Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 22

4C Reno Saturday, November 21, 1998 Horse show to saddle up in Reno for five years Snaffle Bit Futurity: To mean $4 million for area. Just add water. metal devices used in a horse's mouth, usually the first bit a horse wears. "Futurity" is an equestrian term for an animal's competition debut. The Snaffle Bit Futurity matches 3-year-old horses from around the world against each other in contests to cut a steer from a herd, then control the movement of the animal along a fence and into the center of an arena.

Mounts are judged on how well they respond to riders' commands to turn, spin and maneuver. The Snaffle Bit Futurity, which originated in Sacramento, was held in Reno from 1975-92. During that time, it grew from a small gathering with 128 horses and a few thousand spectators to an international event bringing more than 600 horses, nearly 2,000 participants and tens of thousands of fans. Horses and riders compete for more than $700,000 in prize monev, and mounts can sell for up to $80,000. Reno Mayor Jeff Griffin said the event's return to Reno is "extremely gratifying." Futurity will make its first appearance Sept.

24-Oct. 3, 1999, in the Reno Livestock Events Center. The finals will be broadcast on ESPN-TV. The event will draw about 15,000 spectators who will spend more than $4 million, said Phil Keene, head of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority. Average household income of NRCHA members is $109,000, among the highest of any special-interest group in the nation.

A snaffle bit is the gentlest of the Luxurious bathtubs, showers and bathroom Jacuzzis. Plumbing Etc. A Division of Savage Son Reno's Only Professional Bath and Kitchen Showroom. 328-4 1 93 STAFF REPORTS Reno has corralled one of the largest and most prestigious horse shows in the country for the next five years. The National Reined Cow Horse Association's Snaffle Bit Comeaux to stay on with Guinn 1 LANDER COUNTY Investigators check out tip in woman's disappearance Budget director: He also served under two Democrats.

BATTLE MOUNTAIN (AP) Nevada sheriffs investigators of building a major new accounting system for the state. Other duties of the budget director include chairmanship of the state Public Work Board that handles state construction and serving as a member on the state Committee on Benefits, which runs the health insurance program for state workers. Ernaut also said Gov. Bob Miller's press secretary, Gordon Absher, probably would stay through the interim. But Absher said he hasn't made any decision and doesn't know what he will do after Miller's term ends in January.

Guinn said during the campaign he would not make immediate changes but wanted to see how people in key positions perform. get, and he felt strongly Perry was doing a good job and there's no reason to make a change," Ernaut said. Comeaux is in the midst of cutting $800 million to $900 million from the requested budgets of agencies to present a balanced spending program to the 1999 Legislature. Comeaux came to Nevada in 1980 from Florida to work as the chief financial officer at the state prison. He was later promoted to director of the state Department of Taxation and then to budget director.

The budget director presents the governor's spending program to legislative committees and argues for its passage. He's also in charge and the FBI are pursuing new leads in the case of a missing San Francisco woman who was last seen in northern Nevada in ASSOCIATED PRESS Perry Comeaux, budget director for two Democratic governors, is staying on with the Republican administration of Kenny Guinn. Peter Ernaut, former Reno assemblyman and chief of the transition team for Guinn, said Comeaux will keep his present job as Nevada budget chief. "One of the first things the governor-elect talked about was the bud 1987. Lander County Undersheriff Specialists in Digital Programmable Technology Mike Kranovich said investigators are checking out the tip of an unidentified man who claimed the body of Stefanie Kelly Stroh may be in the bottom of a mine shaft in the county.

(RENO HEARING CENTER) Stroh, 21, had taken a year off Raggio retains post as majority leader 825-6006 (800) 345-6006 620 E. Plumb Lane Reno 1 ta RAND OPENING and Mark Amodei of Carson City selected as assistant whip. All committee chairmanships will remain the same, except that Jon Porter of Boulder City will take over as head of Legislative ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno, considered one of the most powerful men in the state, has been reelected unanimously as Senate majority leader, a post he has held in five previous sessions of the Nevada Legislature. Senate Republicans, who hold a 12-9 edge over Democrats, also, have re-elected Ray Rawson of Las Vegas as assistant majority leader.

Meeting Thursday in Reno, they also chose Lawrence Jacobsen of Minden as president pro tempore, a job he has held for five legislative sessions. Maurice Washington of Reno was named majority whip the Government Affairs Committee; and Rawson will be chairman of Human Resources and Facilities. Mark James of Las Vegas will lead the Judiciary Committee; Dean Rhoads of Elko will head Natural Resources; Mike McGinness of Fallon will be chairman of Taxation; and Bill O'Donnel! of Las Vegas will be chairman of Transportation. Amodei, the only new Republican elected, will succeed Augustine on the Commerce and Labor Committee and on Human Resources and Facilities. He will take Porter's place on the Transportation Committee.

Raggio SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21st 10AM 6PM (Sfmwna's Ceramic Affairs and succeeds Kathy Operations. He Augustine, who was elected state controller. Raggio will be chairman of Finance; Randolph Townsend of Reno heads Commerce and Labor, Ann O'Connell of Las Vegas leads Bryan joins opposition to Guinn's Nellis land stance rom Oregon Reed College, and was returning home from a trip to Europe when she was last heard from Oct. 16, 1987, at the Winnemucca Motel 6. During an interview with Bureau of Indian Affairs and FBI agents on a local reservation, Kranovich said, the man offered information about the death of a woman whose body was dumped in a remote mine shaft.

He said the man may have made some sort of confession, but authorities were having trouble determining a location because the man later recanted his story. However, he said sheriffs investigators were convinced enough about the validity of the story to mount a search of mine shafts in the county. Jerry Hill, head of the Reno office of the FBI, confirmed his agency has received some tips about the case in recent days but declined further comment "I can tell you we're working on that matter and trying to learn if the information we've received has any basis in truth," he said. "We've been working on it for several days, but I can't comment beyond that." Stroh stepfather, Grant Settlemier, a San Francisco stockbroker, said he was unaware of any new information in the case. "I don't know anything about it.

I'm not up to date on it," he said. His wife, Joni, launched an all-out search for her daughter along the Interstate 80 corridor in northern Nevada following her disappearance. Then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein offered a $10,000 reward for any information in connection with the Grand Opening Day Specials 25 OFF All Greenware and Bisque 15 OFF All Ceramic Paints and Supplies 3-Months Unlimited Firing $35.00 Drawings for Prizes First 50 people receive a FREE gift! In the Viewcrest Shopping Center (No. McCarran Kings Row) 3685 Kings Row Reno, NV 89503 Phone: 787-6809 bombing range play a major part in the economy of southern Nevada. If the Air Force ever pulls out, he added the state could negotiate with the federal government for return of the land.

A 1986 federal law allowed the Air Force to use the 3 million acres until 2001. ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenny Guinn's support for permanently locking up 3 million acres used for training by Nellis Air Force Base is running into more resistance. Sen. Richard Bryan, has joined Sen. Harry Reid, in opposing any permanent use by the Air Force of the land north of Las Vegas.

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