Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

RENO EVENING GAZETTE PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955 PAGE THIRTEEN if Si, lA New Vegas Hotels Fail to Pay Bills Liens Reported Filed Against Riviera, Royal Nevada, Others The first outward indication that the. resjrt hotel bubble in Las Vegas is nearing the bursting-point came in Carson this morning at a regular meeting of the Nevada'' Tax Commission. Two Las Vegas men, acting as spokesmen for the Las Vegas Builders Exchange revealed that at least five resort hotels had experienced difficulty in meeting bills Vf fc-VTSti. If! fly Tvforx 1 1 k) 'V 1 rj 'jVv owed to sub-contractors and NEW GRANDSTAND READY Pat Deaton, the clubhouse and the steel and concrete stands at the south end of the arena. Each seat has a back rest and the sections can be moved as desired.

(Gross photo) Reno rodeo queen, inspects the new steel and concrete grandstand at the Reno rodeo grounds. Seating 500 the new stand is located between LUCKY RENO MARINE RESERVES are visited by RKO movie star, Mari Blanchard, while they are undergoing two weeks of training at the Naval Amphibious base with the Troop Training Unit, Moftett, of 850 Steve Morris, local lads. Coronado, Calif. Left, Pfc. Gene West Sixth and, right, Pfc.

513 University are the lucky (Official Marine Corps photo) Entries Accepted For Reno Rodeo Offices will be opened at the Reno rodeo grounds Tuesday where parade entries and entries for the various events in the 1955 Reno rodeo will be accepted. Mrs. Wilfred Cline, clerk of the rodeo, and her staff will be housed where there is ample parking space and where the cowboys can find stable room for their horses, it was announced. Ray Peterson, president of the Reno Rodeo Association, has returned from Elko, where he attended the an TWO LEGION HOLD ANNUAL SESSIONS Sparks, Fernley Residents Are Named Commanders; Other Officers Chosen Important meetings of District No. 1 and 4, American Legion were held in Reno and Gardnerville, during the weekend with the naming of officers and the passing of important resolutions fea City Manager Subject for City Council tures of both sessions.

The District 1 meeting, comprising the seven Legion posts and Sparks Man Is Abducted; Trio Arrested SACRAMENTO, UP) Two young airmen and a 19-year-old Stockton girl were to be brought here from Auburn today to face federal car theft charges while an investigation into a possible kidnaping count continued. The trio, arrested late Saturday were identified as James Frazer, 21, and James Sutton, 19, both of Castle Air Force base, Merced, and Irene Chapman, 19, Frazer's fiance. Highway patrolman and federal agents said tne trio urst stole a car in Stockton, drove to Nevada, and later forced N. L. Neilsen, 82, of Sparks to take them back into California in his car.

He was robbed of his wallet before being kicked out, the officers said. The three will be arraigned be fore U. S. Commissioner Adelia C. McCabe on two charges of transporting a stolen car across a state line, and federal agents said the case will be studied fur ther to determine if federal kid' naping charges will be filed.

Neilsen was reported preparing to fish along the Truckee river when the trio forced him into his car. He was reportedly released two' miles inside California after first being robbed of $5. California Highway Patrol Of ficer Lyle Tice captured the sus pects, still driving Nielsen's 1942 Chevrolet, near Baxters after a two-state alarm had been broad cast. They were brought before a magstrate at Truckee and then taken to- Auburn. Prior to the Nielsen incident, highway patrolmen said that the airmen and Miss Chapman' had gotten as far as Verdi before the first car they had broke down Then they reportedly had no luck in hitching a ride, and encountered Nielsen.

