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2b Review-Journal & Age Sunday, April 25, 1948 neer who knew strategic metals, bought half the Anchor mine, leased halt, produced 38 per cent of the lead and zinc tonnage In this area for a period o f three years, FO B Jean: H e decided that he could manage the Jean operation— then nothing more than a service station and a le w cabins—better than the incum­bent. A fter all, he was now only about 58, Just a young fellow with youth and opportunity ahead. Pop hit Jean the same way he always hit everything else. Today he has a cafe, 50 cabin units, garage, service station, sandstone splitting operation, bus depot, and tow service. Yes, Pop is still digging, and making a profit out of the earth. He got hold of C. D. Baker for a survey, men wise to stone, and said: “Find m e some sandstone.” Everybody said no, there wasn’t any, so Pop found the most colorful sandstone in the United States 15 miles from Jean, lined up a green slate variety above Indian Springs, started shipping ton after ton. Today Pop Simon’s rock quarries are known throughout the southwest, Pop can point with pride to building after building rising with Simon stone holding it up, decorating it, making i t and its surroundings more permanent and beautiful. • He’s been truck­ing, now has a deal lo r hauling with the Union Pacific, is signing distributors in Washington State and as la r east as Wisconsin. Pop has about 15 or 20 men working for him, finds production only limited by his own expansion. Power? Pop had to have it, so h e sank $15,000 into a line from Goodsprings, has the only public utility source between Las Vegas and Yermo, California. Water? Pop sank one w ell deeper, drilled another. Sleeping places? Pop dragged in barracks. A fte r all, Pop’s the kind of guy to whom you have to say it can’t be done and be gets a little mad and the next thing you know he's has done it. His two living brothers, who came to this country, haven’t done badly, either. One is a physician with a clinic in Los Angeles, a showplace home in San Fernando valley. The other is in the real estate business. Some day, maybe a 100 years from now at the rate Pop is going and the way he’s standing up, somebody should get a nice hunk of Simon sandstone and engrave on it for the wise guys, the doubters, to see: “The faith, the hopes, the dreams, the doing of such men as this made America strong.” In Aim Around Home Gardening Vegas Vignettes THE CITY By KENNETH HADLAND bee-keeping in Las, Vegas is not practiced to any great extent, there is also trouble in pollen-ating tomato flowers. Conse­quently, a light setting o f th® fruits. I have also noted that at tha first blooming period, our winds are unusually strong and as a result, the bees and insects that are around cannot do their pol-lenating work. By Kenneth Hadland In last week’s column, we de­voted some space to the disease of tomatoes, known as blight or wilt, and I would like to add that it is also necessary to dust ori spray for this disease in addition' to the other control measures. Bordeaux or any other of the copper solutions, used according to the manufacturers’ directions, are the best to use. They can be self (including design work, specifications, plans, utility per­mits and general public facili­ties), and the construction de­partment, which is in charge of carrying out o f instructions, plans and specifications’ in the (Editor’s note: Readers hav­ing inquiries or problems con­cerning operation of the city are invited to send their quer­ies- to: Suggestion Box, City H all.) THERE’S A N A IR . . . o l anti Peter A lbert “ Pop” Simon, may not be the embodiment o f Perpetual motion, but at 64 he is having one heck of a time slowing i w i t h one Nevada community named after him, he’s hmv building another, with a fortune or two made in miniim ore he’s now digging rock, and when most men have retired w t taking on new obligations. The armchair lads who sit around saying that America is ho longer a land of opportunity, that the last frontiers are gone cipation in city engineering of- field, and has" direct control for tices! W illi the complete re -or« inspection of all public construc­tion on public or private proper­ty, either by the city or private individuals. It is also intended ganization o f the department, under City Engineer C. G. Petrie, and a recent move t© spanking hew ahead shout spacious upstairs quar^j and with guns in hand the police­men entered the building. No intruder was discovered, but it was evident that someone had attempted to gain entrance by prying open the Gomer of a case­ment window. , Later on w e rode with Officers Elmer E. Gardner a n d Alfred Davis. They investigated such calls as a missing girl who walked out following a family argument; a pair of drunk driv­ers who were told to go home after their car was taken to head­quarters for safe keeping; a sus­picious blond in a yellow con­vertible Who got lost two hours : after her wedding (her husband, she said, was visiting friends at a downtown hotel!), and a sus­pected prowler who turned out to be a hitch-hiker who also got lost. A ll in all the evening proved not too exciting, but our- sym­pathies are with the eoppers and in subsequent stories w e hope to show -oth er examples o f what they must put up with. L A S VEG AS PO LICE ARE UNDER - P A ID A N D O VER­WORKED. That is the only conclusion we can reach. They risk their lives. They must buy their own uni­forms, guns and even handcuffs. It costs the average policeman C. G. PETRIE in the city hall, the entire staff is “ rarin’ to go,” on" its load of 1948 projects. W ith the establishment of a more efficient organization, in order to render more complete public service, it is the inten­tion of the department to first of ail start with “ clean desks,” and bring to conclusion all the projects whieh have been in­herited from the past, Petrie pointed ont. (Continued From Page IB ) A polite, but firm, reprimand was given the young couple fey Boutell and DeLillis and w e were again on our way. A fter picking up an intoxicated marine, asleep on the sidewalk near Third and Fremont, and taking him to headquarters where he was booked as a “sleep­er,” the radio speaker barked a lookout for a reported hit-and-' run driver . ap_p roaHehHinHg| Las Vegas on the highway from Boul­der City. Since the advent o f Police Chief Robert F. Malburg, sirens and flashing red lights are taboo except in extreme emergencies. As a result, our car headed for Fremont a n d Charleston at break-neck speed without benefit o f any sound louder than an occasional beep from the horn. The'ride was slightly -harrowing, but an even worse one was to come. A t the city line we “ staked” out, watching for the hit-skip driver. He failed to appear. Also at the scene was the other patrol car, manned by Officers Joe Shepp and Arthur Nicholls. W e transferred operations and then the fun began. A woman, the radio reported, was in Clark county hospital, v ic ­tim of a terrific beating by her husband. The woman had been beaten, all right, but' from all appearances the husband came out second best. He was accused UNDER THE . . . re-alignment, a ll engineering and related gen­eral public works, including the office of the Joint Planning com-mission, have been placed in charge o f city engineering, thus providing closer coordination to effect better procedures and to expedite matters. Broken- dawn, this .includes, the planning commission as an ad­junct; the engineering office it-more man $4UU jusi to join me force. And that comes from his own pocket. The base salary of a uniformed policeman is only $222.40 a month. Mere later. Am erica’s Ideal W estern Presents The best loved cafe comedian of all time to 80 miles an hour. The '“not with AUSTIN MACK ot the piano turned out to be a fist fight be­tween two patrons of a night club. Oh well, that ride w ill b e: something to remember. A t midnight, we again shifted activities and joined Officers Roy MacKenzie and Grant Lytle. Their first job was to check park­ing lots for stolen cars. V ery boring. 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