Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

I in Sparks Draws New Duties Action Taken by Councilmen After Long Verbal Battle Mayor C. E. Richards was named acting city by the Sparks city council Monday night, after a verbal "Donnybrook" that saw councilman Roy knocking heads with Richards, other councilmen, couple of city department heads. The word battle followed Breaker's request turn to the old fashioned commissioner form of city ment--a request that he clung to for nearly two Strip Gambling Is Studied by Control Board interest in the New Frontier. INJECT NEW FUNDS The Nevada gaming control board today wrestled with complex proposals aimed at reopening one Las Vegas strip gambling operation and keeping another from going under.

The first of the proposed acts, both of which include much the same cast of characters, involves a $301,000 transfusion for the financially shaky New Frontier Hotel. KRUPP MONEY Most of this money would come from Mrs. Vera Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach, currently involved in a Las Vegas divorce suit against former German munitions maker Alfred Krupp. The second act involves the gaming permit application of three of the New Frontier partners for the Royal Nevada Hotel, which was closed by a lack of money last New Year's Eve. After this license are Maurice H.

Friedman, who recently lost a battle for control of the New Frontier, and T. W. Richardson and Harry Oedekerk, also New Frontier partners, and three other small stockholders. They are investing $528,000. This group is leasing the Royal Nevada from the New Frontier for $25,000 a month, but can lose the lease if not licensed by Jan.

1. Oedekerk and William Simonds, president of the New Frontier, are the leasors in this deal. Simonds is the new controlling However, Louis Manchon, Las Vegas swimming pool contractor, would become president of the board if the plan to inject new money into the New Frontier is approved. He is associated with Mrs. Krupp and with Sidney Bliss of Las Vegas, who would become vice president and general manager.

The plan to refinance the New Frontier ran aground during the morning session of the board when it developed that most of the New Frontier interests present had different ideas on what type of agreement they had reached. Some -obviously thought the new money would be available immediately, while others indicated they wouldn't release it until the books are checked. They finally withdrew to read the agreement and return later in the day to seek permission either to put the new money into the enterprise now or wait for the regular month or two it takes to process license applications. The Royal Nevada application also was delayed while both groups make an effort to get together on a means of guaranteeing that new money coming into the Frontier will be protected if its use is permitted immediately. Gaming board members agreed the New Frontier faces an emergency financial situation and said they would do all possible to prevent a recurrence of the rash of Las Vegas hotel closings which occurred last year.

Gerlach Death Held Suicide William Driscoll, chief criminal investigator of the Washoe county sheriff's office, has listed the death of Roy R. Finley, 55, of Gerlach as a suicide. Driscoll returned from Gerlach Monday and said that Finley apparently shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber automatic pistol. The man's body was found in his trailer Monday when he did not report for work. Driscoll and Assistant District Attorney Edwin Mulcahy drove to Gerlach to investigate the shooting.

Born in Iowa, Finley was an employe of the county road department. A veteran of World War II, he was a member of Grady Strong Post No. 39 of the American Legion and Reno Aerie No. 207, FOE. He is survived by three brothers, Orville and James, of Gerlach, and John, of Gridley, Calif.

Funeral arrangements pend at the company. HUBCAPS GONE Everett Evans, 1401 Locust told police he parked his car on Winter street and returned to find four hubcaps valued at $40 gone. RENO EVENING GAZETTE PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1956 PAGE Survey Planned For Northeast Residence Area Re-Development Project Studied By City Council Plans: for redevelopment of an entire residential area of the city were authorized by Reno city councilmen Monday night. Regional Planning Director Raymond M. Smith recommended the city's making a application for participation in a federal urban redevelopment program which he said could bring millions of dollars into the city.

