Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 8

PAGE EIGHT NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA SUNDAY JANUARY 20 1957 IN PARADISE VALLEY LT 1 handsome stone Dr William Bryan Jr is pictured beside his Cessna 172 DOCTOR'S LANDMARKS Americans Set Bible Buying Record Publishers Report are and this by the the In 20 Roosevelt Truman years the budget was in balance with a surplus three times and 17 times in the red World War II was partly responsible for all of this Sparks9 abulous lying Doctor Is Not Deterred by Bad Weather increased from $1 billion as of just before the entered World Estimate Sales Publishers estimated 1956 sales of other Bible translations as fol lows Douay Version (the standard Bible for American Catholics) 750000 Jewish Bibles 70000 modern translations including Moffatt and Goodspeed about 25000 Besides the complete Bibles sold through regular book chan nels hundreds of thousands of Bibles are distrbiuted free each year by such organizations as the American Bible Society and the Gideons Bible prices range from 25 cents for a paper back edition to $265 for highly annotated reference Bibles Bibles come in all sizes from tiny editions that fit into the palm of the hand to a 20 vol ume edition in Braille for the blind You also can buy a com plete Bible on 170 long playing phonograph records A single firm the World Pub lishing Co produces about half of the Bibles sold in America During 1956 World sold 3126000 complete King James Bibles un der its own imprint' and produced hundreds of thousands for distri bution under other imprints 1917 States to nearly $275 billion The interest is a first on Treasury revenue I Main and Bridge Sts was one of the last adobes erected in the place The firm of Recanzone and orgnone were engaged in mak ing adobe brick and the adobe used in the buildings of the old ort Winfield Scott were made by them The Schwartz store was built in 1879 This sketch was furnished me by Rudolph Schwartz the young est of the Schwartz children and the only one still living in the valley dad married my mother in 1874 She was a sister of William Stock and with another brother Edward and two sisters (Mrs Kirchner and Mrs Knieke) came to this country in 1873 There were 14 children born to this union Three of these two boys and a girl died in infancy so 11 of us grew up nine girls and my brother Arnold and myself the youngest Six of my sisters are still living 1898 my dad purchased the ranch where we now live and the hotel in town It was called the St Nicholas Hotel by its first owner and builder Mr A Nichols who is credited with be ing the founder of the town (Par adise City) the years my sis ters in as they grew old enough ran the hotel As they married another pair took over My dad carried on his mercantile business for nearly 40 years un til his health failed and he retired He passed away Santa Cruz Calif and is buried there as is my mot her Rudolph Schwartz and his wife Blanch celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary last AugustkMore than 200 people rel atives and friends were in attend ance at the barbecue and dance in the evening The firemen of which Rudolph is a director were in charge of the thus aid ing in their contingent fund our of sisters were present They are Mrs Minnie Lanthier Palo Alto Mrs Mae Dickinson and Mrs Roberta Moore Rodeo Calif and Mrs Emma Dalton of allon the cau cus both Chester Christensen (D Washog) and William Swack hamer (D Battle Mountain) are likely to be major powers in the lower house Another figure who is expected to loom large is Christensen (D Clark) regarded as a leading contender for the powerful assembly ways and means committee chairmanship CAR CLOUT Raymond Plaza 518 I St Sparks told police yesterday that a $10 pair of binoculars was stol en from his station wagon while it was parked in downtown Reno The handle of the wing window was broken by the thief generation Paradise Valley residents are Mr and Mrs Rudolph Schwartz pictured here beside their Schwartz family came to Paradise BISHOP Calif California Electric Power Co will spend over $600000 in Inyo and Mono coun ties during 1957 to improve and maintain its hydroelectric gen erating facilities and expand serv ice to its customers in the two counties it was announced this week I Bulpitt super intendent of Hydroelectric power generation said that over $178 000 will go for improvements in the hydro plants and $6000 for work on control stations below the plants A total of $204 000 will go toward maintenance of the plants and all hydro facili ties during 1957 By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 16 Americans bought more than eight million copies of the Holy Bible last year a new record for the best selling book in history Publishers report that 1956 sales of the scriptures were up about 10 per cent from 1955 the previous record year They at tributed the increase to growing public interest in religion The King James version easily held its place as the popular fa vorite Its total sales estimated by publishers at more than six million complete editions far outstripped the sales of all other translations combined Second Choice In second place with sales nudging the million mark was the new Revised Standard Version published in 1952 under the spon sorship of the National Council of Churches Thomas Nelson and Sons publishers of the RSV said 1956 sales climbed