Nevada Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 9, 1973, Reno, Nevada RENO EVENING GAZETTE NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR No 297 RENO NEVADA FRIDAY MARCH 9 1973 PHONE 702 IS CENTS Speidel head discusses censorship Rollan D Melton center president of Speidel Newspapers Inc discussed the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal battle against court censorship today in a filmed interview with ABC news correspondent Frank Reynolds right Gazette Photo Speidel prepared to back Reno suit to court Speidel Newspapers Inc is prepared to back the Reno newspapers in their legal battle against court censorship ta the U.S Supreme Court lan D Melton Speidel president said today Speidel is the parent cor- for the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Runs beneath city nal Melton's comments came during an interview with ABC News correspondent Frank Reynolds to investigate the story We have not found it the court battle an excessive drain We have spent thousands of dollars We are prepared for the possibility we may go to Earthquake fault danger to Reno By JAN KENNEDY A University of Nevada Reno geologist says earthquake faults running into Reno are active and potentially Dr David B Slemmons of geology and geophysics at UNR commented that though there is no major ity now along what he calls the Reno ultimately there will be Slemmons has been involved CIA analyst claims U S tried to halt testimony LOS ANGELES AP tral Intelligence Agency analyst Samuel A Adams has told tagon papers trial jurors there was a definite attempt by the government to keep me from testifying is this court Adams testimony opened a legal dispute between defense and prosecution attorneys and prolonged Adams stay on the witness stand into today The continuation delayed the appearance of former tial adviser McGeorge Bundy who had been scheduled to testify on Thursday as the next witness in researching the Nevada faults since 1967 in cooperation with Lloyd S Cluff vice-president of ates in Oakland Cluff a recognized mental geologist and fault recently did research at Managua Nicaragua quake and said he saw between the Managua fault and the Reno fault First of all they're similar in that they are active or have the potential of having an he said Second the fault in Managua ran right beneath the city he added And that's exactly the situation here in Reno the fault is right beneath the city SIMILARITIES SEEN Slemmons said too saw similarities in that the Managua fault and the Reno fault are both made up in a shattered pattern or have many little faults rather than one large one like the famous San An- dreas fault in California He said the Nevada faults are much more complex than the famous San Andreas but as dangerous The Reno fault although com- prised of many little branching faults is still generally located in one major section of the city Slemmons said his research Turn to page 2 col 7 a higher level even the Melton said Washoe Dist Court Judge Grant of jurors names in the Thomas Lee Bean murder case penalty hearing in November 1970 a ban upheld by U.S Dist Judge Bruce Thompson The pers are appealing the case to the U.S.-Ninth-Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco Eleven newspapers from fornia to New York are bers of the Speidel group and Melton said it would be quite an impossibility to ly handle court battles con- several of the papers concurrently if such a situation arose 1 You are talking about the possibility of a lot of he said Melton said he sees a con- effort to impose tions in certain areas on the press by governmental cies We hear the same words on a local level heard nationally They think it is fashionable Attempts press freedom began with Vice dent Spiro Agnew's attacks which Melton said caught him off guard I can remember saying in interviews I thought it was recurrence of historical criticism He now sees these efforts as a Tidal wave that filters down We feel it every day The ABC News team headed by Reynolds and Bernard Cohen an associate producer has been in Reno this week to film interviews with Melton Richard J Schuster publisher of the Reno Evening Gazette and the Nevada State Journal and Ron Einstoss managing editor of the ta The crew left this morning following the Melton interview The newsmen also interviewed a spokesman for Judge son and Judge Bowen Schuster discussed the local court battle and Einstoss dis- cussed generally the problems faced by small newspapers in the battle for press freedom Wounded Knee pact reached in principle WOUNDED KNEE AP The Justice ment said today the ment has reached an ment in principle with tant Indians at Wounded Knee but added that procedures still had to be worked out to end the occupation of the ic village The announcement made by officials both in Washington and at nearby Pine Ridge but there was no immediate com- ment by Indians holding Wounded Knee The Rev Wesley Hunter who was among clergymen ing the settlement said details of the agreement would not be disclosed at once He also said newsmen would not be granted further access to the village be- cause it was felt they would final negotiations The announcement in No food price freeze eyed WASHINGTON AP culture Secretary Earl L Butz said today the Nixon tration has no plan to freeze food prices growing pressure from organized labor and consumer groups My answer is Butz told a newspaper group He said a Gray termed hatchet man by Anderson WASHINGTON AP Syndicated columnist Jack An- derson said today he opposes the nomination of L Patrick Gray III to be FBI director be- cause Gray has proved self to be a political hatchet man for Richard Nixon Anderson told the Senate Judiciary Committee ering the Gray nomination that he believes it is wrong to put a man in charge of the FBI whose prime interest is ing the President than one occasion has proved that his antenna is acutely tuned to the White House wave An- derson said This is a luxury that neither the nation nor in the long run the White House itself can afford Another witness Rep Edward I Koch also opposed the confirmation of Gray be- cause of what he called the ing FBI director's insensitivity to the value of privacy in ica today Koch said for the past few months he has asked the FBI to see the files it maintained on congressmen so that he could read the material kept on self but has been refused mission Gray announced last October that he was discontinuing the FBI practice of 22 years of col- data on congressional candidates Before testifying Anderson said he planned to tell the com- that the FBI has in- persons who have committed no crimes and has pried into the bedrooms of prominent people for no other purpose than to collect gossip for the files Chuckle My wife has developed an inferiority a man told the psychiatrist How can I keep her that war of nerves is being waged over food prices but that con- sumers are fortunate that