Farndale Named W F W Head At Nevada Encampment
James Farndale of Las Vegas Post 1753 was named commander of the Nevada Encampment Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mrs Thelma Samalles of Fallon was installed as Nevada Auxiliary president. The three day convention drew about 200 veterans and guests and Boulder City was chosen as the 1940 meeting site.
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James Farndale
Las Vegas
Nevada
United States
Thelma Samalles
Fallon
Clarence Q. Johnson
Reno, Sr
Frank J. Aude
Reno, Jr
George P. Long
Ely
Fred H. Lomas
Boulder City
A. G. Lewis
W. G. Merrill
Catherine Hickey
Marion Hertel
Tonopah
Fay Beeghley
Roxena Smith
Fay. Holbrook
Reno
Rose Long
Cordelia Brotherson
Marion Murnane
Jessie Bricker
Wells
Nina Conner
Vivian Nicholson
Grace Crow
Sparks
Lillie Clindenst
Ethel Humphreys
Edna Farndale
Beatrice Best
Marguerite Weaver
Emma van Arnam
Mabel Painter
Hazel Farndale
Lena Brown
Mary Brunton
McGill
Irene O'Regan
Nellie Carroll
Celesta Albee
Winnemucca
John Yelland
Henry Yelland
White Pine
Boy Scouts Head to Camp Arataba in San Bernardino Mountains
Sunday morning forty Boy Scouts depart for Camp Arataba in the San Bernardino mountains for a week. Bernard Burger Las Vegas recreation superintendent drives them in the Scout bus. George E Harris of Las Vegas high school faculty drives the luggage car. July seventeenth fifty Scouts from Southern California plan a week at Lee's Canyon.
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Camp Arataba
San Bernardino Mountains
Bernard Burger
California
Lee’s Canyon
Colorado River Commission Reviews Boulder Act Amendments
Nevada and Colorado commissioners met in Governor Carville's office to study proposed Boulder act amendments over property tax protections for outside firms and Boulder Dam power. A McCarran telegram option was considered but no decision made pending review of his Washington letter. Officials noted no evident wrecking attitude from southern Nevada on the $300,000 in lieu taxes if power works remain government owned.
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Nevada
Colorado River Commission
Carville
Capitol
Boulder Dam
McCarran
Commission
Washington, D. C
Clark County
Breeze Family Heads to Los Angeles for Dean's Graduation
Mr and Mrs C D Breeze accompany their granddaughter Barbara and Mrs Morse to Los Angeles for their son Dean's graduation. They will return with him for the summer vacation.
DeVaney Home Hosts Visitors From Phoenix
Mrs. P. J. Duffy and Miss Ann Humell of Phoenix Arizona are visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Cliff DeVaney. Duffy is Mrs DeVaney's mother and Humell her niece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Duffy
Ann Humell
Phoenix
Arizona
Cliff DeVaney
Mrs. Duffy
Mrs. DeVaney
Ann Hummell
Town Gossip and Bar Fight in Mission Bar Sparks Inquiry
A police officer inebriated in the early hours at the Mission Bar clashed with a bartender over a necktie, slashing it before paying two and a half dollars. An inquiry targets a city commissioner and a gun investigator to determine citizenship, while a local resident killed Witcher’s pet Bullfrog with a rifle, prompting regret and a frog-leg morning menu.
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Mission
Ferdinand the Bull
Witcher
New Union Pacific Depot Plans Reshape City Streets
Plans for a new Union Pacific depot will alter Ogden and Carson streets opening them through railroad property to form a horseshoe to the depot for auto traffic. Fremont street will receive a wide pedestrian ramp. The area will become a beautified park setting. Construction begins after old depot demolition with a hoped for early fall opening.
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Union Pacific
Ogden
Carson
Fremont Street
Griffiths Entertain Relatives En Route to New Orleans
Mr and Mrs Robert Griffith host Mrs Griffiths brother and wife Mr and Mrs Donald W Atcheson of Montreal as they travel to New Orleans where the doctor will join a major hospital staff.
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Robert Griffith
Getchell Mine Dividends Boost Nevada's Largest Producer
Getchell Mine Inc paid its seventh dividend of 45000 dollars at Reno. Since starting in February 1938, total dividends reach 375000 dollars. The company milled an average 865 tons daily with a peak 930 tons in one day. A new roaster will triple oxide ore capacity, with installation due in three to four months. The mine employs about 250 people at its 43 mile northeast Getchell site in Humboldt County.
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Winnemucca
Nevada
Getchell Mine, Inc
Reno
Sinc
Getchell Mine
Minnemucc
Humboldt County
Hotel Nevada Plans Pole Line to Main Street
At the county board meeting a franchise was granted to Hotel Nevada Mining Co to erect and maintain poles and wires from the ice plant in Las Vegas easterly to the alley between Main and First, then northerly to the hotel at the corner of First and Fremont streets.
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Board of County Commissioners
Hotel Nevada Mining Company
Las Vegas
Main
First
Fremont Streets
Mrs Lampasona Wins Divorce in Las Vegas
Mrs. Alicia Lampasona second wife of Dr. Richard Lampasona of Farmingdale Long Island received a divorce June 23 in Las Vegas Nevada charging extreme cruelty and non support. McNamee and McNamee attorneys for plaintiff custody of six months old son awarded to mother. Mrs Lampasona left Sunday by plane for her mother's home Deer Park Long Island.
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Alicia Lampasona
Richard Lampasona
Farmingdale
Long Island
N. Y
Las Vegas
Nevada
McNamee and
McNamee
Lampasona
Deer Park
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Farndale
W.F. W. Head
BOY
Breeze
L. A
Devaney’s
Shylock Russell
Griffiths
Getchell
HOTEL
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