Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 9

3 RENO EVENING GAZETTE -rn3 PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956 PAGE NINE 53 Pinn 17 Doggy Set Takes Dim View of Regulations 1 lOftll i i 'PV i few. i i fq HI IT I 1 "Just wait till I get that dog-catcher alone," the pit-bull said. "And that goes for the Reno city council, too. After vhat they've done but I hear they meet six at a time." He wouldn't give his name. "Just call me a usually reliable source," he said, "or an unimpeachable source," he added, raising his ears for dignity.

"Just look at the city ordinances. They're a crime." Warming to the topic, he ticked them off. "Every dog must have a license. Dogs can't be in the streets, alleys, or even empty lots. No pooch can ease a neighbor's yard to check the new rosebushes.

No mutt can amble down the street without a leash around his neck." He almost choked at the thought. "For years nobody paid too much attention. Then pressure groups begin complaining. They see councilmen. Now the council has gone on record as wanting these silly laws en-forced, and they've put up $3600 of taxpayers' money, just in case they need another dog catcher.

All this time did any reporter talk to me? No." "If you want the real story on this dog business in Reno, why don't you get down to the meat he licked his chops of the situation. Interview some dogs." and while all exceeded the money available for construction, elimination of some features from original plans may advance the project to the construction stage. NEVADA'S XEW STATE office building, as conceived by the Reno architectural firm of Lockard and Casazza, is shown above. Bids on the structure were opened in Carson Friday, Office Building Bids Under Study JESSIE. Sneaking down the streets, hiding from dog catch- -f rx-' ed the funds available, but the architects were confident today that enough additional features could be eliminated to allow con struction, without reduction of essential planned floor space.

TLAX MEETING George Bissell, manager of the state planning board, said a conference had been scheduled Mon day with the architects and the low bidder to attempt to bring the building within the funds available. W. W. Weichmann of Reno, submitted the low bid of 827 on the project. The 1955 legislature authorized a $750,000 bond issue for the building.

Bissell said about $675,000 was available for construction, after payment of engineering and architect fees. Other bidders included Stolte, Oakland, Maeonv ber-Brunzell Construction, J. C. Dillard, Reno, McDonald Brothers, Los Angeles, $828,888. With the alternates eliminated, the bids ranged from Weich-mann's low of $740,461 to Dillard's $834,072.

The other bids, with alternates eliminated, were Stolte, Maeomber and Brunzell. McDonald Brothers, $758,888. The building, to be constructed on the northeast corner of the state capitol grounds, will front on Musser street. It is a reinforced concrete structure with three full stories, a partial fourth story and a basement. The main floor wjll include a conference room seating 225, with office space for the drivers license division, the motor vehicle department and the highway patrol.

Offices for the state engineer, the U. S. Geological Survey, Nevada Public Service Commission, adjutant general and civil defense are provided on the second floor. Third floor office areas are for the Nevada Tax Commission, insurance commission, economies division and the bank examiner's department. The fourth floor, encompassing 45 by 47 feet, will house the state planning board.

Separate from this office will be housing for elevator machinery and fan rooms. A capitol communication center with a fully-equipped telephone operator's room will be installed" in the basement. A mail room to serve all office buildings also will be installed. Elevator service will be provided for both passengers and freight. There also will be an information center and rest rooms for public convenience.

A split system of perimeter heating and interior ventilation capable of Summer cooling will insure pleasant conditions the year around. Rooms will be illuminated to 50-foot candle intensity and are treated acoustically. H. V. Lamberti, structural engineer, assisted the architects in the structural design.

S. R. Szy-manski. Reno, assisted in the mechanical and electrical work. SPOT.

is this, Russia? Ql'EEN'IE. No lady wants to walk the streets anyway. The laws are only proper. Teenage Girls Admit School Bombing Hoax LAS VEGAS. Two teen-age girls have confessed to telephon ing a bomb threat yesterday to Crestwood school that for the sec ond time in two days resulted in a search of local elementary schools by police and firemen.

Apprehension of the two girls, one 13 and the other 14, was credited to the quick detection work of Policewoman Anna belle Plun-kett. Mrs. Plunkett said the girls are eighth grade students at Crestwcod school. The girls, released to the custody of their parents, admitted they thought of the idea while palying hookey from school. The older girl placed the call shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday.

