Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

Reno Evening Gazeti One-hundredth Year No. 179 A Speidel Newspaper "Keno, Nevada, Wednesday, October 22, 1975 Phone 1 702 786 88 Cents If 1 Sundowner case Jury goes to work; City defends action Snow, cold due tonight in Reno area Snow, below freeting temperatures and bone-chllUnf winds are In store tonitiht and Thursday for the Reno area, the National Weather Service said today Winds rattled panes and screen doors of Reno hornet Tuesday as cold gusts preceded the storm from the Nor thwest moving over the Sierra today. The storm is expected to bring scattered showers today and the snow level should lower to 4.000 feet and bring snow to Reno's level, a spokesman (or the weather service said. Heavy snows are predicted in the mountains Reno's high is expected to be in the 50 today with lows In the mid 20s tonight and highs in the upper 40 Thursday The storm should spread to the south tonight and continue over most of the stale through Thursday The weather service has issued a small craft advisory for Pyramid Lake for west to northwest winds from 13-30 h. and gusts up to 40 h.

e- -3 Washoe County Grand jurors went into session this morning to begin probing the death last week of a 23-year-old Sundowner initiate. According to Dist. Atty. Larry Hicks, more than 20 witnesses are expected to appear before the jurors in the investigation. The list was not available this morning.

Hicks' office said today's session with the jurors probably will last throughout the day. The district attorney predicted Tuesday that the probe probably will continue past today, and results of the investigation are unlikely to be determined before a subsequent jury session Nov. 5. Meanwhile Reno City Manager Bob Oldland said this week the city followed proper procedure in issuing park use permits for the homecoming weekend. Oldland was responding to criticism the city might have been lax in allowing the Sundowners, an off-campus fellowship society, to use Evans Park to start its initiation rites.

John Davies a UNR football letterman, died from alcoholic poisoning after those initiation ceremonies Oct. 12. However, Oldland said the city never issued a park use permit to the Sundownera. He said permits to use city parks were issued to the university's Homecoming Committee, the student government and a sorority, but not the Sundowners. Reports a city park was involved in the Sundowners initiation are erroneous, he said.

The city manager's comments came this week during a discussion of police overtime needed to patrol special events after Councilman Bruno Menicucci observed, "We had a lot of criticism last week on the use of our parks." Oldland replied the park permits for the student groups were processed properly through the City Parks and Recreation Department. The student groups serving alcohol agreed to check identification of all of their participants, he said. Police Chief James Parker was notified and he, in turn, notified his patrol commander to put the park functions on his patrol schedule for the weekend, which was done, said Oldland. Officers patrolling the parks noticed no problems, he added. Bird business Tom Blazing of the post office maintenance services department hoses down the sidewalk by downtown Reno post office in an effort to clean-up after swarms of birds that have taken up residence in the large trees there.

(Gazette photo) Clods go back Sunday morning WASHINGTON (API Clocks across moat of the nation will be set back one hour at 3 a m. Sunday as the country ends eight months of Daylight Saving Time. The change will occur in all states and S. possessions except Artiona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the eastern time tone portion of Indiana. Those areas do nut observe DST.

The nation will observe regular time for six months unless Congress agrees to a recommendation by the Department of Transportation to observe only four months of regular time. For two years, the nation nas been on an experimental schedule of eight months of daylight time and four months of regular time. However, the legislation setting up that experiment has expired and unless Congress passes new legislation, the country will revert to the six months daylight time-six months regular time schedule used In previous years DST will start again on Sunday. April 26, 1976, if Congress does nothing to change the schedule. It will start on the last Sunday in February the recommendation of the Transportation Department is passed.

To date, no such legislation has been introduced, the department said. Food stamp impact Starlings always return President Ford's proposals to slice $1 .2 billion off the government's costs for the federal foodstamp Old Reno post office getting bird business program will help Nevada's Hood stamp administrators But there is no real reprieve. Every year, the Reno area suffers through a migration of the birds. Hobs to Rer.3 aaaoa Sngitig along oifo Sinatra Still more today from Sinatra. Now he wires executive editor Warren Lerude of the Gazette and Journal: "Dear Warren.

You're a man of fair play and great class. I admire you and respect you for it gratefully. "Frank Sinatra." That telegram follows another a couple days ago denouncing Gazette and Journal entertainment columnist Guy Richardson, who had criticized Sinatra in an item last week. "Like most of your colleagues, you're yellow from top to bottom," Sinatra snorted at Richardson, calling him, for good measure, a "bigot." The Gazette published Sinatra's criticism of the columnist Tuesday, and that promoted the singer to tell his audience from the Harrah's Tahoe stage Tuesday night that he seldom gets his side of an argument with the press published. "That's class," Sinatra was reported to have told the audience after reading the Gazette story aloud.

