Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - September 28, 1977, Reno, Nevada Lake Tahoe Trickling Info fhe Truckee River Page 12 Wolf Pock Going Off NCAA Probation Today Page 13 Extortion Suspect Arrested Chase Ends Reno Area Manhunt By Reno police and FBI agents Tuesday arrested a suspect and recovered a large amount of money to end an alleged extortion plot involving a Reno banker and his wife Arrested at about p.m after a five-mile automobile chase in the Sun Valley area was a suspect identified by police as Timothy W Murphy 35 a Reno plumber Police said Murphy was booked for investigation on federal charges of extortion and robbery A spokesman for the U.S Attorney's office said the suspect will be arraigned sometime today before U.S Magistrate Harold Tabor at which time bail would be set Police said that with the arrest of the suspect a large amount of money was recovered They said the money was taped to the man's leg but FBI agents declined to reveal the exact amount seized in idence The alleged plot which police said involved the of about dollars started to unfold at about 11 a m Tuesday when a man entered the home of Mr and Mrs Theodore A Nigro at 1095 Williams Ave in Northwest Reno Mrs Nigro later told police that she recognized the man as one who had entered her house the previous day tate f Final Wednesday Morning Sepl 28 20 posing as a telephone repairman She said he came into the house Monday wearing tools and carrying a talkie radio and used her telephone When she next saw the man Mrs Nigro said was when he pushed his way in the door Tuesday morning and brandishing a revolver an- that we have all your kids The have six children aged 7 to 22 and all of them were out of the house either in school or working Nigro a vice president of the Security National Bank was told to go to the bank and fill a bag full of money and deliver it to a man who would meet him at noon in the restroom of the Eagle Bar at 134 California Ave Police Chief James Parker waiting for an expected arrest in the case late Tuesday afternoon gave this account of the crime Mrs Nigro 52 was left on a bed in her her mouth hands and feet bound with the kind of tape used See RENO Page 2 Col l Sewers Tossed Back to Cities Way Cleared for Building JUDGE JOHN GABRIELLI Journal photo Gabrielli Quiet To the Point The name John Gabrielli has become quite well-known since the year-old Washoe District judge got the hottest suit in town filed in his court When Sparks sued Reno last year over use of the sewer plant Gabrielli issued a temporary restraining order against any more building permits That decision thrust the name into newspaper headlines business luncheon con- and city council sessions for months Last March the judge lifted his building ban and Tuesday he told the two cities that allocation of sewer capacity is a legislative function not a judicial one Gabrielli is a soft-spoken mannered man serving his fourth term on the district court He was first elected in 1962 and re-elected in and 1974 In fact Gabrielli is so soft-spoken that spectators in his courtroom have to strain to hear what he has to say But despite his voice Gabrielli is very much to the point when he makes his decisions In the case of Dr Sam Basta who sued the University of Nevada for abolishing his position as dean of community relations Gabrielli said the university treated Basta unfairly unjustly and botched up the professor's life rendering it a virtual wreckage And in the sewer unit when Sparks wanted the judge to halt development in Reno Gabrielli shocked Sparks officials with his ruling He slapped his building ban on the Kail City too the plaintiff saying it deserved the same thing as Reno Prior to his election Gabrielli practiced law in Reno for 13 years He was appointed Sparks city attorney in 1955 and served in that post for two years He also served as a deputy district attorney He is a 1943 graduate of the University of Nevada Reno and received his law degree from Hastings College of Law in 1949 See WASHOE 3 Col l By BARBARA HENRY If Reno and have additional capacity to allow more building it's up to their city councils the court to decide what to do with it Washoe District Judge John Gabrielli said Tuesday With that the judge opened the door for the two cities to begin issuing new building permits next month based on water savings of 5 million gallons per day over last year I'm pretty well out of this Gabrielli said after hearing from the gathering of attorneys in his troom He said he will keep the court case open to make sure his order of March 1977 is followed That order said any additional sewer capacity realized at the plant will be divided on a per cent basis between the two cities Reno getting the larger amount Gabrielli refused to sanction a joint resolution passed by the two city councils in August That resolution notes the water savings and decreased sewer plant flow and sets forth a quarterly allocation system through 1980 giving residential building preference over commercial Citing the doctrine of separation among the branches of government the judge said the court can neither approve nor disapprove of action taken by the councils I'll make no finding as to how much sewer capacity there is or isn't It is up to the city councils to determine that and allocate it as they see Gabrielli said The judge referred back to his order in March when he lifted his injunction barring the two cities from issuing any permits at all In that ruling Gabrielli refused to include the cities procedures for issuing permits He said he wouldn't put the court in the position of a legislature by making decisions that should be made by the city administrators Although Gabrielli didn't stamp his judicial approval on the allocation system the two cities will begin issuing permits next month based on the plan outlined in the August joint resolution Because of the critical housing shortage in Washoe County tile two cities devised an allocation plan leaning heavily toward residential development tor the next three years The extra sewer capacity will be divided quarterly During the first six months of the allocations residential projects will receive 82.5 per cent of the sewer capacity and commercial construction 17.5 per cent For the next three years the residential allocation will gradually decrease but never will fall below 74 per cent The Associated General Contractors voiced its op- position to that allocation system