Iron County Record | 1956-04-26 | Page 11 | Las Vegas Kiwanians Descend on Cedar for Intercdub Meet

Las Vegas Kiwanians Descend on Cedar For Intercdub Meet Fred Gillies, former resident of Newcas-.'e. a former student at the Cedar City High School, and now president of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas, led a delcga-1 tUm of Vegas Kiwanlnans to c-! dar City Monday evening for an interclub meeting with Cedar' Citv. I The meeting was held In the! ballroom of El Escalante Hotel! Monday evening. Over 30 Kiwan-j ians of Las Vegas, plus three vivitinT Kiwanis members from! Provo including past Utah-Idaho' District Governor, LeRoy Olson,; met for an enjoyable program , and get-together. " Preside GiVies was in charge! of the meeting and the Las Veg-i as Club furnished the program.) Five past presidents of the organization or-ganization gave short talks on Kiwanis and what it means and the Las Vegas Kiwanis Quartet.1 which has received international , aP,im sang several western1 numbers. Among the pas't presidents who spoke at the meeting was C. D. Baker, a former senator of Nevada Nev-ada and now Mayor of Las Vegas. Veg-as. The ouartet. comparable to the j Cedar Hons Cub ouartet, has; performed at four Kiwanis In-i ternational conventions plus several sev-eral -district conventions in the Ci'ifornia-Nevada-Hawail district. dis-trict. It was explained that the quar-tet, quar-tet, all members' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was brought into the club as a group. They first began singing in church activities. The quartet included the club president. presi-dent. Mr. Gillies. In addition to the speeches and the musical entertainment Tom Taney of Las' Vegas club read and "distributed a poem written by him especially for the Cedar Citv club. The Las Vegians. traveling by bus, made the return trip the same evening.