He then fired off the next telegram to editor Lerude. The communiques are part of a running commentary between the singer, appearing at Harrah's Tahoe, and the local journalists. Sinatra has been invited to settle into a chair in the Gazette and Journal for an editorial conference. But the singer has kept his distance preferring to zing along via wires and letters. Casino operator rips crime claim if the usual piles of red tape are reduced, too according to a state welfare official.

A.R. MarteH, deputy administrator for assistance payments in the state welfare division, said today the Ford administration program also would help simply because it would reduce the number of Nevadans eligible for the program. About 36,000 Nevadans receive a total of $1 .3 million in food coupons each month, according to i Martell. He said of that total, about $900,000 worth of stamps are bonus or free coupons. Ford's proposals would disqualify about 17 per cent of the estimated 18.8 million persons in the program nationwide by denying food stamps to all families whose Food, page 2, col.

1 Just as the swallows come back to Capistrano, the starlings always return to the old Reno post office on South Virginia Street. And with them come a fact of feathery life bird doo. "They turn people's cars white," Postmaster Dwaine Evans said today. "Every morning we have to clean up the sidewalks. People have been slipping and falling." Thousands of starlings settled two weeks ago to wage their white war in the trees outside the former main post office of Reno, he said.

Suggestions for getting rid of the fowl problem have ranged from electrically shocking the trees in which they sit to placing cheese in the trees in hopes of constipating them, Evans said. Other trees in the Reno area are housing hundreds of starlings which seem to return en masse every three years, according to Evans. "About two years ago they were real bad," he said. "We had to cut the trees back and we played a phonograph record that made shrill noises to drive them out of the trees." The starlings make quite a noise themselves. "They just screech and make a lot of noise," Evans said, "When they're really bad is from about 5 m.

until 8 at night. They drive us up a tree The poot office has checked with experts, including the Bureau of Land Management, in hopes of finding a way of eliminating the birds without harming them. "We don't know what we're going to do this year," he said. "We're open for suggestions. We don't want the Audubon Scoicty down on us." NORTH LAS VEGAS -Casino operator Peter Simon emphatically denies he is the mastermind of a nationwide drug and murder ring In an interview printed in the Las Vegas Valley Times, Simon said there was absolutely no truth In the claim of Thomas Eugene Creech, who has confessed to 42 killings and linked Simon to a drug murder ring.

An editorial in the same edition of the Times supported Simon, terming the first degree murder In Wallace, Idaho. Creech said he was a professional killer for a national motorcycle gang which was connected to a nationwide drug syndicate. He named Simon at the man who delivered orders to commit the killings "I sure as hell did not do it," said Simon, who operates Pop's Oasis, a small roadside casino In Jean, 33 miles south of Las Vegas. "What the hell else can I say to something like that?" Casino, page 2, eol. 3 accusations "pure fiction.

Creech made his accusations during his trial for British historian Arnold Toynbee dies Index to Gazette 78 pages Sylvia Porter 33 Television log 27 Vitals 34 Weather 34 SECTION FOUR Topics for Ta xpayers 44 SECTION FIVE News 4 pages next spring. It is titled, "Mankind and Mother Earth." Toynbee's "A Study of History," a best-selling chronicle of the rise and fall of civilizations, had a profound effect on his generation. Some historians disagreed with his theories but none disputed the breadth and depth of his world view. It took Toynbee 34 years to write the three million words of his book in longhand. It was published in 12 volumes between 1934 and 1961.

An abridged version sold more than 250,000 copies in the United States at the outset of publication. Toynbee's idea was that civilizations arise, develop and then decay ususally because they make a wrong response to a challenge facing them. Upheaval follows and then the pattern begins again, he maintained. He saw parallels between the decline of Greece and Rome and The later volumes of his study reflected Toynbee's belief that the history of man is essentially the history of religion. "Religion," he said, "holds the key to the mystery of existence." The weight of scholarship rested lightly on Toynbee.

Some critics saw him as a prophet of doom but he retained a down-to-earth and gentle humor. He described history as "something unpleasant that happened to someone else" and insisted that he was an optimist. In his spare time he liked to throw a pack on his back and hike across Europe. Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born April 14, 1889, into a family of English scholars and philanthropists. His uncle and namesake was an economist and social reformer.

Toynbee was educated at Oxford and returned YORK, England (AP) Arnold Toynbee, eminent historian who chronicled the rise and fall of civilizations, died today at a York nursing home. He was 86. The death was announced by the Purey Cust Nursing Home, where he had lived since suffering a stroke 14 months ago. He had been in failing health throughout this year. Toynbee retired in 1955 from his post as director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and as research professor of international history at London University.

