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Reno Evening Gazette Tuesday, December 19, 197ft Lear considers leaving Reno River Inn bankrupt (Continued from Page 1) poorly for the state If Lear Avla, an established Nevada corporation, were to pull up stakes. Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce manager Jud Allen said he thinks there is little the community can do to keep Lear Avla, under the circumstances. He said, "Lear has been an excellent organization, and I'd hate seeing them go. But we've got a lot of problems that have to be solved for the whole community. "I can't see concentrating everything to hold one business.

There are so many businesses wanting to come into Reno. We're In the rather enviable position where if one departs, there are ble, based on experiences with Learjet production years, she said. She said the out-of-state move cannot be avoided, "unless we have some help from the city In getting some low cost housing built." With today's Reno area housing situation, she said, there's no place left for her production crews to live. Asked about the sale of the 500 acres planned for housing development, Mrs. Lear said, "Our business is building airplanes.

We had to make up our minds whether we were going to build airplanes or develop real estate. We decided to keep building airplanes, so we sold the land." plenty of others ready to come in and fill the void." If a move does take place, Mrs. Lear said, it will coincide with the beginning of production of the company's new turbine-powered LearFan business aircraft, sometime in 1981. The Stead plant now Is in production of a mockup of the new airplane. Lear Avia has 160 employees with a payroll of about $500,000 a month, Mrs.

Lear said. But when production of the new plane begins, tentatively in the closing quarter of 1981, the payroll will jump to nearly 1,300, at an estimated $20 million a year. After production is underway, that payroll could more than dou (Continued from Page 1) state of disbelief after the sudden closure of the landmark casino on the Truckee River. Most of them have no jobs and no place to go. About half of the 55-GO employees were resident of the recreational vehicle park or a River Inn hotel room so in addition to losing their jobs, they also lost their homes.

"I have a truck, a camper-trailer and no hitch," said head housekeeper Melody Baribault. "I have no place to park." Although most casinos are not hiring this time of year, she said her worst problem will be to find a place for herself, her four children and her husband to live. River Inn manager Lorrie Bee-don was doing her best to find places for the 25 or so recreation-' al vehicles still in the park. By court order they were to be out by noon today but many said they did not see how they could negotiate the frozen slush covering the parking area to get out of the riverside recreation complex. Every few minutes Mrs.

Beedon gave a tearful hug to a departing employee. Most of those leaving said they did not know where they were going. A dishwasher standing in the entrance said he could not even say whether he would remain in the Reno area. Mrs. Beedon said an outpouring of goodwill has come in reaction to the glum pre-Christmas news.

A Silver Springs man offered the use of his mobile home for several employees rent-free for several months and threw in a well- stocked supply of groceries. A Reno minister offered lodging for five people. And one of the security guards assigned by the bank to oversee the bankruptcy closure brought a load of groceries to work with him this morning to give to the now-homeless employees. Mrs. Beedon said she managed to pay about half the employees their wages for the previous ten days after a Reno man who owed the casino $1,000 repaid the debt this morning.

She was hoping the meat company which was repossessing the hotel's meat supplies would come through with another to meet more payroll. "She's got most of our money for us," said one employee. "She really fought for it." Mary De Lisle, manager of the recreational vehicle park, noted that many of the families have paid their rent through the end of the month, but "there's no way to refund the monev." Coupled with that, Ms. De Lisle said, "The River Inn is the only park in the area that rents to families and rents by the month. Many of the people don't have enough money to move or another RV park to move to." Mrs.

Beeden said original order called for all to move by Saturday, but that River Inn owner Charles Schlegel talked the bank into waiting until Monday. Then, Monday's snowstorm extended that deadline to today. "I gave some food to some of them because they have no money. They haven't been paid," she said. GambIing myths dispeled County making progress Washoe County has made significant progress in improving its financial operations during the last fiscal year, an audit report indicated today.

The audit report was presented to the county commission by David Ebner, of the firm of Ka-foury, Armstrong, Turner and Company, the county's auditors. The audit found no substantial problems in the county's accounting procedures. It made only one recommendation, that the county participate in the Certificate of Conformance Program sponsored by the Municipal Finance Officers Association. That program, according to Ebner, promotes uniform professional standards in governmental financial reporting. It involves a judging process, and only those annual financial reports with the highest standards of reporting qualify for the certificate, he said.

During the year, the audit said, the county has made progress in the following areas: Adoption of an ordinance providing procedural guidelines for handling grant monies, resulting In improved financial record-keeping. The hiring of a risk-management analyst in an effort to control both losses and the rising costs of insurance. Reports by the county's management analysis program team on several departments, exploring various cost control alternatives for county operations. The team is currently reviewing several other areas of county operations. (Continued from Page 1) dents before I began to think 1 had a problem," he says today.

He believes, like a reformed alcoholic, that a compulsive gambler has "to hit rock bottom" before he can recover. But the judge wouldn't allow the case to be rushed, and said he wanted to wait a month before sentencing. "The judge forced me into Gambler's Anonymous," said Fulcher. "If he hadn't done that, I would be out at the craps tables rolling dice today instead of in here talking." Fulcher believes that forcing compulsive gamblers into treatment programs is the best approach, because they won't be rehabilitated in prison. Two psychiatrists at today's seminar agreed with him.

