Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

9 a rj7n VTrvirv I RENO EVENING fl IW 20, 1956 rl PAGE THIRTEEN PHONE 3-G161 RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, APRIL Bigger Bankroll Asked to Onen Dunes Gl Three Applicants Pledge Double Corporate Funds Much time spent on considering an application for a new operation at the Dunes hotel in Las Vegas by the gaming control board in Carson Thursday resulted only in a deferral and advice that the three applicants should Ij-uP IS 1,1 School Budget Opinion Issued Tax Rate Requests Must Stand According to Attorney General Tax rate requests submitted by Nevada school district trustees cannot be revised by the state tax commission if supporters by detailed budgets, the attorney general's office declared in an opinion issued today. The opinion is highly significant locally because Washoe county taxing subdivisions have been unable to cut budgets to meet the S5 per $100 of assessed valuation 1 i iM, 5 "I yf "09 Mi -V 'i- H'i -'u I ir i h'. rill 1 in mi i 1 hum inn i i i i i h1m lfm Mm r- rate limit imposed by the state constitution. Nevada tax commissioners will meet in Carson April DRIVER AWARDS Ken York, left and Robert Bowers, members of the Reno Arch Lions Club show trophies which will be presented tonight to high school winners of the second annual Student Drivers Training Conference, which was held this afternoon at Reno high schaol. The competition pitted the best boy and girl student drivers from eight western Nevada high schools in written and driver application tests held at the school.

Sponsored by the Arch Lions, Stead Air Force base and members of the Reno police department and the Nevada Highway Patrol, WEIGHING IN Nevada ranch youngsters and their animals were arriving at the Reno fairgrounds this morning in large numbers as the 17th Annual Nevada Junior Livestock show got under way. Above, left, Stanley Hollister of (Christensen photo). Genoa weighs in lamb for daughter, Anne. Portable scale, painted fire engine red, is property of Churchill county Future Farmers and 4-H clubs. Junior Livestock show will continue for three days.

(Christensen photo). iff Ysfl A Yl f'S, 't 5 MV- Li, I I II I SEASONAL OPERATORS GET BOARD APPROVAL Favorable Action Taken by Gaming Unit On Applications from Lake Tahoe, Topaz Seasonal operations at Lake Tahoe and Topaz Lake occupied the gaming control board during a goodly portion of its Thursday session, with several licenses recommended for approval. Two major licenses were involved, but all were handled in routine fashion, because most operators are familiar ones. The board recommended the seasonal license for Cal-Neva Lodge, which has two new partners, and for the Bal Tabarin, with all of last year's licensees, both at Lake Tahoe. Joining Bert M.

Grober, David Gcrson and Ray Warren in the Cal-Neva operation at the( commit more money. The conversation between board members Robbins Cahill, Newell Hancock and William Sinnot and the three applicants, meanwhile, ranged from resented insinuations to the comic. THREE APPLICANTS The applicants to run the twice-failed Dunes are William Miller, Las Vegas hotel operator: Major Riddle, Chicago oil man, and Robert Rice, a figure in other Las Vegas operations including the first Dunes flop. The three applicants, while be ing interviewed individually, said they would double the 5340,000 financing of the Dunes venture through some sort of pledges to their corporation. The result would be that while they would not have to come up with any more cash than originally pledged, they would be liable for twice that amount if the operation fails.

The guarantee was made at the insistence of Hancock. He and other board members said repeatedly that they were only talking about the financing of the one venture, but behind it lurked the spectre of old failures in Las Vegas, all of the big ones last year and two of them at the Dunes. In short, the sometime threatened invocation of license limitation for economic reasons, while never a specific major argumentative point, was much in the conversation. IXSINUATIO.V The insinuation resented as ane raised by Riddle, ho said he had heard on the Las Vegas Strip that his and and his part ners' application didn't stand a chance of approval by the gam ing board because established op erators didn't want the compe tition. Cahill promptly and strongly interjected that he resented the insinuation that the gaming board would bow to pressure from any source, and that nuch pressure might mean the difference in license approval.

Cahill said that if Riddle were to remain in Las Vegas another 30 days he might hear almost anything about the board. "Fifty more people will tell yo i they have the juice (influence) to get you a license; they'll tell you you should change lawyers; they'll tell you everything else under the sun except that the three members of this board ar trying to do an honest job," said Cahill. The comic relief came from Miller. At one point, attempting to de scribe how the original Dunes operators had lost money, noted that he knows how to run a restaurant but that the then Dunes operators lost $130,000 in one month in the kitchen. "Those partners were all out there watching the crap game," he said, "and the meat was goinz out the back door by the bucket ful." CUT EXPENSES Main point of the Dunes appli cants and their attorneys, Thomas Foley of Las Vegas and 'John S.