Councilmen approved starting immediately, which will involve hiring a man to make a survey of portions the city which have become residential sub areas because of deterioration or because of industrial encroachment in residential parts of the city. Portions of the northeast part of the city are to be the first considered. If a survey of the area discloses justification for the federal aid, the government will match improvement expenditures on a two to one basis, whether the improvement funds come from the city treasury or from other sources. As an example of the way the plan might work here, Councilman Harold A. Mathisen explained that if the school district erected a $1,000,000 building in the area concerned, the government would then make $2,000,000 available to the city for further improvements.

Smith estimated that the survey and other costs of making the application would be about $9,000 and would take from six to nine months. He said Las Vegas has already completed such a survey. He described entry into the program as a gamble, and said the city was gambling $9,000 with a good chance at "a jackpot in the millions." The federal plan provides for the city to make general city improvements in the area concerned, and for low-cost loans to be made available property owners who wish to improve their own residences. Former Reno Resident Dies Mrs. Jesse M.

Rhodes, member of an old time Reno family died Sunday in Vista, it was learned here today. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ross-Burke Co. Mrs. Rhodes was born Agnes May Church, daughter of the late F. M.

and Mary Church, in Downieville, 89 ago. Her parents were pioneer Long Valley settlers and held extensive farming and cattle interests in Long Valley. Mr. Church was once a president of the old Washoe county bank. Mrs.

Rhodes made her home in Reno many years and her husband was engaged in the grocery business and ya later was employed Humphrey Supply Co. The family had lived in Vista for some time. Surviving in addition to Mr. Rhodes are a son Dr. Francis Smith of La Jolla, Calif.

a daughter, Mrs. Helen Mikkelson of Oregon; two grandchildren, Mikkelson of Reno and Smith of La Jolla; a stepson, Mason Rhodes of El Segundo, a brother, Clark Rowland of Long Valley; two sisters, Mrs. Frances, Rose of Portland and Mrs. Hattie Hunter of Burlingame and several nieces and nephews. Tahoe May Get Major Airport SACRAMENTO.

(AP) Prospects are excellent for establishment of a major airport at the south end of Lake Tahoe within a year, Clyde P. Barnett, director of the State Aeronautics Commission, said today. Airline connections would cause a boom like that in Palm Springs and at Las Vegas, Barnett said at a meeting of state department directors. Sparks Council Backs Plan To Acquire Old Locomotive A Sparks 20-30 Club project to an old Southern Pacific locomotive in the city, has received the backing of the city council. Council approval was granted during its Monday night meeting in which proposal was described by 20-30 club spokesman Robert Petrini.

Petrini said the club has the Southern Pacific Railroad's assurlance that a "Pacific" type locomotive will be available if the club and the city can arrange for a permanent display site. Petrini said the 20-30 club will move the locomotive from the SP right of way to any desirable location. He recommended the strip on Moana Plunge Repair Costs Near $145,000 TO LOW MERCURY DIPS FOR SEASON Reno had its coldest temperature of the eurrent Fall season early this morning when the mercury sank to 9 degrees above zero. Although the chill temperature was the lowest this Fall, it was a bit short of the record for the date, set on Nov. 27, 1896 when 7 above was noted.

Still colder was the record for the month of November set on Nov. 16, 1909 of 5 above. This morning's cold followed a midday high of 55 degrees here Monday, a figure expected to be equalled Wednesday. Several other Nevada stations reported sharp cold this morning. Lowest in the state was Elko's 2 above, while Battle Mountain reported 4 above, Winnemucca 5 above, and Lovelock, 6 above.

No change is expected in the current fair weather that exists over Reno and most of the state. Local skies. will be mostly clear through Wednesday, the weatherman said. Unseen Reno Landmark Due For Oblivion A Reno landmark Reno never sees is scheduled for abandonment. Only long-time residents of the city remember the pedestrian subway that goes beneath the Southern Pacific railroad tracks on the west side of Virginia street, but it is still there, and is blocking the railroad's plans for modernization.

