The Nation's Top Press Photographer's THE MANY FACES OF NEVADA The clicking of shutters was loud in the land of Nevada when the nation's leading photographers swarmed across the Silver State by planes, buses, passenger cars and boats to compete for $2,700.00 in cash prizes plus a sweepstakes award of a week's fully paid vacation in Hawaii. A sizable contingent of lensmen were flown to Reno, and from there transported to the South Shore of Lake Tahoe (Stateline, Nevada) to Carson City, Virginia City, and to surrounding points. Others took planes to Tonopah, Goldfield, Hawthorne, Pioche, Ely, Elko, and Winnemucca- -all legendary names in Nevada history. The water borne set were working at Lake Mead, the man-made lake behind Hoover Dam, and at Lake Tahoe. The National Press Photographers Association was convening in Las Vegas at the time at the invitation of the Nevada Centennial Commission.
The professional shutter bugs were looking for the most distinctive shots of Nevada landscapes, personalities, 1 for casinos, and miscellaneous studies, and they came up with a bumper crop of entries in both black and white and color. A few of the more than 25 winning photos are shown herewith. It was the first time so many pictorial on-the-spot historians had ever attempted to record on film in so short a time the many faces of Nevada. TRANQUILITY HAS REPLACED THE FORMER HUSTLE, BUSTLE AND BOOM of short-lived Goldfield, Nevada. Phillip Butler's somnolent study of Kenneth Kirby, taking his ease in the old Silver Dollar Bar, not only won first place in the Nevada Centennial Commission's "Nevada Personalities" contest but was declared "Best of Show." The present day scene is a far cry from that of 1906 when 30,000 people lived and grubbed for treasure at the site of the incredibly rich mining bonanza.
By 1911 the ore bodies had given out, and death came to the Goldfield boom almost as quickly as had its birth. Butler represented the Scranton (Pa.) Times. He and his fellow photographers roved Nevada by plane, bus, passenger car and boat to picture the many faces of the Silver State. Nevada Centennial Commission member, Gerald Roberts, of Tonopah, was their official host in the Hawthorne-Tonopah-Goldfield region. BEAUTY LURKS IN MANY PLACES AND STRANGE, IN NEVADA.
The photo above, taken in Cactus Forset, won first award in the black-and-white landscape category, Las Vegas area, for Don Grayston of the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah. POWER FOR SOUTHERN NEVADA surges through slender copper cables supported by steel such as that pictured above near Hoover Dam. The dramatic photo won first place in towers the black and-white miscellaneous category, Las Vegas area, for Lonnie Wilson of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. HAPPY AWARD WINNERS are pictured above, some of them waving the checks awarded them by contest judges. They include: Patrick Coffey, free lancer of Lakewood, Billy Davis of the Courier-Journal Louisville Times, Louisville, James C.
Fish, Toronto Globe Mail, Toronto, Clint Grant, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas; Don Grayston, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ervin F. Hess, Newark News, Newark, N. Walter Jackson, Windsor Star, Windsor, Michael Nagro, Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Cal Olson, Fargo Forum, Fargo, N. Eugene Pluska, Omaha News, Omaha, Eddie Sparks, Duncan Banner, Duncan, Dale Stierman, Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, lowa; Eddy Sykes, Kimball Observer, Kimball, L. Roger Turner, Decatur Herald Review, Decatur, Robert H.
Williams, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Lon Wilson, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, Kirk Braun, of Sylvania Electric Products, Kenwood, and Jack Winer, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nev. BONANZA CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MAN WHO SWEPT THE FIELD were extended by Governor Grant Sawyer to Phillip Butler, of the Scranton (Pa.) Times. Butler's study of Kenneth Kirby, taking his ease in the old Silver Dollar Bar at Goldfield, not only won first place in the Nevada Centennial Commission's "Nevada Personalities" contest but was declared "Best of Show." For the first time in the history of their association, national press photographers altered their annual beauty pageant into a search for that face that most beautifully and distinctively symbolizes America. They called their 1964 contest: "The American Face." Chosen for top honors was Miss Mary Frances -the Face of the Carolinas (center). Runnersup were Miss Cathy Samuelson -the Face of California (left) -and Miss lla Marie Johnson -the Face of Los Angeles (right).
28 8 PRIA LOUS LIKE A STURDY LAWMAN FROM WESTERN HISTORY is this day sheriff at Stateline, Nevada, shown standing before a glittering entertainment palace on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe. 1 The photo won second award in the black-andwhite category, Lake Tahoe area, for Clint Grant of the Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex. No sooner had their plane landed at the Reno Airport than photographers were intently checking out cameras and equipment. They had less than ten hours to cover Reno, Virginia City, the South Shore of Lake Tahoe and surrounding points of interest, and they were determined to make every moment count. Their special plane was supplied by Bonanza Airlines in cooperation with the National Press Photographers Association and the Nevada Centennial Commission.
TIME FOR BREAKFAST? Well, anyway, this little Hereford calf was busy with its morning meal when Eddie Sparks snapped the photo to win second place in the black-and white category, Reno area. Sparks is a photographer for the Duncan Banner, Duncan, Okla..
