Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 12

CO 12-RENO EVENING GAZETTE, December 27, 1965 Nevada's Tauesf Unoccupied Structure: Landmark Tower Yotr Money's Worth The Problems Of Prosperity Bv SYLVIA PORTER But the decisions are still to be made in Washington. POLICIES CHANGED Meanwhile, the monetary pol icies which have fueled our upturn for so long are being dras- jically changed as well. The availability of credit has been reduced in the face of skyrocketing demands for credit, Interest rates have been boosted to historically high marks, By JOHN LENGEL Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) A 31-story shaft of concrete looms over Las Vegas as a reminder, that the best made plans of mice and promoters often go awry. The building is called Landmark Tower, a mushroom-shaped affair which soars high nough to rate as Nevada's tallest unoccupied structure. "It's gotta be the biggest turkey in town," marvels a subcontractor who worked on the project.

Construction began in November 1961, but the giant was mired in a Lilluput tangle of litigation by December of 1962. Work has been at a halt since. As conceived, the tower would be a 140-room hotel, topped with a steel dome to house a restaurant. It was inspired by the Space Needle of the Seattle World's Fair. Lack of money, suit and counter-suit, resulted in new owners and new plans.

"We had so many changes," says architect Gerald Moffat, 36, "that it was hard to determine what our end was, or, is. "If we don't know our end, I guess it will be difficult to achieve it," he says, adding that his plans have been impounded by the court. As imagined now, the tower should include space for a casino, dancing, floorshows and a 350-place restaurant. Moffat and others concerned with the project estimate it is 80 per cent complete at a cost of nearly $5 million. The company which controls the project says the tower needs six months more work and will be completed.

Work is not scheduled to resume in the near future, a spokesman says. Meanwhile, the tower is visible for 20 miles in any direc tion, rising from a shopping center like a lone shade tree in a brand new subdivision. One promoter stepped forward and suggested he be allowed to use the tower for a carnival-type parachute jump. The idea died for a lack of a second from the owners. And it's easy to find persons who swear the building is the American desert's answer to the leaning tower of Pisa.

Casual critics, sighting the tower along power poles in the area, are told that actually it is the poles that tilt. Moffat, the architect, says, "It doesn't tile. There is only three-eights of an inch difference in diameter from top to bottom." An expert says Landmark only seems to be tilting "'because of a gentle and insidious slope to the land. "If it really did tilt, we would have something after all." to discourage some borrowing in this period. In addition, it's a certainty that the President's economic messages next month will em- phaize to a new degree the imperative need for restraint in ft xk'yJXJ'i price and wage increases.

The diplomatic, political, emotional agonies of Viet Nam For almost 10 years, we have been striving to achieve today's "problems" an over-all unemployment rate down to around 4 per cent, with unemployment among married men down to a virtual minimum; an economy booming along at close to full capacity, with businessmen investing record amounts to mod-ernzie and add to productive capacity. Throughout this entire upturn of 1961-66, these two "problems" have been the basic objectives of administration and congressional economy policy actions. The goal of fiscal policy has been multi-billion dollar tax re-ducton in the face of persistent budget deficits. The goal of monetary policy has been ample supply of credit at comparatively inexpensive interest rates to encourage business and con-sumer borrowing. At the same time Congress has passed unprecedented laws to educate, train and retrain workers, to rehabilitate distressed areas, to spur business investments in plants and equipment.

IMPRESSIVE The list of actions is extraordinarily varied, long and impressive and the actions have worked. Today, as we approach the 59th month of uninterrupted business upturn, we finally are achieving our employment and production goals. But instead of reveling in our good fortune, we need no explanation and now the war is also taking much of the "economic joy" out of our prosperity. It's irony indeed that, because of this war, the achievements of prosperity are turning out to be the problems of prosperity. Mafie Hood Will Write His Memoirs WASHINGTON (AP) The Landmark Tower Unoccupied Siamese Twin Girls Separated; Chances Good LOS ANGELES (AP) Si Lay In Your Supplies Now SAVE AT PAYLESS! THE DOCTOR SAYS WAYNE G.

BRANDSTADT, M. D. Care Needed in Choice Of Pole Vault Equipment Justice Department has decided to let convicted murderer Jo-' seph Valachi the Cosa Nostra hoodlum who broke a blood oath; of secrecy publish his mem- oirs. In doing so, it has broken long-standing policy against let-1 ting federal prisoners publish stories of their lives of crime. I The manuscript is called "The Real Thing." Its 61-; year-old author scrawled it on1 amese twin girls, separated in three-hour surgery shortly after FOR THE birth, have a better than even chance of living, their attending are worrying that our economy may become too buoyant and that high employment and pro HOLIDAYS duction will bring back inflation Pole vaulting has become a Because of these dangers the economic policy "mix" which spectacular and popular sport pediatrician says.

The mother of the infants, when told of the emergency operation, took the news well. The babies were born Christmas Day with a common bladder and intestines. Paul's with the invention of the glass fiber pole. This type of pole is full of spring and will lift your two of these robs the child of much needed nourishment. Whatever the disadvantages, however, brain damage would not be one of them unless large amounts were given daily over a long time.

My daughter, 6, has mononucleosis. Could this lead to leukemia? Is there a cure for PAYLESS LIQUOR has propelled us toward our goals is being drastically changed. Had it not been for the sharp buildup in Viet Nam spending, the odds are we would not be son to heights never attained with the old wooden poles. But legal pads during long months in the District of Columbia jail. He has lived there since 1963, when he became widely known by spilling to federal authorities and a Senate committee the secrets of the multimillion-dollar national syndicate called, in Sicilian, "La Cosa Nostra," or "Our Thing." Sunday, as Mrs.

