8/12/2019 Manson and Girls Convicted, Vigil Remains http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/manson-and-girls-convicted-vigil-remains 1/1 Final Edition Exiled Teacher Teffs Story -Page 8 fottrnal IOlst Year—No. 65 Reno s orning and Sunday Newspaper Tuesday, January 26 , 1971 I5c Daily —25c Sunday Carson Coffege fif/f-Page 2 FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Manson, C o-defendants Convicted Company Asks 10 Million In Damages A $10 million suit charging "intentional decep- tion" has been filed in Washoe District Court by Tahoe Sierra Development Co. Inc. against Boise Cascade Communities Inc. Also named as defendants are Incline Village Inc., a Boise subsidiary, and the Interlake Steel Co. According to the complaint, Tahoe Sierra bought two parcels of land from Boise Cas- cade in 1968 for over $600,000. Intending to build condominiums, they asked for assur- ance from Boise Cascade that they did not intend to build competitive units. Boise Cas- cade, the suit alleges, made an oral agree- ment to this effect. On this understanding, Sierra Tahoe proceeded with construction and has built 158 units to date. Tahoe Sierra also bought 38 acres in Brockway, and planned to build 785 more, the complaint states. In August of 1970, however, the co-defendant, Incline Village Inc., filed a subdivision ma p with the Washoe Regional Planning Commssion asking authority, which was granted, to build 136 condo- minium units. Tahoe Sierra says that word of the project has leaked out and many people are not buying their units as they have been advised that Incline Village Inc. will undersell them. The suit alleges that in 1968 Boise Cas- cade made representations that were false with the intent to induce the plaintiff to . . . purchase land from them. According to the plaintiffs, Boise Cascade intended at all times to build condominiums, knowing that their competition would be injurious to Tahoe Sierra. Represented by Reno attorney Coe Swobe and the firm of Echeverria and Osborne, Tahoe Sierra claims damages of 5,087,000 in addition to punitive damages of the same amount. Two More U S Tuna Boats Seized QUITO, Ecuador (UPI) — Ecuador reported Monday the capture of two more American tuna boats accused of poaching in territorial waters. The seizures brought to 14 the number of trawlers cap- tured since Jan. 11. Th e Navy ministry identified the new tuna boats seized as the Caribbean and the Day Island, both of San Diego, Calif. It disclosed at the same time that Ecuador has collected about 700,000 in fines and licenses from the seized ships. Ecuador claims its territorial waters extend 2 00 miles off-shore while the United States recog- nizes only a 12-mile limit for deep sea fishing. One of the captured American boats, the Lex- ington, still is undergoing repairs in a Guayaquil dockyard, the navy said. Th e Lexington suffered bow damage while inadequately anchored, the Navy said. Today's Journal 18 Pages, 2 Sections NEVADA-CALIFORNIA: Elvis Presley life threat argued—Page 11 Washoe jud ge talks about youth trend in felony Page 11 Wells Overpass and property tax increase viewed—Page 8 Teamster loan f or Tahoe development probed —Page 8 U.S.-WORLD: Uganda president overthrown —Page 2 Venezuelan airliner crashes—Page 2 SPORTS: USC takes over No. 1 spot—Page 9 Sullivan Award recipient named—Page 10 Ralph Mantor wins pro-am—Page 10 Amusements and Theaters 7 Classified Advertisements 14-17 Dear Abby 12 Deaths and Vita l Statistics 3 Editorials and Commentary 4 Gallup Poll 11 Health Column 4 Legislative News 2 Nevada-California News 7 Sparks High School News 3 Sports Section 9-10 Stock Market Report 13 Tahoe Basin News 7 Television Log 12 Weather Map and Temperatures 2 World News Briefs 2 World of Women 5 NEVADA STATS JOURNAL A Spedn Newspaper) Memo»r ot United Prm Internationa. 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Parnell, 46, of Alameda, told a Coast Guard hearing into the incident that his ship's bow was struck in the other ship "like a cork in a leaky bottle." Parnell said he shifted his cargo from front to back to change the trim so the Arizona Standard could back out. He said the ships were locked together about seven hours before they were pulled apart. Parnell said his ship was carrying 114,800 barrels of San Joaquin crude oil and it has a capacity of 115,000 "barrels. The ship has an allowable draft of 31 feet, 3-8 of an inch and was 31 feet at the time of the impact. Parnell said his chief officer plotted the course of the Oregon Standard for some time prior to the collision. He said the Oregon Standard "blended into" the bridge on the radar screens before the collision. Reds Harass Positions PHNOM PENH (UPI)-Com- munist troops prowling the fringes of Phnom Penh ha- rassed Cambodian positions 15 miles northwest of the capital Monday and U.S. aircraft were called in to silence them. The curfew here was tightened amid new terror bomb scares. In southern Cambodia, Cam- bodian and South Vietnamese forces ended a 12-day offensive along Highway 4 between Phnom Penh and the seaport of Kompong Thorn, declaring the road open a nd ready for traffic. (FOR TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPI- TATION DATA AROUND THE NATION SEE PA GE 2) Observation Point RENO Sparks Carson City Virginia City Yerington pyramd Lake Verdi Fallen Lovelock Winnemucca Battle Mountan Elko Ey Austin Tonopah Las Vegas Owyhee Bishop Blue Canyon Sacramento Susanville Tahoe City South Lake Tahoe Truckee Airport Incline Village High Low 56 23 56 24 57 £2 59 55 63 58 56 55 50 47 50 56 