Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 29

Wednesday SEPTEMBER 8, 1982 RENO EVENING GAZETTE Section 2-8D NEVADA 3D OBITUARIES 1 9-15D CLASSIFIED Judge dears Cairsom City stoeoifff However, the judge said that at Tuesday's hearing Stalker admitted he did talk privately to local Justice of the Peace Tom Davis, and "he should have admitted it" earlier. Dunn said after the accusation was dismissed that he was "very gratified it's over. I think justice has been served." Dunn also said he didn't think the accusation would hurt his re-election bid because "people have had serious questions as to what was really going on." Stalker chaired a grand jury committee probing into use of city vehicles. Dunn was accused of "willful and corrupt misconduct," a non-criminal charge, for allegedly having his car serviced at city expense even though he got a car allow By BRENDAN RILEY The AP CARSON CITY Sheriff Hal Dunn, involved in a hotly contested election primary in one week, was cleared Tuesday of accusations that he improperly used city funds to have his car repaired and serviced. District Court Judge Mike Fondi ruled there was a "question about the credibility" of local grand jury member Harold Stalker, because he had caught Stalker in a lie.

Fondi said that at an Aug. 27 proceeding, at which he had decided that Dunn should stand trial, Stalker had testified he hadn't talked to anyone about grand jury proceedings involving the sheriff. ance of up to $275 monthly that was to cover such costs. Dunn's attorney, Bill Crowell, said Stalker had not only talked to Davis but also to other members of the local Elks Lodge. Among those was Robert Romer, who testified Stalker told him, "Boy, we're really going to get him," meaning Dunn.

Another Elk, Ron Wadsworth, testified Stalker told him "we're going to get that sucker," and also said he was "very happy" about getting a chance to investigate the sheriff. Also read into the record was a statement from former state Prisons Department chief Charles Wolff, another Elk, that Stalker had said of Sheriff "This guy's in a lot of trouble." Stalker denied making such comments, although he did say he went to Davis for advice after getting information on Dunn's use of city funds. District Attorney Bill Maddox urged that the accusation not be dismissed. He said several "brother" Elks had testified about Stalker's comments, and "about the only elks we haven't had in here are the ones with horns and tails." Maddox questioned the value of the statements, noting they were made only in the past few weeks and amounted to recollections of comments Stalker was supposed to have made several months ago. Differences few at GOP Senate debate By MARTIN GRIFFITH LAS VEGAS The five Republicans battling for Sen.

Howard Cannon's job got together here Tuesday night for a televised debate in which differences were few and far between. For the most part, the candidates took similar stands on the issues as the one-hour encounter turned into a contest to see who could give the strongest support to President Reagan. They took swipes at each other, but with none of the personal tone that marked the recently concluded series of three debates between Cannon and his Democratic primary challenger, Rep. Jim Santini. Participating in the debate at KLVX-TV were Las Vegas developer Rick Fore, Las Vegas businessman Chic Hecht, Las Vegas contractor Jack Kenney, Las Vegas business consultant Sam Cavnar and Pahrump carpenter George Briscoe.

The debate will be shown on a taped-delayed basis by KTVN-TV in Reno from 4-5 p.m. today. It was shown live on KLVX-TV Tuesday evening in Las Vegas. Fore, who held a 29-26 percentage edge over Hecht in a poll conducted last week for the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, claimed victory after the debate. "I don't think the debate will do anything but help me," he said.

"I think I show the confidence of a frontrunner and was well prepared on the issues. I'm optimistic about next Tuesday." Hecht, meanwhile, was reluctant to claim victory. Asked who he thought won the debate, he replied. photo by jean dixon "I don't know. Who do you think won? There was no rescue Of a pickup difference between us on the issues.

That's why I RESCUE: Care Flight helicopter nurse Maggie Tole, center, oversees the truck driver who crashed into a paving machine Tuesday on U.S. Highway 395 in Pleasant Valley state and my time in the state Senate." Danny Davis, 54, of Reno, was in serious condition Tuesday night in Reno's Washoe Medical Among other things, all five came out opposed to Center after undergoing several hours of surgery, according to a hospital spokeswoman. She said the Equal Rights Amendment, in support of a consti- 512-year sentence in kickback scheme Former Argent Corp. food and beverage director Victor Greger was sentenced Tuesday to five and one-half years in federal prison for a scheme in which vendors supplying Argent hotel-casinos were forced to pay kickbacks. Greger was convicted earlier this year of extortion and income tax evasion for not declaring an estimated $350,000 in kickbacks from the suppliers.

The indictment charged him with six counts of extortion and three of filing false income tax returns in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Greger was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine. During his trial, vendors who supplied milk, foodstuffs and other commodities to the restaurants and bars Greger managed testified they he told them they would not get contracts to serve Argent properties unless they paid "cash under the table." In addition, witnesses testified Greger demanded kickbacks from people wanting jobs as showroom captains in the casinos. During the mid-1970's, Argent owned the Stardust, Hacienda and Fremont Hotel-Casinos in Las Vegas. The corporation was forced to sell out by the Nevada Gaming Commission.

