Vocational Center aids recovery and wages in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas a group at the Vocational Adjustment Center works to rebuild body and mind, offering assembly, packaging, sorting, and hand tasks to help gain independence while supporting local businesses. The piece also notes rainfall over Hotel Sahara, debates metric weights, and promotes the Bank of Las Vegas savings accounts.
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Las Vegas
Vocational Adjustment Center
Vocational Rehabilitation Division
Department of Education
State of
Nevada
Hass Malik
Hote
Sahara
Bank of Las Vegas
Race Riots In Watts Escalate Amid Perimeter Firefights
Police and sheriffs deputies battled rioters in Watts as 7 000 people gathered around Avalon Boulevard and Imperial Highway. Cars were over turned, a motorist beaten, and several buildings set ablaze as 100 police and 135 deputies reinforced a multi‑block perimeter. Dozens arrested. widespread property damage to local businesses and media cars.
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Avalon Boulevard
Parker
Watts
116Th Street
Avalon- Imperial Highway
Los Angeles
KHJ
KTTV
Sheriff's Deputies
Fire Destroys Shed and Corvette. Three Las Vegas Youths Arrested
A morning fire on Pinto Lane gutted a large storage shed and a 1964 Corvette Stingray. Las Vegas youths Jake Prince 20 Gary Denning 19 and a juvenile were arrested on auto theft charges after witnesses identified the car and the suspects fleeing. Fire officials said an acetylene torch used to cut a gear shift may have sparked the blaze at 1524 Pinto Lane owned by Albert Newberry once an electrical shop.
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Pinto Lane
Las Vegas
Jake Prince
Gary Denning
Ray
Albert Newberry
Newberry
Jerry Paris Named Honorary Mayor of Pacific Palisades
Mayor Jerry Paris a director and occasional performer on The Dick Van Dyke Show is named honorary mayor in Pacific Palisades California with community recognition and local ceremony planned.
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Jerry Paris
Dick van Dyke Show
Pacific Palisades
Calif
School Buses Will Run and District Transportation Policy
Chester Sewell, chairman of the County School Board, assured a parents group that bus transport will operate this year. He cited budget pressures and newspaper reports, but said the board will manage solutions without external dictates. Superintendent Dr. Leland Newcomer noted ongoing route adjustments as new schools open. Residents on Highland Avenue asks for bus access to West Charleston School while Vista Verdes parents seek service to Rex Bell School due to unsafe walking routes.
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Chester Sewell
County School Board
Sewell
Classroom Teachers Association
Helen Cannon
Leland Newcomer
Highland Avenue
West Charleston
Vista Verdes
Rex Bell School
Japan's Ikeda Dead at 65 in Tokyo Hospital
Former Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda died at Tokyo University Hospital at age 65 after resigning last October due to a throat tumor. He had been treated for a precancerous throat condition and was admitted July 29. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato visited him shortly before his death.
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Tokyo
UPI
Hayato Ikeda
Tokyo University Hospital
Ikeda
Eisaku Sato
Viet Action Forces Link Up With Paratroopers Near Route 19
A South Vietnamese relief column joined government paratroopers to guard Route 19 where Communists have moved men and arms from Cambodia. A Navy plane was shot down by a missile about 50 miles south-southwest of Hanoi, and a second shipboard aircraft returned to the Midway with jet fuel leaking from a damaged wing.
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Cambodia
Hanoi
Midway
South China Sea
District Attorney Praises Grand Jury and Team Effort
The DA praises Clark County officials and staff for high prosecution rates and effective court work. He lauds the previous grand jury under George Dickerson and notes changes in the office, including several Chief Criminal Deputies. He hints at possible political action and emphasizes democracy through public service and personal accountability.
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Bob Baskin
Ted Marshall
George Dickerson
Clark County
Don Wadsworth
Bill Freedman
Ray Jeffers
Paul Parraguirre
Jack Ruggles
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Manhattan—Haggar
Securoslax
French Shriner
Aradise Spa
Hone
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Japan
Foster's
No. 3Rd St
Antown
Penney
East Charleston
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Hiness
Burns Realty
Paradise Rd
Columbia
Adee Cates
Lake Batt Stones
B& W
Reise
Keystone
Ahses
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Renny Ashieman
Sheriff Lamb
Chief Bunker
Carson City
Jim Gibson
Vernon Bunker
Me Close
Tom Godbey
John Porter
Bob Cahill
Don Dawson
Papa
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