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2C Reno Gazette-Journal Wednesday, October 12, 1988 Nevada officials admit minority education effort falls short By Jan Ann MorrlsonGazette-Journai HENDERSON The disproportionately high drop-out rate for Hispanic and black students shows that their special needs are not being met by educational systems in Nevada, educators said Tuesday. Three Hispanic and one black educator urged the Commission on Excellence in Education to support various proposals, including increasing the numbers of minority teachers and counselors in the school systems. The commission meets again today to begin reviewing these and many other proposals on educational improvement. The suggestions will be reduced to a formal report on education in Nevada, scheduled to be released later this year. Both blacks and Hispanics need programs which will offer them stronger role models, said Daisy Miller, president of Black Educators of Nevada, and Patricia Hodges, President of the Hispanic Education Association of Nevada.

"Hispanic students are desperately in need of self-esteem," Hodges said. "Students don't drop out in high school, they drop out in fourth and fifth grades," she said. Hispanics make up 9.1 percent of the student population, but only 1.9 percent of the teachers are Hispanics, said Hispanic activist Jerome Hermann. Miller pointed to other statistics showing that the needs of blacks are going unmet: Black students make up 14.7 percent of the Clark County enrollment, but 32 percent of the special education classes are black students and 37.5 percent of the opportunity school, a nine-week program for students being disciplined, are black. "Those numbers do not jive, something is wrong," Miller said.

Lt. Gov. Bob Miller, chairman of the commission, was asked if this lack of identity was one reason behind the increase in gang activity. Miller agreed it was. "One thing we know about gangs there is an identity there they trust each other," she said.

Elementary school principal Dr. Maurice Flores said Hispanics must take some responsibility for not being more aggressive about solving the problems their children face in school. But he also complained to the 17 member commission that "the people who made a difference aren't listening" noting that Clark County School District Superintendent Robert Wentz had left the commission hearing before the presentation on minority problems. Miller said one negative side-effect of busing is that black students, who are bussed all over Las Vegas for 11 years while white students are only bussed for one year to the sixth grade centers in the West Side. So for 11 years, black students have no schools to call their own and often cannot get involved in after school activities because they are too far from home and must take the bus home.

Along with urging more minority hiring of teachers and counselors, the educators suggested: A bilingual homework hot-line so Hispanic parents can help their children. Turning kindergarten into a full-day and making pre-school mandatory. Encouraging parents to take a more active role in their children's education. Flap continues over alleged effort to squelch Spoo fund-raiser rtacphlo "in an awkward nositinn vis-a-vis Two Las Vegas fund-raisers aimed at bringing in $40,000 for the Spoo campaign were scheduled for Sept. 24 after several postponements in the three previous months.

But Sloan, a well-known gaming industry fund-raiser who Spoo said had promised help in organizing the events, called them off shortly before the scheduled date, according to Spoo's campaign. Vucanovich has denied any involvement, and Mike Pieper of her Capitol Hill staff called Spoo's version of events "a total fabrication." Schreiber did not return a reporter's phone call. In a letter to Thompson, released Tuesday by Vucanovich's Washington office, Sloan admitted he was concerned about the timing of the proposed fund-raiser at which Sen. Tom Daschle, third-ranking member of the Senate Finance By Mike NorrlsGazette-Journal The political fracas over allegations that Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, helped quash a major fund-raiser by her re-election opponent, Democrat Jim Spoo, widened Tuesday when a gaming executive implicated in the dispute fired off a letter blasting the Sparks mayor and his campaign manager.

But Spoo and officials of his campaign to unseat Vucanovich stood firmly by their charge that she has used a House bill on Indian gaming to threaten the state's biggest industry and jeopardize its sometimes tenuous relationship with the federal government. The Indian gaming bill, which is opposed by Nevada casinos, provides for joint federal-tribal control of bingo, lotto and certain card games. It would permit casinos and horse and dog racing on reservations only if the tribes enter into contracts with state governments. Spoo campaign officials said release of the letter by Mike Sloan, vice president and general counsel for Circus Circus Enterprises, is further evidence the con-gresswoman has used political muscle to remind casino executives of the power of her office and to hurt Spoo's campaign. In response to inquiries by a reporter over the weekend and on Monday, Spoo said Sloan informed the Spoo camp that Vucanovich and John Schreiber, director of the Nevada Resort Association, had warned Las Vegas gaming executives the conservative congresswoman was upset they were planning to raise money for her opponent at the same time she was supporting pro-industry legislation on Indian gaming.

