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WEATHER Intermittent Rain little Temperature Chang Minimum 35 Noontime 40 Latest Road Condition! Phone FA 9-7111 no Evening (Gazette TRAFFIC TOLL Has Reached ,10 in Nevada in '59 Drive Carefully Re A Newspaper for the Home Information and enjoyment for every member of the family PHONE FA 3-3161 PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1959 20 PAGES 10 CENTS EIGHTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 279 West, East German Advisers Invited to Parley 71 fo) X- 11 III I 1 I I 1LJ I 1 I I I I I I West's Proposal In Legislature Worst Winter Siege ig 3 Mm mm Storm Stretches Length of Coast And Into Nevada SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. (AP) The worst storm USE TAX BILL GOES TO SENATE Retail Sales Would Be Taxed On Local Option By BR YN ARMSTRONG Gazette-Journal Legislative Bureau CARSON CITY Counties 38 of the Winter blasted across California during the night, then became diffuse and indistinct as it moved inland. ove May Set Action Crisis Still lurking out at sea was a vast cauldron of storms.

The big storm front crashed upon the coast about i 5 a.m. with torrents of rain tfw 1 "-ft. Begun on Berlin i beleaguered by money problems WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. (AP) The United States.

In Las Vegas were "thrown a rope" in the and gale winds. As the front passed the rain stopped and the air calmed. Britain and France, proposed to Russia today a wide- senate today with the introduc tion of a bill which would allow county commissioners to instj tute a one per cent sales and use open Big Four conference on Germany, with East and West German advisers present. The proposal was made in notes delivered in Moscow and scheduled for release in the western capitals in a few hours. West Germany sent a parallel note to Russia.

tax. The proposed law, patterned But the storm rolled on across the state, dumping heavy rains on the interior during the morning and stirring high winds. Sacramento's public schools were closed today because of the rain and the violent wind. DUST STORM, TOO OHIOAN SUES EL RANCHO; SEIZES CASH after the state sales and use tax, places the levy upon all retail sales, including food and drugs. Its passage would mean that if The westernpowers turned 1 down Russia's Jan.

10 proposal for a 38-nation conference to For Dulles Southern California, too, was write a German peace treaty nit by the tropical storm and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 16. which would isolate and neutral ize that now-divided country. all county commissioners passed the required ordinance, between $5 and, $6 million dollars more a year would be available to pay costs of operating local political 'subdivisions. ADEiriiEn2frE there were torrential rains and gale winds in many sections of the southland.

Bu.t south of Bak- ersfipld th winHe throw nr The Soviet? peace pact project UP) An Ohio business man today sued the owner of the was called stupid by Secretary -m -r. 1. of State Dulles at a recent news jvarn.no noiei in ias vegas curtain of dust that blocked in conference. He said it would -IfWT neM for HO miles during the DEMOCRATS UPHOLD POLICIES Taxable sales have been run night. Television aerials fell by owed that amount in a business not work.

COUNTER-PROPOSAL deal. uie score around Barbara. Los Angeles expected to ning in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 a year in Clark, which would mean an added annual revenue of nearly The call for a foreign ministers In. the suit, Benjamin Aran- meeting was worked out in dip off of Toledo said he invested in the El Rancho hotel last 000 for the southern Nevada lomatic conferences by the state year. Under the agreement, he department and representatives WASHINGTON, Feb.

16. UP) said, he was to receive repayment of his money plus a half- Senate Democrats promised to subdivision. Washoe's taxable sales have been running in excess of $125 million a year, and the one per cent levy would mean about here of the British, French and West German governments. It represents a counter-proposal to share of the profits. day a full measure of cooperation with the Eisenhower ad He named Beldon Katleman, the Soviet peace conference get about IV2 inches of rain out of the storm, and 2 to 5 inches were predicted for mountains near the city.