Halley of Reno, was that.the new Dunes operation won at tempt to run expensive fToor- shows, and that it starts without the big list of liabilities that a just built spot has. All urged speed in action on the license, and reasons ranging from the delay in awaiting Clark county action on a license to the unemployment problem in Las Vegas were mentioned. The quest for speed hadJlc! Cahill earlier to state that "Wve never again going to be shot-gunned into approving a license in haste." The bo3rd indicated its routine investigation of parties to the license was not complete, but members also mentioned the fact that Rice was a corporation mem ber in the original Dunes deal, not very liable legally as a result. but by his own admission morally responsible for some of the debt the expensive construction proj ect piled up. Youths Attempt To Snatch Purse Three young "toughs" were blamed by Betty Ohrman, 1228 Pyramid Way, Sparks, for a purse snatching incident on the Lake street bridge Thursday night.

She reported to Reno police sne and a companion parked their car on the bridge. After cing so one of the boys attempted to take her purse as she got out of the vehicle. A scuffle followed in which the toy dropped the purs, but kick ed it down the street attempting to pick it up. The trio finally decided to abandon the matter. Mrs.

Ohrman said the voun assailants were about 12 to 14 ears old. 23 to reduce the combined rate to fall within the constitutional limit. The combined rate in Reno i $5,374, and in Sparks, $5,474. The Reno area rate is made up of the following: county, City of Reno, schools, state's share, 42 cents; school bond redemption, 48 cents. SAME IN SPARKS The same school and county rates apply in Sparks.

The city cf Sparks also has requested $1.50, and the school bond redemption rate is 58 cents in the Sparks district. William N. Dunseath, chief deputy attorney general, wrote the opinion in answer to the following query from Robbins Ca-liill, secretary of the Nevada Tax Commission "Our query concerning this (April 23) meeting is as follows: Are the tax levies made under the provisions of Section 127 of the 1956 school code subject to negotiations or reduction in order to reduce the overall tax levy to a constitutional maximum of five dollars." Quoting the section, Dunseath answered that there was no ques tion that a mandatory 70 cent school levy could not be tampered with. ADDITIONAL TAX Then, Dunseath continued, this section also provides that when the school trustees recommend it, the county commissioners "shall levy" an additional tax of 80 cents fox support of schools in the county districts. Outlining the duties to be per formed by the tax commission in studying budgets submitted by local taxing subdivisions, Dun seath concluded that if a school district budget is submitted which "prescribes and supports a tax including a part or all of the additional 80 cent tax rate," the tax commission cannot reduce that request to brine the com bined rate within the constitu tional limit.

Further, according to the opinion, if the school district budget states the need," the tax commission does not have the authority to go behind the budget to determine, in its opinion, whether the need actually exists. CIRCUMVENT INTENT Going behind the. budget, Dun seath declared, would circumvent legislative intent. Objections to school district budgets, he said, must be made at public hearings required by the 1956 statute, to be held while the financial story is in the preparatory stage. The practical effect of the opinion is that the county, and the Reno and Sparks city budgets will bear the full amount of the reduction that must be ordered by the tax commission, 37.4 cents in the Keno district, and 4.4 cents in Sparks.

The provision for -a mandatory 0 cents county school district levy, plus an additional 80 cents, if needed, was written into the state school code in 1955. The code was revised by the 1956 special session of the legisla ture with the school tax rate structure left essentially intact Ditch Blocking Is Protested Tired of having nearby yards flooded by water backing up from a small irrigation ditch in southeast Reno, James J. Mor-tenscn, 911 Vassar and James Dwyer, 410 Kirman have requested closer police patrolling of the area. The complainants told Reno police Thursday the small ditch runs from the vicinity of Kirman avenue, across Kietzky lane and serves as irrigation and stock water for some 20 ranchers in the area. Mr.

Mortensen and Mr. Dwyer blame children for blocking of the canal which results in the flooding and complaints from several neighbors. Responsible for maintenace of the ditch, the two men told police it is not only expensive, but has apparently resulted in strained relations in the neighborhood. HUBCAPS STOLEN Loss of four custom hub caps. moon design, has been reported to polic by Allen Walter, of Truckee.

