Nevada Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 16, 1973, Reno, Nevada RENO EVENING GAZETTE NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR No 303 RENO NEVADA FRIDAY MARCH 16 1973 PHONE 702 15 CENTS If he catch you he'll beat you and bring you back Slave labor camp for migrant workers alleged in Florida HOMESTEAD Fla AP If he catch you he'll beat you and bring you migrant worker Charles Bryant said of what happened to anyone who tried to escape the work gang of his boss Bryant 41 one of 27 workers freed by police Thursday from what was described as a slave labor camp said his boss had an order that you couldn't go anywhere Joe Williams 55 told police a Senate avoids Nixon power court test WASHINGTON AP ate Judiciary Committee bers are showing no disposition to President Nixon to court for refusing to let his cial lawyer testify on the nation of L Patrick Gray HI to be FBI director OTHER ACTIONS The committee has other tion it can said Sen Sam J Ervin Jr a member of the panel He said for example that the committee could simply tell Nixon it would not act on Gray's nomination unless White House Counsel John W Dean III appears for questioning Nixon said Thursday he does not believe the committee would hold Gray but appear closely di- vided The issue may come to a vote next week COMMITTEE ATTEMPT Ervin not only is a Judiciary Committee member but man of a by the Senate to investigate the Watergate bugging and other alleged political espionage and sabotage in last year's election All indications are that if an attempt is made to compel Dean's testimony it will be done by Ervin's committee in the Watergate investigation rather than by the Judiciary Committee in its consideration of Gray's nomination If we are going to have this confrontation I'd rather face it with the select Er- vin said Other senators also said Ervin's committee would be the preferred battleground At a news conference Thursday Nixon said hes would not allow Dean to testify at any congressional hearing and in- a Supreme Court test of his stand on executive lege H the Senate feels they want a court test we would welcome he said V f Dollar flow to be smoothed Monetary crisis agreement made PARIS AP The United States and 13 important trading nations agreed today on ways to end the monetary crisis and get an orderly system of ex- changing currencies CLOSE CONSULTATION They said that each nation will be ready to go into the market in dose consultation with the others to trade one currency against another George P Shultz secretary of the Treasury agreed on be- half of the United States to re- view measures that might make it easier for capital to flow into the United States He also said the United States would look into action that Fuel supply plan proposed WASHINGTON AP A year plan to increase the fuel supplies and give private industry a bigger stake in solving the energy crisis was proposed today by Sen Henry M Jackson Jackson will introduce day a calling for ex- of billion in al funds by 1983 in a based plan to create corporations for production coal gasification and other energy systems would encourage the billion now deposited abroad to flow back to the United States as market conditions EURODOLLARS These funds are American dollars deposited abroad and are known as Eurodollars One way to bring some of them back would be to raise interest rates hi the United States The decisions were an- after discussions by Shultz and a group of Western finance ministers and nors of central banks The final statement explained that the U.S promise to free the flow of dollars from the United States by the end of 1974 was intended to go along with a strong improvement in the U.S balance ot payments now in heavy deficit EXACT WORDING The agreement Any steps taken during the interim period toward the of these controls would take due account of ex- change market conditions and balance of payments trends Europeans have expressed fears that unlimited flows of dollars out of the United States would bring important chunks of foreign industry into can hands The ministers said it was im- portant to do something to hold down the flow of hot money across frontiers fellow laborer who tried to cape was until he just held his head and cried like a baby Police reported that many of the migrants at the camp near here said Joe L Brown and Lafayette Matthew held the traveling work crew by force threats and indebtedness for as long as four years A Dade County sheriff's de- said the workers were being held against their will and were being held as slaves Brown 35 and Matthew 27 were charged with false and conspiracy to com- mit a Fred Diaz of the county Mi- grant Health Clinic said the Lighting up Reno Police Officer Bud Morin really isn't making an emaciated department guest feel at home The skeleton was taken by Sparks police from a stolen car occupied by three agers Reno police juvenile officers said the skeleton and two fire extinguishers were taken from Reno High School Gazette Photo by Phil Barber U.S ambassador denies Panama a guerrilla factory PANAMA AP U.S John Scali took a re- attitude Thursday night toward criticism of the United States hosts but lashed back at a Cuban at- tack during the special curity Council meeting being held in Panama Foreign Minister Raul Roa of Cuba told the council the United States aspires to maintain Green Beret factories in the Panama Canal Zone He the United States as a nation with clawing and appetites around the world The highest aspiration of the Panamanian people was always that of a for humanity and not for- an mono- poly a canal flanked by yards and factories not by base's and Green Beret Roa declared Chuckle Sign in the window of a Having an it Using his right of reply Scali in his debut before the council called the Cuban a self appointed spokesman of a people whose condition must arouse pity in us all His accusations are so wild and reckless that they are un- worthy of President Nixon's new chief delegate to the said remarks were in marked contrast to his com- ments to newsmen on the coming speech earlier by Pan- ama's strongman Brig Gen Omar Torrijos Or else flood the streets with men were in generally poor health There is a suspicion of tuberculosis with some others have slight pneumonia liver disorders heart conditions Most are malnourished Some have bloody he said Police said they went to the camp to investigate an un- related assault and told the workers to stay around because they would be needed