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Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 2

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Reno, Nevada
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PAGE TWO NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA TUESDAY APRIL 16 1957 Official Visit Of VW Head Set for Elko Commander To Be eted Next Tuesday Paying his official visit to Ne vada April 23 will be Cooper Holt Chattanooga Tenn com mander in chief of the Veterans of oreign Wars of the United States He will be honored at Elko home of the present state commander Announcement of the contem plated visit of the national com mander was made today by the national offices of the VW at Kansas City Mo Hugh I Rossolo Elko com mander for the state of Nevada announced that former state com mander John Gammick Elko is chairman for the national offi visit to the state Gammick presently is the 17th District national council member which comprises the states of Nevada California and Oregon Steve Hernandez and Bert Jones are in charge of decorations and attend ance Commander Holt will arrive byUnited Air Lines at Elko at where he will be rhet by city and county officials departmentofficers and members of the post and auxiliary Holt will hold an "informal discussion with depart ment officers post commanders VW members at 2 pm in Oreanna Room of the Ranch inn 1 At 7 pm in the lounge of theCommercial Hotel a banquet will be held in honor Post andauxiliary members throughout the state have bee ninvited to at tend The charge for the banquet Is $250 per person Gammick an nounced that there would be en tertainment at the banquet also Immediately following the ban quet Commander in Chief Holt will install the newly elected offi cers of Gaspar Salaz Post No 2350 of Elko and Homer Lane Post No 958 of Wells Anyone desiring reservations for the banquet or hotel may write Gammick at PO Box 781 Elko The affair is open to nil post auxiliary members and the public 7 New President Of UN Chapter WELLS (Special) Acre shuffling of officers took place' at the April luncheon meeting of Wells Chapter of the Nevada Association for United Nations donducted by Mrs Swett vice president at the Wagon Wheel Cafe last Tuesday Acceptance of the resignation of Mrs Waldo Jones reasons of advanced Mrs Swett to the presidency Vine be came vice president and Mrs George Toombs was elected Second vice president Mr Vine superintendent of Grammar School led the noon hour discussions with a resume of his reasons for belief in United Nations A veteran of service in the last World War he said he strongly favored the con certed effort toward world peace that is possible only through co operation among nations At the Same time he warned that United Nations must be recognized as an individual thing of concern to each person that its success de pends in large measure upon awareness and belief at the com fhunity level Mrs Cory program chair man introduced Mr Vine and Mrs Vic Clyde who discussed the Security Council Members pres ent agreed that the Russian veto Seems largely to have nullified effectiveness of the Security Council at present Rancher Attends Meeting of Board GOLDIELD (Special) Olaf Bernard rancher of ish Lake Valley attended a meeting of the Esmeralda board of coun ty commissioners last riday in the interest of fanners in that falley Brincefield one of Gold octogenarians who spent several weeks in the hospital in Tonopah has returned to his home here He is greatly im proed in health Mrs Patrick Sweeney spent day' in the Tonopah hospital but is to be in her home in fhe Miller Auto Court She says her health is improving Ernest Pellkoffer who ownshd farms over 18000 acres in ish Lake Valley at the Bar 99 Ranch' Was attending to legal the court house this week Pellkoffer raises cattle alfalfa' pigs chickens and many miscellaneous crops A The office of Vernon Cantion MD i will be closed until April 25th CHIE Paying his official visit to Nevada at Elko next Tuesday will be Cooper Holt above commander in chief of the Vet erans of oreign Wars of the United States Hotel Salvage Contract Let ELKO A contract has been completed for the' removal of salv age from the Stockmen's hotel site The work wilt be done by the Elko Blacksmith Shop' operated by rank Arregui and Sam Et cheberry and Eld redge All of the salvage from the ruins of the hotpl destroyed by fire March 22 will be retained by the contractors Manager Dick Toothman of the hotel said They will take everything including the bricks with the exception of money from the slot machines which is still buried in the debris While the contractors were pre paring to move equipment onto the job work of reclaiming bricks went ahead A crew of about 12 men started to sort and clean the bricks If is' estimated that about 25 per cent will be reclaimed GamingControl Hoard toMeet CARSON CITY April 15 (IP) The state gaming control board has scheduled its monthly gam bling license session for April 18 Chairman Robbins Cahill report ed