Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 17

RENO EVENING GAZ Added Money Necessaryfor PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1952 PAGE SEVENTEEN vf" to Seek Haylift Project; Stocker GOP Chairmanship y3P life pTv 7l srrj fmr' iy nil In I mi im WESTERN PACIFIC ZEPHYR DERAILED Engine of Western Pacific California Zephyr, is shown off the rails, its wheels in muck as earth and snow slide caused derailment of the crack eastbound train 40 miles west of Winnemucca Wednesday night. W. P. Zephy Service Denied ANOTHER CONTESTANT in the "Miss Reno" contest is Elise Valentine. She is an artist and will feature her sketches at the pageant to be held this weekend at the high school gymnasium.

The Reno Jaycees are staging the local contest to be followed by the selection of "Miss Nevada" in mid-April. (Gross photo). $20,000 BAIL IS FIXED FOR BURGLARY SUSPECT Former U. N. Football Player Jailed; Threat to Slay Former Wife Claimed Edward Tocyzlowski, 35-year-old Reno resident, is being held in the Washoe county jail in lieu of $20,000 bail on a first degree burglary Charge.

"Reports of deputy sheriffs describe an alleged threat by Tocyzlowski to kill his ex-wife," said Justice of the Peace Laurance Layman. "Under state law first degree burglary is breaking and entering with the intent to commit petty larceny, grand larceny, or any other felony. Bail is discretionary, depending on the nature of the charges." Request Sent To Washington For $50,000 More Air drops of hay to marooned eastern Nevada livestock continued today with indications that, the entire operation would cease this weekend if additional funds wer not allocated by the federal gov ernment. Gov. Charles Russell said in Car son this morning that a request: for an additional $50,000 had been sent to the federal home and fmanca agency in Washington, D.

C. He explained that of the $100,000 alloted last week for road-clearing and airborne. operations in sjiow-clofeed eastern Nevada. $72,000 had been expended by Tuesday and that the remainder of the would be spent by Saturday. Also darkening the outlook was ft weather bureau forecast of snow in the extreme northern, portion of the state by Friday night.

Eight air force transports were dropping baled hay to cattle and sheep today and directors of program hoped that 100 tons could be distributed by nightfall. Drope were being made principally in northern Elko and two requests had been received for airborne aid in northern White. Pine county. Huston Mills, state cobrdi nator of the program, also said several requests have been received from Eureka county for hay drops to marooned animals. ROADS MUDDY After ground crews had battled drifts- for nearly a week, a warm sun Wednesday turned the road in the area to quagmires, slowing the road-clearing operations preventing hay-laden trucks from reaching isolated herds.

However, last night, the temperatures in the Elko area dropped to 12 degrees below freezing and ranchers apparently were ableV'to reach some isolated livestock: today. Gordon Griswold, Elko county rancher who is coordinating "th hay procurement program, urged this morning that ranchers lighten loads on hay trucks to expedite tribution of feed supplies. He said some access roads woufdi allow passage of lighter trucks where heavily loaded vehidei would bog down. tZ Col. John H.

Harrington, chief of the Nevada military district, said army equipment from Ogden had opened 500 miles of roads. Contract crews from civilian firms had opened an additional 300 miles. Air force transports made 19 flights on Wednesday to 58 tons of hay. This brought the total in four days of air-borne operation to an even 100 tons. Governor Russell said this morning that although much work remains to be, ground operations will be tappred off arii.equip-ment gradually released to drop the cost factor.

Meanwhile, in Ely, city officials reported that a sandbagging operation, which has converted Aultman street, Ely's main thoroughfare, into a canal, has been completed. Flood fears were felt in the Ely area because of the deep snowpack in the surrounding heights. Tha main street provides the only runoff path for melting snow waters from the area west of Ely. Little runoff has been experienced as yet although the weather has "been warm. The heavy pack absorhed much of the melting snow, observers reported.