Robin Man-tonya passed her 20th birthday at one hospital, daughters Lisa Marie and Sheila Norine Store every new advantage is attended by its own special disadvantages. In this case the disadvantage is associated with misuse. appeared to be holding their munonucleosis so concerned about inflation now. It isn't necessary to get into the guessing game about the precise site of the admin-1 A Infectious mononucleosis is not related to leukemia. Your doctor may help clear it up Glass fiber poles come in as-orted weights.

Each weight is designed to crrespond to the weight of the uses. without treatment after two or three months. Cortisone or a related drug may shorten this RED TRADE PACT MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet! Union and Romania signed an! agreement for a 30 per cent in-' crease in trade over the next! five years. When the proper weight is period. istrative budget President Johnson will submit next month.

It's enough to know that military spending is soaring and that Viet Nam is putting mounting pressures on materials and manpower. It's enough to know that these pressures are coming on top of pressures caused by huge business and consumer own at another. Said their pediatrician 36 hours after surgery: "They're both still moving around, which is the most important sign to us. Everything is functioning, and their color is good." The doctor added, however, "There is no way to tell what the end result will be." The twins, together weighing 12 pounds, were born by Caesar-ean section at Holy Cross Hospital in suburban San Fernando, then rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where a team of 18 doctors, nurses and technicians performed the surgery. used the pole is virtually unbreakable and therefore perfectly safe.

But enthusiastic youngsters too often are tempted to use a lighter pole than the one specified. It is true spending. The threat of over Two Nevadans Get Pardons From Brown If. heating cannot be disputed. So, the fiscal policies which that if your son is lucky such a pole may lift him higher than the heavier pole he should be using, but this is too much have fueled our upturn for so long are being drastically like playing Russian roulette.

If changed. SACRAMENTO (AP) Two former Californians who now Dr. Stephen L. Gans, who as he is not so lucky, and the pole snaps, he may be impaled on sembled the team which spea-rated the girls, said neither live in Nevada have been given one of the fragments. precious Christmas presents by breathed for several minutes California's Governor pardons after birth, until mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was ap for past criminal offenses.

Parents and coaches must make sure that their high-flying charges understand this and never use too light a pole. My daughter, 2, has been walking almost a year. She is plied. Included among the 28 annual Christmas pardons granted by Gov. Edmund G.

Brown were Dr. Gans said the babies were joined in the lower abdomen by a bridge of tissue six inches in diameter which contained a one for Roy A. Maine of Elko terribly pigeon-toed. Would it and Eddie Hill of Black Springs. Maine was convicted of lewd For the first time in many years, a choice between "guns and butter" is being seriously debated.

Should some Great Society programs be shelved and others cut back to offset the rise in military spending? Or should income taxes be hiked to cover the higher military spending? My preference is for cutbacks in programs that are not urgently needed in an economy operating at a boom level and it would be comforting to have projects on the shelf for immediate use if and when the economy slows. There also is the danger that we might slam on the breaks too hard in higher federal income taxes are imposed while Social Security taxes are rising steeply and state and local taxes are zooming. and lascivious conduct in Fres common bladder and a thin, membraneous sac around intestines of both babies. He said that the sac broke, either during or before delivery, no County in 1939. He served help if she wore her shoes on the opposite feet? A Pigeon-toe is usually associated with a high-arched foot.

Although a mild degree of pigeon-toe may be advantageous, a severe degree is a handicap and should be treated. four years, three months in prison before being paroled in leaving the intestines exposed to 1943. He was discharged from the air and hazards of bacteria parole in 1948, and the Califor "This forced surgery imme Don't reverse her shoes. In nia Adult Authority recom diately," he said. mended a pardon on grounds stead have a leather wedge inserted in the outer (lateral) as The father is Gerald Manton- of rehabilitation this year Hill was convicted of first de ya, 20, a film laboratory gree robbery in Contra Costa pect of her shoes.

This should be at least -inch thick at the outer edge. When this treatment is started early the results are County in 1946. Paroled two iAfr i v-v A-. ArsiJi xtl yr-' -H: "fe -Hit rfV It1-'' 'trvj; ''i ff ft 1 4: rs: i. lr -f it Ji'f i 7A years later, he was sent back CONSTRUCTION EXPERT EAST ORANGE, N.J.

(AP)- usually good. to prison as a parole violator in 1949. He was convicted of the Would giving a 1-year-old baby small amounts of wine or William V. McMenimen, an in additional crime of robbery in ternational heavy construction 1949 and returned to prison un 'expert, died Saturday. He was 84.

During World War Mc til 1956. The adult authority recommended a pardon this year, but approval of the state jMenimen headed a project that I built U.S. naval bases at points BOAT STORAGE CALL O'BRIEN'S and Bekins Van Lines Moving and Storag 323-1843 supreme court was needed be from Hawaii to the Philippines. beer cause brain damage? A Although giving small amounts of alcohol to toddlers is a common practice in some European countries, it is discouraged by American doctors. Alcohol is an acquired taste and here is no hurry about establishing a liking for it.

If a child is thirsty he should drink milk, orange Juice or water, anything that replaces the first1 cause he had been convicted of more than a single felony. The court agreed on Dec. 14. The Crusades were a series of military pilgramages to the Holy Land undertaken by the Christians of western Europe for the recovery of Jerusalem. A de-humidifier takes out moisture.

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