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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1969
Page
12
A Las Vegas Sun readers column presents multiple Qs and As. Topics cover laughing loudly in church, wills and widows, coping with family deaths, a manic phone caller, menopause antics, and requesting Ann Landers booklets for dating guidance. The tone remains practical and empathetic.
In a high stakes bridge hand South after ruffing clubs and drawing trumps misplays by cashing the ace of spades and forcing a sequence that leaves him down one. The columnist notes the need to alternative lines and suggests bidding one club or passing as a borderline move.
Local residents are urged to slow down as the Lake Mead National Recreation Area tightens enforcement on North Shore and Lakeshore Roads after 83 motor vehicle accidents in the first six months of 1969. Speed limits of 51 mph are posted on main routes. Edward Allin, park superintendent, cites road design and visibility factors.
James Bernard Wilson’s grandsons paintings Mount Wilson and Lost Cabin were donated to the UNLV James Dickenson Library by Sherwin Garside. Wilson, a descendant of Las Vegas pioneer Krupp Ranch settlers, was born in 1908 and worked on a Charleston Mountains ranch for Howard Hughes. About 1 million Mexicans still speak Nahua, the Aztec language.
Gray Harbor County sheriff orders watch for a hairy 8 foot tall 300 pound sasquatch described with a hairless face and protruding breasts. A deputy sighting led to track searches and cautious discussion of whether it was a bear or other wildlife.
A sprawling, opinionated paid ad jams Vegas life into a collage of names places and events. It lampoons unions cabbies and showbiz figures while praising local charity efforts and a hotel lobby fountain dive dream. Notes on Pantages style cinema and dining spots pepper the column alongside signatures and casual celebrity jabs.
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