Helldorado Draws Record Las Vegas Crowds
Immense crowds filled the Helldorado Village and rodeo stands across four nights drawing praise as the city’s most successful celebration. Miss Southern Nevada Evelyn Jones won $50 in the bathing beauty contest with sponsors from local names, while Miss Alice Richardson and Miss Elaine Ballard took second and third prizes. Judges included Cal Godshall and Ray Hamilton.
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Las Vegas
Fremont Street
Pendleton
Salinas
Helldorado
Elks
Evelyn Jones
Southern Nevada
W. G. Jones
Alice Richardson
W. K. Richardson
Ogden Street
Coca Cola
Misa Elaine Ballard
Sheridan Ballard
Boulder City
Shell Oil Company
Paulette Jones
Ruby White
Cal Godshall
Victorville
R .B. Denton
Union Pacific News Bureau
Ray Hamilton
Los Angeles Times
Floyd Stillings
Nick Knight
Doug Bruce
Alvin Gordon
Boulder Dam Area Concessions Awarded for Twenty Years
Grand Canyon-Boulder Dam Tours Inc led by R. E. Ruckster and Paul Webb will run all hotels cabins air transport boats docks autos freight and mail service plus pack and saddle horse operations in the Boulder Dam area for twenty years. Secretary Ickes announced after days of talks. The firm must provide facilities and set rates with six percent return and any profits above go to the Interior Department. The company has run the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City and Grand Canyon Airlines in recent years.
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Grand Canyon
Boulder Dam Tours, Inc
R. E. Ruckster
Paul Webb
Boulder Dam
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Department of the Interior
Department
Boulder City
Lake Mead
Grand Canyon Airlines
Rotarians Plan Meadows Party in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Rotary Club plans a dinner dance and ladies night at The Meadows next Thursday May 27 at 8 pm replacing the noon meeting. Boulder City Rotarians join, with over fifty expected. total attendance may reach 150 to 200 including guests. O J Smith chairs the committee, promising a top Rotary event with entertainment.
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Las Vegas
Boulder City
Vegas
Rotary
U. P
O. J. Smith
Las Vegas High Plans Busy Graduation Schedule
Principal Maud Frazier organizes Las Vegas High School commencement with about ninety three graduates. The Junior class banquet and Senior ball occur May 22 at the Methodist church and new grammar school gym respectively. Baccalaureate is May 30 in the gym and Bishop J Harold Brinley will deliver the address. Commencement is June 2 at the War Memorial auditorium.
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Maud Frazier
Las Vegas High School
Methodist Church
Grammar School
J. Harold Brinley
I. D. S. Church
War Memorial Auditorium
Social Service Laws Explained at Las Vegas Rotary
Wm. Royle and Robert O Connor of Reno spoke at the Las Vegas Rotary Club on social security law. Royle, head of the state social security department, outlined law sections and employer obligations noting Germany and England adopting social security decades earlier and advocating U S enactment. O Connor, deputy U S Internal Revenue Collector, urged timely reports and payments by employers and employees to avoid federal enforcement.
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Wm. Royle
Robert O’connor
Reno
Las Vegas
Rotary Club
Royle
State Social Security Department
Germany
England
America
Mr. O'Connor
United States Internal Revenue
John Doherty Takes Charge of Calipatria Herald Plant
John Doherty, daughterless? son of Mrs. C. C. Boyer, now oversees the Calipatria Herald plant in Calipatria California. He has prior years with the Morning Post in El Centro California.
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John Doherty
C. C. Boyer
Calipatria Herald
Calipatria
Cal
The
Morning Post
el Centro
Wente Announces New Las Vegas Bank Branch
Carl F. Wente of First National Bank of Reno says a Las Vegas branch will open within thirty days. The Reno bank, a Bank of America subsidiary, has pursued the project for several months pending approval and completion.
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Reno
Las Vegas
First National Bank of Reno
Bank of America
Carl F. Wente
Reno Bank
Junior Chamber Brings Big Band to Las Vegas
The Junior Chamber sponsors a Las Vegas visit by the Tournament of Roses band of 115 from Pasadena Junior College. A 15 member Victor McLaglen motorcycle corps, directed by Capt. DeRush, accompanies the band for a June 4 city park concert on a Union Pacific special train.
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Las Vegas
Tournament of Roses
Pasadena Junior College
Victor McLaglen Motorcycle Corps
Union Pacific
McLaglen Motorcycle Corps
DeRush
Witchers Enjoy Arizona Scenes
Mr and Mrs A B Witcher return from a three week journey through Arizona byways visiting scenic central Arizona resorts. They saw two herds of buffalo wild turkeys and other animal life and toured a great meteor impact pit.
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A. B. Witcher
Arizona
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Rotarians Plan Meadows Party
Wente
New Vegas Bank
Junior Chamber
Witchers
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