61 49 67 50 56 52 45 42 49 51 24 28 19 32 25 31 27 35 35 34 14 28 20 32 34 24 34 37 27 17 9 8 18 CHARLES MANSON Voting Machine Error Reported y ommittee A special Assembly commit- tee reported Monday it found a voting machine used in the disputed election between Dem- ocrat Art Espinoza and Repub- lican Hal Smith of Henderson, wa s defective and it did not properly count the votes cast fo r Smith. The committee, composed of four Republicans and three Democrats, unan imously report- ed its findings to the full Assem- bly which will take up the seat- ing of Smith today. Party Lines Democrats concede the As- sembly will probably vote along party lines to seat Smith but indicate the contest of election could end up in the Nevada Supreme Court. Espinoza said he wasn't going to bow out of the contest but admitted now there wa s some doubt as to who was actually elected last November. "When I came up here there was no doubt, but now I'm not sure," he said. Further action, he said, will be up to his at- torneys. Assemblyman Don Mello, D- Sparks, a member of the spe- cial committee, said he expect- ed the lower house to divide along party lines. Th e Repub- licans hold a 21-18 majority. Th e committee found the vot- ing machine in question "has been kept in a place and in such a m anner that it was not tampered with since its being used for voting purposes an d that the machine has not been opened or moved since the front doors of the machine, only, were opened for the purpose of read- ing the votes cast for the office of Assembly by the recount board." Vote Report The report said 165 persons voted, with Espinoza receiving 79; James E. Smalley getting 76 and Smith 8. The committee said Smalley's vote was not in doubt. After testing the machine, the highest number of votes record- ed for Smith wa s eight. Yet Smith presented 62 depositions from persons wh o voted, that said they voted for him. The final outcome was 2,088 fo r Espinoza an d 2,072 for Smith. Followers To Maintain Long Vigil LOS ANGELES (UPI)-As the verdict convicting hippie leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers of seven counts of murder wa s read, four pale, waifish-looking girls knelt side-by-side in front of tte Hall of Justice. Sandra Good, Ketty Lutesin- ger, Sue Bartell and Brenda McCann knelt with rather wan expressions and talked with- newsmen as news of the verdict reached them. A sudden forlorness came over them but they said they would continue their vigil until "Charlie was free." Girls Confident Their "father," Manson, the man who was convicted just minutes before of seven counts of first degree murder and conspiracy to murder in the grisly slaying of honey-blonde actress Sharon Tate and six others in Aug. 1969, will be free, according to the girls. When asked how long they would maintain their vigil, an almost daily watch that has run the course of the seven month trial, they each said, "We're just going to wait here until he (Manson) gets out." Reporters and onlookers pressed around the girls and threw questions at them about the verdict. "What's your reaction to the verdict for your man?" one person called out. "What's there to say?" said Sandy with wide-eyed petu- lance. "The press has been the mouthpiece of the prosecution. Charlie never preached a race war. He never did any of those things. Who knows what hap- pened? Nobody was allowed to testify," she said. Vigil Maintained A ll during the trial, his "family" girls sat or knelt outside the gray - columned courthouse. They sang songs, they "prayed" and they read letters from their leader wh o was incarcerated in one of the upper floors. Each had carved an "X" into their foreheads. This, they claim, symbolizes their last names. "We have no last names. "We're all "X." German, French Leaders Stress Monetary Union PARIS (UPI)—West German Chancellor W i l ly Brandt and French President Georges Pompidou agreed Monday to move towards European Mone- tary Union step by step, thus removing a major irritant in Franco-German relations. Determimed to restore full harmony in relations, the two leaders sought to resolve other differences concerning East- West relations an d Britain's Common Market membership. Brandt and Pompidou moved Franco-German relations off their dead center on European problems during an hour-long Elysee Palace conversation. It was the first of three meetings Monday and Tuesday under their regular bi-annual sum- mits. "Our conversation will allow us to move forward on the road of monetary and economic union," Brandt told newsmen later. He said he was "very satisfied" by the way the talks went. Details of the compromise were not immediately disclosed. PATRICIA KRENWINKEL LESLIE VAN HOUTEN SUSAN DENISE ATKINS eavy Fighting Raging in Laos VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)- Conununiques Monday reported heavy fighting between Laotian forces and 1,500 North Vietna- mese troops near the Plain of Jars. Three Laotian positions were attacked and there were reports of Communist Chinese military supply planes landing in Laos. Th e official spokesman for the Laotian Defense Ministry, en Thongphan Knocksy, de- scribed the fighting as "very heavy" but gave no details on effects or casualties. He said three battalions of North Vietnamese attacked govern- ment positions north, northeast and southeast of the Plain of Jars, a vast tract situated in central Laos. Thongphan said six North Vitenamese battalions, identi- fied as elements of the 312th Infantry Division, returned to northeast Laos in the plain area last week after four m onths