Streams in the northern part of the state ran high but only isolated flooding was reported. The general forecast, once the violent front had passed, was for intermittent rain through Tuesday in the northern and central counties, with snow in the mountains. IT'S A GIANT But the weather bureau spoke of "a giant storm" that covers the hotel's owner, as defendant $1 million in new revenue. in the suit. Aranoff obtained i court order attaching the ho Under the proposed law, retailers would be responsible for ministration on foreign policies during Secretary of State Dulles' illness.

proposition. At the same time it constitutes a serious bid to get negotiations started with the collecting the tax from custom tel cash on hand, including that in the slot machines and Senate Democratic Leader erss. All proceeds would be paid in the gambling casino. Russians on Germany. It is aimed to get talks going ahead of Russia's, deadline for a new Berlin crisis.

The Russians to the. state, along with the revenue from the state's two Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said after a conference with Chairman J. William Fulbright per cent sales and use tax. The have threatened to turn over the ocean from the Gulf of Alas ka to the subtropics of north state collection agency would then parcel out the income to HERBRIGGEN, SWITZERLAND: Holding the horn used to sound a warning, a villager points to the mass of rock and ice on the mountain above this village.

The massive landslide is threatening to smash through Herbriggen. Villagers have abandoned their homes In the face of the i mpending disaster. UPI Telephoto) (D-Ark) of the foreign relations committee that Democrats will do everything they can to help keep administration for control of East Germany and the access routes to West Berlin to the East German Communists in May. local political subdivisions. em Mexico, and extends from about 1,200 miles off California Dust Storms Tie Up Traffic At Bakersfield Cities and school districts share the revenues from the one to Nevada and Idaho.

The center of this storm system was Among officials here and in Boulder Deters Avalanche (Turn to page 12, col. 7) other western capitals there is strong expectation that the 500 miles west of Eureka at 4 a.m. It is expected to remain in that general area for the next two days, said forecaster W. J. Soviets will agree to a foreign At Sacramento Hits High Price eign policies intact.

"It Mill be the policy of the majority to advise and consult with the administration In every possible way in an attempt to help them develop a strong, positive foreign policy," Johnson said. Sens. John Sparkman (D- BAKERS FIELD. UF One ministers meeting of some kind, of the worst dust storms in Flu Epidemic Hits London perhaps after bargaining as to Denney. Kern county's history stranded time, place and participants Wiod up to 75 miles an hour SWISS VILLAGE PRAYS THAW WILL SPARE HOMES FROM THREAT OF SLIDE The Soviets may insist on mH 200 automobiles Sunday afternoon and evening.

Many of the eluding Poland and Czechoslo LONDON, Feb. 16. UP) Lon was reported at Blunts Reef lightship off the lower Humboldt county coast. Santa Maria Ala) and Mike Mansfield (D- For Olympiad vakia. don today struggled with an Mont), other members of the motorists were unable to continue their journeys until today and emergency housing had to acute shortage of hospital beds, airport also reported gusts up ACTIVE WEEK DUE The western move opened a committee, made similar pledges in separate interviews.

doctors and nurses as the re to 7o miles an hour. Many trees be found for them. were downed -and power lines Dulles, in Walter Reed Army week of diplomatic activity scheduled to conclude six days SACRAMENTO (JP Assem. blyman Samuel R. Geddes (D- sult of the current epidemic of influenza and other respiratory The worst jam occurred ieu in the Santa Maria area.

hospital, starts this week a hence with a trip to Moscow by diseases. Point Arena reported 2.11 iSapa) charged today that "too HERBRIGGEN, Switzerland, Feb. 16. (AP) "All we can do is pray." Thus spoke an aged pensioner who refuses to leave this Swiss hamlet doomed to extinction as soon as a Spring thaw sends a million tons of rock, earth and ice series ot radiation treatments inches of rain in 24 hours. Guer- many high-priced, inexperienced for cancer.

The new malignan Pneumonia, flu and bronchitis were blamed for 3675 neville had 2 inches. More than people" are running preparations for the 1960 Winter Olympics at cy, announced baturaay, was discovered after a hernia opera British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Macmillan will get a first-hand opportunity to sound out Soviet in lVz inches fell at Ukiah, Santa British deaths in the last week of January and the first week U. S. highway 99, the main traffic artery between Los Angeles and San Joaquin valley.

