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fottrnalI O l s t Year—No. 65
Reno s orning and Sunday Newspaper
Tuesday, January 26 , 1 9 7 1 I5c Daily —25c Sunday
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FOUND GUILTY O F MURDER
Manson, C o -d e fe n d a n ts C o n v ic te dC o m p a n y A s k s
1 0 Mi l l ionIn D a m a g e s
A $10 million suit charging "intentional decep-tion" has been filed in Washoe District Court byTahoe 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 Sierrabought two parcels of land from Boise Cas-cade in 1968 for over $600,000. Intending tobuild condominiums, they asked for assur-ance from Boise Cascade that they did notintend 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 withthe Washoe Regional Planning Commssion askingauthority, which was granted, to build 136 condo-minium units.
Tahoe Sierra says that word of the project hasleaked out and many people are not buying theirunits a s they have been advised that Incline VillageInc. will undersell them.
The suit alleges that in 1968 Boise Cas-cade made representations that were falsewith the intent to induce the plaintiff to. . . purchase land from them. Accordingto the plaintiffs, Boise Cascade intended atall times to build condominiums, knowingthat their competition would be injurious toTahoe Sierra.Represented by Reno attorney Coe Swobe and
the firm of Echeverria and Osborne, Tahoe Sierraclaims damages of 5 , 0 8 7 , 0 0 0 i n addition to punitivedamages of the same amount.
Two More U S
Tuna Boats SeizedQUITO, Ecuador (UPI) — Ecuador reported
Monday the capture of two more American tunaboats accused of poaching in territorial waters. Th eseizures brought to 14 the number of trawlers cap-tured since Jan. 11.
Th e Navy ministry identif ied the new tuna boats
seized as the Caribbean and the Day Island, botho f San Diego, Calif. It disclosed at the same timethat Ecuador has collected about 7 0 0 , 0 0 0 in f i n e sand licenses from the seized ships.
Ecuador claims its terri torial waters extend2 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 Guayaquildockyard, the navy said. Th e Lexington s u f f e r e dbow damage while inadequately anchored, the Navysaid.
Today's Journal18 Pages, 2 Sections
NEVADA-CALI FORNI A: Elvis Presley l i f e threatargued—Page 11Washoe jud ge talks about youth trend in f e l o n y Page 11Wells Overpass and property tax increaseviewed—Page 8Teamster loan f or Tahoe development probed
—Page 8U.S . -WORLD: U g a n d a president overthrown
—Page 2Venezuelan airliner crashes—Page 2
SPORTS: USC takes over No. 1 spot—Page 9Sullivan Award recipient named—Page 10Ralph Mantor wins pro-am—Page 10Amusements and Theaters 7Classified Advertisements 14-17Dear Abby 12Deaths and Vita l Statistics 3Editorials and Commentary 4Gallup Poll 11Health Column 4Legislative News 2Nevada-California News 7Sparks High School News 3Sports Section 9 - 1 0Stock Market Report 13Tahoe Basin News 7Television Log 12Weather Map and Temperatures 2World News Briefs 2World o f W ome n 5
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Sinatra SlugsPhotographerACAPULCO, Mexico (UPI )
—Frank Sinatra was accusedof beating up a Mexicanphotographer and smashinghis camera after the photo-grapher took his photo at anAcapnlco night club Monday.
a y O il S p i l i
H e a r i n g S t a r t sSAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-
The skipper of the ArizonaStandard said M onday his sistership, the Oregon Standard,disappeared from hi s rada rscreens shortly before a colli-sion under the Golden GateBridge a week ago whichcreated a vast oi l spill.
Capt. Harry H. Parnell , 46, ofAlameda, told a Coast Guardhearing into the incident thathis ship's bow was struck in theother ship "like a cork in aleaky bottle."
Parnell said he shifted hiscargo from front to back tochange the trim so the ArizonaStandard could back out.
He said the ships were locked
together about seven hoursbefore they were pulled apart .Parnell said his ship wa s
carrying 114,800 barrels of SanJoaquin crude oil and it has acapacity of 115,000 "barrels.
The ship has an allowabledraft of 31 feet, 3-8 of an inchand was 31 feet at the time ofthe impact .