Southern Pacific representative Oliver Thomas appeared before councilmen Monday afternoon to ask council permission to abandon the walkway. Permission was given. He said the railroad's legal experts had found that the original agreement with the city under which the subway was built in city permission for abandonment. A small stucco structure marks the southern end of the tunnel beneath the tracks, but the north end of the tunnel has been blocked. The tunnel was abandoned in 1931, after it was officially decided that it was of little use.

Councilmen who remember the subway said it usually contained several inches of water, was dirty, and furnished an undesirable sleeping place for homeless itinerants and drunks. Fire Damages Two Dwellings Fire seriously damaged two apartments at 2065 Wedekind Rd. early Tuesday morning. Both were unoccupied at the time. The alarm was given at 2 o'clock by a passing motorist, who aroused the landlord, Richard Troutner, an electrician at the Veterans Administration hospital.

He was sleeping in the main house. Fifty feet from his house, the two apartments were involved in flame. Troutner grabbed a garden hose while his wife called firemen. The interiors of the adjacent apartments were virtually destroyed. Troutner surmised the fire started in a closet which had been piled with old newspapers.

The landlord listed his loss at $2000. He had remodeled the apartments from a former garage, which, during the course of the fire, still contained an automobile. It suffered no damage. The county pumper of the Reno fire department fought the blaze for over an hour. Firemen managed to contain the blaze within the apartments' walls.

First National Buys Bond Issue First National Bank of Nevada bought a $33,584 Reno sewer bond issue this morning. The First National bid was at 3.75 per cent interest. The only other bid received was from the Security National Bank at 4.75 per cent. Over the 10-year period for which the bonds are issued, the interest on the First National bid will be $6,828.15. Cost of the Security National bid would have been $8,646.99, a difference of $1,820.84.

Proceeds of the bonds are to be used for construction of sewer facilities along West Plumb Lane, from Arlington avenue to the Lake ditch. Four councilmen attended the bond sale session, which was recessed from the regular council meeting Monday night. The councilmen were Russell Mills, Ben Maffi, Joseph Mastroianni and Harold A. Mathisen. In the absence of Mayor Len Harris, Mills was Mayor pro tem.

Reno Council Reverses Field On Street Name Board Rescinds Action Changing Name to Pine Reno councilmen reversed their field four to one, with councilman Ben Maffi abstaining Monday night on the question of re-naming Willow street. After a short public hearing Monday night action re-naming Willow street as Pine street recently was rescinded. ONE NAY VOTE Councilman William L. Foster was the only councilman to vote no on rescinding the naming action. He said after the council session that the switch on the part of the council was "beyond my Since Willow street is an easterly extension Pine street, or vice versa, Foster claims the different names confuse postal employes, firemen, policemen and new residents of the city.

He explained that the street naming committee of the Regional Planing commission had recommended the change, which was originally approved by a vote of five to one in the council. The Willow-vs-Pine question was one of the numerous items brought before the council Monday, either in the regular meeting or in the briefing session which preceded it Monday after- noon. LEASE APPROVED Councilmen approved leasing the city parking lot at West Second and Stevenson streets to G. J. Monaghan, at $302 a month.

They refused a request of the Southern Pacific railroad to operate trains at 40 miles an hour through the city unless the railroad installs gates at all crossfor in installation none at Lake, ings. Four gates scheduled Center, Virginia and Sierra streets. They took under consideration a request for an army reserve center to cost $300,000 and to be built east of the Veterans Administration hospital on federal land. Bids on new traffic signals at Second and Lake streets were returned unopened, with new bids to be sought under different specifications. The mayor was authorized to ask the U.

S. Postoffice department for a street right of way between the post office and the Truckee river. The bid of George E. Miller for construction of sidewalks at the north end of Valley Road was accepted, at $4,161.25. LaGrange Construction Company's bid of $28,150.50 for installation of sewers on West Plumb Lane was accepted.

