Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 10

Nevada State Journal riday June 12 1964 Missile Reporters Visit Nevada To Learn of Aerospace Activity STATELINE Nev The men and women who cover the rocket launchings at Cape Ken nedy were in Nevada Wednes day to learn about this role in the space pro gram Robert Warren state director of economic development briefed the science writers on space age activities at the Nevada Test Site Haw thorne and North Rocketdyne Division in Washoe County He issued a press kit describing activities of Aerojet General Corp Westinghouse the Lockheed Space and Missile Co all at Jackass lat Aero jet operations at Hawthorne and the rocket propellant plant at Lovelock a story describing activities of North American and Sandia Corp near Tono pah and other related concerns The press corps was on a three day tour sponsored by the Air orce of the West Coast aero space industries to see where and how the variety of components of the rockets launched at Cape Kennedy are made The newsmen toured aerospace complexes in Sacra mento and Los Angeles Tuesday and Wednesday including Gen eral Dynamics North American Aviation Douglas Aircraft and Aerojet General They arrive by bus from Sac ramento Wednesday afternoon for the press briefing and the dinner show at Tahoe They returned to Sacramento Thursday to disperse for their home offices On hand for the tour are: Capt Tom Seeberger Air orce George Alexander Avia tion Week magazine Al Rossi ter United Press International Howard Benedict Associated Press Milt Sosin Miami (la) Daily News George Meguiar WRTK Radio Cocoa Beach la' Bill Hampton WMEG Ra dio Eau Gallie la John Wa sik McGraw Hill Publications Cortland Townsen Radio News Service Walt Mack Melbourne (la) Times Mary Bubb Elec tonics News Joe Caldwell Jacksonville (la) Journal and Maj John Whiteside Air orce 4th Company In Protest On Carlson Sound of Music to Open Sacramento Music Circus SACRAMENTO Calif The Sacramento Music Circus will open its 14th season on Thurs day June 18 with Rodgers and Broadway hit The Sound of Music It played for nearly four years in New York City and the production rights were released to summer theaters only last spring It will be' tire first opportunity for northern California audiences tn see this last collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein Os car Kammerstein 2nd died in 1960 eight months after The Sound of Music opened The Sound of Music is a true story about the Austrian Trapp family which fled from Austria in 1938 as refugees from the Nazis The Trapp family was made up of seven children and their father Captain Georg von Trapp a widower Into their life came Maria Rainer who was hired to take care of the children Despite their resistance Maria taught the children to sing as a group and eventually the Captain gave in He fell in love with Maria and married her With their possessions confiscated by the Nazis the family came to America in 1939 and earned a living from singing Billed as The Trapp amily Singers they were famous on the concert stages of America during the early years of the war The show is sprinkled with songs typical of Rodgers and Hammerstein Among them are Maria the song the children sing Do Re Me Climb Every Mountain My avorite Things and the title song The Sound of Music will star Eileen Christy as Maria and Robert Rockwell as Cap tain von Trapp Miss Christy made her Music Circus debut last season as Daisy Mae in LIT Abner Rockwell who is known to television fans as Mr Boynton in the old Our Miss Brooks series first ap peared at Music Circus in 1958 in Wonderful Town Oth ers in the cast include opera singer Margery MacKay as the Mother Abbess Paul Jay son as Max Detweiler Joan Conrath as Liesl Stephen Mi chaels as Rolf Jim Myers as ranz and Betty Tesman as Elsa Schraeder The Sound of Music will play' 11 nights June 18 through 28 ollowing on June 29 will be lower Drum Song Paint Your Wagon on July 6 She Loves Me on July 13 The King and I on July 29 The Boys from Syra cuse on July 27 Stop the World I Want to Get Off on August 3 Kiss Me Kate on August 10 These shows will play seven nights each Monday through Sunday The last show My air Lady will play two weeks opening on August 17 and run ning through August 30 Both season and single tick ets are on sale at the Civic The ater Box Office 1419 Street telephone 441 3163 Tickets may also be purchased through re gional agents Single tickets may be purchased in advance for the first five shows Season ticket sales wall continue until June 22 The Music Circus is produced by Russell Lewis and Howard Young presented by The Sac ramento Civic Theater SPECIAL HONOR John Olding (right) of Carson City was honored Tuesday evening as the oldest living past president of the raternal Order of Eagles as he received a special pin from John Rebol president of Carson City Aerie 1006 The rite was combined with installation of Carson Aerie officers at Eagles secutive terms as president of the Carson Aerie with Rebol Hall and got together the only two men to serve two con now In his second term Olding is 74 (Photo special to Gazette Journal) Gazette Journal Carson City Bureau A tourth liquedfied petroleum gas distributing firm has ac cused Public Service Commis sioner Leslie Carlson with bias and asked to have him disquali fied in hearing a Southwest Gas Corp application Propane Sales and Service Inc of North Las Vegasl filed a motion with the PSC to dis qualify Carlson in hearing or deciding a Southwest Gas ap plication to serve Indian Springs Cactus Springs and Mercury The firm charged Carlson was biased in favor of South west Gas Propane Sales has filed as an intervenor In South application to serve the Mercury area Charles Cavanaugh direc tor of Pacific Delta Gas Inc parent firm of Propane Sales filed a statement with the PSC alleging Carlson was biased in favor of Southwest Cavanaugh said he saw Carlson May 7 at the entrance of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas with James Sand ers vice president of South west and a key witness in the application and the two men got into a car and drove away together Carlson was first charged