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Show jwoooaoeoocooon jjBaiile Creek!;! jj Breeze j;j BY K. B. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA There are 7,000 hotel, motel, and apartment rooms available here on a day to day basis. In spite of all these facilities, dozens of tourists sleep, over trie weekends, week-ends, in their cars or on the grass surrounding the city hall. The inside accomodations, when available, cost from $3.50 to $20.00 per day, depending on location and glamor. This mon,ey when added to the thousands spent each day at the gambling tables, cafes, and saloons, adds up to a staggering sum, contributed by the swarms of tourists that frequent this desert oasis. In some of the swank eating places, waitresses average as much as $25.00 a day in tips in addition to their regular wages. J Justice of the Peace, Gus Blad, an old friend of mine, has already performed this year 5600 marriage ceremonies. At the legal rate of $5.0o each, Gus has pocketed $28,000.00; not bad for ten months work. The other side of the picture is not so glamorous. Schools are inadequate. in-adequate. The streets surrounding the churches and schools are un-paved un-paved and dusty. Teachers and civic employees are often inadequately inade-quately prepared and underpaid. The culinary water system is not keeping pace with the building expansion. Its the old story on a larger scale; dollars for waste, glamor, and extravagance; but only pennies pen-nies for education, culture and civic civ-ic necessities. A man must live here six months before he can get a residence resi-dence license to hunt deer; but he can secure the legal right to hunt another wife in six weeks. No comment. |