After the call was received at the school, the fire drill alarm was sounded and the school building emptied. After a shakedown of the building and grounds, the students were returned to their classes. The Crestwood school was the second school in two days to undergo a search after a "bomb" scare was made over the telephone. Students at Sunrise Acres were dismissed early Thursday afternoon when a teacher there warned that a bomb had been planted in the building. Several hours later, police found 18 cans of carbide which was marked in flammable, in a vacant lot near the school.

Mrs. Plunkett said the girls confessed to the Crestwood threat after they were traced to their respective homes. They said they had gotten the idea after reading about the Sunrise Acres incident. Police said they are continuing their investigation of the Sunrise Acres threat and of the finding of the carbide believed stolen from the National Guard armory near the school. 1' i State Liquor Administrators To Open Session Delegates to the National Con ference of State Liquor Adminis trators arrived in Reno Friday and today as last-minute plans were completed for the conven tion, which opens here Sunday for five days.

On the conference agenda, according to Grover Hillygus, con vention host -representing the state of Nevada, and supervisor of the cigaret and liquor tax division of the Nevada Tax Commission, are dinner dances at the Mapes and Riverside hotels, and tours of Virginia City, Carson. Lake Ta-hoe and Harold's OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS Also scheduled is a "Horseless Carriage Fashion Show" and a "Ride to the Sky" at Reno Ski Bowl. An extensive business program has been planned for the five-day meet by the NCSLA executive committee and will include papers presented by state liquor administrators, the United States Brewers Foundation, National Li censed Beverage Association, Na tional Retail Liquor Package Stores, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of Army and Air Force, and Wine Institute and Distilled Spirits Institute. The program for Sunday, April 8, consists of the Harold's Club tour, a reception at the Mapes Hotel Skyroom. and an evening dinner dance and show also at the Skyroom.

On Monday a luncheon is sched uled in the Mapes and a reception in the hotel's Nevada room. Eve ning entertainment is another dinner dance and show at the Sky room. Tuesday's program will be a luncheon followed by a tour of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, Carson and Lake Tahoe, the governor's mansion and Bowers Mansion. A reception is planned at the Riverside Hotel in the evening followed by a dinner dance. A luncheon and reception are scheduled on Wednesday with the 22nd annual NCSLA banquet to be held during the evening at the Riverside theater restaurant.

Principal speaker at the banquet will be Robbins E. Cahill, secretary of the Nevada Tax Commission and chairman of the Nevada gaming control board. Cahill will speak on "The Licensing and Control of Legalized Gambling in Nevada." Special added activities are planned for ladies. Hillygus said, including a breakfast at the Skyroom on Monday and the fashion show at the Riverside the same afternoon. Ladies will also get the "Ride to 'the Sky" on Wednesday and a bus tour of Reno and vicinity on Thursday.

Reservations for the convention are being handled by the Reno Chamber of Commerce. All results were listed as unofficial. In the open classification, Christian Pravda, Sun Valley, Idaho ski instructor and a professional, was the only racer to break the two minute barrier, with a run of 1:58 flat. Willie Schaeffler, coach of the national inter-collegiate champion University of Denver squad, was second in the open competition with a run of 2:16 flat, early results noted. Reno junior Dick Dorworth and Lewis Fellows of Tahoe City were expected to place well up in the amateur competition with runs of 2:17 flat and 2:14.4 respectively.

Other events are being run in conjunction with the amateur championships, including the Alexander McFadden Memorial Contestants reported the course in excellent condition and all racers were running against the same conditions. The slalom will be run Sunday to conclude the meet. EQUIPMENT TAKEN Theft of hair styling equipment worth 530.85 from her car was reported Friday by Mrs. Dorothy Talbot, 740 Capitol Hill Drive. Mrs.

Talbot said the clippers, shears and other equipment were taken while the car was parked at Second and Sierra streets with the windows open. erg. Is that what I raise my pups for? 1 i 4 KOCKV. Dogs in the street might get hit by cars, or kicked by a drunk. In civilization.

