Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

SB" Thousands witness air records topple at Stead second with 204.352 and Pat Pal teo, Calif, with 336.748 m.p.h. set last year by Gunther Balz of Kalamazoo, Mich. Clifford Cummins of River In a tight race for second, far behind Mrs. Wagner were Bob Downey of Whittier, Calif, and Don Beck of Tahoe Vista, Calif. Downey managed to keep his lead of a nose on the last lap and edged out Beck with a speed of 209.404 m.p.h.

Beck was clocked at the same speed. Richard Sykes of Toluca Lake, Calif, and Bob Metcalfe of Plaza Del Iley, Calif, won second and third places in the AT-6 consolation race behind record setter Lowers. Svkes turned in a speed of ,203.261 m.p.h. and Metcalfe a Lyle Shclton of Granada Hills, Calif. Sunday broke the national record for the Unlimited Class at the Reno National Championship Air Races by flying an F8F Bearcat 428.155 miles per hour in front of a record crowd.

Sport biplanes broke three national air race records Sunday also. More than 32,000 persons attended the races Sunday, breaking attendance records for the 10-year history of the event. Officials said three-day attendance was 60,000. Latecomers Sunday overflowed the bleachers at Stead and sat on the apron of the runway in front of the stands stretching more than, a mile along the airfield. PREVIOUS MARK Shelton's record broke the previous mark of 416.160 m.p.h.

139.026 m.p.h., second, and former champion Bill Bo-land of Carmichael, Calif. 137.843 m.p.h., third. Other results included: Unlimited, consolation Lloyd Hamilton of Santa Rosa, Calif. 382.750 m.p.h.; Lefty Gardner of Brownwood, Texas, 366.545 m.p.h.; Kenneth Bernstine Ft. Lauderdale, 362.264 m.p.h.

AT-6, medallion Roy McClain of Eufaula, 199.692 m.p.h.; Ralph Twombly of Wellsville, N.Y., 197.080 m.p.h.; Dennis Buehn of Long Beach, Calif. 195.948 m.p.h. Formula medallion Eddia Meier of Sonoma, 200.493 m.p.h.; State Sen. William Sullivan of Henderson, 194.65.1 m.p.h.; Kenn Haas of Thousand Oaks, 190.981 m.p.h. mer of Seattle, Wash, placed third with 203.822.

Three non-race, qualifying heat records also were set in this year's races. Shelton set a qualifying record for the unlimited class at 426.602 m.p.h., William Falck of Warwick, N.Y. set a qualifying time record in the Formula I class at 235.294 m.p.h. and Sidney White set a Sport Biplane qualifying record at 194.245 m.p.h. MEDALLION RACE In the only non-championship race run Sunday, John Wright of Reno won the Unlimited Me dallion race in his No.

20 P-51. In the championship race Wright flew the plane of last year's winner, Gunther Balz, also a P-51. In second and third place, were John Crocker of San Ma ord of 225.548 m.p.h. by winning the Formula I competition for the sixth year in a row with a speed of 231.263. John Paul Jones of Granada Hill, Calif, came in second with 229.543 and Bob Moeller finished third at 225.376.

Sidney White of Sherman Oaks, Calif, set a new national Sport Biplane record of 194.946 m.p.h. breaking the old record of 189.723 set last year by Don Beck of Tahoe Vista, Calif. Beck barely edged out David Forbes of Atherton, Calif, with a speed of 184.615 m.p.h. over Forbes' 184.497. AT-6 CLASS The AT-6 class championship was won by William Turnbull of Lewisville, Texas with a speed of 206.600 m.p.h.

James Mott of Carson, Calif, placed Reno TELEPHONE 323-3161 speed of 201.806 m.p.h. SPORT BIPLANE In the sport biplane consolation race, the results were: Earl Hoffman, of Carnegie, 141.176 m.p.h, first; last year's winner and Reno record holder Don Beck of Tahoe Vista, Evening Reno Air Race success hailed Race crowds tax facilities RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1973 BSm2fiS J5d cftm PH. and Dave Norland of Denver, Colo, with 311.340 m.p.h. A first prize of $1,809 was awarded in the Formula I class, $1,700 in the AT-6 class and $1,000 in the Formula I class. In the Saturday consolation race of the AT-6 class, Jack Lowers of Clinton, N.C., turned in a speed of 212.390 miles per hour, breaking the previous world record of 210.530 m.p.h.

set by John Mosby in Miami earlier this year. Lowers' speed also topped a previous Reno race record of 205.843 m.p.h. set by Robert Mitchem of Broomfield, Colo, in 1971. Lowers, who led the pack all the way in Saturday's event, was barely edged in the final championship race Friday when for Reno Reno. The $3 million completion in the spring.

