Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 27

Nevada Today's tip Wednesday OCTOBER 5, 1988 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Section 2C OBITUARIES 2C VITALS 4-1 5C CLASSIFIED 15C BRIDGE "Ansel Adams: Classic Images," a photographic exhibit of 75 pictures, runs through Nov. 27 at the Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, 549 Court St. Admission Is $2, adults; $1.50, seniors. CITY EDITOR: MORGAN CARTWRIGHT, 788-6305 COLQk Former bar owner gets 5 years for selling drugs By Michael PhillisGazette-Journal A Reno bar owner was sentenced to prison Tuesday for selling cocaine 11 days after he was arrested for allegedly selling drugs at a pre-sentencing party. Rodney Cresweil was scheduled to be sentenced Sept.

23, but the sentencing had to be delayed because of his arrest with six other people the night before at his house. Washoe District Judge James Guinan gave Cresweil, 34, five years in prison for sale of cocaine and two years for possession of cocaine, with the sentences to run concurrent with each other. Deputy District Attorney David Thompson told Guinan, "The case of Mr. Cresweil is one of the most flagrant and aggravating the DA's office has ever seen." Cresweil was arrested in February along with 13 other people after an extensive investigation into drug sales at local taverns. Cresweil, a secret owner of the Finish Line bar, closed it voluntarily after the arrest.

But Thompson said Cresweil was arrested again on drug charges while awaiting trial, again after his plea of guilty and again while on rehabilitation. When narcotics officers got word of the pending pre-sentence party, they staked it out until they saw a drug deal. They moved in with a warrant and made the arrests, including the arrest of a late-arrival who was given directions by an officer who answered the phone. Cresweil told Guinan, "It's true I've been getting into trouble for the last year and have sunk to the lows of the earth. But I was never like this until I got involved in drugs.

Before, I was a hardworking person." Creswell's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Mary Lou Wilson, said Cresweil had only been involved in drugs for about a year and a half. She said he was hardworking and productive until he became addicted to heroin and cocaine. She asked for probation, with strict requirements that he attend a drug rehabilitation program that required six months of in-house treatment, six months of constant out-patient treatment and supervision, and another year of strictly regulated counseling and treatment. She asked that he be given a long suspended sentence, so he would know that any violation of his probation would mean a long prison term. ad amm mug cats dlosmniDsssi Nevada Medal winner to give free lecture The first-ever winner of the Nevada Medal will give a free lecture at the University of Nevada-Reno Friday.

Dr. Verner E. Suomi, professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will give a talk entitled "The Earth as a System" from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday in the UNR Church Fine Arts Theater.

The Nevada Medal, awarded jointly by the Desert Research Institute and Nevada Bell, will be given each year to recognize and stimulate outstanding scientific, engineering and technical achievements. Suomi was selected as recipient of the first award from a field of 29 candidates. Suomi was chosen for his scientific contribution as inventor of the spin-scan camera, which gives television weather reporters their satellite pictures. He also founded the UWM's Space Science and Engineering Center. Suomi will receive the award at a ceremony in Las Vegas today.

He'll give his lecture there on Thursday. Water use inches up Warm weather sent water use inching up last week in the Reno-Sparks area as Lake Tahoe fell to less than one inch from its natural rim, Westpac Utilities said Tuesday. Last week's consumption of 417.5 million gallons was up 4 percent from the 400.9 million gallons the week before, but down 27 percent from the 510 million gallons used the same week of last year. As usual, the peak days last week were Wednesday and Thursday, at 78.2 million and 81.8 million gallons. Consumption the rest of the week ranged from a low of 43.9 million gallons on Monday to 58.5 million gallons on Friday.

The Truckee Meadows is in a stage three drought alert, which allows homeowners to water their lawns only once a week, depending on the last number in their address. People whose addresses end in zero, 2 and 4 can water on Wednesdays while Thursdays are reserved for addresses ending in 1, 3 and 5. Firth expects Lake Tahoe, the area's principal reservoir, to reach its natural rim this weekend. 7, ft -Xli Defense lawyers say government acted improperly By Mike HendersonGazette-Joumai Lawyers for six men charged in a multi-million-dollar drug-running and money-laundering case filed about 50 motions Tuesday, including one asking the judge to toss the case out of court because of "outrageous government misconduct." Jack Hill, attorney for defendant Robert R. Kimball, claims the federal government acted improperly when federal agents went to Kimball at the Nevada State Prison to try to involve him in an arm of the drug conspiracy case that stretches to Europe and Bangkok.

