Print edition for June 2, 1998

Marion makes Goodwill cut: Tim Graham; The 6-foot-7, 215-pound forward, who led Vincennes (Ind.) University to a fifth-place finish in the national junior-college tournament, chose UNLV over the NBA. But now someone else is in control of Marion's immediate basketball future.

Allen making name for himself in Padres organization: Steve Guiremand; Dusty Allen is a perfect example.

Where I Stand -- Ruthe Deskin: Golfers a bright spot in controversial week at UNLV: First, the good news.

World renowned boxing referee takes chance at TV show: Dean Juipe; Mills Lane, the Reno-based boxing referee who gives his instructions to the fighters in the center of the ring and then delivers his trademark expression "Let's Get It On" before the opening bell, is capitalizing on his ever-increasing fame.

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Columnist Steve Carp: Don't just sit there, do something!: Steve Carp; But there shouldn't have to be any hours to while away. The eight WAC schools that have decided to bolt the conference were supposed to make up their minds Monday whether they were going to be the Elite Eight or the Divine Nine. It was supposed to be the first order of business.

Columnist Scott Dickensheets: Dynasties can provide comfort: Scott Dickensheets; "I often root for the overdog," I told another friend.

Callister and Argent at the Smallworks Gallery: Argent and Callister have exhibited in many contemporary art venues throughout the United States. Currently they reside in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Moran backs Hitt for sheriff: In an open letter to "our friends in Clark County," Moran endorsed Hitt, his former lieutenant, describing him as "a person of high moral fiber and ... the highest degree of honesty and integrity."

People in the News for June 2, 1998: Miscellany

Columnist Jeff German: Judge Gibbons deals blow to Del Papa in Anzalone suit: District Judge Mark Gibbons gave former Del Papa investigator Mike Anzalone the green light to pursue claims he was forced to resign two years ago because he wouldn't participate in a secret intelligence investigation of a top state official.

Letter: Children being raised today don't have respect for life: When a woman conceives a child at an inconvenient time, she goes to a clinic and has her baby aborted. If Grandma is failing, we euthanize her. If the medical profession stamps "terminal" on a patient's record, some "merciful" person gives that patient a lethal dose and the problem is solved.

Editorial: Las Vegas wants demolition action: Because of the void, the city is appropriately moving forward with plans to demolish the structure. And if the city has to spend taxpayer dollars to get rid of the former housing complex, it should sue to get back any money expended.

DMV expects bugs will be exterminated at new office: Valerie Miller; It didn't totally spoil the occasion, bolstered by dignitaries and refreshments, but it did set some critics loose.

LV architects anxious about California vote: Brian Seals; Proposition 224 on today's ballot would require competitive bidding for state projects exceeding $50,000. Opponents of the measure say that would take qualifications out of the equation in awarding contracts, resulting in costly delays and business diverted from the private sector.

Sprint plans landmark upgrade: The service could be available to Las Vegans as early as the end of the year.

Tropicana culinary workers approve contract: About 1,100 Culinary Union workers are represented at the Tropicana.

Malarchuk leaving Thunder: Tim Graham; Clint Malarchuk, one of the last remaining links to the Las Vegas Thunder's inaugural season and the only player in team history to have his jersey retired, is leaving.

Another famous ref facing tough tests: Dean Juipe; Joe Cortez, arguably the world's finest referee and a Las Vegas resident since 1992, has had to expand his income-producing activities to cover the expenses of his daughter Cindy's rehabilitation from a spinal-cord injury that left her a quadriplegic.

LV has high hopes for Japan, Northwest: But the welcoming party on the ground was unlike anything he had ever experienced.

Letter: Veterans may lose benefits for tobacco-related health care: It is the right of every veteran to expect that his government will fulfill its obligation for his service to the country. One of the rights provided through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs allows compensation of veterans with disabilities resulting from tobacco use that began in military service. To deny even this benefit is unjustifiable, and our members are rightly angry and hurt.