to the Reno City Council Monday If there is to be any allocation plan contractors Rowland Oakes said it should be between residential and commercial The contractors attorney John McCune argued before Tuesday that the system should not be included in court order He urged the judge and Gabriela to leave out any reference to an allocation system in the decision One provision ol the allocation procedures allows city councils to change them as they see fit But Mayor Bruno said this week that the City of Reno will keep its commitment to residential building despite the contractors request The mayor said he foresees no change in the allocation plan Any amendment to the allocation system would i equire approval of both city councils Several attorneys representing developers in court Monday asked Gabrielli to retain his jurisdiction over the sewer plant operations John Frankovich representing the MGM Grand casino under construction said his client wants the court to retain jurisdiction in case the 5 million gallons the cities say they have to allocate turns out not to exist MGM wants to make sure its assurance of sewer capacity isn't jeopardized he said Attorney Pat Cashill representing the Sahara Reno under construction voiced the same concern The judge said he would leave the case open for any further applications to the court The case began almost a year ago when Sparks sued Reno to protect its share of the plant The Sparks suit resulted in an order restraining both cities from issuing more building permits until they showed the court data on the sewer plant operations That ban was lifted in March and the judge divided remaining capacity between the two cities on the ratio In May Reno ran out of capacity and hasn't issued permits since then Sparks began allocating permits quarterly in March and still has limited capacity left over from the last ruling Death in the Rain Japanese Jet Crashes on Malaysian Plantation KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia UPI A Japan Air Lines DCS jetliner with 79 persons aboard crashed into a foot hill on a Malaysian palm oil plantation Tuesday night while trying to land at International Airport in heavy rain Police Chief Haniff Osmar said early today as many as 54 persons aboard the aircraft may have been killed He said 18 bodies had been recovered and that many of the 25 known survivors were in serious conditions with burns suffered in the crash Airline officials said 29 of the passengers were Japanese and the rest were from other countries It was not immediately known whether any Americans were aboard It was the worst commercial airline crash in Malaysian history authorities said The plane which crashed at about p.m had been on a flight from Tokyo to Singapore via Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur It carried 69 passengers and a crew of 10 JAL officials said The jetliner which survivors said had twice circled the airport slashed across at least 50 trees before hitting the hillside 20 miles north of the Malaysian capital Miss Tan Ah Moot 28 one of the survivors said from her hospital bed that the plane was descending toward the airport when it went out of control It felt like we were going upside down The aircraft split into three sections with the front exploding in flames according to survivors and witnesses It was a pitiful said Osman Othman 25 a villager who witnessed the crash The survivors most of them suffering from severe burns kept crying Please help me please help me Another survivor Tokyo businessman Makoto Araki said it took four hours before rescue helicopters were able to reach the scene Police said most of the survivors were in the rear of the aircraft and that the front section was badly damaged The plane went down in a wooded area Rescue vehicles were halted by the terrain more than a mile from the scene of the crash and rescue teams had to walk the rest of the way reports from the area said Bodies and luggage were strewn about the hillside among the debris from the aircraft One of the passengers Tokyo businessman Takada 25 said I did not realize that the plane was in difficulty We were only told to fasten our seat belts as we were proaching Kuala Lumpur It was raining quite heavily at the time Suddenly we were all jolted about in our seats There were screams and Reno Extortion Suspect Reno police detectives guard Timothy W Murphy 35 Reno in an elevator at the city jail Tuesday afternoon Murphy was arrested after a Reno banker and his wife were involved in an extortion plot Journal Photo by Marilyn Newton Jet Hijacked in India BOMBAY India UPI Suspected members of a Japanese extremist group hijacked a Japan Air Lines jetliner carrying 155 persons shortly after takeoff from Bombay today airport officials said JAL officials in New Delhi said the plane landed in Dacca Bangladesh five hours later and the pilot told the control tower the hijackers were members of the Japanese Red Army acting against the repressive Japanese government Abortion Funds Rejected WASHINGTON UPI The House Tuesday voted for the third time this year to ban use of federal funds for abortions except to save a woman's life On a vote the House rejected Senate language that would permit federal funding of abortions in case of rape incest or where a doctor declares it medically necessary The House and Senate have been unable to reach a com- promise on the emotional abortion issue and senators charged with negotiating an agreement in a conference committee had refused to meet again with their House counterparts until another test vote was taken Tuesday's vote means the issue now will go back to con- ference panel which must try to reach agreement soon because the abortion question is attached to money bills funding two major federal departments Lawyer Indicted in Bombing BIRMINGHAM Ala UPI A grand jury has indicted an avowed racist Georgia lawyer for a 1958 black church bombing in Birmingham and more indictments will be sought for other racial bombings in addition to a murder indictment already returned sources said Tuesday Sources said the indictment was sent to officials in Marietta Ga to be served on Stoner director of the National States Rights Party There was no confirmation from Georgia of- that the indictment had been forwarded Stoner was indicted Monday for the 1958 bombing of the black Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham sources said 7 Sections 74 Pages Health State TV Log li TV Vitals 23