Parnell said his chief o f f i c e rplotted the course of theOregon Standard for some timeprior to the collision. H e saidthe Oregon Standard "blendedinto" the bridge on the radarscreens before the collision.
Reds HarassPositionsP H NOM PENH (UPI)-Com -
munist troops prowling thefringes of Phnom Penh ha-rassed Cambodian positions 15miles northwest of the capitalMonday and U.S. aircraft werecalled in to silence them. Th ecurfew here wa s tightenedamid new terror bomb scares.
In southern Cambodia, Cam-bodian and South Vietnameseforces ended a 12-day o f f e n s i v ealong Highway 4 between PhnomPenh and the seaport ofK o mp o n g Thorn, declaring theroad open a nd ready fo r traffic.
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C H A R L E S M A N S O N
Voting Machine
Error Reported
y ommitteeA special Assembly commit-
tee reported Monday it f o u n da voting machine used in thedisputed election between Dem-ocrat A rt Espinoza and Repub-lican Hal Smith of Henderson,wa s defective and it did notproperly count the votes castfo r Smith.
The committee, composed off o u r Republicans and threeDemocrats, unan imously report-ed its findings to the full Assem-
bly which will take up the seat-ing of Smith today.
Party LinesDemocrats concede the As-
sembly will probably vote alongparty lines to seat Smith butindicate the contest of electioncould end up in the N e vadaSupreme Court.
Espinoza said he wasn' t goingto bow out of the contest butadmitted no w there wa s somedoubt as to who was actuallyelected last November.
"When I came up here therewas no doubt, but now I 'm notsure," he said. Further act ion,he said, will be up to his at-torneys.
Assemb lyman Do n Mello, D-Sparks, a m em ber of the spe-cial committee, said he expect-ed the lower house to dividealong party lines. Th e Repub-licans hold a 21-18 majority.
Th e committee f o u n d the vot-ing machine in question "hasbeen kept in a place and insuch a m anner that it was nottampered with since its be ingused for voting purposes an dthat the m achine has not beenopened or moved since the f r o n t
doors of the machine, only, wereopened for the purpose of read-ing the votes cast for the o f f i c eof Assembly by the recountboard."
Vote ReportThe report said 165 persons
voted, with Espinoza receiving7 9 ; J ames E. Smalley getting76 and Smith 8. The committeesaid Smalley's vote was not indoubt.
After testing the machine, thehighest n umber of votes record-ed for Smith wa s eight. Ye tSmith presented 62 depositionsfrom persons wh o voted, thatsaid they voted for him.
The f inal outcome was 2 , 0 8 8fo r Espinoza an d 2,072 for Smith.
F o l l o w e r s
T o M ai n t a i n
L o n g V i g i lLOS ANGELES ( U P I ) - A s
the verdict convicting hippieleader Charles Manson andthree of his girl followers ofseven counts of murder wa sread, four pale , waifish-lookinggirls knelt side-by-side in f r o n tof tte Hall of Justice.
Sandra Good, Ketty Lutesin-ger, Sue Bartell and BrendaMcCann knelt with rather wa nexpressions and talked with-newsmen as news of the verdictreached them. A suddenforlorness came over them butthey said they would continuetheir vigil until "Charlie wasfree."
Girls ConfidentTheir "father," Manson , the
man who was convicted justminutes before of seven countso f first degree murder andconspiracy to murder in thegrisly slaying of honey-blondeactress Sharon Tate and sixothers in A ug. 1969, will befree, according to the girls.
W he n asked how long theywould maintain their vigil, analmost daily watch that has runthe course of the seven m onth
trial, they each said, "We'rejust going to wait here until h e(Manson) gets out."
Reporters a n d onlookerspressed around the girls an dthrew questions at them aboutthe verdict.
"W hat 's your reaction to theverdict for your m a n ? " on eperson called out.
"What 's there to say?" saidSandy with wide-eyed petu-lance. "The press has been themouthpiece of the prosecution.Charlie never preached a racewar. He never did any of thosethings. W ho knows what hap-pened? Nobody wa s allowed totestify," she said.
