Stories published April 18, 1996Las Vegas Sun

Doris A. Hammargren: Nicheside services will be 4 p.m. Friday in Palm Valley View Memorial Park. A private burial will follow. Palm Mortuary, 800 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, is handling arrangements.

Rod MacLeish: Presidential signature for sale: All of this comes to the fore because George Washington's autograph is worth more than that of any other president, according to an article in the antiques newspaper "Small Fortune."

Manx Austin Werley: American Burial and Cremation Services, 310 Foremaster Lane handled arrangements.

Jose DeJesus Ruvalcaba: Visitation is scheduled from noon-8 p.m. today with a 6:30 p.m. rosary in Bunker Mortuary, 925 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday in St. Anne's Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Eden Vale Memorial Park.

Preliminary Hearing Set for Mushroom Farm Suspects: Both men surrendered to authorities on Tuesday and were released on $25,000 bond.

Daniel Schorr: Invasion of privacy, how the FBI rewarded a hero: You may guess that I'm talking about David Kaczynski, the social worker who made the agonizing decision to turn in his brother in order to possibly save innocent lives. He was rewarded by having his privacy shattered in violation of the FBI's written promise to protect his identity. Further, he has had to endure suggestions - false, according to his attorney - that he was seeking the million-dollar reward and/or trying to bargain down from the death penalty for his brother.

Time all the elections just after income tax day: Time all the elections just after income tax day

Oklahoma City: Out of its darkest moment, a blueprint for renewal: Sam Walker; For Mr. Stoll, Oklahoma City's director of planning, it's a small reminder of the damage wrought by last year's terrorist attack, and the frustrating pace of the cleanup.

Flora Hundley: Visitation is scheduled from 2-7 p.m. Friday in Palm Mortuary, 1325 N. Main St. Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Second Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Palm Memorial Park.

Mail-in licenses draw a crowd: The figure represents 46 percent participation in the new program among those eligible in March.

City Council approved spending: * $191,332 to Western Paper and Office Depot for printing paper. Under the contract, Western will get $183,088 and Office Depot will get $8,244.

Crashing car cuts power: The driver, who name has not been released, hit a pole near Tamarus Street and Russell Road at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday, knocking it to the ground, police said.

"Tony" Rizzuto: Visitation is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. today with a 7 p.m. rosary in Davis Paradise Valley Funeral Home, 6200 S. Eastern Ave. Burial will be in New York.

Dale E. Hoff: Services will be 3:30 p.m. Friday in Palm Mortuary, 800 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson. A private burial will follow.

IRA use of 'soft targets' signals desire to deal: Alexander MacLeod; LONDON -- The latest stage in the Northern Ireland peace process is getting under way amid conflicting signals about the intentions of the Irish Republican Army.

Ethel "Nannie" Cole: Davis Paradise Valley Funeral Home, 6200 S. Eastern Ave., handled arrangements.

Walk-on gets kicks in bid to join UNLV: And as long as Nick Jones can keep booting them over the crossbar, he doesn't care how they look either.

Linda Ray Lilly: Visitation is scheduled from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday in Bunker Mortuary, 925 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Friday in Memory Gardens.

Fragile democracy in Sierra Leone at risk: David Hecht; Three American soldiers stroll down the beach in Bermuda shorts. "We're not even sure what country we're in," says one. "And right now we don't really care." They do know, however, that somewhere behind the lush mountain backdrop, rebels are fighting another vicious civil war in Africa, and that shore leave here means just that - stay by the shore.

Bahcheli and Makovsky: Easing Aegean tensions: Earlier this year, Turkey and Greece almost went to war over an uninhabited islet - in effect, a pile of rocks - off the Turkish Aegean coast. Longtime observers of Greek-Turkish relations had a sense of deja vu. They had seen these foes stalk each another before - in 1976 and 1987 - creating the same dynamic: a near-clash in the Aegean, an urgent US diplomatic intervention, and a mutual retreat followed by a few years of contained instability. But this most recent crisis was different. Tension between Greece and Turkey is rising, and the near-miss of January 1996 easily ...

Esther Freda Kaplan: American Burial and Cremation Services, 310 Foremaster Lane, is handling arrangements.

Look for GOP politicos to start hugging trees: Kurt Shillinger; As the nation gears up for Earth Day celebrations next week, politicians - especially Republicans - see an important opportunity to spruce up their environmental credentials in an election year when many voters view the 104th Congress as the most antigreen legislature in a generation.

Companies gouging motorists with every rising gas prices: Another common statement from these companies is that they have to cover the cost of drilling and exploration. Why, then, do they lower the cost of gas every winter?

Charles P. Micelli: Visitation is scheduled from 2-7 p.m. Friday in Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Ave. Burial will be in Chicago.

