Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 35

Today's tip Friday NOVEMBER 20, 1987 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Section 2C OBITUARIES 2C VITALS 5-21 CLASSIFIEDS 16C BRIDGE A three-day Christmas art show kicks off today at Old Town Mall. The show is presented by the Reno Chapter of the Nevada Artists Association. Details: CITY EDITOR: JOE HOWRY, 788-6305 Nevada Developer of Verdi subdivision indicted for perjury his bid to turn the rental park into a subdivision. In exchange, they could buy their lots for a "fair market" price, he said. Attorney Richard Horton, who represented the renters, produced during the trial a deposition from Holley that not only indicated she was related to Emery, but that the doctor supplied her with the money to purchase three lots.

"It wasn't even a sale, it was a fake sale," Horton said Thursday. "We also found evidence that he did the same thing See EMERY, page 2C owners renting sites in his subdivision or convince them to buy their lots. If convicted of the felony charge, Emery, a physician, could face one to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000. The indictment charges Emery perjured himself while under oath during a pre-trial hearing for a temporary writ of restitution that, if granted, would have evicted Emery's renters. Emery filed his civil lawsuit against the tenants in Washoe District Court.

The writ was denied and Judge Robin Wright ruled against Emery, ordering him to pay defendants' attorney fees. Assistant District Attorney William Hehn Thursday said that during the pretrial hearing Emery denied he knew or was related to a Norma Holley and Vir-gina Burdick, who allegedly purchased Glen Meadows home sites. Later in the trial, the attorney representing the mobile home tenants discovered that Holley was Emery's sister-in-law and Burdick was a friend of the doctor's father. "This was important because he had them purchase the property at an inflated price, about two times what it was worth, and that jumps the appraisal on the other sites," Hehn said Thursday. Emery had made a deal with the mobile home tenants where they would not fight By Don VetterGazette-Journal A Washoe County Grand Jury has indicted a Southern Californian developer for perjury during an April court hearing where he sought to evict tenants of his Verdi mobile home park.

Wednesday's indictment is Dr. Clyde Emery's latest run-in with area officials over his Glen Meadows subdivision. He has previously violated zoning laws, faced lawsuits from tenants and been cited for dumping raw sewage into the Truckee River. The indictment stems from Emery's attempts to either remove mobile home NHP cracks down on beltless drivers Faced with a rising number of highway fatalities, the Nevada Highway Patrol is starting a campaign to enforce the state's mandatory seat belt law. Wayne Teglia, director of the state Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, said less than half of Nevada drivers are wearing seat belts as required by a law that took effect July 1.

The law levies a $25 fine for any driver or passenger who isn't wearing a seat belt when the vehicle is pulled over. Despite the law, Teglia said highway deaths are running 20 percent higher than last year. As of Nov. 1, 230 people had died this year on Nevada highways. That's close to the 233 total for all of 1986.

Half of the deaths this year might have been prevented if people had been wearing seat belts, Teglia said, adding that he's tired of hearing arguments about freedoms such as the option to drive without belts. "They say, 'It's my choice if I want to Baloney. That doesn't strike me as too bright," Teglia said Wednesday in speaking to a group of police officers, emergency medical technicians and health care workers. Second guilty plea Dim Lemons case I 1 if Former controller's decision leaves 2 defendants in trial By Lenita PowersGazette-Journal Darryl Meyers, the former controller of the bankrupt Lemons Associates investment firm, pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit embezzlement Thursday. Meyers' plea leaves only Barbara Barron and Carol Tomlinson as the remaining defendants when Nevada's biggest fraud trial continues Monday in Washoe District Court.

Meyers' plea came one day after John Stephen Lemons, the company's "founder, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement, racketeering and obtaining money under false pretenses. Both men are scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 20 by Washoe District Judge Jerry Whitehead. Meyers, 42, faces up to three years in the Washoe County Jail and a maximum fine of $6,000. Lemons, 44, could receive up to 140 years in prison and a $140,000 fine.

Their guilty pleas follow an Arizona grand jury indictment on Wednesday that charges them with fraud. Meyers faces up to 62 years in prison and Lemons could get a maximum sentence of 133 years if found guilty on all counts. They are scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 27 in Phoenix on those charges. Attorneys for Barron and Tomlinson said their clients don't intend to plead guilty.

