Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 26

This evening's Bi-city sewage agreement Sparks joins Reno in approval of plan roundup kind of development and will provide employment for 50 people." Lillard indicated he would favor the building of the 47,000 square-foot Curtis-Noll warehouse, "but one day we might shut all industry off. Now, we can do without such companies as Winnebago." There have been reports that Winnebago, a recreational-vehicle company based in Iowa, would like to move in Sparks and employ about 5,000 people. "If Winnebago came in," Fittinghoff said, "you might find yourself with 5,000 unemployed people or that many on strike at one time. Then you're in trouble." The Sparks City Council Monday unanimously voted to delay approval of a Peckham Lane cooperative agreement for preliminary and design engineering and right-of-way acquisition. In other action, Mai.

Gen. Floyd Edsall, commander of the Army National Guard for Nevada, outlined plans to build an Army National Guard Armory in Sparks. He said the ideal location would be an area adjoining Reed High School and asked the city to donate at least five acres for construction. Edsall said the community could use the armory for sports and social events. The armory would cost $401,500 in state and federal funds.

The council passed a resolution approving the concept. The Sparks Parks and Recreation Commission and a joint-use committee of the Washoe County School District and Sparks will review the project. By BILL STEINAUER After months of indecision on how to allocate remaining sewer use, the cities of Sparks and Reno have finally agreed on something. The Sparks City Council Monday approved a bi-city agreement revised and amended since the first agreement was drawn up last summer. The agreement gives Reno 2.18 million gallons per day (mgd) and Sparks 1.1 mgd until a new Reno-Sparks Joint Sewer Treatment Plant is expected to be completed in 1980.

Reno approved the same agreement two weeks ago, after failing to approve previous amendments. Essentially, the agreement allows the two cities to come up with their own plans on how to allocate sewage use, but does provide for a monitoring system. "One thing this agreement lacks," said Sparks City Atty. Paul Freitag, "is a control-allocation system so a city doesn't issue all the permits in one year. The Reno Building Department has come up with a point system for allocation and I would favor that.

I think that together, Reno and Sparks can probably survive this." The Sparks Public Works Department is working now on a plan to provide a balance in permits issued for commercial, residential and industrial purposes. Town hall meetings to discuss related growth also are planned. Public Works Director Bob Churn and Mayor Jim Lillard said use of land within the city would be encouraged. "We're not interested in annexing big chunks of ground," Chum said. Lillard said now that the city is forced to control growth, "we can do a dickens of a lot to fill in vacant lots.

We have to make things grow from the inside out." Freitag said he expected a court-ordered ban prohibiting issuance of all permits would be lifted within two weeks, "since the agreement has now been approved." At a caucus session held before the regular meeting, Lillard said he's anxious to "get out and let people know where we stand. We don't want to cause people to panic and have anybody with a hammer and nail out building something so they can get on the sewer line." The council and staff agreed a four-year growth program looking at vacant-lot use, little annexation and the influx of desirable industry would be considered. "But we also have to keep in mind where we want to be in 20 years," Community Development Director Alex Fittinghoff said. City Manager Jay Milligan said he thought the council should "be concerned about what industry we allow here. What do we want? Do we want to provide growth inducers?" That advice came after representatives of an Eastlake, Ohio-based firm, Curtis-Noll, asked the council to approve construction of a warehouse for the business' auto accessories and keys.

Milligan, however, said Curtis-Noll is a "clean, desirable Reno Evening Gaz Twenty-six Reno, Nevada, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1977 Phone (702) 786-8989 Widow sues over death A negligent death suit has been filed against Mineral County commissioners stemming from the alleged failure of a California contractor to obtain prompt and adequate medical treatment at Mt. Grant General Hospital in Hawthorne. Jean Stewart claims in her Carson District Court action that she and her husband Jordan were driving in the area when he experienced abdominal pains. When they arrived at the municipally run hospital, she said, she was told there was no doctor present.

Three hours later, she said, a doctor was found, but he could not operate because there were no anesthesiology services available. No effort was made over the next 24 hours to provide Stewart with any additional medical services or to take him to another facility, Mrs. Stewart said, adding that he subsequently died several hours after surgery of peritonitis due to a perforated ulcer. Mrs. Stewart asked in excess of $10,000 damages for herself and another for her young daughter, as well as medical and burial expenses and legal fees.

Bribery sentencing LAS VEGAS AP) A Las Vegas man who tried to bribe the victim of an attempted rape so she wouldn't testify against him in court was sentenced Monday to serve four years in prison. District Court Judge J. Charles Thompson imposed the sentence on Maurice E. Turner, 35, who pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted bribery in return for the dismissal of an attempted rape charge. Turner was arrested on the attempted rape charge on Oct.

10, 1975, after he allegedly tried to force himself on a woman in a local bar, according to court records. About one month after the incident, Turner allegedly sent an agent to the woman several times offering her between $350 and $500 not to testify, court records show. Although he pleaded guilty, Turner claims that it didn't all happen the way the court record says it did. Hacienda Hotel sold LAS VEGAS (AP) The Argent Corp. has sold its Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas, it was announced Monday.