With Whitewater half a world away, Clinton charms Japan: Cameron W. Barr; President and Mrs Clinton arrived, greeted their Japanese hosts, and proceeded to the chamber of Japan's lower house, where Mr. Clinton was to give a speech.

Bobby Berosini victim of harassment by groups: 2. Even though he was compelled to sue for defamation and libel (as any entertainer would have done) and won the jury case only to have it overturned by the Nevada Supreme Court, he kept all his animals together, feeding and caring for them all these six or seven years. Does anyone have any idea how costly that is?

Fraud probe led to judge: Rachael Levy; Authorities were investigating three men on suspicion of theft and money laundering. One of those men was Paul Dottore, a 52-year-old Henderson car salesman and friend of Bongiovanni.

2 local soloists with symphony: Hesselink, who moved to Las Vegas in 1993, was selected as one of the first music educators to visit the People's Republic of China in 1981. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists, the College Music Society, the American Musicological Society, the Organ Historical Society and the American Society of English Handbell Ringers.

Anastasia Tsolakides: Anastasia Tsolakides

Las Vegas High coach seeks new sites for zone tourney: Bob Cloud; Farnsworth, head coach at Las Vegas High School and president of the Southern Nevada Basketball Coaches Association, sent a letter last month to Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association executive director Dr. Jerry Hughes, requesting the NIAA move the tournament out of Durango, which has held the event the past three years.

Joseph Carmine Anastasia: Visitation is scheduled from 11 a.m. until a 1 p.m. Mass celebration Friday in St. Mary the Virgin, 5083 Judson Ave. Burial will be 3 p.m. Friday in Boulder City Cemetery. Nevada Funeral Service-Nevada Cremation or Burial Society, 726 S. Casino Center, Suite 208.

Thunder's Zholtok zaps upset: Steve Carp; And that message got through to Chris McSorley's team, which turned a 3-1 second-period deficit into a 4-3 lead after two and eventually a 5-4 win over the Phoenix Roadrunners Wednesday night in Game 1 of the opening-round, best-of-five IHL Western Conference series.

Phoenix mistakes magnified in defeat: Tim Graham; "We played good for 50 minutes, but gave them some good chances," said Roadrunner Jeff Shevalier, who scored two goals, including one with 35.4 seconds left to play. "When we made a mistake they put it in the net."

Padilla lives with concern over tragedy: Cathy Scott; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed April 19, 1995, killing 168 people and injuring more than 500.

Fred R. Smith: He is survived by his wife, Frances; one daughter, Anita Skene of Las Vegas; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Professional dreamer: Merilyn Potters; The movie didn't exaggerate.

Abrupt arrest questioned by officials: Bill Gang; They noted that most nonviolent defendants in federal cases who already are represented by attorneys get the courtesy of a summons.

Jeff German: Bongiovanni braces for tough fight over corruption charges: The 50-year-old jurist, I'm told, turned down a deal offered by the government several months ago to plead guilty to a couple of the charges contained in the 13-count indictment unsealed Wednesday.

Bongiovanni off the bench: Rachael Levy; The 50-year-old judge was suspended Wednesday with the unsealing of a 13-count federal indictment charging him with fixing tickets, releasing inmates on their personal recognizance and other rulings based on favoritism.

Peter M. Shane: Line-item veto's political web: But whether the line-item veto succeeds or fails isn't purely a constitutional question; it's a practical one. Will it accomplish what it's supposed to - encourage Congress to spend wisely and curtail the wheeling and dealing that goes on inside the beltway? In a perverse way, it may do just the opposite.

Dole criticized for mobile Chernobyl: Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, introduced the measure to truck thousands of tons of radioactive waste from commercial nuclear reactors through 43 states to the Nevada Test Site.

Philanthropist, co-founder of IGT, Marilyn Redd dies: and Ed Koch

Nebraska (Nick) Coleman: Visitation is scheduled from 2-5 Friday in American Burial and Cremation Services, 310 Foremaster Lane. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday in Carver Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Fight over gravel trucks could wind up in court: Steve Sebelius; The council Wednesday voted to ban the trucks between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. because of chronic neighborhood complaints over noise, air pollution, safety and traffic congestion.

Union turns up heat on Sands: About 70 workers, supported by Culinary Union leaders, staged a brief demonstration outside the Sands Wednesday to call attention to their plight.

Charles R. Bouck: Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society, 1111 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is handling arrangements.

Higher prices at the pump could slump: Daniel B. Wood; But you don't need to tell that to Bruce Smith, filling his 20-gallon-tank Ford pickup for $1.47 per gallon at a corner Mobil station here.

Nancy Jean Campbell: A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday in Palm Mortuary, 7400 W. Cheyenne Ave. A private burial will follow.

