Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

upr000197 137

Image

File
Download upr000197-137.tif (image/tiff; 27.75 MB)

Information

Digital ID

upr000197-137
    Details

    Rights

    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

    Digital Provenance

    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    $ o "< ’<)//// 35 SOUTH FOURTH STREET I AS V E 6 A S * MEVAOA e^iAjcrrLe.—. DU 2-1750 REI’ ROIHXEI) FROM: L a s V e u a S i r R FEB 2 0 1956 trnnm wH»f oott mm mwmi Wednesday, February 15, 1956 LAS VEGAS SUN Industrial Survey Group Organizes As Association F orm al incorporation o f the ^ c e n tly form ed Southern N e ­vada industrial survey group ms a permanent non-profit asso­ciation, was effected yesterday at a luncheon m eeting in the Thunderbird hotel when 20 local business, professional, labor, civic and industrial leaders signed articles o f incorporation and appointed an initial nine-m em ber board o f trustees. The Incorporators w ere: G eorge H. Albright, chairman, board o f county commissioners; C. D. Baker, m ayor o f la s V e ­gas; W . Bruce Beckley, attor­ney; S. L. Butterfield, president, Bank o f N evada; Thom as A. Campbell, president, Las Vegas V alley W a ter D istrict; H ow ard W . Cannon, c i t y attorney; Charles !E. Collins, president, L a s Vegas Board o f Realtors; F red D. Gibson, Am erican Pot ash St Chemical Corporation? DW ight L . Gravett, First C all forrda Company; John L. Hoi lenfh, Nevada Southern Gas Com pany; Carl L. Hyde, build­er; H. G. Laub, N evada South­ern Gas Company; Theodore R. Lawson, Central Labor Coun­cil; H arry B. Manente, F irst N a ­tional Bank; Julian Moore, m an­ager, Basic Management, Inc.; W arren G. Neustrom, Las Ve­gas agent, Union Pacific R a il­road; F. L . Ronnow, Clark County W holesale M ercantile; James G. “Sailor” Ryan, Build­in g f r r f ; Construction Trades C o u n ty - *la o president, State FedeWtflbn o f Lab or; M, M. Sweeney, Pioneer T itle Insur­ance and Trust Company; and Gerald Wyness, president, A sso­ciated Brokers. Th e board o f trustees pom}- nated b y the incorporators, com­prises the follow in g who w ill m eet in the near future and, elect officers consisting o f a president, vice-president, secre­tary and treasurer: H. L. Laub, Julian Moore, M axw ell Kelch, Warden G. Neu-strfem, Thom as A. Campbell, S. L. Butterfield, C yril S. Wen-gert, D w ight L. Gravett, James G. Ryan. Th e corporation is being o r­ganized sojely fo r the promotion and advancement o f civic, com­mercial, industrial and agricul­tural activities in Nevada, and particularly In Clark county, and fo r the benefit o f the com­m unity as a whole, and w ill collect, organize, reproduce and dissepiTnate inform ation fo r the purpose o f im proving the social, economic and business condi­tions in file Southern Nevada area. ? ? Harold G. Laub, president o f Nevada Southern Gas company, w ho has been spearheading the movement, told those in attend­ance that excellent progress was being made on the survey be­ing conducted by D uff, Ander­son and Clark. H e stated that the report should be completed about March 1. Another meeting at which the group w ill be given an up‘to-date progress report, is expected to be held some­time next week. 1956 y Uhi't -o