yesterday Expertedjkba considered Iduf 4 the session are applications for minor interests in the Royal Nevada and Tropicana hotels on the Las Vegas Strip and probably for gambling casinos at Lake Tahoe The state tax commission will meet April 23 to take final action on gambling recommendations of the gaming control board 7 Cahill who also sen es as tax commission secretary said that agency also would set final tax rates for the 1956 57 year at that session The taxes which are col lected in quarterly installments a year after they become due are determined by the various politi cal subdivision budgets for the 1957 58 fiscal year PARENTS ILL TAHOE CITY Calif (Special) Mr and Mrs rith Turner and daughter Kim have returned from a two weeks stay in Pasa dena San Diego and Sahta Bar bara Mr Turner left' for Pasa dena when He received word both his father and mother were ill Ely Spokesman Hits Service By Southwest Pressurized Craft Is Said Needed 1 1 In Area SEATTLE (UP) A represent ative of Ely Nev testified at a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing that he did not favor Southwest airline serving the city until the firm begins operating pressurized aircraft Hapy Karst said that because of the height planes serving the area must fly pressurized cabins were necessary Karst acknowl edged that Southwest had ordered pressurized aircraft but said that fact did not mean they would be used if the airline were to operate out of Ely Karst said United Airlines had served Ely since 1955 with equipment but was schedule flying only one round trip daily He said the city needed direct air connections with Salt Lake City Reno San ran cisco Chicago and other gateway He indicated Bonanza airline would give Ely desirable' service Karst testified Ely gen erate more air passengers than Elko Nev because the latter city is served by two transcontinental railroads and bus lines Chet Moulton representing the state of Idaho testified that in another five years geographically isolated states such as Idaho could be virtually bypassed by transcontinental airlines because of increasing use of jet aircraft He said Idaho needed more "feed routes to connect passengers with high i population areas where they could board jet 1 a for transcontinental travel if und Accounting Of Hotel Asked LAS VEGAS Nev Stan ley Burke operator of numerous drive in restaurants in California and a principal investor in the Las Vegas Hacienda Hotel sought Saturday to put the hostelry into receivership and to have an accounting made of its assets Burke filed a suit in district court and named as defendants Warren Bayley Harlin Gar ratt three hotel corporations and two unidentified corpora tions He said the defendants rhad misappropriated $260000 of money and had over paid entertainers Bayley termed the suit and added is no foundation to a single Mrs Alice Callahan Services Are riday The body of Mrs Alice Calla han will be accompanied to orest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale Calif where services will be held riday at 2 at the Church of the lowers riends may call at the Ross Burke Co chapel this afternoon until 5 PLEADS GUILTY SUSANVILLE (Special) August Nauyoks of Wendel Lassen county enerqd a plea of guilty to charge of stealing property belonging to George Waugh in superior court last Tuesday Superior Judge Ben Curler set riday April 19 as time for sentencing or probation Western State Democrats Map Party Charter LAS VEGAS Nev Demo cratic leaders from 11 western states Alaska and Hawaii' Satur day completed drafting a charter under which they will operate The leaders state party chair men and national committeemen also worked on policies for the 1958 congressional elections The two day organizational meeting opened riday in Hotel Sahara with Cal Rawlings Utah national committeeman acting as chair man Baker Las Vegas mayor and Nevada party chairman said a constitution and by laws for the would be sub mitted May 4 to 'the Democratic national committee for approval Board Approves Liquor Permits Sitting as a liquor board the Humboldt coun ty commissioners approved 11 li censes and turned down one at a meeting here Licenses approved were: De vine Service Station Golconda Diamond Inn Denio McMullen Service Golconda Golconda Hot Springs Service Station Shack Welcome Inn ly ing The Buckaroo Stilphur Store and Highway Bar McDer mitt The board refused to grant a license to Joe Garteiz in Paradise Valley until such time as he ful fills sanitation requirements spe cified by the Nevada state health department During the regular commission business meet the board accepted the resignation of Claude Reeves as trustee for the McDermitt fire district The board also voted to allocate the Humboldt County Chamber of Commerce $100 to send a rep resentative to Seattle Wash for a Civil Aeronautics Board hear ing on the proposed establish ment of an airline stop at Winne mucca The commission also voted a $1 per day pay raise for all members of the county road department except the county