Low-Cost Housing Funds Approved for West Las Vegas Projects
The Las Vegas Housing Authority cleared a temporary 4.47 million loan to finance two low cost housing projects in West Las Vegas. A 200-unit project at H and Owens Streets and a 300-unit project at Highland Drive and Lake Mead Boulevard will be built by Alcan Pacific Construction Co. and Del F Webb Corp respectively, with total costs of 2.54 million and 4.049 million. Continental Bank purchased the bonds at 1.99 percent. The developments will house low income families including those displaced by the Interstate 15 freeway.
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Alcan Pacific Construction Co
del F. Webb Corp
West Side
Las Vegas
Working Pact Reached Amid Kennecott Contract Talks
Phoenix reports a three year contract reached Friday night between Kennecott Copper Corp and 21 craft clerical and railroad locals. The pact aims to resume operations across four western states including Arizona Nevada New Mexico and Utah with Utah already closed by strikes. Only steelworkers and a few minor unions remain unsigned. Old contract expired June 30 and talks occurred under federal mediation.
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Phoenix, Ariz
UPI
Kennecott Copper Corp
Kennecott
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Utah
Kennecott Cooperative Council
United Steelworkers Union
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Salt Lake City
Inventory of Vegas Heights in urban renewal plan
The city planning department conducts a five phase inventory of the newly annexed Vegas Heights as part of the urban renewal program. Don Savior director of planning coordinates the effort. The study covers trailers structural deficiencies land use vacant properties and zoning for all buildings within 160 acres.
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Vegas Heights
City Planning Department
Don Savior
Suspect Sought in Girl's Kidnapping Across Western States
A missing 16-year-old North Las Vegas girl prompted a Western states search for Charles Sturdvent a Texas man believed to have lured her to California. A felony warrant was issued by Dist Atty Ted Marshall and FBI agents joined the case as authorities traced Sturdvent from a Redlands hotel toward possible destinations in Arizona or Texas. The girl was reported missing in August and the investigation spans multiple states with authorities alerted.
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Texas
Las Vegas
California
Charles Sturdvent
Gordon
Redlands
Calif
Arizona
Paul Varga
Ted Marshall
Sturdvent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
City Mulls Twin Lakes Park Deal Amid $875000 Demand
Week in review notes Twin Lakes owner Lloyd St John urging city to buy the 40 acre recreational site for a park at 875000, claiming value over 1 million. City balks, promising an offer far below his price on a put up or shut up basis.
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Lloyd St. John
Twin Lakes
Woodsey
Nelle Ross Ashby
Union Pacific Railroad
George F. Ashby
Mesquite Club
Winston Bell
VFW
Bell
Nevada highway deaths rise with latest victim Ashley Fitzgerald
Nevada's 1964 highway death toll reached 114, eight more than the same point last year. Ashley Fitzgerald, 75, of Black Springs, died Friday on U S 395 north of Reno when his car fish tailed, hit an embankment and overturned.
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Reno
Nev
UPI
Nevada
Ashley Fitzgerald
U.S. 395
Here
Fitzgerald
Black Springs
Nevada Delegates Named to Democratic Platform Committee
Gov Grant Sawyer and Mrs George Gottschalk of Carson City named to the platform committee meeting in Atlantic City ahead of the national convention opening August 24. Committee work will focus on foreign policy civil rights national defense and labor planks as hearings are expected. A seven month old boy Robert Pool son of Mr and Mrs Gary Pool was reported improving after nearly drowning in a bathtub at Sun Rise Hospital authorities say he should survive.
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Carson City
Nevada
U.S. Treasury
Grant Sawyer
Washington D.C
Reno
Washington
UPD
Paul Laxalt
Howard Cannon
Laxalt
William Galt
Cannon
Atlantic City
George Gottschalk
Sunrise Hospital
Robert Pool
Gary Pool
Ferndale
Scientists Use Las Vegas Casinos For Explosive Study
Officials from a San Francisco firm and the AEC install accelerometers, seismoscopes, and other instruments at the Desert Inn Fremont and Sahara hotels to study ground motion from underground detonations. The program, tied to the Nevada Test Site and Plowshare aims, seeks to predict structural response at various distances and yields.
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San Francisco
John A. Blume and Associates Research Division
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Desert Inn
Fremont
Sahara Hotels
Dunes Hotel
Landmark Tower
AFF
Rancho High Band Plans New Methods and Meeting
Rancho High School will hold its first 1984 85 band meeting on August 24 at 7 30 p.m. in the school land room to introduce a modular schedule and explain courses wind ensemble concert band junior varsity band and extra curricular bands. Auditions rehearsals and instrument details will be arranged with director Richard Purser reachable at 878 2783.
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Rancho
Richard Purser
Centennial Duel Echoes In Nevada Town Parade
The Reese River Reveille recounts a sunrise duel between Jerry Kincaid and Fd Herrick. Each fired six shots at ten paces with minor injury to Kincaid's left ear. The paper vows to cover only toe to toe duels henceforth.
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Reese River
Jerry Kincaid
Fd Herrick
Kincaid
Reveille
Hardie
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Vegas
Continental
National Bank of Trust
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Planning Department
Saylor
Week IN Review
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Clark County
Western
Ar Lines
WAI
Joseph
Doc) Stacher
Los Angeles
Stacher
Italy
Israel
George H
Bud) Ulbricht
Clark County Fair and Recreation Board
Albright
Supreme Court
Sammy Cohen
Santa Anita
Cohen
Sammy
George Abdo
Henderson
George Crisler
Fleeng i
Floyd Osborn
Sel
Wilbur Perkins
Jim Jensen
Perkins
City Hall
Jaycees
Upt
Chamber of Commerce
Lake Tahoe
John Fremont
Russ Button
Button
Virginia City
Comstock
Sheba
James Slattery
Slattery
West
Dianne Pollock
Territorial Enterprise
Miss Pollock
Eddie Fontaine
John Gabrielli
Fontaine
Pete D'Angelo
Dorothy Weinstein
Vegas Briefs
Tor
Gustav J. J. Bodensieck
Bremen
Germany
Oreran
Hildegard Rudolph
Jeanne Roberts
Sunioto
Louis J. Reynolds
Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co
Rotary Club
Reynolds
Ward Wengert
Rotary
Sunfoto
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
AEF
AFC
Nevada News
Jock Taylor
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