Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 19

Nevada State Journal Monday August 28 Humboldt Jail Design Defended Nevada News Leaky Old Tuscarora Water System Being Replaced WeISE NEVADA STATE AIR Vashoe County airgrounds whyl RENO TAHOE Warning: The Surgeon General has Deiermmeu ILTER 10 mg "tar" 08 mg nicotine ILTER RENO (71 Vincent Dougherty Philadelphia la Regular Menthol and Vantage 100 August 23 thru September 5 August 26 thru September 1 DANNY' THOMAS I COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 The new system will cost $121600 Of that the county is paying $13400 The our Comers regional governmental commission has awarded $40100 and the armers Home Ad ministration will grant $3400 and loan the community another $34000 The project will serve 24 residential and two commercial customers but before any of the promised money comes through the county must demonstrate that all requirements have been met Boucher said He explained that the project has been de layed by lack of proper engineering and that the engineering firm reported it has dismissed RICH LITTLE BERNADETTE PETERS September 2 thru 10 GABRIEL KAPLAN LOLA ALANA Sept 6 thru 20 LOLA ALANA A native Nevadan He knows and understands Washoe County Pd Pol Adv jail of felons holding them in neighboring jails at Battle Mountain and Lovelock until he added more security precautions of his own design built what you said Winnemucca City Councilman Hughie Schoff Hesselsch werdt reviewed plans for the building before it was built and wrote jail architect Alton Dean Jensen of Salt Lake City to say that the design met the intent and purpose of federal guide lines Hesselschwerdt wrote that County will have one of the most modern and progressive public safety complexes in Ne vada and certainly a model for other counties to basic function of a jail is to contain Schoff said failed on your very first Humboldt County District Attorney Bill Macdonald said the design contained various questionable features including some that re quired revamping at the county level It did not permit the city and county to install barred doors that the food pass opening in the doors had to be removed and that bunks had to be redesigned to attach to the wall from under neath the very least we were collectively lulled into a sense of false security that your stamp of approval meant the architect did a good Macdonald said obvious there are serious problems here well beyond the normal break in proce County Commissioner Ray Dufurrena said And Sydney olse of New Orleans a nation ASSEMBLY REPUBLICAN DISTRICT 23 PAID BY THt COMMITTEE TU HETAIN BOB WEISE al authority on prison design hired by the coun ty as a consultant told commissioners in a preliminary report that some major changes should be made Hesselschwerdt said the plans met the 50 broad federal criteria for advanced jail design established by the Law Enforcement Assis tance Administration and that it was up to the architect to make sure the criteria were met Hesselschwerdt blamed part of the security problem on lack of sufficient staffing is only one jailer on duty per shift and two are required for adequate he said lush steel doors do not allow the jailer a view into the cells and he must go into the cell block personally to make a visual check of the prisoners while a second jailer acts as a back up a threat every time the jailer goes in the sheriff said He also complained that no sally port was designed into the struc ture for the protection Officials told Hesselschwerdt they believe that small county budget limitations and in ability to hire a large jail staff should have been considered in the design They also criticized Hesselschwerdt for put ting his stamp of approval on a facility that was to have adequately served the commu nity until the year 2000 but whose inmate population has been running heavier than pro jected: The figures came from historical average daily inmate population figures he replied and he said he cannot explain the unexpected upsurge Special to the Journal TUSCARORA This small northern Elko County community may get a new water sys tem by the fall to replace the one county Man ager George Boucher says is not really a water system but series of Boucher gave that encouragement to Tu scarora residents who met with the county commission to discuss the project which began in 1976 Boucher said the last major hurdle is review of the project by the US Bureau of Land Man agement which controls the land over which new water pipes will cross 5'' 1971 A I know an employee it claims was responsible for the delays He said that part of the project now is going well A survey of the town of Tuscarora is under Sway as well Boucher explained that the town nas no plat map and that its boundaries are based only on mining claim metes and bounds The survey will establish a town map as well as meet federal requirements for a survey of the area served by the water system The leaky present system was installed after World War II and part of it runs across leach