about 20 per cent indicating a steady growth in popular acceptance A committee of 32 famed schol ars spent 15 years preparing the Revised Standard Version Their aim was to produce a Bible in the language of today and to eliminate some of the mis understandings which have re sulted from changes in the accept ed meanings of many English words since the King James Ver sion was translated nearly four centuries ago Its sponsors hope and believe that the RSV eventually will re place the King James as the Protestant Bible in American homes But the 1956 sales figures show that it still has a long way to go One reason was suggested by Dr Paul Jewett theology pro fessor at uller Theological Sem inary Writing in a recent issue of the Protestant magazine Christianity Today Dr Jewett said the King James Version is holding its place because of its' superior literary Conceding that some of the lan guage of the older version becoming Jewett said the of the King 1 James translation has become so integral a part of the cul tural heritage that will not eas ily be supplanted by a dium of such as the i RSV BISHOP Calif 'Wah Chang Mining Corp has entered into a lease and option agreement with several owners of copper proper ties in the Jordan mining district of Mono county near the Mill Creek power house it was offi cially announced last week Last recorded production from the Jordan mining district was efarly this century when a small tonnage of gold silver ore was treated at an amalgamation plant below the Cleveland tunnels No appreciable amount of copper has been produced in the district since the when a small smelter was in operation just west of the Mill Creek power house Some roadwork has been ac complished with the cooperation of county road officialsand super visors of Mono county About 10 men have been em ployed in the initial phases of the work and it is hoped that a small crew can be maintained through out the winter weather permit1 ting fireplace at their ranch home Author Adell Case (Casey) Jones is at far right The Valley in 1872 Dr William Bryan Leads Unusual Life By RANK JOHNSON One of the strangest opera tions ever necessitated by Ne vast expanses of sparsoh populated desert began at dawn on January 3 At that gray hour shiverin in a long brown overcoat Dr il liam Bryan Jr revved up the engine of his four place Cessna 172 and set about bringing legu lar medical service to the iso lated Empire Gerlach area 7:00 to 9:00 am 3 Dr Bryan a bluff good natured physician of 30 will keep oifice hours in Empire from 7 am to 9 am every Tuesday Thursday and riday and still not lose a second from his thriving Sparks practice The sLxth generation of his family to enter the medical pro fession Dr Bryan is at home pioneering flying medical service in Nevada The first generation physician in the Bryan family was Dr will Bryan who moved into Boonesboro Ky with Dan iel Boone The Gypsum Co which had tried for years to lure a full time physician to the area was delighted to supply Dr Bry an with office space and to pro i vide financial assistance toward 1 purchase of the airplane that makes Dr split second schedule possible Air Strip Built Washoe county road crews from Gerlach turned out to help construct a serviceable air strip a block away from the dormitory which was converted to an of fice for the use Burnette Henry works mana ger at the gypsum plant empha sized that the practice would be entirely private al though he will give required physical examinations on a fee basis and will be available in the event of an industrial accident How It Begaii all started last Mr Henry said "when an Em pire man went to Dr office in Sparks for treatment and told him how1 we need ed a doctor Bryan talked to Dr red Anderson head of the Nevada Medical rural health committee and he suggested con tacting Don Mustard our person nel superintendent Later he and I got together' and we started working out an agreement been at a loss trying to get a doctor before Working through the state health depart ment advertised as far away as Chicago but no one would come There are about 1000 peo ple in the area not enough to support a Mrs Bridgeman Helps Mrs Ruth Bridgeman a nurse who has handled medical emer gencies in Empire and Gerlach for the last two years has been hired by Dr Bryan to assist him in his part time practice "We are just plain lucky to have him Mrs Bridgeman says simply Other residents of the area ap parently feel the same way Mr Mustard donated draw draperiesto liven up the office a woman who has not yet been a patient showed up in the absence to hang a large painting on the waiting room wall Deputy Cisco voluntarily accepted the chore of radioing weather information at Gerlach to the Washoe county sheriff of fice each morning Storm No Obstacle In return Dr Bryan is po fair weather physician One of his first acts was to schedule a special trip to Empire on Sunday to give Salk polio vaccine to every man wom an and child in the area He kept the date despite flying conditions so severe that Henry Parker his instructor and one of oldest and best known pilots in sisted on making the trip "just so be handy in case of Mr daughter Mrs Laurel Arata also went along to keep records of the mass innocu lation The trip took 51 minutes in stead of the standard 34 Roughall the way the big delay was en countered over Pyramid Lake where batterpd the plane with head winds of 75 miles gn