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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL Las Vegas 2/11/51 O' Whipple Tosses Hat in Ring For Commission Post Reed Whipple today became the first candidate to formally announce for. city -office at the forthcoming May election, when he said he would file for the post of city commission. Whipple, wbp has served - as a member orthe city cojnmis- " sion for the past four years, settled all doubts as tp his in­tentions by enthusiastically tossing his hat into the ring. Mayor E. W. Cragin said ear­lier in the week he probably would announce shortly , and City Attorney Howard Cannon has stated he will undoubtedly, be a candidate for reelection. Commissioner ..Robert T. Moore, whose term also expires, is- still non-committal about his intentions although admitting he had received “a lot of encourage­ment” recently to make the race again. Whipple has been a leader intern Arizona. Ssr.S- _ . »• • j_t___ WhiwMln 1i fill of southern Nevada and north- church and civic affairs in Las Vegas during most of his adult life. A graduate of Las Ve gas high school with the class of 1924, Whipple likewise has been a staunch supporter of the cham­ber of commerce and is a mem­ber of the present board of direct­ors. He is also a member and men scnoui wjlwj. ,w*c 7 • j~ Whipple entered the employ of past president of the Lions Serv- the old First State Bank in 192® ice club. He has given twenty and has spent a quarter iof a years service to the Boy Scouts centurv in the local financial In- and is at present Vice Presi- Stitution. dent of the Boulder. Dam coun- He has carved out his own cil. ' , career and during that period j Whipple was born in Pine.Val- has risen to assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Nevada, a position he now holds. ,, S Whipple has been active in the LDS church, served eight vearsTs bishop of the Las # gls ward, and is now a mem her of the high .counsel of the [Moapa stake which includes al< 1 (Continued on Page Two) | ley, Utah, near St. George, April 2, 1905 and came to Logandale, Nevada with his family in 1918, He is,, Carried and the father of' fojir children. I Bone finds in New Zealand in­dicate that the moa, a giant bird new extinct, once stood at 14 feet tall. -------—o—!-----•