foreman Other pay raises voted included $25 per month for the justice of the peace for Union Township and the coun ty librarian Auxiliary Plans Sunrise Service SUSANVILLE (Special) Thomas Tucker Unit 204 Ameri can Legion Auxiliary will again sponsor the annual Easter Sun rise Service to be held at 5:15 am in the quarry beneath In spiration Point it was announced here The invocation will be given by Mulvihill scripture reading by Bishop Poulsen and a brief message by the Rev Roy Chappel of the irst Southern Baptist Church Benediction will be given by the Rev Lewis irst Bap tist Church and the music direc tor will be thd Rev Don North Assembly of God Church 707 Time and time again architects specify REDI lite Architects Call for'thenv fl 1 7 I n'1 j'y'1 iv I yLr block fon residences offices and commercial build Zings They know REDI lite gives added beauty to a building aS well as offering strong economical and fire resistant construction Before you your 'architect about the advantages of REDI READY MIX CONCRETE CO Morrill Avo at Truckoe River Wjy bother with three or more ft when just one gives coverage protection You can now get in nie iiuur ance policy protection against most of the risks you 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had been made in the 1958 Public Works bill by his The general said the $32000 fund set aside for the study was not sufficient to complete the pre liminary examination Bible said is senseless to stop the work for two years and then start again Half of the sur vey is now complete it should be continued without delay I intend to ask the committee for the nec essary funds to let the army en gineers complete the The survey would determine the advisability and cost of im provements and local cooperation necessary for providing flood pro Testimony Shows Cop Aided Extortion Ring LOS ANGELES Testi mony that a Los Angeles police man'aided ah extortion ring that shook down business men who lost money at Las Vegas Nev gambling tables was contained in a county grand jury transcript on file here iling of the transcript led to the disclosure that a third al fore moving here from Chicago He said he paid off $10000 of the gambling debt at once and signed an IOU for the rest Berke testified Genson and Weingardt called him to a Holly wood hotel and threatened him if he pay $3300 The manufacturer said Genson warned him it would do no good to complain to police because he had and worked with a BACK ROM MEET BATTLE MOUNTAIN (Spe cial) Enoch A Brown Jr ex ploration geologist for the Mag net Vove Barium Corporation of Battle Mountain attended the Pacific Southwest mineral con ference held in Reno recently He was a speaker at the conference on the commercial aspects of Ne vada barite policeman Identified only as Berke further testified that Genson twice telephoned in his presence leged member of the ring was ar rested last week and was being held in county jail with two oth ers The suspects secretly indicted by the grand jury two weeks ago are Albert Genson 38 Los An geles Barney 45 Las Vegas and Arthur Pavlo 38 for merly of Los Angeles Pavlo was the last to be arrested Plastics manufacturer Victor Berke testified before the grand jury that he lost $11000 in a Las Vegas gaming casino during a stopover in the Nevada city be tection for the cities of Las Vegas North Las Vegas Henderson and adjacent developed areas The survey was requested after disas trous flash floods cost the com munities many thousands of dol lars in damage believe the appropriations committee will see the necessity of continuing this work and the inadvisability of a stop and go Bible concluded UNERALS ON i 220 West Second St Reno Nevada Phone A 3 6191 Rogers UNERAL SERVICE INC' Weekly Payments MAY BE ARRANGED as low as $350 per week Complete unerals Ha I 1 1 I I I rt I t'l 'AW''Q' ay si AU 1 'J Sw 'MB 'n' MMawl A ArWg ty WawBl A '''v" 1' i MM i 1 1 Li aaBKA Chuck young man getting up in this world Just over a year ago when Chuck Luhring decided to look into telephone work he knew little about it But because he showed good promise he was hired and trained with regular pay Today a telephone lineman with a solid career ahead of him In a business where management comes up from the ranks there are lots of chances for promotion The work is steady and the pay keeps up with advancement To Chuck these things make a good job And the fact telephone jobs are good pays off for you too It means capable people are attracted into the business And this means better service for you :1 '7 kffY777 y7 1 1 I 'I A i I 'J 4 7 M'H' 1 '''47 MB1 I a7jm8 ry 7 1 St Ito 4' 'I Jwb a 3 in the where Chuck Luhring got his training is one of many telephone schools on the Coast Others train operatprs installers etc Giving good people good train ing is another way we see to it your service is in capable hands The men and women of Working together to serve you better () Bel I Of NCVStfa in Reno Your Buslnest Officot 151 Wort Jtreot Airview 3 2211.

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