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RENO EVENING GAZETTE, JANUARY 14, 1967-3 WEATHER Area Deaths Thirteen Children Killed in Fires (Information furnished by the U. S. Weather Bureau at tht Reno Municipal Airport. Temperatures hish and low tor 24 hours ending at a.m.. Jan.

141. Nevada-California Stations RENO is 34 Bert Piclcrell Funeral services will be held Austin 46 27 Death Notices (Continued from Page 1) Battle Mountain 47 John Pusker, 43, a mailman, Parrish a few blocks from Girard College. Carson 56 Monday at 3 p.m. in the Ross- and Lorette, 6 months, were" reported in serious condition at Coney Island Hospital, suffering from smoke Inhalation. downstairs when the fire broke out.

Burke and Knobel Funeral was driving by when he saw the flames. He climbed to the second floor and dropped three that swept the family's Coney Island apartment Friday night while the mother was shopping. The boys' two younger sisters were seriously injured. Elko 43 23 Ely 45 23 Fallon 55 2 La; Vegas 40 Lovelo-k 55 23 Chapel for Bert D. Fickrell, CLEVELAND.

Ohio (AP) Tassi said the Drums were with Rev. E. A. Wessell, offi children into the arms of An East Side apartment build ROSSI Friends trt Invited to assemble at the noma Chapel of Ross, Burke jid Knobel Mortuary at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, thence to St.

Thomas Aquinas Cathedral where a Requiem Mass will be celebrated for Dave Rossi at 10 a.m. Recitation of the Rosary will be 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Home Chapel with burial at Mt. View Cemetery. Tonopah 53 29 Winnemucca 55 26 The mother, Norma Reese, 20, told police that the fire broke ciating.

The dead were identified as trapped in the fast spreading flames. Tassi said he heard one of the Drum children screaming Burial will be in Mountain out while she was out to buy Wade Reese, 5, and his brother, ing was swept by fire Friday night, killing four children in one family. Seven persons were View Cemetery. Bishop 65 35 Sacramento 63 47 Susanville 52 26 Tahoe Airport 45 17 Truckee 51 14 Tahoe City 47 21 NEW YORK (AP) Two milk. She said she had left her children for about 20 minutes.

Robert, 4. Their sisters, Geraldine, 2, brothers were killed in a fire in pain outside after leaping and he rushed out. Flames prevented him from returning. Geraldine House FORECASTS RENO AND VICINITY Generally fair hurt. The children, ranging in age from 3 to 8, suffocated.

Twenty Mrs. May Hennen Funeral services were held Houses on either side of the through Sunday but with a chance of early morninq foa in the valleys. Slightly warme today. A high of 61 was expected today A low of 25 and a hish of 62 is predicted for Sunday. persons leaped from the three- Wednesday at Redding, Calif brick row were spared.

for Mrs. Geraldine Elizabeth ELKO Recitation of the Rosary for Mrs. May Hennen was held Friday evening in the The house was located at 2533 wbiitKN Nevada some man House of Reno. cloudiness in the north portion, otherwise Meet Your Observers At the Legislature fair through surday. story building.

A soldier home from Vietnam and two policemen caught some of them. A mailman rescued three youngsters from a fire escape. LAKE TAHOE BASIN Genera Mrs. House died in New York City Saturday following a Burns Funeral Home. A Requiem Mass was celebrated at LAKE TAHOE BASIN Generally fair but with variable high cloudiness through Sunday, lominuea mna aunaay.

nigns 10 a.m. today in St. Joseph's lengthy illness. A native of Portland, Ore to 'A and lows 15 to 25. Catholic Church.

Burial was in SIERRA NEVADA Fair through Sun Jesse Stadamire, the building day Litte chanoe in temperature. Mrs. House was born July 26, the, family plot in the Elks Thunderbird Hotel Sold In Las Vegas SOUTHERN NEVADA Mostly sunny 1941. She is survived by her hus today and Sunday. Little change In tem cemetery.

custodian heard the explosion and opened his door. Outside was "a wall of flame." he said. band, Robert L. House of Reno; perature. EASTERN NEVADA Partly cloudy Mrs.

