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Reno Evening zett: Board Votes Backing Of Downtown Hall; Sparks Member Objects RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1965 ties without any, offstreet park And, he added, a downtown hall would be in competition wim the coliseum, hurting both facilities. "In any venture, there are al ways a lot or unknowns, orai velle replied. "I firmly believe we have the ability to support a theater-auditorium in down town Reno." "I have no quarrel with Sparks. But this opposition does stem from a lack of knowledge by the part of the general public that opposes it because they're not aware of what it will do specifically for them." Gravelle and director Howard McKissick said Swart was overplaying the importance of parking at a convention hall McKissick noted that a number of cities, have built such facili Xs iTxxm fcMwg nn nr jwyfaji- fg ppsjSai jUwitwiwillr wm m3wf xj- 1 if l' 1 4 iji iiSeis. iMifu nn iM i nn ilil "i i harfl iiffi vJ-n -jilt Chairman Asks Second Street Hall Location The Citizen's Committee For A Greater Reno has called for legislative approval of revenue bond financing for a downtown-Reno theater-auditorium, and the committee chairman has proposed that the facility be loc-cated on East Second Street.

The committee Wednesday also endorsed a request that some money from any revenue bond sales be ear PHONE 323-3161 Vocational Training Gets Push $178,249 Due For Program In Nevada Nevada will receive $178,249 for vocational training, an official of the Nevada Department of Education said today, An additional $9,668 can he received for a work-study program to aid needy itudents. These funds will be given for vocational training in the schools under the Vocational Education Act of 1963, John Buntenj- state director of voca tional-technical education and adult education added. The school drop-out, the one who needs vocational training and the boy or girl who must work and earn money but would like to finish high school can all be helped by the federal allotment. To qualify for these funds, the state vocational educational department has revised its basic plan to include provisions for implementing the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The plan has received federal approval and funds should be received in the near future, Bunten said.

These funds must be used by June 30, 1965. School districts have received application forms to apply to set up such courses. The new state plan provides greater flexibility to implement vocational and technical education programs, Bunten said. Funds are to be used for six specific purposes and require equal matching funds. These are vocational education for high school students, vocational education for students who have completed high school or otherwise left school and are studying on a full-time basis, vocational education for adults in need of training or.

retraining, vocational education for youth with socio-economic, educational or other handicaps, construction of area vocational school facilities, and auxiliary services to improve vocational education. New programs can be started Jn such areas as office occupa tions, technical education, home economics based occupations for gainful employment, agricul tural based occupation programs, trade and industrial pro- prams, health occupations ana in merchandising. Funds can be used to pur chase equipment, conduct sur veys and studies and for pilot nroerams. Courses will all train students for gainful employment, Bunten says. Property Tax Collection Change Asked Sen.

Carl Dodge, R-Churchill, has sponsored a bill which calls for collection of property taxes twice a year rather than quarterly. Dodge said the bill would nmnress assessment, taxation and budgeting in local govern ment into a 10-month period. The goal is to eliminate com plaints about time lags. The bill provides for collect lng taxes in the year in which the assessment is made. Assess ment rolls would close April 1.

The bill would set Board of Equalization meetings in April and May instead of January and February. Local govern ment budget hearings would be held the third week in June PurnoKf of the bill is "to bring spending and income closer together when consider Christmas Cards in February? Boxes and boxes of Christmas cards 30,000 cards in all are delivered to the children's ward at Nevada State Hospital, where they'll be used in arts and crafts projects. The cards were collected in Reno area stores through the efforts of Washoe Christmas Seal chairman Claude Stewart, left, and the Nevada Tuberculosis and Health Association. Some of the cards will go to other children's wards in Reno and Las Vegas. Accepting the cards for the hospital is Mrs.

Laurella Mountford, child development specialist. Also shown ie Lester Scott, board member of the association. PAGE SEVENTEEN Keno Ticket Case Is Basis Of Complaint Commission Seeks Action; Sparks Club Named The Nevada Gaming Control Board asked the Gaming Commission today to suspend or revoke the license of a Sparks casino on cnarges or tailing to pay off a $10,000 keno ticket. The complaint was filed with the commission asrainst Phair which operates the Sparks Silver Club. The license is held by L.

E. Short, Ben. H. Coleman and Arthur Oetjen. The club has 15 days in which to reply to the charges.

It may request that the commission hold a hearing in the case. ine action was brougnt on the complaint of Denver F. Steele, a South Lake Tahoe ca sino employe, who said he hit all eight numbers in a keno ticket at the Silver Club Oct. 11. Steele contended he has not received any money, although the club advertised a $10,000 payoff for such a keno victory.

