Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 11

24-Hour Town Gaz Evening ETTE Chief Outlines Police Plans RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1962 tively to farm each dog out to a policeman for care and training at home. He said he planned to ask the council for funds for feeding and veterinary service. Auxiliary police forces are in widespread use, Briscoe noted. He said he would like to recruit 50 men, each to donate one eight hour shift monthly. The auxiliaries would work with regular patrolman, including those manning patrol cars.

"It's a popular program," the chief said. He said lawyers, physicians and other professional men had volunteered as auxiliaries in other ciries. "Right now, our patrolmen are working solo in cars, and that's bad," he says. Py V- 1 "Vj "if 1 fjf AY IN WASHOE JAIL CELL William D. Alexander soy "no photographs." (Gazette Photo) Gaming Major WATER MAINS EXTENDED littl "Grand Canyon" on Plomo Street.

Shifts Voted Police dogs, cadets and auxiliary policemen will be proposed by Chief of Police Elmer Briscoe to ease his manpower shortage during the next fiscal year. He says he is going to ask the city council to appropriate funds for them at budget time. The chief wants to train eight German shepherds or more to sniff out burglars, control rioters. locate missing persons and to perform a half-dozen or more other duties at which the dogs excel. The cost is estimated at less than $500 annually.

Shepherds are superb at ferreting out prowlers and burglars in large, dark areas, the chief noted. They are effective in catching fugitives, disarming gun men and patrolling the avenues Where vagrants congregate. --CREATE RESPECT Their mere presence can calm the violently insane or break up family beefs in a hurry, for people instinctively fear and respect large dogs, says the chief. "One good dog is more effective than 10 policemen in some situations," he added. To cut down cost, Chief Briscoe hopes to train one of his men to train dogs.

Only the most loyal and obedient animal will make the force. The vicious dog will flunk. IT's customary, Briscoe says, for police to get their dogs through donation. Already, Reno's department has had some offers. The chief said he plans tcnta- Sparks Chamber Opposes Plan To Cut Train Sparks Chamber of Commerce directors went on record Mon day night opposing abandonment of Southern Pacific's trains 27 and 28.

Directors will send a telegram to Interstate Commerce Commission hearings in Washington, D. saying the move would be a "detriment to the economy of Sparks." chamber manager Leslie Culp said. The chamber also voted to op-pose a proposed Reno dump site east of Sparks in Happy Valley. Rev. Gerald Fisher of the Assembly of God Church in Sparks asked directors to protest the dump site because of litter and smoke.

A letter will be sent to Washoe County Commissioners, Culp said. In other action Monday night, the chamber decided not to enter a float in Reno's St. Patrick's Day parade. Richard Rock, member of the hoard, was appointed to represent the chamber on the proposed Veterans hospital committee. Politics Course Getting Started The first meeting of a practical politics course sponsored by the Reno Chamber of Commerce will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

in the chamber conference room. Attorney Clinton E. Wooster, instructor for the eight-week course, will explain the course and hand out materials at the first meeting. The course is open to mem bers of the Reno Chamber of Com merce. no PHONE FA 3-3161 Man Returned, Faces Murder Charge Hearing Hospital Orderly From Martinez In Washoe Jail William D.

Alexander, 31, probably will be arraigned in Reno Justice Court today on charges he killed and robbed a San Francisco electrician in Washoe County. Chief Deputy District Attorney Drake DeLanoy said Alexander, a Martinez, hospital orderly, was returned from Contra Costa County to Reno Monday. He is accused of the bludgeon slaying of Clyde Starr, 63, whose body was found by rockhounds Jan. 16 on a lonely road off Mt. Rose Highway.

PRISON PAROLEE Alexander was paroled after serving a sentence in San Quent-in prison on charges he killed a soldier with a tire iron at Benecia, police said. Mr. Starr died from skull fractures and hemorrhage induced by a severe beating, an autopsy confirmed. He had last been seen leaving San Francisco for a Lake Tahoe casino. Friends told police he intended to go with Alexander.

Alexander was booked on murder charges after questioning by DeLanoy and George Ringener, lieutenant in the Washoe County sheriff's office. CAR LOCATED A car identified as Alexander's was found in a California used car lot. Alexander explained that a bloody seat was the result of a nose bleed, they said. A car of the same description was seen by witnesses in the area where the body was found, they added. Alexander, investigators said, admitted associating with Mr.

