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20 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, June 30, 1995 IFire neivs summary: Senate liberals block vote on spending cuts If 7 1 II 1 7 JLi (Heather SingerTrce Press) WASHINGTON (AP) In a prelude to months of combat, two lonely liberals blocked Senate approval today of spending cuts in social programs while Republicans celebrated passage of their plan to balance the budget. Parting company with President Clinton and other party elders, Sens. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois prevented a final vote on a bill to cut $16.4 billion from previously enacted spending while funneling aid to victims of the California earthquake and other disasters. "The people of my state would not want to see me just lay down on this railroad track and get run over without saying anything," said Moseley-Braun. She and Wellstone objected to cuts in job training, heating assistance for the poor and other domestic programs.

Aji irritated Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas shelved the measure, at least until lawmakers return from a week-long Independence Day break. The gridlock on the floor stood in contrast to a news conference where Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and other GOP leaders hailed Thursday's congressional passage of a plan to eliminate deficits by 2002. "We're reversing a trend as far as Social worker sought by cops Randy Siminoe, 27, of Elko, a social worker with the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services, has been charged with child abuse, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, Elko City Police reported. Elko Police Lt. Roy Ladd said a criminal complaint was filed in Elko Justice Court charging Siminoe with one count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment and two counts of statutory sexual seduction.

Ladd said Siminoe was placed on administrative leave by the Division of Child and Family Service pending the outcome of a police investigation into allegations he was involved in a sexual relationship with a minor. The investigation was conducted by the Elko Police Department and the Nevada Attorney General's office, Ladd said. crushing debt. We're reversing a trend as far as crushing taxation," said Dole. "We believe the American people will be proud of it because we kept our word." Mail collapse SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Dazed by the daylight but happy to be alive, bloodied survivors were pulled from a collapsed shopping mall today, carried out on stretchers from the tangle of concrete slabs and twisted steel rods where they had spent a night of terror.

The death toll was 113 and rising steadily. Another 910 people were injured and about 170 others were reported missing. "It was pitch dark and I couldn't see anything." said 25-year-old Lee Shin-ju, who was rescued 14 hours after a five-story wing of the upscale Sampoong Department Store complex collapsed Thursday night. "I occasionally heard feeble cries for help." Space shuttle SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -After 3Y: months of being the doctor, astronaut Norman Thagard became the patient Friday and was poked and probed aboard Atlantis-Mir, the linked U.S. shuttle and Russian space station.

Dr. EUen Baker drew blood from Thagard, a physician, and his two Russian crewmates and performed physical exams to help scientists understand the effects on the body of long stays in space. Thagard spent 3'2 months aboard the space station Mir, a U.S. space endurance record. The rest of the 10 space travelers lugged containers of water from space shuttle Atlantis to Mir and gently carried trays of science samples in the opposite direction.

For NASA, these samples are more valuable than gold. Thagard and Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov dutifully saved blood, urine and saliva throughout their 105-day stay on Mir so U.S. researchers could get their first glimpse in more than 20 years into the effects of long-term weightlessness. Gun lecture CHICAGO (AP) Battling opponents of gun control, President Clinton said today that law-abiding citizens buying weapons and ammunition should be willing to accept "mi- nor inconveniences" to keep America safer from crime. "It is no big deal if you have to wait a few days to get the next handgun," Clinton said.

"You will survive." Clinton came to a high-crime neighborhood of Chicago and, standing alongside police leaders, proposed a tighter ban on armor-piercing handgun ammunition known as "cop-killer" bullets. Economy (AP) The economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year, but fears of a recession were eased by a rebound in factory orders in May. The nation's gross domestic product grew at a 2.7 percent annual rate in the first three months of 1995, the Commerce Department said Friday. That was slightly more than half the pace of expansion in the fourth quarter of last year and matched the slowest growth in 18 months. The widespread signs of slowdown -were blurred by a second report, which showed orders to U.S.

factories climbed 1.4 percent in May after three straight declines that included a 2.2 percent plunge in April. The May advance was the strongest showing since a 2 percent gain in December. The stock market rallied on the mixed economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average was up more than 26 points by midafternoon. Charleston Road closed Residents planning to travel to Jarbidge for the Fourth of July weekend should not take the Charleston Road, reported Elko County Manager George Boucher.

