Girl Scouts Battle BLM Over Red Rock Site Support Grows
Frontier Council wins backing from Nevada Senators Cannon Bible and Rep Baring in a land dispute with the BLM to keep a 50 acre Girl Scout camp at Red Rock Canyon. Harvey Dondero praised the lawmakers for standing up for the scouts who seek public use with camping dates. Cannon cites broken promises and urges adherence to initial grants and easements while noting a 1956 application and payments made.
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Irl Scoute
Las Vegas Valley
Fead
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Red Rock Canyon
Frontier Council
Nevada
Howard W. Cannon
Alan
Cannon
Harvey Dondero
Girl Scouts
Dondero
Red Springs
Willow Springs
Sen. Cannon
Charles Stoddard
U.S. Transport Plane Crashes Off Hong Kong Harbor
A four engine U.S. military transport aircraft carrying 71 servicemen crashed into Hong Kong harbor shortly after takeoff bound for Da Nang. Some survivors were reported from the wreck.
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Hong Kong
UPI
U.S
da Nang
Viet Nam
Three Die In Wrecks Near Here
An honor graduate of the University of Arizona and a retired Idaho couple were killed in separate accidents yesterday morning north of Las Vegas. Jerry Wayne Forrester 22 of Tucson died when his sports car veered off U S 95 and rolled over into the desert west of Cactus Springs. He died at 8 15 a m at Southern Nevada Hospital. Joseph W Dutson 74 and Isabelle 65 his wife of Idaho died at the scene of a two car crash on U S 93 west of Glendale about 8 30 a m. Lilly Mantakes 72 and James 73 were in the other car.
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Idaho
Las Vegas
Jerry Wayne Forrester
Tucson
Cactus Springs
Southern Nevada Hospital
Joseph W. Dutson
Isabelle
U.S. Highway 93
Glendale
Lilly Mantakes
James
Gemini 5 rendezvous sim teams with Phantom in space
At Space Center Houston NASA astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad piloted Gemini 5 toward a simulated satellite within 15 miles, advancing the plan for future moon missions.
Viet Cong Attack On Bien Hoa Air Base Reported
Viet Cong lobbed about 40 mortar shells into Bien Hoa air base near Saigon. A spokesman said several American servicemen were injured, none seriously, and planes were damaged. The attack came after U S jets bombed a railroad bridge near the China border as part of heavy air raids on the North.
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Bien Hoa
UPI
U.S
Saigon
Dong Nai
China
Vietnam War Courage and Costs in Nevadan View
Senator Howard W. Cannon argues that America faces a prolonged and costly war in Vietnam with global stakes for freedom. He warns against underestimating Southeast Asia dangers while condemning Communist aggression and stressing resolve to pay the price for liberty.
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Southeast Asia
Korea
Berlin
Cuba
Pussycat a Go Go may reopen as legal dispute nears end
The Pussycat a Go Go in Las Vegas could resume operation within hours if a court appointed special master settles disputes between partners Garwood Van and Joe Yip. Three men Bob Hirsch Harry Hurley and Ken Keltner have applied to take full control but action awaits the resolution of the partners' legal conflict.
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Clark County Liquor Licensing Board
Garwood van
Joe Yip
Pussycat
Sheriff's Department
Civil Division Licensing Unit
Bob Hirsch
Las Vegas
Harry Hurley
Ken Keltner
Van
Yip
Paul Sorenson
Labor Strikes Hover Over Las Vegas Contracts
Las Vegas labor picture shows two unions on strike with limited progress on agreements. Teamsters Local 881 targets contracts at major Nevada Test Site contractor. Carpenters Local 1780 send 50 back to Caesars Palace Crane Construction site. full crew of 100 expected by week end. Las Vegas Housing Authority reports no contact with the U S Public Housing Administration as talks begin Tuesday to seek a meeting.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
Caesars Palace
Crane Construction Co
Chicago
R. C. Johnson and Associates
R. C. Johnson
Dixie Bushwackers Get Themselves Third Pastor
Police report a white minister active in civil rights work was ambushed and critically wounded outside his Jackson apartment Sunday night. Rev Donald A Thompson, a 300 pounder, was found in a pool of blood with pellets from a deer hunter shell piercing a lung and is in Baptist Hospital intensive care. The attack follows two other white churchmen shot in the South within three days.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Baptist Hospital
Thompson
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