The board said the licensees have advised it, in informal dis cussions of the complaint, that they believed there was cheat ing in the disputed keno game. auure to pay winnings in full and promptly consti tutes an unsuitable method of operation for a casino, the board said. 1 he commission has power to revoke a club's license if it decides the club was not operating in a suitable manner. Short holds 40 per cent of the operation and Coleman and Oet jen each have 30 per cent of the club, which has four table games and 26 slot machines. The board did not issue anj emergency order closing tne club.

The Sparks Silver Club continues to remain in operation, a hoard spoKesman saia. The club, at 1042. for merly was Dan and Don's bar. It was expanded and the name changed when Short bought into the operation in April of 1964. The board's complaint said: "It is of the very essence of legalized gaming in the State of Nevada and of the issuance of licenses to the operators of gaming clubs and casinos that wins of players, including tourists who visit the State of Ne vada, be paid punctually and in full." VEGAS JUNKET REJECTED The Nevada Legislature adding to its reputation as a hard-working one: It's turned down an invitation to visit Las Vegas.

The Assembly, In a move unprecedented in modern years, sent regrets to Brig. Gen. C. B. Smiler, NeMis Air Force Base commander.

Smiler had invited assemblymen to visit Nellis, near Las Vegas. Assemblyman Coe Swobe, R-Washoe, the minority leader, moved the invitation be declined "because of the press of business facing this session." Democrat Vernon Bunker, of Clark County, the majority leader, concurred. But he did suggest legislators try to visit Las Vegas their own time after the session. In the past, the legislature has snapped up invitations to visit Las Vegas. a vv a discovered the wreckage of a plane carrying Chuck Ford and Clyde Brandt on a flight from Reno to Winnemucca.

The fatal crash occurred in the high mountains south of Humboldt House. "I also located the MeClin-tock boys, down in the Santa Rosa Mountains on a flight from Orovada to Elko." Fransway learned to fly in Humboldt County 15 years ago, even though most of his left arm is missing. He said he needed the flying skill for business and pleasure travel, which along with search and Sparks Councilman Henry I Swart urged his fellow Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board members Wednesday to reconsider their push lor au thority to issue $2.5 million in revenue bonds for a downtown Reno theater-auditorium. The board's response was to formally endorse, 3-1, the call for legislative authority to float a bond issue for the downtown convention hall. Swart said the coliseum site, is the "logical" place to build a convention center, claimed there is strong question wheth er there's enough room tax money to run it and the Coli seum, and said the public has already expressed its opposition to a downtown "Let's get the Coliseum done, and done right, and get it in operation," he said.

"Then, and only then, should we consider a second facility, and at that time we should put it before the people of the area and. let the voters make the decision, a decision wnicn J. feel we as a board do not have the right to make for them." He noted that the voters turned down a 1963 bond issue which would have made a down town convention center feasible, "clearly indicating 1hat the vot ers are not in favor of another building." STUDYING IT The Reno City Council and the Washoe County commission ers have endorsed the $2.5 mil lion bond proposal, but the Sparks council is still studying it. Swart said he thinks his coun cil won't go along with the reso lution unless it includes a rider allocating up to a half million dollars to sSparks for recreation purposes. "I'd oppose this (a rider vig orously in the legislature," Fair Board Chairman William Gravelle retorted.

"This would develop into a bitter fight be tween tne two communities on how big a piece of pie they can swan also saia there a chance Sparks refusal to eo along with the proposal could scuttle it, but the board's legal counsel, Emile J. Gezelin, dis agreea. tne legsiature ap proves the bond issue, that's all the authority the board needs, he said. "I cannot myself, in all hon esty, support any measure which in effect circumvents the wishes of the people I have been elected to represent. Swart said, "and which in my opinion represents the thinking of a great majority of the peo ple of the county.

LOGICAL PLACE "I do not recognize the need for a theater auditorium in the area, but I feel that the logical place for such a building is on the Triangle Site, where parking is available." Swart said he'd have voted against the South Virginia Coliseum site if he'd been on the board at the time. "But it is there now," he said. "Let's live with it and make the best of it." Swart argued that "delay in construction and the expenditure of funds far and above the orig inal estimate, while not the fault of the board, has caused the people of the area to feel that no other facilities should be considered until the Coliseum is in operation." He said "We have not yet de termined the actual operating and maintenance expense" for the Coliseum, and thus don't know whether income from the building and room tax will sup port the revenue bond issue, "VIOLATION" The end result might be a resort to general fund income, "a direct violation of the people's wishes!" He also wondered whether lit igation and other factors might raise the cost of a facility on the State Building site above estimates. rescue missions adds up to more than 1,500 hours in the air. He now is averaging 250 hours a year.