Hill claims that he, Kimball and defense investigator Jack Palladino "were harassed by numerous attempted contacts by the agents," and were implicated as participants in the scheme even though they did nothing in connection with it. Kimball and the others are charged with conspiring to distribute 42 tons of marijuana and to launder at least $7.6 million in drug money through a Reno casino. While an FBI agent posed as an executive of a nonexistent Reno casino, the FBI videotaped two of the defendants as they counted out the money the governmemt claims was intended for laundering. The $7.6 million was to have been the first laundered installment of about $50 million in proceeds from drug sales, the prosecution contends. The motions come as a prelude to Friday's status conference on the case, scheduled for trial Nov.

1 before U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben. The motions are scheduled for argument Oct. 21. They include motions to dismiss the indictment or parts of it; requests that the six men be tried individually instead of as a group; motions to obtain transcripts of grand jury proceedings; and a motion by one attorney for an extension of time to file other motions.

That lawyer, David Z. Chesnoff of Las Vegas, claims he was recently deluged with thousands of pages of documents from the government and has not had time to sort through them. Defense lawyers also contend that the government dragged its feet in preparing a Sept. 13 indictment that added two more defendants to the original six and added the drug charges. "Quite clearly, the complexion of the case had changed so substantially that it was no longer recognizable," said Los Angeles attorney Donald Re.

"While the original charges dealt solely with alleged money laundering, the new charges focus most heavily upon the alleged narcotic connection." One of the two new defendants was recently located in Switzerland and has agreed to return to the United States to face the charges. The other is believed by federal officials to be somewhere in the Far East. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Sullivan has prevously said the government has been trying to cooperate but did not want to spoil its Bryan: State will support probe of wild horse killings By Brendan RlleyAP CARSON CITY Gov. Richard Bryan pledged full state support Tuesday to help the federal Bureau of Land Management in its investigation of the rifle killings of nearly 300 wild horses in remote central Nevada.

"The indiscriminate slaughter of wild horses must stop," the governor said. "No matter how people feel about wild horses, they simply cannot take the law into their own hands. Killing wild horses is a crime under both federal and state law." Bryan directed the state Wildlife Department to offer its investigators to the BLM, which is in charge of the probe into the wild horse killings on federal land. He also urged hunters to report any suspicious activities. BLM spokesman Bob Stewart said the investigation has been given "an extremely high priority" by agency Director Robert Burford.

He said literally all of the agency's investigative resources are available for the Nevada probe. Stewart also said that since the horse slaughter has grown in magnitude following the first discoveries of 41 horse carcasses in August, investigators have become "extremely closed-mouthed" and aren't providing information. The investigators have interviewed more than 100 people, including one person who provided a tip that sent agency staffers to a second central Nevada area last month where 87 horses were found shot to death. As part of the investigation, BLM staffers throughout the state were advised to step up surveillance of range-land they oversee. That resulted in last weekend's discovery of another 140 wild horse carcasses.

All the shootings occurred within a 40-mile stretch north of Austin, an isolated Nevada town on U.S. Highway 50. The BLM said the horses died during a six-month period starting about a year ago. In addition, the BLM was advised of recent shootings of several wild horses at Silverpeak in southern Nevada. Terri Jay, director of the Nevada Commission for the Preservation of Wild Horses, says rewards totaling $12,000 are being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the shootings.

More than 38,000 wild horses roam the rangeland in 10 western states, including up to 28,000 in Nevada. Ml School candidate survey The Anne Martin Women's Political Caucus will release the results of a survey of school board candidates tonight during a public meeting at 7 at the Sierra View Branch Library. The 10 candidates for the five open positions on the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees were asked about issues ranging from sex education to year-round schools. i 0 -V- ft 7 Marilyn NewtonGazette-Journal HANGING OUT: George Weston of the Phoenix, Fire Department, top, rappels down to Sparks firefighter Frank Frievalt during training Tuesday at the fire station on Mayberry Drive in Reno. Firefighters from around the nation attended this week's training course in Reno.

'Bat brew' on tap, sans rabies BATTLE MOUNTAIN A Battle Mountain bar is capitalizing on the story of two Lander County miners who had to get rabies vaccinations last week after one of them put a rabid bat in his beer and drank it. The Barr, on East Front Street in downtown Battle Mountain, is putting a small plastic bat in each beer it sells, and calling it "Bat Brew." "We're just doing a little joke about it," said Barr owner Diane Williams. "My bartenders went and bought a little jar of bats they're just little plastic bats. Everybody who orders a beer gets one. So when you buy a beer, you get 'bat "We'll probably do it until Halloween what with the bats and all." The promotion commemorates an incident last month in an Austin bar.