denied in Nevada but can go elsewhere to be licensed." Baker said he has asked the Board of Medical Examiners for reasons why applicants can't be licensed, but was told candidates were turned down "for this reason, that reason or no reason at all if it comes to that. "We are ordinary people who require medical care," he said. "We do not need a Mayo Clinic, just competent physicians." Kirk V. Cammack, M.D., a member of the Board of Exam iners from Las Vegas, later told the meeting the rural commun ities seem to be preoccupied with getting a "warm body." "You have to have some sort of rules and regulations," he said, "because a warm body isn't enough. You need someone motivated to stay in the community, and a doctor that should be able to pass most of the tests." Del Chemical president marries in Reno Rocco Youse, president of the Del Chemical has been married to a Lake Tahoe woman in a private ceremony in Reno.

A spokesman at the firm's office said Youse, 48, was married Sunday to Donna Lee Peck-enpaugh, 34, of Incline Village. The spokesman would not comment further, saying Youse did not want publicity. he finished fourth in his heat with a speed of 195.122 m.p.h. SATURDAY CROWD An i a 20.000 fans packed the bleechers at Stead Saturday. One of the racing planes, which all fly close to the ground, got closer than most when a Formula I plane piloted by James Hoover of Salt Lake City hit the ground Saturday with one of its wingtips.

Hoover recovered in time and the plane finished the race with a speed of 194.726 m.p.h. That Formula I consolation race was won by the air races' only woman pilot, Judy Wagner, a housewife from Torrance, Calif. Mrs. Wagner, flying No. 44 "Wagner's Solution," finished with a speed of 211.869 m.p.h.

Other Saturday results included: THIRTEEN project is scheduled for Construction under way on Reno hotel Construction has begun on a seven-story hotel on the north west corner of Third and West streets in Reno. The 167-room complex with two underground levels of park ing is expected to be open in the spring, according to Ed Kenney of Ed Kenncy and Associates who is the designer and building consultant on the pro ject. Owner of the building is listed as CFS Corporation who Kenney said are three local bus inessmen, Mathew Chotas, Joe Fischer and Bob Scoggin. The new addition to Reno lodging will be called the Kings Inn and will be part of the Best Western hotel chain.Ken- ney said. It will be completed at an estimated cost of $3 million and is scheduled to include a casino area, a restaurant and bar, convention area, show lounge and a swimming pool on the third floor for hotel Kenney said excavation has already been started on the land, a culmination of plans which have been in the offing for approximately one year.

Nevada Road Toll This year to date: 194 Last vcar to date: 194 GEEJHAT'P 55 NEAT side, Calif, came in second and John Wright of Reno third, when Robert Love of San Jose, Calif, and Bud Fountain of Oakdale, Calif, were forced to pull out of the race with engine trouble. Love at one time was in second place in his P-51. It was the first time Love had returned to the Reno Air Races since the first race in 1964 when he was disqualified after finishing first. Both Love and Fountain landed safely during the race. First prize of $9,000 went to Shelton, Cummins won $5,625 and Wright $4,050.

NEW MARK Raymond Cote of El Cajon, Calif, broke his own race rec maximum, Powers said. "There is no more room in the town. The entire community is taxed to its limits. Whatever the economic absorbtion it has to be in the millions and mil lions of dollars." "It is the biggest single week the Reno area has as far as tourism goes," Smith said. "The people tend to come and stay longer.

The pilots and crews come in the previous weekend and enthusiasts come in all week long. You've got most people staying a minimum of three nights." The air races compare fa vorably with three day week ends, Smith said, "But people stay a longer period of time so in overall terms it is larger." Smith and Powers both com mented on the community nature of the event. "The warmth of feeling between the people who participate and the people of Reno is a real strong thing," Smith said. "The entire thing is a com munity volunteer effort," Pow ers said. "If we were to have a budget and have to pay for all the things which go together to make the air races, we could never have a race." Steam car papers said stolen The Washoe County district attorney's office and sheriff's office and the Reno police are investigating the reported theft of industrial secrets valued at $1 million from Lear Motors.

Owner William Lear told po lice research material on his steam engine disappeared from the Stead plant. A recently discharged em ploye was questioned about the missing documents, a deputy district attorney said. But, the man opened his residence to investigators and nothing was found. The man's wife was arrested Friday at Boynton and Peckham lanes for investigation of driv ing without a license and was ordered held for questioning by the district attorney's office. Deputy Dist.

Atty. Cal Dunlap said today there is no criminal evidence against the couple. He said Lear indicated he would proceed in civil court to attempt to recover the documents. Reno's first stamp show judges named A Washoe district judge and the owner of a stamp company will work together this weekend to judge entries in Reno's first stamp exhibition. The exhibition is being spon sored by the Reno Junior Stamp Club and will be held Saturday afternoon in the Park Lane Mall.

