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Nevada State Journal Thursday April 30 1964 NEWS NEVADA CALIORNIA Gazette Journal Want Ad and I made room in the garage for our car Mr Mir Mr ix Teachers In Mineral To Perform Special to Gazette Journal HAWTHORNE an elaborate extrava ganza will be presented as the first major affair of the Cen tennial Year by the Mineral County Classroom as sociation on May 1 The presentation is under the direction of Betty West Dave Weston and Gloria Oberg Mas ter of ceremonies is Robert An derson The cast is billed as carefully selected acting com pany of Ladies and Gentlemen whose pockets may be empty whose soles may be thin but whose hearts are in their A melodrama entitled tha the Beautiful will lead off an eve ning of shenanigans and it is said it takes place in the of the Aroma a small hotel in the village of Polecat Cente on a spring day many years ago accord ing to the synopsis A special feature of the eve presentations is the crowning of the Mineral County Centennial queen The identity of the queen is being kept a dark secret but it is announced that Kellison chairman of the Mineral County Centen nial Committee will conduct the ceremony Sixteen acts will be presented in a fast moving variety show including a Centennial ashion Show Tootie Cutie from Raw hide Sharps and lats in Whis key lats Dead Horse Wells Review Agnes Aurora and the Candaleria Canary and the Bod ie Belles A special notice to spectators states that the audience is warned not to toss coins or oth er objects (including over ripe vegetables) at the performers Autographs will be signed at the stage entrance gentlemen will please assist the women and children to the door at the close of the performance perambulat ing in a leisurely manner do not rush precipitately or push rudely in making the egress please refrain from using tobac co while within the building and no expectorating or smoking during the performance The news release does not state where the presentation is to be made however scuttle butt has it that it will take place at the Elementary school audi torium Cuilain time is 8 pm May 1 Admission charge has not beeh announced either but persons wishing to attend are warned that they should per haps come well heeled Special police protection will be provid ed against pickpockets Humboldt Players Slate Special to Gazette Journal WINNEMUCCA will be presented by Starbright Theater in Nixon Hall today and tomorrow di rected by Miss auneil Mc Carl Made up of high school stu dents the cast includes Ra mona White as Mrs Webb Tom Bush as Dr Gibbs Tim Ugaldea as Sam Eight sophomores fill the roles of Emily or Pam Car roll George or Ronnie Schoff Mrs Gibbs Diana Le cumberry Mr Webb Dean Grauvogel Rebecca Kathy Aul Mrs Soames Beth An sotegui Simon Stimson or David Scott and Lar rucea as the stage manager Arthur Kooy represents the air base Stamps Preferred NEW LONDON Conn (UPI There must be something in a trading stamp catalogue that some thieves have their heart set on Police said burglars broke into the home of Mr and Mrs Romo Gentinella and took 15 books of trading stamps but did not bother money or Antique Wells Lamps Show Centennial in New Light ROM the trash piles of candle spike one end equipped to hold candle or car bide light the other spiked to thrust into the mine came from Ruby Valley seum A pair of six inch candle hold ers of glass have been purpled by long exposure to desert sun light Another double candle holder believed at least a cen tury old came from an old truck once belonging to lIrs rank eanney pioneer resident of Wells The delicate china fig urine is that of a girl dressed in dark blue threaded with gold painted inside theirs but even he might have raised an eye brow impressed by the extrav agance of the chandelier Its white china shade drips crystal prisms and is elegant with hand painted red roses Its polished brass base can be low ered by a pulley from the ceil ing where the lamp hangs by a gleaming brass chain froqj a polished brass plate also drip ping crystal prisms Mrs Supp bought the kero sene fueled chandelier from a lady in Sparks who did not Special to Gazette Journal WELLS That old Greek philosopher Diogenes might have had more luck in his search for an honest man if he could have dickered with "Ad (Mrs Carl C) Supp for a lamp possible that the old cynic living in a tub the world's best housekeeper and that the lantern with which he walked the streets in 400 BC was too dingy to throw light on an honest man had he met one No such complaint can be made of the old lamps Mrs DIOGENES might have snort ed at the femininity of a pair of tall kerosene lamps with a floral design etched Inside their glass stems or the other pair with THE KEROSENE lamp with bowl and shade of knobby white milk glass could be any col joy Also among the 21 kerosene lamps a square tin one hand made from Cherry Creek in White Pine County Another kerosene table lamp once clear glass sun purpled was given to abandoned homesteads and rail road section stations as well as from friends Airs Supp has gathered the collection A pol ished brass folding lamp like a small house with isinglass windows and peaked roof holds two candles and can either be carried or hung by a brass ring It was given to Mrs Supp Glen Bradley Wells District for est ranger Several carbide lamps were once used on caps in the Polar Star mine south of Wells An iron hand wrought Supp took from her collection for home basement mu of accessories to yesterday living for display in the Golden Rule store window on the cor ner of Lake Avenue and seventh Street in Wells this week CARBIDE lamps kerosene and gasoline lamps and lan terns and candle powered lights are all part of the display sec ond in a series to mark Ne Centennial of statehood Every light in the window has been refurbished put in working order and polished to a high gleam by Mr and Mrs Supp the Supps by Mrs Roger Smith the full blown red and gilt rose of Ruby Valley a nickel based lamp