Hennen, 86, died through Sunday, continued mua. PRECIPITATION three sons, Mark, Michael and Patrick; a sister, Mrs. Kathleen Amount recorded in 24 hour period Wednesday in Elko General Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Carson City ending 4 a.m. today, none.

LAS VEGAS (AP) The Peek of Eugene, a brother, Bradley Leonard of Los An It was not known what touched off the explosion. Doris Demore, mother of the four victims, was in another apartment while her children Thunderbird Hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip has. been sold and taught school in Smoky Valley, Independence Valley and the old Brennan School in geles and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.

G. Watt of Redding, to Florida interests for $13 million. were in the third-floor suite. She since JUiy to aare, Last year, to date, 5.33. Normal, July 1, to date, 3.34.

The Weather Elsewhere By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thit Morning's Low Yesterday's High 24 Hour pr'icipitation Pleasant Valley in Elko Coun Calif. Henry M. Walker The Sahara Nevada Corp. She and George Hennen Sr. which operates three other Ne were married in Pleasant Val vada hotels for the parent Del A funeral service will be held smelled the smoke.

"My children, rry children!" she screamed. But she was driven back by the flames. Killed were her three daughters and a son Eveline, about 8, Mathel, 7, Gwendolyn, 4, and E. Webb Corp. announced the ley in 1905.

The couple resided in Walton Funeral Home Mon there many years owning and sale Friday night to Lance Inc. High Low Pr. Albany, cloudy 37 16 day at 3 p.m. for Henry M. operating the ranches later ac mncipais or Lance inc.

are (Continued from Page 1) ment and politics as well as the judgment of 28 years of editing. It will be staffed by the following reporters: Jim Drennan, 30, chief of the Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau, who has worked for the Nevada State Journal 18 months and The Gazette one year in reporting, writing and editing jobs and who was a reporter and editor at the Madera, Calif. Daily Tribune for three years. Cy Ryan, 34, manager of the United Press International Bureau in Carson City, who has worked for the news service seven years, five of which have been in Carson City following work In Reno and San Francisco. Tom Kennedy, 27, correspondent in charge of The Associated Press Bureau in Carson City, who has worked for the news service 3'i years in for Vft years who has been making pictures for 25 yean, including photo journalism work for the Miami Herald and West Palm Beach Post-Times in Florida and the Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette in Lancaster, Calif.

It adds up like this for you when examining the experience of your journalistic observers in the legislative halls: 74 years of news gathering and writing by reporters; 41 years of looking through camera rangefinders by photographers. That adds up to 115 years of effort in journalism by the reporters and photographers who will cover the Nevada Legislature for you. The sum total? Top coverage In The Gazette. For an example, please turn to Page 9 of The Gazette today and read a story on what to expect the lawmakers will be up to. Russell Nielsen, 42, manager of the United Press International Bureau in Reno, who has written stories under the UPI logotype for 18 years, seven of them in Reno after service in Seattle, Spokane and Helena.

Richard E. Meyer, 24, correspondent in charge of the Reno Bureau of The Associated Press, who has worked for the news service two years in Reno, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Morton Saltzman, 26, a reporter for The Associated Press Reno Bureau for the last year who did news work for radio and television stations in Eureka, Calif, for two years. The photographers: Harry Upson, 31, who has made pictures for The Gazette for 5tt years. He has been using a camera for 16 years.

Jim Frey, 35, a Nevada State Journal photographer Walker, who died Wednesday in President Herbert Lodge, oper Albuquerque, clear 50 32 a hospital at Martinez, Calif, William, 3. quired by Orvis Stock. They moved to Reno and then returned to Elko where Hennen Atlanta, rain 54 40 1.07 ator of the Golden Nugget Ho The Rev. Walter Ealum will be Stadamire said 10 families, 28 tel in Miami Beach, Vice Pres died in 1959. .03 the clergyman and burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.

children and 13 adults, lived in the building at 8430 Buckeye ident George Rosen of Las Vegas, Secretary Neil Galatz, a Koad. Walker, who had lived Las Vegas attorney, and Treas Reno 11 years, was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 18. 1925. He There wera individual acts of heroism as motorists stopped on the busy street and reacted urer James Cohen, a Miami Beach lawyer.