Springtime runoff washed out a number of culverts south of Jarbidge, and county crews have not yet cleared snow drifts over the mountain pass, he said. Jarbidge can be accessed via the Meadow CreekDiamond A road (also called the Sunflower Flats road) from Wildhorse Reservoir. The town also may be reached by taking U.S. 93 north of Jackpot to Rogerson, Idaho, then taking the Rogerson road west to Murphy's Hot Springs and south into Jarbidge. Carnival: The Elko Convention Center is sponsoring a "Big Sky Carnival," featuring amusement park rides, carnival games, candy apples, cotton candy and much more.

The carnival is open from noon to midnight today through Tuesday. Ride tickets are 60 cents each and wristbands allowing unlimited rides are $14 through Sunday and $16 Monday and Tuesday. Pictured above, Dustin Owen, Ira Fair and Jonny Pitt-man race down the Alpine Slide. At right, four-year-old Nicholas Pittman takes control of the wheel on the boat ride. lupreme Court ESA habitat challenge Services announced for Mike Lesbo, 72 The rosary for Mike P.

Lesbo. who died yesterday at age 72. will be recited a 8 p.m. Sunday at Burns Funeral Chapel. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m.

Monday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. The Rev. Jim Setelik will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot of the city cemetery.

He was born here on March 13. 1923, and attended local schools be- Mike Lesbo (right) received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Gen. Hap Arnold. 'ml 4 kills Justice Clarence Thomas. The high court ruled in 1978 that Congress intended to protect endangered species "whatever the cost." The 1978 decision blocked completion of a huge dam because it posed a threat to an endangered species, a tiny fish called the snail darter.

The dam was not completed until Congress amended the law. Congress similarly could undo the impact of yesterday's decision by rewriting the 1973 law. The Oregon case attracted the most unsolicited advice of any during the court's 1994-95 term, which ended yesterday. A total of 24 friend of-the-court briefs were filed in the case. Among those urging the justices to uphold the appeals court's ruling were the American Farm Bureau Federation.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Defenders of Property Rights and the States of Arizona. California. Kansas, Nebraska and Utah.

Urging reversal were the National Wildlife Federation. Friends of Animals. Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society- and Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. The case is Babbitt vs. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon.

94-859. In other rulings marking the end of its currentterm, the Supreme Court yesterday: Struck down a Georgia congressional redistricting plan, making it harder for states to take race into account when drawing election districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The state's plan had enabled three black Democrats to win seats in Congress. The justices split 54 on the case. Ruled unanimously that four residents who challenged Louisiana's congressional reapportionment plan lacked the legal standing to sue.

The decision reinstated a previously invalidated redistricting plan but does not preclude new challenges by voters who live in the district. Decided 54 that a public university wrongly refused to subsidize a student-run Christian magazine. The justices said the University of Virginia misunderstood the constitutionally required separation of church and state and violated the tree-speech rights of the Christian students. -Ruled 7-2 that the state of Ohio erred in barring the Ku Klux Klan from displaying a Christian cross in a public park adjacent to the state Capitol in Columbus during the 1993 Christmas season. In striking down the Georgia congressional redistricting plan, the court made it much harder for states to take voters' race into account when drawing election districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