Capt. Gordon Fairchild of the Nevada Highway Patrol talked to the suspects in Truckee Saturday but was not available for com ment in Reno Monday. Vandals Shatter Reno Windows Windows crashed in wholesale lots, mostly along East Fourth street, during a Saturday night spree by someone with a BB gun, and more glass was broken with rocks during the weekend at the Sun Valley school. The air gun operator hit windows in at least 17 places mostly business establishments, and a car was seen only at one, according to Reno police. The calls started flooding in to the Reno police station at 11 p.

m. Saturday, with Ed Mongolo at the Subway Bar, 41 Wells reporting the first one and saying that the shot came from a car which was parked in front of the establishment and then drove away. Mrs. C. M.

Lane, 727 Mill made a similar report 10 minutes later, although she saw no auto. Then police found a string of broken windows along East Fourth and listed the following as targets: Riviera Hotel, 644 East Fourth Morris Hotel, 400 East Fourth; U. S. 40 Bar, 640 East Fourth; Commercial Hardware, 500 East Fourth; LXL Laundry, 601 East Fourth; Nevada Truck Sales, 712 East Fourth; Oden Cycle Works at East Fourth and Lake Turner's Curtain Shop, and establishments at Fourth street numbers 560, 546, 624, 606, 642. Off the beaten path but also hit was the 'Pabco Paint Mart, 820 South Virginia St.

At Sun Valley rocks were thrown through 20 window panes at the school, Washoe county sheriff's deputies were told. Neighbors said the damage must have been done between noon Saturday and 5 p. m. Sunday. In an apparently unrelated in cident, Sparks police caught three boys breaking windows out of a building at the 15th and I street football field Sunday and scheduled-talks for them with the police chief.

Watch Removed Stanley Harris, 229 Winter told Reno police his wrist watch was taken from him while he was asleep along the Truckle river bank near the Wells avenue underpass Sunday afternoon. He materials supply houses. They asked the tax commis sion to consider methods of assuring that the sub-contractors and the materials suppliers would receive their money when the huge hotel projects were completed. Eventually, the discussion got around to mentioning that re strictions or limits upon the num- ber of hotels that would be allowed along Las Vegas burgeon ing strip may provide the solu tion. The spokesmen for the builders exchange said that hens had been filed against such estab lishments as the Riviera, the Royal Nevada, the Moulin Rouge and the Dunes.

Earlier, the New Frontier had experienced difficulty in meeting obligations to contractors, suppliers, tradesmen and even their employes. "We are not asking the commission to act as a collection agency," the Las Vegas repre-1 sentatives said. AFFECTS ECONOMY But, they declared, the situation has become so serious that it affects the entire economy of Clark county. They recommended that the commission warn potential licensees that money must be put up to meet all construction costs, or some other guarantee, such as the posting of a bond. Gov.

Charles H. Russell, tax commission chairman, said that the commission had jurisdiction only over gambling licenses, and that he understood motels and other establishments catering to the public also were experiencing difficulty. He recalled last year's motel price war in Las Vegas. George Dickerson, Clark county district attorney, said the question of limits or restrictions on the number of hotels had been discussed earlier by the Clark county licensing board, and that the board chairman, George Albright, who originated the talks, was ridiculed and accused of attempting to interfere with the expansion of the community. MONEY IN ESCROW Dickerson suggested that the tax commission require hotel promoters to place in escrow sufficient money to meet construction costs, and that no transfer of interests be allowed until the hotel is opened and operating.

Rovernor Russell said the county and city board were vested with the authority to limit or restrict the number and types of gambling establishments and that there would have to be close co-operation between the state and local gambling control agencies. The Clark problem was to be discussed more fully this afternoon. Also appearing before the commission on the first day of a scheduled three-day session was Ernest J. who is seeking a license to operate a casino on the west side of North Virginia street Primm told the commission that he was spending about $30-000 to remodel the space formerly occupied by the Herz Jewelry store, adjacent to his Cafe Prima-donna, into a casino. He is requesting permission to operate 50 slot machines and seven or eight games.

