Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 12

A Gift To Queen Elizabeth were just Moya Lear said Thursday referring to her daughter and son in attendance at state dinner at the White House for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip Mrs Lear wife of Reno inventor Bill Lear spoke with pride of her son in law Harry Jackson whose sculpture was chosen as the gift President ord presented to the queen and her husband Mrs Lear said art work is displayed in several museums throughout the country but she know the exact details of how was selected as the gift to the queen Tbe sculpture depicts a champion bronco pony and its rider from a 1910 rodeo A copy of the one presented to the queen was sculpted by Jackson for his father in law Bill Lear and is displayed at his office at Stead The bronze sculpture presented to the queen is inscribed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip of Edinburouah from President and Mrs Gerald ord July 7 That sculpture was the same one Jackson loaned to an art exhibition in Carson City Mrs Lear said she a quick of her daughter Tina and Jackson on a televised presentation of the state dinner wore her wedding dress that she bought at Edith and Harry wore white tie and tails with his cowboy boots She talked to her daughter after the dinner from Washington DC She said after President and Mrs ord took the queen and the prince to their limousine they turned around and spent about five minutes with the Jacksons on the front porch of the White House The Jacksons plan to spend a few days in the capital before returning to their home in Cody Wyo vs Champs' in Action Reno Explorers Do It Again Safe Gas Conscious Drivers Score High By LENITA POWERS The object of the game is to get there safely and with the best gas mileage But really not a game a chance for teen agers to learn to drive responsibly And Reno police officers Ken Tuffo and Loren Ross again un dertook that task when their Reno Police Explorer Post recently Search Starts or Wheelchair9 CARSON CITY The second annual search for Miss Wheelchair Nevada has started The Downtown Sertoma Club in Reno and the Committee on Employment of the Han dicapped are joining together to secure can didates from throughout the state to compete in the state pageant to be held in Reno a spokesman said Entrants must be 18 years of age and utilize a wheelchair at least 50 per cent of the time Contestants may be single married1 divorced or widowed i Roger Sadler spokesman' for the Sertoma Club and member of the committee said will be weighted heavily on accomplishment since the disability and will include hobbies and adjustment to disability Entry blanks are available through the committee and may be obtained by calling 885 4440 in Carson City In addition to other prizes the new Miss Wheelchair Nevada will receive an all expense paid trip to Columbus Ohio for herself and companion to vie for the Miss Wheelchair America crown Kathleen Olson executive director of the committee said purpose of the contest is to focus attention on the at titudinal and architectural barriers which face han dicapped persons daily The competition focuses public attention on abilities not the disabilities of the person entered the 23rd annual 1976 Youth Safety Run The Explorer Post comprised of 23 boys and girls with an in terest in law enforcement and who receive training in the Reno Police Department entered the economy run of 748 miles round trip from Pasadena to Yosemite They won first and second place in the miles per gallon per ton class This is the second year the Reno Police Explorer Post entered the run and the second year they have taken the top two winning spots said Tuffo The competition was among other Police Explorer posts and car clubs The first place car driven by Ken Rederford and co driven by Mark Osloond averaged 406 miles per gallon per ton The second place car driven by Pat Sorensen and co driven by Robert More averaged 39 miles per gallon And these cars were no teensy gas conserving models either but regular Chevrolet Malibus Driver of the first place car Rederford said the key to good gas mileage is feathering the pedal keep contact with the gas pedal gradually letting up when you stop and gradually depressing CARSON CITY (AP) tax coffers bulged as glittering casinos in the state turned over $912 million in taxes for last fiscal year But the tax take was down slightly on a percentage basis from the prior year The gain in taxes on the clubs amounted to a healthy 1047 per cent a state Gaming Commission spokesman said Thursday The gain in the prior fiscal year was 11 per cent Ed Bowers the executive secretary said an ex panding dollar base and an adverse court rilling which mandated some casino entertainment tax refunds caused the slight dip He said a strike affecting many Las Vegas casinos also was a factor in the lower gain slipped slightly But I think the tax collection is just it when you accelerate The way you stop and start usually determines the winner And to improve your gas mileage roll up your car windows a bit Rederford advises you have the window down you have a drag The wind pulls at the car and makes it use more gas We had our windows open only an inch to two inches to prevent To maintain a steady speed Rederford said a driver should place his gas pedal foot so it rests on the floor and against the rise of the floor where the transmission is The first day of competition driving is filled with tension according to Rederford worried about doing everything he said love to drive first of Rederford continued I learned a lot of good driving habits as far as gas mileage goes And I love awards The safety run is held basically to promote good driving habits as well as sportsmanship added Sorensen whose father is a sergeant for the Nevada Highway Both Rederford and Sorensen have high praise for the Reno Police Explorer program think an excellent Bowers said right on target as we Gross revenues amassed by the clubs last fiscal year have not yet been determined but are expected to run roughly 10 per cent higher than the $11 billion garnered by the clubs in fiscal 1974 Bowers said the tax gain in fiscal 