Starr at Lake Tahoe a few days before the killing. University Pair Tagged With Another Robbery SACRAMENTO (AP) The two University of Nevada students who were caught Sunday less than 20 minutes after po lice said they committed the "perfect robbery" confessed to another crime Monday. Police said David G. Osborne 24, and Cornelius J. Murphy, 30, both of Reno, admitted the Jan.

16 armed robbery of a Raley's supermarket in Sacramento. They got away with an unde termined amount of cash in two bags just delivered by an ar mored car service, police said. Sunday the two repeated their performance, at another Raley's market, but were caught when a clerk followed them outside and got a description of their car, officers said. Police said both admitted they had planned these "perfect robberies'' for months, although they never picked the exact store until the day of the crime. Police in several California and Nevada cities have asked that the youths be questioned about robberies in their cities.

Carter Services Set in Fallon Special to Gazette-Journal FALLON Funeral seniees will be held at the Austin Funer al Chapel Wednesday for Ircel Clarence Carter who died Monday at Lovelock. Mr. Carter was an e-ngincer for the Southern Pacific Co. He was born Sept. 25, 1897 at Sherriil.

Mo. He is survived by two sons. Gerald of Sparks and Lee of St. Joseph, a sister, Mae Evil- sisor of Fallon; a brother, Archie Carter of Sacramento. and seven grand children.

Burial will be in the family plot at the Fallon Cemetery. Trt State ax CARSON CITY (APt An air-j line, two television stations, a radio slation. a water company! and a telephone company won' lower property assessments from! Ihe State Board of Equalization: Monday. The board worked late Monday! reviewing more than 50 protests! it heard during two weeks of public hearings lhat ended Fri-j day. Protests came from public utilities, miners, farmers, busi- nessmen and other taxpayers, i Action on public utilities had been compiled by Monday night.

The board made Ihcse reductions in assessed valuations: Alamo Airways, from 5100,000 1 to 524,665 because of an arbi-! trary assessment using incom-j plete information; Kingsbury! Water Co. from to 000; KOLO-TV from 5200.000! to KORK Radio from 515,000 to 513.100; KLRJ -TV from 5100.000 to 576.500, and Central Telephone Co. (for-; Board Some Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau The Nevada Gaming Commis sion today approved six licenses for non-restricted gambling operations and a $150,000 stock trans fer in the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. The commission also approved the control board's rec ommendation to allow Mrs. New ton Crumley to continue operation of the Holiday Hotel in Reno as Chief Executive Officer.

dcnes transfer; Charles J. Rich, Sidney VVyman and -George Duckworth were given permission to buy $150,000 worth of stock, representing 15 per cent interest in the Dunes Hotel from the corporation. The three men, who had previously held 15 per cent of the operation, purchased stock from the corporation. The stock had been donated by majority stockholder Major Riddle. Riddle formerly held 52 per cent the operation.

He told gaming; authorities he had donated the stock to the corporation so it could be sold to obtain more capital. He also explained that while he lost in percentage interest, his! stock would have a greater dollar value under the transaction. The commission also approved the investigative Control Board's recommendation earlier! the day to license Sam Presley Jerry Trigg, George Aber-nathy and Frederick Walton in the Railroad Pass Casino at Boulder City. This application was post-1 SPECIAL EVENTS The volunteers will be used dur ing parades, rodeos and public gatherings, in addition to regu lar police work, the chief said. Each would receive basic train ing' in police routines, and would be required to pass physical tests.

Most ambitious, perhaps, of the chief's projects is his plans for a corps of young police cadets who would be eligihle for regular duty when they come of age These men, interested in a police career, would be screened for good character and physical con dition, then placed in clerical' and other non-hazardous jobs through out the department at salaries to be decided by the city. Each candidate would be re quired to pass physical, intelli gence and oral examinations before appointment. LONG TRAINING During their three or four pre-civil service years, cadets would receive the basic 200 hours or more of police training. At age 21, they would be eligible to fill vacancies on the regu lar force and would be subject, to the regular six months of probation. Cadets will make superior offi cers, the chief believes.

They will be familiar with the entire routine of headquarters police work a chance many line officers have never enjoyed. Plans are to ask for eight cadets. Each would work a regular 40-hour week on day, swing or graveyard shifts. They could handle the radio and switchboard, work with the desk sergeant, help prepare and file records, type reports and handle dozens of other clerical jobs, says the chief. Briscoe estimates that eight ca dets could free five headquarters- bound officers for line duty.