New Storms Are Brewing New storms, brewing in the CJulf of Alaska, threatened today to end the spring weather for northern Nevada. Snow was forecast Friday night for the Sierra Nevada mountains, with rain at low elevations, and in. the northwest and extreme northern portions of the state. No precipitation was forecast for the Reno area. Increasing cloudi ness Friday was the local outlook, the weather bureau said.

Increasing winds and colder temperatures Friday was the forecast for the Sierra Nevadas. Winds up to 20 miles an hour Friday also were forecast for the northern part of the state. Temperatures in Elko dropped to 20 degrees Thursday morning, firming up soir of the roads which have prevented hay trucks from reaching stranded herds. Lit tie temperature change was fore, cast for this area Friday. In Ely, the minimum Thursday was 12 degrees, in tnis areata heavy snowpack threatens to bring floods to the city.

The maximtOH in Reno Wednesday was 61 andiht minimum was 29. Little temper-ture change also is forecast jot western Nevada. William E. Claimed by PeqtK 5 William E. Hiskey, former sheriff at Laramie, and a retired federal this -morning at his home, 315 Hill St, He was the.

brother, of JphriJN Hiskey of Reno A MifUrA Mahwaa To TLT T-7iO Tocyzlowski was apprehended Thursday morning in the home of his ex-wife, Ruth Ryan, on the Nevada Humane society grounds on Mill street. He was asleep in bed, deputies said, when they arrived upon request of the victim, who noted the break-in. Deputies Rudy Hoganson and John Paszek, said that Tocyzlowski threatened repeatedly to kill his ex-wife, in their presence. They added that a living room window was smashed, two telephones ripped out, a lamp broken, and a bullet hole imbedded in a wall. Two .38 Smith and Wesson revolvers, of undetermined ownership, were under his pillow.

Tocyzlowski's preliminary hearing was set for April 9. The man, a former employe of the county assessor's office and a one-time University of Nevada football player, had previously served a misdemeanor sentence in the city jail in connection with his marital difficulties. Party Leader Changes Mind Harold J. Stocker will be a candidate for re-election as Republican state chairman, he said in a surprise announcement today in Las Vegas; Mr. Stocker, elected chairman at the state convention in Las Vegas two years ago, had announced several times recently that he did not want to continue in office after his present term expires.

JOB IS COSTLY. The state chairman said that job had cost him considerable money at one, time he claimed, the sum was upwards of $10,000 and he also had proclaimed he believed no man should continue too long in the office. However Stacker's announcement -this morning was that he would make a bid at the Tonopah convention May 9 and 10 because he would like to serve two more years. He said he felt there should not be a change in leadership during a presidential election year. It was believed In some Republi can circles here that the state chairman decided to seek re-election after he made a pitch for northern support to be appointed Republican national committeeman for Nevada.

The bid was turned down, however. Noble H- Getchell of Reno is now national committeeman. Republicans throughout the state have been highly critical of Stock-er's leadership, even 'though while he has held office a Republican, Charles H. Russell was elected governor for the first time in years. It has been contended that Stocker stopped working in the middle of the 1950 election campaign and that his leadership, besides being shaky, has resulted in a "general disharmony in the party.

BLASTS GOVERNOR Stocker added fuel to the fire last year when he assailed Gov. Russell for naming Democrats to certain state appointive offices and accused him of being a "tool of Pat McCarran." His latest blast at Russell came March 13 following his return to Las Vegas from a mid-west Republican conference in Phoenix. He said then that "Charley Russell doesn't mean a thing to me. I've seen a lot of governors come and go. He's just a hired hand as far as I'm concerned." It was also at that time that he re-iterated his decision not to be a candidate for the chairman ship.

He said he was elected for two years and found it ''unjustified" for any one man to hold off ice longer than that. "The job is to costly. It cost me $10,000 a year to take the job and besides being expensive, it is time- consuming," he said March 13. Stocker's bid was expected to be strenuously opposed at the state convention in Tonopah. Should he proceed on his present course it was beileved highly likely that a split Clark county delegation would go to the convention, with a number of party leaders in Clark deter mined to bring about the election of some other candidate.

