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L a s V e g a s , Ne v a d a REVIEW-JOURNAL J u n e 2 4 , 1 9 4 6 CAUGHT ON THE RUN A 9(hfpot, 56,000-pound crane, owned and. operated by Joe Car- {SsaT 'for-arounchLas Vegas* gWmpMpMBpi and other heavy -Objects, "has quite history even though it’s, a fairly nejf . ..piece of tecftupmekt. | Joe tells me that’“the big' apparatus was.first use.d. at #\e Eos f^lamos atom bomb, project near Alamo­gordo, ’ N. M. T&e outfit from which ‘he purchased,-the:• crane ’said that the crane was used erect, the -ftuge steel' towet \from which the first atom bomb was exploded and #ven lifted the bomb into position IwijJjBB hisi lory-making experiihent? j \ Hi Wfe*fe living itf a pretty fasti age. 3the speed i in. 'which the i Louis-Conn fight pictures were dispatched t h r o u g hout the ' "country seems . to prove this point. The Review-Journal re­ceived picture mats of the fight just Iff.- hours after the fight was held 'in New York City. The J^aiace theater received motion picture film of the huge event ^Saturday morning, a lit­tle more than two days follow­ing the fight, and I understand, the, film was being shown in Los' Angcles just 36 hours fol­lowing the end of the world’s chafnpionship battle. —By "Scoop" bring them back to their - place of exhibition. Does anyone know whgre they are?, k ~ ts, wnere d jr The last time ‘I saw the his- •rtorically famous “20-Mule Team” bQrax-wagons, which are usually 1 parked oh the east side of the Vt£M|n Pacific park just off Nqj'tb, ? Maiij, was in the Helldorado Old* timers’ parade. Wonder if the wagons'hive been reclaimed^by the borax ^company, or if ’•the person who borrowed them for the parade has just failed to all of the wasted water in Las Vegas was diverted into one channel, every day there would be a young river- flow­ing through town big enough to catch good-sized trout in. The waste of water comes pri­marily from home owners who allow lawn sprinklers to splash into the* street, or who water • their lawns to the extent of flooding them. The sloping '.lawns of Huntridge are great Contributors to the water Waste., No one is anxious to have water Rationing imposed here in Las Vegas, but that’s just what is going toi happen if we aren’t more prudent in the manner in which we util­ize this precious commodity. Y [?RIP CAKE MAKES ROUlfD-TI OMAHA, Neb. (U.R) -e-A fruit cake and some chocojate chip cookies traveled from Omaha to Hokkaido, Japan, and back again in four months, and. returned in perfect condition. ' Mrs; Dwaine Brownelf’sent the package in January to . her brother, former. JM/Sgt. Vernon T. Canaday, who was stationed at Japan. . Canaday was Sent home before the package arrived. The package followed him. back to Omaha. He ate the cake and cookies at home. & * -#?. ?'{*» o------? DticK pas .3 Legs, a feet MARENGO, lli, - (UPi Ip Ken- neth Simons’ term boasts a three- legged duck-.with four feet. It has twq-^orhia|’i%gs' and a third one EpWIMBffltr theltail; The third leg Has fifctQ f&d^