Vice stings apprehend more johns: Eighteen people were caught soliciting prostitutes in two reverse stings held March 26 and April 15.

Alien spaceships make brief appearance in LV: Art Nadler; That's why writer/producer Dean Devlin has tossed in a whole chunk of twisty subplots and what's-gonna'-happen-to-who-next characters in his upcoming sci-fi flick "Independence Day."

Decatur to get traffic relief: After the work is done, there will be three lanes in each direction between Vegas and Rancho drives.

Thomas Leroy Zarnek: American Burial and Cremation Services, 310 Foremaster Lane, is handling arrangements.

'King' Willie hopes to spin gold from diversity: Daniel Sneider; At this week's economic summit in the "City by the Bay," there was investment whiz Charles Schwab, voicing the familiar mantra of his fellow businessmen: lower taxes and less government interference. At the other end of the dais sat Mike Casey, the fiery head of the city's hotel and restaurant workers, who described laid-off workers as "the casualties of an economy too investor-driven."

Dersch receives prison time: Bill Gang; Dersch has admitted being a petty thief for years with a string of misdemeanor convictions before he was roughed up by the police in a security room at the Fremont hotel-casino last summer.

Alfonso Paez Medrano: Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society, 1111 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is handling arrangements.

Ronald M. Moore: A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Saturday in Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Ave. A private burial will follow.

Caribbean Fest at Lorenzi Park: Tickets are $5. Call 386-7022 or 898-3252 for more information.

Nevadans pay more at pumps: The AAA's monthly price survey found the average cost of self-service regular unleaded was $1.24 a gallon -- up 6 cents from March and 11 cents from February.

Vada Lorraine Reed: Visitation is scheduled from 8-9:30 a.m. Friday in Bunker Mortuary, 925 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Services will follow at 10 a.m. Friday in Bunker Chapel.

Moapa Valley residents split over development: Lanny Waite, Moapa Valley Township justice of the peace and a leading opponent, said after Wednesday's hearing that those protesting the project might sue to stop the development.

Democrats fashion contract of their own with America: Linda Feldmann; On the model of the House GOP's Contract With America, Democrats in both the House and the Senate are drafting their own party's "agenda" for the future. The aim, as with the contract, is to let voters know what the party stands for, not just what it stands against.

Where I Stand: Commission does right by horses: --- Cesar Chavez

Charge opens judge's race: Bill Gang; Woofter didn't dispute that Bongiovanni's indictment and immediate suspension from his job is expected to be a political benefit to the three challengers for his seat in this year's elections.

Unrequited votes: Italians may not get winner in the poll: Richard L. Wentworth; "It's very difficult to imagine a clear victory coming out of this election," says Massimo Teodori, a commentator and former parliamentary deputy.

Immigration bill seeks to cut welfare abuse: David R. Francis; The bill got waylaid when Democrats tried to force votes on amendments unrelated to the bill, including a minimum-wage boost. Annoyed, Senate majority leader Bob Dole pulled the bill.

It was Brown, not Binion who founded the Horseshoe: Oh and by the way, before there was a Golden Nugget on (1943) Fremont Street there was a gambling strip -- the USS Rex -- formerly moored three miles from Baja, Calif.

UNLV softball is out of doldrums: Bob Cloud; Rondina, whose earlier error allowed two Cal State Fullerton runs to score, hit a two-run home run to cap a five-run fifth inning as the Rebels rallied for a 5-4 victory Wednesday at Rebel Diamond. The win completed a sweep for the Rebels, who also captured the first game by a 3-1 count in their final home action of the season.

Seth G. Jones: The myths of nationalism: One lesson stands out because it was perhaps the root of our costly dithering on policy in the Balkans: our misconceptions of nationalism and national identity.

Bob Shemeligian: Why don't they want models with Vegas look?: Well, then you better get your high heels clicking over to the Vons store on Windmill Parkway in Henderson on the afternoon of May 11.

Israelis see one side of war: John Battersby; But the Israeli public - largely supportive of Israel's nine-day campaign to force a Hizbullah cease-fire - is beginning to question the increasing number of Lebanese civilian casualties.

Las Vegas City Council news briefs: * PARKING FEES HIKED -- Residents will be paying more for parking downtown if an ordinance introduced by Councilman Michael McDonald is approved. The ordinance would hike rates from 10 cents to 25 cents per half-hour. In addition, parkers would have to pay between the hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., three hours more than they do currently. The ordinance is necessary, according to city documents, because the removal of parking meters to make way for the Fremont Street Experience and the Fourth Street improvements has dragged down city parking revenues. Officials are counting on $150,000 more each year ...