farm products thus far have been ex- from controls The White House also has sued denials that food price controls were imminent in the face of persistent rumors the past week that the tration would move soon to curb soaring supermarket costs Despite the sharp rise in food and fuel prices in the latest wholesale price report the White House is sticking to its economic policies and urging the people to be patient The situation will get worse before it gets better for the consumer the Nixon tration says Or as one official of the Cost of Living Council put It's going to be tough the next few months really tough r Handyman held after shooting in Storey County A Lockwood handyman was arrested early today s h o 1 y after his father-in-law was shot and wounded Storey County Sheriff Bob said Jack L Lewis was reported in very serious condition in the intensive care unit of Washoe Medical Center later this ing Robert Harvey of the wood Trailer Court was booked for investigation of attempted murder and assault with a ly weapon Del Carlo said officers seized a automatic pistol said a bullet passed through the victim's arm and entered his chest The shooting still is under in- the sheriff said He said it occurred at the trailer court proposed for WASHINGTON AP authority for President Nixon is included in a Senate committee's for a one-year sion of his powers to control wages and prices The President would be di- under the approved Thursday by the Senate ing Committee to report every three months on what steps he has taken to hold down food prices The approval came after the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly report said sale prices for farm products DOROTHY PETERSON First woman policeman hired by Reno By PHIL BARBER Sexual equality is just around the corner at the Reno Police Department Policewoman Dorothy son Monday becomes a fledged detective Chief James Parker said Her actual rank will change from policewoman one to woman two But then on July 1 she'll join brother officers with the rank of police officer Mrs Peterson who worked at one time for the Reno ning classified ment has been a police de- member since 1964 She worked one year in the juvenile division and the rest in the jail Parker established the new rank of policewoman two to move women into detective work he said Mrs Peterson will be assigned Monday to the juvenile division Women previously assigned there did some investigative work but also were used as clerks Parker said Mrs Peterson's salary day will increase from a range every two weeks of to to a new range of Turn to page 2 col 2 authority President and processed foods increased in the last three months at a seasonally adjusted rate of 56 per cent Petroleum products cost 12.5 per cent more than a year ago The committee defeated on tie votes amendments to make Phase 3 tougher by imposing rent controls in metropolitan areas and to return to the kind of wage-price control system known as Phase 2 that Nixon abandoned Jan 11 Sens William Proxmire D- Wis and Harrison Williams D- promised a floor fight on this when the is before the full Senate ington said the agreement in principle with attorneys for the American Indian Movement could settle current problems at Wounded Knee It added however that tain procedural matters to the manner and time the nonresidents will de- part Wounded Kne had yet to be resolved There were no other details announced at once Some 200 Indians took over the hamlet Feb 27 Federal lawmen have manned a around the village and there have been periodic ex- changes of gunfire Two In- dians were wounded Thursday night the Justice Department said Tne Indians in the past few days has been removal of the Sioux tribal leader Federal officials have said in the past would not meet the demand Also unresolved have been the questions of surrender of weapons and whether mass ar- rests would be made A short time before the tice Department announcement the lawyers for the Indians re- entered the hamlet The stage for the renewed talks was set when the Indians and ment officials declared a fire It came shortly before the government's deadline for the Indians to leave the village took effect Before the Justice ment announcement there had been reports that an agreement was in the works In today Sen.- James Abourezk a South kota Democrat who visited Wounded Knee last week said he was told by friends and a staff member that an ment had been reached and would probably be announced later in the day He said he had no details There was no confirmation in Wounded Knee from Indians or officials of the Justice and rior departments Index 4 Sections 46 Pages SECTION ONE Editorials 4 Family living SECTION TWO Local regional news 15 Sports SECTION THREE Amusements Ann Landers 24 Classified ads Comics 24 Crossword puzzle 28 Earl Wilson 24 Markets 25 Public notices 22 Porter 22 Television The doctor 34 Weather table 25 Win at bridge 24 SECTION FOUR Entertainment 12 Pages RENO EVENING GAZETTE A Speidel Newspaper member of Associated Press Second Class Postage paid at Reno Nevada Published days by Reno Newspapers Inc Box 280 401 W 2nd St Reno Nev 89504 telephone SUBSCRIPTION Carrier delivery in Reno Sparks Carson for outside these areas and by adult motor route 53.25 a month By mall in Nevada a domestic points a year Other rates on request Weather Reno Variable cloudiness through Saturday Windy Weather table on Page 25 Consent sought for brain surgery electroconvulsive therapy Psychiatrists defend treatment at Nevada state mental hospital By MARGARET ALLENDER A group of Northern Nevada psychiatrists has expressed con- cern the public has been formed about aspects of care of the mentally ill Psychiatrists have registered complaints earlier reports from Charles Dixon Ph.D in clinical administrator of the division of Mental giene and Mental Retardation and others have created alarm among the public over the ment of patients at the Nevada State The psychiatrists did agree a problem exists with the ment of those persons found to be criminally insane or with persons who can not be kept on the Nevada State Hospital grounds due to tendencies ward violence There are only limited ment facilities at the Nevada State Prison and persons judged to be violently insane are kept in the prison atmosphere Gov Mike O'Callaghan has suggested to the Legislature money be allocated for the construction of a maximum security facility The doctors agreed a mum security facility for the mentally ill would have to be constructed to meet needs and demands for severely ill 1 have received comments about patient care at the Nevada State said Dr Victor J Cicero institute director of the hospital Some people who re- quested and needed treatment were quite alarmed upon ing Others who were able of hospital care of patients were indignant they felt the report portrayed inaccurately conditions at the hospital Psychiatrists Dr William Turn to page 2 col 1 f
