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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1976
Page
7
Senator Paul Laxalt denounces the Postal Reorganization Act after voting against it as a $1 billion subsidy plan to cover operating costs and a year of rate freezes. He urges congressional control, warns of continued problems, and criticizes lack of safeguards against misused funds. The bill passed 79 to 9.
U.S. District Court Judge George B. Harris ruled the Postal Service cannot be held liable for delivery delays. Mel Solomon, owner of two apparel stores, sought 100000 damages over 25000 advertising circulars delayed in June 1975. Harris said few workers would stay with the Postal Service if sued for tardy mail.
The Upward Bound program at the University of Nevada Reno will not receive federal funds this year. Dean Roberta Barnes says unofficial advice places the funding end date on August 31, with three professionals and one secretary to be terminated, halving the program staff.
Jerome Petzold, 37, named range conservationist with the Bureau of Land Management in Las Vegas. He will develop allotment management plans for the Caliente Virgin Valley Resource Area. Formerly with Canon City District, he earned a 1965 B S in botany from Fort Hays State College.
Two engineers from Solar Energy Houston say they designed a solar energy collector that uses air for heat transfer instead of water, aiming for a low-cost system.
Dominic Clark of UNLV received a citation from the College Sports Information Directors of America for a 24 page press guide he compiled for the UNLV women's basketball team. The booklet was named second finest brochure among women’s intercollegiate sports. Delta State College won best brochure. Clark begins his fifth year with UNLV and is a 1971 UNR journalism graduate.
The Nevada Medical Records Association will hold its annual installation meeting at the Nevada Mental Health Institute at 7 p.m. on September 12. Juanita Bean, supervisor of the records department, will become the new president after eight years at Sparks. Ed Howden, coordinator for Services to the Blind, will address the group.
The Nevada Bicentennial Commission gives Clark County Optimist Boy's Home forty thousand dollars in the largest grant to a Nevada organization and the only such award to an Optimist group in the United States. The Home supports area youth with a family setting and corrective educational programs to foster better citizens.
Joe Bonaventure urged sweeping changes in the Justice Court system saying daytime traffic court makes workers miss pay and jobs. He proposed traffic court be held two evenings weekly and noted delays of up to 18 months between not guilty pleas and jury trials.
The Dutch prince, 65, uses a busy career as a royal promoter and business director to fit his motto that royalty must work. He chairs major firms and boards, promotes Dutch industry, and headlines a life of public service, despite a Lockheed bribery controversy and wartime loyalties. He is married to Queen Juliana and notes he rules their home. The piece also touches Cynthia Ann Parker, famed for her 1836 abduction narrative.
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