Brothel board seeks probe of D.A. office TONOPAH The Nye County Brothel Board voted Tuesday to ask Attorney General Richard Bryan to investigate allegations of corruption in the Nye County district attorney's office. With District Attorney Peter Knight, also a board member, casting the only negative vote, the board voted 4-1 in favor of writing Bryan a letter asking him to investigate the office. The vote came amid allegations that five tape recordings suggest wrongdoing within the office in connection with brothel licensing and regulation. The tapes allegedly include conversations involving Knight, John Adams, a district attorney's office investigator also running for sheriff, slain Shamrock brothel owner Bill Martin and Ken Kolojay, manager of the Lathrop Wells brothel.

The tapes were reportedly turned over to the FBI last week. Las Vegas casino voluntarily closes The Ambassador casino, a Las Vegas gambling hall attached to an off-strip 315-room hotel, voluntarily closed Tuesday because of financial problems. The hotel, bar and restaurant facilities of the Ambassador Inn will reopen in a few days but in the meantime employees were given several days off, officials said. The casino, leased to JenPar entered into federal court bankruptcy proceedings June 23. It closed at 6 a.m.

Tuesday. General manager Doug Jenni, a principal in JenPar said "financial problems relating to the lack of tourism and its result in the sagging local economy are reasons for the casino closure." The Ambassador Casino, which employed 80 people, had 140 slot machines, six blackjack tables and one craps table. "The hotel is a different entity," said Jenni. "The hotel will reopen its bar and restaurant in a couple of days but employees have been given a few days off to straighten things out." Jenni said Ambassador Casino problems started more than a year ago when the Ambassador Inn was sold to a group that allowed it to deteriorate. Bob Mayer forelosed on the group in December and during the past six months spent more than $1 million in renovations, said Jenni.

Jenni said he now intended to concentrate on building up the Opera House in Nittth Las Vegas, another JenPar owned property. He indicated some key employees from the Ambassador Casino would be used at the North Las Vegas club which currently employs 100 people and has 120 slot machines, four blackjack tables, restaurant and live entertainment at the bar. 5th newspaper endorses Santini LAS VEGAS Congressman Jim Santini has garnered another newspaper endorsement, bringing to five the number of newspapers in the state that have picked him over Sen. Howard Cannon. The Humboldt Sun, a Winnemucca paper, said in an editorial that Santini is "by far the better qualified of the two major candidates" for Cannon's Senate scat Santini has also been endorsed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Ely Daily Times and the Carson City Appeal.

Liquor store robbed 2nd time in a week The Fireside Inn Liquor Store, 205 E. Fourth Reno, was held up at 2:10 a.m. today the second time this week. A tall, slender, young man, wearing dark glasses and holding a pistol, demanded "all your money" from a clerk. Police said he fled with $160.

the driver of the Department of Transportation vehicle, Dennis Stegall, 36, of Reno, was released in tutlonaI amendment allowing prayer in the schools the afternoon after receiving treatment for minor wounds. piease see debate, page 2D Mothers and sons deported in shoplifting case or face possible deportation of the entire family. This morning the two mothers went to Wittenberg to pick up their sons, in a resolution that even the officer in charge of the Reno office of the immigration service acknowledged as having its bizarre aspects. The mothers and sons, as part of a busload of illegal aliens leaving from Sacramento, will be driven across the U.S. Mexican border at El Centro, Calif.

The rest of the family, including two male breadwinners and at least seven children, will remain in Reno. pursue cases brought to their attention, as this one was after the juveniles were accused of shoplifting two pairs of socks from a Sparks store. The boys who the father says are aged 11 and 12 but who juvenile probation officials say are 13 were kept at Wittenberg Hall Monday on an Immigration hold instead of being released to their parents. Tuesday the anxious parents were told that they would have to give themselves up to Immigration to regain the boys. Please see DEPORT, page 2C "We're not out looking for them.

We can only handle what we get our hands on," said Officer Robert Parks. If the Sparks Police Department had not sent the two boys to Wittenberg, the whole incident would never nave occurred, he acknowledged. And he's taking no odds on how long it will take for the family to be reunited in Reno. "It depends whether they want to. Whether they make it back.

I would imagine the chances are pretty good. The border situation is pretty out of control," Parks said. Nevertheless, Parks said his staff must Buchanan gets flak for using stationery By PAMELA GALLOWAY FAY Las Vegas regent James "Bucky" Buchanan says he has repaid the university $212 for stationery he used as campaign material, but says he saw nothing wrong with using university money to finance his own re-election bid. It is unclear whether the money was repaid before or after an election opponent brought the matter to the attention of Reno and Las Vegas newspapers. Buchanan, running for re-election in a crowded Las Vegas race, ordered 1,500 sheets of letterhead stationery and envelopes through the chancellor's office and used the stationery to ask athletics supporters for campaign donations last month.

