RENO, Nev. (AP) - Robert McDonald, a prominent northern Nevada attorney and businessman, died Saturday. He was 88.

A Reno native, McDonald was an Army Air Corps fighter pilot in the Aleutians and in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he graduated from the University of San Francisco Law School and served as a deputy state attorney general and deputy U.S. attorney before going into private practice.

McDonald helped to found several successful gambling companies in northern Nevada, was a principal in development of Incline Village at Tahoe, served as a Valley Bank of Nevada board member, was an original partner of the Boomtown hotel-casino west of Reno and was a part-owner of the Bonanza Casino in Reno.

He also was active in the Democratic Party and in numerous civic organizations.

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