Committee, was scheduled to speak. "I do recall indicating to you, as well as to others, that I was concerned about the timing of the proposed fundraiser, given the Indian gaming bill's posture in the House and Mrs. Vucanovich's leading role in securing its passage," Sloan wrote. "Moreover, I expressed concern that Sen. Daschle's vote against the bill only days before the scheduled fund-raiser could prove to be embarrassing not only to Sen.

Daschle but to Mayor Spoo as well." Congress passed the legislation 323-84. Daschle voted against it, but Thompson said the Spoo campaign discussed the vote with Daschle and he agreed not to actively oppose it with speeches or other efforts beyond his negative vote, which was based on internal South Dakota politics. Sloan said he did not want to put the gaming industry" by having him speak at a fund-raiser soon after he opposed legislation casinos supported, and he credited Vucanovich with playing a major role in passage of the Indian gaming bill "one of our top legislative priorities." Sloan repeated an earlier statement that he never discussed the Spoo campaign with Vucanovich. "At no time has she ever discussed gaming industry contributions to Mayor Spoo with me," he said. "I understand Mike Sloan is heated," Spoo said.

"I'm not sure why. We told them the truth about it." The Sparks mayor and his campaign staff stood firmly by their version of events. New city ML Moses: 87 horses Sept 19 Nevada Bald 100 horses killed north of Austin, concerned with the creation of a new city that would have to be subsidized by all the county's taxpayers." Reno City officials are also concerned about the potential out-of-pocket loss of nearly $100,000 that would occur because the new city would be able to share in a portion of sales taxes collected throughout the county. According to Kilcourse's estimates, the city of Sparks would also stand to lose about $45,000 beause of changes in the disribution formula that would occur if Sierra Meadows becomes a city. Several Reno city officials sat through Tuesday's hearing on the proposed city without offering any public comment.

1 Nuke blast scheduled LAS VEGAS A major nuclear weapons test is scheduled Thursday morning at the Nevada Test Site, the 11th announced test at the desert site this year. The nuclear device is buried 2,100 feet beneath the surface of Yucca Flat, 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test is code-named Dalhart, after a city in Texas. I The blast is expected to -cause some ground motion in Las Vegas. Managers of high-rise buildings in the city were alerted Tuesday not to have workers-in precarious positions at the time ofthe blast, which is scheduled for 7 a.m.

The last previous test was Bullfrog, conducted Aug. 30. 140 horses! From page 1C area are situated on 2.5-acre lots. "I personally feel we are in a great deal of jeapordy," said homeowner Wells O'brien. "We are a prime target for annexation." Reno City Manager Hal Schilling criticized the proposed city, saying the costs associated with the project have been "seriously understated." According to Schilling, the feasability study fails to take into account a variety of expensive services, including law enforcement.

"It (the new city) would not be a municipality as such, but a creature of the county," said Schilling. "We are Oct. 1 bringing fry Austin! new count to over 400 in Lander County. v. Mustangs dead From page 1C area, almost 300 of the dead horses are scattered over 150 square miles.

Stewart said the BLM has merged the Mount Callaghan and Bald Mountain finds into a single investigation. The agency is continuing to treat the Sept. 19 discovery of about 90 mustangs found shot to death on Mount Moses as a separate case. He said no evidence has been found linking it to the first case, despite the proximity. The BLM also increased its estimate of the time the horses had been dead to "up to two years, or more," Stewart said.

Originally, investigators and a veterinarian had been saying they had been shot six to 12 months ago. The most recent killings occurred late last spring or early summer, BLM public affairs officer Maxine Shane said. Investigators have recovered rifle bullets, but they refuse to say if they know how many people might have done the shootings. They said the way in which the horses bodies were lying with their legs folded under them also indicates quick and violent deaths, rather than by natural causes. A 1971 act of Congress made it a federal Mt.

