Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 11

page eleven: NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA RIDAY MAY 13 1955 Nmha £taie News of Nevada And Nearby California Hotel Deadline Is Nearing LAST CALL OR RENO The Coast to Coast BUY GE TV NOW! Royal IRST PAYMENT NOT DUE 'TIL JUNE 29TH SAT ONLY OER GOOD RI One Year Warranty 1955 MODEL Picture Tube All Parts ALUMINIZED TUBE Mahogany Cab ILTER SCREEN WIN Come be amazed at the greatest tire advancements of all time! MODEL 21 Cl 02 REGULAR PRICE 27995 24 MONTHS AT $1366 COME SEET All LIMITED SUPPLY PRIZES tow HILL HILL APPLIANCE GENERAL X) ELECTRIC 42 42 51 37 35 50 63 50 48 40 SEE EVERYTHING ABOUT TUBELESS AU THE LATEST ACTS RENO Austin Beatty Elko Ely allon Las Vegas Lovelock Tonopah Winnemucca $2500 of the $4000 cash obtained in the more recent crime to pur chase the sports car adding that he burned more than $8000 in checks taken from the establish ment Only 2 more days for Reno to see and wonder at the new different dramatic tire developments of and tomorrow! Better show leaves town Saturday night for sure! SEE BIGGER TIRES THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT EXISTED! green bronze! They fade bleach or stain the crowning touch that completes car styling and bfeauty for the first time in history! BECKWOURTH May 12 Louis Madalena of Beck wourth appeared in the Beck wourth judicial district court and admitted a charge of building a fire in the forest without a per mit and was ordered to pay a $25 fine plus firefighting ex penses The fire which occurred ri day afternoon swept an esti mated 30 acres near Crocker Mountains on the Plumas Na tional orest It was the first fire of the season on the forest Las Vegas Youngster Nabbed in Arizona One $5000 and 10 $1000 gift orders for merchandise at Gray 4 PORTABLE RADIOS Jut) sign your name end ad dress on an entry blank nothing to purchase You do not have to be present to win Awards will be given May 14th CARSON CITY May 12 Gov Charles Russell said today he was still searching for the best men he can find to appoint to two posts on the three man gambling board which goes into operation July 1 So far the governor has named QUINCY May Undersher iff Ed Spellmeyer and Constable Gray of the Beckwourth judicial district are investigating the theft of 40 cases of 40 per cent dynamite from the Graeagle Lum ber Company Spellmeyer said the theft was discovered by Rowe during an inspection of the LAS VEGAS May 12 (UR) Thousands of visitors streamed into this city today as its annual four day Helldorado celebration got under way The ten resort hotels were booked solid most of them having been sold out for several weeks Motels and auto courts reported rooms were at a premium Opening event will be the Old Timers Parade which starts at 3:30 pm with Lt Gov Rex Bell acting as grand marshal The traditional Parade will be held riday afternoon fol lowed Sunday afternoon by the windup beauty parade Rodeo events will be held all four nights at Cashman ield Margo Hines was named beauty queen of the celebration replac ing Mae Berryman Littell who suffered a broken hip when her horse threw her at Lone Pine Calif last weekend Napa county had 1496 farms in 1950 according to the census of agriculture of that year Government Camp powder house six miles north of Chilcoot The dynamite is valued at $580 Spellmeyer said entry was gained by breaking the lock of the powder house door urnrr 11 clock radio ANU bti fjf EE PLUS YOUR DOWN PAYMENT By UNITED PRESS Attorney William Woodburn of Reno reported yes terday no decision had been made yet whether a tax com mission order ousting Marion Hicks and Cliff Jones from the Thunderbird Hotel gambling license will be challenged in court Under the tax commission order the state gaming permit will be revoked on June 1 unless Hicks and ire Builder ined $25 at Beckwourth Geo Alleged riend Is Held As Vagrant LAS VEGAS May 12 A pretty ex chorus girl who testi fied she had a key to actor George Hollywood apartment and her girl friend were to be sen tenced today on vagrancy charges' The former chorine Mary Gia cona 24 and Jeanne Sanders 22 were arrested for filing a false police report that they had been robbed of $7500 in jewelry furs and clothes They first pleaded in nocent but yesterday in mid trial changed their pleas to guilty tg a lesser charge of vagrancy Police Lt Handion testi fied the girls gave jewelry furs and clothing to a known hoodlum and then turned in the alleged false theft report But the hood lum doublecro ssed them and turned the goods over to an insurance company to collect a 10 per cent reward Handion said Miss Giacona said she had known Raft for several years and stayed at his apartment as re cently as last December Shooting And Hold Up At Sacramento May Be Solved SUSANVILLE Calif May 12 (IP) Lassen county authorities today arrested Eugene Christen sen 42 of North on suspicion of robbing a mail truck in Sacramento last riday night after shooting the driver Sheriff Olin Johnson said he was the badly mauled Christensen is the man who sped off with the truck and robbed it of $4000 in postal receipts after a fight with Driver Herbert Morgan Johnson said his deupties ar rested Christensen and his wife today following surveillance of his motel cabin last night He said Sacramento police were en route to Susanville to return the man to the capital for question ing Morgan who suffered two bul let wounds in the leg in his scuffle with the robber had told