Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 2

Government Reports Signal More Economic Woes Briefing Press The Weather Scene 01 02 07 1050303 52 46 59 13 17 14 15 62 15 45 01 26 05 24 03 T16 53 56 50 44 49 47 49 52 67 64 69 48 62 56 41 45 46 31 29 4 ME 37 37 31 34 36 33 40 22 36 26 25 25 35 26 35 27 27 36 18 27 25 32 45 30 30 30 23 25 20 29 17 23 24 32 26 in a special meeting to be set for some time in January City finance director Ralph Best Sparks Gambling Liquor ee Hikes Proposal Studied Word that the Sparks Nugget plans to open baccarat tables a week from today led Sparks councilmen Monday to consider boosting gambling and By United Press International Government reports Monday signaled more layoffs and even higher food prices and the chairman of ord Motor Co charged Washington with sitting idly by in the middle of a recession in the middle of a recession and we just sit said Henry ord II see anything specific being done in ord spoke out in the wake of a mid November sales period that showed auto sales drop 35 per cent from the depressed levels of a year ago It was the worst mid November sales period since 1970 The Agriculture Department said the cost of feeding a theoretical family of 32 persons rose $4 to a record $1779 in October 98 per cent higher than a year ago And economists estimated food costs at the end of the year will average 20 per cent above 1973 the biggest one year increase on record orecast REMO VICINITY oir Tuesday partly cloudy Tuesday night and Wed nesday Highs low fa mid 50's lows 15 25 LAKE TAHOE BASIN Some as Reno above except Highs in the 40's lows 15 25 WESTERN NEVADA oir Tuesday portly cloudy Tuesday night and Wed EASTERN NEVADA oir through Tuesday night increasing clouds Wed EXTREME SOUTHERN NEVADA oir through Wednesday SIERRA NEVADA Mostly fair through Wednesday a little warmer Wednesday NORTHEASTERN CALIORNIA oir through Wednesday but with variable high clouds afflf patchy morning fog in the valleys Slightly warmer Wednesday The crew of the hijacked British Airways jet smiles at a remark by Capt' James utcher (third from left) during a news con ference Tuesday in unis after four terrorists surrendered Others in the crew are (from left) hostess Josie Bruckshaw first officer Michael Wood and engineer officer rank Sharpies (UPI) xUN Leader Continued from Page 1) the national high school at Pantanaw in 1931 In Burmese custom Thant had only one name the was an honorific A schoolmate a year ahead of him was Nu who was to become Bur first premier Thant became a close adviser of Nu who named him Burmese ambassador to the United Nations in 1957 Thant quickly gained a reputation as a champion He was head of the Afro Asian committee which aided fight for in dependence from rance and engineered its entry into the United Nations National High low free 26 16 44 38 17 45 28 33 29 35 25 49 43 27 65 42 30 24 56 24 15 48 37 47 16 30 37 31 42 43 23 40 52 38 43 38 36 40 Bedevfing Events In Mystery House BRIDGEPORT Conn (UPI) iremen say the bizarre events at the Gerald Goodin home arenot their problem Police say the same thing and the Roman Catholic'Church is not about to call in an exorcist What is happening according to three firemen and a radio newsman who claim they saw it Sunday is: A reclining chair did a somersault a television set spun around and chairs dangled in the air all without apparent physical involvement by anyone in the house Msgr John Toomey the vicar general of the Roman Catholic diocese of Bridgeport said officials presume that there is some natural explanation for the Msgr Toomey said he and the diocese know nothing about reports that a Catholic priest who identified himself only as was supposedly trying to expunge an from the four room NEVADA STATE JOURNAL A member of Speidel Newspapers Inc subscriber to United Press In ternational Second Class Postage paid ai Reno Nevada Published every morning by Reno Newspapers Box 280 401 2nd St Reno Nv 89504 Telephone 702 786 8989 SUBSCRIPTION GATES Corner deltvery in Reno Sparks and Corson City $450 a month for delivery outside these areas and by adult motor route $5 month By mail $60 a year Other rates on request 112525 Nevada State Journal Tuesday Nov 26 1974 were the result of shaky foundations found no such defects but instead faced occurrences they described as One fireman who want his name used said he was watching 10 year old Meredith Goodin a ive Nations Indian from Canada who is the adopted daughter of the Goodins sit on a recliner when the chair was suddenly upended and the 70 pound girl somersaulted along with She escaped injury but her mother suffered a broken toe she said when a heavy bedroom bureau was lifted two inches