INCREASED Bl'DGET The chief's budget request probably will also include salaries for four policewoman. They are needed in the jail division, he said. When a woman is arrested, she now is searched and booked by a policewoman dispatcher. Bris coe's plan is to have a police woman on duty in the jail divi sion around the clock to supervise women prisoners. Total budget request probably will exceed the allotted for the current fiscal year, Briscoe said.

The city council rejected his request last year for 10 additions to the 104-man force. The chief noted that crime is on the increase in Reno as it is in many other cities. The problem is magnified here by Reno's special status as a "24-hour town." Briscoe said. And its location and characteristics attract the criminal element as few other cities do, he says. For those reasons, more officers are needed, per capita, than in most cities to give the public the protection they pay for.

She worked as a reporter forja the Elko Independent before her marriage to Newton Crumley, who had just taken over operation of two Elko hotels from his father. Mrs. Crumley is a four-time holder of the Nevada Women's Trap Shooting Championship. She is also an avid golfer, skier, swimmer and horsewoman. of in at in PAGE ELEVEN (Gazette Photo) Cuts Values mcrly Southern Telephone Co.) from 58.304.000 to Protests from these utilities were denied: KOLO Radio.

Western Pacific Railroad. Western Union Telegraph Southern Pacific Railroad, Nevada Power Sierra-Pacific Power and Nevada Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Most utilities had claimed they were assessed at higher percentages of market value than other types of property. Gov. Grant Sawy er is board chairman.

but he left last week on a cross country trip and George Allard. Nevada Public Service Commission chairman, tcok over. Other board members are Roy Godecke, Carson Valley rancher; Clesse Turner, Las Vegas o'J company representative; Ed Settelmeyer, re tired Reno rancher; Charles Evans, relired Elko banker, and William Newman, Winncmucca mining engineer. Federal Watermaster Claude Dukes. Lake Tahoe climbed to the highest level so far this season, according to Darrel Dewalt, weather observer.

The lake level this morning was 6.223.51 feet, .08 of a foot higher than Monday. Dcwa't attributed the increase to run-off despite cold weather at the lake. One inch of new snow fell on Mount Rose Monday. Total pack is between 10 and. 15 fect.

personnel at Reno Ski Bowl said. The storm caused a partial power failure in Reno Monday. Heavy lijrfitning on the west side of the Sierra off power from the Drumm Station. Sierra Pacific Power Co. officials said.

Lights dimmed in Reno for about 20 minutes beginning at 4:15 p.m. Chains were required this morning on highways through the Sierra. Heavy snow in the eastern part of the state brought chain controls on U.S. 40 between Winemucca and Valmy and on Austin and Carroll Summits on U.S. 50 east.

Mount Rose Highway remained closed from Sky Tavern to Lake Tahoe. Youth Battles Knife-Wielder A 21-year-old Reno youth fought off a knife-wielding man Monday night after the man warned he had "hurt a woman" earlier, Reno police said today. Robert Howard Christensen, 329 Flint said the man flagged his auto down" at Riverside. Drive and First Street, then demanded his wallet. "I hurt a woman awhile ago.

I'll knife you unless you give me your money," he told Christensen. Christensen slugged him, then was cut on the cheek by one of a half-dozen knife swipes. Christensen knicked his assailant down for the second time and ran for the car. Christensen and police officers believe they spotted the same man later on a porch at First and Ralston Streets, but he fled be fore they could question him. Man Beaten Three men in their early twen ties beat a Nevada State Hospital attendant at Fifth and Center Streets Monday night, then robbed him of 45 cents the only money he was carrying.

Police said the trio knocked down John Senium bohm. 23, beat him, then removed his wallet. It was empty. They stripped his pockets of small change and ran. NEW SNOW IN STATE, SIERRA NEVADA AREA SAWYER'S PROGRAM: POLITICS OR NEWS? poned by the board Monday.

Control Board Chairman Ed 01- sen advised the commission he had just learned of the death of Ray Fezler, operator of the Star dust Casino in Jackpot. Olsen said no immediate action was required because Fezler's widow was also licensed. CLARK TRANSFERS Other Las Vegas stock transfers approved by the commission included Jack Binion's purchase of per cent of the Horseshoe Club from Robert (Doby Doc) Caudill and Jack McElroy's bid to sell his 2'2 per cent interest in the Riviera Hotel to the hotel cor poration. All licenses recommended by the control board at Monday's session won almost automatic commission approval. They included: Dolph Bowman and John Booth to buy one-third interests in and L.