Mr. Walter, a naval reservist, said the caps were taken from his 1917 car when it was parked in the vicinity of the Naval Training Center near the university Thursday night. Land Deals Condemnation Is Requested Washoe county Republicans, who will meet here May 1 to adopt a platform for presentation to the state convention, will be asked to condemn practices disclosed in the recent airing of state land sales, it was disclosed today. Members of the committee met last night to consider platform planks and resolutions. RESOLUTION The method of handling state land sales was hit in a resolution submitted by Samuel Houghton of Reno, a former Washoe county assemblyman.

As Houghton submitted it, the resolution was aimed strictly at members of the Democratic party, but Republican committee mem bers said the reference to those of opposite political faith had been deleted in initial committee work The committee has not yet fin ished work on the proposed reso lution. As revised, it also sug gests that legislation be passed to require publication of notice oi sale of public lands, and that the land be sold to the highest Didder. While the names of Demo cratic legislators and public officials have figured prominently in recent news stories concerning sales of public lands, some mem bers of the Republican party also re involved. One lawmaker has an application pending. An other prominent Republican owns large blocs of land in Clark county.

OTHER RESOLUTIONS Other resolutions under con iJeration by the committee: Advocate appointment of mem bers of the board of regents of ie University of Nevada, by the governor with senate ap proval. Urge appointment, instead of election, of members of the judi ciary. Support annual session of the state legislature, with the ses sion in even-numbered years lim ited to 20 days and consideration of budgetary matters and other subjects sumbitted by the gov ernor. Advocate freedom of the dividual to join a labor union if he chooses, and support the prin cipal of free collective bargaining between labor and management. Resolutions touching on the rational scene favor tax cuts after the budget is balanced and there are decreases in governmental costs; flexible farm price supports and the soil bank plan to reduce surpluses; the administration's highway improvement plan; oppose the seating of Red China in the United Nations; favor protection of domestic mining; favor return to congress the task of regulating foreign commerce; urge return to the gold standard, and several favoring ti.e Eisenhower administration in foreign policy and military affairs.

Reckless Driver Arrested, Fined Reno police added a cryptic note to a report of reckless driv ing charges lodged Thursday against Joe L. Blackwell, Stead air base airman. They labeled his 1950 model two door sedan as an advertisement for "Death Rides the Highway." The report noted that Mr. Blackwell's vehicle was devoid of a grille, a front bumper and minus a right front fender. Police also noted the car is missing a headlight.

Officers were warned by gate tenders at the Reno air instal lation that Airman Blackwell left the base sometime Thursday in a highly intoxicated condition." Reno police picked up Black- well as he sped past Second and Virginia streets about 40 miles per hour, barelv missing street warning signs on the way, according to the report. They soon overtook the low-flying airman and took him to the station. Blackwell pleaded guilty in municipal court this morning to the charge and paid a $100 fine. assisted in running the event. Student Driver Contest Held In Reno Today Second annual Student Drivers Training Conference, sponsored by the Reno Arch Lions Club, was being held at Reno high school this afternoon with the best boy and girl drivers from eight western Nevada high schools entered in the competi tion.

Students competing were to undergo a stiff written aptitude test in driver training at 2 p.m and then go out and actually drive an obstacle course as the application portion of the coi test. Trophies will be presented to-right to the individual winners of the competition with the winning school to receive a large re volving trophy which it will keep for one year. All drivers will be honored tonight at a banquet at 7:30 o'clock at Reno high school where the trophies will be given to the win ners. The obstacle course was laid out by personnel of the Nevada Highway Patrol with assistance from the Reno police department and military police from Stead Air Force base. Worker Killed At Lake Tahoe His first day of work on clear Ing the earth and rock slide which blocks State Route 89 on the west side of Lake Tahoe was fatal for Jonathon Ivan Ford, 44 of Fair Oaks, Calif.

He was killed Wednesday when the earth slid out from be neath the bulldozer he was oper ating to cut a path to the top of the slide preparatory to remov ing hundreds of tons of debris. reuovv worKmen said appar ently there was melting snow unoer me siae oi tne trail on which Ford was working and it gave way under the weight of the tractor. Presumably, they said, Ford felt the earth give and whipped the machine around in an attempt to ride the slide down to harder ground. Ford was employed by II. Earl Parker of Marysville, awarded a state contract to clear the slide Ford moved to Fair Oaks in January from Nevada, where he had been employed.

He leaves his wife, Estella; son, Jonathon Preston Ford, and stepsons. Bruce and Frank Miller, all of Fair Oaks, and his father, Jona than P. Ford of Albuquerque, N. M. Four Arrested For Wire Theft Arrested Thursday at Wads-worth by Constable Carl Phil-gren, four youths from Wads-worth and Fernley are being interrogated today by Sparks police about the theft of 360 pounds of copper wire from a Sparks yard of the Sierra Pacific Power Co.

