Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

Moire snowo raM on tap of Reno area wearing new winter coat By PHIL BARBER Moisture and warm air ahead of a large Pacific storm caused a variety of weather conditions in western Nevada Monday night. Combined with cold air trapped in valleys, the weather system produced rain in higher elevations ana snow as far down as Reno. (See additional photo on page 15). 1 There was a lot of slushy snow, producing poor driving conditions. One man was killed on State Route 267 in California as he stopped to install tire chains.

A CHP spokesman at Truckee identified the victim as Edward N. Watson, 41 of Yuba City, Calif He said Watson stopped his car four-tenths of a mile west of Martis Peak Road at 4:10 p.m. Monday. His wife stopped behind him in another car. As vehicles went around the victim, who was standing on the road, a car driven by Marvin Yarborough, 28, of Truckee skidded into him.

The Highway Patrol said four doctors worked' Winter, page 2, coL 4 white German Shepherd dogs across a snow-covered field in Sparks early today. (Gazette photo by Larry Nylund) mm mmm Reno, Nevada, Tuesday, toiildm COLOR pm if defeated. Area By BARBARA HENRY The Reno City Council today rejected a plan proposed by the Washoe Council of Governments for regional review of all major developments in Washoe County. Today's surprise action came on a 3-2 vote with Mayor Bruno Menicucci absent from the meeting. Councilman Clyde Bigilieri left the room prior to the vote.

After the vote, Councilman Bill Wallace, a proponent of regional review, immediately made an alternate motion to have the city of Reno administration pursue a major development review plan for Reno alone, instead of review by the Regional Planning Commission and review Reno sewer policy called 'big farce' Agatha Burch walks her three Waiting in line Ever go the grocery store to buy one apple and get into the express check line only to wait 20 minutes? Pat Stewart asks herself 'Why am I Postscripts, Family Living, page 6. Versatile wool Wool fashions make the transition from day to evening wear. And this season there are more colors to choose from. What is sports clothes dressing? Family Living, page 6. Emergency calls A committee has been formed to study the possibility of using a 911 emergency number in Washoe County.

See page 15 for details. Honda recalls Honda Motor Co. today announced it was recalling more than two million motorcycles and 830,000 passenger cars. Page 3. Surf's up in LA The suf was up in Los Angeles and the Dallas Cowboys were up in Dallas.

The Minnesota Vikings took advantage of heavy rains and a muddy field in their National Football Conference game against the Los Angeles Rams. The Cowboys put together the complete game offensively and defensively in their win over the Chicago Bears. Sports, page 16, Rams'secret Columnist Jim Murray knows the Los Angeles Rams' secret. He knows they have a special talent when it comes to playoff games against the Minnesota Vikings. Sports, page 16.

Index 3 Sections, 34 Pages Amusements 10-11 Ann Landers 8 Astrograph 26 Bridge 8 Classified 21-27 Comics 8 Crossword puzzle 25 Deaths 20 Doctor column 5 Earl Wilson ...8 Editorials 4 Family Living 6 Markets 12 Public notices 21 Sports 16-19 Sylvia Porter 13 Television Log 8 TV Scout 8 Vitals 20 Weather 2 the Washoe Council of Governments. Wallace moved that Reno projects be reviewed by the city's board of adjustment and then come to the City Council. Wallace's motion passed unanimously. The WCOG plan for review of major developments was in the making for months, and was approved unanimously at the Coulcil of Governments meeting two weeks ago. Reno councilmen present at that meeting were Menicucci, Ed Oaks, Bill Granata, Ed Spoon and Wallace.

Bigileri and Marcel Durant were absent. Voting against WCOG review for major developments today were Oaks, Durant, and Granata. At the than 10,000 gallons per day of sewer capacity. The reasoning behind the apparently conflicting actions can be traced to the council's procedures for allocating sewer capacity. The Eldorado's owners were caught in the middle of a change in the council's procedures.

After the Eldorado had already proposed its addition a year ago, the city required completed plans to be submitted to the building department before a project could be placed on a waiting list for sewer capacity. The Eldorado completed its plans, but the proposed addition required more than 10,000 gallons per day of sewer capacity, which required it to come to the council for special permission. To avoid having to wait to be placed on the list, the Eldorado developers reduced their plans by one floor of hotel rooms allowing them to get a position on the list and then to come to Reno, page 2, coL 1 Dec. 27, 1977 20( WCOG meeting, all Reno members present were recorded as voting in favor of the review, but Granata said after today's council action that "I never opened my mouth," at the meeting two weeks ago. In defense of his changing vote, Oaks said after today's action, "I've had time to give this further throught.

I feel that WCOG is an unnecessary branch of local government." Oaks, who voted consistently in favor of development requests, said his change of mind was not prompted by a concern about increased political pressure on Reno councilmen if developments were review by the regional council. Spoon, who was the first Reno councilman to suggest putting a temporary stop to Washoe County growth, expressed disappointment at today's Reno council action. "rm honestly disturbed with the council vote, it defeats everything we're trying to do." Spoon said he believes that today's Reno action will spur even more hostility between Reno and Sparks governments, adding to a continually brewing agrument between the two governments over growth. Had the WCOG action been endorsed today, all major developments would have been required to receive special use permits before being allowed to build. Under the special use permit review, a developer would be required to submit information outlining how his project would affect community services in the county.

