California death penalty veto override move faces key vote
California Assembly backers of SB 155 to restore the death penalty won a key supporter and set a showdown vote on Gov Brown's veto. Bruce Young said he will vote to override, giving supporters 53 votes, just short of the needed two thirds. Still, other lawmakers remain undecided as a floor vote nears.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Young
Senate
Curtis Tucker
Los Angeles
Brown
Tucker
Airport ad contract awarded to Joyce and Associates
Clark County Commission awarded the annual airport advertising contract to Joyce and Associates of Las Vegas over Southwest Advertising amid a protest. Joyce offered a 76 percent revenue refund. Southwest claimed a higher guaranteed payment would save taxpayers more.
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Clark County Commission
Joyce and Associates, Inc
Las Vegas
Joyce
Charles Damus
Southwest Advertising
Camus
Southwest
Reed Whipple
Hearing Set On Coach Bias Claim
An informal hearing is scheduled for Monday before the Nevada Equal Rights Commission to resolve a reverse sex discrimination complaint by coaches of men’s sports. If progress stalls, the commission will proceed with its investigation. The Southern Nevada Coaches Assn filed the complaint on behalf of about 250 men’s coaches against Clark County School District and related groups.
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Ll Ame
Nevada Equal Rights Commission Commission
Jesse Scott
Southern Nevada Coaches Assn
Clark County
John Churn
Chaparral High School
The
Coaches Association
Clark County Classroom Teachers Assn
Alfred Sheinwold on Bridge and a purchase offer
A column discusses clever play in a bridge hand and notes that a book by Alfred Sheinwold titled A Pocket Guide to Bridge is on sale. To order readers are urged to mail $1.35 to Sheinwold On Bridge in Port Washington New York.
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Alfred Sheinwold
Sheinwold
P.O
Port Washington
N.Y
County Job Market Shows 7.4 Percent Growth
Clark County's June job market soared with 162,800 workers employed. Larry McCracken of the Nevada State Employment Security Department reports a 7.4 percent year over year employment gain and an unemployment rate drop to 8.2 percent. Statewide, service industries added 4,500 jobs while trade and business and construction added 1,400 and 1,100 respectively.
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Clark County
Larry McCracken
Nevada State Employment Security Department
Nevada
Nevada Library Council Reappointed Six Public Members
Gov. Mike O Callaghan reappointed six public members to the Nevada Council of Libraries. The appointees include Verlia Davis and Charles Hunsberger of Las Vegas, Hazel Potter Edmond McGoldrick and Raymond Smith of Reno, and Anne Roberts of Carson City, with State Law Librarian Barbara White as the permanent seventh member.
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Carson City
UPI
Mike O'Callaghan
Nevada Council of Libraries
Verlia Davis
Charles Hunsberger
Las Vegas
Hazel Potter
Edmond McGoldrick
Raymond Smith
Reno
Anne Roberts
Barbara White
Newhart and Rivera Open One-Week Riviera Engagement
Comedians Bob Newhart and Chita Rivera will headline at the Riviera Hotel for a limited one week engagement starting Thursday. They will be followed by Debbie Reynolds and Jim Stafford in the schedule.
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Bob Newhart
Chita Rivera
Riviera Hotel
Debbie Reynolds
Jim Stafford
Possession Charges Dismissed in Las Vegas Case
Police dismissed possession charges against two Las Vegas youths after prosecutors found no evidence. David Wade Wells, 18, and a 17 year old were arrested near Shakir’s Coin Palace on Las Vegas Boulevard South with a helmet stuffed with coins while officers disrupted an apparent fencing operation and Glen Ross Parshall faced a receiving stolen property charge.
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Metro
David Wade Wells
Glen Ross Parshall
Shakirs
Coin Palace
Las Vegas Blvd
Read on John D. MacArthur and Hollywood links
US Magazine notes John D. MacArthur the Florida island owner and financier, listed as wealthier only by Daniel Ludwig, with ties to New Frontier Hotel mortgages and a portfolio spanning banks, hotels, and media. It also covers Eddie Fisher memoir plans, Liza Minnelli's Broadway bound show reception, a Swedish Elvis film, and a Vegas tied woman Grace writing from Washington DC about casino school plans in Atlantic City.
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John D. MacArthur
America
US Magazine
Florida
New Frontier
Maury Friedman
Irving Leff
Bankers Life
Chicago
Fortune Magazine
Daniel Ludwig
MacArthur
Eddie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds
Liz Taylor
Eddie
Harper & Row
Liza Minnelli
Broadway
Liza
San Francisco
Elvis
Presley
Peter O'Toole
Myrna Loy
James Baldwin
Tony Bennett
Lance Alworth
Marilyn Maxwell
Grace
Washington D.C
Las Vegas
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Washington
Harry LeVan
Waiter's Tip Nabbed Man On Drug Charge
Reno police say a Harrahs waiter Jaime Gomez collected a tip that turned out to be a rolled piece of paper containing one gram of cocaine valued at eighty dollars. The incident occurred after seating a man in the Headliner room.
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RENO
UPI
Jesse Gomez
Gomez
Washoe
Robert Colby
Walnut Creek
Colby
Nevada
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