Northern Nevada Republicans who have been suggested for the chairmanship include Marvin Hum-Dhrey and Emery Graunke of Minden. Power Export Plan Protested SACRAMENTO, March 27. UP A reslution opposing the exporta tion to Nevada of Shasta dam power was adopted unanimously today by the assembly and sent to the senate. The resolution asks the state engineer to deny water to federal projects unless the water is put to use within the state." If California didn't have day light saving time, said Assembly man Lloyd W. Lowrey (D-Rum sey), a power-conserving brown out would be necessary.

No power should go out of the state' until there is an excess he and then only on a tempor ary. If Nevada's bid to the U.S. rec lamation bureau is approved-, said Nevada would be getting half of Shasta dam's power within two years. Illness Fatal To Mrs. Homer.

Mrs. Iris Ann Homer, wife of Prank -Homer, of died this morning in--a- local hospital after a brief illness. A native of Montana, she had lived in Reno for five months. She lived at 235 Moana lane. Surviving, are her husband and her mother, Mrs.

Mary L. Hobbs of Ramona; Calif. Also are two sisjters, Mrs. Guyj W.jKen dall of Ramona 4nLMrsJla Glan cy of San Diego, She -was the aunt of Ens. James Hobbs of Lucy Tenn.

Funeral services will be an nounced by the Keiper and Walton Mass Meeting Turnout Large Washoe county Republicans turned out by the hundreds Wednes day evening for the most successful precinct mass meetings in the party's recent history. The attendance in'many of the county's 85 precincts exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of party leaders, according to County Chairman Leslie Gray. He estimated that in Reno and Sparks, an average of from 30 and 40 persons attended each meeting. "And not only were the turnouts good, but the enthusiasm and optimism of those in attendance was unmistakable," he added. COMPILE LISTS The job of compiling the official list of delegates to the county convention probably won't be completed for two or three Mr.

Gray said. The Washoe county GOP conclave will be held in the state building next Thursday, April 3. The county chairman said he regarded the attendance at the precinct meetings as an indication of "a genuine willingness on the part of rank and file members of the party to work for a Republican victory in the 1952 elections." Several county convention delegates said today Republicans in their precincts had decided to hold further meetings. The principal purpose of them will be to allow party members to express, through a straw ballot ar rangement, their presidential can didate preferences. ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Others reported the unanimous adoption of several resolutions Wednesday night.

Among them were those which urged the placing of a statutory limit on income taxes, the with drawal of the federal government from fields in which it is competing with private business, the return of treaty powers to the U. S. senate, and the condemnation of existing reciprocal trade agreements. Meanwhile, Ed Heim, Washoe County chairman, said he is also working on the compila tion of a list of county delegates. The Democrats held their pre' cinct meetings Tuesday night.

By noon today, only 21 of the 85 precincts had reported to the chair man. The Democratic convention is scheduled for Saturday, March 15, Former Trustee Wins Probation William Bishop, 46 -year -old former school trustee charged with embezzlement, was placed on pro bation for a period of three years by District Judge A. J. Maestretti this morning. As a condition of his probation, he will have to make restitution of the $1892.85 he admitted embezzl ing from the funds of the Gerlach- Empire school district.

Judge Maestretti told the short, stocky defendant, who has no prior criminal record, that a number of persons had interceded on his behalf, requesting that he be given probation. "Your conscience should punish you more severly than any punishment this court could impose," Judge Maestretti said. A conviction of embezzlement carried a sentence of from two to 14 years in the state prison. The judge told Bishop that he would have to pay back the money, as well as provide for the cost of caring for his four small children who have been in the state chil dren's home in Carson since Bishop's wife divorced him last year. Bishop estimated it would take him three years to make restitution.

He also said he plans to take his children out of the home as soon as he gets a job and is able. Bishop, who has been in the coun ty jail since his arrest last Feb. 15, cashed about 50 school warrants for a total of $1892.85 during the last six months. He was able to cash the warrants, which are claims against the school district, by forg ing the name of J. E.

