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1 Ren Evening Ga Final American, New York stocks See page 18 Phone 702 786-8989 20 Cents Ninety-niath Year No. 298 A Speidel Newspaper Reno, Nevada, Monday, March 10, 1975 'Hostage slain in sierra seise I if I Vl and Michael Dean Busby, 23, both of Hawthorne, deputies said. According to a sheriff's office statement, the incident followed a report of an armed robbery in progress at the store. The store was surrounded shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday.

"At 2:55 a.m. two armed suspects were found hiding in an attic area of the store," the statement said, adding that the woman hostage was found shot and died enroute to a hospital." MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) Two men were arrested and a hostage shot to death early today following a five hour siege in a supermarket, the Mono County Sheriff's office said. Deputies said the victim was Kathleen Delhay. 19, a female employe of the Mammoth Lakes Safeway Store.

The men in custody were from Hawthorne and Mammoth Lakes, the sheriff's office said. Booked for investigation of murder and robbery were Gene Berkeley Waters, 30, I IF v't Pressure Cambodia, Scott says Victim's death investigated by lawmen Woman died in a pool like this at spa west of Reno. Gazette photo) officials carry Funeral home death scene. woman's body from (Gazette photo) Man, barely alive, hospitalized Woman found dead in pool at Reno spa Tank fight traps nine Americans By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) Tank-led North Vietnamese forces blasted into the central highlands capital of Ban Me Thuot today, battling defenders house to house and trapping nine Americans in the city, field reports said. The communists also overran a district town 30 miles from Ban Me Thuot, the second in the highlands in three days.

In Cambodia, rebel gunners fired 56 rockets and artillery rounds into the Phnom Penh airports, damaging two domestic commercial airliners and killing five persons and wounding 22, authorities in Phnom Penh said. The campaign to oust President Lon Nol also picked up steam Officials in Washington said a C130 transport plane flying supplies into Cambodia was struck by a single shrapnel fragment Sunday as it approached for landing, tearing a three-inch gash in the plane's undercarriage. This was the second incident in which an airlift plane was hit by rebel fire aimed at the Phnom Penh airport, the only inlet for supplies to the encircled capital. Pentagon spokesman William Beecher said there were no injuries to the crew. A contract DC8 air cargo plane was struck last week by what later was determined to be artillery shell fragments.

That plane took off for Saigon without further incident, but the airlift was interrupted for a time. Beecher reported that 48 supply flights reached Phnom Penh Sunday, following the same number Saturday and 40 on Friday. Beecher said there was no reason to change Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger's assessment last week that the Cambodian situation is "grim, but not hopeless." Beecher added that "no one is willing to give up hope entirely." U.S. officials in Saigon said the Americans trapped in Ban Me Thuot, including an embassy official and eight missionaries, were unharmed. "We are in touch with them," one source said.

"They are in good spirits. They have food and water and they are all right. We are keeping in constant touch with them and watching the situation very carefully." Sources said the U.S. Embassy had considered trying to evacuate the nine Americans on Monday but decided not to because of the heavy fighting and antiaircraft guns reportedly ringing the city. They said they would reassess the situation on Tuesday.

Dreyfus Gardner, 61, of the same address, is in critical condition at St. Mary's Hospital. Inn manager Roy Rosenthal said the couple checked in at 2:30 a.m. today and went to the spa at 5 o'clock. Use of the private hot spring pool, which has a By TERENCE HUNT WASHINGTON (AP) -Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today the U.S.

government should use as much pressure as is necessary in order to obtain an immediate change of leadership of the besieged government of Cambodia. Scott said the aim of that policy is the urgent necessity of securing an agreement with a transition Cambodian government for the release of the many thousands of refugees he said would otherwise be slaughtered. Congress is about to begin a critical phase of deliberation on a $222 million aid request that President Ford says is essential to prevent the fall of Cambodia into communist hands. Scott said Congress is unlikely to vote to continue military aid to Cambodia beyond the start of the rainy season and that he is ready to discuss a compromise proposal with Ford. Scott said various countries throughout the world will have to be asked to accept refugees if Cambodia falls and that "I think that we in the United States should accept our share." Responding to questions, Scott said he preferred to define ''pressure" as "persuasion" but he did not elaborate.

Pressure, Page 2, Col. 3 By PHIL BARBER A woman was found dead and a man barely alive this morning in a hot spring pool at a Reno spa, the Washoe sheriff's office reported. Detectives said the incident, at the River Inn, appears to have been accidental. Investigation is continuing. Entering with a pass key, Drum found the woman face down in the water and the man lying at the side of the pool.