off the floor and The BI stressed however that Michelson was not any of the persons depicted in published composite sketches of the Reno robbers The composites compiled at the direction of several witnesses in cluded a man seen outside the bank in the vicinity of the getaway vehicle who may not have been party to the robbery Although the matter is under continuing investigation BI agents now have reason to believe that only three men participated in the actual holdup which according to federal records is believed to have been the largest armed robbery of a bank in US history A total of $1044000 was reported carried off in duffel bags after the masked gunmen herded nine people into a vault and left them handcuffed Their getaway vehicle a van truck stolen from a state agency yard in Sacramento was found abandoned just four blocks from the scene of the robbery irst National Bank of branch at Second and Virginia streets The robbery was carried out while a parade of Shrine bands marched by the front of the bank With the arrests last riday the BI reported recovery of about $545000 in cash and property believed purchased with the bank loot The recovery was reportedly made following searches of several dif ferent places the men had resided in the Newport Beach area The two men charged in the bank robbery were arrested in the home of William Rennick 51 a Costa Mesa Calif auto salesman who is being federal fugitives a year He said this is less than one third of what major gambling cities in Southern Nevada charge Best said comparative rates are: Reno $200 Henderson $800 Las 1 Vegas $1000 arid unincorporated ciarK county zuu The decision to also consider liquor license fees was made on the suggestion of Councilman Jim Ver non Unemployment Rate Declines in Canada OTTAWA (UPI) Unemployment in Canada dropped four tenths of a ner cent in October to 54 per cent Statistics Canada reported The decline in seasonally adjusted unemployment was the first in four months of steady increases jx Watergate Charges (Continued from Pagel) not satisfied with the partner John Mitchell made a con evidence that has been offered to scious decision not to volunteer prove those two Sirica said lanytning) to law enforcement authorities or Nixon or anyone Hundley said He said this loyalty was not reciprocated and instead Mitchell was by high White House officials to take the fault for Watergate Left standing against Mitchell and Ehrlichman were charges of con spiracy obstruction of justice and perjury in the cover up of the break in and bugging of Democratic National headquarters June 17 1972 In a lengthy and emotional closing summary of the case prosecutor James Neal said that Mitchell Haldeman and Ehrlichman were up with every aspect of this to hush up the bugging scandal He conceded that there was a in of the culpability of Mardian and Parkinson but said the evidence clearly showed they too participated in the plot The lying charges against Mitchell and Ehrlichman resulted from their statements to BI agents in the summer of 1972 that all they knew of Watergate was what they had read in newspapers onal Airport Tern high and low for 24 hrs High Low free 31 51 IRE CALLS ire fighters in the Reno City area responded to the following alarms during the 24 hour period ending at lOo'dock last night RENO 1:50 am 2501 Second structure fire extensive domoge to building and contents am irst and Center false alarm pm Mill and Pringle gas spill washdown area pm ourth and Arlington false alarm pm ourth ond Ralston false alarm pm Moran east of Sinclair gas spill washdown area SPARKS pm 220 15th gas ipill wash down area 45 pm 1460 Oxford soot fire chimney no domoge pm 4th and Queens gas spill washdown area (Continued from Page 1) List said observers note any irregularities in the counting of ballots they may contest such irregularities only through an election List said the recount board alone determines which ballots are to be counted and how they are to be counted David Howard voter registration supervisor for Washoe County said it would take an estimated 84 man hours and 50 or more persons three days to recount the ballots by hand Clark County oolitical homp territory already has volunteered to tainment of the result shown by the A fT 1 a al 1 1 4 A 1 vuuuuui a uaiiu reuuuiii nowara Saia A recount of the Laxalt Reid race could cost an estimated $15000 20000 if done by hand compared to about $10000 for a computer recount Reid would have to pay for the recount unless it proved him the winner of the senatorial race Howard said a contested senatorial election must be decided either by the Nevada Supreme Court or if the court refuses to make the decision by the US Senate which