Callaghan: 41 horses early August Gazene-Journal graphics Teachers let staff decide how to cut $500,000 in costs to stay within their budget of just over $14 million. Project architect Sheehan Van Woert told the trustees such cuts would be feasible by making slight changes in plans, such as erecting chain link rather than block walls and covering walls with two rather than three coats of paint. "There are many quite logical objects to eliminate, not only now but in the future." The first of eight new schools that will eventually be built in the district are Brown Elementary, Hidden Valley Elementary, Silver Lake Elementary and Westergard Elementary. Scheduled a Nov. 2 meeting for the district's Sex Education Advisory Committee to discuss a proposed sex education curriculum with the trustees.

The meeting will be a dialogue between the two groups. Appointed four parents of high school students to the district's attendance committee. offense punishable by a year in prison and a $2,000 fine to kill, capture, injure or har-rass a wild horse. Shane said bureau officials in Washington have "promised us the full resources of the BLM to solve this case." But she added, "We're not at liberty to say how many people are working on the case." BLM agents have interviewed more than 100 central Nevada residents and also are relying on Washoe County's Secret Witness program. From page 1C district spokesman Steve Mulvenon said this year's ratios are better than last year's.

In other business, the trustees: Chose Clark Sullivan Contractors as the builders for four new elementary schools scheduled to be built in the district. Because the bid was the lowest submitted, the trustees voted to accept it and Nevada digest CARD OF THANKS Obituaries THE PARENTS OF CHRISTINE DORY Would like to thank our many friends and family who expressed their sorrow by sending cards, flowers and food. We would also like to thank those who donated in her name to the Koret Family House in San Francisco. Special thanks to Dr. Jane Diedrichsen, Donna Heslin of Hospice.

Fay Rogers. Dr. Gary Abrass. and many Doctors at UCSF Medical Center. 10I2M 435065 Births A memorial is being established with the American Cancer Society, P.O.

Box 3649, Carson City 89702. LeRoy A. Thomas LOVELOCK LeRoy Arthur Thomas, 53, died Tuesday at Pershing General Hospital of an apparent heart attack. A native of Detroit, he was born Sept. 7, 1935, and had been a Lovelock resident for the past four years, coming from Wikieup, Ariz.

Thomas was a heavy equipment operator and a veteran of the Korean war. Surviving are his widow, Luetta, and a daughter, Sheila Wreitz, both of Lovelock; daugther, Beverly Ellico of Kingman, brothers, the Rev. Robert Shell-house and Donald Shellhouse, both of Michigan, and Harold Thomas of Bloomington, and four grandchildren. A graveside funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the Lone Mountain Cemetery, under the direction of the Lovelock Funeral Home.

Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center ARDANS To Lance and Lisa Ardans of Sparks, a son, Oct. 10, 1988. EDWARDS To James and Donna Edwards of Reno, a son, Oct. 10, 1988. MAURINO To Ed and Laurie Maurino of Susanville, a daughter, Oct.

10, 1988. McKIM To Jason and Eileen McKim of Sparks, a daughter, Oct. 6, 1988. Divorces granted been a Stead resident for the past 24 years, coming from Gary, Ind. Mrs.

Jensen was a legal aid receptionist. Surviving are her mother, Beryl Murray, and a son, Michael Dro-tar, both of Stead; son, Daniel Drotar of Logansport, daughters, Diane Leach of Sun Valley, Roberta Leach of Sparks and Amy Ruhr of Reno; sister, Linda McCreary of Arizona; eight grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Walton Funeral Home, Reno. Cremation will be at the Sierra Crematory.

Ronald W. Kellogg STAGECOACH Ronald Warren Kellogg, 17, died Sunday at his residence. A native of Grants Pass, he was born April 21, 1971, and had lived in Stagecoach for the past four years, coming from Idaho. Kellogg attended Dayton High School and was a senior at the time of his death. He worked for the G.I.D.

Water Company and the Stagecoach TV Cable Co. Surviving are his father, Bruce, and grandmother, Georgia Murray, both of Stagecoach; mother, Mary Anne Johnson, and brother, Kile Ryant, both of California; and several aunts and uncles. A memorial service is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lakeview Baptist Church. Cremation was at the Mountain View Crematory in Reno, under the direction of Freitas Funeral Home, Yerington.