hour Overflow of Patients Mrs Bridgeman signalled the blinking landing lights of airplane rushed to landing strip in her station wagon and hustled the doctor to an of fice so full that the overflow stretched into a line outside During the morning 158 per sons ranging in age from six months to 56 years took Salk vaccine shots that for persons over 20 years of age were paid for out of the own pocket They came from Empire Gerlach and surrounding ranches Tlien though regular office hours were not scheduled Dr Bryan answered a rush house call WASHOE'S LYING PHYSICIAN i and handled a half dozen or more emergency cases that filtered into his office In each instance an arduous lC5 mile trip to Reno or days of discomfort and doubt would have faced the patients if medical serv ice had not been brought to their doorsteps Dances and Packs When the office was finally clear Dr Bryan who was once a jazz drummer widely known as "'Tabby the whistled bright ly did a fast soft shoe dance and began packing for the trip home He the least bit tired though who worked with him confessed near exhaustion Mr Parker watching the wor sening weather and urging a speedy flight back confided have to make it He has surgery scheduled this Is Deputy Aschenbrenner who with his three children had just taken polio innoculations added his worries "Reno airport is he reported after check ing with the office by radio go over the lake and soothed the unruffled doc tor who took additional time to pack away a man sized meal at the Empire Cafe did I tell you he chort led later as he piloted the Cessna over the mountains ringing Py ramid Lake Ted Reno Sky Ranch lay below a haven in a circle of ominous storm clouds He bounced the plane down on the ruhway hauled out his medi cal bags and cases of hypodermic syringes and sped away toward Reno: Mr Parker who stayed behind to help put the craft back in its hanger looked thoughtful 3 and he half through with his he Power Company Work Announced (Continued from Page 1) amount that will be spent by the 1957 lawmakers In fields other than finance the lawmakers will find their duties complex or example the 47 as semblymen and 17 senators will be asked to make adjustments in the operations of the Nevada ish and Game Commission the Uni versity of Nevada the Nevada In dustrial Commission the Gaming Control Board the state retire ment program and the State De partment of Health all of which have become highly technical and sometimes controversial agencies New Constitution The 1957 legislature will also be asked to make some funda mental changes in the structure of the state government Legisla tive Counsel Jeff Springmeyer has said that he will ask the law makers to consider the drafting of a new constitution Basic changes in the state's initiative and referendum regulations in bonding procedures and in its liberal law tradition will be re quested The 1957 session of the legisla ture will feature the traditional mingling of veteran lawmakers with new faces On hand for the opening session tomorrow will be persons with a decade of expe rience like Sen Kenneth Johnson (R Ormsby) and Sen Ralph Lat tin (R Churchill) Also in rhe sen ate will be Cord (D Esmer alda) nationally known automo bile manufacturer of past years and Newton Crumley (R Elko) wealthy former hotel owner Rep resenting Washoe county will be Sen orest Lovelock a Repub lican now serving his second four year term in the upper house ifteen of the 17 state senators are holdovers or re elected sen ators The only new faces will be Sen Wilson McGowan (R Persh ing) and loyd Lamb (D Lin coln) In the lower house nearly half of the 47 assemblymen are new Some like Marvin Humphrey (R Washoe) and James Ryan (D Clark) did not serve in the 1955 and 1956 sessions but they veterans of earlier sessions figure to play major roles year Regardless of which wins speakership race in Off Beat Statistics ollow Budget Request By LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 19 Speaking of the dangers of infla tion and the high cost of govern ment as President Eisenhower was doing in his budget message here are some off beat facts and figures: The Tax oundation 30 Rock efeller Center New York re cently calculated that the num ber of persons on the United States government payroll ex ceeds the population of Sweden: 74 million and 72 million respec tively On a rough estimate of $3500 as the average annual cost of a government employe the federal payroll would be about $26 billion Byrd vs' the Trend Sen Harry Byrd (D Va) has henpecked presidents for years to cut the federal payroll This is the straightest road to economy says Byrd The trend seems however to be against him A news item reported this week that some corridors on the enormous Pentagon Building here were being partitioned to make more desk room for more government workers World War II and the Roose: velt Truman policies of deficit financing substantially increased the public debt during the past quarter century The annual in terest on the public debt in creased from $689 million in 1933 when DR took over to $7 billion in 1956 The debt has just more than March United War I today Charge each year Hard Choice When (he Treasury comes up at fiscal year end with a sur plus which been often for many years the administration must decide whether to cut taxes or nibble at the public debt It is a hard 'choice Circumstances including strictly