The hotel has been sold to Hacienda President Paul Lowden for a reported total purchase price of $21 million. Argent, which now operates the Stardust and Fremont Hotels here, owns 57 per cent of a firm which in turn owns 96 per cent of the Hacienda. Lowden already owns some of the stock in the firm which owns the Hacienda, and will acquire Argent's 57 per cent of the shares with a three-year promissory note. Consumation of the agreement awaits approval by the State Gaming Commission and the successful refinancing of an $8.5 million dollar bank debt. The hotel opened in 1956 under the rein of the late Warren Bayley.

He was succeeded by his widow, Judy Bayley, who operated the hotel until her death in 1972. Argent owner Allen Glick, Lowden and Eugene Fresch acquired the majority of the stock in the hotel and it became part of the Argent Corp. in 1974. Winnemucca sentencing WINNEMUCCA (AP) A Winnemucca man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the August slaying of another man here. Dist.

Judge Llewellyn Young set the term Monday for Michael Johnson, 30, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Ralph Blakemore, 20. The slaying took place in the home of a woman both men were dating, authorities said. Investigators said both men fired shots. Johnson testified that he fired in self-defense. Blood pressure screening tests Reno's Betty Rice, left, is receiving a blood pressure test from locations throughout the county on alternating days of the week.

Ella Hart, an LPN at the Washoe County Health Department. The The health district offices are located at 10 Kirman Ave. health department offers free blood pressure screening at eight (Gazette photo by Larry Nylund) City council taking another look Gray Reid plans stymied by ordinance gaming establishment with more than 20 slot machines, three table games, a keno game, a bingo game and a horse book. The need for an ordinance change requiring new construction, which passed Dec. 27 on a 4-3 vote, came up after the city council granted developer John Cavanaugh an unlimited gaming license when he combined two old hotels on Sierra and Second streets to come up with the necessary 100 rooms.

To prevent further projects such as the Gold Dust and to clear up other problems with the city's gaming law, the council appointed an Ad Hoc Gaming Committee. That committee recommended the addition of the word "new" to the 100-room requirement. But Reno attorney Charles McGee, representing Gray Reid's, told councilmen Monday plans for the store's conversion were in the city building department before the new ordinance was passed. He said it would be unfair to apply it to the project. McGee said the developers "have invested considerable sums in the project" and won't be able to get additional financing unless the council provides assurances the project will be allowed to continue.

McGee suggested two possible amendments to the ordinance which would allow his client's project to continue. He recommended that remodeling be allowed on existing buildings if the project meets Uniform Building Code requirements. He also recommended that any project with plans in the building department prior to passage of the ordinance be exempt from the law. Van Wagoner, however, said he wouldn't advise the council to amend an ordinance for one specific project. The city attorney informed councilmen they wouldn't find themselves in the dilemma over the Gray Reid's plan had they followed his advice to put a grace period in the ordinance.

Before passage of the new ordinance, Van Wagoner had strongly suggested that a 90-day grace period be allowed before the new law took effect. This, he said, would allow any developer who planned to build under the old ordinance a chance to do so. But the council rejected his advice. Councilwoman Pat Lewis, who was a strong advocate of the requirement for new construction, said at the time the bill was passed that the city wanted "quality developments" that could support large convention business, big-name entertainment and out-of-state advertising for the City of Reno. She said last December Van Wagoner's suggestion of a 90-day grace period wasn't necessary.

The Reno City Council is taking another look at its gaming ordinance following a plea from developers of a proposed hotel-casino at the Gray Reid department store. The developers say the new law is stymying their plans. The recently passed ordinance requires new construction of 100 hotel rooms in order to receive an unlimited gaming license. Gray Reid's spokesmen said the law, if unchanged, would prevent them from proceeding with their plans, which involve remodeling of their existing building. The developers asked the council to change the law to permit remodeling of existing buildings, if they meet the city building code.

The council, after considerable discussion, asked Reno City Atty. Bob Van Wagoner to draft suggested language for a possible amendment. In Councilman Clyde Biglieri's words, the council was "contemplating maybe a change." The owners of Gray Reid's want to use the existing building and add a fourth floor to build 100 rooms, a restaurant and a casino. Under the new ordinance, the existing Gray Reid's building would have to be torn down and a new one containing at least 100 hotel rooms built for the city to grant an unlimited license. An unlimited license is required for any Rate hike reduction proposed Sierra Pacific Power Co.

witnesses appearing before the Nevada Public Service Commission this morning in Reno proposed reducing a $9 million electric rate hike application by $100,000. However, witnesses also said the company's request for nearly $2.5 million in gas and water rate increases should have been closer to $3 million, according to reviews made after the application was submitted. But Nevada law does not allow rate application requests to be revised upward after they have been submitted. The two witnesses were first to appear today before commissioners Heber Hardy and Evo Granata in a continuation of rate-case hearings which began last Oct. 18.

