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10 Las Vegas DAILY OPTIC Monday November 7. 1977 Leroy S. Wicks, former LV mayor, honored by Kiwanis Club at dinner Honored Leroy Wicks was honored at a Kiwanis Club banquet Saturday night with the presentation of the Citizen of the Year Award from the Las Vegas San Miguel Chamber of Commerce. In recognition of 52 years of public service, Wicks also received a framed letter from the Kiwanis president-elect Bill Solberg, and letters from congressional friends, Kiwanis Club members, and his family (Optic Photo by Leah Leach) The applause spread all the way to the nation's capital Saturday nfght when Kiwanis Club staged a resounding tribute to LeRoy S. Wicks for 52 years of service to Las Vegas.

At a banquet in the Flamingo Dining Room, Wicks received awards from Kiwanis, the city of Las Vegas, the Las Miguel Chamber of Commerce and others. Letters of praise and gratitude him were received from President Carter, New Mexico's Congressional delegation and former U.S. Treasurer Francine Neff of Albuquerque, and the president of Kiwanis International. It was an early birthday party and an affectionate "thank-you" for Wicks, who will be 82 this month. The event was a surprise to the honoree.

He came to Las Vegas in 1925 from South Dakota. Doctors had given him only about a year to live unless he moved to a higher and drier climate. Wicks feels he owes his very life to this community so he has spent the 52 years since in various areas of civic service. He was the city's mayor for three terms, 1956-1962, has been a leader in the Lutheran Church and a member of the Chamber of Commerce with 12 years on the Chamber board since its inception. He has held many posts in Kiwanis Club, including local president and district lieutenant governor and is now retireing after 30 years as its secretary.

He received the Kiwanis International Legion of Merit Award in 1964. Since World War II, he has been San Miguel County Savings Bond Chairman, a position he still holds. He was active in Scout leadership posts, for both boys and girls, for over 40 years on a local and state el. He drove a school bus for 20 years, simply because of his love of children. It was not uncommon for him to receive 50 to 100 graduation, marriage and birth announcements a year from his former passengers.

When he was in his early 70's, some parents expressed the fear that he was too old to drive a bus. That argument was soon dispelled when he won the top state trophy as "Bus Driver of the He was secretary of the New Mexico School Bus Drivers' Association for 17 years. Wicks worked briefly as a car salesman here, discovered the need for hauling agricultural products so entered the trucking business with the purchase of one truck. Later he progressed to a fleet of trucks and owned and operated Wicks Transfer and Storage for many years. Wicks and his wife, Edna live at 790 Kathryn Drive.

His daughter, Carol (Mrs. George) Tinker, is executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce. His- four sons are LeRoy N. Wicks of Las Vegas, Lowell of New York City, Glenn of Sacramento, Calif, and Roald of Thousand Oaks, Calif. He has 13 grandchildren and six great- grandchildren.

His only brother, Russell Wicks of Colorado Springs, was here for the banquet. One of the souvenirs LeRoy Wicks will cherish from the testimonial is a U.S. Flag flown over the nation's Capitol on Saturday. It is being sent to him by U.S. Sen Pete Domenici (R-NM).

Wicks has always been an a a a a i American. NM school installs solar heater FORT WINGATE (AP) A solar- powered heating system in a Fort Wingate elementary school building is using 60 tons of rocks heated as high as 170 degrees, rather than water, to retain heat. The entire south wall of the building is covered with a corrugated fiberglass solar screen that will allow the sun to heat the rock placed behind the wall under layers of black metal grillwork. Hot air will exit near the ceiling through shaft openings and will fall as it begins to cool. Two small space heaters will be used on cloudy days, but Maurice Rocheleau, Bureau of Indian Affairs area facility manager, said the system should provide at least 50 per cent capacity even on cloudy days.

Frank Curley, the project's general foreman, said rocks were used as heat collectors instead of water because they "heat up faster, retain the heat longer and provide a more constant heat than water does." And Rocheleau said they anticipate fewer maintenance problems because you don't have to City housing meets The Las Vegas housing authority will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the housing conference room. worry about corroded tanks and leaks. The pilot project is the first solar- heated structure in theBIA's Navajo Area and officials will be watching it closely. "It's the first one in the country and we'll have to see how it works Rocheleau said.

He said the building was designed so the solar collectors face the sun during the four coldest months and the shade during the four warmest. The rock pile also will provide hot water for the building, but Rocheleau said it will have to be mixed with cold water because it will get as hot as 180 degrees. The building is designed to accommodate 125 students. HU play opens The Highlands University Department of Fine Arts is presenting, as its fall quarter major production, a world premiere entitled "Fate, Fortunes and Final Solutions," by Wallace Dace. The show opens Tuesday and runs through Saturday, at 8 each night at fifeld Auditorium.

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