Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 28

Wednesday April 4, 1979-29 Reno Evening Gazette Jury has less trouble with case than prosecutor with witnesses 'Aztec Temple' complex receives another delay By BOB LEWIS flight plans. Although he was able to book another flight Friday afternoon, he couldn't make return arrangements. "I called probably 20 times and they (other airlines) were all busy," Magrath said. "Can you believe it, I called Western at 2 o'clock in the morning and I got a recording for 25 minutes." Magrath said he spent an hour Saturday afternoon at the airport standing in line before "an angel" finally arranged a return flight to San Francisco, but it was somewhat less than a direct flight. The witnesses left Reno at 6:15 p.m.

on a TWA flight to Las Vegas, waited out a 50 minute layover, then flew on to San Jose on a Hughes Airwest flight which stopped at San Jose before arriving in San Francisco at 10 p.m. that night. "It's just one of those things you have to do," Magrath said. Caraballo is scheduled to be sentenced May 15 and faces up to 10 years on the stolen property charge. He faces an additional 10 to 20 years By JOHN ZAPPE It took a Washoe County Jury 25 minutes to find the defendant guilty, but five times as long for the prosecutor to rearrange flight plans for his out-of-state witnesses.

George Caraballo, 24, was found guilty of possession of stolen property Tuesday afternoon, following a day-and-a-half long trial before Judge William Forman. The Fremont, man was arrested in Reno on Jan. 5 by police after a brief chase down Sierra Street. A computer check of the registration of the car he was driving revealed it had been reported stolen from Fremont. Deputy District Attorney Bill Magrath said the only hitch in his trial plans came with Friday's strike by United Airline employees.

Two of his witnesses had to fly in from Fremont, near San Francisco, on a United flight Monday morning. "All the travel plans were taken care of well in advance," Magrath said, then Friday afternoon they all caved in. He said the travel agent who made the arrangements reported the impending strike and that sent Magrath scrambling for alternate as a habituai criminal. Virginia Street and Hall Avenue. Sharp said the construction of Sierra Street would carry most of the traffic away from McKay and Hall avenues and Eastshore Drive.

Planning staff member Brian Mclntyre pointed out, however, that the project lies of an earthquake fault that runs around Virginia Lake. He also presented a letter from the Washoe County Health Department that said the project would generate 11.7 parts rspx-milllon in auto exhaust fumes 30 percent higher than the national standard. Sharp angrily protested Mclntyre's comments, saying that no one had told him about the earthquake fault and the projected air pollution and that he was not prepared to address the issues. "This project has been before the commission for a number of months," he said. "Why haven't we been told about these concerns? I'm not prepared to talk about the other issues." At that point, John Shipman, a student at Wooster High School, stood up and asked to be heard.

Planning Commission Chairman Max Shrigley told Shipman that the commission was considering a subdivision review not a public hearing. Shipman, waving a petition with the signatures of 250 students, asked again if he had the right to speak. Shrigley said no. Shipman's student petition was one of four against the proposed complex. "We're all definitely opposed," Shipman told Shrigley.

"You make jokes about pollution, but I ran track and played football in Los Angeles. I know what it's like to come home with watery eyes. It's pretty lousy." Commission member Pam Wilcox then asked that public imput be allowed, and that review of the project be delayed for a new public hearing. One of the developers said that the project had been delayed long enough and that the planning commission should make a decision. Commissioner Jack Sheehan responded, saying, "If the developer wants a decision tonight, then I would vote for denial from what I've heard so far." At that point, the developer agreed for the delay.

In other action, the planning commission approved a conversion of the Arlington Towers apartments into condominiums. If approved by the City Council, the conversion would begin in August. The often delayed plans for the "Aztec Temple" condominium complex on the shore of Virginia Lake were delayed once again Tuesday night by the Regional Planning Commission. Planning commissioners voted 8-1 to table the controversial Virginia Lake Plaza for 30 days after opponents of the development interrupted the subdivision review to demand equal time to speak against the project. A public hearing on the 300-unit concrete and glass "mega-structure," that planning staff members have dubbed "the Aztec Temple," will be held next month along with a major project review of the commercial phase of the project a dual hearing developers had sought to avoid.

The developers agreed to the delay only after several commissioners said they would vote the project down unless the opposition was given time to speak. The commercial phase of the complex, that would be built on the site of the Old Orchard Trailer Park, was defeated by the Reno City Council Feb. 26, but the council agreed under threat of lawsuit to allow developers to submit plans for the commercial development back to the commission for a new major project review. The plans the commission saw Tuesday night were substantially different that those originally proposed by developers. Gone was the massive pyramid-shaped stack of condominium units rising high above an indoor courtyard.