Murdock, president of the school board. The embezzlement was first dis covered when the Washoe county auditor office noted a forgery on one of the warrants, v. i Bishop served on the Gerlach Empire' school' board from 1947 until he resigned last September, He reportedly began drinking heavily and lost his; job with the Western Pacific ralirpad after his wife divorced him. The case against Bishop was handled by A. D.

Jensen, assistant district attorney. Meeting Called By Hoo Hoo Club 2 MEETING CALLED A meeting of Reno club No. 129 of the Order of Hoo Hoo, has been called by president Spud Blakely, for 7:29 p.m., Thursday, March 27. The meeting will be held at Law-ton's Hpt and featured entertainment will be the showing of a movie and a short talk by Ivan Sack of the forest service, on the subject of forest conservation. To Strip Hotels Action Taken By Commission LAS VEGAS, March 27.

Sewer and fire protection service furnished, to resort hotels along the Las Vegas "Strip" was ordered cut off within 90 days at a session of the Las Vegas city commissioners Wednesday night. Clark county's unincorporated township was included in the order. The action followed complaints that services to the county areas have increased the burden on Las Vegas taxpayers, and that the Strip hotels and Paradise "Town must provide their own facilities or face the alternative of becoming a part of the city. Adding fuel to the fire has been the failure of the county of Clark to provide facilities to areas on its tax roll. Negotiations between the city and the county concerning the possible creation of a joint sewer district have been going on for sev- eral weeks.

C. D. Baker indicated, however, that the Wednesday night action of the commissioners was at least partly touched off by what he said was an attempt by resort hotel operators on the Strip to dictate conditions under which city officials and downtown club inter ests should operate. Mayor Baker said that Strip hotel operators over the week-end had received orders from a source Washington, D. to withdraw all advertising support from the Las Vegas Sun, The Strip operators then called a conference with operators of downtown gambling establishments and insisted they follow suit.

Baker said that the Washington source which insisted that the advertising be cancelled had been identified to him as Sen. Pat McCarran. The mayor said that details of the order became clear under questioning of spokesmen for gambling establishments at a ses sion Wednesday afternoon in city hall. The mayor said he objected to efforts of Strip hotel owners to dominate the gambling fraternity. He said he was fearful of the effects of what appeared to be in his opinion "dictatorial and overpowering" influences on downtown clubs.

"Neither the gambling industry nor any politician in Washington will be permitted to destroy a legitimate enterprise in this community," the mayor said. "The people of this city have elected me mayor to preserve their rights and I shall continue to fight to see that these inherent rights are maintained." BAIL FORFEITED Owen K. Earl of Bunkerville forfeited $10 bail when he failed to appear in Sparks traffic court Thursday morning on a speeding charge. He was cited March 26 on street. (Glenn Couch photo).

Is Under Way Answers Sought To Water Question How much water is a record snowpack going to send cascading down Nevada's rivers and streams this spring? Flood conscious residents the state over would like to know the answer to that question. And the job of providing it for them as accurately as the whims of Mather Nature will allow has already begun LEAVE BASES Snow surveyors are leaving their home bases this week to measure the pack left behind by the long series of blizzards which lashed Ne vada mountain, ranges from the Sierra Nevadas on the west to the Rubies on the east this winter. The job they will do must be more thorough than any before this winter, for it is on the April 1 sur veys that the runoff forecasts are normally based. Ironically, with' the predictions assimg more--injportence this spring than they have in any other year sincg drought threatened, Nevada, a manpower shortage may force curtailment of the That probably won hold true of the Sierra Nevada courses west of here, but it may be the case in other parts of the state. SNOW BLAMED The snow itself is to blame.