Fransway praised the CAP and its voluntary operation as a "worthwhile organization" recalling the missions he has flown. He explained that on search and rescue missions the CAP furnishes gas and oil. "The planes and services are Volunteered by pilots. "Don't forget," he said, "I only accepted the award on behalf of the Winnemucca wing." Reduce Silver Content Of Coins, Say Miners ing. Gravelle then observed that.

the board had never formally acted on its own proposal. "If we failed "to pass this thing, it would leave us in a peculiar positfon," McKissick added, seconding director J. C. Thornton's motion to back the' bonds. Thornton emphasized that the resolution asks for authority hjT issue "up to" $2.5 million in revenue bonds for the downtown' theater-auditorium.

Gravelle said the actual estimated cost for building and site is $1.9 million, but an extra or so should be set aside for a guaranteed payment to bond buyers, which would enable the board to get a better interest rate. Fair Board Salaries? fBy All Means' Salaries for Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board members By all means, says J. C. Specs" McKenzie, chair man of the Washoe County Commission and one of its representatives on the board. Fair Board legal adviser Emile Gezelin suggested at a Wednesday meeting the possibility of salaries for board mem bers, but he said he would have to research it further.

McKenzie suggests that each of the five members receive at least $200 per month. It costs me more than that to attend these meetings. I have to replace myself with an em ploye." McKenzie operates a filling station. He says he guesses the average board member spends 100 hours per month or more in his work. "And, it's going to get worse before it gets better." Centennial Coliseum is about to open, McKenzie explains, and its operation will require more of the board's time.

The board will be called upon to settle myriad details, he predicts, such as whether to waive parking or rental fees for the new community convention hall-auditorium it manages. "I'd say a fair and equitable figure would be about $200 per month." four other Fair Board members, Reno Councilman William Gravelle, chairman; Councilman Clarence Thornton, Sparks Councilman Henry Swart, and County Commissioner Howard McKissick were not reached for comment. At present, Washoe County Commissioners are paid $500 each per month. Reno council-men are allowed $400, and the mayor receives an extra $100. Sparks councilmen get $250 per month.

'SUPPOSEDLY COMPLETED IN 1964' An architect's drawing of the bronze plaque marking Centennial Coliseum won approval from the Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board Wednesday with one slight change. The drawing bore the year 1965, actual year of completion. But the board changed that to 1964 at the recommendation of Board Chairman William Gravelle. "It was basically started and supposedly completed in 1964, Gravelle noted. Actually, labor troubles and other problems have delayed completion until, early March, 1965, far past the Oct.

31, 1964 target date. The plaque shows beams from a "sun" (composed of the letters shining down on a jackass and a plow, representing early day Nevada. It also, bears names of the directors, tax administrator, architects and contractor. duction. Most silver in the U.S.

is produced as a bi-product of base metal production." Gemmill added that "as long as the treasury continues to sell silver at this price, it is selling a valuable storehouse which can never be replaced at this price." Figures from the latest Han dy and Harm an Review, the N.Y. silver brokerage firm, NIGHT COURT STARTS Reno's first regular night traffic court begins tonight at 7 o'clock. Judge John H. Mathews said the court will be for arraignments and guilty pleas only so it will not necessitate attendance by a member of the city attorney's staff. There will have to be a bailiff and personnel from the court clerk's office.

Judge Mathews said the use of the night court once a week will allow him to conduct an additional six trials on traffic cases each week during the regular daytime court hours. marked for the Nevada His- torical Society. A meeting of five Sparks citizens, five members of the citizens committee, the Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board and the Washoe Legisla tive delegation will be held in the near future to out problems of financing a downtown -facility and providing a home for the society. The -meeting was suggested by Sparks Mayor Chet Chris- tensen, who indicated dissension has been aroused by a number of events. The Fair Board is considering placing a theater-auditori um on the site of the State Building.

The historical society, housed in the State Building's basement, wants assurance of a new home. Reno and Washoe County have endorsed resolutions calling on the legislature to adopt enabling legislation al lowing the fair board to sell up to $2.5 million in revenue bonds to finance the project. Howev er, the Sparks council has balked, indicating they would favor some guaranteed expend! ture of money in the Rail City. The citizens committee has approved two resolutions. One urges the legislature to author ize the fair board to sell up to $2.5 million in revenue bonds, to De repaid by excess room taxes and not by the ad valorem tax structure.

The money would be used for a downtown hall and for suitable premises for the historical society. The second resolution asks the legislature to appropriate state funds to be used toward a historical society home and asks also that $260,000 of the $2.5 million revenue bond sale which hopefully will be au thorized be earmarked for the society. Clara Beatty and Miles Pike of the society told citizens committee members thy would pre fer a building near the Univer sity of Nevada, but that a sec ond choice would be in Sparks' Ardmore Park. Former Judge Clel Georgetta, chairman of the citizen's committee, asked for a new elec tion, but the committee unani mously urged that he continue as chairman. Georgetta then said he felt the downtown facility is not lim ited the State Building Site, suggesting an area east of the Mizpah Hotel on East Second Street.

