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Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 20

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Reno, Nevada
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1 'wwww lmr nrp' mmm www 1 www y- 20 Reno Evening Gazette Thursday, December 17, 1981 Ford juror Students to return tO rebuilt School Sahara (Continued from Page 19) (Continued from Page 19) shall return," they pro- was structurally unsound. "We mlsed. This year, nearly 300 students have been attending Pine Middle School for Vi months while they waited tor their school to be completed. On Wednesday, they made a huge sign thanking Pine students for accommodating them in the interim. Mount Rose opens with a new principal, Lonnie Shields, and many of the same teachers who were there years ago.

So for some, going back to Mt. Rose is really going home again. But the school was saved when parents and students protested the decision. Adults and children paraded, picketed and proudly displayed "Save Our School" bumper stickers and signs. Torres plans 700-room addition after Silverbird purchase "You Just don't want to give me any cigarettes bocciuse of what I did." Mrs.

Ford then added, "I Just did what I had to do." On cross-examination by defense attorney Lew Carnahan, Mrs. Gray said she had not repeated Mrs. Ford's statements to anyone until she talked to Dunlap two weeks ago. Carnahan pointed out she had received orders the day Mrs. Ford was arrested to report anything and asked why she did not report the statements then.

"I Just didn't feel I had a right to," Mrs. Gray answered, saying she thought she could only repeat the statements to a higher authority, such as Dunlap. hotel and gaming complex in a 20-story tower that began operation in July 1978. The Sahara Tahoe is a 536-room resort hotel and gaming complex at Stateline, on the south shore of Lake Tahoe. W'ebb operations also include the Sahara Las Vegas also for sale but not part of the Hilton deal the Mint in Las Vegas and interests in the recently opened Tropicana hotel and gaming resort in Atlantic City, N.J.

Swanson has said Del Webb is saddled with $200 million in debts, on which it's paying 1 to percent over the prime interest rate. Hilton has been viewed as an ideal candidate for the Del Webb purchases because it had ready cash Return they did, to their old-new school on Lander Street. Mount Hose Elementary School has been renewed, Just In time for the holidays. Youngsters who have been attending other schools for four years were to see their renovated school today. For some, it was the first time they'd ever set eyes on It.

They were moving their prized books and other possessions today, but students won't actually attend classes there until after the holiday recess. Mount Rose was scheduled to close in 1977, because trustees had been told the 70-year old school LAS VKGAS (AP) Aladdin Hotel general manager Ed Torres has announced plans for a new 700-room addition to the bankrupt Silverbird Hotel and Casino, which he intends to buy. Torres, in a statement Issued Wednesday through the Aladdin, said he plans to begin construction immediately to the new tower at the Strip hotel. He also confirmed that he has agreed in principle to the Torres, in New York on business, said he planned to refurbish the hotel and casino and have them open by May 1982, subject to state Gaming Commission approval. He said he hoped to have the new tower open by the end of 1982.

He also confirmed earlier reports that the purchase price for the 33 year-old hotel and 24 acres of land would be $30 million. He said he hoped to close the deal no later than Dec. 31. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Agency 'behind times' iCAKSON CITY (AP) The chairman of a legislative panel studying the Nevada Personnel Division which oversees the state's work force says the agency seems to be "behind the times." Assemblyman Joe Dint, D-Yerington, said he and other panel members toured division headquarters and interviewed two dozen employees Wednesday and heard repeated suggestions for "modernization." 1 Dini said the workers complained they needed more staff support, and also said there's a "delivery problem" In recruiting and classifying new He said that the legislators were told that it takes a minimum of eight weeks to hire the average new state. worker and that's fast.

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