Jaws are needed. Highest Income Tax Alternative To Sales Levy ELKO In income tax at the highest rate of any state in thf? country is tho alternative to a Nevada sales tax. delegates to the annual convention of tlif Nevada Congress of Parents and Teachers were told here Friday. Glenn Duncan, superintendent of public instruction, told the convention that "If you do not keep the sales tax you will have an income tax. with the highest rate of any in thj country." "How would you like your pres ent rate of income tax doubled?" Duncan asked.

APPOINTIVE JOB The stite school head also ask ed support of an amendment to the state constitution which would provide for appointment o'. the state superintendent of pui lic instruction Instead of election. "It will not concern me," Dun can said. "I am going to retire to what I tli ink will be more pleasant work." Duncafi was in the fore-front vl public ofiicials who strongly urged a continuance of the state sales tax. Gov.

Charles Russeil. LX. Gov. Rex Boll and Cyril Bas-tian, of the Nevada assembly ail urged the delegates to spearhead the drive to get Ne vada voters to continue the sales tax when the question comes up on the ballot in November. CREATE PROBLEMS Governor said a repeal of th? sales tax before the next session of the Nevada legislature will create complex school problems because this state is growing faster than any in the nation.

He reviewed the Peatxxly report and changes made in the state school law by the legislature. Bastian declared the sales tax is the fairest of any tax and said further that even with organizational expenses it is only costing $1.12 of every $100 to collect the tax. Some 150 delegates from various parts of the state are attending the convention, scheduled to conclude this afternoon. Student Held For Car Theft Reno police arrested Phillip R. De Vita, 23, 788 West at his home Saturday morning on automobile theft charges.

De.Vita, a freshman student at the University of Nevada, is being held on a New Rochelle, N. warrant, and has waived extradition. Police here said De Vita has admitted stealing a car in New York and selling it there. RITES IN" OREGON The body of Pvt. Darrcl Pryse will be accompanied to the Sanderson Mortuary at Prairie City, for services and burial, with the Ross-Burke Co.

in charge of local arrangements. Pvt. Pryse was killed in a highway accident 30 miles east of Lovelock' on Friday. DAN. I don't even want to HED.

Give me the open hills and the lakes. No dog catchers there. CLOUDS, WINDS ARE FORECAST FOR SUNDAY The weatherman wagged his head sadly today and said Reno and vicinity was due for variable cloudiness tonight and- Sunday. Then added that it would be considerably cooler, too, than it has been during the week, and there would be fresh southerly winds. The mercury shot up to 73 Friday afternoon at the airport weather station, giving Reno the warmest temperature of any station in northern Nevada, and exceeded only a few degrees by Beatty and Las Ve.as down in Nevada's "tropics." A few scattered showers are expected in Nevada generally, but no snow or rain was foreseen for the Reno area.

It will be windy in northern Nevada. Showers or snow flurries are also expected in the northern Sierra, but it will be fair in most sections of the mountains. After wondering why the "poor weather" cycle has to fall on weekends all the time, the weatherman remarked there might be some compensation, weatherwise, to living in this vicinity. It was seven below zero in' Fraser, this morning, and 95 Friday at A.lice, west of Corpus i i. There was 22 inches of snow on the ground at Du-luth, Minn.

Mrs. Nancy Hook Of Carson Dies Mrs. Nancy Hook. 53. a resident of Carson, died at a local hospital Friday.

She is survived by her widower, Roy S. Hook, also of Carson. Other information is pending at this time. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Ross-Burke Co. Tait of San Francisco; a son, John A.

Powers of San Francisco, two granddaughters, Mrs Charles R. Russell of Carson and Mrs. Yvette Root of Sierra Madres, two grandsons, Clark J. Guild, and Vernon L. Ambrose both of Reno.

Thirteen great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services, to which friends are invited, will be held in the Sierra Chapel of Walton Funeral Home, West Second and Vine streets, Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock under the direction of Nevada Chapter No. 13, Order of the Eastern Star. Private senices of cremation and inurnment will be held at the Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, Calif. The family has requested that no flowers be sent and that instead contributions be made to the Shrine Hospital For Crippled Children.