author ities they could expect to find the robber badly beaten Johnson said Christensen ad mitted being in a fight riday night He said it occurred near the Southern Pacific depot in Sac ramento Johnson said Johnson said wife told him her husband left for work at 7 a riday and did not return until 9:30 She said he came home badly marked and said he had been in a fight She said he had insisted on leav ing town Sunday after they stayed home all day Saturday They drove to Susanville where they have been staying in a motel owned by a relative Sacramento detectives said they had sent out a secret bulle tin ordering arrest after tracing his name from a gun and hat left at the scene of the robbery The suspect was due to be re turned to Sacramento by mid night Jones are out of the Las Vegas Strip resort hotel Hicks owns 51 per cent of the Thunderbird stock and Jones 11 per cent The stern action was taken on grounds gamblers Jake Lansky and George Sadlo held what amounted to undis closed interests in the casino Meanwhile the tax commission reported no formal applications have been filed yet by anyone seeking to purchase the interests held in the Thunderbird by Jones and Hicks At the last meet ing Hugh Bradford a partner in a Dallas Tex securities firm appeared to mem bers concerning the possibility that a syndicate of 35 persons he represented might lease the Thunderbird and take over casino operations None of the 35 was identified William Gallagher head of the gambling divi sion said nothing further has been heard from Bradford He added no other word of what Hicks and Jones intended to do had reached the ears Las Vegas Is illed With Thousands Of Visitors Dr A Harden VETERINARIAN Has Returned 802 EAST SECOND ST PHONE 2 2330 Big Helldorado Celebration Is Now Underway LAS VEGAS May A 16 year old Las Vegas boy has con fessed the $12000 burglary of the Market Town supermarket last week the Las Vegas Sun reports The youth also admitted tak ing $900 from the market in a previous burglary officers said He was arrested in St Johns Ariz for speeding in a sports car he had purchased with some of the stolen money and was also carrying a gun The youth told police he used SEI THE "TIRE TOMORROW" Ex Chorus Girl At Vegas ails In Swindle Try AIL TO SEE THE niRES IN COLOR! only one of the three board mem bers He is Robbins Cahill tax commission secretary who will be appointed chairman of the new board Cahill will remain as executive secretary of the tax commission in addition to his new gambling duties Russell says he has not nar rowed the field down to any par ticular number and that he had received numerous applications for the two board posts yet to be filled Members of the board will bei paid $15000 a year License Revocation Due irst of June Unless Hicks and Jones Get Out Nevada's Earthquakes Given: Lion's Share of Discussion At West Coast Science Meet State Weather Lassen County Officers Hold Robber Suspect SEE THE TIRE TOTALLY DIERENT switched leading eat makers to tubeless! SEE THE TUBELESS TIRE A GIANT BULLDOZE BUDGE A WHEEL RIM! SEE MARVELS ROYALmPROCESSED NYLON sviaRoyal Tire Cos mm 210 South EDDE 4 T0MMY Phono Virginia joe chambers '2 1 1 12 Maximum minimum tempera tures and precipitation data from Nevada weather station observa tion points during last 24 hours 75 72 87 77 75 85 94 80 77 78 DI IIC I ft mining claim in Lincoln County is the scene of some of the most active LU DI lx lx uranium prospecting in eastern Nevada One 50 ton shipment of uranium ore has been 'made from the claim which is located in the Atlanta District about 50 miles north or Pioche Shown here are part owners of the claim James Hulse of Pioche Hezzlewood oi Las Vegas and Philin Hulse of Pioche Most of the work has been done on the surface (Walton Photo) ALLON May 12 1954 series of earthquakes were the focus of attention at a recent session of West Oast scientists convening at the University of California in Berkeley Attended by several hundred scientists of the area the meeting brought together members of three groups the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of Amer ica the Pacific Coast Section of the Paleontological' Society and the Seismographic Society of America The Nevada earthquakes fig ured prominently in the some 79 papers read during the meeting with three detailed lectures de livered before the entire assem bly Siesmologist Don Tocher of Berkeley led off the discussion with his paper on Ne vada Earthquakes of July and August This was followed by reports from two University of Nevada men Dr Slem mons and Dr Vincent Gianella whose topics were Dixie Valley airview a Earth quake of December 16 and and the Nevada Earthquakes of 1915 1932 and All three speakers illus trated their lectures with slides and pictures taken in the allon Dixie Valley area Apart from its importance as the setting for last series of earthquakes Nevada was the locale for nine other lectures de livered by members of the three societies making this state the most discussed area at the meet ing Attending the session from allon was Mrs Margaret Wheat who supplied a large number of the earthquake slides used in the lectures Mrs Wheat said this week that the faces of a number of allonites appeared on the university screen people like LeRoy Giles and Al Powell who were shown inspecting the earth quake scenery Dynamite Theft Is Investigated Boy 16 Admits Gov Russell Seeking Two SI 2000 Theft Good Men for Gaming Board CLSjUNr 9 i a i If WvHbl 11 I A I rl Ik!.