Price picks and Derby odds in 1968 era column
The author promotes Golden Saturday and reveals Kentucky Derby futures picks led by Clever Foot at 8-1. He discusses past Derby jockeys and race facts, notes betting behavior, mentions Las Vegas gambling and the Derby week buildup, and ends with a tongue in cheek defense fund jab.
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al Wesson
Hollywood Park
Price
The
Dunes
Ponder
Calumet Farm
Steve Brooks
Capot
Greentree Stables
Clever Foot
Brink’s
the New Yorker
Citation
Veni Vici
Fighting Fox
Gallant Fox
Bowie
Aqueduct
Irish Chief
Czar Alexander
Paul Price
NAACP to Meet in Las Vegas on Hotel Job Discrimination
California and Nevada NAACP chapters plan a May 25 26 confab in Las Vegas to discuss alleged hotel job discrimination. About 55 chapters from the Southern Area Conference will attend, including 54 from Southern California and one from Southern Nevada.
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California
Nevada
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Las Vegas
Southern Area Conference
Kellar
Nevada Resort Association
Culinary and Teamsters
National Labor Relations Board
Nevada Equal Rights Commission
Leonard Carter
Southern Nevada
Carter
Easter Seal Lily Day fund drive planned in Las Vegas
Easter Seal Group plans Lily Day in downtown Las Vegas and outlying centers to raise funds for the Easter Seal Treatment Center. Keith Asworth, chairman, notes 7 000+ youngsters treated there. volunteers will pin lilies on shoppers and wear ribbons to promote the drive.
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Easter Seal Group
Lily Sale Fund Canvass
Las Vegas
Keith Asworth
Clark County
Aster
Ninty
Nevada University urged to scale down ROTC program
A special study committee at the University of Nevada urged drastic reductions in mandatory military training. It proposed that male students either show prior high school military training or take a university sponsored orientation or a one semester Army ROTC option. The board called for expanded high school opportunities and broader access for all male students statewide.
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Mary Ruth Thargott
Exposition
Las Vegas
Garden Hills
Champaign, Ill
University of Ilinois
Reno
UPI
University of Nevada
Board of
Regents
Nevada
Conflicting Plans Stall Red Rock Park Developmen
Nevada State Park Advisory Commission opposes abandoning the current master plan for Red Rock Recreational Area. SPAC chairman Thomas W. Miller of Reno says the state has earmarked 132000 dollars and questions whether the Bureau of Land Management can guarantee funds. Congress has not approved BLM's recreational role, yet Clark County residents push for the area’s development.
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Red Rock
Nevada State Park
Thomas W. Miller
Reno
SPAC
Bureau of Land Management
Congress
Miller
Clark County
Commission
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LAS Vegas Sun
Paull Price
SUN
Olympia
Jerry Brown
Fl Greco
Wesson
Narragansett
Bill Corum
New York Journal-American
Corum
Churchill Downs
Charles Monahan
Caesars Palace
Ice Palace
Hughes Tool Co
New York Mets
Nevada Regent Group
John Sleeper
Pete Witcher
Bill Hanlon
Leonard Mungan
Louis Gallos
Sunfoto
Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority
Jadean Waltz
Kitty Rodman
Memo Injun Springs
R. J. Gor
Don of
Navy
Hawthorne
Millon University of Nevada
Mineral County
State Farm Insurance
Center
Pat Head
Pat
Colorado River Commission
Lake Meadwater
Louis Gallo
National Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Sist
Charles Kellar
William Perkins
Perkins
Salvation Army
Gene Rice
Phoenix
Southwest Division
Bill Lane
Red Rock Park
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