Enterprises of Las Vegas Third partner is Cecil Lynch. Charles Welch to become a cor porate officer in Reno's Golden Hotel. J. B. Burns and R.

D. Marger um to become officers of Reno's Holiday Hotel. Sam Pearlstein to open the Luck Club in Henderson. Gene Wong and Tom Wong to operate three poker games at the United Club in Reno. The commission also approved 11 persons for 43.11 per cent in the non-restricted slot machine li cense for the Ground Cow in Reno.

ments to his office here from St. Louis, where he 1 speaking today at an industrial luncheon. Republicans claimed over the weekend that the reports are being used for political purposes. They demanded equal time and said if they were refused they would ask that Sawyer pay for his time. Sawyer described the reports as "five-minute reviews of current events." He said they are commercially sponsored as news programs.

"There has been no political material on any of these programs nor will there be," Sawyer said. "I am making these reports to the people as their governor, not as a poliricial candidate." Sawyer's remarks backed up comments made Monday by his executive assistant, Bruce Barnum. RINGS STOLEX LcRoy Ritner, 1120 Butler told Reno police a pair of rings worth $500 and two pistols were stolen from his home Monday. personal angle, get away from feelings of personal rejection, it's hard to make progress. 'LIKE CANCER' "It has to be treated like cancer or anything else." Patience, understanding and love are the wife's best artillery with a gambler mate, experience has shown.

Mrs. encourages her husband's attendance at GA meetings, held every Thursday night in the minister's office of the Fed Machine create WATER. LINE EXTENDED TO SUBURBS Construction of a new link in the Sierra Pacific Power Co. water system, the second phase of a project to supply water to the expanding southeast and southwest Reno area, has begun on Plumas Street. The tolal project is exacted to cost $330,000.

The first phase, installation of a 30 inch main on Plumas Street south of I'r-han Road, was finished last year. The second phase now underway will see over Vj miles of 24 inch main laid, starting at Urban Way and Plumas Street, traveling north to California Avenue and continuing to Nixon Avenue. Isbell Construction Co. crews handling the installation, except to cover about a block a dav. Probation Term Given Motorist In Fatal Crash Donald R.

Poter, whose pickup truck struck a passenger car here last April, killing Mrs. Barbara Funkhouser of Reno, was placed on probation for two years Monday afternoon. Porter, 36, who resides et 1505 11th in Sparks, earlier had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and asked for proba tion. Washoe Dist. Judge John W.

Barrett warned Porter not to drink during the two years and made this a condition of probation. "Leave the stuff alone," the judge said. "If you are picked up in an automobile or otherwise and are intoxicated you'll stert serving time the day you are brought in." Just before granting probation, Judge Barrett had sentenced Porter to a year in the county jail, then suspended the sentence. Peter Echeverria, Porter's counsel, characterized Porter as a man for whom probation was intended, a family man gainfully employed who got into trouble. Drake DeLanoy, chief deputy district attorney, did not oppose probation but insisted the "no drinking" edict be made a condition.

Thorp Services Graveside services were held for Mrs. Daisye D. Thorp Monday at Mountain View Cemetery with Rev. Ray A. Kellom of the Nazarene Church officiating.

Ross-Burke Co. was in charge of arrangements. his own time, more or less, and our social life was not too much affected. But other gamblers I've met through his membership in GA have no one. Many of them have lost jobs, family, friends.

The only contacts they have often are with their fellow addicts in GA. That's why the social hour after the meetings when coffee is served and they just shoot the breeze is so important." Mrs. told of sleepless nights, tears, financial worries, lost jobs. 031TH A LITTLE PRACTICE I Bel I COULD 6T THE SHOES, Z-2o No Changes Jn Operation Mrs, Crumley Takes Over Holiday Hotel Presidency CARSON" CITY (AP) Gov. Grant Sawyer denied today that his "Executive Report" radio and television program is political campaigning in disguise, as eharged by Republicans.

The governor said the weekly programs are "Merely one phase of the state's public information program which Is dp-signed to bring government closer to the people." Sawyer telephoned bis com- Woman Loses Purse to Trio Three young men knocked Mildred Angeram into a hedge at Court Street and Arlington Avenue Monday night and robbed her, she told police. But thev got nothing more than purse full of personal effects, said Mrs. who lives 1002 Arlington Ave. A second purse snatch attempt failed in the downtown area. Jennie Bishop, of 400 15th Sparks, told officers a tall, slender young man grabbed at her purse at Douglas Alley and Second Street, lost the tussle for the purse and ran dowTi the alley.