Primm applied for a gambling license at the Nofth Virginia street location three years ago but he was denied a permit by the Reno city council which decided to limit the number of casinos in the downtown business area. Primm fought the council decision in the courts but lost his supreme court appeal. The newly-elected city administration has agreed informally to repeal the old council's policy which will open the way for a city license for Primm, scheduled at tonight's council meeting. Robber Uses New Technique Washoe county sheriff's deputies learned of a new robbery and car theft technique Sunday. Marvin L.

Hughes, 205 West Third street, told officers he met a man in Reno Saturday night and volunteered to drive him home to Nixon. Hughes said the passenger offered him a drink from a pint bottle as they rode. Hughes next recollection, he told deputies, was that he awakened on Pyramid Way, Sparks, with his car, a 1946 Ford station wagon, gone. Hughes said his wallet, containing about $3, was also Two Meet Death In Car Accident Near Fernley FERNLEY, June 27. UP) Nevada's 1955 highway death toll rose to 68 today following the death of a San Francisco couple in an auto wreck about 20 miles northeast of Fernley, Sunday.

Dead are George H. Urabe, 26, and his wife, Mitsuye, 25. The couple was killed when their car hit a soft shoulder and overturned twice about three miles east of Brady's hot springs on U. S. 40.

Urabe's mother, Mrs. Horuko Urabe, 62, also of San Francisco, was critically injured. Her grand son, Ronnie Urabe, 6, a nephew of the dead couple, suffered minor hurts. Both were taken to Persh ing county hospital at Lovelock. Churchill County Sheriff George Wilkins said the dead woman was driving the car.

She apparently fell asleep, at the wheel, the sheriff said. Vacation Tragedy UP) Sum mer vacation with his grandmother ended tragically yesterday for Richard Mullanix, 8, of Moline, Ore. He was fatally injured, the California highway patrol reported, when he dashed into the path of a car driven by John F. Weis-bach, 34, of Dover, N. J.

The accident occurred on U. S. 50 nearP ollock Pines, where the boy was staying with his grandmother, Mrs. Lester Hayden Weisbach was not cited. Unions Meet With Kennecott SALT LAKE CITY, June 27.

UP) Officials of the Kennecott Copper Corp. were to meet this afternoon with a joint unit labor council representing all union employes of Kennecott four states. Federal Labor Conciliator Ralph K. Williams of San Francisco ar ranged the meeting. Many union contracts with Kennecott in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona expire June 30.

The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (IND) recently voted to strike July 1 if negotiations were not successful. The meeting was announced after the labor council gathered yesterday "in an effort to map a program," a spokesman said, "that will conclude negotiations with Kennecott before the June 30 contract expiration date." Previously, a union spokesman had said the unions were asking a minimum general wage increase of 20 cents an hour, plus other benefits. The present scale at Kennecott is $13.83 a day for common labor, ranging up to tor a jour neyman and $17.74 for a journey man leadman. Henry D. Heuer Dies at Oakland Harry D.

brother of Clarence H. Heuer of Reno, died Saturday in the Merritt Hospital at Oakland after a brief illness and operation. A native of Placerville, Mx. Heuer formerly lived in Reno where he followed the carpenter trade. Later he.

moved to- Modesto, where he made his home until his death. Burial will be at Modesto. in aomon xo ms orotner in Reno, he is survived by his widow, Verna, of Modesto; three brothers, James Heuer of Clem ents, William Heuer of Sacra mento and Carl Heuer of Placer ville. aiso surviving are two nep hews, Donald Heuer of Reno and Marshall Heuer, Sparks, and other nephews and nieces in Reno Marines In Maneuvers At Coronado Reno's Marine Corps Reserve Company because hard charging, beach-hitting Leathernecks last Friday as they climaxed their week of amphibious training at Troop Training Unit, Coronado, with an assault on one of the many beaches that surround the Naval Amphibious base there. It was quite an experience for many of the young Marines whose only contact with a beachhead had been the local movie-house; and for others, the older members of the company, it brought back memories of the assaults in the heat of the Pacific or the bitter cold of Korea.