is heavily dominated by the Democratic Party Washoe County supports a com puter recount because it is faster and more accurate The reason the county went on the computer ballot program was to eliminate human error Howard said possibility of human error with IBM cards in a hand count is extremely He said there are 45383 ballots that would have to be recounted in the rarA Cniet Justice Gordon Thomnson ana Keno said last riday it would be said that the attorneys for Reid are near impossible to hand count the expected to file a petition today and computer cards within the threG daVs an informal conference will be held aowed by law for the recount ueiween opposing lawyers men The original count will be certified ixctAaii ill ms petition saia me Nov 27 by the Nevada Supreme proposed Reid rules would Court and then Reid will oresent his delay and discord in recount board formal demand for a recount think fair to the defen dants involved to send those two counts to the jury if the judge feel the evidence supports Neal argued that the alleged lying to the BI was a very vital part of the cover and told Sirica he believed the US district court jury should decide on the charges even though any resulting guilty verdict might later be dismissed Mitchell as the first of five defendants named in the govern indictment was expected to begin presenting his defense Tuesday Conspiracy to obstruct justice is the His decade as secretary general majvi viiaigc against MiLUIlcH Ehrlichman and the three other defendants Haldeman Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson xnected Mid November sales in the auto industry which already have temporarily or indefinitely terminated the employment of 200000 were the second worst in 15 years This figure is compared to November 1973 when the effects of the Arab oil embargo were beginning to be felt in poor car sales The lingering strike of 120000 coal miners also has resulted in thousands of layoffs in the railroad and steel industries The steel industry alone has idled 21000 wnrkprs because of short coal supplies AJ nffifHfjIc cairi 400 OOO wnrkprc wmiU ie idled in various industries if the strike continues for mother two weeks in Washington neeotiators for the United Mino Workers and the bituminous Coal Operators Association agreed on a revised contract to be submited to workers for ratification a process that could take two weeks Two of three men charged in Reno's $1 million bank robbery were arraigned Munday before a US magistrate ii Santa Ana Calif and were ordered held in lieu of $500000 bond each Magistrate Arthur Bradley ordered an additional $100000 bond against one of the men Curtis Ray Michelson 35 in connection with a Dec 20' 1973 bank robbery in Sacramento Michelson a native of San Diego and Edward Thomas Malone 49 also a native of Southern California will appear Dec 5 for further hearing on the Reno robbery charge ormal complaints against the two men who were arrested following a scuffle with BI agents last riday night in Newport Beach Calif and against a third fugitive suspect in the case were filed Monday in Reno with US Magistrate Russell Pike The fugitive being sought was identified by the BI as loyd Clayton orsberg 33 of Portland Ore who is described as a federal probation violator and a convicted bank robber who served prison time along with the other two men who were also con victed bank robbers Michelson had escaped from Mc Neill Island federal penitentiary on Jan 15 1973 and was being sought as a federal fugitive when the Reno bank roonery occurred last Sept 27 BI agents circulated his picture here Oct 5 after learning that Michelson had been seen in this area and that an October 1973 bank rob bery in Portland Ore was prac tically a duplicate of the Reno heist in which the robbers wore masks and held for investigation of harboring handcuffed bank employes federal fugitives Terrorists Surrender I In Tunisia i TUNIS (UPI) our Palestinian guerrillas surrendered to Tunisian police Monday arguing among themselves until the last minute and then backing down op a suicide threat to blow up their hijacked British Airways jetliner with three British crewmen aboard Tunisia granted the hijackers temporary asylum and promised not to hand them over to the Palestine Liberation Organization which has demanded they for their The hijackers three British crewmen and seven Palestinian comrades trooped off the VC10 airliner parked at Tunis airport since riday leaving behind sub machine guns grenades and pistols Airport sources said the gunmen argued among themselves at the last minute over whether they should blow up the British Airways VC10 jet with all aboard including themselves The