Dust and limbs from trees, augmented by automobile wrecks, jammed the highway. A detour had to be established around a seven-mile segment near Wheeler ridge. Some of the automobiles Squaw Valley. tion Dulles had undergone the hurtling down from a moun tain peak 3000 feet above. (Turn to page 12, col.

6) He said in a statement that of February. day before. "We have faith, we trust in tentions with respect to nego- Hospitals throughout the Europeans have put on the ABLE TO CONFER London area issued a red warn Shell Quemoy God," murmured Josef Burgner The state department said games succesfully in the past with volunteer associations aid (Turn to page 12, col. 5) ing, limiting admissions to remained in the closed sector Hold 4 Adults In Tots' Deaths By Asphyxiation WARREN, Feb. 16.

UP) TAIPEI, Feb. 16 UP) The Chi emergency cases. Red Cross ed by local government finances. as he gazed up at Nadelhorn mountain where the frozen mass will become a thundering avalanche when it reaches the edge all night. volunteers replaced ailing Geddes declared two weeks Nearly all highways in Kern yesterday that Dulles' condition "continues satisfactory." It disclosed that during the dif the secretary talked for about 15 minutes with acting secretary of state Christian Herter nurses hi many hospitals, but ago that the Olympics would nese Communists shelled both ends of th offshore island front lightly yesterday then lapsed into their customary even-numbered London's Red Cross director cost the state a half million dol of the precipice.

county were closed for various periods. Hundreds Seek Lost Boy, 312 DANA POINT, Feb. 16 (AP) Two hundred police, sher said she had been able to sup The great mass began creep The storm reached its climax day silence. ing down the Nadelhorn slided lars more than we expected and demanded an investigation. The state has put up eight million about what were described only ply only about half as many volunteers as the hospitals about 7 p.

died down during The national defense ministry toward the precipice eight days needed. as matters concerning the department. Herter's visit to the tne nignt and whipped up again this morning. sajd the red artillery fired 270 shells at the Quemoy islands and dollars for the games. HONEST EFFORT Three children died of carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday when the car they were riding in became stuck in a snowbank and the motor was left running.

Four adults were jailed pending an inquest. iffs deputies and volunteers ago. Then Friday a new cold spell set in, solidified the thawing snow and ice, and the move searched in a driving rainstorm "Many of our members are down with the flu themselves," she said. State finance director Bert 20 at Kao-teng, in the Matsu group 150 miles to the north. during the night for a ZM-yeai- hospital followed a telephone conversation between the two.

Herter, returning Saturday night from a South Carolina vacation, told newsmen he would ment stopped. SLIDE HALTED old boy missing more than 12 Levit reported Friday that a pre liminary check by his depart ment was unable to turn up any hours. Susan Decorah, 11, of Maus- 7 in Family Die in Fire At South Bend Winter frosts continued to Russell Sowell wandered away ton, and her brother and Income Tax Data immobilize the great slide over accept appointment of secre thing irregular. Gov. Brown said he is satisfied the committee is from his parents' Dana Point the weekend.

Authorities rec sister, Arnold, 9, and Mabel, 7, were found by a passerby. tary of state if President Eisen home yesterdayy afternoon. His dog, a mixed-breed German shep- doing an honest job. Geddes noted that Robert L. hower asked him to.

But he said Eisenhower had not sound Sheriff Dewey Reinstran ar koned that the village would have a few more days grace, at least. But Herbriggen's SOUTH BEND, Feb. 16 erd, was with him. Kine director of the rested the mother of the children, Mrs. Florence Decorah, UP) A mother returned home ear The boy is feared lost in the SYLVIA PORTER TO SHOW GAZETTE FAMILY THE WAY ed him out in any way about the possibility of replacing Dulles.

end is certain when a prolonged ly yesterday to find rescue work rolling hills near Dana Point, 32; Robert Pache, 35; Jesse Whiterabbit, 36, all of Mauston, thaw comes. ers carrying the bodies of six of Eisenhower said Saturday Resigned to losing their homes, her children and her mother from where steep cliffs drop off to the ocean. Dana Point is 65 miles south of Los Angeles. and Coreen Was, 25, of Warren. the ruins of a fire.