1975 was $87 million higher than fiscal 1974 The fiscal 1974 gain was slightly less in actual dollars but the percentage gain slipped anyway this time primarily because a higher revenue base used in calculating the taxes The new figures show that the largest chunk of taxes came from percentage fees paid by the clubs Such fees accounted for two thirds of the total tax take and were up 133 per cent 1 A separate casino entertainment tax accounted for just over 8 per cent Sorensen said gives kids great opportunities and more like a club We have picnics go to movies and things like that It also gives us an idea about what police work and law enforcement is Rederford a post member for the last several months said done so far really enjoyed I wish I would have joined sooner The gas mileage can be penalized for any driving violations such as speeding or improper passing he said To make sure the post members drive according to Hoyle cars carrying observers travel along and mark down driver violations Observers from the Reno Police Explorer Post who made the run were Don Jones and George Sensibaugh The safety run is a three day event with 14 driving hours five gas stops two lunch stops and three rest stops push the Ross said go about 100 150 miles at a our former Explorer Post members have joined the Reno Police Department since the program started seven years ago said Tuffo of the tax take of $112 million But because of an adverse state Supreme Court ruling that tax grew by only half a per cent over fiscal 1974 returns Bowers said the high court required the state to refund roughly $400000 in entertainment taxes which had been collected for sales of photographs in casino showrooms The photographers who snap shots of showroom patrons argued sue cessfully that the tax apply to them Bowers said a third tax category represented a levy on numbers of slot machines card and dice tables roulette wheels and other gaming devices He said that levy produced $113 million or nearly 9 per cent of the total tax take and will be used for education spending The remainder of the tax take was based on miscellaneous taxes and fees Coffers Bulge: Glittering Casinos Turn Over $912 Million in State Taxes Rebabs journal 1 riday July 9 1976 Re election Bid Expected By Santini New Chairman John McCamant of Sparks has been elected chairman of the Regional Planning Commission He has been a member of the commission since 1972 McCamant is a building designer Rodger Simpson of Reno was elected vice chairman and Don Richter of Washoe County was elected secretary treasurer By MARK OLIVA Presentation of the $1 million civil suit case against Northern looHinO nnzl DaII mam AXV aUO 4 roadblock Thur Ilici nuiga voouc uauiu liuw uie i Hyatt Tahoe at Incline Village Los Angeles attorney Thomas Sheridan had subpoenaed BI agent Harold Newpher to testify against the lawmen ano the telephone company Thursday but when Sheridan called Newpher to the stand US Atty Sam Coon appeared with him Coon said Newpher could not testify Thursday because the Department of Justice had not yet given the agent permission to take the stand Coon told US Dist Judge Bruce Thompson the Justice Department said it ex pected to have a decision on whether Newpher can testify by Tuesday (The trial is expected to end today) Thompson told Coon to call Justice Department headquarters in Washington and inform them they would make a decision by noon today instead Attorneys said after court Thursday that the question of an BI testimony in a civil trial is somewhat unusual They said there have been past criminal cases where agents have not been permitted to testify and charges have been dismissed as a result But they said the BI is not a party to the ongoing civil trial so such a standard would not apply in this case If Newpher does not appear the attorneys said Sheridan probably will be allowed to introduce as evidence a signed deposition taken from him by Sheridan earlier According to previous testimony Newpher visited Raymond Landucci of Sparks a former keno manager at Kings Castle after his alleged kid naping by Jacobson and his bodyguard Thomas Bruno in 1971 Jacobson and Bruno were acquitted of kidnaping charges by a Washoe District Court jury in 1973 Previous testimony in the current trial named Newpner as the in dividual who introduced Landucci to Benham leading to the kidnaping investigation which spurred the wiretapping episode Sheridan also called ex wife Sylvia and his two sons Sanford and Edward Thursday Mrs Jacobson testified that she made calls during the wiretapping period to and they were calls of such a nature that she did not want her husband to know of them She said she had made similar calls from Kings Castle prior to the wiretapping as well She said discovery of the calls through wiretap tapes led to their separation in 1972 and subsequent divorce The two sons testified that they had made several confidential business calls to their father on the tapped lines during the time when the wiretap was in effect Two of the defendants accused of being partially responsible for the wiretaps Hicks and Butner said they were not aware of what had occurred until several months after the taps hadended Hicks said he did not know at the time that the wiretapping actually was taking place Butner said he followed orders to change tapes when they ran out but he did not know at the time what was being taped Both men said they learned the full details in March 1972 The defense has admitted that the wiretapping continued for nine days after the court order authorizing it expired but that this was done mistakenly Rep Jim Santini Nev is ex pected to file for re election for the Ione Nevada seat in the US House of Representatives this morning in Carson City Several members of the Santini family will join the first term Democrat for the filing at 9: 30 am in Secretary of State William office Santini is also scheduled to visit Douglas County in his mobile district office riday afternoon The office' will be parked at Minden Park from 1 to 3 pm Residents with a problem or an opinion to share are encouraged to drop by the office Office hours are set up on a first come first served