Palestinian news agency WAA said the PLO will send a delegation to Tunis to convince the Tunisian government to hand over the gunmen to make them for their crime" Tunisia oreign Minister Habib Chatti said at a news conference the four guerrillas and the seven other Palestinians just released from prison by Egypt and Holland surrendered after they realized no Arab government would grant them asylum each moment of the final negotiations we were close to a he said they could not find asylum in any Arab country the men who committed the hijack decided to remain in Tunis on condition they could do so without being handed over to the PLO or to the justice Chatti said the gunmen were taken 10 a safe place in the hands of Tunisian authorities un conditionally and without precise Tunisian officials said the guerrillas did not place dynamite in airliner in spite of their threat to blow it up The gunmen hijacked the jetliner with more than 41 persons aboard Thursday in Dubai and executed a 43 year old West German banker Saturday in the course of negotiations to secure the release of 15 comrades As a compromise Egypt released five Palestinian prisoners and Holland freed two They were flown to Tunis and put aboard the plane Sunday In exchange the hijackers released all the hostages except the three man flight crew Nevada Area Information as furnished by the National Weather Service at Reno 1 I a an 1 1 npraturps ending at 4 Nevoda Colifomia RENO Sparks Verdi Pyramid Lake Carson City Virginia City Yerington Hawthorne allon Lovelock Winnemucca Battle Mountain Owyhee Wendover Ely Austin Tonopah Las Vegos Yucca lat Bishop Yosemite Blue Canyon Sacramento Susanville Tahoe City South Lake Tahoe Doggett Pass Sky Tavern Truckee Incline Village Slide Mountain Peavine Echo Summit Burney Aloine Meadows PRECIPITATION Amount recorded for the 24 hour period ending 4 pm 03 July 1 to date 145 Last year to date 283 Normal 170 Sunset today Sunrise RENO AREA AIR POLLUTION INDEX POLLUTION LEVEL MONDAY 12 0 Clean air 26 Light pollution 51 Moderate pollution 76 1 00 Heavy pollution 101 and Severe pollution because marketing margins rose 23 per cent while farm in pre Christmas layoffs and more production cutbacks prices were falling 1 per cent were expected The market basket represents a selection of US farm produced foods needed to feed a theoretical household It is not intended to represent the actual grocery spending of any average family but is regarded as a barometer of up and down trends in consumer food bills marketing costs and the farm share of the consumer food dollar In an indication of more heavy layoffs in the months ahead the Commerce Department reported that sales urf rnnniMO hohm1 qoah The department said manufacturers hold an average workers because of short coal suppli' $177 in invpntnrv fnrpvorv ti in caiac And government officials said 40 Huge stockpiles of inventories is a major factor leading businesses to layoff thousands of workers to slow or stop production until salescan catch up Companies with a vast accumulation of unsold products especially in the auto appliance and electronic industries have idled hundreds of thousands of workers 47 15 06 dropped She was treated at St Hospital a spokesman said Deputy ire Chief rederick Zwerlein said when he entered the living room Sunday morning he saw a large recliner floating couple of inches off the Another fireman who wished to remain anonymous said he had seen a television set spinning Tim Quinn a newsman for WNAB in Bridgeport says he saw Meredith being slammed into a wall five feet away someone had a rope on her and pulled her into the She received a bump in the head in that incident Quinn said he was allowed into the house Sunday by Edward and Lorraine Warren of Monroe Conn who describe themselves as researchers of psychic phenomena Edward Warren said he has in vestigated thousands of such cases and witnessed 36 and he suggested the jealous soul of the son who died before Meredith was adopted five years ago may be causing the uproar Police Lt Leonard Cocco who went to the house when four patrolmen and one sergeant figure out what to do said he saw nothing himself but he trusted the reports of his men they have more than 100 years of he said they said they saw something they saw something I just know what it bungalow Their reports included talk of moving refrigerators slamming Three firemen called to the house to determine if the strange events doors flying ashtrays cocco saia me first reports of trouble at the house were received by police two years ago when Goodin said the family heard noises each night that sounded like the house was being stoned Only minor rumblings were heard from