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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1976
Page
1
City Manager Don Dawson and City Auditor Alfred Hyman announced resignations effective January 10 and February 4 1977 respectively. Dawson plans private sector work and may advise the city during an interim period while Hyman shifts to his own CPA business in Las Vegas.
A Reno Evening Gazette obituary portrays Ray Germain as a respected journalist, dedicated teacher, and longtime Democratic figure. Friends recall his integrity, quiet humor, and devotion to family, noting he earned broad respect without seeking the spotlight. He is mourned by colleagues and students after a farewell yesterday.
Uganda's Idi Amin reportedly received a plea from 175 Hawaiians asking him to become their king and lead a bid for independence from the United States. The UPI report says Amin is studying the request and plans to discuss it with US authorities and Third World leaders.
The high court upholds a circuit ruling in San Francisco that three men must stand trial. The 1974 indictment accuses Hughes, Maheu, Davis, and Charnay of conspiring to depress Air West stock to $15.75 while offering $22 per share to sellouts, with Greenspun and Crockett named as participants.
Fall figures show UNLV with 9 149 students while UNR records 8 917, marking the first time UNLV tops the rival campus. Earlier counts from October listed 8 698 for UNLV but were revised upward by officials.
Two crewmen of the 347th Tactical Fighter Wing at Moody Base were killed when their F4E Phantom crashed about 60 miles southeast of Tonopah during Red Flag operations on the Nellis Range. Identification withheld pending next of kin notification. a board of officers will investigate.
Metro detective Rob bie Robertson arrested two suspects, George Ralph Law and Donald Budlong, in a casino district bank robbery case at Valley Bank on Convention Center Drive. About $1,632 of $1,638 was recovered. no weapons found. The suspects face federal bank robbery charges.
President-elect Jimmy Carter exits a Plains Georgia voting booth after voting in the mayoral race. His younger brother Billy Carter confronted the incumbent but was defeated for the second time in as many tries.
Billy Carter, 39, was defeated by incumbent A L Blanton 90 to 71 in Plains Georgia as Jimmy Carter offered consolation. Billy blamed beer on Sundays and publicity as factors while pledging another run and joking about running in Australia.
A driverless fire truck rolled away Sunday night as volunteers battled a hilltop blaze in Grass Valley. It crashed into four parked cars and a residence, toppled a power pole, and injured five people including four firefighters and onlooker Marion Padgett who was hospitalized with a possible broken knee.
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