Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • 12

travelling to Colorado where they visited Mrs brother who is in the US ArmyTheir sons Russ and Dale spent the week in Tooele Utah visiting an aunt while their son Tony spent the week in Paragonah Utah with his grandparents Mr and Mrs Mike Bissett will journey to San rancisco this weekend to meet their grand daughter who is flying in from Chicago and also to meet their daughter Marjorie who will re turn with them to spend the next few weeks visiting rank Johnson uneral Is Held uneral services for rank Johnson were held in the Sierra Chapel of Walton uneral Home West Second and Vine streets Monday afternoon at 12:30 with the Rev George Schroeder of St Lutheran church officiating Burial was in Mountain View cemetery Mr Johnson who had been a resident of Reno for the last 28 years died at a local hospital on June 8 1 RENO EVENING GAZETTE June 12 1956 ederal unds Rodeo Queen Allotted for To Be Named Retirement Next Sunday Reno Airport over ON THE YEAR AHEAD CAR CHRYSLER WINDSOR 8 individuals XI 1 '5 presented by KERAK TEMPLE gag? Hi AND WESTERN SHRINE ASSOCIATION I LTE TAREYTOtJ at MACKAY STADIUM modern size 1 a 1 AV 'm A irv 1 will be selected and as and have their pictures parade promises to largest in the history of understand advice the When the WASHINGTON June 12 Co armers faced the possibility of reduced crops this year unless they get more rain and the weather warms up soon In its monthly crop report late yesterday the agriculture de partment said prospects on 'June 1 were the lowest since 1945 will fol WEED HEIGHTS Mrs Lyn White has returned to her home in Rockland Ida after spending three weeks visiting her daugh ter and family Mr and Mrs Harry Ruddell Mrs rank Rippee and son Mike and Mrs Wake Pugh spent riday of last week in Reno Mr and Mrs Ken Mitchell have returned after a vacation mothers to whom he presented flowers They included Mesdames Bill Lee Crook Schank Tom Corkill and James Sloan The program included a song by the A quartet of Buzz Allen Ray Carter Paul Berry and Louis Oakley accompanied by Ridney Kirn Nearly half a million dollars in federal airport aid funds are scheduled to be made available to the Reno municipal airport com mencing July 1 it was announced in Washington today by Rep Cliff Young Young said a total of $805848 has been scheduled for three air ports in Nevada with the Reno field getting the share of $481 250: Other fields allotted funds are Las McCarran field $293 348 and Elko municipal airport $31250 Young said the Reno funds are scheduled for acquiring land con tinuing apron construction taxi way construction and for building an administration building At Las Vegas the funds are scheduled for use in site prepara tions paving aprons building service roads extension of the east west runway with parallel taxiway and acquisition of an east runway clear zone $31250 will be used in construction of additions to the administration facilities The funds were made available under an amendment to the fed eral airport act co sponsored a year ago by Sen Alan Bible of Nevada The amendment provides $63 000000 annually in federal funds for airport construction and im provement Bible said today that President Eisenhower signed the bill last year after refusing to approve earlier measures Under the bill Nevada will get approximately $750000 annually for four years Bible declared The funds must be used for con struction and improvement with the federal government supplying two thirds of the funds used and local sponsors putting up one third V' 1956 rodeo queen be announced immediately lowing the rodeo queen contest to be held next Sunday at Washoe park it was announced today All candidates will assemble at the park for a 9:30 breakfast where they will meet with the judges and later take the horsemanship test It was announced by the Reno Junior Chamber of Commerce in charge of the selection of the rodeo queen that all candidates must provide their own horses for the horsemanship test The candidate selected to reign over the 1956 rodeo will be crowned on the opening day of the four day event immediately follow ing the initial grand entry and will be present when James Stewart Silver Spurs winner is given the annual award on the final day of the rodeo partici pating in the presentation of the Silver Spurs to the winner Judges for the rodeo queen contest will be at park at 9:30 next Sunday to gether with representatives of the Reno Junior Chamber of Commerce At that time the personality test will be held with the candidates and the judges joining at breakfast so they may get acquainted Candidates must be between 18 and 25 years of age residents of Washoe county and can never before have won a Reno rodeo queen contest At the same time that the rodeo queen contest is held color guards for the 1956 color bearers in the annual rodeo parade signed taken This be the the Reno rodeo as several of the clubs and business houses have indicated they will have floats in the parade officials have re ported Stewart chamber of commerce Silver Spurs winner will ride in the parade as will Anthony Mann Silver Spurs award win ning director and William Goetz producer of "The Man rom selected by the ballots of more than 600 motion picture editors of the country as the best western picture of the past year tv Know Your Gazette Carrier Royal Nevada Becomes Annex LAS VEGAS Nev June 12 ta?) The Royal Nevada hotel which encountered rough finan cial going late last year has been taken over by its neighbor the New rontier hotel President Maurice ried man of the New rontier who did not give the sale price said yesterday the annexation will give the combination 450 hotel rooms He said free limousine service between the two hotels 1000 yards apart will be main tained 24 hours a day The Royal Nevada operating without a casino or entertain ment since last Christmas will retain its name Weed Heights Activities Told As RIDAY JUNE 15 AT 7 PM ALLON Leroy ri Schank is retiring after 27 years as head of the allon high school i agricultural department 30 years in Nevadaand 32 years in all as an agriculture instructor 1 At the same time the youthful appearing' energetic leader is turning down