Acceptance of another sewer construction bid, for the airport area, was deferred. Plans for improving the city council chambers are to be resurrected, after having been drawn months ago and left unused. Two ordinances were introduced for bond issues to provide sewer, financing for West Plumb and for the airport area. Fuel Oil Price Boosted in Reno Fuel oil prices in Reno today were raised one-half cent a gallon, the Oil Heat Institute of Northern Nevada announced. The new schedule was placed in effect by all 12 oil distributors in the Reno-Sparks area, after the price to local distributors was advanced by major oil companies.

Oil prices are fixed on a sliding scale depending on quality, and the new price of furnace oil at the rate of 200 to 400-gallon delivery is 17.3 cents a gallon. Stove oil comes at 18.8 cents a gallon with other prices proportionately higher or lower depending on quantity. A. J. Caton, manager of Reno Press Brick Co.

said major oil companies attributed the advance in prices to increasing transportation costs as a result of the Suez canal tieup. There is no oil shortage and none is expected, he said. RENO STATE BUILDING NO BARGAIN Even at $1 a year rental, Reno's State building is no bargain, Reno councilmen decided Monday night. They authorized Mayor Len Harris to offer the building to the county government or return it to the state. Councilmen made the decision after hearing City Manager C.

B. Kinnison report that the city had spent $5,296 more than it received from the building during the past year. Kinnison said numerous county agencies are using the building, but no city agencies are housed there now. He said losses would mount as the building deteriorates. The building is owned by the state and leased to the city at $1 a year.

Short Stay in County Jail For Kilbane: Found Guilty In Case of Empty Wallet manager two-hour Breaker and a for a regovern- hours despite vollies of counter arguments from Richards and councilmen Jess Sneddon, Robert Sullivan and Virgil Patton. Breaker received some halfhearted support from councilman A. H. Oborn, but Oborn's backing -and Breaker's withered quickly when Richards called for Breaker to state facts backing the request. ASKS COMMISSIONERS Breaker said he wanted the councilmen to serve as commissioners for the various city departments.

Department heads, he claimed, were "dictating to the citizens of Sparks and they have no recourse." Richards asked who "they" were, but Breaker gave no answer. Instead, he said that councilmen are unable to obtain "information" from the department heads, and urged a return to the commissioner method of government "so we can find out what's going on around here." Sullivan said he felt that liaison between the city administration and department heads had "broken down somewhat" since city manager C. B. Kinnison resigned, but that this liaison was still a city manager's responsibility and not the council's. The city manager is "trained for this sibility," Sullivan said, is in turn responsible to us." Richards, Sulivan, Sneddon and Patton insisted that a return to the old commissioner form would result confusion.

Sneddon thought that department heads could be called upon to make monthly reports to the council until a new city manager is hired. RIGHT TO INVESTIGATE Richards told Breaker that any councilman had the right to ask the council to investigate any deApartment. The mayor said he could see no reason why the council could not handle any departmental matters group." "You have the right and the duty' as a councilman," the mayor told Breaker, "to request a report from the departments at any time." Scoffing at this proposal, Breaker said. "They report a as they so feel. I have no access to their files I don't know what's going on." City Engineer C.

E. Dodson then came forward with a request for facts. "I don't like this innuendo," Dodson said. "If something is wrong, let's get it out!" Richards agreed, and asked Breaker to "give us some facts." This, Breaker failed to do, falling back on his charge that he was unable to obtain information from the departments when he wanted it. Richards said that the city charter states that no councilman can act as an individual in any investigative matters, and that all such matters must be acted upon by the council "if we have the facts." Sullivan then suggested that department heads be called upon to report to the council during its regular session until a new city manager is found to replace H.

J. Walt, whose resignation was accepted by the council on Nov. 15. Sullivan's proposal was backed by Sneddon, Patton and Oborn, and reluctantly by Breaker. The council then voted unanimously to give Richards the job as acting city manager.