Judge William Forman and A. Visconte, owner of the Visconte Stamp Company, will judge exhibits in six classes. The collections will also be on display to the public. Exhibits include souvenir sheets dating to 1930, U.S. mint stamp classics, stamps with er rors, 19th century foreip stamps, First Day covers and complete flag sets of topical collections.

Other items of interest dealing with stamp collecting will also be on display. Prizes will be awarded to all entrants by the Visconte Stamp Store. This is an architect's drawing of the new Kings Inn hotel now under construction on the northwest corner of West and Third streets in downtown New hotel Rura lack doctor debated "It has been an all-time record breaker from every standpoint." Roy Powers, chairman-elect of the board of directors for the Reno National Championship Air Races, was talking about the success of this year's event, which ended Sunday. "In every way this was a year that couldn't be matched," he said. SOME CAUTION He, however, was more cautious in his discussion of air races to come.

"The future is still an unknown commodity, but I am sure the air race board would support me in saying we are going to have an air race in 1974 and we hope to have it at Stead." He said every effort would be made to secure the Stead field for next year's races, but that the board realizes another site will eventually have to be found. "This will be a paramount project in the coming year," he said. Increasing residential and industrial development at Stead is threatening to restrict use of the air field. There is fear the Federal Aviation Administration might prohibit the use of the field for the races. Powers, however, was enthusiastic as he described the success of this year's race.

"There were no real problems. Even with, the obvious problem of the unexpected overflow of the crowd we were still able to handle it, because the people were so cooperative. I can't express the way the crowds behaved." Powers and Ron Smith, of the Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce, said the economic impact of the air races on the community is great. "The impact has to be the Three hurt in weekend accidents Three persons still were hospitalized today with injuries suffered in two weekend traffic accidents in the Reno-Sparks-Carson City area. Two of the victims were hurt Friday night at 14th and streets in Sparks, where two cars collided head-on.

One driver, Vicki Lu Sawyer, 25, of 12181 Green Mountain Stead, was listed in serious condition at Washoe Medical Center. A passenger in the other car, Frances A. Allen, 56, of Napa, was reported in fair condition. The other driver, Joe T. Allen, 56, was hurt less seriously, police said.

John Conley, 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed in fair condition in the same hospital after a one-car accident Saturday morning north of Carson City. The Nevada Highway Patrol reported his car hit a road marker by U.S. Highway 395, vaulted a guard rail and rolled over. Ex-councilman York released from hospital Former Reno City Councilman Ernie York has been released from the hospital. He was hospitalized Aug.

30, for treatment of a heart attack. He was released several days aco. He said his doctor has ordered him to, "take it easy (and) build up my "activities slowly." He is the owner of the Mt. Rose Sporting Goods stores and served on the council from 1965 until his retirement in July. He So large was the crowd Sunday at the Reno National Championship Air Races that spectators overflowed from the stands, campers outnumbered available spaces and the Stead Road was forced to become one way, Keno ponce said.

A spokesman for the 21 of ficers hired for race security said he didn't know how many spectators had to sit on the concrete in front of the stands, but "there were eight to nine rows for three-tenths of a mile." MANY ANGRY Many were angry at the lack of bleacher seats, for which they had purchased tickets. Police said there were sup posed to be 22,000 bleacher seats. But, about every other person took an ice chest. The officer Reno woman asks divorce from fugitive The wife of a man named on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list for investigation of the shooting of a Reno school principal in 1972 has filed for divoorce in Washoe District Court. Marie L.

Knipmeyer filed suit Friday against Samuel G. Knipmeyer. In the affidavit accompanying the petition for divorce Mrs. Knopmeyer claims the couple was married April 20, 1946 in Kansas and are the parents of one minor child, a daughter aged 11. She says Knipmeyer left their hoss at 715 Montgomery Way in Reno at approximately 7:45 a.m.

May 4, 1972, as was his usual practice, for going to work at Libby Booth grade school where he was employed as a teacher. NO CONTACT She said she has neither seen nor personally hear from him since that time. Knipmeyer is charged with the shooting death of principal Virgil Ouren at the school May 4, 1972 and has since fled the area. He has not been located by law enforcement agencies and warrants are outstanding against him. Mrs, Knipmeyer says in the affidavit she has contacted the district attorney and the FBI and has conducted a search for her husband but since she has been unable to locate him is asking the court to grant her the divorce.