All were held on an open charge. that Dulles would continue on the leave of absence he obtain (Turn to page 12, col. 3) A seventh child, Queen Esther Olympics organizing committee, receives $25,000 a year and that some other employes get $15,000 or more a year. In addition, the assemblyman complained that season ticket prices $200 for a seat and admission to all events is too high for the average fan. He said that in 1952 at Oslo season tickets Sheriff Reinstran said the The great tax switcheroo lib Sylvia Porter has established top rating with her annual Income Pitman, 6, survived when her eralizing of the expense account.

How businessmen can save big ed to undergo the operation and said "I will, of course, be in close touch with him grandmother told her to run out Tax Series which begins today in adults continued a drinking spree after the auto became stuck in the snow and they tried to free it. Challenged Tax Rule Altered the Reno Evening Gazette on of the flaming house. The victims were Mrs. Mary money on taxes by making contributions in merchandise rather INDEX page 10. She has customarily LReeves, 58, and her grandchil than cash.

avoided the hackneyed approach in her, tax-saving hints. She hits were $42 and in 1956 at Cortina dren, Wilbur Parker, 10; Terry WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 UP) A new valuable fringe benefit Amusements 13 they were $20. the high spots of news, interest Parker, Harold Pitman, Lau accident and health insurance A new federal rule affecting chal 43 Americans Report Monthly or confusion. lenged income tax returns goes rel Pitman, Jeannie Pitman, 18 months, and Mary Elizabeth Pit Retired Chef Gives Advice COVINA, Feb.

16. UP) On his birthday, retired chef Ten columns one each day, are into effect March 15. coverage. MANY TOPICS Education expense a new tax at Spa amie given to the subject so important man, months. Under the rule, taxpayers, de to every u.

S. citizen and the new TIJUANA. UP) The U. deduction for business and Dro- PHOENIX, Feb. 16.

s. 43 developments in regulations in consulate said today that UP) Mamie Eisenhower began fending their returns, may be represented by the persons who prepared them. Under current regulations, taxpayers either must fessional men. The treasury's drive to cut de 1958. EXPERT COLLABORATION Wilberto Di Biase offered this advice for healthy eating: Americans arrested at Rosaritb Beach Jan.

25 on gambling charges won't have to report preciation deductions. Ann Landers 9 Classified Ads 16, 17, 18 Comics 19 Crossword puzzle 4 Editorials 4 Jacoby on Bridge 3 Local, Regional News 11 Markets 12 Pots and Plants 8 Sports 14, 15 Sylvia Porter 10 Television 16 Vital Statistics 13 Weather Table 12 Women's News .......8, 9 "In every 24 hours make sure The nation's top tax experts Major tax hints on medical ex have collaborated with Mrs. Por defend their returns in person or hire -lawyers or accountants admitted to practice before the internal revenue service. pense deductions. ter to bring Gazette readers the The mother, Amelia Parker, 32, said she was visiting in South Bend at the time.

She returned an hour and a half after the fire had destroyed the four-room concrete block home one mile of here. The marital relationships of the Negro family was not immediately determined. However, Leslie Parker, father of the older children was reported to be somewhere in Michigan. once a week to federal court. A modified order makes it once a month.

you eat one vegetable that grows underground and one on top of the ground. Top this with good fruit. Don't mix different a return engagement today at the Maine Chance beauty resort 'in Phoenix. The president's wife, beaming happily, stepped off a train at Phoenix Union station last night. "I'm so glad to be back," she told Arizona Gov.

Paul Fannin, one of her welcomers. latest in tax law interpretations, Tax angles about combined bus Subjects which Miss Porter iness-pleasure trips. In recent years, only a limited All 43 are free on bail while number of lawyers and, accountants have been admitted. Tax deductions which violate 'public policy." And key rulings on employe's the court keeps their cases under trial, which may be for a period of one year from the meats in one meal." Di Biase, who has followed his own instructions, was celebrating his 103rd birthday. cover: Dramatic tax law changes of 1958 that will help you save money on taxes.

The revenue service announced lodging and moving expenses. the rule change yesterday. time of arrest. 1 i.