Reno Is On Strike Up 60 Ft. Pole -- Reno, the acrobat', climbed to the top of a 60ft. steel pole on the centre Brighton Zoo stadium at 10 a.m. yesterday and began a sit-down strike over a contract row. All day he squatted on top of the pole and was still there at midnight. Reno, 26, who has been appearing in the Ice Revue at the zoo, took his umbrella and a ground-sheet with him when he climbed the pole," from which he has refused to budge. "Reno is up the pole," said Mr. Vic Templar, showman-producer of the revue," because we had a row over his show contract." August 18, 1950.