Nor do they think Lemons' and Meyers' guilty pleas will influence the jury adversely in considering the case against Barron, a former branch office manager at Lemons Associates, or Tomlinson, a former investment counselor. "It will have no affect on my client," Larry Semenza said of Barron. "I don't think it will affect Mrs. Tomlinson because she was in a much different situation in the corporation than Mr. Meyers and Mr.

Lemons were," said her attorney, Larry Wishart. The defense will continue presenting its case next week in the three-week-old trial. The prosecution rested its case Thursday. Lemons, Meyers, Barron and Tomlinson were charged with defrauding about 3,500 investors from Nevada, California and Arizona out of approximately $38 million before the financial collapse of Lemons Associates in 1985. The four were indicted by a Washoe County grand jury last March for racketeering, embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretenses.

it 4 rr4 -'if Parole board denies Wayne CARSON CITY David "Bang Bang" Wayne lost Thursday in his efforts to ease a prison sentence for convictions stemming from an attempted murder and a later prison hostage-taking incident. The state Parole Board rejected a request by Wayne, being held in a California prison at Tehachapi, to parole him from his 20-year term for attempted murder and reduce a life sentence for being a habitual criminal. Instead, the Parole Board said Wayne will have to complete the first term and then start serving time on the life sentence, probably in July 1990. The habitual criminal finding that resulted in the life sentence was imposed in 1981 after Wayne was convicted of multiple charges filed after he took two prison nurses and a guard hostage in October 1980 at the Nevada State Prison. Wayne said he took the hostages because he wanted a transfer out of the prison where he feared other inmates would kill him because he had been labeled as an informant.

Wayne also said he wanted no more forced shots of anti-psychotic medication. v-: United Way drive tops $2.5 million I tors, lawyers, dentists, accountants and other private professions raised $80,857, a 33.7 percent increase over last year. The company raising the most new dollars was Harvey's Resort Hotel-Casino at Lake Tahoe. Employees contributed nearly $70,000 in their first-ever campaign. "The next step is to allocate the monies raised to the United Way agencies," said Barbara Drake, director of agency relations for United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra.

Eight panels of community volunteers will review agency budget requests and recommend allocations. The United Way Board of Directors will approve final allocations at the December board meeting. The United Way provides financial support to local agencies in several categories, including alcohol and drug treatment, emergency and disaster, social development and fitness, health and rehabilitation, and groups aiding children, women, families and the elderly. By Courtney BrennGazette-Joumai More than $2.5 million a record amount was raised in the United Way of Northern Nevada's 1987 fund drive, officials announced Thursday. The figure, $2,503,054, is a 14.7 percent increase over the amount raised last year, and topped the agency's goal of $2.5 million.

"We did extremely well this year," said Homer Butler vice president for the fund-raising campaign. "We just had some real good increases in several areas. We feel like we made some real inroads into the hotel-casino industry. We had a couple of new employee campaigns, including ones at Harvey's in Tahoe and the El Dorado." Fund-raising efforts at Lake Tahoe saw the biggest growth. The area raised $180,160 $72,359 more than last year.

Fallon raised $5,335, a 61.5 percent increase over 1986. The professional division including doc Jean Dixon AlklnGazette-Journal JOY RIDE: Galen Broderick, 3, reacts to the camera while his father, Evert, pulls him on a custom bike trailer near their southwest Reno home Thursday afternoon. Evert, a student at the University of Nevada-Reno, said the bike is his only means of transportation during the day and Galen often accompanies him. Evert ordered the trailer from a Portland, company. Family, friends of missing woman refuse to give up hope Test Site talks break off LAS VEGAS Talks between the Culinary union and the prime contractor at the Nevada Test Site broke off Thursday in a dispute over contract language.

Union leader Jim Arnold said the talks recessed after reaching an impasse on a contract section that specifies procedures that can be used in firing employees. The impasse dashed hopes that the the union and Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co. would settle the 9-week-old dispute that has idled more than 3,000 workers at the site. Arnold said the two sides have basically agreed on wages. Arnold said that with changes in the contract language he would be comfortable taking the contract to union members for ratification.

On Wednesday, the first of 10 unions on strike at the site approved a new five-year contract with REECo. A spokeswoman for Laborers Local 872 said union members voted unanimously in favor of the contract. At least four other unions have reached tentative contracts with the company. neer Marven Stroh, returned home Thursday. They and other family members and friends are trying to maintain the public's interest in the missing woman.