Elko Floral will be closed Saturday, July 1 Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4 Have a great 4th ol July! WASHINGTON (AP) Government regulators can ban destruction of the natural homes of endangered or threatened species on private property, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday. In a 6-3 decision the court said landowners violate the Endangered Species Act if they change these wildlife habitats. even unintentionally. A federal appeals court ruled last year that the 1973 law bars only direct threats such as hunting, trapping or otherwise directly killing the species, but not indirect threats such as destruction of habitat.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court disagreed. Interior Secretary" Bruce Babbitt hailed the decision and called it a "common sense" interpretation of the law as followed by both Democratic and Republican administrations since the 1970s in protecting rare species. Ruling in a dispute from Oregon over protection of the northern spotted owl, the court said the 1973 law-provides "comprehensive protection for endangered and threatened species" and the government's interpretation that such protection includes habitat is reasonable. The decision is a big victory' for environmentalists and conversely a set- Marion Cassill died yesterday at age 96 Marion Cassill died yesterday at age 96 in Mountain View Care Center. She was born Sept.

10, 1898. in Og-den, Utah. She had lived in Elko County since 1936, living in Wells and Ruby Valley before settling in Elko. She was a homemaker and enjoyed sewing, crocheting, flower gardening, fishing and hunting. Survivors include three sons.

Eugene Collins of Lamoille. J.W. Widmer of Poulsbarrow, William Widmer of Wells; a sister, Lois Martin of Reno; two granddaughters, Laura Lail and Elaine Moore of Elko; and numerous other grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great, greatgrandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a son, Richard C. "Smithy" Collins, in November 1994.

Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at the LDS Stake Center on College Parkway with Bishop Gerald Akerman officiating. Visitation is scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. at Burns Funeral Home and one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will be in Burns Memorial Garden's Garden of Prayer.

Elko Pool will be closed Sunday, July 2 back for private property owners. At the core of the dispute was an interpretation of a single word "take" in the 1973 law. The law defines "take" to mean "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot wound, kill, trap, capture or collect." The federal Fish and Wildlife Service has regulations defining "harm" to include "significant habitat modification" leading to an injury of a protected species. That longstanding regulation was invalidated by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, saying it was not authorized bv the 1973 act.

Writing for the high court yesterday. Justice John Paul Stevens said that Congress, in enacting the law. "entrusted the (Interior) secretary with broad discretion" to protect endangered and threatened species. "We are especially reluctant to substitute our views for this." Stevens wrote. The court acknowledged conflicts between protecting species and economic endeavors.

But, it said, "these questions must be addressed in the usual course of the law, through case by case resolution and adjudication." In a dissenting opinion. Justice Antonin Scalia said that while it is "unmistakably clear" that the law forbids hunting and killing of endangered animals, to extend protection to habitat "imposed unfairness to the point of financial ruin" to landowners. He argued that the government went too far in its regulations by including habitat protection. Scalia was joined in the dissent by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and E. Cousineau died yesterday at age 93 Longtime Elko resident Eugene A.

Cousineau died yesterday at his home. He was 93 years old. He was born Feb. 9, 1902, in Pine River, and enjoyed fishing and being with his grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Kather-ine of Elko; two sons, Walt of Elko and Donald of Nampa, Idaho; three brothers, Omer Sirois of International Falls, Ed Cous of The Dalles, and Eldo Henry of Sun City, seven grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

The family suggested those wishing to make memorial donations direct them to Dr. George Manilla's cancer research fund in care of the Elko Clinic. Private cremation was held and the family invited friends by their home at 744 Juneau St. between 2 and 4 p.m. Monday.

Smith-Gregory Insurance will be closed July 3 and 4. Have a safe holiday! Weather National Weather Service A low pressure system will develop over northern California this afternoon, then slowly move southeast into Nevada over the weekend. Moisture over southern Nevada is expected to shift north this afternoon, producing more thunderstorm activity through Saturday in northeast Nevada. Temperatures will remain about five degrees below normal over the weekend, and then average five to 10 degrees below normal foi much of the upcoming week, including the Fourth of July holiday. A persistent low pressure system will keep the chance of thunderstorms around into early next week.

