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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1977
Page
12
The Loew's State Theater in downtown St. Louis shut its doors for the last time Sunday ending a 53 year run. The venue cited falling attendance and rising operating costs as the reason for the closure mirroring the fate of the New York Loew's State.
The Concorde test flights to New York from Paris and London are delayed to late September at the earliest as the 2nd Circuit Court keeps the Kennedy Airport ban in place while the Port Authority appeals. Airlines and residents await the Sept. 19 hearing on reversing Judge Pollack's approval of the SST trial.
Mary Ford, 2, former wife of Les Brown, remained in a diabetic coma at Arcadia Methodist Hospital after an adverse insulin reaction. Doctors gave no clear prognosis as her condition fluctuated between critical and serious since admission on August 8.
Roosevelt Watson, one of the Dawson Five, had his murder trial postponed as the state appeals Judge Leonard Farkas ruling that Watsons oral confession cannot be used. Co defendants Johnny B Jackson and J D Davenport were freed on their own recognizance while others remain free on bond. Prosecutors argue coercion and racial bias influenced the indictments in the January 1976 slaying at a rural Georgiab grocery store.
The Nevada Transit Co. sale to Ralph E. Lawrence, involving Reno Bus Lines, Reno to Sparks service, and Nevada Central routes, won approval from the State Public Service Commission in a deal valued over $200,000. Lloyd sells due to health. local subsidy and prior fare boosts stabilized finances. California Nevada Golden Tours protested then withdrew.
Louisville and Jefferson County police put over 1,100 officers on standby for the start of the new school year amid ongoing court-ordered desegregation busing. Officials anticipate a routine opening with about 20,000 students bused, an increase from private school enrollment shifts, and emphasize better preparation after prior disorders.
William Buckmaster, news director of KORK radio in Las Vegas, is appointed to NBC Radio News Advisory Council. The national panel gathers input from about 300 NBC affiliate directors and will convene first in San Francisco during the RTNDA conference next month. Buckmaster has led KORK since January 1976 after joining in September 1974.
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