Editorial: Playing politics with the judiciary: The commission, chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice Byron White, was created as a compromise after the Senate passed -- but the House derailed -- a plan by Pacific Northwest legislators' plan to divide the 9th Circuit Court. Under the Senate plan to get more favorable rulings, Western Republicans wanted California, Nevada, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in a slimmed-down 9th Circuit. Seven other states in the 9th Circuit -- Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Arizona -- would then spin off into a new court.

Obituaries for June 2, 1998: He is survived by his wife, Theresa; one daughter, Linda Morelli of Las Vegas; one brother, Jerry Barbaro of Brooklyn, N.Y.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Letter: Memorial Day not a time for other campaign protests: It is Gary Peck who doesn't understand the meaning of Memorial Day.

Presidents moving at snail's pace on WAC decision: Steve Carp; So the yet-to-be-named league which plans to begin operations at the end of June 1999 will not make its most important decisions hastily. It may have emerged from the womb quickly, but it will take its first steps tentatively.

Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: Title in hand, Knight sets his sights on more: But that doesn't mean the 50-year-old Knight has plans to retire from coaching -- not just yet, anyway.

CFO resigns at Casino Data, chief executive appointed: The slot and information-systems manufacturer also said Michael Perez, who joined the Las Vegas-based company during the regime of former chief executive Kenneth Hardesty, has resigned as chief financial officer and executive vice president.

Aztar gains funds to renovate the Tropicana: Gary Thompson; Aztar said it has completed a $363 million financing package that includes $175 million of new capital available for expansion or redevelopment.

Suit details failure of Riviera sale: John Wilen; California businessman Allen E. Paulson made millions buying and selling airline companies and champion racehorses. But in Las Vegas, Paulson claims he was tricked out of $22.3 million by a financial advisor and two gaming companies.

WAC members vote to keep league intact: Steve Carp; The demise of the Western Athletic Conference apparently was greatly exaggerated, as the presidents of the remaining eight institutions voted Monday to remain a league.

Columnist Dean Juipe: Sampras richer despite loss: Dean Juipe; But the man who coached Sampras as a junior at the Jack Kramer Club in Palos Verdes, Calif., says it's likely Sampras was well compensated for making the trip to Paris and that his failures on the red clay surface probably don't bother him despite the negative reviews it inevitably prompts.

Columnist Muriel Stevens: Meadows School fund-raiser a tasty affair: Meadows is a private school that was incorporated by Carolyn in 1981 and became a reality in 1984. It took hard work, a group of dedicated parents and an enlightened headmistress, LeOre Cobbley, who came from the George W. Harris school. Cobble, an amazing teacher and principal who had the skills to inspire students, died last summer, but the programs she and Goodman designed are still the spirit behind the Meadows School.

'Splash' sues Riviera to block cancelation: Brian Seals; KR Entertainment, which produces the show that is performed at the Riviera hotel-casino, filed the suit last week in Clark County District Court. Also named as defendants are ROC Chief Executive William Westerman and Vice President Robert Vannucci.

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BLM challenges state's water rights law: The conflicting views regarding the BLM's appeal of a ruling by the state engineer that was based on the law were heard Monday by Douglas County District Judge Dave Gamble.

City may move housing complex: The vacant buildings, 50 altogether, are owned by Mike Kinzler, who had planned to move and rehabilitate them as low-income housing.

Cooperation urged to clean wash: The 21-member panel appointed by the Legislature said Clark County agencies should begin cooperating immediately on the project. The panel, meeting Monday at the Clark County Government Center, said future deals to bring more water to Southern Nevada may hinge on the efforts locally to restore the wash.

School's neighbors take on developer: Jeff Schweers; A month later, Hyer has mobilized hundreds of Cartwright Elementary School parents and other homeowners in her effort to prevent the 10-acre lot at the northwest corner of Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch Boulevard from going commercial.

