Henderson land deals under AG opinion face invalidity
State law says Henderson city officials cannot buy city land directly. Mayor William Byrne sat on the council that approved selling seven acres to Henderson Land and Development Co with Byrne as VP and director. Attorney General Harvey Dickerson says the deals violate long standing law. city officials dispute applicability.
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Henderson City
Harvey Dickerson
Boulder City
Henderson
William Byrne
Henderson Land and Development Co
Lunik IV misses moon by 5270 miles and returns to earth
Moscow reports the Lunik IV rocket failed to reach the moon, looping back toward Earth after a curved trajectory. Tass notes it crossed the moon’s surface but provides few details while Britain’s Sir Bernard Lovell questions the mission’s outcome and West Germany’s Bochum institute calls the attempt incomplete.
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Moscow
UPS
Soviet Union
Moon
Bochum Satellite and Space Research Institute
West Germany
Four Brooklyn mobsters assault FBI agent outside church
A group of four Brooklyn mobsters beat an FBI agent on a sidewalk in front of a church while the agent was compiling a list of known hoodlums attending the funeral of a Mafia chieftain. The shouty opinion piece condemns the rise of criminal brazenness and critiques Las Vegas decency efforts and perceived societal hypocrisy.
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Brooklyn
FBI
South Pacific Star to Wed Tonight in Las Vegas
Actress-singer Joan OBrien who stars in South Pacific at the Thunderbird Hotel will marry Harvey Allen a Seabee in the show tonight at the Little Church of the West. Judge David Zenoff will perform the ceremony. OBrien, 24, has been married twice before. Allen, 27, is making his first marriage. Both plan to stay in Las Vegas with the production.
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Joan O'Brien
South Pacific
Thunderbird Hotel
Harvey Allen
Little Church of the West
David Zenoff
Miss O’brien
Allen
Las Vegas
Governor Sawyer Signs Interest Conflict Measure ABH43
Friday night Governor Grant Sawyer signed ABH43 into law making it a crime for any state, county, or municipal officer to profit from any transaction or contract involving an entity of interest. The law carries penalties up to $5000 or five years imprisonment or both and takes effect upon signing.
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Grant Sawyer
Greyhound Crash Kills 4 In Feather River Canyon
A Greyhound bus veered from a gusty wind and plunged 100 feet off a cliff in Feather River Canyon. Six people died and 17 were hospitalized as the Reno to San Francisco route traversed the U S Highway 40 alt. The driver Jack Humphrey of Sacramento was killed. A jail trustee assisting in rescue suffered a dislocated shoulder.
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Oroville
Calif
UPI
Greyhound
Feather River Canyon
Butte County
Reno
Nev
San Francisco
California Highway
Jarbo Gap
Jack Humphrey
Sacramento
Humphrey
Nevada employers defend NIC finances amid large rebate to REECO
Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co. receives the state largest rebate of 73 299 29 from Nevada Industrial Commission amid debate over the fund structure. NIC chairman says the rebate stems from favorable loss credits tied to REECO’s industrial safety program. The firm employs about 4 000 Nevada Test Site workers and maintains eight safety engineers to protect workers.
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Nevada
Nevada Industrial Commission
R. N. McNeill
Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co., Inc
NIC
REECO
Clarence Heckethorne
L. J. Reynolds, Sr
Reynolds
North Las Vegas to Hold Filings for Council and Judge Posts
North Las Vegas opens filing tomorrow for two city council seats and the city judge post ahead of the May 7 election. Councilman Jack Pettiti and fellow councilman James B. Kelley plan re elections, with Pettiti citing a record of Ac complishments and community roles including chamber work and the Clark County Fair board. Judge Herman Fisher Jr. is also expected to file again.
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Las Vegas
Unarmed Briton Captures Exile Cuban Raiders
In Nassau Bahamas nine anti-C Castro refugees were arrested on Andros Island after a British officer in swimwear waded ashore unarmed and demanded surrender. Five others fled to Florida in a high speed boat as police and Royal Marines pursued them. The officer was Lt. Col. John Pine-Coffin who traveled by seaplane and crossed 200 yards of waist deep water.
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Nassau
Bahamas
UPI
Andros Island
Williams Island
Florida
John Pine-Coffin
Joint Services Headquarters
Cuba
Auto Spin Crash Injures Three in Nevada Desert
A high speed rollover on Highway 91, 24 miles south of Glendale Junction, left Marcel Loveless 49 Page Arizona, Charlies Loveless 47 Page Arizona, and driver William B. Alexander 60 Page Arizona in fair to serious condition at Southern Nevada Hospital. The car left the roadway, 300 feet into the desert, cleared a 20 foot ditch and flipped onto its wheels.
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Southern Nevada Hospital
Glendale Junction
Marcel Loveless
Page
Ariz
Charlies Loveless
William B. Alexander
Alexander
Nevada
Polaris Pact Sets Polaris Missiles Sales to UK
The United States and Britain signed a formal agreement to sell Polaris missiles minus nuclear warheads to Britain for use on British submarines. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore announced the pact hours before Rusk's departure to Europe for talks.
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Washington
UPS
United States
Britain
United Kingdom
Dean Rusk
David Ormsby Gore
Rusk
Europe
Nassau
Bahamas
Weather Outlook With Warm Day and Light Rain Chance
The forecast notes a cloudy day with southwest winds 20 to 35 mph and a chance of light rain. Expect a high of 75 and a low of 60, with yesterday's high 74 and low 34. Noontime humidity near 1 percent. sunrise at 5 18 and sunset at 6 07.
Paroled convict kidnaps two officers and a woman in Oxford
In Detroit area news an escaped parolee Frederick Hannah, 24, allegedly kidnapped two Oxford police officers and a female radio operator from the Oxford Police Department. The trio were bound and left in a motel as authorities launched statewide roadblocks to capture him. Officers Richard Lamphier and Delbert Hill, both 21 and 26 respectively, and radio operator Mrs Lenore Westphal, 42, are named in police reports.
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Oxford
Mich
Frederick Hannah
Richard Lamphier
Lake Orion
Delbert Hill
Lenore Westphal
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Nevada Southern
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