IN REHEARSAL. A week of rehearsal went into the landing. From early morning until evening there were classes to attend, lectures to hear and practice runs of problems. The finale came when the landing craft keel scraped the soft sand of the' shore and the ramp came down with a thud to reveal a white beach that could have been bristling with enemy guns, but was, in reality, a beach of Coronado. The Reno Marines went aboard an attack transport of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Forces in the early afternoon.

As the huge ship put out to sea they were given a tour of the ship by the Marine embarkation officer aboard. They learned something of shipboard life and the split second timing and coordination it takes to launch a successful am phibious assault. NET TRAINING The Reno reservists than spent the next couple of hours going through a form of nightmare known as wet net training. When the ship has launched her small landing craft, cargo nets are dropped over the side and Marine troops disembark over the side and down the nets into the assault craft below. When the big ship is rolling with the swells and the little craft are bobbing like corks this can develop into quite a difficult task.

However, after a couple hours of embarking and disembarking via the nets the Reno Reservists secured for the night and spent the remainder of the night aboard the ship prior 'to the early morn ing assault. The unit has now moved up to the Marine Corps rifle range, Camp Matthews, for a week of weapons training and schooling under the guidance of a weapons training battalion. Camp Matthews is located 18 miles inland where the rolling hills offer a natural layout for six huge rifle ranges that are kept constantly Dusy. it is a completely different setting from the ocean-surrounded amphibious base here where they spent their first week. Hirsch Services To Be in Lodi Funeral services for Ralph Hirsch, who died in Reno June 25, will be held at the Lodi Funeral Home, Lodi, with burial to follow at Cherokee Memorial park at Lodi.

Mr. Hirsch is survived by his father, the Rev. Julius Hirsch of Lodi. iocai arrangements are in charge of the Walton Funerail Home. MESSAGE HELD Reno police hold a message for DISTRICTS met at Legion hall, Ninth and Traffic Mishaps Many in Reno Traffic accidents and citations ranging from one resulting from a collision with the fire chief's auto to several cases of drunk driving were common in Reno over the weekend, but no serious injuries were reported.

Marvin Lee Wever, 22, Empire, was fined $100 in municipal court today, pleading guilty to a charge of failure to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle. The emergency vehicle, with siren on and red light flash- ing, was driven by Fire Chief Karl L. Evans, 57. The chief's 1951 Buick and Weber's 1950 Ford crashed at First and Sierra while the chief was- on his way to a reported fire at the Riverside Hotel at 11:11 p. m.

Sunday. The fire didn't amount to much, resulting from ignited grease in a deep fat fryer, and doing only slight damage to a wall. Alfred George Matts, 52, 2061 East Fourth was fined $250 Monday on drunk driving charge. Police said he crashed into two other autos which were stopped at Fourth and Alameda for a red light Saturday night. Drivers of the other cars were Fred William Bradehoft, 58.

219 Arroyo and Herbert Ingersoll, 46, ZS Cheney St. Dave Roy Thompson, 40, Nixon, was given a fine of $300 or a jail sentence and his license was suspended for six months when he answered to a drunk driving charge. A police patrolman said he arrested Thompson early Sunday morning at Sierra and California after Thompson, driving without lights, ran through a stop sign and almost struck the police car. Charges of drunk driving, speeding and rolling a stop sign against George Kelly Thomas, 38, apprehended while driving a Jaguar along University avenue Monday morning were continued. Roger Howard Brown, 36, 843 West Sixth was fined $50 on a drunk driving charge following an accident at Second and Lake Monday morning.

His car and one driven by Roy Matthew, 475 Cemetery Road, were involved in an intersection collision. Mary Brown, 31, was treated at Washoe Medical center for knee abrasions. Joan Taylor, 16, 785 Monroe told police a green car knocked her down and injured her slightly while she was crossing St. Lawrence avenue Sunday morning. Two men were charged with being drunk in or about an auto after police said the car they were in hit a fence and a pile of lumber in the yard of City Councilman Harold Mathisen at 1240 East Sixth St.