Acting chairman Hardy said the appearance of company Treasurer Joe McKibben and Rate Manager William C. Branch would be followed later in the day by cross-examination of all Sierra Pacific witnesses. A public hearing arranged to allow consumer participation is scheduled by the commsssion at Reno's Holiday Inn on South Virginia Street starting at 7 p.m., the site of today's hearing. Sierra Pacific Power's original request was for a $11.5 million increase in electric, natural gas and water rates to its Northern Nevada customers. Utility executives testified in October that $9 million of the request is due to increase costs of purchased power, natural gas and fuel oil used in Sierra Pacific's generators, and natural gas purchased for resale to about 36,500 customers in the Reno-Sparks area.

The hearings are expected to continue for the next several days. The decision on the case is not expected until the end of March. was dealing 21 when she Sign language classes The University of Nevada-Reno, is offering a class in beginning and intermediate sign language, through the Speech Pathology and Audiology Department. Instruction will be provided by a certified person in the area of sign language and interpreting for the deaf. Both classes start Wednesday evening.

Reinstatement suit LAS VEGAS (AP) Fired from his post as public works director at Boulder City last October, Robert E. Eads filed suit in District Court here Monday seeking reinstatement. The action names the Boulder City City Council, the city manager and the city's civil service commission, and in addition to asking for reinstatement with back pay, the suit asks for general and punitive damages in excess of $20,000. Eads claims that he was fired without just cause, and that the civil service commission held a secret meeting to plan a way to prevent him from getting a hearing he asked for in November. Eads said he was informed of the secret meeting when he showed up for the hearing on Nov.

17. Eads also contends that the hearing before the civil service commission was a "sham and a farce" because the commission refused to let him speak. Robberies in wee hours The wee hours of Monday morning were unlucky for Reno area 7-Eleven food stores. Three of them were robbed. But Sparks police arrested two young men, who are held in the Reno City Jail in connection with two of the holdups.

At 12:46 a.m. Monday, two men wearing women's stockings over their heads robbed the 7-Eleven store at 3491 Lakeside Drive, Reno, of about $160 police said. At 1:37 a.m., a pair of similarly described men took $60 from the store at 770 Keystone Ave. In each case, one of the robbers held a pistol. Hearing a police radio broadcast of the crimes, Sparks Officer Chuck Bradley stopped a truck at Oddie Boulevard and Sullivan Lane and, with the aid of two other officers, arrested two truck occupants.

Curtis W. Harrison, 20, of 1629 The Strand, Reno, and Bret Hartin, 18, of 512 Spring Meadoes Drive, Sparks, are held in lieu of $10,000 each for investigation of two counts of armed robbery. The Washoe County Sheriff's Department is investigating a holdup of the store in Sun Valley at 2:27 a.m. Deputies said it was committed by three men, who fled with about $100. Reno City Council closes Sugar Shack The Reno City Council Monday closed down a bar operated primarily for Indians because of too many fights and arrests there.

The license of the Sugar Shack Bar, 41 S. Wells was lifted effective immediately. The bar manager told the council at a Monday license hearing that Indians have no other place to go In Reno. Police Patrol Capt. Don McKillip presented a report showing police have had to spend too much time at the bar.

In the last six months of 1976, police investigated 27 criminal cases at the Sugar Shack, 14 of which involved minors, McKillip said. Police also had to take 161 persons into civil protective custody as too intoxicated to care for themselves at the bar. In comparison, McKillip said, Rollie's Bar across the street accounted for only nine arrested drunks and the Oasis Bar, 1295 E. Second had one. noticed a man staring Jill Janow was dealing 21 at Harrah's at 9 p.m.

Monday when she noticed a man staring at her She said he stood behind a woman player and had a frenzied look on his face. Suddenly, the man lunged toward the dealer, grabbed a handful of $100 chips and ran. She told police she "let out a fair to middling scream" because she didn't know what the man was going to do. Casino security officers chased a fleeing man up Virginia Street, through a parking lot and to a North Sierra Street motel, where they caught him. Police jailed Steven B.

Gibbs, a 23-year-old bellman of 1850 Idlewild Drive, for investigation of grand larceny. His bail is $2,500. Booking officers gave Gibbs a receipt for 23 $100 chips, they said. Guest law repeal sought Gazette-Journal Legislative Bureau The Senate Judiciary Committee today gave a "do pass" recommendation to repeal Nevada's vehicle and aircraft guest law. The Nevada Supreme Court in 1976 ruled the law prohibiting guests in an automobile to sue the driver for negligence to be unconstitutional, prompting today's committee action.

Frank Daykin, legislative counsel, said the court has not ruled on the aircraft portion, but predicted that if such a case did come before the court, the result would be the same. Sen. Keith Ash worth, D-Las Vegas, opposed the recommendation on SB73, saying the court could change its position in future years, "resulting in us having to go through the arguments again." lltieTWICEA5 1 Vt- MUCH A5 HE pon't hqu 6et sack on four school 60 linus and i want to be Alone jr-k.