In Elko, White Pine, Eureka and Lander counties, its record depth has created emergencies which may mean forest service rangers and others who usually take part in the surveys won't be available this year. In that case, the number of courses covered will be reduced and the forecasts for those watersheds necessarily will be that much less accurate. Modern equipment, however, will enable the surveyors to cover far more ground than would have been possible in the old days. The versatile sno-cat is the machine that eliminates a big part of the leg work which formerly faced the men on skiis. The depth of the snow being what it is this year, the 'cats won't be able to haul the surveyors directly to many of the courses.

SHORT DISTANCE But they will get them within a comparatively short distance of most, a particularly important factor when all access roads are still choked with deep snow. Surveyors at the headwaters of the Walker river, for instance, would have had to ski into the high country this year from 6500-foot Pickel meadows, because that's the end of the road right now. The course normally takes four days to survey but with the added skiing distance, that might have stretched out to perhaps six days. With sno-cat getting them into the higher elevations, two men covered the entire area this week in two days. In spite of its help, however, the chances are.

that some courses in other parts of the state simply won't be reached because of the emergency created manpower shortage. Snow surveyors said they would "simply do the hest we can' under those circumstances. Miners to Ask 25 Cent Boost DENVER, March 28. UP) A 25-cents-an-hour "across the board" wage increase was included today in bargaining demands approved by delegates to a mining, smelting and refining conference of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind). Snow Survey Is Derailed Western Pacific passenger trains were being detoured over Southern Pacific lines from Sacramento to Wesso today after an earth and snow slide derailed the engine and three cars of the California Zephyr 40 miles west of Winnemucca Wednesday night.

The railroad announced 14 of the passengers in two derailed coaches were given first aid treatment. None of the passengers in the nine cars remaining on the rails was hurt. A Winnemucca physician, Dr. Frank Rueckl, treated the injured passengers. Edward Lambert of Elko, engineer of the Zephyr, also was given first aid.

Western Pacific officials said a baggage car and the engine, in addition to the two coaches, were derailed. A spokesman said the engine tilted at. a 45-degree angle but the three cars remained up-; right. The derailment occurred near Jungo in an area where heavy blizzards have heaped snow on the mountains. In this area, a single track winds through low mountains which slope down to the railroad right of way.

Railroad officials said the Streamliner was traveling at about 40 miles an hour when it hit the slide. The Western Pacific said the shortened train would reach Salt Lake City about 12 hours late. It was pulled back to Flanigan and re-routed over Southern Pacific tracks to Winnemucca. Additional Funds Red Cross Seeks Campaign to secure an additional $13,000 to complete the 1952 Wa shoe county Red Cross chapter fund drive was launched this morning under the chairmanship of H. G.

McKenna. Borrowed from the area office of the Boy Scouts to handle the office of the fund drive was Mrs. Stephen Drew, who held a similar position in last year's campaign. Checking and re-checking the donor cards in the office was almost completed yesterday by a group of volunteer workers who responded to the call for help, and Mr. McKenna announced that in the final cleanup campaign each of the directors of the Washoe county chapter will be called upon to assist the chairman in expediating the termination of the drive by devoting some time to handling the details.

Never in the history of Red Cross in Washoe county has the local chapter failed to meet its quota, and with the demand on the Reno Red Cross organization increasing with the arrival of additional service men at the Stead air-base, Mr. McKenna believes that 1952 will prove no exception to the rule, and that the drive will be successfully concluded within 10 days. into another as it taxied back toward firmer ground. It was freed for a second time, but an Alameda naval air station operations officer flown to Minden he was afraid to- land, at Carson, and drove the 11 miles -between the towns decreed the plane would remain where it was until the runway dries out. Fifteen persons were aboard the navy plane, whichJanded at Carson to discharge a passenger The others were taken to Fallon by car.

The air force had its trouble at Elko, where its planes are taking part in the 1952 hayliff. A Hz C-82 taxied off an oiled runway and almost disappeared in the 'r It took three hours to free it Jobs Available At Stead Base Civil service jobs at Stead air force base will be available in the very near future. Applicants for them were being-interviewed here today, and George W. Reichenbach, representative of the civilian personnel office at the base, said the interviews would continue until Saturday noon. They are being conducted at the Nevada state employment service office at 102 East Second st.