basis Santini was in Reno Thursday to address a joint Kiwanis Rotary club luncheon He told the service club members that many federal government rules and regulations have no noticeable relationship to job safety bogging the small busmessman down in paper work instead Santini cited US Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations governing the shape of toilet seats the size of handrails and the color of paint stripes on small business floors as excessive rulemaking exercises He pointed out that it costs the federal government some $18 billion a Sto generate print and store 10 informs each year with the federal Bureaucracy saia sanuni "costs more man time ano money It in volves frustration aggravation and loss of Congress should bring all activities of the federal regulatory agencies under its jurisdiction he said rather than allowingthem to like an independent and unaccountable legislative body were more than 5000 regulations published by 72 different federal agencies last year filling 45000 pages of the ederal Register forms required by the federal government are presumably established to help small enterprise but often the small businessman He urged the small businessmen to enter the of ideas and the arena of politics to express their own BI Testimony Blocked in Wiretap Trial of State Lawmen a private investigator and Nevada Bell all are standing trial in US District Court in Nate $1 million suit accusing them of illegally tapping tnree teiepnones at ms for into a temporary roadblock Thur sday when the US office intervened to prevent testimony from a subpoenaed BI agent Lt Gov Bob Rose Washoe Sheriff Bob Galli Washoe Dist Atty Larry Hicks Chief Tom Benham Capt Lome Butner former Sgt William Whitmire now 'IVfd Horse Annie9 Set the Record Straight VELMA JOHNSTON some background' commercial mustangers have deliberately bred wild horses and the US Bureau of Land Management has done little to stop it Addressing a meeting of the Reno based Conservation orum Mrs Johnston alluded to a Nevada State Journal news story of July 6 bearing the headline up in arms over new a headline like that and the content that will get Annie killed one of these she said while noting that some of her critics have become sanguine with that in mind that I shall try to put the situation into perspective She pointed out that new the so called Wild ree roaming Horse and Burro Act passed by Congress in 1971 had the backing of responsible spokesmen of the cattle and sheep industry Testimony given in Washington DC by Carl Weikel representing the National Woolgrowers Association as endorsed by the American National Association gave definition to wild horses stated that the US Secretary of Interior should have jurisdiction over wild horses and burros and said that the animals should be protected and managed Two attempts were made in the Nevada Legislature that year to ask BLM and other federal land agencies to protect and preserve the horses and burros but both were narrowly defeated bring these two instances to your attention in the hope that you wiU understand that new had considerable support from the two sources that are now being counted among the namely ranchers and Mrs Johnston said By NORMAN CARDOZA Nevada ranchers and other range interests are using mustangs as a scapegoat to shift blame for range problems away from themselves Velma Horse Johnston said Wednesday She said stockmen have overgrazed the ranges ranchers get up in arms when wildlife people start to complain when the BLM finds itself i in the because of what is termed it would be well for the ranchers to remember two things they created their own dilemma and two responsible representatives of their industry supported the effort to bring about a balanced program involving wild horses on the public lands Mrs Johnston pointed out that she has fought not only to protect wild horses but to arrange for their control when that is necessary She quoted from her 1959 testimony before Congress The expectation was that the Bureau of land Management and other federal land agencies would control the way private horses were allowed on the range and the way that offsprings would be managed But the federal agencies failed to regulate And it was this lapse of action that forced Congress tn act finally to mandate controls through federal legislation She said BLM as well as stockmen should now their own shortcomings and acknowledge that the wild horses simply provide everyone involved with a Her own studies using bureau criteria show that the wild horses account for only 4 per cent of the grazing pressure statewide However there are areas where the wild horses have become a severe problem she noted citing the well publicized case of Stone Cabin Valley in central Nevada where the BLM has just finished rounding up some 400 head of surplus horses But that too was the fault of commercial mustangers who deliberately encouraged wild horse proliferation and of the BLM which failed to control this Mrs John ston says Mustangers have been turning breeding stock loose on those ranges and harvesting the offspring thus turning tidy BLM not only failed to stop it but failed to collect grazing fees she said alluding to rip off of con siderable to curb it through regulations made it necessary to do so through congressional mandate Mrs Johnston warned that if Nevada range Interests unify behind the wild horse act their position could get worse She claims a shrill Washington based group called the American Horse Protection Association with con aiuviuuie nuiuence congress is out to throw livestock and wildlife off the ranges if necessary to accommodate wild horses She warned that the organization hopes to restrain BLM from further surplus horse roundups this year and to pressure Congress for Wild Horse Act amendments next year such an effort along the lines suggested above succeed I think we would all be justified in being up and she concluded present wild horse and burro law provides con trol I saw to it that it did until all of us work together controlling only wild horses going to get the job of range rehabilitation done and man wul be the poorer for it" 1 I i 1 ri Wk 'fW.