Matthew W. King Matthew Wallace King, 25, died Monday at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Sunday on state route 447, five miles north of Wadsworth. A native Los Angeles, he was born Dec. 16, 1962, and had been a Reno resident for the past 25 years. King was a truck driver and a member of the First Evangelical Church in Reno.

Surviving are his widow, Tasha, daughter, Fallon Colleen, parents, Ruby M. Clackett CARSON CITY Ruby Mae Clackett, 58, died Monday at Washoe Medical Center, Reno. A native of Tamms, 111., she was born March 25, 1930, and had been a Carson City resident since 1978, coming from Kings Beach, where she lived since 1944. Mrs. Clackett was a bookkeeper for the Nevada State Department of Blind Services from 1980-85, and also for the Carpenter's Union, Crystal Bay Club and Pacific Bell Telephone in Lake Tahoe.

Surviving are her husband, Richard, and a daughter, Susan Hammons, both of Carson City; mother, Mae Farei, and a sister, Betty Reim, both of Los Angeles; sisters, Helen Buehler of Sunnyvale, and Pat Canfield of Oakland, two grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at Walton's Chapel of the Valley. Cremation will be at Sierra Crematory, Reno. Thomas P.

Donnelly QUEENS A graveside funeral for Reno native Thomas Pride Donnelly, 26, is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City. Donnelly died Monday at Washoe Medical Center, Reno, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born Oct. 21, 1961, and had been a resident of Queens, in Nye County, for the past one and a half years, coming from Reno.

Donnelly was a general maintenance engineer. His father, Robert Thomas, preceded him in death. Surviving are his mother and stepfather, Carolynn and Leroy Rowley, both of Minden; brother, Lance of Scottsdale, and one niece. Arrangements are under the direction of FitzHenry's Funeral Home and Crematory, Carson City. Mary P.

Jensen Mary P. Jensen, 52, died Sunday at Washoe Medical Center. A native of Brockton, she was born March 2, 1936, and had Burt and Isobel King, and a sister, Lisa Lynch, all of Reno; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. A funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at the church, with burial at the Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, under the direction of Ross, Burke Knobel Mortuary, Reno.

James E. Moncrieff James E. Moncrieff, 89, died Friday at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. A native of Coin, Iowa, he was born Jan. 2, 1899, and had been a Reno resident for the past 11 years, coming from Berkeley, Calif.

Moncrieff was a service station owner, a member of St. John's Presbyterian Church and an Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are a daughter, Dionne M. Russum of Reno; and three grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Saturday at the church. Cremation was at FitzHenry's Funeral Home and Crematory, Carson City. A memorial is being established with the church's Deacon Fund, 1070 W. Plumb Lane, 89509. Margaret M.

Pratt CARSON CITY Margaret May Pratt, 76, died Monday at her residence. A native of Canada, she was born Sept. 21, 1912, and had been a Carson City resident for the past 20 years, coming from Chillicothe, Mo. She had previously lived in Lovelock. Mrs.

Pratt was a homemaker and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Lovelock and Iowa. Her first husband, Frank Mas-terson, died in 1968. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Erma Kastner. Surviving are her husband, Warren, and a son, Edward W. Masterson, both of Carson City; son, William D.

Masterson of Vancouver, five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Walton's Chapel of the Valley. Raymond M. Buchanan FALLON Raymond M.

Buchanan, 68, died Saturday at the Fallon Convalescent Center. A native of Tatum, N.M., he was born Jan. 4, 1920, and had been a Fallon resident for the past three months, coming from Gila Bend, Ariz. Buchanan was a retired owner of a diesel repair business and was a member of the Fallon B.P.O. Elks Lodge, the Loyal Order of Moose of Abondale, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Boise, Idaho.

Surviving are his widow, Ruth, son, Cliff and a stepson, Wallace, all of Fallon; sons, Don of Gooding, Idaho, and Edward of Jacksonville, daughter, Linda Hernandez of Reno; brother, Arthur of Midland, Texas; 11 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at the Elks Lodge, with burial at the Fallon Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Austin, Matson and Smith Funeral Home. A memorial is being established with the Elks Charity Fund, 93 W.