Instead, developers proposed three 15-story towers forming a three-sides of a square around an outdoor plaza. Plans still include a second smaller tower providing 158,360 square feet of commercial office space and three levels of underground parking enough for 1,000 cars. Milton Sharp, a spokesman for the developers of the property, said the project even though it would generate wore 5,000 automobile trips to and from the complex each day would actually improve the traffic situation around Virginia Lake. Developers propose a major redesign of the roads in the area. South Sierra Street would be constructed as a major highway from Lakeside Drive to McKay Avenue to handle increased traffic in the area.

Hall Avenue, which currently runs from Virginia Street to Virginia Lake, would be blocked off in front of the condominium complex. Developers would also help pay for a traffic light on South Second autopsy slated in death of Sparks man The Clark County coroner's office conducted an autopsy last week and reportedly listed the unofficial cause of death as a ruptured pancreas. However, Deputy Coroner Diclc Mayne said today it will be next week before his office gets results of toxology and tissue tests and a final determination can be made. And Clark County District Attorney Bill Miller said today his office has two investigators on the case. Miller said it may be several days before he can draw any conclusions.

State Sen. Bill Hemstadt, D-Clark, Monday called for a legislative grand jury investigation into Sticher's death. Hemstadt said he interviewed patients last weekend who charged NIC worked the man to death. By SUE VOLEK Gazette-Journal Legislative Bureau A second autopsy will be conducted on the 62-year old Sparks man who died last week while under the care of the Nevada Industrial Commission, Sparks City Councilman Ron Player said today. Player, a friend of the Sticher family, said Washoe pathologist Dr.

V. A. Salva-dorini will do the second post mortum on the body of Harold Sticher at the family's request. His funeral was Monday, but Salvadorini requested the body be held while he reviewed the case. Sticher, a retired carpenter, died last Wednesday after undergoing five weeks of treatment at the NIC rehabilitation center in Las Vegas.

Air Service lunch set Reno's rapidly expanding airline services and airport developments will highlight the annual Air Service Luncheon on April 20. The noon event, sponsored by the Greater Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, will be held at the MGM Grand-Reno. Sen. Howard Cannon, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, will be the keynote speaker. He will present an overview of upcoming events in the airline industry as they relate to the Reno area.

Joining Cannon on the speaker's platform will be representatives of the nine airlines serving the area. They will give short presentations on their companies and service. The cost of the luncheon is $7.50 and reservations must be made before 5 p.m. on April 18. The event will be held in the Capitol Rooms at the MGM Grand.

No-host cocktails will begin at 11:30 a.m. and lunch will start at noon. 3 convicted for kidnapping Assault conviction LAS VEGAS (AP) A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to a pair of consecutive life prison terms for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. District Court Judge J. Charles Thompson handed down the sentence Tuesday to Elw in Lee Sands, 45.

Sands had pleaded guilty 'to the charges. According to the court record. Sands and a companion, who was awaiting trial, picked up the hitchhiking youth Sept. 18. They drove him into a desert area, where the assault took place, court records showed.

Teachers pick new president LAS VEGAS (AP) -Las Vegas junior high school teacher Ouida Brown was elected president of the Clark County Classroom Teachers Association Tuesday. The woman has been vice president of the association the past year. By doug McMillan A jury of eight men and four women deliberated two hours in Reno federal court Tuesday before finding a trio of men guilty of kidnapping two Gard-nerville gas station attendants after a holdup last Nov. 17. Found guilty of both counts of a two-count federal grand jury indictment charging them with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping were Patrick Kevin Gibson, in his late 20s, and two blond-haired brothers, Robert J.

Schafer, 21, and Scott Elza Schafer, 20. Witnesses at their two-day trial testified the men took Western Mountain Oiiservice station attendant Jonathan Hayes, 18, and a 19-year-old Gard-nerville woman hostage after the holdup and drove them across the California state line to leave them tied and blindfolded at the Indian Creek Reservoir her before the trio left. Gibson's attorney, David Dean, made an unsuccessful motion at the onset of the trial to exclude evidence concerning the alleged sexual assault. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Coon, in closing arguments, said purchases by the three defendants of a pistol, ski masks and electrical tape to bind the victims before the holdup proved the conspiracy-counts.

He also said evidence gathered by the FBI showed the trio cased both the service station and Indian Creek area before committing the crime. Former assistant U.S. attorney Larry J. Semen-za, pitted against his old office in defending Scott Schafer, and public defender Willard Van Hazel, representing Robert Schafer, sought to convince the jury that their younger clients were influenced and controlled by the older Gibson, whom they said masterminded the plot. Van Hazel asked jurors to ask themselves, in Alpine County.

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