Lyons Funeral Rites Thursday Funeral services for Teletha (Leita) Lyons will be held at 1:30 p. Thursday in the Ross-Burke Co. home chapel with the Rev. Rafe C. Martin of St.

John's Presbyterian Church, clergyman. Mrs. Lyons, widow of Walter E. Lyons of Reno, and a fitter for the Gray Shop here for 28 years, died in Reno Monday. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs.

Christine E. Miller of San; Anselmo, and Mrs. Helen J. Brown of Wausau, and a brother, William Garski of Iron River, Wis. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.

Present Pool Site Usable as Excavation Only Thomas Patrick Kilbane, time fight manager who has been embroiled with the law here over an empty wallet since July, was back in the county jail today but his stay was likely to be short. Kilbane, also known as Milton Goldman, was found guilty by Justice of the Peace William R. Beemer Monday of petty larceny after al four-hour trial. Beemer sentenced Kilbane, an ex-fighter who bears some of the marks of the trade on his face, and an ex-New Jerseyite who shows it in his speech, to 110 days in jail. 293 DAYS CREDIT But Beemer also gave Kilbane credit for the 93 days he already has put in in Sheriff Charles W.

Young's lodging house, and mentioned the possibility of taking good time into account, too. Sheriff Young said today he was disposed to give Kilbane credit for good behavior- particularly since Kilbane says he has a job in Winnemucca starting Dec. 1-which would mean about two days in jail. The good behavior rate is five days a month, so 95 days served would amount to 110 with good behavior. All this will bring to an end a lengthy round of arrests, charges, changes in charges, bail fluctuation and a lot of coming and going by defense lawyers.

STARTED JULY 14 It all began early the morning of July 14 in the Nevada Club. Two employes, Earl Crockett and George Stone, testified seeing Kilbane take a wallet from William Oakwood, who was shooting craps. Kilbane and a friend with whom he Had been drinking and gambling, Arthur Luscher, said the fight manager had found the wallet on the floor. Oakwood, of Mill Valley, didn't know how he got separated from his wallet. Kilbane, in fact, disputed that what he found was a wallet at all, but a "piece of leather with nothin' in it," and said the wallet produced in evidence wasn't even same kind.

Kilbane, only the central figure in justice court case, not, but easily the most colorful took much issue with the testi-1 mony of other witnesses. Of Stone, he said, "Maybe don't like my looks. 'Maybe didn't tip him. Maybe he doesn't like the way I smoke a cigar." Of Police Sgt. Tony Poloni, arrested Kilbane, and who testified in court, Kilbane said, "He's all mixed up he's tired and sleeping and all mixed up." STUCK WITH STORY Kilbane's attorney, Howard Kissick, claimed that the Nevada Club employes were stuck their story because if Kilbane were to be acquitted their ployer would face a hefty suit.

District Attorney A. D. Jensen argued little, but said the defense witnesses simply weren't credible. He noted Luscher had testified was buying a ranch at Dixon a partner for -for 000 down and $4000 a month. rancher denied he had been barred from a Reno club and Kilbane McKissick his friend did either have a reputation as "crossroader," a gambling cheater.

Luscher had said he had plenty of money with him July 14 offered to loan some to Kilbane. Kilbane was allowed to make statement in his defense, and gan a description of a difficult early life, in which he admitted stealing $21 to pay his family's rent, and in which he said boxing got him out of trouble. Beemer finally cut him off, though. The justice of the peace said found the time Kilbane will served altogether "more ample" for petty larceny of modest sum. State Plea for Re-Hearing In Lawrence Case Is Denied The Nevada Supreme Court today denied a petition for a rehearing on the court's previous order for a new trial for Mrs.

Helen W. Lawrence of Las Vegas in connection with the fatal shooting in 1954 of her divorced husband, Phare Lawrence. The court had previously reversed the first degree murder conviction of Mrs. Lawrence, 47, who is now serving a life term in the Nevada state prison. In ordering the new trial, the high court said District Judge Ryland Taylor erred in refusing to let the jury hear testimony relative to the Lawrence divorce, the loss of her home and charges that her husband's affections had been alienated.