Monday night. One of the youths is 18 while the others are 17 and 16. The wire taken is described as 0-4 gauge by Sparks Police Chief Robert Galli, who said the four youths would also be questioned about the loss of more than 700 pounds of copper wire at Lovelock recently. Complaints against the four were to be issued today, but it was indicated they would be turned over to juvenile authorities for further action. Youths Crowd Fairgrounds For Stock Show The sun was shining and joungsters and animals were all over the Reno Fairgrounds this morning as entrants began arriv ing for the 17th Annual Nevada Junior Livestock Show.

Trucks with their loads of calves, lambs or hogs began pull ing into the pan area early to meet a noon deadline for weigh- all animals. And the boys and girls, all 4-H and FFA mem- liers, from nine Nevada counties were busy shepherding their ani mals through a schedule of ar rival. First came unloading from trucks, of all sizes. Then ani mals were maneuvered onto the scales for an official weigh-in check. Stalls and pens were as signed.

Then the animal, by now dusty from a ride into Reno was put under the hose ror a soap-and-water rubdown. Final the calf, hog or lamb was put into a quiet stall to await later judging events and the young owner went off, everything ship- st.ape for awhile, to tend to his or her own bunkhouse details- including a little soap and water before livestock events began in earnest. With preliminary sifting of animals completed this after noon, judging at the big three day show will actually get underway in earnest tomorrow morn ing. Judging of lambs will be hold at 9 a. hogs at 10:30 a.

and beef in the afternoon wun ine ngntweight group scheduled for 1 p. m. and the Heavyweight beef, including uereiords, Angus and Shorthorns, to start at 2 n. Sunday morning will see the snowmanship contests for all animals and at 12 noon the final auction sale of prize livestock will begin. Registration Deadline Set Registration for the special $500,000 bond election to be held here June 2 closes May 2, Washoe county clerk Harry K.

Brown reported today. Registration must close 30 daj-s prior to the election, in accordance with state law. Brown said new registrants have been coming in steadily, and me registration office, in the basement of the Washoe county court house will be open Saturday from 9 a. m. to 12 noon.

The registration clerks will also be on duty all day Saturday April 28, and from 7 to 9 p. m. in addition to regular hours each day from then until the registration closes. The flection is being held to let voters decide whether the city of Reno should issue $200,000 and the county issue $300,000 worth of bonds for increasing the size of a National Guard armory at the Reno Rodeo ground. Lillian Hall Rites Funeral services for Mrs.

Lillian E. Hall will be held Satui-Vay at 1:30 p. m. at the Ross-Rurke Co. chapel with Mrs.

Eva Scales of the Christian Science church the reador. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Friends are asked to omit flowers and send memorial contributions to the cancer fund. APPOINTED L. F.

Ward, above, vice president of the First National bank of Nevada has been appointed head of the loan production department of the bank at its head office. He succeeds E. J. Wait, executive vice president, who recently resigned to become associated with a bank in California, Reno Banker Wins Promotion L. F.

Ward, vice president, First National Bank of Nevada, has been appointed to head the loan production department at the bank's head office, according to E. J. Questa. president. Ward replaces E.

J. Wait, executive vice president, who recently accepted a position with the First West ern Bank and Trust Company, head office, San Francisco. L. F. Ward joined the First Na tional Bank of Nevada after 24 years experience in tne national Banking Department, under the supervision of the comptroller of currency.

He spent 10 years with the Kansas City, Examining Division, before transferring to the 12th Federal Reserve District with headquarters in San Fran cisco and as commissioned a na tional bank examiner working out of San Francisco and Seattle offices. In 1948, he was placed in charge of the Sacramento office and then the Portland, office from which he came to First National as first assistant in the loan pro duction department in January, 1955. Ward attended Kansas Univer sity and his first position was with the Linwood State Bank, Linwood, where he progressed until his appointment as assistant cashier. He was an assistant cashier at the First National Bank. Bonner Springs.

when he joined the National Banking Department. Mr. Ward is a member of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, and locally of the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the American Institute of Banking and the Wrashoe County Golf Club. Mr. and Mrs.