Del E. Webb, president and Bismarck, snow 30 -1 Boise, cloudy 48 36 Boston, cloudy 41 32 Buffalo, cloudy 39 31 Chicago, clear 46 34 Cincinnati, rain 51 40 Cleveland, cloudy 44 32 Denver, cloudy 57 23 Des Moines, cloudy 39 31 Detroit, clear 40 25 Fairbanks, -14 was a veteran of World War Mrs. Hennen since then had spent much time visiting her son, George Hennen state water engineer, and his wife, In Carson. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Joe Hennen of Elko.

Edward C. Cazier board chairman of Del E. Webb quickly. Surviving are his widow, Mrs Two detectives, Russell Sabat Rose Walker, three sons said proceeds from the sale will be reinvested in the Charles, Johnny and Henry and Robert Tonne, said they caught 12 to 15 persons jumping Walker and two daughters, Lynn other properties, the Sahara and Mint Hotels in Las Vegas and the Sahara Tahoe Hotel at from the building, including two and Sharon Walker, all of Reno; Fort Worth, fog 54 44 .10 Helena, snow 45 32 infants dropped by a girl from his mother. Mrs.

Jennie Tis- Lake Tahoe. the third floor. Reno and the capital. dell- of Long Island, N. Honolulu, cloudy brother.

Charles Walker of Indianapolis, cloudy 48 35 Jacksonville, cloudy 70 58 Reno; and four sisters, Mrs. Lois Romano and Mrs. Janet Juneau, cloudy 32 25 .02 Kansas City, cloudy 52 33 Farenkoff of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Mrs. Dorothy Poster and Los Angeles, clear 45 45 .13 Mrs.

Frances Tappan, both of Long Island. Louisville, rain 52 41 Memphis, rain 47 42 .71 Miami, cloudy 74 71 Milwaukee, cloudy 40 27 WELLS Edward Coin Ca-rier, 73, formerly of Starr Valley and Wells, died at his home In Malibu Beach, Jan. 10 after a long illness. Born Nov. 8, 1893, in Toano, Nevada, he was a son of John H.

and Elizabeth Jones Cazier. He moved with his parents to the Cazier ranch eight miles west of Wells in 1899. He attended the Bishop school In Starr Valley, Elko High School and the University of Nevada. With his father and brothers, he helped establish the purebred Hereford herd, one of Nevada's first, at the Cazier ranch. Cs str am fJr cloudy 36 23 .30 New Orleans, fog 60 51 1.49 Nevada Guardsmen Decorated New York, cloudy 46 41 Okla.

City, clear 50 33 Omaha, cloudy 41 26 Philadelphia, rain 47 34 Phoenix, clear 68 35 The Air Reserve Forces Merl Pittsburgh, cloudy 43 38 torious Service Ribbon has been awarded to 16 Nevada Air Na He married Ruth Dougherty of Salt Lake City, a school tional Guardsmen. The award, teacher in Wells, March 18, honoring exemplary behavior Ptlnd, cloudy 40 25 Ptlnd, cloudy 54 49 .13 Rapid City, snow 46 25 .01 Richmond, rain 62 42 .14 St. Louis, clear 54 35 Salt Lk. City, cloudy 38 35 1921, in Salt Lake City. They moved to California, where and efficiency for a four-year period has been presented to the following members of the Cazier continued to be associat San Diego, clear 66M ed with the purebred cattle 152! Tartiral Reconnaissance clear 69 57 business, mining and, in later Group, Nevada Air NationalPan.Tan Guard: years, real estate.

Seattle, cloudy 50 48 Tampa, clear 75 61 Surviving are his widow; two T.Sgt. August E. Malucelll, .04 sons. Edward and John: and Washington, rain 57 44 Winnipeg, 27 -36 S.Sgt. Paul R.

Carlson, S.Sgt. Ronald E. McDowell, S.Sgt. three grandchildren, all of Malibu Beach; a brother, W. Bry (M Missing) (T Trace) an Cazier of Burley, Idaho; Eugene P.