The state then petitioned the supreme court for a re-hearing on its new trial motion. Denial of the petition was filed this morning with Supreme Court Clerk Ned Turner in an order written by Justice Edgar Eather and concurred by Justices Charles Merrill and Milton Badt. The order stated that the "essentials of defendant's were never in thenitted evidence." The state's petition for a rehearing was based on the contention that the supreme court, in its opinion, made an erroneous statement as to the fact established by the record. "We stated in our opinion," the supreme court said today, "that following the divorce of the parties the defendant continued to live in their home until ejected by the deceased in January, 1954. The record shows that during this period of time she kept her clothing and personal effects in the house but for Ready for Rush At Post Office carriers and from 30 to 35 clerks will be needed.

Salaries will be $1.65 an hour, Petersen said. Anticipating the huge Christ- More than 80 temporary employes clerks, carriers and truck drivers, will be needed by the Reno post office to meet what is expected to be the largest Christmas mail load in Reno history. Postmaster Pete Petersen said the anticipated Christmas mail will far exceed the previous high noted here in 1955. He said some 20 additional drivers, about 30 mas workload, Petersen pointed to the post office's' steadily increasing mail volume, month by month through the year. "We've got to expect the biggest volume in our history," he said, "and we still don't have nearly enough employes." In Hospital Frank Baughman, Sparks businessman, is under treatment at St.

Mary's hospital and expects to leave the hospital soon to complete, convalescence street in at Sparks. his home He entered the hospital last week. During his illness, Mr. Baughman said the Sparks Bootery which he operates will be in charge of Mrs. Baughman.

Moana Hot Springs pool is "usable as an excavation only," state sanitation engineer Wallace White has reported to Reno city councilmen in a letter read at the council meeting Monday night. White's letter was a reply to a specific request for an estimate of what it might cost to bring the pool up to proper health stand- ards. MINIMUM COST letter on its condition to the city. BOUGHT FOR $100,000 He estimated that a minimum of $145,000 in repairs would be needed. The money would be spent for a purification system, repairs to the pipe line which brings hot water from nearby natural springs and for other improvements.

According to the letter, the city cannot expect to receive a state health department permit for operation pool beyond the present season. The letter states that the pool has no purification system other than addition of chemicals to the water by hand, and that the water in the pool has been tested and found "not satisfactory." LETTER READ Just before White's letter was introduced at the council session, a letter from the Reno Women's Civic Club had been read, urging the city to modernize the pool and keep it in operation. City Manager C. B. Kinnison has recommended filling in the pool and using the building which houses it as a recreation center.

At the council meeting there were suggestions that the pool should as a roller skating rink. At the end of the discussion Sixth ward councilman William L. Foster referred the question to committee for further study. The pool has been under study for more than a month now, since White, wrote an initial, general the most part was travelling and living elsewhere, returning to the home occasionally. "This error does not affect our decision.

The state directs our attention to the fact that certain of the matters the defendant had offered to prove, were not rejected by the court, but were admitted in evidence. The matters so specified were minor and would not effect our decision. The essentials of the defendant's offer of proof were never admitted in evidence. The state contends that the offer of proof upon which defendant's assignment of error was based, was a single, comprehensive offer in narrative form which included within it certain matters already admitted in evidence and other matters which were inadmissable; that under the circumstances it was not error to reject the offer in its entirety. "However as to the matters speof cified, in defendant's assignments error, the action of the court sive.

offer of proof, after was not limited to the comprehentime the court rejected offered testimony relating to the divorce agreement of the parties, the collateral promises deceased with reference to the home, and the repudiation of those promises at the time defendant was ejected from the home. "The state contends that in any event, such evidence was inadmissable for the reason that it related to occurences which could not as a matter of law constitute provocation since they were entirely too remote from the time of the shooting; that acts of provocation to be relevant must be shown to exist at the time of the shooting. Our opinion perhaps was not clear in expressing the relevancy of such testimony. The record establishes that the shooting occurred in conjunction between the parties. Defendant testified to that dispute as follows: "I told him he would have to make things right with me, or we would go to court over it, and he said to me, 'you won't live long enough to take this fraud suit to court.

