38 years ago this week

A residential subdivision serviced by "Pahrump Valley's first water company" was announced by Mel Grossman, of Evans International home and local developer-driller Ron Floyd.

It was going to be called Shamrock Estates and would be home to 205 lots.

Meanwhile, the Calvada Valley development reported sales of more than $13 million since October 1978.

Preferred Equities also planned to open the first of four mobile home parks, this one to be called Comstock Park.

Prince George of Hanover, Germany, whose grandfather was Kaiser Wilhelm II and whose great-great-grandmother was Queen Victoria, reportedly acquired "major holdings" in the Preferred Equities development.

Efforts to gain state funds for a high school in Pahrump fell flat after sailing through the state Assembly 34-1.

The effort to acquire the Senate's support fell short by one of the needed four votes to bring the bill to the floor.

As a result, 70 Pahrump high schoolers could look forward to being bused over to Shoshone to Death Valley High School.

30 years ago

Long lines of vehicles appeared in Pahrump after the gas squeeze showed its sharp end.

Neither Milan's Texaco nor Stanton's 76 station had fuel. "Both station owners said May would be a difficult month," the PVT reported, and the sheriff's office had a deputy stationed at or near the pumps for much of the day.

The first grand jury in a decade was about ready to be seated, with 17 men and women to be empaneled. Brothel owner Walter Plankinton and Jim Spicer of Beatty, "both of whom have made a variety of charges against Nye officials," were likely to tell their stories to the grand jury.

With nothing new scheduled before the five-year reappraisal set for 1981, the $40 million rollback in valuation on Pahrump Valley property was apparently going to stand.

At the Calvada Inn Sundays from 5 to 8 p.m., stuffed cabbage at $3.50.

The proposal to ban advertising by brothels in towns where it is illegal was waiting for the governor's signature.

Tracie Lindeman, student body president, was elected senior class president at Pahrump Valley High School.

20 years ago

Sgt. Wade Lieske came out on the winning side in a shootout between him and prison escapee Dale Garrett.

Lieseke was hospitalized after a bullet entered one lung and his liver; Garrett was sent to the morgue.

Lieseke and Sgt. Kent Jasperson had responded to a report of a prowler north of Tonopah when the exchange took place.

Blackjack Fireworks owner Frank McCoy objected to the rash of fireworks permits submitted by, he said, Larry Miller of Las Vegas.

McCoy said several of the permits issued to a variety of individuals were actually to benefit Miller.

At the same time, the town board discussed forming a committee to find an alternative to a town airport near Gamebird Road and Pahrump Valley Boulevard.

Few at the meeting felt the proposed site, on land owned by Aries Consultants Ltd., was the best location.

Chairman Chuck Conely said it seemed to him that the county commission had made the decision to move forward, and those concerned should address it.

10 years ago

Speakin' of which...

In 1999 the town board learned that the discussion about three sites for an airport might amount to nothing at all.

Charlie Gronda, board liaison to the airport panel, said two sites won't be made available by the BLM, and the third "may be lost" if Preferred Equities, the owner, made a deal with a Las Vegas investor.

The Calvada Airport -- the third site -- sale ought to be enjoined or put up for an eminent domain taking by the town, but Gronda warned that such efforts are "messy" and should be only a last resort.

The school district was revisiting its decision to shorten the day at Pahrump's three year-round schools.

The PVHS Trojans blew a six-run lead in a game at White Pine. They lost 9-7. That was it for playoff hopes in 1999.

Three hundred twenty new computers were installed in classrooms from lonely Duckwater to Pahrump, thus fulfilling the desire for at least one computer in every class in the county.