The reason for adopting the regional review was to allow community services now lacking in the county time to catch up with the demand created by the many major projects scheduled to open next spnng. Although Biglieri left the room just prior to the vote, he has consistently been opposed to the existence of the Washoe Council of Governemnts. Durant said the regional review would create more paperwork, but was worthless since projects ultimately would come to the City Council anyway. HOWARD HAWKS at 81 Sadat: Israel hasn't made any concessions Mr. Yuk warning children CHICAGO AP) A child who sees a skull and crossbones on a container of poison may think pirate food is inside, say researchers who want to replace the traditional warning symbol with "Mr.

Yuk." Mr. Yuk has a scowling green face, with his eyes scrunched closed and his tongue sticking out. He was born in 1971 in Pittsburgh, where pirate symbols are associated with the city's professional baseball team. "In the last five years, there have been no deaths in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) from accidental ingestions," said a spokesman for the National Poison Center Network, which is based at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. The network estimates that between 1,000 and 5,000 children under 5 years of age die each year of accidental poisonings nationwide.

page 2, coL 4 In Moscow, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda called the Sadat-Begin summit a failure and said that, the only way to achieve an overall -Mideast settlement is for all parties and their "allies" to cooperate. The newspaper claimed the Israeli prime minister presented warmed-over peace proposals. "All gestures by Cairo were viewed in Tel Aviv as a sign of weakness and readiness to make considerable concessions." Arabic language newspapers in Cairo stressed the positive aspects of the summit talks. But the English-language Egyptian Gazette saldthat despite BeguYs claim that the talks were successful, it is "obvious for all to see that very little progress has been made because of the continuing inflexibility of Mr. Begin and his strategists." Man-in-the-street reaction In Egypt also reflected disappointment.

"The Israelis are still insisting on-what they want," said taxi driver Sal eh Awad. A Suez Canal authority worker in Ismailia added: "Either the Israelis have the intention to make peace in which case we can settle it, or they don't, in which case it is useless." Sadat and Begin did agree to upgrade the Cairo conference to a ministerial meeting and set up political and military committees to negotiate the Palestinian issue and Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands. The Jerusalem and Cairo meetings are expected to begin Jan. 15. Meanwhile, Israel's delegation to the Cairo meeting, which began working on an agenda Dec.

14 for a reconvened Renva napa re By BARBARA HENRY Reno City Councilman Bill Wallace today called the city's sewer capacity policy "a big farce" after the council realized that any major developer can bypass council review by seeking less than 10,000 gallons of sewer capacity in each application. Under present council policy, a developer seeking less than 10,000 gallons of daily capacity goes to the building department and is placed on a waiting list. Developers seeking more than 10,000 gallons per day must go to the council for review. Wallace's comments followed a lengthy hassle over distribution of sewer capacity for two proposed hotel-casino additions. In two separate actions, the council approved additional sewer capacity for the Eldorado Hotel-Casino to add 10 floors or 137 new rooms to its North Virginia Street facility, but the council rejected a request from the Sundowner Hotel-Casino to construct an addition that would require more Film director Howard Hawks dies By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was quoted today as saying that Israel, under the leadership of Prime Minister Menahem Begin, has not yet made the tough decisions or concessions needed to bring about a Middle East peace.

The two leaders held a Christmas summit in and came away still divided over the future of Palestinian Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza Strip. "No, Israel has not yet taken the difficult decision," Sadat was quoted by Egyptian newspapers as saying. "Mr. Begin may be of the view that he has made concessions but I see that he has not." Begin proposed self-rule for the 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs living on the West Bank and Gaza Strip with continued Israeli military presence. Sadat held out for creation of an independent Palestinian state and complete Israeli withdrawal.

In Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister briefed his cabinet on the Ismailia summit and met with U.S. Ambassador Samuel W. Lewis apparently to report on the talks and current status of the peacemaking effort. The semiofficial Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that the summit talks did produce agreement on Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Sinai Peninsula. Israeli troops still control more than 80 per cent of the 20,000 square mile Egyptian desert peninsula.

The newspaper said Israel wanted to announce the Egyptian-Israeli accord publicly but Sadat refused, saying their summit talks were aimed not at reaching a private agreement but a comprehensive settlement. By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) Howard Hawks, director of "Scarface," "Sgt. York," "To Have and Have Not," "Red River" and dozens of other films featuring strong roles for male stars, has died at age 81. The director died Monday evening at his Palm Springs residence of complications from a concussion he suffered in a fall several weeks ago when he was alone at home, said a family spokesman. Hawks was one of the most successful and long-lasting of Hollywood's filmmakers, his career beginning in 1924.

He wrote the script for "Tiger Love" that year, then in 1926 directed "The Road to Glory" starring George O'Brien. Hawks was most successful in tough-talking, hard-hitting vehicles for such stars as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and James Cagney. But he also displayed a wry sense of humor and made hit comedies such as "Bringing Up Babyr' with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in 1938; "His Girl Friday," with Grant and Rosalind Russell in a 1940 remake of "The Front Page; "I Was a Male War Bride," Grant and Ann Sheridan, 1949, and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Marilyn Monroe in Hawks' last film was "Rio Lobo" in 1970, starring one of the director's favorites, John Wayne. Although Hawks made every kind of film, he generally returned to the Western and was preparing another at the time of his death. ference, left for home today after the conference adjourned Monday night.

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