Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 17

1 1 5 Cv; Summer in the meadows somehow turned to winter Last July 5 the Capurro Ranch south of Reno basked Sierra range to the west. Trees shaded the ranch Tnis morning Boynton this year in building a snowpack, were covered with Lane through the ranch was all, the trees were naked and Lane through the ranch was me irees were naxea ana uuuci a wunu wmi omy traces oi snow on me Dunaings ana newiy cut nay was tragrant in the field. wmi a ngni snowiau, snow. the field was bare. The mountains to the west, tardy (Gazette photos by Harry Upson) 00 0 EVEN! Reno, Nevada, Thursday, January 9, 1975 Phone (702) 786-8989 Seventeen olice check on zoo rive in Reno ordered Ifl'o eold Reno is in for cold weather with a possible low near zero Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

The five-day outlook for the area is for temperatures from 15 to 20 degrees below normal for this time of year, which usually has a maximum of 46 degrees and a minimum of 17. Occasional snow showers are expected in the mountains today with slight snow falling over valley regions. Higher elevations of Reno might receive measurable amounts of snow through Friday, but the general outlook for the area is variable cloudiness, snow flurries and colder temperatures. By EARL BIEDERMAN A rare police investigation of a nonprofit organization has been ordered in Reno. The target of the probe is the Tahoe-Sierra Zoological Society.

Society president Dan Dollarhide said he welcomes any investigation. City Atty. Robert Van Wagoner requested the police check Tuesday. The action was taken, he said, after a December meeting of the Solicitation Review Board at which board member Harold Gorman requested something be done. Assistant City Atty.

Jack Schroeder, who wrote the request to Chief James Parker, withheld extensive comment on the request for a probe, but it is rare that a non-profit organization is investigated. Schroeder said his next move depends on the results of the police investigation. Police department complaint officer Cliff Walters said he would expect the investigation request would have come to him, but he is just back from vacation and hasn't seen the request. He referred the query to the detective division, where the spokesman said no investigation had been started. "I didn't know about the investigation until right now," Dollarhide said Tuesday, "but I welcome it or any investigation of the society and am more than willing to cooperate." Dollarhide said his and the society's problems with first the Better Business Bureau, and now with the city stem from a telephone membership drive which began in November.

Dollarhide said the society now has about $2,000 in the bank toward construction of the estimated $2 million zoo. TWO DRIVES The $2,000 is the result of two separate fund-raising drives, one to collect 50-cent and $1 subscriptions from Washoe County school children Latimore offers his services as a lobbyist Reno City Council members today expressed interest in hiring former city manager Joe Latimo as a legislative lobbyist. Latimore said Wednesday he was considering asking Reno, Sparks and Washoe County to hire him as their legislative lobbyist for the upcoming session in Carson He said he already had discussed the idea with some Reno councilmen, but had not yet approached the county or Sparks. The county, however, has a lobbyist. Mayor Sam Dibitonto said this morning he had talked to Latimore and hiring him would "be a hell of a deal for him and us loo." The issue probably will come up at Monday's council session, he said.

"We can utilize his (Latimore's) expertise and knowledge," Dibitonto said. SKILLS CITED "We need someone with his skills watching the legislature. Some pretty tough legislation has been passed. If we had had someone on the spot, it might not have gone through." Council members Clyde Biglieri, Pat Lewis and Carl Bogart said they are interested All cited the need for someone to represent' the city during the legislative session. Biglieri and Mrs.

Lewis said Las Vegas has had a lobbyist at Carson City for several years. Biglieri said the city needs 'a lobbyist, but he added he wanted to talk to other council members and hear Latimore's fee request before making any direct comment on hiring the former city manager. COUNTY LOBBYIST Bob Rusk, Washoe County commissioner, said the county already had hired a lobbyist, Reno attorney Frank Fahrenkopf, on Monday. Sparks City Manager John Maclntyre said today he's unsure what recommendation he'd make to his city council concerning Latimore's proposal. "The whole thing would have to be looked at in the light of the city's legislative program, the effort of the Nevada League of Cities and how he would intend to do it," Maclntyre said.