"The city owns a park ing lot there and surrounding land might be available at a reasonable cost," he said, say- iner a facility there would be within walking distance of a ma jority of the metropolitan area. He added there would be plenty of parking and the land is above the Truckee River level. "Its a darn good location," he said, noting the State Building site would not allow adequate park ing. Mayor Christensen suggested a meeting of all interests, say ing the room tax is collected in both Reno and Sparks, and proposing development of a long range master plan which would satisfy both cities. Christensen will select the five citizens to represent Sparks.

Religion Prof Plans Talk A Protestant observer at the Second Ecumenical Council will speak on the University of Nevada campus this Sunday at 8 p.m. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of religion at Stanford Uni-at the Vatican hv Rome 'from September to December 1963. show that consumption of silver for the world for industrial uses grew from 225 million ounces in 1960 to 286 million ounces in 19S4. Silver use in coins in coun tries other than the U.S. grew from 59 million ounces to 61.5 million ounces in the same pe riod.

The total consumption of sil ver was 347.4 million ounces in 1964. In addition, withdrawals from treasury stocks in the U.S. Mint went down by 364.5 million ounces for a drop of 23 per cent. The amount of silver used in U.S. coins in 1964 was 203 mil lion ounces as against 111.5 mil lion ounces in 1963.

In 1960 only 46 million ounces of silver were used in coins. During 1964, 550 million ounces of silver was used all over the world, including U. S. coinage Gemmill said the report shows that although production of silver in 1964 was only 215 million ounces, more than 550 million ounces were used both in coinage and in industry all over the world. The only solution, he believes, is a reduction in the amount of silver used in coins and "let a free market price balance pro duction with consumption.

effective search and rescue work, came after ten years of CAP flying and some 25 search and rescue missions. During the last eight years Fransway has discovered the wreckage of three airplanes, two with no survivors. The last, only a few months ago, "was a little more pleasant, no casualties," Fransway recalled today. That was his discovery of the aircraft carrying Reno attorney Jack Barry and other hunters successfully landed in the Seven Devils area. About seven years ago T0NI6HT IM 601H6TO ASK Mr LITTLE BEA6LE FRIEND TO MARRY ME Reduce the silver content in U.

S. coins, the Nevada Mining Association advocated today. Such a reduction would free great amounts of silver for more coinage and use for do mestic purposes, they add. The supply of silver is now far below the demand for the mineral. "If the silver content of coins were reduced in an orderly fashion, some of the problems now existing would be eased," Paul Gemmill, executive secre tary of the association, said.

However, the group would not advocate eliminating the. use of silver in coins altogether. This was urged by the Silver Users Association at a recent meeting in New York. The As sociation contends that silver consumption far exceeds the de mand for it and is insufficient to cover either industrial or coinage requirements. However, the stand taken by the Nevada Mining Association is in line with that advo cated by the American Mining Congress.

The mining congress has urged the government to continue using silver in coins, though at a lesser content. This reduction, coupled with an esti mated production increase over the net four years of 38 mil lion ounces a year, will be ade quate to bring supply and demand into balance, the mining congress contends. "With more silver freed, if the monetary prices were raised, the commrecial price would seek its own level below the monetary price, uemmiii saia. If the price should rise, mining activity in Nevada, now more likely than it has been in many vears. would increase even fur ther, Gemmill added.

"The an ounce price is not attractive to Nevada miners relative to the costs of pro- Foreman to Talk To Republicans In Reno Ed Foreman of Texas, elect ed in 1962 as the youngest representative in the 88th Congress, will be guest speaker during a Republican dinner at the Riverside Hotel Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. A cocktail hour will precede the dinner. Foreman lost re-election nar rowly last November, but is considered a potential Republican leader. Air Search: Luck, Observation Gazette-Journal Legislative Bureau Sen.

John Fransway believes search and rescue work is a combination of "a lot of luck and a keen observer." That's why the Humboldt County Republcan refuses to take sole credit for the Civil Air Patrol award of merit Gov. Grant Sawyer presented him in the capitol. "I accepted it on behalf of the Winnemucca Wing of the CAP keeping in mind those two essential elements luck and an observer." The meritorius award, for ing budgets." GOT YOUR NEW LICENSE? The Reno Police Department's a a I campaign against motor vehicles which still bear 1964 license plates is in full' swing, against motor vehicles which are driven without new registration face a fine of $15.75. One officer said today, "I Issued 27 citations Wednesday on that one offense. Some of the people had purchased their new license plates back in December and still had not got around to putting them on the car." Deadline for the re-registration was Jan.

31 and the law says the owner is in violation the plates are not attached to the front and rear of the vehicle. UE'lL 5KATE THR0U6H I ME LUCK LIFE "T06ETHER msouziws IN ALL MY 2-4 I.