a two year assign ment in Cairo Egypt at a good salary with housing transporta tion and other inducements added The offer comes from the Department of Health Education and Welfare The job is to teach scientific farming to the Egyp tians PREER ARM Mr and Mrs Schank prefer their modern farm home east of allon It is a grade A dairy set up operated jointly with his son Cyril Schank was born Providence Utah He was graduated from the Logan Utah high school and from the Utah State College of Agri culture or two years he taught in the Sumner high school and for three years in the Bunkerville Nev high school Then he came to allon His successor in agricultural education here will be Howard Hutchins graduate of the Utah State Agricultural College and for the last four years in charge of the agricultural department at He will arrive late next month or early in July with his wife and two children DEPARTMENT HEAD successor as depart ment head at allon high is Harry Bradley or three years he has been teaching farm shop which he will continue and other subjects The allon instructor said he 'enumerate the boys who had completed work under his guidance "Three to four hundred "How many have remained here to take jip than was the re ply years ago it was 65 per students nearly al ways make the late Ira Kent long the head of largest mercantile establishment said a few years ago are good Many of them are leaders in state and local circles One of them George rey is president of the Nevada State arm Bureau As students and later they have been outstanding in the uture armers of America Three have been riational A officers: Veryl Hendrix and Virgil Getto national secretaries and Don Travis national vice president 75 STATE ARMERS Twelve of the young men achieve the National armer degree at national conventions DOUG LOHSE taking where his brother left off is keeping up the tradition in the George Lohse family Doug started on hjs Gazette route last January and is al ready upholding the family carrier reputation that has been passed down to him Doug would like to thank all his 51 custom ers for the fine cooperation he has been getting and hopes call him if they ever have to register a complaint Hobbies are a big item in the Lohse household Doug collects china dogs grows plants and collects stamps He is present ly trying to raise a redwood tree which could be the first of its kind in Reno Doug is also musically in clined and plays the trombone in the school band In the way of sports he likes basketball and ice skating He is the son of Mr and Mrs George Lohse 709 Cleveland Just for the records his dad George is a noted at torney in Reno Doug attends Central Inter mediate school He is in the sixth grade and would like to follow in the footsteps of his dad and someday become a lawyer HERRMANN WILSOIL INC 100 ISLAND AVE RENO NEVADA PHONE 2 4031 and 75 have become State arm ers Those figures it was stated outrank any other A chapter in the state and is believed near the top among other chapters over the nation But Leroy Schank like to take credit for that "One of the big values in agri cultural education is the leader ship he explained "I never believed that we should teach all dirt farming In our high school they have had parlia mentary training public speaking and the Instruction in English and other cultural and scientific subjects were named my 27 years here many teachers have been invaluable in training these PREERRED ALLON Schank has declined a number of offers to go elsewhere in near ly every instance at higher salary One was as state director of agri cultural education another as state supervisor of agricultural training in Oregon In every instance he then said he had boys here whose training he wanted to see through to the finish The A chapter a few days ago honored their chief upon his retirement It was a suprise af fair Mrs Johnson had tele phoned him the Veterans of or eign Wars wanted some advice at their hall on a farming prob lem Such a call unusual for his counsel had been sought oy organizations and on many occasions I what kind of farm VW would guest of honor arrived he found out Boys now in school were there as well as others who have been farmers here for years know what nicer thing they could have done for he remarked later PRESENT CHAIR The dinner had been prepared by mothers of EA members An overstuffed leather chair was presented to the retiring depart ment head The boys had ar ranged the program of speakers who offered commendatory re marks It was the first A meeting by new officers recently elected Bob Cress president was in charge Don Travis said that Mr Schank had left on him individu ally more of a mark than anyone else in his life He spoke of the instructor having devoted his lifetime to service and also of contributing an ideal family one of whom is an asset to the Miss Anne Gibbe English in structor gave a talk filled with humorous incidents She referred to a tribute given Schank by John Bunten head of the state department of vocational educa tion declaring the allon man to be a ITS QUOTATION Virgil Getto said Schank fitted well the quotation man should choose with careful eye the things to be remembered Darrell Winters high school principal said he regretted he had no more years of work with Mr Schank as a fellow teacher Howard Christensen of the Max leischmann College of Agriculture University of Ne vada declared he was impressed by the quality of young men coming from Mr class es Ted deBraga state A treas urer remarked that "the boys all put their hearts into this affair for Mr But he added it was with the help of A 5) SAUSVPoWN Tipsy Driving Brings Arrest Ivan George 26 a allon farm worker was arrested by Reno police Sunday afternoon at Stew art and Sinclair streets because he was Lt Anthony Cardon and Officers A Barlow Raymond Oster and Roy Halliburton re ported: "In no condition to walk let alone George took a blood alcohol test at the Washoe Medical Cen ter and booked for drunken driving it leaves you breaihlessl SMIRNO THE GREATEST NAME kN QK A BOProofDlstilledfromgrainStePierreSmirnoff (Div of Heublein) Hartford Conn USA our Thousand Shriners in ull Uniform Bands 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