I'll certainly see to I got out of the car and 1 he was shaking me and I got hold of his arm. He said 'your body will be found out on the desert and people will be wondering what happened to That's all I know." directly to the earlier differences "The fatal dispute then, related between the parties, the nature of which was unknown to the jury. The extent of the provocation the state of defendant's mind, and the existence or lack of the willfulness, deliberation, and premeditation necessary to first degree murder, could not be determined without knowledge of the basis of the dispute. "The defendant was entitled to have the jury determine whether the dispute in connection with the former relation of the parties as shown by the excluded testimony furnished an adequate cause and brought about a condition of mind in appellant which would have reduced the homicide." WATCH TAKEN Mrs. Mary Cherry, of Santa Monica, told police she recently stayed in a motel at 2201 S.

Virginia St. and is now missing a $2500 watch. She said the timepiece was taken from a closet in her room. The pool and adjacent baseball field were purchased from Louis W. Berrum for $100,000 in the Spring of this year.

The city's major interest was in obtaining the ball park for use in professional baseball, and the pool came as an ladded dividend. The pool has been in use for about 50 years, and many Reno old-timers treasure memories of learning to swim there. Many years ago street cars took picnickling residents of Reno to Moana by the hundreds every Sunday. Since abandonment of the pool was first suggested, numerous council and to the recreation protests have been Remade to the commission. At a recent joint meeting of the commission and the council, members of the commission urged the council to save the pool if at all possible.

WARM WATER POOL Reasons they gave were that Moana is the only pool in the southern part of the city and the city's only indoor warm-water pool available to the general public. They commented that the city pool Idlewild park, although a good one, has water that is often too cold for comfortable swimming, even in summer. One standard question asked by people who remember the years the pool been in operation is one on the pool can be danhows gerous to public health now when no disease transmission or, other example of danger at Moana has been reported in the 50 years it has been in existence. Police Fire At Burglars Police gunfire scared off two East Fourth street burglars Monday night. Two hours later, the burglar alarm in a Wells avenue pharmacy announced the departure of second story men who got away with narcotics and cash.

"Second story" describes those who got into the Eagle Thrifty drug store at 1405 Wells Ave. The burglars climbed to the roof and entered through a trap door. Only the locked drawers in the pharmacy were looted, manager Roy. E. Anderson said.

From $60 to $70 in cash plus an unspecified amount of narcotics were taken, he said. The burglars left through the back door, tripping the alarm in so doing. At the Reno Drug store, 1027 E. Fourth two young-looking burglars were scared off when Officer Frederick Schmorde opened fire with his service revolver. He fired over their heads, he said, getting off "several shots" before the pair disappeared.

Schmorde was patroling the area in his car when he saw the pair working on the drug store's back door. They had broken the light over the door. When Schmorde piled out of his car, the pair fled, disappearing in directions. They left behind. two tire irons and a screwdriver.

Schmorde said both looked young and of medium height a and weight. One, was wearing blue trousers blue jacket. The other was wearing a beige jacket. Street between the chamber of commerce building and the SP gate. The city's responsibility will be to provide the site, liability insurance and maintenance costs." The council agreed to support the club's efforts, and Mayor C.

E. Richards appointed a committee of councilmen Jess Sneddon, A. H. Oborn, and city, attorney John Gabrielli, to with the 20-30 club. Petrini presented photographs of the locomotive, known as a "2400 Pacific type." Sneddon urged the council to promote the project because "Ten Years from now, kids won't know what one Blof these ever looked like.".