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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1968
Page
3
ALas Vegas Young Democrats sponsor an 8pm panel on minority issues in Southern Nevada in the Virginia City Room at the Thunderbird Hotel. VC president Terry Jones says the public is welcome and top state and federal officials will discuss housing minority problems.
The Las Vegas Sun publishes mornings including Sundays with H M Greenspun as editor and publisher and a staff that includes Vince Anselmo managing editor Jim Barrows city editor and Bryn Armstrong executive editor. Subscription rates list daily 10 cents and Sunday 20 cents with carrier delivery at 2.50 per month.
The Boulder City Folk Singers and a Girls' Glee Club group will perform under Mrs Made line Garrett for the National Association of Retired Civil Employees on April 8 at the Boulder City Women's Club at 1 15 p m. Warren Turner presides over the meeting with refreshments to follow. retirement workers are invited.
Wendall D. Tingley and Norbert Jansen, officers at the New Pioneer Hotel Casino Center, pleaded no contest and faces multiple tax evasion counts. Prosecutors say their firms underreported income between 1962 and 1964. Sentencing for Tingley is set for April 30, and Jansen is to be arraigned next Monday in Los Angeles.
Wilford Owen Woodruff yesterday announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He pledges a peace platform and urges immediate Vietnam withdrawal while blaming war on human folly. Fellow Las Vegan Joseph Kadans had withdrawn as a candidate two weeks earlier.
R Guild Gray, city manager of Boulder City, said he would not serve as a Clark County delegate to the Republican State Convention despite his selection at the County GOP Convention. He protested that the selection was made without his knowledge and he has avoided partisan politics since entering public life. He previously represented Clark County in the Nevada Assembly and has worked as a special coordinator for federal projects.
A District Court granted Bank of Nevada a motion to be appointed substitute contestant to the will of Everette J Ed Mapel. Mapel, a Sahara Hotel executive, died June 18 1967 in a hotel suite leaving an estate over 1 million with 4000 Del E Webb Corp shares and time deposits in Las Vegas banks. Rose Louise Mapel, his widow, had contested the estate under community property law.
City commissioners had approved raising Maryland Parkway speed limits from 25 to 35 mph and school limits from 15 to 25 mph with median fencing from Oakey to St. Louis. Opposition from schools churches residents and businesses led to reversing the March 20 decision with calls to restore the prior limits.
Rich ard A. Mayne aged 42 from Santa Clara County California was named chief deputy coroner in Clark County yesterday. He previously served as senior investigator for the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s Office according to Coroner Dr. Otto Ravenholt.
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