Drying is expected by the Fourth of July and should continue through midweek. Forecast for Elko and vicinity Tonight, mostly cloudy with scattered evening thunderstorms and a chance of lingering showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Locally gusty evening winds, then light and variable. Saturday, scattered showers and thunderstorms.

High near 80. Fourth of July forecast, partly sunny. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain, 30 percent tonight and Saturday.

Extended forecast for northeastern Nevada Sunday, chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Low, mid 40s, high, near 80. Monday, slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Low, mid 40s, high, near 80. Fourth of July, dry.

Low, 40 to 45, high, mid 70s. Elko's low tonight, 47; high tomorrow, 81; low tomorrow night, 47. Battle Mountain's low tonight, 49; high tomorrow, 87; low tomorrow night, 49. Jackpot temperatures, 448044. Weather for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m.: HighLow (Precip) WILDHORSE 73 34" ELKO 79 48 WINN 87V 45 RENO 877 57 ELY 73 39 (.01) AUSTIN MP MP TONOPAH 757 53 (.05) SLC: 807 60' BOISE: 85 59 FRISCO: 657 58' VEGAS 102772 Elko statistics Record High: "90; Low: ZY.

'63 Mo. Pep: 1.75 in. Water Year 12.00 in. Tomorrow: Sunrise. 5:15: Sunset.

8:19 fore moving on to the University of Nevada. Reno. He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a bomber pilot in the Pacific region with the Seventh Air Force. Toward the end of the war, he was transferred to the 509th Composite Bomb Group that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

He married Margarite Iski on Aug. 12. 1944, in Los Angeles and returned to Elko, where he drove truck, became active with his father in the Ben's New Deal Club and worked for the school district as a coordinator of its building projects. He then started his own business, Lesbo Showcase and Fixtures and worked as a cabinet maker. Later, the business evolved in Lesbo Construction Company, which built several buildings throughout town.

He had been semiretired for the past several years and was a member of Elko Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is survived by his wife; a son, Barney of Elko; a brother, Warner of Elko; a sister, Mary Kozal of Las Vegas; two grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, one sister and a son, Timothy, who died Sept 9, 1976. In his memory, the family suggests friends donate to the charity of their choice. when Holeomb accidentally strayed from the path normally used by snow machines.

He said Holeomb drifted to the left of the path and went over an outcropping. "It's amazing," Morris said of Holeomb surviving the fall. Harris said Holcomb's snowmobile was destroyed in the accident Dow Jones (AP) Closing Dow-Jones stock averages for Friday, June 30. Open High Low Close Chg 30 Ind 4563.01 4606.24 4313.90 4536.10 5.34 20 Trn 1730.06 1753.91 1718.65 1748.69 16.30 15 I'll 203.27 204.19 201.03 202.08 0.66 63 Stk 1503.49 1519.34 1489.22 1506.15 4.82 Indus 21.999,100 Tran 4.912,300 Utils 4.774.000 65 Stk 31.685.400 Big Board volume at 4 p.m. EST totaled 311.16 million shares, against 313.08 million last session.

Snowinobiler survives plunge off 60-foot cliff Dale Holeomb, 32, of Elko was in stable condition at Elko General Hospital following surgery this morning for injuries he received when he plunged off a 60-foot cliff in the Ruby Mountains while snowmobiling yesterday afternoon. Elko County Undersheriff Clair Morris said Holeomb sustained injuries to his head and neck and his right leg and right arm in the accident. Morris said the snow machine mishap happened about 3 p.m. in the Castle Lake area of the mountains. He said Holeomb was snowmobiling with a companion at the time of the accident.

Sheriffs deputies had to be airlifted to the accident location by an El Aero helicopter, Morris reported. He said Holeomb was loaded on the helicopter and flown about a mile to the turnaround at the top of Lamoille Canyon, where the helicopter was met by an ambulance. Sheriff Neil Harris explained that Holeomb and his companion were returning from the Castle Lake area.