He was the author of many books of history and international affairs beginning in 1915. During World War I he served with British government departments, including the Foreign office's political intelligence department. A spokeswoman in New York for Oxford University Press said Toynbee's last book, which 9 sections SECTION ONE Editorials 4 Family living 6-7 SECTION TWO Doctor column 20 SECTION THREE Amusements 30-31 Ann Landers 27 Bridge 27 Classified 35-39 Comics 27 Crossword puzzle 37 Deaths 34 Earl Wilson 27 Markets 32-33 Public notices 34 Sports 23 26 SECTION SIX Raley's 8 pages SECTION SEVEN Grand Central 6 pages SECTION EIGHT mart 8 pages SECTION NINE McMahanan's 8 pages ARNOLD TOYNBEE there to teach (ireex ana Koman nisiory. current events in the West was written Detore ms siroxe, win ue puuusueu Dave Mason 's music: Somewhat like being reunited with an old friend wr i ttm av: is Traffic." euitar player Jim Krueger had their signals and ponderous. Mason's vocals were strong, but his On his first encore, Mason reached even further into the past to pull out "Gimme Some Lovin which was a forerunner in the British rock revolution when it was recorded by the Spencer Davis Group.

Despite one encore, the crowd was still hungry for more, and they gave Mason no alternative but to return to the stage yet again by giving him a five minute standing ovation. Mason finished with the old Sam Cooke classic "Bring It on Home," which unfortunately was a weak finale. The song was too spare and simple to fit Mason's style. The' concert, sponsored by the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno, was the third performance in a scheduled 40-stop tour. Mason has not toured for more than a year, but he seemed not to have been affected by the layoff.

Joe New, a folk singer, opened the concert Tuesday. As a last-second replacement, he had the unenviable task of keeping the crowd entertained until Dave Mason started. New drew applause occasionally when he sang songs of cowboys and sagebrush, but mostly he just provided background music for the audience who talked throughout the 45-minute set. crossed and produced a cacophonous duet with electric guitars. Mason followed with "Headkeeper" where once again he was in a world of his own during the guitar break.

Throughout the performance, Mason's vocals complemented his guitar playing nicely. His voice is full and never harsh qualities that are embodied in his guitar playing. Mason performed with an effortless quality that made it look like he could play music in his sleep. The crowd of almost 3,000 at the University of Nevada gym reacted to this nonchalance in a frenzy. By the end of the performance, Mason hit full stride.

However, it was interesting to note that Mason turned almost exclusively to older songs for his climactic numbers. "Only You Know and I Know" from his first solo album was recreated with a fresh flair. Rick Jaeger on drums provided a lively pulse with a staccato beat on drums and Gerald Johnson put down an insistent but creative base line. Mason finished his scheduled set with "Feeling All Right," the old classic he wrote in his days with By DAN GORDON Hearing Dave Mason play Tuesday night at the University of Nevada, Reno was a bit like seeing an old friend after a couple of year's absence. Sometimes a reunion is painful and disap- Sointing.

But with Dave Mason, it seemed like he ad never left. His distinct style, as a member of the group "Traffic" and his first two solo albums made a definite impression on rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, in recent years, he has slipped into the background, only issuing three rather mediocre albums and a number of recordings of his best hits. Tuesday night's performance showed Mason's talent is still alive. It took Mason, a transplanted Englishman now living in California, a while to get started.

"Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving" was a rather limp introduction to Mason's set. Mason played acoustic guitar and was accompanied by only Jay Winding on electric piano. This song from his first solo album is a typical Mason ballad, but it seemed dated and lifeless. Mason's second song, "World in Changes," Stayed with a full band was an even greater cause or concern because his guitar work sounded heavy guitar playing, although active, ma not convey any direction. In the third number, "Split Coconut," Mason began to take off.

The song, which is the title track of his latest album, is not one of Mason's stronger works. However, in the guitar break at the end, his lilting style returned. Mason was able to create a tide of sound, producing notes that ebbed and flowed until they reached a crescendo. In this prolonged break, Mason did not waste any notes, but instead made every sound seem an integral part of the music. Mason did not have to resort to playing chords in order to achieve power.

Instead, with a succession of notes, none of them strident, Mason created a subtle strength. By the fourth number, "Show Me Some Affection," Mason's band had jelled behind him and was providing a solid base for his singing and guitar work. Mason's strength is in his ballads. He is not a hard rock performer. His band allowed Mason to reach full impact with his ballads by providing a vigorous but controlled rhythm.

Mason had one temporary setback with the song "Two Guitar Loves" where it appeared Mason and.