Stanley Connley, a young Battle Mountain miner, put a bat in his beer, drank the brew, then nibbled on the bat's ear. The state Division of Health learned that the bat, which Connley found near the settling pond of an Austin mine, was rabid. Connley and his friend, Richard Parker, also of Battle Mountain, plus an unidentified Battle Mountain woman, underwent rabies shots as a precaution. Although the two men have frequented the bar, they haven't been around since the Austin incident, Williams said, and she doesn't think they'd enjoy the joke. "Maybe in a couple of years they'll find it funny, but not now." The Barr displays signs guaranteeing its bat brew is "rabies free." Staff and wire service reports Blood supplies low due to unfounded fear of AIDS ing blood," Sligar said.

"The needles we use are discarded after each use. But some people are still reluctant. Some might even use AIDS as an excuse not to give blood." The AIDS virus is carried in the blood. Misconceptions about donating were born when some people contracted AIDS when they received transfusions of tainted blood. Donated blood now is tested for the AIDS virus and Sligar said the Reno office has seen an unusually small number of infected donors.

Statistics over the past couple of years show only one blood donor in 10,000 at the Reno office tests positive for the virus that attacks the body's immune system, leaving it susceptible to cancers and other fatal illnesses. Donors who test positive are sent a registered letter saying their blood showed an abnormality and recommending they see their doctor, Sligar said. "Those on the West Coast envy the safety of our blood supply here," she said, adding the blood also is tested for syphilis and three types of hepatitis. Eighty percent of the donors in the Reno office are regulars. By Laura MyersMp Blood supplies remain at critical levels but have met needs this year in northern Nevada and the eastern Sierra despite some still-reluctant donors afraid of contracting the deadly AIDS virus, authorities said Tuesday.

"Last year, we really felt the impact of AIDS," said Judy Sligar, United Blood Services director of public relations. "But the AIDS scare has ebbed a bit now so we haven't had to import any blood products this year except for in a few isolated cases." The United Blood Services office here supplies 26 northern Nevada and eastern Sierra California hospitals and had to import 3,019 units in 1987 because local donations weren't meeting demands, Sligar said. She estimated donations dropped 20 percent in 1987 because people feared they could contract acquired immune deficiency syndrome by giving blood. This year, she said, donations still are down about 12 percent from expected levels because about one-fifth of potential donors hang on to that misconception. "There's never been a danger in donat Washoe voting facts BALLOT 51 police recruits hired after tax vote now being trained By Phil BarberGazette-Journal Fifty-one of the 88 new Reno police officers authorized by a $3.5 million tax override election in May have been hired and are undergoing training.

Half of the group will be available as full-fledged officers on Dec. 19. All must attend a police academy at Truckee Meadows Community College, then undergo extensive field training. "It's not like we have any additional officers yet," Capt. Jim Weston said.

Chief Robert Bradshaw said of the new hires, "I'm really pleased with the quality. Everybody's glad they're here the department, the See POLICE, page 16C Washoe planners OK Bonanza addition By Jim MitchellGazetteJournal The Washoe County Planning Commission recommended approval Tuesday for a $600,000 addition to the Bonanza Casino, but only after attaching conditions designed to improve traffic flow and the casino's appearance. Ron Crook, an architect for the project, said he expected ground will be broken in November for the casino's two-story addition. Completion is expected by spring. The plans call for a 6,250 square-foot casino expansion on the first floor of the structure, located at 4720 N.

Virginia St. The second floor, to contain offices and meeting rooms, will be increased by the same amount. As a condition of approval, commissioners recommended sidewalks and curbs be required along the North Virginia frontage in order to See PLANNERS, page 16C Election Day: Nov. 8 Registration deadline: Saturday Voters registered: 95,481 Registration offices and hours: The Washoe County Registrar's Office, 73 Court and Sparks Justice Court, 814 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. through Saturday; Republican headquarters, 595 Humboldt, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Democratic headquarters, 300 S. Wells, 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. The Registrar's Office, 328-3500, has Information about other temporary registration locations. W4fWtOI, j-r Marilyn NewtonGazette-Journal NO PAIN, NO GAIN: Rick Nelson grimaces as he and other Reno police recruits undergo their first day of physical training..