Bull Session: Melissa Schorr; The testosterone was flowing almost as freely as the Sangria when the decision was made to run with the bulls.

Convicted stalker intended to harm nobody, pal says: Art Nadler; Patrick Potter said shortly after Michael McCusker was convicted of two counts of aggravated stalking Monday that his friend was attempting to reach Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Rep. John Ensign, R-Nev., to warn them of tourists being assaulted in Mexico.

Couple celebrates their second 75th anniversary: "In the old days, it was the belief you were not married until you got married in the Catholic Church," said 94-year-old Peter Santangelo, who has not lost the Italian accent although he came to America with his parents in 1908.

UNLV nuclear physicist says burying nuclear waste a misuse of materials: They can't agree on whether the waste even should be buried.

Threatened city lease revisited: The building, at 731 S. Fourth Street, is now being leased by the city from Dave Mason, a downtown real estate broker.

Facts and figures of the Yucca Mountain Project: According to the Department of Energy, surface facilities would include an 80-acre north portal where nuclear waste would be received and packaged for burial; a 12-acre south portal area to house support facilities such as maintenance and security; a 3- to 4-acre emplacement shaft area that would provide the ventilation exhaust fans and maintenance support; and a half-acre development shaft area with a facility to house the intake fans and emergency hoisting system.

More NLV residents get help moving from sinking homes: Adrienne Packer; Four more former residents of Windsor Park are expected to be assisted with moving costs after soil below their homes sank, rupturing pipes, uprooting floorboards and cracking walls.

Dormant organisms in rock at Yucca a storage wild card: Some lie dormant deep underground, starved unless water and other nutrients reach them. Then they are revived and even reproduce.

Jury still out on science issues: The repository would store an estimated 77,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel and waste from nuclear power plants and U.S. weapons facilities. Because the life span of the repository is 10,000 years, scientists must predict how future changes in the mountain rock and climate would affect the buried waste.

Recall of Gates gets new life: District Judge Michael Fondi on Monday lifted a temporary stay so that Secretary of State Dean Heller could start checking whether enough valid signatures exist to force a recall election.

Senate to act on nuke waste bill: Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has called for a cloture vote late this afternoon on the issue. This could set into motion the Senate's legislation on temporary nuclear storage.

Ex-PSC economist loses appeal of firing: Stanley said he was put on leave and then fired because of allegations he raised about two other employees' activities involving a Nevada Power Co. rate reduction case before the commission.

Neighbor says accused teen killer was abused by parents: Authorities have revealed no information about a possible motive or what the boys have said since the pair were arrested in Ray's family car shortly after the triple shooting at Ray's home Saturday night.

Jones to join Gores in annual cancer campaign: Jones, herself a survivor of breast cancer, will be running with Gore and his wife, Tipper, leading the procession.

Second drowning in as many days at Lake Mead Recreation Area: The name of the youth was not released pending notification of relatives.

Judge rules Las Vegas man unfit for trial in campus killing: But Dr. Robert Chapman's reports say Best, 18, of Las Vegas, probably will be mentally competent to stand trial within three months. The judge set an Aug. 26 hearing to reexamine Best's mental health. Best, who is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, now is in the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services.

'The Everlasting Story of Nory': Life of a Child, Minute by Detailed Minute: Michiko Kakutani; Given Baker's superawareness of his childhood, it's not surprising that his latest novel, "The Everlasting Story of Nory," should take the form of a 9-year-old's story of "the absolute best year of her life."

Las Vegan nominated for Black Book: In 1986, DiBari arranged for Michael Cuozzo, 65, to illegally get a rack of dollar tokens that Cuozzo later turned in for cash, according to GCB records.

State lawmakers grapple with the issue of teen violence: President Clinton last year urged states to pass gun safety-lock legislation, but none have yet - and conservatives on an interim panel studying juvenile justice in Nevada said Monday they'd oppose the idea.