounds and 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Tuesday's robber wore a tattered blue cap, a red windbreaker and brown trousers, officials said. Nevada National's head of security, John Norris, declined to discuss details of Tuesday's robbery, saying "that would reveal his mode of operation." A spokesman for the local office of the FBI, which is helping police in the investigation, said a picture of the suspect may be released to the public later this week. The spokesman refused to discuss whether investigators have compiled a profile of the suspect. "Right now he's simply a bank robber and we hope to get him," he said. Silverbird hearing set CARSON CITY AP) Nevada gaming authorities today scheduled an April 6 meeting to consider longtime Las Vegas gaming figure Ed Torres' plan to take over the bankrupt Silver-bird hotel-casino.

The state Gaming Control Board is expected to make a recommendation at that time to its parent Nevada Gaming Commission, which will try to reach a final decision later in the day. Torres, general manager of the Aladdin hotel-casino, applied in mid-February to take over the Silverbird, part of the estate of the late Major Riddle. A bankruptcy judge already has endorsed the proposal by Torres to acquire the Silverbird lease from the Riddle estate. The deal also Police think bank robber may have struck before Police believe a lone gunman who robbed the Nevada National Bank downtown of about $500 Tuesday may be same person who held up two other local banks since mid March. Reno police said a robber entered the bank at 1 N.

Virginia pointed a gun at a teller and demanded money. No shots were fired and the bandit fled on foot at 10:30 a.m., according to police detective Capt. Charles Williams. He said the robber had the "same description" as that of a gunman who fled with $1,800 March 24 from the Security Bank at 180 W. involves a plan to buy the actual property from Tiger Investment Under terms of the plan, Torres' BRT Inc.

would be licensed at the Silverbird, under the name of El Rancho hotel-casino. Torres owns all the BRT stock. i.