as Sparks plans bond election By BOB FELTEN Sparks city councilmen have trimmed a proposed city bond issue and set a special election on three items including chase of property for a flood control ment northwest of the city City Manager John Brooke said day The council has met in com- twice this week and dis- cussed a proposed bond issue which originally contained 13 items and totaled about lion Several of the proposals now will apparently be funded in a more conventional manner while the council may authorize a bond issue for some other projects The council can authorize bond issues by unanimous vote The three items scheduled for a special election which will cost to all Con- cern recreation A proposal to purchase the property in the northwest of the city for a control complex will foe one issue on the election ballot It was controversy over land purchase which spawned the election Several councilmen objected to izing funds for its p u r c h a s e without a vote of the people Brooke said today He expects a decision from the Capurro family before March 26 as to whether the offer to the city will be held in abeyance pending the special election The have offered the property to the city for 000 for about 370 acres but say there are several other more lucrative offers on the land A second item on the bond election ballot will be for a proposed community ter and sports complex The community center for recreation purposes has been by a study presented to the city last year Cost is estimated at The sports complex has been sought by several citizens groups Estimated cost is about The third item suggested for the election involves city chase of land for open space and neighborhood parks mated cost is A northwest area sewer inter- ceptor which may eventually serve residential areas near the proposed recreation ment may be funded out of money available in Utility Fund from sewer fees Brooke said Estimated cost of thia project is and Brooke said it may serve as an incentive for the Capurro family to hold the land offer open A allocation for repair Turn to page 2 col 6 U.S violations claimed by Hanoi SAIGON AP The Com- today that the United States is ping war material into South Vietnam without its undergoing the inspection required by the cease-fire agreement See pages 2 22 for related Vietnam POW stories The Viet Cong asked for an explanation and the U.S gation said it was preparing a reply TRA WRITES Lt Gen Tran Van Tra chief of the Viet Cong delegation to the Joint Military Commission made the accusation in a letter to the senior U.S tive Maj Gen Gilbert H Woodward President Nixon on Thursday accused North Vietnam of jor shipments of troops and war materials into South nam in violation of the fire and implied that the United States might resume bombing of such traffic if it did not stop ARTICLE SEVEN Phani Duong Hien a Saigon government spokesman said today that these shipments also were endangering the Viet Cong political negotiations scheduled to open in Paris Monday Tra wrote Woodward that according to many foreign sources the United States has recently introduced on many occasions armaments tions and war material into South Vietnam The military delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government con- siders this a violation of Article 7 of the agreement and Article 7 of the protocol Index Reno police leaders defend helicopter patrol plan By PHIL BARBER The purpose of a helicopter patrol over Reno would be to reduce the crime rate Capt Don McKillip said today That's what we're here he added either you can flood the streets with policemen or do it with a proven Hie city council still is con- a police request to in- patrol by two small helicopters A vote Tuesday was split McKillip who is coordinating a possible helicopter program and Chief James Parker told the Gazette helicopters have proven effective in every com- munity where they've been tried Parker was a captain at the Newport Beach Calif Police Department which also has helicopters Parker and McKillip said there are now more than 400 police helicopters in use in the United States The average crime rate drop has been be- tween 6 and 8 per cent they said They maintain present patrol copters are quiet safe fast and effective SAFER THAN CAR Statistics show a policeman is 10 times safer in a helicopter than in a Parker said McKillip added A p o 1 i c e helicopter accident has never hurt a private citizen or aged personal properly Police say the addition of two helicopters Police Department would require the hiring of no extra personnel to operate them Officers would be transferred from other duties The council not doubt their effectiveness Parka said They just don't know whether to spend the money FEDERAL AID Police are asking for toward the purchase of two ters for equipment and for operation They have federal money available toward the program In his request for federal funds McKillip summarized project Project Reno is de- signed to lower the incidence of crime in Reno and the rounding areas through the ordinated use of helicopters as patrol and response vehicles Despite a relatively static population figure between 1966 and 1971 the incidence of Part I crime in Reno has risen 50 per cent During the same period the Reno police budget rose 57 per cent with a like manpower in- crease In 1972 alone Part I crime increased 18 per cent with robbery increasing 29 per cent and burglary up 46 per cent UNABLE TO COPE Standard police methods have obviously been unable to cope with this crime increase In light of the favorable other cities have had with helicopter patrol it is able to expect that Turn to page 2 col 7 4 Sections 52 Pages SECTION ONE Editorials 4 Family living SECTION TWO Local regional news 15 Sports The doctor 21 SECTION THREE Amusements 26 Ann Landers 36 Classified ads Comics 36 Crossword puzzle 31 Deaths 25 Earl Wilson 36 Markets 25 Public notices 27 Sylvia Porter 23 Television log 36 Weather table 25 Win at bridge 36 SECTION POUR Entertainment 16 pages RENO EVENING GAZETTE A Newspaper member or Associated Press Second Class paid it Nevada Published by Rene Newspapers Inc Sox 210 401 W 2nd St Ntv WSW telephone SUBSCRIPTION Carrier delivery In Reno Sparks and Carson City month tor delivery outside Inese areas and by adult motor route month By mail In Nevada a year other domestic points a year other rates on request Weather Reno Chance of rain or snow is the tonight decreasing Saturday Windy Cooler er table on Page 25 r