Sparks Mayor Jim Lillard and Councilman Gordon Foote both said today the city council sees no need for a lobbyist, but Lillard said if such a need develops, he thinks Latimore would be a logical choice. Foote says he foresees no need for lobbying that can't be handled by the city manager, mayor or council members. He said that was the concensus of all five councilmen at a meeting with legislators Saturday. and teachers, the other a telephone membership drive begun in November. The school drive generated about $750 which was split 50-50 between the society zoo fund and director Norm Evans who went from school to school conducting assemblies, Dollarhide said.

The telephone campaign produced 90 to a thousand $10 and $15 subscriptions and an outpouring of enthusiastic public support, he said. Better Business Bureau manager Don Cralle said Tuesday the telephone campaign sparked citizen queries to his office. Those calls moved him to call Dollarhide with the information that telephone campaigns are prohibited. Dollarhide confirmed Tuesday that he told Cralle he would continue the calls until told to stop by either the city attorney's office or the police. Cralle said he referred later citizen calls to the city attorney.

Will attack questions Redfield's state of mind Reno International Air- port reported about two inches of snow on the ground since the storm began Wednesday morning. Incline Village received about 18 inches of new snow from the storm and Truckee reported about eight inches. Cars and trucks found the going slippery on Reno's snow and ice-covered streets Wednesday night and this morning. It was especially evident as motorists drove to work today, police said. Reports of accidents began coming in after 7 a.m.

One involved seven or eight cars at Mill Street and Matley Lane. A sergeant said, "We had a half dozen accidents to investigate at once." At 5 p.m. Wednesday at Taylor Street and Lester Avenue, a pickup truck skidded sideways and backward through a fence and into the yard of Kendall Horton. BEV WALLER Waller to retire in April Assistant Reno Police Chief Bev Waller has officially applied for retirement April 25. The application was made Wednesday to the Public Employes Retirement Board.

Waller had made his intentions known informally last year, as had the other assistant to Chief James Parker, Frank Hart. Hart is recovering from heart surgery and hasn't said whether he will return to work. Waller, who joined the department in 1947, said that, at 50 years of age, he is young enough to consider another career, possibly in insurance. He was promoted to sergeant in 1948, lieutenant in 1955, captain in 1958 and to deputy assistant chief in 1969. He became acting chief upon the retirement of Chief Elmer Briscoe in 1971.

He was a candidate to succeed Briscoe, but later withdrew from consideration. Waller was born in Mariposa County, but has lived most of his life in Nevada. He was graduated from Churchill County High School and attended the University of Nevada, Reno. Vegas zoo site leased LAS VEGAS (AP) The Las Vegas Valley Zoo found a home for the next 99 years after the city commission leased 255 acres at Tule Springs to the Las Vegas Zoological Society. On a unanimous vote, commissioners agreed to lease the land for $1 a year providing the place be used only for a zoo.

The zoo is now situated on about three acres of land leased from the city. It will take about 18 months for the zoo facilities to move about one mile to its new permanent location. By BOB FELTEN A mysterious document dated May 22, 1974, is not the will of the late eccentric Reno millionaire LaVere Redfield. That is the argument advanced in papers filed in Washoe District Court on behalf of a woman who would be removed as executrix of the millionaire's estate if the document proved valid. But the papers also argue, "At the time of the alleged execution of the purported will, decedent was not of sound and disposing mind." The papers were filed on behalf of Luana W.

Miles in answer to requests from the University of Nevada, the City of Reno and the Nevada State Prison that the 1974 will be substituted for an earlier will The earlier document, dated Oct. 10, 1972, was admitted to probate in October by Washoe Dist. Judge John Gabrielli. The 1974 document was received anonymously by the Reno Evening Gazette in early November. The 1972 document names Mrs.

Miles, the wife of Redfield's physician Dr. Hoyt Miles, as one executrix. The 1974 will does not. The papers filed for Mrs. Miles also claim the 1974 document was not "executed by rt puuceiiiciii wnu siuppeu to adjust a traffic signal at Ninth and Virginia streets at 11:10 p.m.

reported a motorist hit his patrol car. Only minor damage decedent in the manner and form required bylaw Identical papers were filed on behalf of Mrs. Miles to a similar request from Reno attorney I. A. Ixmgaris, named executor in the 1974 document.

