Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 9

January 16, 1951 RENO EVENING GAZETTE 5 12-A i i Postal Receipts High for Vegas 3 Freak Accident Cuts Clark Power -f 1 i i i p. Nev Boundary for Paradise Town Will Cover 54 Square Miles LAS VEGAS, Jan. 16. The un LAS VEGAS, Jan. 16.

A freak Gain Registered Tops 20 Per Cent LAS VEGAS, Jan. 16. Postal receipts for the Las Vegas post power outage in one of the Southern Nevada Power company's insulators at the Basic Magnesium plant' at Henderson, which occured during a heavy rainstorm" Thursday evening, left several parts of Las Vegas without 4 incorporated town of Paradise has a new boundary today embracing 54 square miles, as a request from the office reached an all-time high during 1950, Postmaster Frank F. Paradise Valley property owners to Garside, reported today. In reach annex their unattached land to the newly-created town was approved ing the new record a gain of power and caused "considerable' slightly more than 20 per cent was by the board of county commis sioners.

damage to the local power company's plant facilities at Hender registered during the period over The new boundaries of Paradise 1949. -Total receipts for 1950, accord I i ffi in iiiii MiiimaimMi mmumwji son. Harry Allen, assistant commer roughly, extend nine miles south of the Las Vegas city limits. The east-west boundary extends about six miles east of the Union Pacific to Garside, were $339,405.35 ing cial manager of the company, said or an increase of $57,605.09 above tracks, a total area encompassing almost all of the populated area of the total of $281,800.26 registered during 1949 the previous top year. The postmaster said the post of 4 fice department figures that a 4.5 per cent increase is to be expected during a normal year in a city the size of Las Vegas.

The 1950 fig- Paradise Valley. Valley property1 owners, who formulated plans for the annexation at a meeting held last week, agreed to call a mass meeting at the school-house Jan. 30, at which time they will elect a new town board and discuss plans for future development. Members of the present town boara attended, and concurred with the action requested by the vaJley residents. Xire exceeded the normal trend by the freak mishap was analogous to the power outage which occured Dec.

31, when the main and standby transmission lines of the company were knocked out. Thursday night's failure occured at 6:10 p. m. and the outage continued until nearly 8:30 p. according to Allen.

Three of the four transmission lines carrying power into town were in trouble, and it was necessary at times for the one remaining line to carry the full load. The failure was attributed to a fire which destroyed company poles carrying the lines to Las Vegas. more than 15 per cent, it was pointed out. Total cancellations of first class SNOW FALL DELUXE The 118 inch snowfall at Houghton, has finally stopped temporarily after 52 straight days. Snow was so deep that fire hydrants around the city were marked with a long pole attached to them.

The 118 inches of snow for the season thus far can be well represented by the heighth of the street sign and windows of the house. 'JETS IN PRODUCTION This overall view of a section of thejiuge Republic Aviation Corporation plant at Farmingdale, L. N. graphically pictures mass production of F-84E Thunderjet fighters such as are now in service with the U. S.

Air Force in Korea. The Republic plant, 1,600,000 square feet of manufacturing area, will gradually shift to production of the F-84F, a swept-wing model. mail during 1950 reached a total of 8,129,234 pieces. Record month Gus Greenbaum, chairman of the town board and unofficial "mayor" of Paradise, spoke briefly and declared that "what is good for the valley is good for the We hope this move will bring you bet during the year was November when 1,196,081 pieces were cancelled. December ran second with 1,130,600 pieces followed by August with 945,774, Garside said.

Other months ranged from a February low of 475,875 pieces to October's 623,497. The fire was located near the BMI plant. The New Year's Eve out age was caused by a fire which ARRAIGNEE Joseph Corbet jr. of Seattle, stands in court at San Rafael, as ha is arraigned on charges of slaying Sgt. Allen Lee Reed of Ligo nier, near San Rafael last December.

Corbett, was arrested in Beverly Hills, last Friday, in a stolen auto. Korea Main Topic For Sisterhood W1NNEMUCCA, Jan. 16. -Korea was the main topic con ter roads, better schools and better burned down poles just outside the fence surrounding BMI while the everything." fire Thursday burned poles inside the plant area, according to Allen. His reference to a legal provision that 50 per cent of gambling tax revenue in an unincorporated town must be spent within the confines of the town on public improve' ments.