Vigil MaintainedA ll during the trial, his
"family" girls sat or kneltoutside the gray - columnedcourthouse. They sang songs,they "prayed" and they readletters f r o m their leader wh owas incarcerated in one of theupper floors. Each had carvedan "X" into their foreheads.This, they claim, symbolizestheir last names. "We have nolast names. "We're all "X."
G e r m a n , F r e n c h L e a d e r sS t r e s s M o n e t a r y U n i o n
PA RIS (U PI )— W e s t GermanChancellor W i l ly Brandt andFrench President G e o r g e sPompidou agreed Monday tomo v e towards European Mone-tary Union step by step, thusremoving a major irritant inFranco-German relations.
Determimed to restore f u l lharmo n y in relations, the twoleaders sought to resolve otherdifferences concerning East-West relations an d Britain'sCommon Market membership.
Brandt and Pompidou movedFranco-German relations off
their dead center on Europeanproblems during an hour-longElysee Palace conversation. Itwas the first of three meetingsMonday and Tuesday undertheir regular bi-annual sum-mits.
"Our conversation will allow
us to move forward on the roadof monetary and economicunion," Brandt told newsmenlater. He said he was "verysatisfied" by the way the talkswent.
Details of the compromisewere no t im mediately disclosed.
PATRICIA KRENWINKEL
LESLIE VAN HOUTEN
SUSAN DENISE ATKINS
e a v y Fighting
R a g i n g in L a o sV IEN TIAN E, Laos (UPI)-
Conununiques Monday reportedheavy fighting
between Laotianforces and 1,500 North Vietna-mese troops nea r the Plain ofJars. Three Laotian positionswere attacked an d there werereports of Communist Chinesemilitary supply planes landingin Laos.
Th e o f f i c i a l spokesman forthe Laotian Defense Ministry, e n Thongphan Knocksy, de-scribed the f ighting as "veryheavy" but gave no details one f f e c t s or casualties. He saidthree battalions of NorthVietnamese attacked govern-ment positions north, northeastand southeast of the Plain ofJars, a vast tract situated incentral Laos.
Thongphan said six NorthVitenamese battalions, identi-
f i e d as elements of the 3 1 2 t h
Infantry Division, returned to
northeast Laos in the plain arealast week after f o u r m onths of
regrouping an d t ra in ing in
North V ie tnam . He did notspecify whether the f i g h t i n glast weekend i n v o l v e d theseunits bu t that was theimplication.
PRECIPITATION D ATAAmount recorded (or the 24 hour period
ending at 4 p.m,noneJuly 1, to date, 3.98To date last year, 4.17Normal to date, 3.78Sunset today, 5:11 p.mSunrise tomorrow, 7:12 a.m.
FORE C AST RENO AND VICINITY - F*lr with
some high clouds through Wednesda y .Mild days. Gent le winds. High <0. Low 25.
E A S T E R N NEVADA — Partly cloudyin the north and fair In the south throughWednesday. Mild days.
S O U T H E R N NEVADA - Fair throughWednesday. A lit t le windy in the after-noons.
S I E R R A N E V A D A — Fair through
Wednesday. Slight ly warmer da y s .WESTERN NEVADA — Occasionalcloudiness In the extreme north but fairotherwise through Wednesda y . Slightlywarmer days.
L A K E T A H O E B A S I N - Fair withsome high cloudiness through Wednesda y .Mild days. Gent le northerly winds. Highin the 40s and low 50s. Low in to 20,
A b a n d o n e d C a r s S o l u t i o n S o u g h t
S e v e n D e a t h s
A t t r i b u t e d
T o 'F a m ily 'LO S A NGELES (UPI) -
Charles Manson and threehomeless young women hesnared into a cuit of free loveand bloody death were convict-ed Monday of first degreemurder in the senseless slaugh-
ter of actress Sharon Tate andsix other helpless victims.
Th e same predominantlymiddle-aged jury now willdecide whether the 36-year-oldex-convict guru an d three dark-haired hippie girls will get lifeimprisonment or death in thegas chamber.
"You'l l never live to see thatday," Manson snarled to JudgeCharles J. Older as he was ledfrom a courtroom that w as wallto wall with armed deputies.