Friends may call at Walton Funeral Home all day Sunday. trmk about it. i. i And here you are. I -v 1 I 1 I I 4 si SXUF1-T.

They can't do this! FRITZ' HOME IN WOODPILE IS TEMPORARY Fritz was back home today after spending some time in a woodpile. Fritz Ls a male, red dachshund, owned by Charles Carter, 107 Kalston St. He disappeared March 28 while with his master in downtown Reno. After visiting the Mt, Rose Sporting Goods on 'est Second street, where he was known and identified, he vanished like a character in an Ellery Queen whodunit. Days went by while Mr.

Carter hunted for Fritz and aid was sought from all means of mass communication to learn his whereabouts. Finally Mr. Carter called the Gazette newsroom and reported Fritz as among the missing. A small tory about him in Thursday's edition caught the eye of a subscriber on Grand Canyon boulevard in southeast Keno. He had noted a red dachshund had arrived in the neighborhood a few days before, and was making his home in a nearby woodpile and not letting anyone come near it.

It was Fritz, all right, and Mr. Carter Friday paid tho offered reward and claimed his pet. Three at Survey Council Meeting Prof. D. V.

Cowin of Reno, edu cation secretary of the Nevada-Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, has been appointed to a special 50-member survey council and policy-making board which will meet in Los Angeles April 8 to 10 to study the Seventh-day Adventist school system in Nevada, California, Arizona and Utah. Also named to the survey council were A. C. Fearing, president of the Nevada-Utah Conference, and I. E.

Anunsen, secretary-treasurer, both of Reno. TIRES SLASHED Vanda's slashed two tires on his car, V. T. Mathews, 564 Grand Canyon told Reno police Friday night He said his automobile was parked on Mill street, near the post office when the tires were cut. Bids on the new state office building in Carson were taken under advisement Friday by the state Dlanninz board and the architects, Lockard and Casazza of Reno.

Five base bids submitted by general contractors exceeded the amount of money available for construction. i alternates eliminated, the bids still exceed- Estate Battle Ends as Heir Gets $70,1 Settling for S70.000 Mrs. Mar jorie Anderson DeWitt has dismissed her $500,000 Washoe county district court suit against her stepmother and brother as executors of her father's estate. Defendants in the suit were Zel-a A. Anderson, of Reno and William H.

Anderson, jr. The father, William Hart Anderson, died in Reno Aug. 8, 1954 and Mrs. DeWitt's law suit was filed Jan. 29.

1935. The facts on which the case was based went back to 1921. In her legal complaint, filed by Attornev Peter Echeverria. Mrs. DeWitt, who now lives in Alexan dria, claimed that she had never received a share of her mother's estate when the mother died in 1921.

Her right to $500,000, according to the complaint, arose from the fact that Mrs. DeWitt's mother and father amassed a fortune while living in the Philippines, and that under Philippine law the fortune was community property in which husband and ife shared eauallv. The Alexandria woman claimed that her part of the mother's es tate was administered by her lather and it was only on his death that she realized that no provision had been made for her in his will. The S500.000 suit was based on an estimated $2,000,000 as the value of the father's estate. Attorneys for the defendants were the Reno law firm of Cant well and Loomis.

District Judge Grant L. Bowen approved the dis missal Two Men Injured In Vinfon Crash PORTULA. Calii. injured in an automobile accident at Vin ton, Thursday night, Will iam Colon of North Sacramento, was transferred from the Portola hospital to Washoe Medi cal Center Jrnday morning, ror treatment of severe head injuries. John Wager, 71, of Loyalton, who was with Mr.

Colon, is presently under treatment at the Portola hospital for serious chest injuries suffered in the crash. Mr. Colon reported to invest ting officers he lost control of his truck when he did not see the stop sign at the Vinton intersection with Highway 40-A. as he drove to the area from Loyalton. He attempted to turn but the truck hit a culvert and upset.