Center Fallon 89406. Dan-eld L. Butts WINNEMUCCA Darreld. Leland Butts, 84, died Saturday at his residence. A native of Esmond, N.D., he was born March 18, 1904, and had been a Winnemucca resident since 1937, coming from Esmond.

Butts was a self-employed ftiiner and an Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are a brother, La Verne of Minneauwaken, N.D. sister, Dorothy Glasgow of Hemet, Erma Hoogle of Sun City, sister, Olive Anderson of Dakland, and numerous nieces and nephews. A funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at Eddy's Funeral Home, with burial at the Winnemucca Cemetery.

DEATH NOTICES George Ballesteros vs. M. Ballesteros; David Paul Bohlman vs. Catherine B. Bohl-man; Francis Carter vs.

Concepcion Carter. Donald Wayne Cox vs. Mary Elizabeth Cox; Guillermo R. Dionisio vs. Adela V.

Dionisio; Billy W. Read vs. Maki N. Fisher. Shelly Marie Gsell vs.

Martin Gsell; Randy W. Maurer vs. Elizabeth M. Maurer; Alice Joy O'Toole vs. John K.

O'Toole. Gary Louis One vs. Lisa Anne Otte; Phuoc Huu Thai vs. Mui Thai; Margarita Tiongson vs. D.

Tiongson. Billie Jean Campbell vs. Rondald W. Campbell; Ace Lex Hunt vs. Sharon Iva Hunt; Hor-moz Jahromi vs.

Dori Jean Jahromi. Calixto Lingad Jr. vs. Meriinda G. Lingad; Htonorio R.

Lopez vs. Rose M. Lopez; Mario Judith Lozada vs. Fayeann Lozada. Mary Rae Paige vs.

Richard Paige Kandis Faye Roberts vs. Robert Henry Roberts; Cecilia Sta. Maria vs. Celestino Sta. Maria.

Joe Sumrall vs. Rhea Sumrall; Ramonette G. Wycuff vs. Terrel Joseph Wycuff. Brenda Fay Heyl vs.

Allen David Van Heyl; Marilynn Hoff vs. Alam Martin Hoff; Theodore A. Litman vs. Marilyn Litman; Teresita Phillips vs. Rodney Phillips; Coleen Rhoads vs.

Robert E. Rhoads. Chartene Rummelhotf vs. Robert MICHAEL ANGEL0 BRUSH LEVERETT February 12, 1954 to October 7, 1988 Age 34 years. Passed away in Memphis, Tenn.

He is survived by his wife. Donna Leverefl of Memphis, his mother, Shirlee Leverett of Reno. his godmother, Esther Marin Amburn of Reno; his father, Seymour Brush of Ukiah. his Stepfather, Hairi Leverett of Pomona, two sisters, Rebecca Byrtis of El Verano, and Laura Rodgers of Houston, two brothers, John Leverett of Reno and Donald Leverett; grandmother. Alice Williams; and two uncles, George Ginochio Charles Williams of Ukiah, aunts, uncles, and cousins of the following families too numerous to mention but not forgotten -Marin.

Flores, Diaz and Laylon. A Rosary will be held at 7:30 p.m. on October 14. 1988 at SL Michael's Catholic Church, 14075 Mount Vida in Stead. Memorial Mass will be held Saturday.

October 15, 1988 at 12 noon at St. Michael's. Internment at Mountain View Cemetery. IMMIV13W 5965 NOW, CREMATION THE SENSIBLE, ECONOMICAL ALTERNATIVE John Sparks Memorial 414 12th Street Sparks 331-1112 CANDIDATE'S MIGHT For WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES October 18, 1988 7:00 p.m. Pine Middle School 4800 Nell Road, Reno YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND QUESTION THE CANDIDATES Sponsored by the Pine Middle School Parent Faculty Association "JtJSTC riTiT Vion Ti i ilil Northern Nevada Memorial ffliPc CREMATION JlJjl Family Owned 6 Operated ftF CTtVvl'-Hd-l ci NO ADD-ONS ULJL7 1 I Zi 71 lw: information Discount for Veterans Seniors Hours frTTTTMTT.TIM I ttrrmtT.

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