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The witness' Identity Is being kept secret he has received anonymous telephone threats from someone claiming to be the driver of the death car and his parents' tombstones were defaced with a rough swastika. Murphy said. Murphy said Tuesday that although the note may be a hoax, it was received after another caller apologized to the witness and offered to mail him compensation for cleaning the tombstones. "Through his conversation," Murphy said of the second caller, "he has commented on things about the accident that we have not put out in the papers." Murphy and two other officers have done nothing else for a month but hunt for the killer car. To Murphy, the Newspaper PLYMOUTH, Mass.

(AP) Somewhere in this historic coastal town, police say, a man must be undergoing the agony of remorse, five weeks after his speeding car struck and killed a 10-year-old girl and injured her 6-year-old sister. "He's here, here In town," said police Capt. William Murphy. "For some reason, this person cannot come forward himself. I'm sure he's feeling remorseful." Ills evidence? An anony mo Reno, Nevada, Wednesday, March on whether some of Ihe vic No information was available tims were on the ground or in Evening Gazette I fry a Giramidl jyiry grabs yodowmieir irecor U.S.

attorney's office mum on investigation 14, 1979 20t A Gannett Circus hotel-casino, according to one source. Louis Test, assistant city attorney, said the grand jury merely took the Sundowner records from city officials and "they didn't tell us why." Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, the Reno Evening Gazette also Reamed that city employees earlier this year discovered plumbing was being installed in a Sundowner hotel addition for more hotel rooms than were originally approved It President and Mrs. Carter, tired but happy, return to Andrews Air Force Base, Md, today after the president's Mideast peace mission. (AP photo) Israeli cabinet approves pact case is "the most frustrating damn thing I've ever been in involved in." "This happened at a busy Intersection, at a peak traffic time. There were about 30 people at the scene.

Five people have come forward." Murphy said all five agreed to be hypnotized to sharpen their recall in the effort to identify the tan car which sped through a red light, killing Denise Rose Kapolis and injuring her sister, Gina. Hit-run, page 6, col. 4 a violation of the city's sewer allocation procedures. Those procedures resulted from a lawsuit filed several years ago against Reno by Sparks over sewer plant capacity. The Reno-Sparks Joint Sewer Treatment Plant is nearing capacity and sewer allocations are being doled out on a quarterly basis until 1981, when the first of a two-phase treatment plant expansion is expected to be completed.

According to Test, if Sundowner officials had not taken out the unauthorized plumbing and obeyed the stop work order, the city would have gone to court to seek compliance with the sewer administrative procedures. And, in yet another development, Karadanis has filed plans with the Regional Planning Commission to switch the Uth through 19th floor office space to 162 hotel rooms. William Moms, architect for the hotel, said Tuesday the office space-hotel room switch is a matter of "pure economics." "There's a lot of office buildings being built," Morris said. "Why compete in a (office space) market when you can convert it to hotel rooms?" Using the floors as hotel rooms would mean fewer employees than using the same space for offices, according to Morris. More than 500 workers would likely use the office space, while only about 90 will be needed for the hotel rooms, he said.

But hotel rooms require more sewer capacity than office space. A conversion of the eight floors of office space to hotel rooms would take approximately 15,300 gallons more of sewer capacity than the approximately 9,700 already allocated to the hotel addition, according to city building and safety department calculations. Plans submitted to the Planning Commission say Karadanis also has filed plans to build a 96-unit apartment complex at Silverada and Orovada. Morris said plans for those apartments, which could provide housing for new hotel employees, go hand-in-hand with the office space conversion attempt. dorado insurance contract at that time.

Capurro said he had been linked "by innuendo" to the complaint Menicucci, page 6, col. 1 Editorials 4 Lifestyle 61-63 Markets 40-41 Public notices 47 65 Sports 3539 State Legislature 8 9 Sylvia Porter ..44 Television Log 65 Topics for Taxpayers vuais 45 Weather j. fids jury the factory. Story 6 -a would resign if parliament rejected them. The prime minister said a treaty with Egypt could be signed within the month, possibly in a week or two, if the cabinet and parliament, the Knesset, approve.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Butros Ghali agreed with Begin's assessment. Begin said he, Sadat and Carter would sign the accord in Washington. Then, Begin said, he and Sadat would sign the Hebrew version in Jerusalem and the Arabic text in Cairo. Carter told about 1.000 congressional leaders, members of his administration and other flag-waving well-wishers who greeted him after midnight at Andrews Air Force Base: "You are looking at a tired but grateful man." Mideast peace gloom to joy An analysis, page 5 The president said he Is asking world leaders in private messages to support "what Egypt and Israel have done." Carter said he had telephoned some of them from Air Force One. He did not Identify the leaders, but presumably they included Arab heads of state whom the administration has been unable to persuade so far to rally support for Sadat in efforts for peace.