Detectives said they have been unable to question Gardner because of his condition. The cause of the woman's death will be determined by an autopsy, Coroner William Beemer said. A detective said Mrs. Gardner had told acquaintances she had been working at a Pleasant Valley bar. temperature in excess of 104 degress, is limited to an hour and a half, spa manager Barney Drum The woman was identified tentatively by sajd.

when he knocked on the couple's door at 7 sheriff's officers as Joyce A. Gardner, 38, of o'clock, he got no response and heard what he 20998 S. Virginia Pleasant Valley. The man. believed to be a groan.

law men Dodge giving opposes a alimony to Banks set 8 per cent prime rate NEW YORK (AP) -Several leading banks across the country today announced cuts in their prime lending rates to 8 per cent. The industrywide low of 7 per cent was set last week by such banks as Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York and San Francisco's Bank of America, the nation's largest commercial bank. In New York today, Chase Manhattan Bank, Marine Midland Bank, Bank of New York, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Chemical Bank reduced to 8 per cent the rate charged on loans to their most credit Hilbrecht suggested failure to equalize the law could result in it "being thrown out as patently a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment." He said that even if men should have the right to alimony, now available to women, a judge would look at the factors and rule men out in 99 cases out of 100. "In that one case, I don't want to have a dual standard, that's all," he said.

Close seemingly suggested today the dual standard be applied. Specifically, he favored a provision, not applicable to women, under which "alimony may be awarded to the husband if he is unable to provide for his own support." The committee favored equalizing the status of both sexes in such payments, with Dodge and Close voting no. Gazette-Journal Legislative Bureau A measure (SB 253) to make men equally eligible for alimony was recommended for passage today by the Senate Judiciary Committee over the objection of Sen. Carl Dodge, R-Fallon, who said might result in "all kinds of shiftless guys trying to get alimony out of wives who maybe have some independent means." "They might try," replied Sen. Norman Hilbrecht, D-Las Vegas, "but I doubt if they can persuade the judges of Nevada." Dodge joined Chairman Mel Close, D-Las Vegas, in the view that the concept of giving preference to women in alimony cases is grounded in "good social policy." "The concept of our laws today are not (of) equal responsibilities.

They're unequal. They are protective of women and place certain greater responsibilities on men as heads of households," Dodge said. It's murlty bat youths claim record Kissinger says he still has hope By BARRY SCHWEID JERUSALEM (AP) -Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today that after his first round of talks with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, President Hafez Assad of Syria and Israeli leaders, he still believes a new Israeli-Egyptian agreement is possible. Kissinger then took a break from the Arab-Israeli crisis and flew off to Turkey for talks on another political flashpoint: Cyprus.

In Nicosia, Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios declared he wants "the full involvement" of the United Nations in efforts to settle the Cyprus crisis. In Jerusalem, Kissinger told newsmen after a two-hour session Sunday night and four hours today with Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his negotiating team, "I came here because I believed an agreement was possible. I have no reason to Detectives find drug case ring That $6,000 diamond ring missing from the body of shooting victim Charles Glosen has been found in a Las Vegas pawn shop, Washoe Sheriff Bob Galli said. The sheriff said he anticipates a suspect in the ring's disappearance will be delivered to him by the Reno Metropolitan Narcotics Task Force, which has the man in custody. Galli said the ring was found by Las Vegas metropolitan police assisted by narcotics officers.

The ring, described as having a solitaire diamond surrounded by five smaller diamonds, disappeared from Glosen's little finger after he was shot and killed by a task force agent in a Lemmon Valley mobile home Feb. 9, testimony at a coroner's inquest showed. The task force originally turned over another ring to the sheriff'soffice as the one reportedly taken from Glosen. But Glosen's widow Juanita said it was not her husband's. Task force agent Homer Lee Barnes, who shot Glosen, testified at the inquest that he saw narcotics informant Hugh Perty try to remove the ring from Glosen's hand.

Perry disappeared after the shooting, although the task force reportedly had him in their custody in Las Vegas, the sheriff's office reported. Last week, the sheriff's office reported Perry was found in Florida, unaware he had been subpoenaed for the inquest. He was questioned by sheriff's detectives upon his return to Reno. Washoe Dist. Atty.

Larry Hicks this morning was awaiting police reports on the situation involving the ring before deciding whether a criminal complaint would be issued. He also said he had received a transcript of the inquest into Glosen's death and was awaiting final reports from both the sheriff's office and the Reno narcotics Task Force on the death before deciding whether a criminal complaint will be issued against Barnes. SAN DIEGO (AP)-Five puckered teen-agers and a local YMCA youth director have claimed a world's record after sitting in individual mud-filled wading pools for 42 hours. The plastic wading pools were set on the floor of the YMCA cafeteria for the attempt, which began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at noon Sunday, the previously-claimed record for sustained mudbaths was not immediately available.