Booked were Walter Erwin, 57, 334 East and Wilford Davis, 44, 539 North Sierra St. POLICE ARE CALLED Nothing was found missing at the L)urward Yasmar home at 980 Gordon Ave. Sunday night, but the front door was discovered wide open and Mrs. Yasmar asked police assistance before entering. Mrs.

Yasmar said she thought the door had been locked but couldn't nual Silver State Stampede over the weekend, to report that Bud Bentley of Liver-more, who will be the announcer at the 1955 rodeo, would reach Reno Wednesday evening. BOOTH OPEN Starting this evening the ticket booth in front of Hilp's drug store on North Virginia street will be open evenings for the convenience of those wishing to purchase tickets or to accept reservations for seats, which range in price from $1.00 for general admission to $4.00 for box seats. Rodeo buttons are available there, or may be secured by phoning rodeo headquarters. The Reno Junior Chamber or commerce will have the Black Maria out in full regalia every evening this week, and those not west ern garb will be picked up by the Jaycees and tried. The stock for the rodeo is in nasture and will be moved to the rodeo grounds this week, ac cording to Wilfred Clme, pro ducer.

Pickel Meadows Marines will send a color guard, mounted, and a float, as well as an unmounted unit to the parade, and Jack Horgan, parade marshal, says the group will march directly behind the band from Treasure Island. Both Gov. Charles Russell and Lt. Gov. Rex Bell have been in vited to the Reno rodeo and the mayors of Reno and Sparks will participate in both parades and in three grand entries Mickey Wallace, a rodeo queen candidate, was stricken wth appendicitis and is confined to the hosDital.

She will be unable to take part in any of the events but may set the rodeo as a spec tator. Work on the rodeo grounds continues with the parking area and the arena reported in excellent shape. The chutes have been reoaired and the announcer's booth has been freshened up The work will continue, accord ing to A. E. Holgate, so that the entire rodeo setup will be super ior to any previous year.

Residence Fire Fatal to Tot LAS VEGAS A fourteen months-old Las Vegas girl died of suffocation Sunday while five other youngsters were saved when a fast spreading fire destroyed a westside home. Dead was Loretta Partridge who was found lying face down on a sofa in the west room of the house. She was severely burned, but investigators said they be lieved she had succumbed to smoke before receiving the burns The other children saved from the blaze were brothers and sis ters of the dead youngster. Fire department officials said they believed one of the children may have been playing with matches and accidentally set fire to the home. The mother, Mrs.

Magdoline Partridge, a widow, had stepped out of the house only moments before the house burst into flame, Mrs. Olivia Brown, grandmother of the youngsters, was sleeping in a trailer at the rear of the home. Older children who were in the house managed to save themselves and a two-months-old infant, but were checked from re entering the home by the blaze, to rescue, Loretta, investigators auxiliary units in Washoe county Ralston streets, Saturday night I and named Wallace P. McGuf fin, Duby Reid Post No. 30, Sparks as district commander.

Others selected included, Mrs. Bernice Clark, Dat-So-La-Lee Post No. 12, Reno, first vice-commander; WTen-dell Taylor, Harry J. MacSherry Post No. ID, Reno, second vice- commander Reinero, Grady Strong Post 39, Gerlach, chaplain; Val Dage, Post No.

10, Reno, ser-geant-at-arms; A. Lougaris, Reno, district delegate to the national convention, with Chester May as alternate. SESSION OPENED Harold Chishlom, commander, Darrell Dunkle Post No. 1, the host post, opened the meeting after which James R. Murdock.

district commander, started proceedings, assisted by Val Dage, district adjutant and.L. A. Dixon, sergeant-at-arms. Following the invocation by D. Robertson, distinguished guests introduced included L.