CREDIT CARDS She said since his departure she has received gasoline credit card receipts signed by him at out-of-state locations and the family automobile was found abandoned in Octillo, Calif. Judge John Gabriclli granted a petition ordering a summons to be published in area newspapers for Knipmeyer. Mrs. Knipmeyer is asking for $65 a month in child support for the daughter and possession of the family home. The petition for the divorce was filed by Charles Zeh of the Legal Aid Society after Mrs.

Knipmeyer swore in an affidavit she receives a monthly income of $140 and is unable to afford the legal costs involved. Acupuncture talk Gazette Carson City Bureau Acupuncture in Nevada will be discussed by Dr. William Edwards, secretary of the State Board of Chinese Medicine, at Tuesday's noon meeting of the Carson City Republican Worn en's Club. suggested persons be required to buy tickets for their ice chests next year He said this was the first year so many persons were allowed or forced to sit in front of the stands. The Stead area which was set up for campers was filled quickly, resulting in campers stopping wherever they could.

Police said there were tent cities in the university area of Stead. BIGGEST EVER As for the moving traffic, police called it "the biggest we've had" for the races. They said traffic still was heavy leaving Stead at 7:30 p.m. Before the races, it was backed up at one time to the Bonanza shopping area on U.S. Highway 395.

After the races, Stead resi-idents were forced to detour through Lemmon Valley back roads to get home from U.S. Highway 395. Police said motorists leaving Stead took over all three lanes of the Stead access road. Stars shun Elko film festival ELKO (AP) The seconj annual Western Film Festival has been held here with neither Raquel Welch nor John Wayne showing up for their awards. Miss Welch, voted best ac tress for her role in "Hannie Caulder," failed to show up Saturday along with John Wayne, voted best actor.

However, Chill Wills, a veter an of 40 films, attended the fes tival. Sponsored by the Elko Cham' ber of Commerce and the Nevada Department of Economic Development, the festival had a premiere showing of the film "Charlie Varrick," shot in Reno during 1972. Out of 10 possible choices at the festival, "Jeremiah Johnson" was picked as best movie of the year. Easter Seal campaign starts Tuesday The 1973 Easter Seal Mem bership Drive starts today according to Paul Laxalt, who is serving as Easter Seal's first statewide membership chair man. Laxalt said the drive is aimed at obtaining new memberships in Easter Seal Society as well as renewal of existing Easter Seal memberships which expire Oct.

31. Laxalt said the drive will be conducted primarily by mail. Letters from him will be mailed to current members, as well as those who've indicated a desire to help Nevada's bandi-capped. He noted that those who wish to become members but do not receive a letter can obtain membership materials by calling the Easter Seal So ciety or writing or stopping by their offices at 701 Greenbrae Drive, Sparks. The drive will continue through mid-October.

More than 95 per cent ol Easter Seal's funds stay in Nevada to provide care and treatment to the handicapped. Their programs include physical therapy and speech and hearing services in their Clark County and Reno Sparks Treatment Centers as well as mobile physical and speech therapy services in out-lying areas. Other programs include statewide equipment loan, consultation service and information-referral services. Reno chamber wins national media award The Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce has received an award for its communications program for 1973. The Reno chamber competed with approximately 200 other chambers of commerce for the award which evaluates the most effective means of communications used by the chambers of commerce and attempts to assist in the improvement of the communications tools.

The Reno chamber was praised in the award for the high degree of professionalism shown in its communications program. The award is part of the 1973 Communications Council Evaluation Program sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce executives. Entries were judged according to clarity of contest, quality of production, use and effectiveness, innova tive techniques and effective ness. Included in the evaluators were John Stempel, former chairman of the department of journalism, Indiana University; Dr. Paul Fisher, professor in the school of journalism at the University of Missouri; and Kenneth Goddard, former manager of the audio-visual department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Wash ington, D.C.

uf is mm) ALL ONE W(. in a to The shortage of rural doctors Nevada is due in part to lack of cooperation from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners, a Pershing County official said Saturday. At a symposium on the physician shortage problem in Nevada's rural communities, the chairman of the Pershing General Hospital Board of Trustees, Bob Baker, said he sees "little or no cooperation" from the state board. "Why does it seem impossible recruit physicians to the rural areas?" Baker asked. "Attract ing them does not seem to be the major problem.

They are Robber has change of heart Whittlesea Taxi driver Fran cisco Aponte drove after a rob bery, who finally threw his money back to him and fled, Sparks police said. Aponte said a young man he picked up at Prater Way bar Saturday night demanded his money at Pyramid Way and Street, saying he would kill him if he refused. Then, as the man ran with the cabbie's money, Aponte drove in pursuit. Finally, the fleeing man stopped, threw the money back onto the taxi seat, said, 'Here is your money," and fled. 75 HO0 U)lM A FEk), AMD HOU LOSE A FEW fikJS is 71 years old..