Mrs. Miles also filed a separate $300,000 claim against the estate. The claim says she is entitled to one third of about $900,000 deposited in Swiss banks by Redfield. She claims the bank accounts also are in her name. Executors named in the 1972 will are continuing to administer the estate under an order by Judge Gabrielli.

The judge, however, has delayed any distribution of the estate's assets until the validity of the 1974 document is determined. The 1972 will leaves the bulk of the estate to Redfield's niece in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The 1974 document would leave large holdings to the university, the City of Reno and the prison. One section of the 1974 will also leaves $1,000 to each attorney practicing law in Reno as of Jan. 1, 1974.

Attorney Sam Bull has filed a class action suit supporting the second document on behalf of the attorneys. resulted, but the officer arrested the motorist for invpstioatinn nf Hrivino Cities prepare legislative plan The Nevada-League of Cities has finalized its package of proposed legislation it will present to the Nevada Legislature when it convenes in Carsonity Jan. 20. The 19-piece package includes a call for repeal of the Nevada Libel law which gives a plaintiff in an action against a newspaper, radio or television station 20 days to demand a correction or lose the right to more than special damages. The league also wants the legislature to standardize municipal election laws and increase state liquor taxes to provide funds for county level alcohol rehabilitation programs.

under the influence. All major highways in Nevada remained open with chain or snow tire requirements. California's State Route 88, Carson Pass had a mandatory chains requirement. Nevada Road Toll This year to date: 6 net trAlf Antti Can they race to a fire without light and siren: Stio fo unit do 9,000 inspections last year. The complaints, Brenner said, were generated largely by county officials who had their own reasons for not wanting his unit to continue their emergency responses.

He and his team mounted a lobbying effort which included personal contact with four of the five commissioners. At the Dec. 3 caucus, Both Kissinger and commissioners said the move was sparked in part by citizen complaints about the Environmental unit's emergency responses. Kissinger said he expected to do the fire prevention and in-vestigation work required by law with one man. Brenner said no one man could do the job which saw his three-man, five-reserve said, "because to investigate, we must get there before firemen tear everything out of the burning structure and pile it outside." County commissioners this week were scheduled to consider a fire code amendment that would have switched fire prevention and investigation work from Brenner's unit to Kissinger's fire protection district.

Kissinger said in a letter to chief building and safety inspector Art Kountz that the district was pulling the siren permits for Brenner's team because an earlier request to quit using the equipment was ignored. Brenner said Kissinger has no authority to silence the sirens and, anyway, Kountz never told him to stop. "The emergency response to fires is necessary," he commissioner Dwight Nelson said he had been convinced "things should be left the way they are." Commissioner Bob Rusk, the one not contacted by the enforcement team, said he was willing to go along with other commissioners who had been talked to. Accordingly, decided Monday to let the fire code amendment die. In reference to his letter to Kountz, they said Kissinger had already pulled the troublesome sirens.

But Brenner said Wed-' nesday he still had not been told to stop using the sirens. This morning public works director Georee Washoe County's Environmental Enforcement Unit this week lost, at least temporarily, the use of red lights and sirens in its fire investigation work. The team's use of the emergency response equipment was ordered stopped until county commissioners can review the necessity of having red lights and sirens on the team's white trucks. Team chief Bob Brenner said the equipment is necessary for quick responses to fires required by standard fire investigation procedures. But Jack Kissinger, fire coordinator of the year-old Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District, said the district was taking the heat of citizen complaints about Brenner's people responding to fires.

'S By PHIL BARBER A woman slot machine player disappeared from the Silver Club in Sparks at 5 a.m. Wednesday without collecting her $13,200 jackpot, Sparks police said. Police and the Gaming Control Board are looking for the shabbily-dressed woman about 50 years old because the machine appeared to have been illegally manipulated, one officer said. He figured she became frightened and fled. The pay line of the Swinger slot machine showed four sevens, which pays $10,000, plus $3,200 in progressive prize money.

An employe told police the woman appeared so excited with her win that she got her a drink. The woman went to a telephone, then disappeared. Examination revealed the front of the machine had been opened with a key, a spokesman for the machine owner, Nevada Novelty said. The player's own quarters were abandoned in the catch Oshima, standing in for the.v vacationing Kountz. said he ordered Brenner's team stop using the red lights and sirens pending the review 1.