of regrouping an d training in North Vietnam. He did not specify whether the fighting last weekend involved these units bu t that was the implication. PRECIPITATION DATA Amount recorded (or the 24 hour period ending at 4 p.m,none July 1, to date, 3.98 To date last year, 4.17 Normal to date, 3.78 Sunset today, 5:11 p.m Sunrise tomorrow, 7:12 a.m. FORECAST RENO AND VICINITY - F*lr with some high clouds through Wednesday. Mild days. Gentle winds. High <0. Low 25. EASTERN NEVADA — Partly cloudy in the north and fair In the south through Wednesday. Mild days. SOUTHERN NEVADA - Fair through Wednesday. A little windy in the after- noons. SIERRA NEVADA — Fair through Wednesday. Slightly warmer days. WESTERN NEVADA — Occasional cloudiness In the extreme north but fair otherwise through Wednesday. Slightly warmer days. LAKE TAHOE BASIN - Fair with some high cloudiness through Wednesday. Mild days. Gentle northerly winds. High in the 40s and low 50s. Low in to 20, Abandoned Cars Solution Sought Seven Deaths Attributed To 'Family' LO S ANGELES (UPI) - Charles Manson and three homeless young women he snared into a cuit of free love and bloody death were convict- ed Monday of first degree murder in the senseless slaugh- ter of actress Sharon Tate and six other helpless victims. Th e same predominantly middle-aged jury now will decide whether the 36-year-old ex-convict guru and three dark- haired hippie girls will get life imprisonment or death in the gas chamber. "You'll never live to see that day," Manson snarled to Judge Charles J. Older as he was led from a courtroom that was wall to wall with armed deputies. Girls Giggle Th e girls giggled after the verdicts were read and one said: Oh, doesn't the ju r look sad " The seven-man, five-woman jury found the self-styled Jesus Christ" guilty of sending his "robots" out to stab and shoot to death five persons at the Tate home and two others at the residence of wealthy supermarket owner Leno LaBi- anca. Th e girls —Susan Atkins, 22, Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, and Leslie Van Houten, 21 —also were convicted of first degree murder. Miss Van Houten, a former high school beauty queen, was charged only with the LaBianca slayings and conspiracy to commit murder. Th e four were convicted largely on the eyewitness testimony of tiny blonde Linda Kasabian, who joined the weird commune only a month before the August, 1969, slayings and who was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for turning informer. She was last reported with her mother and two children in New Hamp- shire. Penalty Phase The penalty phase of the trial will start Thursday. Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugli- osi said he expected to call about 50 witnesses in support of the state demand that all four go to the gas chamber at San Quentin. Manson heard the verdicts in absolute silence but then began calling to the judge: Hey, pops. Look at me pops." "We weren't allowed to put on a defense, old man," he said. "I think the jury's guilty." Th e three young women, dressed in blue denim prison dresses with darker blue sweaters, put their heads together and whispered as the verdicts were read by court clerk Gene Darrow. 27 Verdicts It took Darrow 16 minutes to read the 27 separate verdicts which included four counts of conspiracy to commit murder as well as the individual killings. Defense attorney Paul Fitz- gerald said the defendants expected the guilty verdicts a nd that their lawyers were "disap- pointed but not surprised. "W e thought we lost the case when we lost the change of venue motion. We had about as much chance of a fair trial in Los Angeles as Sam Sheppard Legislation wa s introduced Monday to halt the spread of abandoned cars across the coun- tryside in Nevada, Sen. Cliff Young, R-Reno, and Le e Walker, D-North Las Ve- gas, propose each mototist pay 25- 50 for each car to the State Motor Vehicle Department which would set up a revolving fund. When the motorist turns in his car to a junk dealer, he would receive a refund of his fee. Young said over a 10-year per- iod there were 3,500 old cars abandoned alone in Sun Valley north of Reno. T he persons who abandoned cars would not re- ceive their refund under this legislation. That money would be used to haul the cars away to junk yards. In a second ecology bill, the State Department of Health, Welfare and Rehabilitation would set up rules towards stop- ping excessive noist in various parts of Nevada. SB-39, sponsored by Young, Walker, Chic Hecht, R-Las V e- gas, Thomas Wilson, D-Reno, and John Foley, D-Las Vegas says, "the legislature finds that excessive noise endangers phy- sical and emotional health and well-being, interferes with legiti- mate business and recreational activities, increases construction costs, depresses property val- ues, offends the senses, creates public nuisances and reduces the quality of our environment." Young and Wilson also spon- sored SB-41 which protects wild horses and burros. It prohibits the killing of mustangs or bur- ros, but it would allow their capture if it was determined th e animals have seriously in- jured wildlife or agricultural in- terests. Also introduced in the Senate wa s a resolution for the leg- islative commission to study en- vironmental po llution and report to the 1973 Nevada Legislature. had in Cleveland." Three Killed In Explosion McALESTER, OWa (UPI)~ Three men were killed and three others injured Monday night when an explosion at the U.S. Naval Amm unition Depot south of McAlester destroyed a deactivatioM furnace aw d fa- cility.