Some possibility exists that the Interviews will be reopened March 31, Mr. Reichenbach said. He listed the present job openings as follows: Warehouse foreman, senior warehouseman, warehouseman, roads and grounds foreman, senior paint er, senior plant electrician, automotive diesel equipment repairman, industrial sheetmetal worker, carpenter, junior warehouse foreman, plumber, airport engineer, property and supply clerk and engineering draftsman. All will be under civil service, and civil service standards will be used in screening applicants, Mr. Reichenbach said.

Persons who previously submitted applications for work at the base will be considered for the jobs, but should get in touch again with Mr. Full information concerning requirements for the posts is available at the civil service office at the postoffice, or at the employment service office. Rancher Hit By Propellor ELKO, March 27. UP) A snowbound rancher was hit in the head by the whirling propellor of a rescue plane Wednesday, but is expected to recover. The rancher, Art Guldager of the Ruby valley area, was flown to a hospital here- after pilot Ralph Scott first brough his plane back safely with a split propeller tip.

He said he feared to carry the Unconscious Guldager until a new blade was installed on the small plane. Scott had landed on the Guldager ranch to leave groceries for a neighboring rancher. One of the skis on the landing gear froze in the snow and Guldager was trying to loosen It when the accident occurred. RUEL JAMES RITES Friends are invited to attend funeral services for Ruel James at 2 p. m.

Friday in the Ross-Burke chapel under the direction of the DeWitt Clinton Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. Burial will be in the Masonic cemetery. -f SCHMIDT RITES Funeral services or- i Schmidt will be held at the Keiper and Walton funeral home at 11 a. m.

Friday. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Man Injured In Crash Dies Will Stanley, 52, a resident of Herlong for about nine years, died Tuesday night in a local hospital. He was injured in an automobile accident about 15 months ago and had been hospitalized since that time. A native of Athens, where he was born Feb.

27, 1900, Mr. Stanley had been employed as an ammunition handler at the Sierra ordnance depot. Funeral services will be announced by the O'Brien-Rogers co. He was the husband of Mrs. Ca roline Stanley of Herlong and the father of Louis Stanley of Athens.

Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mary Williams of Athens, and his brothers and sisters, Mrs. Little Mae Moore and Mrs Naomi Jones of Athens, Mrs. Maggie Scott of Austin, Mrs. Anna Belle Smith of Dos Palos, Mrs.

Julia Stevens and Miss Audrey Williams both of Oakland, Mrs. Lula Mason and David Williams of Las Vegas, Jess Williams of San Francisco and Eddie Lee McClinton of Haynes- ville, La. Greenslet Attends Parley in Phoenix E. R. Greenslet, division of range management official, is attending a bureau of land management con ference in Phoenix this week.

Proposed amendments to the federal range code and related problems will be discussed at the March 28- April 4 meeting G. M. Kerr, U. S. chief of the division of range management, will accompany Mr.

Greenslet on an in spection tour of Nevada grazing lands after the conference closes, Nevada district No. 5, near Las Vegas, and Nevada district No. 6 at Battle Mountain will be ob served. Boyd Hammond, regional chief of grazing affairs, will return to Reno on Friday, after a trip to Elko, where he aided in the snow emer gency program. Progress Brings Changes Air Force; Navy Discover Back in the old days, it was the owners of horseless carriages who had to bear the taunt: a horse." WelL progress changes Kow the navy" and air force have to put up with the gibe.

The reason: both of them got airplanes stuck in the mud in widely-separated parts of Nevada Wednesday. The navy encountered its trouble at the Carson airport, where a twin engine transport plane, an R4D en route from Alameda to the Fallon naval air station, mired down in the snow-soaked ground. Crewmen dug craft out of one bad spot, and itpromptly ran key had been an official in the Jn dian service' for many years. retired 10 years ago and had livejt in Reno for three years His brother is his only survivor. Funeral services will, be jsn nounced by the Ross-Burke Funeral home;.