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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1976
Page
9
In Las Vegas city limits July 1976 saw 575 traffic accidents, 146 with injuries and 11 deaths through July, a 26.9 percent rise from last year. Broadside collisions dominated, many at signals, with 37 crashes on July 16 and 90 parked cars struck in July.
Marie McMillian a flight instructor and archeology student at UNLV has filed to run for State Assembly from District 4. She supports mandatory sentences for violent crimes and the Equal Rights Amendment, opposes taxes on medicines and groceries, and plans to engage voters through listening and polling. McMillian is active in Civil Air Patrol and other aviation groups, serves on the nominating committee of a women pilots group, and is a licensed real estate agent. She has lived in the district 16 years and has a large family.
The BLM will hold three public workshops in Caliente Las Vegas and Goldfield in September to discuss proposed changes to federal grazing regulations. John Boyles of the Las Vegas district office says meetings aim to help the public prepare comments for Washington. Public comments are due by October 1.
The Sahara Hotel returned to serving meals with main showroom entertainment after a week long experiment offering a drinks-only show at 8 p.m. The move follows other Las Vegas showrooms testing cost-saving drink formats during engagements by Buddy Hackett and Eddie Fisher.
Jury selection began Monday for the second trial of Canadian man Robert Gordon Johnstone charged with murdering two visitors in their Westward Ho Motel room on December 18, 1971. Johnstone, 31, from Edmonton, previously faced a first degree murder verdict later overturned.
A high court trial covers claims of two co defendants stating they killed two people. Police find a couple who saw two shabbily dressed men near room 1214 at a motel where three Canadian men stayed, potentially corroborating alibi. The case, before Judge Pawlikowski, may last several weeks.
A two day workshop on advanced cardiac diagnostic and surgical techniques will convene at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in Reno on September 16 and 17. Sponsored by the American Heart Association northern affiliate, the event targets nurses and para medical staff and covers pre and post operative nursing care, invasive monitoring, and various cardiac procedures. Fees are 35 dollars for both days, 20 for one day, with a 20 dollar rate for students for both days.
The Las Vegas district office of the Bureau of Land Management will host a public meeting at 7 30 p m on September 7 to compare old and proposed new off road vehicle regulations. John Boyles says the rules apply to most BLM lands except wilderness and primitive areas and comments are due by October 7 to the Washington D C office. Written comments can be given at the meeting but no record of verbal remarks will be forwarded.
UNLV hosts a seminar at the Humanities Building on August 27 describing the new pension form series 5500 and how to prepare annual return reports for employee plans. Instruction covers special reliance procedures and pattern plans with a 15 dollar fee that includes facilities coffee and doughnuts.
The Governor's Advisory Council on Children and Youth will hold its quarterly meeting August 23 and 24 at the Ponderosa Hotel in Reno. A Sunday August 22 steering committee session of executive officers precedes the gathering.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Groome a former Air Force chaplain will become executive vice president of the Opportunity for Retired Citizens Association on September 1. Groome directed chaplain programs across eight states and in Greenland and served as command chaplain of the Air Force in Europe. He earned a BA in economics from Houghton College an MDiv from Western Theological Seminary and an MS in International Affairs from George Washington University.
Carson City Nevada State Museum trustees elect Clayton D. Phillips of Reno as board chair at the 26th annual meeting. Phillips, 64, has served on the board since 1960 and as vice chair since 1971, succeeding Thomas C. Wilson who led after Judge Clark J. Guild’s death in 1971.
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