"Any one of you at this table oppose taking into account mental disabilities or weaknesses after a trial, but this should not be part of the factfinding process. "I don't think people who sit on juries are ready to excuse compuslive behavior. You can find almost anything wrong' with a defendant's mind in nearly any case," he said. He said that often, trials in which defendants offer pleas of insanity "deteriorate into a battle of psychiatrists; often, they can't agree among them-seves about a defintiion. Some writers believe the place of psychiatrists in the courtroom is coming to an end.

"Let's sentence compulsive gamblers, then ask psychiatrists for the prognosis for the future and possible treatment programs." could be conned by a compulsive gambler," he said. "But Gamblers Anonoymous members cannot be conned." Dr. Robert Custer of the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., told the group that the American Psychiatric Association is preparing to to its diagnostic manual a definition of compulsive gambling as a treatable illness. Its definition would this be similar to the definition for alcoholism. The end result might be that some courts would allow a definition of diminished capacity or partial responsibility as a defense In crimes committeed by a compulsive gambler.

But one who spoke out in opposition to this idea was Calvin Dunlap, Washoe County's district attorney elect. He told the group he does not Voters staying away Jones charged in cult slayings ter of Mrs. Amos who was slashed but survived. They were slain the day more than 900 Temple members died at the Jonestown camp, 150 miles northwest of here, in a frenzy of suicide and murder at the command of Jones' father. Jim Jones also died.

Stephan Jones had testified earlier in the hearing that at the time of the Amos slayings he was at a hotel in Georgetown, where he had come with the Peoples Temple basketball team. (Continued from Page 1) where the murders took place, testimony backed up by other cult members. At the request of both prosecutor and magistrate, he then r3peated the supposed confession three times, but later Monday he told reporters he was just "mad. I'm tired of being pushed around." When the court came back into session today, Magistrate Desmond Christian granted a prose-cation motion to suspend the Beik-man hearing until Jan. 10.

Then the charges against Jones were read out. Both Jones and the 43-year-old Beikman were ordered held without bail. As he was led from the prisoner's dock, Jones said, "This is absurd. I wasn't even there." They are charged in the killing of Sharon Amos. 42, and her three children, aged 9 to 21, who were found with their throats slit at the cult's Georgetown headquarters.

They also are accused of attempted murder of a 12-year-old daugh citizen in the face of large public and private institutions and increasingly complex problems; "The role that mass media, especially television, have in creating confusion in the minds of some, and "The degree to which our public dialogue reflects none of the central public questions of the day." Gans said "technical solutions," such as streamlined registration, more polling places, shorter ballots, fewer elections and better voter information, would increase turnout marginally but were not the true answer to the non-participation problem. The committee's president, Maurice Rosenblatt, said: "What is disturbing about the continuing non-voting trend on the part of an ever-increasing number of Americans is that there may be a real danger that we are losing the votes of the broadly concerned citizen, leaving the field to those motivated by narrow, parochial and emotional interests. "The continuing decline in participation may affect not only the quantity of participants in the electoral process but the quality of American democracy," he added. WASHINGTON (AP) The percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in the Nov. 7 elections was the lowest in 36 years and continued a'long-term trend toward non-participation at the polls, researchers say.

Statewide races attracted only 37.9 percent of the electorate, compared with the 39 percent who voted in 1974, also a non-presidential year, said a report issued Monday by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. The committee, which describes itself as a non-profit, bi-partisan research said that while final figures for congressional elections are not in, the turnout for those races is expected to be under 35 percent. That would mark the lowest participation since 32.5 percent voted in the wartime year of 1942. Committee Director Curtis B. Gans said there may be four fundamental reasons why 90 million Americans failed to exercise their franchise this year: "The decay of political and social institutions, most notably the political party; "The growing impotence felt by the Defense gets classified material Mineral loses doctors HAWTHORNE After July 1, 1979, the Health Systems Research Institute no longer will provide physicians for Mineral County or operate the Community Health Care Center.

Mineral County commissioners have entered into an agreement with the Central Nevada Rural Health Consortium to take over operation of the Community Health Care Clinic and provide doctors from the National Health Service Corp. Mineral County has been without a private practicing physician for several vears. However, the government prosecutors declined to say specifically what the classified documents contain. The disclosures were made during the pretrial hearing U.S. District Judge William B.

Bry ant held on a government proposal to. limit the defense's access to classified information. Bryant reserved decision on the request. The three officials are due to go on trial Jan. 22.

But both sides said Monday the disagreements over disclosure of government information could force a delay. Gray, Felt and Miller face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 each if convicted. The defendants have said that part of their defense will rest on the contention that the allegedly illegal surveillance had been common practice by the government for more than 25 years. A Ml Gift for Winter WASHINGTON (AP) Government prosecutors have turned over classified material to lawyers for three former FBI officials accused of conducting illegal surveillance. Now the Justice Department says it wants the material returned.

Meanwhile, the attorneys for the accused officials said at a pretrial hearing Monday that the government was making it difficult for them to conduct a defense because sensitive government documents were being withheld and censored. Alan I. Baron, who is representing former acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III, said, "we are being denied the right to conduct a defense." The other defendants are former assistant FBI Director Edward S. Miller and former Associate Director W.

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