Technical Committee Votes On Las Vegas Water Project
County Regional Planning Council sub committee approved for the full council a nine mile water line from a well at Craig Road to Nellis Air Force Base, plus a 166000 dollar reservoir near the central maintenance garage. Estimated line cost exceeds 610600 dollars. Proponent Les Scherer of Los Angeles proposed a monorail like rapid transit system with potential federal backing. backers to be sought privately.
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City Dads Delay Action On Fees Bill
Las Vegas city commissioners approved measures to mandate court appearances for more offenses, allow sewer service disconnection for non payment of fees, and set a 400 square foot limit for on premises signs in C 1 zones. They asked for more study on underground utilities and license fees and held another ordinance to permit dance balls in abeyance.
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Yugoslavians Rally Against Soviet Invasion In Prague
Belgrade drew about 250000 anti Soviet demonstrators in Marx and Eagles Square to protest the Prague invasion. Yugoslav officials condemned the intervention as brutal aggression while President Tito scheduled a Central Committee meeting to discuss the crisis.
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Yugoslav Communist Party
Nation's Weather Highlights Across U.S. Heat Wave
UPI reports the highest temperature outside Hawaii and Alaska reached 103 degrees in Columbia South Carolina while Reno Nevada recorded a low of 32. The data covers a 24 hour period ending at 4 am from the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco.
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New York
Audie Murphy Reunites with Old Army Buddy in Las Vegas
Audie Murphy the movie actor and World War II hero met Doyle Clark of 5817 Carl Ave in a chance reunion at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas. The two hadn't seen each other since 1945 in Salzburg while serving together. Murphy, who manages fighter Buddy Boggs, was in town for the Boggs Taylor match.
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Murphy
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Hawaiian Volcano Blows Her Top
A small eruption occurred yesterday at Hiiake crater on the Island of Hawaii. The activity extended to the Hiiake pit along Craters Road in Volcanoes Park, with cracks forming in the road. Park officials warned ofrift activity nearby and the potential for another lava outbreak above ground.
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UPI
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Attorney Admits How Las Vegas Got Money
In a federal case at Beverly Hills, Maurice H. Friedman’s attorney claims his client won money by cheating in Friars Club gin rummy games but argues the statute of limitations has run out. Friedman says he planned to testify he had a ceiling “peek” in a Friars Club room and would present winnings records. He alleges a motive tied to prior cheating claims and notes a fortune from 1954 and profits from Last Frontier Corp. liquidation in 1962-63.
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UPI
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Friars Club
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Last Frontier
New Frontier
Azbill Faces Murder and Arson Trial In Widow Case
Sylvester J. Azbill, charged with the torch murder of his wife Rose Mapel Azbill, awaits trial as the Mapel estate contemplates about 1.1 million dollars in assets. Judge Compton ruled portions as community and Mrs Azbill's separate property totaling 470000, with potential one third inheritance if acquitted. Legal costs for the preliminary hearing exceed 300 dollars daily.
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Pope Paul VI Arrives in Bogota for Latin America Tour
Pope Paul VI greeted by crowds estimated at over one million as he arrives in Bogota on a social reform mission. He walks through packed streets to Plaza Bolivar, blesses 4,000 clergy at the cathedral, and later addresses the archbishop and 50,000 in the plaza. Police report 25 collapses but no hostility as oxygen ambulances follow the pope. He plans three major messages amid a 56-hour Latin American tour for the International Eucharistic Congress and bishops conference.
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UPI
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Connally and McCarthy Clash Over War Plank at Chicago Hearing
Texas Governor John Connally blasted Senator Eugene McCarthy as appeasing peace talks and urged a tough Vietnam plank at the Democratic platform hearings in Chicago. McCarthy backers fear a weaker stance as Czechoslovakia’s Russian move shapes debate and Paris talks. Demonstrations by welfare mothers echoed calls to reform welfare laws.
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UPI
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Eugene J. McCarthy
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Wife offers reward for return of 1.4 million art theft loot
Mrs. Tullah Hanley, wife of oil heir T. Edward Hanley, offers a reasonable cash payment with no questions asked for the return of 14 paintings and two bronze sculptures stolen from their Foster Township home. She dismisses the crime as amateurs and says the pieces are unsellable, highlighting Picasso Moulin Rouge and a Cezanne watercolor as top losses.
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UPI
Tullah Hanley
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Foster Township
Picasso
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Cezanne
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