The group staged the sit-in to raise money for a trip to San Francisco. They are youth director Robert Coons, Lovetta Wright, 17, Damita Mack, 17, Carl Blankenchip, 17, Marcia Jones, 17, and Clifford Grayson, 16, all of San Diego. change my view." Asked whether he rated chances of agreement at 50-50, assessment after his still an his ex- Index to Gazette Two sections 26 pages SECTION ONE Amusements 9 Ann Landers 8 Bridge 8 Comics 8 Doctor column 10 Earl Wilson 8 Editorials 4 Family living 6-7 Television log 8 SECTION TWO Classified ads 20-25 Crossword puzzle 23 Deaths 20 Markets 18 Public notices 20 Sports 14-17 Sylvia Porter 19 Vitals 20 Weather 20 Snowshowers for Reno area Scattered snowshowers leading to gradual clearing are in store for Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe area tonight and Tuesday. The tail end of a series of weekend cold fronts which dumped snow and rain across the Sierra left just a trace of snow in Reno Sunday night and this morning. The weather man said improving conditions from the north would begin Tuesday afternoon as the storm moves southward.

Another low pressure front off the California coast is slipping southward and is not expected to affect Reno's weather. The Reno forecast calls for a high of 45 today and an overnight low of 23. Sunday's high reading was 48 and the low 29. Lake Tahoe can expect highs in the 30s and overnight lows between 15 and 25. Winds from 5 to 15 miles per hour are expected in both areas, gusting at times in the Tahoe Basin.

Partly cloudy skies and gradual clearing in both Reno and the Tahoe Basin are forecast for Tuesday. Road conditions this morning brought chains or snowtire requiremens on several highways. worthy business borrowers. A spokesman for Nevada National Bank said his bank usually follows the lead of the bigger banks, par-ticualrly Bank of America, in changing its prime lending rate. He said the bank currently does not have a specific set prime rate.

Pete Hopkins of First National Bank of Nevada said this morning no decision had been rached on lowering the prime rate. He said a decision might come later in the day, and added that it "would probably be on th down side." FNB's prime rate is now 8V4 per cent. Spokesmen for Security National Bank could not be reached for comment. ploratory talks last month, he replied: "I don't want to be in a position in which every day I have to give an assessment and percentage figure, because we will be in hopeless trap after a while. "We are at the beginning of a process of negotiation which is complicated and which will take some time: Chuckle have two Most of us chances of becoming affluent slim and fat Inmates want longei hail, but warden trims Teques" The petition suggests these four regulations: Inmates working in food handling areas should be requested to wear hairnets or other covering.

Inmates working in areas where long hair could be hazardous should be allowed a change of work assignment. Long hair must be kept clean and neat. If identification becomes a problem because of hair growth, a new identification card should be made at inmate's expense. Pogue said granting the request would mean complete abdication of hair regulations: "Frankly, I feel that if we completely abdicate these rules, we'll end up with no rules about anything. I think the rules we have now are reasonable." The main reason for the regulation involves identification of inamtes in the yard, he said.

"When hair gets long, we have no way to properly identify the people," Pogue said. "It also gets so long and unmanageable it becomes a health hazard." The regulations proposed by the inamtes call for mandatory treatment and a haircut if a health hazard became evident. "We feel that encouraging individuality in appearance will enable an inmate to alter his image and personality with respect to others and give him the opportunity for improvement," the petition says. Inmates with long hair would not present any serious identification problems, they say. instead, merely asks you to allow us the freedom of our own identities, which in reality is one of the two possessions that can not be taken from us by the fact of our incarceration, our minds and personal identities." The petition is dated Feb.

28. Pogue said today he responded to the request when he first received it. "My response to them indicated that I felt current regulations allowing hair down to the collar were sufficient to allow individuality and I would not approach the prison board with their request at this time," Pogue said. Present regulations allow hair to collar length and mustaches, Pogue said. Beards are not allowed.

The inmates' petition asked that any style of haircut, regardless of length, be allowed as well as any style of mustache. By BOB FELTEN A man's hair is part of his individuality and he should be able to wear it the way he wants, a group of Nevada State Prison inmates says. But regulations allowing hair down to the collar are sufficient to allow that individuality, Warden Ed Pogue says-He denied a request by inmates in the 100-year-old maximum security section of the prison to liberalize hair regulations. The request to Pogue was made in the form of a four-page petition signed by 136 inmates. Copies of the petition were sent to the news media and Gov.

Mike O'Callaghan. The petition says, "Our request does not, by any stretch of the imagination," threaten the security of this prison, but 1 i).