Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

ieooQ Thursday APRIL 18, 1991 35 cents 1 11 MB MW IP I in cracKS 3000 HIGH LOW 50 30 k3ft jf jfl 2950 II 2900 fii Us? Hunting debate: There's little middle ground when it comes to arguments over the sport. Out About, 3D Daseball: Dodgers beat Giants, 6-2. Mike Moore gets 1 00th career victory as A's beat Angels, 3-1. 1, 2D Today's forecast: Mostly ipanai News 1-1 6A Briefing 2A Opinion 15A Lottery 16A Weather 16A Nevada 1-33 Obituaries 2B Business 4-3 Markets 4-5B Classified 1-CC Sports 1-CD Lifestyle 1-6E Dear Abby 2E TV watch 4E Comics 5E Crossword 5E Best Bets Inside sunny. Tonight: patchy clouds.

Friday: Partly cloudy. Stock market: Dow Jones breaks through the glass ceiling of the 3,000 mark, ending trading at 3,004.46. The widely followed indicator had eclipsed the magical level during five sessions but had never closed above it6D With prom season rapidly approaching, girls are busy trying to find that perfect dress. Promgoers take their shopping very seriously. They return several times, compare, bring in boyfriends, bring in grandmothers, bring in friends and torment over decisions.

Shopping around columnist Sheila Muhtadi takes a look at what they're buying and what they're paying. 6D STEVE FALCONE Business editor VJrrln lJ 2650 Sparks police chief: City manager stands by decision not to fire George Coxey, but will investigate complaints before final call. ID Jay Leno: Johnny Carson's favorite stand-in will open Sammy's Showroom at Harrah's Reno. Inside For Lotto's losers, fun was in the dreaming $117 MILLION NUMBERS bonus number, 52 Topper cities: Vallejo, Palo Alto, Ventura Boy sues couple over burning Oil spilled: E.J. Moore seeks at least $10,000 from his grandparents.

DEVELOPMENTS III THE LOTTERY Hot line: The Gazette-Journal will update with winning tickets and sales locations as they become available. 324-0225; then press 1900. Lawbreakers: Running to Truckee to pick up Lotto tickets for friends in Nevada apparently is illegal. 4A. "There's no reality in it and that's half the fun," said 28-year-old Tony Brennan, a bartender working at Bailywick's in Reno when the numbers were announced.

"It's just something to think about. We decided we'd retire and see Europe." Across the state line. Lotto-mania lingered long after numbers were announced. At Bar of America in Truckee, where about a dozen Reno residents gathered to watch the drawing after they bought tickets Wednesday, no one got better than two out of six. But they didn't seem to mind.

"They're all having a great time anyway," bartender Gary Ficher said. rate of 1 ,350 per second Wednesday would have all six winning numbers for the North American record $117.1 million jackpot. The state lottery plans to announce whether anybody won the jackpot at 5 a.m. today, after it completes a computer analysis of bets. Winners of lesser prize pools will also be announced today.

If there were five winning tickets out of Wednesday's drawing in California, each would be worth more than $1 million a year, after income tax withholding, lottery officials said. Winners are paid in equal annual checks for 20 years. Tony and Shanley Brennan had By Courtney Brenn GAZETTE-JOURNAL Dick Fenton didn't win the lottery Wednesday, but that's OK. He didn't expect to. The Reno resident figured the $5 he spent to get in on an office pool of 45 tickets was worth it for the fantasy value.

"It isn't a matter of counting on winning, it's just a matter of what if," said Fenton, who was on his way home from Ryan's Saloon when the winning (or losing, depending upon your attitude) numbers were announced. "Everybody's been talking about it. It was $5 for three days of fantasies." The 42-year-old said he and eight co-workers at Machabee Office Environments decided on the tickets their first group attempt at the California Lottery as soon as the pot reached $100 million. Odds were that three to five tickets which were selling at a a friend in California buy five tickets for their first attempt at a lottery prize. They didn't win, but had a lot of fun trying.

no 0 Dack to work: President moves to end rail workers' day-old walkout. Trains may be running again as soon as today. 3i A4 1 lion i 1 iYf' 1 i Vli i a -a ear a a a a aw i i a 3 liiWn "1 Mike Henderson GAZETTE-JOURNAL Badly burned 3-year-old E.J. Moore, whose tale will be televised nationally on the "Rescue 911" program, is suing his grandparents for what he claims is their negligence in letting boiling oil spill on him. That adds a down side to the uplifting story of paramedics and firefighters who raced to his rescue and a month later threw a party at Reno Fire Station No.

8 to celebrate little E.J.'s recovery. The paramedic and firefighter part of the story will be aired locally on KTVN, Channel 2, at 8 p.m. April 30. The suit seeks at least $10,000 for medical and other expenses. "This is definitely not a friendly lawsuit," said lawyer Margo Piscevich, who represents maternal grandparents, Loren and Myrna House.

"It's been a very difficult time for the grandparents," she said. Myrna House acknowledged relations are strained, but "not so much on my part as on my husband's part." It was her husband, insurance agent Loren House, who sold the insurance policy from which E.J., through his guardian for the purposes of the lawsuit, hopes to recover money damages. The insurance company, Mrs. House said, was willing to Sec LAWSUIT on page 4A Naming of rape victims debated Naming rape victims is more an ethical issue than a legal one, but the media's right to do so should be protected, the chairman of the University of Nevada. Reno's political science department said Wednesday.

