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Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Evening-Review-Journal February 16, 1942 WILEY TO DIRECT FIGHT TO KEEP BUS SERVICE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN i District Attorney Roland Wiley today took charge of the fight to ?prevent Interstate Transit, Lines : from withdrawitig school bus serv­ice for the children of Whitney and Midway,-and said this after­noon he was drafting a strong pro­test to the Nevada public service jcomrnission in which he requested ?a public heating be ’ held on the {question before a decision is .rendered. f “The board of education of Duck {Creek school district" has' been ad­vised by the bus, , company that iservice will be discontinued on March i, and that means approxi­mately 12,5 youngsters: will be de­prived of their American right to j;a free education,” Wiley said. “We take the position that the j service has been” established, thereby becoming a public utility ; subject to regulation by the public service.' commission,” the district attorney continued. “Certainly there should be a hearing before such an important service is dis­continued, and that’s . wfiat we’re asking. , “It seems to me the bus com­pany which has the only franchise for service between Las Vegas and the magnesium plant, and which lis; a subsidiary of the Union Pa­cific railroad, should be glad to cooperate in meeting an emer­gency situation such as faces this' area right now, and should con- inue the service of its own voli­tion until such time as school fa­cilities can be made available in the; two’communities from which these children come. “I feel it my duty, as the legal representative of the school boards of the • county, to bend every effort to the end that these children shall be able to continue their education, and for that rea­son I intend to fight this thing1 through,” he concluded. Wiley’s move came- following, formal notification by the board ;of/trustees of Duck Creek school district of the intention of the bus company to discontinue serVr-j ice - which discontinuance the' board’s resolution' said: “is not i only-unlawful, but vlill place ih:[ jeopardy the further education of approximately 125 students and seriously affect the morale of their parents, who are' principally de-:; fense workers of the BasicMag- , nesium plant, its contractors and j subcontractors, and thus affect the ' labor supply which is essential to ! the successful consummation of a vital War industry.” The-resolution requested the dis­trict attorney “to use ail reason- . able means to prevent discontin- i uance of the service” and copies: were sent to Governor E. P. Car-. ville, President William Jeffers of the Union Pacific,'member! of the public service Commission of the state of Nevada, and T. G. Walsh, president of the: Interstate Tran­sit Lines. The Midway and , Whitney youngsters have been attepding school in the old CCC camp at the outskirts of Las Vegas, which was transformed into class-rooms by the parents and friends of the onn^sterS/ who donated their services.