A. Robertson, department commander; Thomas W. Miller and J. E. Mar-tie, national executive committeeman and alternate respectively; Thomas J.

D. Salter, judge advocate; Mrs. Grace Hancock, Sparks and Mrs. Helen Crabtree, Carson, department auxiliary president and secretary respectively; and Mrs. Ora Reckler, first district auxiliary president.

An address of welcome was delivered by Dr. Jack C. Buchholz, Reno, past department vice-commander. Mr. Miller national committeeman, then addressed the joint session, stressin? the support the American Legion is giving President Eisenhower for the enactment of a national service training law designed to provide an adequate reserve force for any emergency.

ENDORSE ROGERS The resolutions committee, headed by Martie, passed provisions endorsing G. A. (Al) Rogers for the position of department commander, with other measures complimenting the publishers of the Nevada Legionnaire. Another recommendation of the committee was that Veteran's Day, Nov. 11, (Turn to page 22, coL 4) POLICE PROVE VERSATILE IN FAMILY PROBLEM Reno police played baby sitter, chauffer and solved a claimed larceny which didn't happen all in one stint Saturday night and could only put the whole thing down as experience.

A baby sitter complained the child's parents wouldn't come home from a bar. to claim the child so she could go to bed. Police picked up the baby, went after the parents, heard on their radio en route that the baby sitter had reported the theft of $500 in jewelry, picked up the parents and returned to the baby sitter's trailer. The baby sitter evidently thought the mother of the child had gone away with the jewelry, but officers found the supposedly missing material in a dresser drawer. Finally, after all partlw said "No," when asked if they had any other problems, po-.

Lee took the parents and child horns and closed the peculiar; A Reno police chief will not be appointed at tonight's council meeting, Mayor Len Harris said this morning. Instead, council-men are scheduled to consider the appointment of a city manager. The switch seems to indicate that councilmen have brought Mayor Harris to their point of view that the city manager appointment is. more important than that of a police chief and should be made first. Second Ward Councilman Rus sell Mills told a reporter last week that he felt the police department was in good hands under acting uuer t.

K. Berrum, and that the appointment of a new chief could wait. Harris appointed Berrum, who was assistant chief under Chief L. R. Greeson, to be acting chief alter Greeson resigned, a few hours before Harris took office.

Although Harris asked council- men in a special meeting June 18 to confirm his appointment of former Sheriff's Deputy Rudolph N. Hoganson as chief, hes aid to day the councilmen would choose the new chief. ine councu declined to con firm Hoganson's appointment be cause they said they wanted more time to consider as many applicants for the job as possible. Until a new city manager is hired, Mayor Harris is acting as manager, with two acting assistants, Ira Gunn and Fred Fray. North Vegas Police Resign NORTH LAS VEGAS Police departmen troubles continued to harass North Las Vegas city officials today as three members of the department, including a police captain, resigned without explanation.

Leaving the department were Captain Wayne Walter, Sgt. Merlin North and Dispatcher Mary Lou Renteria. Walters, who only recently was promoted from the rank of lieutenant, last Monday was accused before the city council of brutal treatment of prisoners, but it could not be verified that this was the reason for his resignation. North was a' deputy in the Clark county sheriffs office for a short time last year. He left police work for several months and had served as a police offi cer in just prior to joining the North Las Vegas department.

A spokesman for the department would give no reason for the sudden resignations of the three but indicated that "family trouble" may have been the reason for the action -by Walters. Following the resignations, former Patrolmen Charles Taylor and Ross Russell were advanced to the rank of sergeant and Florence Killeen was hired to replace Mrs. Renteria as dispatcher. SIGN STRUCK All the bad or unlucky drivers in Reno over the weekend weren't caught. Police reports indicated a street sign at East Second and Gould had been knocked over and said they had no report of an ao- CaliftBma i'reported jt yaluedthfrsratcti-at 'trussing.

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