limited tax resources tended to check government spending before adoption of the 16th (Income Tax) amendment in 1913 If the 1913 public debt interest had been equally charged against each man woman and child in the United States each would have had to pay 24 cents ive years later and well into World War I the share would have been $184 each The Tax oundation estimates an individ ual share today at $4187 The spread indicates the tendency of government in war and peace to over spend despite sustained rec ord breaking tax revenue over the years May Set Record The returns will not be in on President first four years of tax collecting until the present fiscal year ends on June 30 He is averaging around $70 billion a year however which may give him a peace time rec ord when all the returns are in Mr Eisenhower was in the red for a couple of years but bal anced the budget with a surplus to boot in fiscal 1956 He expects to repeat in the current fiscal year The public debt has in creased about $9 billion since he took over in 1953 rom 1933 when DR en tered the White House office to the end of the Truman adminis tration the public debt increased from $225 billion to $266 billion Gerlach Area Getting Much Needed Service Mono Mining Lands Leased Caucuses Set Lawmakers last linrlov ne uo uu tu Larktf DLL for Empire in the face of rugged flying weather to administer mass Salk vaccine inoculations Already in the plane are Henry Parker veteran Nevada aviator and his daughter Mrs Laurel Arata (Journal Photo) 0 Employes Now Outnumber Swedish People Schwartz amily Members Have Resided In Paradise Valley or More Than Eight Decades BY CASEY JONES One of the most interesting families of early Para dise was that of Robert and Louisa Schwartz Mr Schwartz left his native Germany in 1870 settling first in Wisconsin In 1872 he came to Paradise Valley where he was employed as a cook in the Kemler Hotel With typical German thrift he saved his wages and soon pur chased a farm from Mr Kemler This he sold investing the proceeds in a store in town This building on the corner of II of Plans Revenue Bonds or Buildings Legislature Will Be Asked to Make It Possible Officials of the University of Nevada riday unveiled a new plan lor solving the pressing construction needs and the Board of Regents agreed to lay the plan before the 1957 leg islature soon after it opens its 48th biennial session tomorrow The plan asks the state legis lature to give the regents author ity to issue revenue bonds for all kinds of construction and to ear mark fees collected from the us ers of the improvements to pay off the principle and interest University Engineer Robert Poolman explained the proposal to the regents in detail riday and presented a copy of a sug gested law to accomplish this pur pose The university is faced with one of the greatest building crises in its history according to President Minard Stout and other uni versity officials They say classes are being held in and dan gerous structures which were built in the last and some classes and offices are lo cated in temporary facilities that are World War II discards More than $6 million will be needed for dormitory dining hall and classroom facilities in the next two years and at least $10 000000 will be needed in the next four years officials say The legal limit op the bonded in debtedness makes it impossible for the state to raise this amount of money by general obligation bonds or this reason the university officials decided to endorse a plan now used in lorida This would be possible if the legisla ture were to adopt a law author izing the regents to issue revenue bonds for capital improvements Under the plan the university could issue for example $1200 000 worth of revenue bonds for and dormitories These bonds could be repaid over a 20 30 orz40 year period from revenues that were collected from students living in these and other university dormitories The firms which loaned the money to the regents for this purpose would hold a lien only against the build ings themselves or against the in come from them ana not against the university real estate or the state government Gold Coffee Recovered by BI BOSTON Jan 19 (UR) The BI said today it had recovered a stolen $50000 solid gold coffee pot at Hollywood la 60 hours after it was reported missing here BI Special Agent Edward Powers said the diamond knobbed emerald studded urn was found in a lorida motel after an air freight shipping clerk admitted attempting to steal it from his own firm The BI said 44 year old Oscar Smith Jr of Boston would be arraigned before a commis sioner on a charge of violation of the federal statute on theft from interstate shipment Smith one of the workers who handled the package during ship ment from Marblehead to Provi dence I admitted he had shipped the glittering urn to lor ida during the BI Investigation Everglade kite is con sidered to be the third rarest bird in America It eats only fresh water snails and when the snails are destroyed by drvine un of their marsh homes the kites must move elsewhere i a rrx Z' I 4 r': These snow powdered mountains at the north end of Pyramid Lake soon will be as familiar as the corner grocery to Dr William Bryan Jr of Sparks Dr Bryan opened a second office at Em pire January and commutes three days a week by airplane to keep both open regular hours (Journal photo) 4 i 4v 8 iMMiiiiiiB 0 1 ji hi oroiiiGi i MmL tr "a.