Melvin Morris Gold: Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society, 1111 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is handling arrangements.

Lisle defense rips teens' testimony: Bill Gang; Kevin Lisle, 25, and Jerry Lopez, 26, face the possibility of death sentences if they are convicted of slaying Justin Lusch, whose body was left beside a dusty road in northwest Las Vegas in August 1994.

Railroad Proposed Underpasses as One Alternative to Reno Congestion: An engineering study prepared for the railroad said four underpasses, at an estimated cost of $70 million, would "serve the people of Reno very well at the most cost-effective price."

Condo residents lose bid for second access: Commissioner Myrna Williams asked the zoning staff to draft an ordinance banning single-access gated communities.

Burke Dysert: He is survived by his wife, Rita; one daughter, Nancy Doyle of South Lyon, Mich.; one son, Jerald Dysert of Fort Morgan, Colo.; one brother, Ronald Dysert of Jackson, Miss.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Vegas Fire Chief To Retire: West was an assistant chief in the Phoenix Fire Department when he won the Las Vegas job. His department was given a Class 1 ranking, the highest grade, in 1991 by the Insurance Services Office.

Mary Adams: Davis Paradise Valley Funeral Home, 6200 S. Eastern Ave., handled arrangements.

It is world's biggest bank; can it be one of the best?: Kevin Rafferty; The question is whether he has created the bank of the future or just the last of a breed of monstrous financial dinosaurs.

Three Youth Citizenship Awards given out: Each will receive $100 and is eligible for Soroptimist regional- and federation-level awards.

In Illinois, go see dad or go to juvenile jail: Ann Scott Tyson; Last week, however, an Illinois appellate court ruled unanimously that Will County Associate Judge Ludwig Kuhar had acted within his rights by punishing Heidi and her younger sister, Rachel, for contempt of court. The girls must now return to the court in Joliet, Ill., on May 9 to face another possible order from Judge Kuhar to visit their father - or accept the consequences.

Prime Cable bypasses new channel: For one thing, there isn't room. "If we added Ovation, it would be at the expense of a channel we're already carrying," he said.

Fired Middle School Teacher Draws Probation: Wednesday's sentencing stems from the 1992 arrest of Shade and his stepson during an alleged drug buy. Because of legal disputes over evidence, the case languished in the courts.

Rudy Ruettiger fast facts: * JOLLY TIME: "I am like popcorn," Rudy says. "I'm all over the place. Cheryl brings me back down, makes me do what's right, what's easy."

Las Vegas boxers in a rut, losing all of latest fights: Dean Juipe; It is a streak that started late last year when Joseph Kiwanuka lost to Thomas Tate in suburban Detroit. Since then, almost without fail, Las Vegas-based fighters have been losing regularly in high-profile bouts of national interest.

Rose Marie Sorenson: Visitation was scheduled from 11 a.m. until a 3 p.m. scripture service today in Palm Mortuary, 1600 S. Jones Blvd. A private burial followed.

Sen. Reid Says Time Running Out for Walker River: The national group American Rivers on Wednesday placed Walker River among its second 10 of the most seriously endangered or threatened waterways in the nation.

Fast facts on the government's case: * THE EVIDENCE: Telephone conversations of District Judge Gerard Bongiovanni suggest that he allegedly needed the bribe money to pay his mortgage and taxes. The government used a video camera to record informant Terry Salem paying alleged middleman Paul Dottore $2,500 to fix Salem's case.

Nevada river in trouble: The national group American Rivers on Wednesday placed Walker River among its second 10 of the most seriously endangered or threatened waterways in the nation.

Woman left in the cold by Social Security cutoff: I bought a condo three years ago. I thought my money was set for the rest of my life. Big joke. I never got myself in this mess; I figure Social Security got me in this fix.

Most wanted fugitive found: Bradley, named in December by Secret Witness as one of its most wanted fugitives, was arrested April 6 at 517 E. Fremont St.

Babbitt on a tight rope on gaming: After the court dropped the hot issue of Indian gaming on his shoulders, Babbitt now has the troublesome responsibility of resolving disputes between the states and the tribes.

Motorist injures trooper: When the chase ended with the driver's car and an NHP car caroming into an Interstate 15 restraining wall near Charleston Boulevard, the man fled wearing high heels, a short white dress with no underwear, a women's wig and makeup and carrying a purse, the NHP said.

Thomas G. Melling: Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society, 1111 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is handling arrangements.

Students to collect award from president's program: These students will accept an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of their counterparts last year who were runners-up in the 1995 President's Environmental Youth Awards Program.

Western drops plan for LV law school: The Nevada Supreme Court had scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to consider a rule change that would have opened the door for Western State University College of Law to open a campus in Clark County. It has now been taken off the agenda.