Someone just might recall having seen her, said Settlemier, whose husband, stockbroker Grant Settlemier, is coordinating the search from San Francisco. Stefanie, a student at Reed College in Portland, had just spent nearly two years traveling around the world, her mother said. "This was to be her dream trip. She worked for six months to make money for this trip. "She was alone.

She felt you should travel alone to get to know the people. She landed in New York. I didn't know she was hitchhiking; I thought they had a car," Settlemier said. Stefanie had never disappeared before and "I feel she's been abducted," her mother said. Stefanie had met up with a friend, Arthur Torrance, 26, of Portland in New Jersey.

He later said they hitchhiked together to Salt Lake City, where they split up. Torrance headed to Oregon and Stefanie to California. Stefanie had been calling home from every state, her mother said Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming. "She called from Wells (Nevada) on the 15th (of October)." Her mother followed her travels on a map. But the calls stopped after that.

Witnesses are sure they saw her trying to rent a motel room in Winnemucca on the 16th and she possibly was seen buying a candy bar at a liquor store there. See MISSING, page 2C Lawyers meet but won't talk about Claiborne By Mike NorrisGazetle-Journal In--" -SA ft By Phil BarberGazette-Journal "Hi Mom. I'm in Nevada. I'll be home late. Leave the key under the mat." That telephone answering-machine message five weeks ago was the last Joni Settlemier of San Franciso heard from her 21-year-old daughter, Stefanie Stroh, who was returning from a "dream trip" around the world.

"It's been so long, but we feel she's alive," Settlemier said Thursday in Reno. The missing woman's mother and father, Redwood City, construction engi- 1-80 construction near Truckee OK'd A deteriorated seven-mile stretch of Interstate 80 near Truckee will be rehabilitated with $12.6 million approved Thursday by the California Transportation Commission. The commission also approved funds for other roadwork in Plumas and Tuolumne counties. The commission, which met in Palm Desert, authorized 32 new highway projects totaling almost $43 million. The money for 1-80 will be used to place 8 inches of concrete on eastbound and westbound lanes from just east of Donn-ner Summit to the Agricultural Inspection Station near Truckee.

This project also includes widening the westbound highway and installing overhead lighting just east of the Donner Lake interchange to provide an area for motorists to put on chains. Overhead lighting also will be installed near the Agricultural Inspection Station, where an existing chain-off area will be improved. Construction on the project is expected to begin next spring and take about two years to complete. This is one of about 10 projects planned by state transportation officials over the next decade to rehabilitate this major trans-Sierra highway. Gannett News Service Several area lawyers were almost grimly silent in Reno on Thursday when asked what they'd decided to do about convicted Judge Harry Claiborne's efforts to resume his law practice in If Nevada.

Claiborne Venue change in murder trial SUSANVILLE A Janesville man accused of killing his wife and another woman will be tried outside of Lassen County. Superior Court Judge Joseph Harvey granted a venue change Thursday for Paul Jacob Grant, 39, after defense attorney Gary Woolverton argued that extensive publicity and the small size of the rural community would make it impossible for Grant to get a fair trial in Lassen County. Grant, a former guard at the California Correctional Center near Susanville, faces first-degree murder charges for the April 17 shooting deaths of his wife, Margaret Grant, 36, and a neighbor, Martha Morlang, 30. He was arrested after a three-hour standoff that closed U.S. Highway 395 near his home in Janesville, 15 miles south of Susanville and 75 miles north of Reno.

Before the murder case is tried, a jury outside Lassen County will first decide if Grant is mentally competent to stand trial on the charges. Because of the addition of special circumstances, including torture and the murder of a potential witness, conviction could result in the death sentence for Grant. Staff and wire service reports We have no com ment at this time," Reno attorney Julien G. "Jay" Sourwine said after the policymaking Board of Governors of the Nevada Bar Association, of which he is vice president, met on the issue twice in the same day and both times behind closed doors. Claiborne seems to have become a conundrum for the state's lawyers.

In October 1986 he became the first sitting federal judge to be impeached and convicted of crimes committed while on the bench. But his license to practice law in Nevada is still active, and apparently he is attempting to use it. See CLAIBORNE, page 2C Marilyn NewtonGazette-Journal AT YOUR SERVICE: Members of the Assistance League of Reno-Sparks load groceries for 500 needy seniors those who earn $538 or less per month Thursday during the annual Thanksgiving holiday food drive at the league's office, 137 Burns. Assisting are, from left, Jo Karhohs, Liz Smith, Brenda Nen-zel, Jack Selbig, Emily Helseth and Reno police cadet Scott Hopkins..