"When I talked to a man in Las Vegas who had been in Gamblers Anonymous for a few years it helped me to understand. "First I would feel he doesn't love me. If he does, he wouldn't do it Then there'd be promises, promises, broken promises. It was really hard to realize it's a sickness like any other He'd put on a cheerful front. The man in Gamblers Anonymous convinced me they're sick and until the wife can take it out of the A Sierra storm spread into eastern and central Nevada Mon day depositing live to seven inches of new snow in some areas.

The U.S. Weather Bureau raid snow depths this morni were: Austin, five inches; Ely, one inch; Tonopah, three inches: Winncmucca, seven inches; and Susanvil'e. two inches. Intermittent snow was forecast through Wednesday for the Sierra, eastern Nevada, western Nevada, and the mountains of southern Nevada. Scat t.

'red rain showers are expected tonight and Wednesday in Reno. Only a trace of moisure vvas measured at the Reno Airport Monday. Total snow pack 1 Soda Springs reached 122.2 inches afier 4.6 inches of new snoiv Monday. The Central Sierra Sno Laboratory reported .40 of an of precipitation. The season's accumulated snowfall is 311.1 inches, and total precipitation since July 1 is 41 inches at Soda Springs.

Eight inches of new snow was measured at Donner Summit Maintenance Station bringing the lotal pack to 111 inches. Echo Summit Maintenance Station reported six inches of new snow. Boca Dam reservoir now holds 2.327 acre fret of water. Harold caretaker, said. The reservoir level climbed 60 acre feel Monday.

Pabst said he started releasing 25 cubic feet of water a second into the Truckee River at noon Monday on instructions of and finally, consultations with ministers and a psychiatrist. "I never thought of divorcing Ray. I know lots of women have divorced gamblers because they couldn't stand the strain, the bad checks, the bill collectors, but I love him and kept hoping ihat somehow. some way, he'd stop "We went to a psychiatrist here in Reno, both of us together. We saw him three times an $25 a time.

We simply couldn't afford to continue. But he was conscientious and sent, us a clipping and note about GA. SAW MINISTER "I got all the articles I1 could and wrote to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Two years ago we went to Las Vegas and Ray gambled there. I went to see a Methodist minister who has given his life to helping gamblers and alcoholics.

He says it is all the same (Turn to Page 20, Col. 1) Haunied by Fear Local Housewife Tells Travails of Life With Compulsive Gambler Mrs. Newton H. Crumley will, assume the presidency of Crumley Hotels Inc. and "continue the policies established by her late sportsman husband," a Holiday Hotel spokesman said today.

Her husband died in the "crash of his private plane 10 days ago near Tonopah. The crash also claimed the life of Reno banker E. J. Questa. As head of Crumley Hotels, Mrs.

Crumley will oversee operations of the Holiday Hotel in Keno. No changes in the executive personnel of the Holiday will be made, the spokesman said. "Other key posts in the Holiday will continue to be the responsi-i bilities of the men who served; under my husband," Mrs. Crum-j ley said. Mrs.

Crumley, the former Fran-! cis Smith, is a native of Sani Francisco and the daughter of a assayer. She attended elementary and high schools in Lovelock and was graduated from the University of Nevada with a journalism degree. Four Bottles, Nothing Else A break-in at the home of R. R. Record, 701 Stewart over the weekend netted someone four bottles of liquor.

The intruder managed to get into, the basement, but failed to break into the upstairs portion, Kecord told police. erated Church in Reno. She does not object to other gamblers dropping at odd hours to talk over their problems with her husband. She also is willing to have phone calls from gamblers fighting off temptation come to her husband at any hour of the day or night. LONELY PEOPLE "Gamblers are lonely people," Mrs.

said. "They don't go anywhere socially. They don't have friends. My husband was different in that he gambled on (Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles on formation of a chapter of Gamblers Anonymous in Reno. Today's installment takes the reader into a home for an interview with the non-gambling wife of a memher of OA).

"Well, of course, it's been a different life. I was always living with fear. When he didn't show- up at supper time, I'd get so nervous. Seven o'clock would come and go. Finally I'd head for the clubs and I'd find him." The speaker is the wife of a compulsive gambler, now "clean" or free from gambling through membership in Gamblers Anony mous.

TIGHT BUDGET Mrs. has been married to her husband for seven years. They have a three-year-old child. She is. a school teacher whose income has sometimes been the family's only support.

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