dumps of old mines which contain much acid our Club Youth New 'Ambassadors Vantage gives me the taste I enjoy And the low tar Ive been looking ernley Complex Opens our Nevada 4 Club have been chosen to represent the state during the national congress in Washington DC next spring They are Sheri Lerg and Linda Howell both of Lyon County Susan Smith of Washoe County and Eric Olsen of Churchill County They were selected from among 10 ambassadors cho sen during the Nevada awards banquet at Universi ty of Nevada Other ambassadors include Paul Glock Lyon County Heather Newell Douglas County Dawn Albert Washoe County Denise Souza and George Lanyon Churchill County and Jennifer Hooper Elko County Ambassadors are chosen on the basis of long term achievement Most have had four years or more in the program In addition Linda Howell was named president of the Nevada Youth Council of officers for the coming year as well as winner of the state leadership contest Susan Smith was named vice president and Dawn Albert secretary treasurer Other winners their home counties and their projects are Sue Howell Randall Sharp Jess Sustacha Dan Allred Pamela Bottari and Sue Wachtel Elko County clothing agriculture petroleum power wood science garaenmg ana norse Knowledge respectively riaaie Rhodes and Mary Nelson Washoe County safety and dog care and training respectively Catrin Lanyon Ella Johnston and Lori Cann Churchill County food preserva tion sheep knowledge and swine knowledge respective ly Paul Glock Lyon County achievement Ray Wheel er Clark County photography Heather Newell Douglas County home environment and Carmen Woolfolk Hum boldt County beef knowledge Winners of the annual state speech contest were Lisa Bellander White Pine County with her talk titled a Learning and Erin Sorensen Elko County 4 and How it Carol Duval Elko County won first place and a trip to Chicago in the dress review modeling her skirt and jacket ensemble kIJWRR'S HOTELS CASINOS Special to the Journal ERNLEY The new ernley public safety com plex is open and offering many services to local resi dents for the first time Margaret Morris is the secretary for the complex which Is located in the old Ag Services Building on the main street Lyon County Building In spector Jack Moffitt will be in town every Tuesday from 1 to 3 pm Steve Tuttle is the full time inspector at the complex Their phone number is the same as that of the ernley utilities also housed in that building Residents may pay their water bills at the utility of fices and they may also ar range for water turn ons and turn offs Watermaster John Morrow and his assis tant Bernie Beebe are working out of this office Mary Love the perma nent public health nurse is handling Immunizations a well baby clinic family planning venereal disease counseling and other simi lar health programs She is in her office on Mondays from 9 am until 4 pm and also may be seen by ap pointment on Wednesdays Buzz Gibbs of the juvenile probation office will be in the complex on Thursdays Two physicians from al lon Medical Group have of fice space at the complex Dr Kurt Carlson and Dr John DesMarteau will be in ernley on Thursdays from 10 am until 3 pm and may also come on addition al days if the need war rants CHARO buddy GOLDSBORO Special to the Journal WINNEMUCCA A federal inspector has pronounced the Humboldt City County Jail a good one though it has coughed up escapees repeatedly during its first year of operation and though Sheriff rank Weston once emptied it for security reasons know you think you have a bummer but basically you have a sound said Steven Hesselschwerdt assistant director of the Na tional Clearinghouse Office of Review a Uni versity of Illinois agency under contract to the federal government to review plans for law enforcement facility projects in which federal funds are involved Hesselschwerdt acknowledged obvious prob lems with security in the detention area of the new law enforcement complex but he said that might be expected in the shakedown period of operation have to take into consideration (the fact that) it was custom designed for the needs and has to be broken he told Humboldt County and Winnemuccca officials during a recent meeting are minor problems with the win dows and ceilings but all things considered a very nice building That elicited strong reaction from officials who were mindful of eleven escapes in the months since the facility was opened Most break outs have been from the maximum secu rity section where some prisoners have found it relatively easy to jimmy windows and grates and where in one case they pushed through a ceiling Sheriff rank Weston finally emptied the only one reason I ever smoked Good taste when I switched to low tar I about to give that up If you don smoke for taste what else is there i But there was all that talk about tar most low tar cigarettes tasted like nothing Then I a ir 'Al xwS? ft I' JE tned xix SHMSwAi yiMMb ns 11 13 1 iwa a "'T 1 II yl'fetiHiii II 1 iM 1 in 1 I 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