Richard Siegel responded to a national debate over the issue, spawned by NBCs, the New York Times' and other media's identification of the woman who said she was raped by a member of the Kennedy family in Palm Beach, Fla. "One sees a collision course even in civil liberties circles," Siegel said. "You see a definite influence of feminist consciousness, but it hasn't quite reached the full protection. I'm torn, but I still lean towards the idea that the woman's name can be newsworthy in some cases." But the director of UNR's Women's Center questioned the need to name victims of any crime. "In that sense, rape is no different from any other crime," Helen Jones said.

"I don't think I've seen a good argument for why the public needs to know a crime victim's name." The 29-year-old Florida woman had asked that her name not be used. Her lawyer said Wednesday he was "shocked and appalled" it had been divulged. Details, A. Tm Ouorv Gazed Jouri ON STRIKE: Local workers picket the entrance to the Sparks rail yard Wednesday afternoon. PROSTITUTION THEME PARK Warden fired over husband's brothel plan By Faith Bremnar GAZETTE-JOURNAL Nevada Womens' Prison Warden Peggy Knapp was fired Wednesday for her involvement in her husband's proposal to open a wild-west brothel theme park near Carson City.

State officials, including the governor and the director of prisons, were upset to learn of the proposed business venture in the press. Peggy Knapp was listed as secretary treasurer of the business headed by her husband. She has since taken her name off the organization's list of officers. William Mace Knapp is a psychologist at the men's medium-security prison and has been reassigned to a desk job pending a review of his employment status. Prison Director Ron Ange-lone said it's inappropriate "tor individuals in our business of rehabilitating people, dealing with their problems, to be venturing forth into this type of endeavor." However, an expert on legalized prostitution said Knapp's firing proves the state has a double standard when it deals with prostitution.

"If it's legal for convicted felons like Joe Conforte to run a brothel, then it has to be legal for state employees." said University of Nevada. Reno professor Ellen Pillard, ho has researched prostitution for 8 years. "The message we're sending is you have to be some kind of a shady character." A spokesman for Gov. Bob Miller denied the governor is ashamed of the state's prostitution industry. The governor called the prison director Wednesday morning to urge him to take action against Peggy Knapp and supports the decision to fire her, his spokesman said.

"A prison official, especially a warden, is in an incredibly unique position in government," said the governor's press secretary, Mike Campbell. "You have to have very high standards to live up to and that's why in this case it's just not acceptable." The park would be a replica of an 1880s mining camp that would rival Disnevland. William Knapp said. The only difference is it would have the "Shaft House BrotheL" Wh5n the park opens, Wfl-Iiam Knapp said, he would resign his job with the prison. With wire service reports Working on thcx railroad Iff I mi m- Engineer average salary: ers 1990 ii Other train employee: $40,000 83.646 Washoe County average salaries Mining: S36V532 Government $29,120 Construction: 127,820 Manufacturing: $27,352 Service (hotel and gaming): $14,924 Sparks: 6,687 Cost for ticket $48 to Oakland Two trains dally Oakland (east to Chicago) Chicago (west to Oakland) By Michael Phillis GAZETTE-JOURNAL When the last train to Oakland left Reno on Wednesday, no one knew when it would return.

It shouldn't be long. President Bush signed a bill early today to put a quick end to a nationwide strike by 235,000 rail workers. Congress late Wednesday approved the bill without dissent in the Senate and by a 400-5 vote in the House. The measure establishes a new emergency board to resolve remaining disputes and impose a settlement in 65 days. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner said strikers should be ordered back to their jobs before today's working day begins, and the AFL-CIO said pickets are being advised to depart rail yards.

An industry spokeswoman predicted the rail system would return to full strength within 24 hours. Terms The bill gives unions another chance to challenge an earlier presidential emergency board's recommendations that labor leaders had characterized as unfair. The administration and the nation's major freight railroads had asked Congress to impose the board's recommendations intact, but Democrats balked after union leaders complained it would lead to more than 20,000 job losses. The bill: Requires a 3 percent wage increase in July and another 4 percent in 1994 and various lump sum payments. Requires workers start paying 15 percent of health care costs, previously paid in full by the railroads.

Allows a reconsideration of ambiguities in the previous board's recommendations. Both the unions and the railroads would have to accept whatever the new panel recommends if they cannot agree among themselves. Unions could not resort to another strike and railroads could not engage in a lockout During the 65 days, neither side could change the working conditions of members of the eight unions that put up picket lines at 7 a.m. Wednesday. Among them were pickets at the Southern Pacific Transportation Co.

railroad yard in Sparks. "We've driven here many times, but we've talked about taking the train for years," said Jcr-mona Maclnnes, 61, of Suisun, Calif. She said she and her husband. Bill, also 6 1 planned the trip for a month before knowing about a potential strike. They were aware of it when they left Monday.

"We decided to make an adventure out of it," she said. "If got stuck in Reno, we got stuck in Reno." Although the Amtrak train arrived in Reno at 10 a.m., three hours after the strike began. Amtrak and the unions agreed to let it finish its run to Oakland. Conductor Dennis Stuart said. Freight strike Only freight railroad companies were being struck by the unions that walked out Wednesday, but since all the Amtrak train personnel are members of the same unions, they will not cross the picket lines, Stuart said.

"We're going to Oakland, but there's buses following us just in case we get stopped along the way by a picket line," he said. Floyd Meyers, spokesman for the local Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said. "We didnt want to go on strike. We were forced to strike." CwCeraPatrScraayard i rTK 3 fl fll Southern Pacific ll I Southern I -T ft Spwta Pacific I syrr I I Railroad I Strike effects! Shipping halted, passengers stranded, businesses feel pinch. 4A Reno had about 200 railroad Like the great majority of the workers on strike.

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