Girls GiggleTh e girls giggled after the
verdicts were read and onesaid: Oh, doesn't the ju rlook sad "
The seven-man, five-womanjury f o u n d the self-styled Jesus Christ" guilty of sendinghis "robots" out to stab an dshoot to death five persons atthe Tate home and two others
at the residence of wealthysupermarket owner Leno LaBi-anca .
Th e girls —Susan Atkins, 22 ,Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, andLeslie Van Houten, 21 —alsowere convicted of first degreemurde r . Miss V an Houten, aformer high school beautyqueen, wa s charged only withthe LaBianca slayings andconspiracy to commit murder.
Th e f o u r were convictedlargely on the eyewitnesstestimony of tiny blonde LindaKasabian, who joined the weirdcommune only a month beforethe August, 1969, slayings andwho was given immunity fromprosecution in exchange forturning informer. She was lastreported with her mother andtwo children in New Ham p-shire.
Penalty Phase
The penalty phase of the trialwill start Thursday. DeputyDistrict Attorney Vincent Bugli-osi said he expected to callabout 50 witnesses in support ofthe state demand that all fourgo to the gas chamber at SanQuentin.
Manson heard the verdicts inabsolute silence but then begancalling to the judge: Hey,pops. Look at me pops."
"We weren' t allowed to puton a defense, old man," hesaid. "I think the jury's guilty."
Th e three young women,dressed in blue denim prisondresses w i t h darker bluesweaters, put their headstogether an d whispered as theverdicts were read by courtclerk Gene Darrow.
27 VerdictsIt took Darrow 16 minutes to
read the 27 separate verdicts
which included four counts ofconspiracy to commit murde ras well as the individualkillings.
Defense attorney Paul Fitz-gerald said the defendantsexpected the guilty verdicts a ndthat their lawyers were "disap-pointed but not surprised.
"W e thought we lost the casewhen we lost the change ofv en ue motion. W e had about asmuch chance of a fair trial inLos A ngeles as Sam Sheppard
Legislation wa s introducedMonday to ha l t the spread ofabandoned cars across the c o u n -tryside in Nevada ,
Sen. C l i f f Young, R-Reno, andLe e Walker , D-North Las Ve-gas, propose each mototist pay 2 5 - 5 0 for each car to the StateM o t o r V e hi c le D e p a rt m e n twhich would set up a revolving
f u n d . W h e n th e motorist turnsin his car to a ju nk dealer,he w o u l d receive a r e f u n d ofhis fee .
You ng said over a 10-year per-
iod there were 3,500 old cars
abandone d alone in Sun Valley
north of Reno . T he persons wh o
abandone d cars would not re-
ceive their r e f u n d under this
legislation. T hat money wouldbe used to haul the cars awayto j u n k yards.
In a second ecology bill, the
State Depar tm ent of Heal th ,W e l f a r e an d Rehabilitationw o u l d set up rules towards stop-p i n g excessive noist in variousparts of Nevada .
SB-39, sponsored by Y o u n g ,
Walker, C h i c Hecht , R -Las V e-
gas, Thomas Wilson, D-Reno,
and John Foley, D-Las Vegas
says, "the legislature f i n d s that
excessive noise endangers phy-sical and emotional health andwell-being, interferes with l e g i t i -mate business an d recreational
activities, increases constructioncosts, depresses property val-ues, o f f e n d s the senses, createspublic nuisances and reduces thequality of our environment."
Y o u n g an d W i l s o n also spon-
sored SB-41 which protects wild
horses and burros. It prohibits
the killing of mustangs or bur-ros, but it would allow theircapture if it was determinedth e animals have seriously in -jured w i l d l i f e or agricultural in-terests.
A l s o introduced in the Senatewa s a resolution for the leg-islative commission to study en-vi r onme nt a l po llution and reportto the 1973 Nevad a Legislature.
had in Cleveland."
Three Killed
In ExplosionMcALESTER, O W a (UP I )~
Three men were killed andthree others injured Monday
night when an explosion at theU.S. Naval Amm unition Depotsouth of McAlester destroyed ad e a c t i v a t i oM furnace aw d fa-cility.
