Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 35

NEVADA Wednesday, June 30, 1982 Reno Evening Gazette 3D Indians sue to prevent school's transfer erty to the state. Watt agreed. According to the suit, the transfer is illegal because Watt and List failed to gain consent from the Indians who historically used the property, and because they failed to give the historic preservation board an opportunity to comment. Also, the suit charges, the state's original transfer of the land to the federal government remains in effect until Congress and the Nevada Legislature void it. The Inter-Tribal Council prepared a plan last April suggesting a number of possible uses for the campus if it were to remain under Indian control.

Among the proposed uses for the site were housing, a vocational training institute, a youth hostel, a conference center, warehousing or a centralized Indian administration center. By MITCHELL LANDSBERG The AP Nevada Indians have filed suit against Interior Secretary James Watt and Gov. Robert List to halt the transfer of the Stewart Indian School to the state. Reno attorney Peter Sferrazza said Tuesday that he was serving List, Watt and others with notice that the proposed transfer of the historic school was in violation of state and federal law and would be "immoral." Watt has agreed to transfer title of 50 central acres at Stewart to the state for likely use as a prison. The school, three miles southeast of Carson City, was shut down last fall after more than 80 years of operation.

The lawsuit to halt the transfer was filed by the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, which represents 23 Indian tribes in Nevada. "Not only would it be illegal for the Secretary of Interior to convey the Stewart Indian School complex to the state of Nevada, but it also would be immoral," Sferrazza wrote in a petition for a preliminary injunction. "To permit the federal government and the state of Nevada to turn a historic monument with so much meaning to Indians throughout the southwestern United States into a prison constitutes a travesty of justice and an affront to Native Americans throughout the United States." Steve Robinson, a spokesman for the List administration, said he couldn't discuss the lawsuit. "I wouldn't have any comment because I haven't seen it," he said. According to Robinson, the state is in the process of conducting negotiations with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the takeover of the property.

He said most of the points of contention in the negotiations have been smoothed out. "The issue now is water rights," he said. The handsome complex of fire-resistant stone buildings at Stewart has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places by the state Advisory Board for Historic Preservation and Archaeology. The property was ceded to the federal government by the state in 1887 and opened as a boarding school for Indian children from throughout the Southwest on Dec. 17, 1890.

After reaching a peak of about 600 students, enrollment began declining in the 1970s. After the school closed last fall, List asked Watt to return the prop Vucanovich chided for rejecting debate By MARTIN GRIFFITH Republican congressional hopeful Dean Rhoads has attacked GOP rival Barbara Vucanovich for her reluctance to participate in a series of three debates across Northern Nevada. Calling her position on the debates "disturbing," Rhoads said they would help residents in Nevada's new northern congressional district select the best qualified Republican for the post. Paul Prengaman and Joni Wines, who also are seeking the GOP nomination, agreed to participate after Rhoads proposed the debates earlier this month. Republican Donald Louis Capps is undecided.

"The reason for a primary is to select a party's standard-bearer for the general, hence the need for primary voters to be well-informed," Rhoads said. "Ms. Vucanovich appears to be against a well-informed primary voter." His criticism came one day after Mrs. Vucanovich said she would sponsor and pay for a forum that would bring together candidates from both parties. She said Rhoads' proposal could prove divisive.

Mrs. Vucanovich, who calls herself the GOP favorite, sent a letter to other candidates from both parties suggesting three forums at various locations in the state. "You know that your real opponents are not within your own party," she said in the letter. "You are running against the positions and philosophies promoted by the other party. Rather than fight among ourselves, let's take the fight to the other side." However, Rhoads, a three-term assemblyman from Tuscarora, shrugged off her suggestion, saying a debate between the two sides only makes sense after the primary.

"The question that begs an answer is why is Ms. Vucanovich avoiding a debate of issues and qualifications?" he asked. "Ms. Vucanovich's response assumes all Republicans are alike in position this is not the case Bill Martin, Mrs. Vucanovich's media adviser, said she's leaning against joining the debates, but has not ruled it out.

Controls on guards urged Fallout claims disputed Beck's study conflicts with one done by Dr. Joseph Lyon of the University of Utah Medical School. Lyon found cancer rates in five Southwestern Utah counties were nearly 2 times the state average. Special gaming meeting set LAS VEGAS (AP) The Nevada Gaming Commission will hold a special session Thursday to discuss gaming credit regulations. The public hearing will review regulations written by the Gaming Control Board to implement a bill passed by the 1981 legislature regarding which casino markers can be taxed and which cannot.

Under current legislation, markers which are issued in accordance with state law are permitted to be written off from a casino's gross revenue figures until they are repaid by a gambler. Markers which are issued improperly, such as ignoring proper credit checks, are to be taxed by the control board. LAS VEGAS (AP) A government researcher says his 1979 study of soil samples in 56 Utah communities shows there was not enough fallout from nuclear testing to cause a high rate of leukemia. Dr. Harold Beck, a New York-based researcher for the Department of Energy, says he is not disputing a high incidence of leukemia among the Utah residents.

But he says his study concludes the leukemia was not caused by fallout from atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site. Beck told members of the Health Physics Society, meeting in Las Vegas, that his study shows residents of the 56 communities received less than .300 mil-lirems of leukemia-causing radiation from atmospheric testing between 1951 and 1963. He says none of these doses would cause significant leukemias. Current health standards maintain that civilian populations can receive .500 millirems of radiation a year without ill effects. LAS VEGAS (AP) Clark County authorities are calling for stronger controls on armed security guards and private patrolmen, a move bitterly opposed by the industry.

Assistant Sheriff Jere Vanek called for the tougher controls in a meeting with county officials Tuesday. Representatives of the Nevada Association of Licensed Investigators objected, saying they are already over-regulated and new rules would just add a new level of bureaucracy. Vanek said tougher rules are needed because guards are allowed to carry guns. He said there have been several cases of guns being discharged accidentally in shopping centers and apartment complex parking lots. A compromise proposed by the county would require guards to attend firearm safety courses, undergo a background investigation and be free of any criminal convictions.

Low-income homes approved LAS VEGAS (AP) The Clark County Planning Commission Tuesday night approved a low-income apartment complex despite the protests of some 170 angry East Las Vegas residents. The Clark County Commission will have the final say on the 119-unit project at its meeting July 20. Residents of Spring Valley, on the city's west side, successfully fought the development last year, saying the project would boost the crime rate, crowd overburdened schools and lower property values. Assembly candidate Patricia Jarman told commissioners that East Las Vegas was becoming the "dumping ground of the county." She said the area was in need of rejuvenation, not the low income housing project. The commission was presented a petition with more than 1,000 signatures of people who opposed the project.

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