Mortara, S.Sgt. John M. Osse, S.Sgt. Lee L. Oewell and S.Sgt.

William K. Treptow; and, FDA OFFICIAL WASHINGTON (AP) Dr. five sisters, Mrs. A. D.

(Louise) Supp, Mrs. G. F. (Nevada) Kopp, Mrs. Leonard (Martha) B.

Harvey Minchew, 34, will be Airmen First Class John Mac- come acting deputy director of Blackett. of Wells, Mrs. cagnane, Gary E. Olsen, David L. Costa, Dan B.

Leahy, Valere the Food and Drug Administra. W. H. (Nell) Franklin of Haw thorne. and Mrs.

Kate tion Bureau of Medicine on Jan. 16, it was announced to C. Van Houck, David R. Peltier, Gary W. Farnsworfh, Ron Rogness of Oakland, Calif.

day. ald E. Osborn and Dan L. Private funeral services fol Peek m. (aTY (Wi SUNDAY -f fe YVV- A KANSAS CITY vs GREEN BAY ifi lowed by cremation were held Auto Hits Friday afternoon in Malibu.

Adolph R. Stank Adolph R. Stank, 65, of 1040 Humboldt died Friday in Reno hospital. Porch; Man Is Arrested A car went out of control this Stank, a pipe fitter and sheet metal worker, had lived in Reno 40 vears. He was a native of Germany.

morning, demonsnea tne porcn of a house and smashed into a Surviving are his widow, Mrs Marie Stank of Reno; two sons tree, Reno police said. Luther Curtis Clay, 61, of 821 Spokane was arrested on Edwin A. Starr of Reno and Adolph Starr of the United State Air Force; two brothers, Fritz charges of driving while under DANCING NIGHTLY Lenny Herman and his Orchestra. Plenty of Free Parking. dinner'in the bonanza room Sumptuous international cuisine in surroundings typical of the lavish elegance of mid-19th century Nevada Weekdays from 5 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon.

Stank of Germany and Herman ran sy iwii the influence of intoxicants end reckless driving. Stank of Sacramento, Calif. three sisters, Frieda Jankowski end Hilda Grijsen of Germany and Augusta Mertha of Sparks and three grandchildren, Gary Virginia and Michael Starr, all of Reno. He was not injured In the crash. The house was owned by Dennis Hand, 614 Eureka Ave.

Police said Clay was east-bound on Sixth Street and was attempting a left turn onto Eureka Avenue when he lost control of the car. The car went 111 feet across a lawn before hitting the porch and tree. Clay was being held in lieu of $450 bail. A funeral service will be held Monday at 3 :30 p.m. in the WaV ton Funeral Home with the Rev, Edward Wessell of St.

Luke': Lutheran Church, clergyman Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. the talk of the sports world NEVADA STATE JOURNAL READERS STAY INFORMED SUNDAY'S PLAYOFF GAME GREEN BAY PACKERS, champions of the National Football League and KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, kingpins of the American Football League. CHECK THE DAILY JOURNAL SPORT PAGES Be in the know on training camp stories, odds on the favorites, the team rosters and lineups. DON'T MISS THE MONDAY JOURNAL Complete coverage of the professional football championship game colorful and detailed game story, statistics, scoring summary, action photos, dressing room interviews-THE WHOLE WRAPUP OF THIS HISTORICAL CLASH. READ IT ALL IN THE New Vocationally-Oriented Courses Begin Jan.

23 LANDSCAPING BASICS Course Landscaping and gardening techniques. Emphasis on residental settings. Mondays for 6 weeks 7 to 9 p.m. Course 2. Elements of design concentrating on residental usage.

Wednesdays for 6 weeks 7 to 9 p. m. INSTRUCTOR: RICHARD D. WOOD, Landscape Architect NANCY TAYLOR FINISHING Complete finishing and grooming course taught by Joan Steward, former director of the Hunter Finishing School. 2 nights a week, 2 hours a night for 6 weeks.

Complete set of books, make-up kit, Instruction $1 50 Call or Write for the New 1967 Catalog Phone 322-4071 406 CALIFORNIA RENO CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE ffebaba jitate journal.

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