By choosing peace, Sadat and Begin "are venturing Into the unknown," Carter said. "They know that these United States will be with them as they begin to make peace a living reality for their people." "There were political risks involved," the president told the cheering, sign-waving crowd about his Middle East mission. One sign said, "Jimmy: Prophet for Peace." Another said, "100 Percent President." "(They were) political risks to me as president and therefore perhaps to the prestige of the United States," Carter said. "For- High, page 5, col. 1 i By ANN HALEY A federal grand jury in Reno has subpoenaed building records on the Sundowner Hotel-casino held by the City of Reno building and safety department, the Reno Evening Gazette learned.

City officials said they do not know the reason for the Sundowner records subpoena, and Sam Coon, assistant U.S. attorney in Reno, said only that, "One of the grand jury functions is to examine matters that are of interest or concern to the public." "Their looking into a matter doesn't imply that anything unlawful has occured," Coon said. Sundowner executive George Karadanis could not be reached for comment either Tuesday or today. This morning a secretary in his office said Karadanis was out of town and could not be reached because he was "in transit." U.S. Attorney Mahlon Brown declined to comment on the matter.

The city received a subpoena dated Feb. 8 commanding the "custodian of records, Department of Building and Safety," to appear at the Reno branch federal building Feb. 15 to turn over to the federal grand jury "records and documents pertaining to authorization by the City of Reno for ongoing hotel construction at the Sundowner Hotel, 450 N. Arlington." Documents to be turned over should include "complete files and plans, building application, building permit, sewer allocation and administrative procedure minutes." according to the subpoena. A note on the city building and safety department's now empty Sundowner file simply states, "Loaned to grand jury." The grand jury files were in Coon's possession today.

Coon indicated he plans to return them to city building officials In the near future. An FBI agent probing the city's records on the Sundowner also asked questions about the Eldorado Hotel-casino and the Circus The hotel addition, as plans now stand, is to be public areas on floors 1 through 4, hotel rooms on floors 5 through 10 and office space on floors 11 through 19. After learning of the unauthorized plumbing, city officials issued a stop work order on the project Th plumbing for the extra rooms was removed in January, according to one city official, and the stop work order was lifted. Installing the unauthorized plumbing is not a violation of any city law, according to Test, but is mm -S'J 'A investigation centers on an insurance contract Menicucci acquired and then lost through a broker of record letter in April 1978. Capurro's company, Capurro-Voss and Associates, held the El WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter said today that "all of the outstanding issues" between Egypt and Israel "have now been su-cessfully resolved" by Israeli Cabinet acceptance of two U.S.

compromise proposals. Shortly after Israeli Cabinet overwhelmingly approved the American-sponsored proposals in Jerusalem, Carter issued a statement saying Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin "has just called me with the good news." He congratulated Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and added: "The peace which their peoples so clearly need and want is close to reality." "I am extremely pleased that the Israeli Cabinet has approved the two remaining proposals that I discussed with Prime Minister Begin on Monday in Jerusalem," Carter said in the brief statement. "This means that all of the outstanding issues in the ne- fotiations between Egypt and srael have now been successfully resolved." The president said he is proud that the United'States could have been able to assist the two Mideast nations toward a peace treaty. "We stand ready to help in the im- filemcntatlon of the peace reaty, in the negotiations that lie ahead on other issues of concern, and In working with these two friends to build a stable and peaceful Middle East." Hours earlier, Carter returned from Cairo to a hero's welcome in Washington and said: "I believe that God has answered our prayers." Carter's optimism was bolstered by the Israeli Cabinet, which approved two remaining compromises already accepted by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The Cabinet vote was 15 in favor with one abstention after nearly six hours of debate.

"There will be a peace treaty," said minister Yitzhak Modal. The Cabinet, which met in emergency session in Jerusalem at the request of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was expected to send the the treaty proposals to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Approval there also seemed likely. Begin said he Sundowner Motel-casino construction at Fifth Street and Arlington Avenue Federal probe of Reno mayor Capurro testifies at grand Index By BOB LEWIS Reno insurance agent Randall Capurro angrily denied Tuesday that he had anything to do with complaints lodged with the Federal Bureau of Investigation that subsequently led to an on-going FBI investigation of Reno Mayor Bruno Menicucci. Capurro did say, however, that he had been questioned by the FBI during the investigation and that two weeks ago he testified before a federal grand jury about an insurance transaction involving Menicucci, the Eldorado Hotel-Casino and his own insurance company.

In other development Tuesday. me eoi wmcn gating Menicucci ber, 1978 refused to comment on a number of questions about the probe into the business dealings of Reno's mayor. Senior FBI agent John Norris had no comment when questioned about the length of the investigation, who had lodged the original complaint with the FBI, when he expected the investigation to be completed, why the investigation has lasted more than seven months, whether he would turn over his information to the U.S. Attorney, or even if he would make an public statement if the investigation was closed. "If I answered those questions, you would know what we were doing," Norris said, According to sources, FBI 8 Sections, 110 Pages Amusements 65-71 Ann Landers 44 Astrograph 58 Bridge 44 Classified ads 47-59 Comics 44 Crossword puzzle 57 Deaths 45 Doctor column 42 Earl Wilson.