Taxicab Strike Settlement Near LAS VEGAS Settlement of the extended taxicab strike here by early evening was forecast this morning by Federal Conciliator John Fenton who said he believed an agreement was near. Fenton said that executives of two of the major cab companies affected were to arrive here and would go into the negotiation meeting. Negotiations which were conducted throughout yesterday were described as amicable throughout and Fenton said he believed the disputing factions were close to reaching an agreement. Scheduled to represent the two major companies involved in the strike which has tied up all vehicles of the eight operating cab companies here, are Bruce Whitehead of Tanner Motor Company cf Los Angeles and Tom Forsuthe of the Yellow Cab Company of Reno. MIDGE: There's just no fun left for the younger generation.

Clara Hawkins Dies in Carson A resident of Nevada since the birth of the state in 18C4, Mrs. Clara D. Hawkins, 93, died in Carson Friday morning after an illness of about two months. Mrs. Hawkins was born in Pine Grove, May 12, 1862.

When she was about two years of age her parents moved to Austin, and she had been a resident of Nevada since that time. In 1873 the family moved to Carson, and nine years later she married George Hawkins, member of a Genoa and Markleeville family. Mr. Hawkins died many years ago. Mrs.

Hawkins was the member of St. Peter's Episcopal Guild of Carson which she joined in 1875. She was also the last surviving charter member of Carson's Capital Rebekah lodge, to which she had belonged for 58 years. She had been making her home with a daughter, Mrs." Florence Swart of Carson. Besides her daughter she is survived by two granddaughters, Mrs.

Avis Witt-haus and Mrs. Norma Swart, both of Carson; a grandson, Keith Mul-cahy, Reno; and a great granddaughter, Yvonne Mulcahy, Reno. Two nephews also survive. Funeral services are scheduled for next Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at St. Peter's Episcopal church, with the Rev.

A. S. Kean officiating. The Capital City mortuary is in charge of arrangements. The family has asked that no flowers be sent, but that persons desiring to do so make contributions to St.

Peter's Episcopal Guild. Susanville Man Takes Own Life SUSANVILLE, Calif. Gay Hill, 64, shot himself to death with a .270 Remington rifle Friday afternoon at his Standish ranch home. Mr. Hill's body was found by a neighbor, E.

L. Epperson who heard the shot and investigated. Mr. Hill, whose move was believed to have been occasioned by ill health was alone at the ranch. A native of Lassen county he had lived here his whole life.

Surviving are his widow and two daughters. i i PENNSYLVANIA JUNIOR LEADS IN SKI EVENTS ANNA POWERS, NATIVE, DIES AT 81 Sally Deaver of White Marsh, flashed down the giant slalom course at Squaw Valley, this morning in 2:17 flat to take an early lead in Saturday's women's competition the National Amateur Ski championship Alpine events class being held at the site of -the 1960 Olympic Winter games. In second place was Noni Foley of Sun Valley, Idaho, at 2:21 flat, and third place went to Katherine Cox, Port Lyden, N. 17-year-old national junior champion, who won the downhill event for women Friday. Miss Cox's time was 2:21.3.

Reno contestants Cathie Zimmerman and Joni Smith did not finish the race. Miss Zimmerman moved into a steilhung at full speed and spilled to ruin her run. There were no injuries, however. Fourth place in the women's giant slalom went to Jackie Davenport, Pasadena, with a time of 2:30.3 Leader in the men's amateur competition at the halfway point was Tom Corcoran, Olympic skier, who ran the course in 2:03.3, while in second place was Billy Woods, national junior ski champion from Mt. Mansfield, who had a time of 2:07.1.

In third place was Ted Armstrong, Aspen, with a time of 2:07.3. Mrs. Anna E. Powers of 646 South Center died at a local hospital on Friday. A member of a pioneer Nevada family, Mrs.

Powers was born in Carson Oct. 2, 1874. She was the daughter of the late John and Estelle (McGowan) Craig. At the age of sue months, she moved with her parents to Yerington where her father was the Wells Fargo Express agent and a well-known merchant and hotelman. Mrs.

Powers resided in Yering ton for 58 years and in 1934 moved to Reno. She was a past matron of Naomi Chapter No. 16 Order of the Eastern Star, of which organization she had been a member for over 50 years. She was also a member of Neighbors of Woodcraft of Yerington and Amnion Ra Chapter No. 5b, Daughters of the Nile.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Anna Belle Ambrose of Reno; Mrs. Dorothy C. Griffin of Rno and Mrs. Beatrice.