then until last riday when articles began to drop from their shelves tables overturned and chairs levitated The family went away Saturday and returned Sunday morning to find their home in shambles Police were called and they summoned firemen Albuquerque 55 Anchorage 22 Atlanta 52 Bakersfield 65 Bismarck 31 Boston 61 Chicago 30 Cincinnati 41' Cleveland 35 Denver 68 Detroit 35 Eureka 54 resno 65 Helena 49 Honolulu 84 Houston 59 maianapoits Konsos City 43 Los Angeles 76 Milwaukee 29 2 Minneapolis 26 New Orleans 58 2 New York 55 Oakland 64 Omaha r43 Paso Robles 65 Philadelphia 58 Pittsburgh 37 Portland Ore 52 Red Bluff 59 St Louis 42 Sall Lake City 55 San rancisco 61 Santo Barbara 69 Seattle 50 Spokane 45 77 Washington 59 I liquor license fees I vOHUITIOHS I The council wil1 stuV the matter i SAN RANCISCO (UPI) New snow in the Sierra Nevada has allowed opening of a few ski resorts told the council Monday the current but more snow is still needed in most fee for a baccarat license is only $240 aicao vunuiUUlia I cpUL lCU Uy LUC California State Automobile Association Monday: Highway 89: Squaw Valley Closed Two inches new snow but more is needed for skiing Highway 50: Sierra Ski Ranch Two inches new snow 16 to 19 inches total good on packed powder but rocks are showing in some places Two chairs operated Monday Highway 108: Dodge Ridge 10 to 12 inches on upper slopes with fair skiing conditions Three chairs operated Monday Nevada: Slide Mt our inches new snow two feet total Skiing good to very good on packed powder Poma operating Highway 395: Mammoth Mt Twelve to 18 inches of snow marginal skiing conditions eight lifts operating was a period of mixed ac complishment He brought the Congo crisis to an end without the secession of Katanga province He ended threat of insistence upon a ad ministration with three veto wielding secretaries general He persuaded the Africans not to force South Africa out of the world organization and brought Pope Paul VI to the General Assembly for his dramatic never appeal He kept Cyprus from teetering into a Greek Turkish war and set up a UN peace keeping force that still serves in the Mediterranean island But he drew harsh criticism for the precipitate withdrawal of a UN Emergency orce from the Middle East at request on the eve of the 1967 Arab Israeli war Perhaps his greatest frustration was his inability to bring an end to the Vietnam war Recount Struggle procedures and generally defeat the interest of the public and candidates for public A recount is merely a retabulation of the ballots done according to the original tabulating method the petition said However Reid seeks not only to recount but to contest the validity of the ballots and to have the recount conducted by hand even in where computers were used in the original tabulation 7 Nevada election laws clearly distinguish between a recount and an election contest in that a recount is a counting again a recanvass It is not a contest but a mere ascer ballots An election contest involves going behind the returns' and inquiring into the qualifications of the electors and other matters affecting the validity of the ballots the Laxalt petition says rtuu says me secretary of state is powerless to issue the statewide in structions 'a The attorneys for Reid proposed mat eacn oaiiot whether a comouter card or not be counted bv hand and mat mis wouia allow the challenge to a oaiiot mat is considered improperly voted 11 nuwever ludxaii auornevs sav a recount is merely a re tallv and does not provide for a contest over the validity of the ballots forces want the punch cards to be tallied by the computer again lhe Laxalt suit was filed bv Melvin Burnetti a member of the Laxalt law firm in Carson City negisirars ot voters in Las Vegas President ord's Council on Wage and Price stability opening a two day hearing on the 400 per cent rise in sugar prices said sugar prices would rise even more The Associated Retail Bakers of America said as many as 15000 neighborhood bakeries may be forced out of business if sugar prices keep going up ive to 10 per cent of the 20000 bake shops already have closed their doors a spokesman told the council The Consumer ederation of America which claims to represent 30 million consumers called for a nationwide boycott of sugar Dec 1 to 10 blaming high sugar prices on by the government sugar company profits and poor worldwide production The Agriculture figures on food prices showed that increased marketing charges were the main factor in pushing the typical food basket cost to record levels In September for example the retail cost of the market basket had risen 14 per cent above August Reno Bank Robbery Suspects Arraigned ifa EH I Ik.