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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1966
Page
13
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A new care discovery Protone claims to protect hair from wind damage and coloring agents. It promises to reduce breakage split ends and folicle damage while restoring body and luster. Available at Skaggs Drug Center and other drug counters.
Two Silver State Sweepstakes reps press for a private lottery while the writer argues a state operated model would channel most profits to public needs. Dale Ingram and Ivan Annenberg defend private partnership amid questions of fairness and revenue use.
Silver State Sweepstakes spokesman cites projected first year net of about 34 million from two lotteries. split with the state for schools roads and welfare. Ingram argues Nevada should take 100 percent of a sure thing, yielding a true net net after expenses and taxes.
Ingram and Annenberg argue private enterprise can run a lottery more efficiently and profitably than a state agency, avoiding political risks and large public funding needs. The author notes opposing views and reflects on personal columns about a daughter's 15th birthday provoking strong reaction.
Reader thanks Evelyn for explaining a father’s view of his daughter becoming a young woman. A mother and father share how the column moved them, with the father reading aloud at dinner and both crying, calling the piece wonderful and touching.
Norma and Maury Friedman host a swizzle soirée in the Red Garter room of the Silver Slipper to back James A Bilbray’s county assessor bid and his run for justice of the peace. The邀请 features a pirate motif with a red garter and a pirate coin, noting the theme is coincidental with no pirates actually invited.
Teen Screen publisher dismisses the American Society for the Preservation of the Big Band Sound as hooey and aims at modern rock and roll. Heiman, defending today’s dances and youth culture, says the movement will flop and that big band sounds are fading, surviving only with a few venues.
Nevada Resort Association will host a luncheon at the Sands Emerald Room as resort hotel representatives map plans for the 1966 United Fund campaign. The drive runs Sept 22 to Oct 18 with a goal of 638,964 and employees asked to contribute one hour's pay per month.
Hugo Schmitt, chief elephant trainer for Ringling Bros, discusses the female elephants' health and temperaments ahead of six Las Vegas performances. He notes that sick elephants are difficult to manage, require long care, and that a healthy elephant eats about 100 pounds of hay and 20 pounds of grain daily while consuming 25 gallons of water. The herd travels in specially built railroad cars with a human babysitter aboard.
The Nevada Research and Planning Conference will submit new state population data to the U S Bureau of the Census. The figures show Nevada at 471 625 as of January 1 1966 with Clark County at 250 000 and Washoe County at 124 453, while Ormsby and Douglas counties doubled their 1960 figures and several counties declined.
A 20 year old airman Donald Oliver escaped serious injury after his car struck a power pole on Charleston Boulevard near Prince Lane. Oliver suffered a broken leg and multiple cuts and bruises and was treated at Nellis AFB hospital. Police say the eastbound vehicle hit a warning sign, went out of control and was severed in two by the pole. A citation is pending.
The Area Council of Las Vegas Garden Clubs cleaned a 500 foot West Sahara strip outside the El Rancho Hotel, removing beer cans cardboard and litter. About a dozen volunteers used rakes and boxes, with a state highway dump truck hauling debris to Sunrise Mountain for burning. A county truck did not appear as planned. The group plans further cleanup on Rancho and Tonopah Highway inviting more volunteers.
Baby Roundup set for Aug. 17 at 3 p.m. at the chapter house in Las Vegas for parents who completed the Red Cross Mother and Baby Care course. West Motel in Las Vegas robbed of 77 dollars by two gunmen. no suspects. AEC seeks bids to install casing on a 72 inch bore at the Nevada Test Site with work beginning Aug. 18. Clark County School District approves dress policy and hires staff at Chester T. Sewell Elementary. Sewell named honor school site. Melvin Moss re-elected to National League of Insured Savings Associations board of governors.
A 78-year-old man accused of drunk driving a wheelchair avoided jail by agreeing to return to San Francisco by bus. David Faulk, 20, Elko, was sentenced to two years for refusing a draft board assignment as a conscientious objector. Gov. Grant Sawyer declared Sept 6 and Nov 8 state holidays to allow citizens to vote in the primary and general elections.
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