with bias and prejudice when the PSC awarded the certifi cate of convenience and neces sity to Southwest to serve 16 northern Nevada communities The firm claimed CarlsOn ovvsd them money and as a re sult teas prejudiced against them and should have been dis qualified Later Yerington Propane Co Inc George Myers and Wal lace Black of Lovelock Gas Co and South Tahoe Gas Cb also filed suit seeking to vacate the PSC order granting Southwest lhe certificate in the northern Nevada communities charging Carlson with bias in favor of Southwest Library Plans Reading Program Registration for a summer reading program began Mon day at the Sparks Branch Li brary Children may register until June 16 irst and second graders should be accompanied py an adult The theme for the club this summer will be the Nevada Centennial Each club is required to read at least 15 books during the six weeks pe riod and a party will conclude the program Certificates will be awarded 'THOU SHALT NOT A burglar broke into the home of Robert Connolly of 860 Spo kane St Monday night but if he reads he may learn the er ror of his ways Along with a tv set and electric iron and some clothes the thief stole Bible NEWS NEVADA CALIORNIA CHURCH SCHOOL The ederated Church vaca ll' Iw I 11 IP Mr Sw i'T 'KIM 4 1 'I'' um IB Ji if I I fi Michael Pease of Las Vegas was one of 121 high school students from across the United States who received bronze medal lions yesterday from President Lyndon Johnson during ceremonies at the White House Here Pease accepts his designation as from President Johnson Diane Degnan of Reno was among the 64 boys and 57 girls honored (UPI Telephoto) tion school has been scheduled June 15 26 for children from kindergarten age through the fifth grade It will be held from 9 am through 11:30 am five days a week The program will end June 26 at 7:30 pm with a program for parents A hunting duck hawk hB been seen traveling at between 165 and 180 miles an hour LONESOME? No need to be amily or friends far away are as near as your telephone And a Long Distance phone call is the next best thing to being there After all nothing says YOU like your voice Bed of Nevada Reminder To complete your calls more quickly dial them direct Nevada Scholars At White House Lower Level Record Shop son purchases ord IN See Louis Armstrong Now Appearing at IN SPARKS VIRGINIA AT ITH There are more conventions held in Chicago than In any other city in the world net officers and staff members helping out Actor Sidney Poitier was master of ceremonies Invited guests tor the event were BI Director Edgar Hoover choreographer George Balanchine baseball great Stan (The Man) Musial director of the physical fitness program poet Ogden Nash artist Ben Shahn authors Mar ya Mannes Harper Lee and Robert Penn Warren architect Edward Durrell Stone Dr Robert Oppenheimer scientist and David Riessman professor of social relations at Harvard and author of Lonely Two Nevada students a girl from Reno and a boy from Las Vegas were among 121 Ameri can scholars given the red car pet treatment Wednesday by President Lyndon Johnson who had invited them to the White House The irst amily entertained the 121 at a medal presentation with a picnic on the White House lawn and with a program Dian Estelle Degnan Reno High School graduate and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bar ron Gage of Reno was one of those honored as was Michael Pease of Las Vegas Miss Degnan and Pease both were winners of National Merit Scholarships earlier this spring President Johnson once a teacher himself told the as sembled students that they have a with ex The 121 Presidential Schol ars represent every state In the Union the District of Colombia and Puerto Rico The President said the young sters assembled all had ex celled in scholarship of their Class of 1964 and the po tential to excel even more in the of their country for future years want now to challenge you to develop and apply that qual ity of excellence which Is with in said the President not be a face less and thoughtless existence in a dull and dreary society I believe the destiny of your Washoe GOP Opens Office The temporary headquarters of the Republican Party in Washoe County is located in Rooms 21G 211 in the Clay Pe ters Building 140 Virginia St according to Leslie ry county GOP chairman He says larger quarters are now being sought Last week following a meeting of the county central committee ry appointed Mrs Helen Atkin son of Reno as office manager She is a veteran party worker and a former county vice chair woman Louis Armstrong riday 2:30 to 4 PM OUR RECORD SHOP LOWER LEVEL Hear Recordings See him in per and have Louis autograph your rec Xo nugget GUM HEID generation and your nation is a rendezvous with President Johnson presented medals to each of the 121 Pres idential Scholars who had come with their families for the celebration The President and Mrs John son shook hands with the stu dents in the Blue Room of the White House where a receiv ing line was set up during a lemonade reception The scholars met some of the big names in the fields of art literature the stage space and government and education The 20 year old daughter Lynda Bird was hostess at a picnic on the south lawn with the children of cabl OPEN HOUSE WIN ONE 1000 WONDERUL PRIZES! as advertised in the NOW KENO $25000 Limit jii erside ffi JI 1 fl I RENO Only the most carefully made whisky gives you that great vo taste That brilliance of Havor That special kind of lightness yl Distilled ljR and bottled Lal in Canada I SttDCMB Ilf Vu v0 wk Zf Wil Imported VO Known by the company it keeps gANAOIAN a BLEND Of SELECTED WHISKIES YEARS OLD SA PSOO SEAGRAM DISTILLERS CO IT A June 5 issue of LIE VISIT THIS WESTINGHOUSE EQUIPPED HOME RENO NEVADA Wntward Hmuk I Most Builder Western livin with enclosed patios used brick fireplaces Three and four bedrooms: one and two car ja I rages ive beautiful models with prices starting at J22 400 Oddie Blvd at Sullivan Lane WESTWARD HOmes jjj EXCLUSIVE SALES AGENT CROWN REALTY Licensed Real Estate Brokers Offices at Oddie Blvd and Sullivan Lane or 355 Gentry Way Phone 358 7499 or 329 2985 AAA lauNifRUiHt.