Delii Other hotelmen on the board sec xe v-are Commenting on the increase in postal receipts, Garside said that the gain has been steady through recent years with 1946 registering a total of 1947, 1948, $246,492.43 and 1949. $281,800.26. Although no day-to-day record of incoming mail is kept, Garside said he estimated that Las Vegas receives about five per cent more mail than it dispatches. Postal receipts, he said, include only stamps, stamped envelopes, postcards, mailing permits, metered mail, second class postage and box rents. onded the statement made by Greenbaum.

It was recalled that the original Paradise was set up sidered at the Wednesday meeting of Chapter L. PEO in the home of Mrs. R. O. Morrall.

Mrs. Sam Holman presented "Korea Today" by George McCune while Mrs. John I Black as president conducted the session. A social hour followed. Members present included Mesdames J.

A. Anderson, J. O. Goodwin, Harold Haviland, George Smith, Louis Peraldo, Keith Horning, Jack Heward, L. R.

Persson and Frank Flanders. Drive Postponed Oh Untagged Dogs Dog owners who haven't licensed their pets for 1951 will be given a half-month's grace before the Nevada Humane society begins an aggressive pickup campaign. The society announced this morning that its city-wide collection of unlicensed dogs will not be started until Feb. 1. Dog owners in Reno will have until that date to purchase tags.

Since licenses were due on Jan. 1, the society started picking up dogs today, but met with protests from residents throughout the city. Consequently, the grace period until the end of the month was setup. Licenses can be purchased in the city clerk's office, and cost $3 for females and $2 for males and spayed females. If an untagged dog is picked up by the society, owners will be charged a board fee as well as the price of a license to reclaim recently when the hotel "strip' area won permission to form a town to apparently forestall action by the city of Las Vegas to annex the heavy tax valuation sector.

Among the things to be taken up at tne Jan. 30 meeting will be a 116 EAST COMMERCIAL ROW PHONE 24366 CHINESE AND AMERICAN FOOD Enjoy Your Chinese Food at Home! ORDERS PREPARED TO TAKE OUT YOU CAN EAT CHEAPER AT THE DELUXE THAN YOO CAN AT HOME OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY new name for the town. Some said they would prefer to Al FRANCIS retain the name of Paradise Valley. County Commissioner Rodney Col. UALIrUKNIAH' ton, however, reminded the resi.

dents that there already is a Para. JETS GUARD NEW YORK Lightning fast Lockheed F-94 all-weather jet planes like this one are now on round-the-clock guard over New York and the industrial east, says the Air Force. A radically-designed version of the famous F-84 Shooting Star, the F-94 is primarily for interception of enemy aircraft. It carries radar equipment in the nose, with the operator in the rear cockpit. It has a service ceiling of more than 45,000 feet and, with special boosting devices for its Allison J-35 engine, a top speed in excess of 600 miles per hour.

ASK CONTROL DALLAS, Jan. 16. (JP Four hundred independent Dallas grocers have asked congress for controls on "runaway prices." They said through a spokesman that wholesale food costs have passed retail prices on some items. 300 ROCMS 54 00 UP DOWNTOWN OARAGE ADJACENT dise Valley, Nevada, with a post office in Humboldt county. said that would preclude the use of i their pets.

the name in the event a post offic was sought. Regents Discuss Aggie Building MINISTERS MEET Denmark, Jan. 16. (iP) Scandinavian foreign ministers met here today for a one day conference on United States proposals that the United Nations brand Communist China the aggressor in Korea. Also up for discussion was the possibility of a new Swedish-Danish protest to Soviet Russia against the Soviet's 12-mile Baltic sea limit.

University of Nevada's board of regent met informally with the state planning board Sunday morning on the campus to discuss methods to more closely coordinate the two groups. Archie Grant, who flew in from Las Vegas to attend the discussion, presided at the meeting in the capacity of vice-chairman. The main tonic of the round tahl 6) NEED REPAIRS 7 7 7 CALL WATCH for this; new service which: will soon APPEAR IN THE CLASSIFIED SECTION OF THIS NEWSPAPER discussion concerned the proposed new agricultural building which would be built at a cost of $594,000. It replaces plans for a similar type building which was to have been constructed at a cost of a million and a half dollars. Those attending the meeting were of the opinion that a strong possibility existed that a bill might be introduced at the legislature al-loting money for the building.

Members of the state planning board who attended the meeting, at the request of the regents, were Mr. Grant, A. M. McKenzie, Al Caton, John Scott, F. M.

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