"People want you to be so antiseptic. I see nothing wrong with it. Congress does it. Senators do it on their stationery," Buchanan said. Asked how he repaid the $212, Buchanan first said he gave the check to the chancellor.

Then he said he mailed the check to the chancellor's office last week before reporters' inquiries began. But a secretary in the chancellor's office said she thought Buchanan repaid the university only after reporters' inquiries Tuesday afternoon. She said she wasn't certain how repayment occurred, or to whom. System Controller Janet MacDonald said she hasn't received any checks from Buchanan. Andrea Rassuchine, who oversees the cashier's office, said she doesn't recall receiving such a check, and neither does the print shop.

The print shop should have been credited because it supplied the materials, Ms. MacDonald said. Another candidate for Buchanan's seat, Juan Manzur, a 23-year-old University of Nevada medical student, distributed copies of the letter to Nevada newspapers. He questioned a regent's use of university funds for campaigning. Manzur charged a newspaper reporter a nickle for a photocopy of the letter, saying he couldn't afford photocopying charges.

Buchanan's letter, dated Aug. 4, asks that money be donated to his campaign so that athletic programs can thrive. It states, in part: "In order to maintain the high quality of athletics that we have enjoyed and to assist us in achieving the special prominence in sports that we deserve, it is important to preserve and guarantee that these interests are forever looked after by those who have proven their ability to do so by their actions." It also says, "If you feel about athletics the way I know you do, your desire to Please see REGENT, page 2D By HELEN MANNING Four members of a Mexican-born Reno family are on their way back to Mexicali as a result of events set in motion by the Monday arrest of two boys on a shoplifting charge. The boys were taken to Wittenberg Hall, which notified the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The agency placed a hold on the juveniles that blocked their release to their parents.

Instead, the families were contacted Tuesday and confronted with an agonizing decision: To leave a young son and nephew in Washoe County juvenile hall Critic praises List for stand on Lake Tahoe By PATRICK O'DRISCOLL Gov. Robert List, under frequent attack from environmentalists over his involvement in Lake Tahoe planning matters, got a written bouquet this week from one of his critics. Dwight Steele, considered the most pro-environment member of California's delegation to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), sent List a letter thanking him for "your part in the reversal of position on environmental threshold standards by the majority of Nevada TRPA members." Steele was referring to the hard-fought agreement finally reached two weeks ago by the bistate board to adopt fairly strict standards for nine environmental values at Lake Tahoe from air and water quality to scenic values. "All those who want to keep Tahoe blue and restore its clear air and uncongested beauty owe you a debt of gratitude wrote in his Sept. 2 letter.

"I particularly appreciate what you did because, as you know, I felt the removal from TRPA of Nevada representatives who had a balanced concern for public interests, and their replacement with pro-development designees, really flouted the compact's intents and public concerns," the letter added. Steele and others had criticized List when the governor pulled Roland Wester-gard, Nevada's director of conservation and natural resources, from the board last spring. The League to Save Lake Tahoe also attacked List this summer when the governor, filling another Please see TAHOE, page 2D 3rd suspect arrested in Carlson slaying Johnson said he was outside his house, talking to Williams, when Alan Carlson screamed upon finding his wife's body. Johnson said when he ran into Carlson's house to determine what had happened, Williams went with him. Richard Iori, director of the Job Corps, said Wilkinson had been a student at the institution for about one year.

He was suspended in early June for disciplinary reasons. Mills Lane, the Sheriff's Department's chief criminal deputy, said the warrant charges Wilkinson with murder and bur- glary. Williams and Young are in the Please see SUSPECT, page 2D By WAYNE MELTON The arrest Tuesday of a third suspect in the slaying of pregnant nurse Katherine Carlson wraps up the case, Washoe County sheriff's deputies said today. No further arrests are expected. Washoe detectives arrested Charles K.

Wilkinson, 21, at the Oakland Police Department, where they had been questioning him Tuesday about the slaying. The officers arrested him on a warrant signed by District Judge William For-man. The Sheriff's Department believes Wilkinson, Harvey J. Young, 20, and Cary Williams. 19.

broke into Mrs. Carlson's house at 2210 Seneca Drive at night to burglarize it. The victim, found unexpectedly home alone, was stabbed many times. Wilkinson and Williams are former members of the Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center in Stead. Young was a member at the time the slaying took place.

Mrs. Carlson's husband, Alan, was at work as a firefighter at Reno International Airport. He discovered her bloody body on a bed when he arrived home at about 8 a.m. the next day, June 28. Williams had been living with a family in the next block.

Neighbor Vince Johnson said Mrs. Carlson knew who Williams was and had seen him just the day before. 3.