Ward reside in Reno, and have a daughter, Mary Tena, who attends Reno high school. Goat 'Visitor' At Sorority House Adept at chasing wayward horses around southeast Reno at times, Reno police encountered a new animal problem Thursday night ater a wayward goat was deposited in the living room of the Delta Delta Delta sorority house at 843 North Sierra St. Resident Diane Martin tele phoned police to inform them of her hairy, unusual visitor, left there by revelers after student bodv elections on the campus. The goat, reportedly suffering from a broken leg, was taken to the Nevada Humane Society on Mill street, and placed in a lake are Ike Berger, a New York public relations man, and San-ford Waterman, Miami Beach gambler and New York film dis tributor. $0000 IN STOCK Waterman, who will be active in the operation, and Berger, who each are buying 8.3 per cent 'of the- operation by- pur chasing $5000 in stock.

Berger will loan the present corporation and Waterman $5000. At the Bal Tabarin. old li censees Bernard Einstoss and Frank Grannis, Reno gamblers and Tom Gerun and Andrew De Simone, former San Francisco night club operators, were rec ommended for re-licensing. Two licenses were approved for Topaz with one going to Wil liam K. Malicote, who has bought Topaz Lodge in a $15,000 deal, and to John C.

Hyder, for Pinky's Lodge. Other Tahoe licenses approved included Marvin M. Branch and John A. Ragghianti, Circus Room; Albert C. and Clyde Eeecher, Nevada Club; Herman Byrens, race book.

Tahoe Turf Club (Crystal Bay). OTHERS APPROVED Other gaming board recom mendations (all are subject to state tax commission approval) include the following: Daniel J. Skanovsky and James J. Clark, 50 per cent each, A-l Club, Wendover, approve. Melvin J.

Andrews, slot ma chine operator, Las Vegas, deny because of unfavorable back ground. Ray May, 50 per cent, Beatty Club. Beatty, defer. H. G.

Bartlett, slot machine op erator, Las Vegas, approve. Lalloma and Clyde D. Sum mers, 50 per cent each. Bank Club, Hawthorne, approve. Meyer Gamberg, 1 per cent, Bonanza Club, North Las Vegas, deny because of unsuitable back ground; Alfred 1 typhus, per cent in the same club, defer.

Jack Richards, Joe Padilla Jack Austin, Morris Orloff and (Turn to Page 14, Col. 4) Traffic Sign Found on Tracks A loud and scraping noise was heard," the police report stated. Officers who investigated Thursday night found a "no left turn" sign, which usually occupies a place in the middle of the Second and Sierra street intersection snagged in the Southern Pacific railroad tracks one block north. Officers were able to learn that the car which performed the unlicensed (and unlawful) moving chore was a 1950 or 1951 "Chevrolet or Oldsmobile," grey with black splotches. Bystanders said the front wheels were knocked out of line by the encounter and one head-lipht was smashed.

Police patrolled the area but were not able to. locate the distinctly painted and battered ve- Irele. Seeks to Halt New Annexation Washoe county 'commissioners were asked this morning to block the city of Reno's annexation of land between Airport Road and Mill street west of Reno airport George D. Quimby appeared be. fore the commissioners saying he represented two-thirds of the property owners in the area.

The property owners have filed a pro test with Reno City Clerk Elliott Gill, but Ci said the protest would not become a public record until it is presented to the city council Monday night. Several of the property owners appeared at the last council meet ing to protest the annexation, and were told that the annexation as lor the purpose ot squaring off" city boundaries. The proposed new airport terminal is to be in the area Quimby protested that this was strange reasoning when the city has recently annexed a "lengthy fry-pan handle along South Vir ginia road. He referred to the recent an nexation of a 1000 foot strip an nexed along the center line of highway 395 from former city limits to Hash lane. Quimby is still involved in an annexation of land near the airport 2'i years ago.

His law suit protesting the earlier annexation is now in the Nevada supreme court, where he is appealing a de cision against him in Washoe county district court. Before mentioning the annexa tion, Quimby asked the commis sioners for their help in aiding de velopment of five acre federal tracts near ML Rose road. He said he was representing a group of individuals who have applied for land in the area. Regional Planning Director Raymond M. Smith said a lack of advance planning in five acre tract development causes substandard areas which are a burden upon the county, and Quimby said his group was illing to cooperate in the advance planning.

Commissioners said they would schedule a meeting of the ML Rose road group and federal.land management officials to discuss the situation next week. New zoning plans for highway 40 est of Reno were presented to commissioners with the approval of the Regional Planning commis sion. A public hearing on a new zoning ordinance following the planning commission plan was scheduled for 7:30 p. m. May 10.

A billboard control ordinance prepared by the planning commis sion was referred to the Washoe county district attorney for study. Land between Lake Tahoe and highway 28, along the lake shore near Incline Bach was rezoned to permit residences on smaller lots at the request of George Whittell. No one appeared to pro test the change. MESSAGE HELD Reno police hold an urgent message for Kohert Bannister..