with its mantles place ready for the match to set them glowing fed by gaso line fumes a round tin railroad lamp and a square signal lamp with glass windowed sides and double wick Murder Case Writ Ordered By High Court Gazette Journal Carson City Bureau The State Supreme Court has issued a writ of certiorari in connection with the Las Vegas murder case of two men ac cused of the fatal shooting of William Tollus Green an infor mant for the ederal Bureau of Narcotics The court ordered the rec ords of the case be submitted to the high court for review be fore May 18 Additional briefs will be filed by both the de fendants and Clark County Dist Atty Marshall and oral arguments may be heard later At issue Is whether dark County should pay for a tran script of the first trial of the two men Warren Lonnell Harris and Vase Calvin Valrie ended in a hung jury Dist Judge William Compton ordered a transcript for Harris after the jury deadlock Both Harris and Valrie are indigent defendants have court ap pointed attorneys However when the court re porter submitted her first bill of J44 for a portion of the pro ceedings the county commis sioners acting on the advice of Marshall refused payment Marshall contends the law provides for payment from pub lic funds of transcripts in cases where the defendant is convict ed and not where a no decision verdict is rendered He says Judge Compton exceeded his jurisdiction in ordering the transcript be prepared Since the refusal the court reporter has stopped any fur ther work which would cost an estimated 51000 No date has been set for a new trial for the two men who are in jail Comstock License Switch Requested Gazette Journal Carson City Bureau Carroll Eaton owner and operator of the Silver Queen in Virginia City has applied to the State Gaming Commission to give his wife Ruby Mae half interest in the gambling opera tion Eaton has held a license at the Queen since 1954 a gaming spokesman said He op erates 90 slot machines at the club The oldest legislative assem bly in the world is the Althing of Iceland It was founded in 930 AD KEEP AND USE THE ENTERTAINMENT SECTION See it in the Reno Evening Gazette ridays and the Nevada State Journal Saturdays iles for Ormsby Post Gazette Journal Carson City Bureau Keith Macdonald 28 year old Carson City pharmacist Wednesday filed for a four year term as Ormsby County commissioner on the Republi can ticket Macdonald will oppose incum bent Ted Imus a Democrat who has filed for re election to the four year post Macdonald said he did not intend to fully open his campaign until it is determined if he will face oppo sition in a primary has been some ob vious dissatisfaction with at least some of the county poli cies and I have been ap proached by several people who have asked me to run do not want to make any statements on county policy un til I have had a chance to look into it more Macdon ald said least one of my plat forms will be for the eventual consolidation of Ormsby Coun ty and Carson City into one governmental unit to save over lapping of authority will not elim inate any offices and possibly save money Unfortun ately governments do not be come more economical as they grow larger because of more service they have to Macdonald said A native of La Salle Ill Macdonald has been a Nevada resident for 15 years and has lived in Carson City for 11 years He is a graduate of Reno High School and University of Utah College of Pharmacy He is past' president of the Carson City Chamber of Com merce and the 20 30 Club He is a former member of the Car son Tahoe Hospital Board and is president of the State Phar maceutical Association Macdonald is married and has three children He is in business with his father in Mul ler's Drug Store in Carson City The first flag of the United States was adopted by the Con tinental Congress in Philadel phia June 14 1777 City ranchise Powers Limited Gazette Journal Carson City Bureau Atty Gen Harvey Dickerson said Wednesday the State Pub lic Service Commission and not cities and counties has the power to grant franchises to companies wishing to install community antenna television projects Dickerson told Las Vegas City Atty Sidney Whitmore that the city does not have the pow er to grant an exclusive fran chise to a firm seeking to put in community antenna the pickup of televi sion programs is within the state whether by relay towers or otherwise and transmission of programs is then conducted to homes and businesses within the state it constitutes the transmission of intelligence via electricity and being intrastate in character is under the juris diction of the Public Service he said Lyon Senior Class Play Given Special to Gazette Journal The Senior Class Play in the was presented April 23 24 In the high school auditori um Playing lead roles in the popular comedy by Betty Mac Donald author of Egg and were Sharon Mikkelson Mike Grulli Lynn Greene and Monica Guild Leslie Hansen had charge of stage effects and Nancy Nau mann and Steve Pellegrini en tertained with music between acts Directors of the play were class sponsors Mrs Lois Mad den and Don Trabing ARMS SEIZED GEORGETOWN British Gui ana Police Wednesday night seized a cache of arms including submachineguns dy namite and bomb making chem icals in a canefield near the east coast village of Trium in the violence ridden Demerara County fields More Comfort Wearing ALSE TEETH Here 1 pleasant way loose plate discomfort ASTEErn an improved powder sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they feel more com fortable No gummy gooey pasty taste or feeling alkaline (non acid) Does not sour Checks plate odor treat Get ASteetH today at tlni counter vrywtir Delicious CHINESE OOD SERVED IN THE COACH ROOM rom 1 1 :00 PM apes know its origin so its elegance is flavored with mystery In season it forms a gay and in viting part of the horn Christmas decorating THE BIG QUESTION ON HEALTH INSURANCE OR SENIOR CITIZENS: IS IT AVAILABLE? 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