Rain Comes At Last To Parched Pacific Coast
San Francisco December 4. After more than four months of drought more than a trace of rain fell in the Sacramento valley today. The storm is expected to spread across California within days easing fire danger and low reservoirs and lifting power concerns as streams and lakes replenish. Farmers and cattlemen had prayed for rain for a week as precipitation since July was minimal and crops delayed.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
mid-Pacific
United States Weather Bureau
Sierras
Masons May Handle Frank D Call Funeral
Funeral plans for Frank D Call 52 who died in a South First Street barbershop are uncertain but likely to be handled by Masons as he was a lodge member. Survived by wife and 12 year old daughter Lillian, his body at Palm Funeral Home. The family home lies eight miles southwest of Las Vegas.
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Frank D. Call
South First Street
Call
Lodge
Lillian
Las Vegas
Harley Vail
Forrest R. Milken
House Committee Favors One Per Cent Tax Cut
The House Ways and Means Committee reported favorably a 160 million tax reduction bill. One vote opposed. It lowers the normal tax rate on the first 4000 of individual income from 1 to 0.5 percent and adjusts other brackets and corporate taxes. Hearings planned, with aims to pass swiftly.
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House Committee
Keneth G. Crawford
United Press
Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hawley
Congress
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Ogden Mills
Laborites Listen to Mellon Instead of A F L Chief
Laborites gathered at the Labor Temple in Las Vegas heard Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon on a national network broadcast instead of A F L President Green. Green will speak again a week later at 6 p.m. Las Vegas time. The report also notes a separate, unrelated discovery of a head and legs found in a bag near Narrabri, New South Wales.
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President Green
American Federation of Labor
Narrabri
New South Wales
Las Vegas Chamber push for Federal Court and aviation visibility
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce advances efforts for a local Federal Court, with Laws and Legislation committee drafting reports and a delegate attending a December meeting in Los Angeles. The group also coordinates a detailed airport description for the Department of Commerce aeronautes branch to boost Las Vegas visibility to national manufacturers and investors.
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Florence Donely
Sec
Chamber of Commerce
Las Vegas
Laws and Legislation Committee
Advisory Committee On
Department of Commerce
Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles
United States
Nevada
O. A. Kimball
Airways
Overton M I A presents plays and basketball cuts
The Overton Ward M IA staged the budget program with two one act plays Soul Mates and The High Heart directed by M Flora Jones Velda Hansen and Mrs S P Coach Fish led practice cutting the squad to thirteen players: Livya Mills Harlan Lyon Morris Perkins Donal Earl Keith Perkins Delbert Tobiasson Dale Gentry Clyde Perkins Wesley Cooper Robert Marshall John Lytle Lewis Conyer Orson Johnson The M I A will face Virgin on January 10 1929 in Overton.
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J. Donal Earl
Overton
Overton Ward
Th Mutual
Ione Robinson
J. G. Kennard
Clarence Lewis
M. S. Earl
Wilma Hannig
Rulon Eerl
Margaret Cae
M Flora Jones
S. P. Fish
R. S. Pagankey
Keith Perkins
John Lytle
Teresa Jones
Neca Jones
Velda Hansen
S. P
Fish
Livya Mills
Harlan Lyon
Morris Perkins
Delbert Tobiasson
Dale Gentry
Clyde Perkins
Wesley Cooper
Robert Marshall
Lewis Conyer
Orson Johnson
M. V
Virgin
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Old Cemetery
Virginia City
Sydney
Australia
A. F
L. Chief
Mellon
Your Power Company
Southland
Boulder Dam
Consolidated Power & Telephone
C. C
Feder’l Court
A. Kimball
Manufactures
Iives
Las Ve
Overton M. I. A
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