Weighed Red Stance on Highway Laws in Nevada Stirs Debate
The piece argues Snowy Monroe's dual roles on the Transportation Committee and highway safety groups hinder balanced Nevada road policy. It notes northern freeways versus southern tourism needs, urging safeguards, stricter speed and alcohol rules, and criticizes Cow County senators resistant to change.
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Transportation Committee
Senate
Monroe
Nevada
South
Sands Hotel
Cow County
Snowy Monroe
Harlem parents begin fast to press meeting with Lindsay
About 75 parents and supporters of a Harlem school board began a public fast at Public School 39 to urge Mayor Lindsay and Board of Education head John Doar to meet them. They accuse the UFT and city officials of racism and demand transfers for nine striking teachers.
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New York
UPI
Harlem
John V. Lindsay
Board of Education
John Doar
Charles E. Wilson
Bernard F. Donovan
Lindsay
Doar
United Federation of Teachers
UFT
Quebec City Population Shifts Prompt Merger Push
The Quebec metropolitan area has about 450 000 people while the city proper holds roughly 180 000. Authorities seek growth in large suburbs and consider mergers. Currently thirty municipalities exist in metropolitan Quebec.
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Quebec
US air cavalry overrun rocket site north of Saigon
UPI reports US air cavalry with bombers and gunships captured a Communist rocket site north of Saigon. Fighting pushes American war deaths past 30,000, nearing Korean War totals as frontier battles grow along the Cambodian border and South China Sea coast. A dermatologist warned beans sold in Sears stores contain a poison lethal in tiny amounts.
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Saigon
U.S
South China Sea
Chicago
UPI
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Albert H. Slepyan
American Academy of Dermatology
Reagan Laxalt urge federal auction of silver dollars
Governors Reagan and Laxalt urged the U S Treasury to auction off 2.9 million silver dollars at the Carson City and San Francisco mints. Laxalt had previously asked the Treasury to consider selling the Carson City coins at the old mint and the San Francisco coins there as well. The coins offer values above their contained silver content.
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Carson City
API
Ronald Reagan
California
Paul Laxalt
San Francisco
Laxalt
Treasury Department
Treasury
Apollo countdown near miss during rehearsal for moon launch
UPI reports a nine second gap in a dress rehearsal at Cape Kennedy before a planned December 21 moon launch. A problem arose that would have halted a real liftoff but NASA said it does not affect the scheduled date.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
Apollo & Space Machine
Space Agency
Unexpected Windfall Boosts Las Vegas Revenues
New York report notes surprise revenue gains for Las Vegas during the first five months of fiscal 1968 69 including cigarette tax overages a rebate from a defunct supplier building permits and various tax and license surpluses totaling 262 861 above forecast. The city saw unexpected state cigarette tax receipts and a rebate misdirected from the state to Clark County. Building permits and other revenue items contributed to the surplus.
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Hal Laird
Department
Laird
Clark County
Gardener arraigned on flying while intoxicated charge
San Bernardino California gardener Earl Quaid Baumer aged 35 was arraigned in Justice Court on a charge of operating an aircraft while drunk. Baumer pleaded not guilty. Justice of the Peace Joe Pawlikowski set a hearing for April 15 after Baumer was stopped November 19 in a Piper Cherokee on an access road at McCarran International Airport.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Justice Court
Earl Quaid Baumer
McCarran International Airport
FBI Joins Hunt For Eldridge Cleaver
The FBI entered the search for Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver who faces a federal complaint for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Prosecutors say Cleaver crossed state lines and that his wife Kathleen withdrew $33 000 and fled to New York carrying funds for the fugitive. Cleaver, 33, is linked to his book Soul On Ice and has a history of rape assault and attempted murder as per the affidavit.
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San Francisco
UPI
FBI
Eldridge Cleaver
Cleaver
Navy
Kathleen
New York
Merger Creates Nation's Largest Railroad Union
Four rail unions merge to form the United Transportation Union with 280 000 members in the US and Canada. Charles Luna to lead the new body to lobby for broad transportation legislation and unify craft groups into one union. The merger takes effect January 1 and creates the AFL CIO's 17th largest union.
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UPI
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Order of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of
Switchmen of
North America
United Transportation Union
Charles Luna
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Afl-Cio
Philadelphia Earthquake Quietly Shakes City and Bridges
An earthquake measuring just over 3 on the Richter scale rattled Philadelphia and a 60 mile surrounding area at 4 13 am. Bridges Benjamin Franklin and Walt Whitman trembled but sustained no damage. Residents reported thundering sounds and fearful calls to media and police, with minor structural effects across the city.
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UPI
Florence Mallory
Center-City
Franklin) Institute
I.M. Levitt
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
New Jersey
Ira Hergesheimer
Nixon and Johnson to Meet at White House Tomorrow
President elect Nixon will confer with President Johnson at the White House tomorrow in a second meeting since the election. Ziegler says the discussion will be general, covering domestic and foreign issues including progress in the Vietnam talks at Paris. Dr. Reed notes Atlantic coast seismic risk, with Philadelphia on the seaboard and coastal plain geology prone to crustal rebounds.
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UPI
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Johnson
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Vietnam
Paris
Washington
Robert D. Murphy
John Reed
U.S. Geological Survey
Atlantic Seaboard
Reed
Philadelphia
East Coast
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Seaboard
Long Island
Florida
Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C
George Christian
Foreclosure Suit In Clark County Nevada Judge Defendants
Nevada summons to Nelson Italiano Janice Italiano and Mountain Development Company in a foreclosure action by Utah Savings & Loan Association through W Smoot Brimhall state bank commissioner. Plaintiffs seek deed of trust enforcement and sale of secured property. response due within two days after service with default judgment possible. Clerk Loretta Bowman dated November 15 196s with deputy clerk. Publication dates November 2 December 4 11 18 1968.
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Eighth Judicial District Court
Nevada
Close
Bilbray & Kaufman
E. Carson Avenue
Las Vegas
Loretta Bowman
Josephine Saginaw
District Court
Seaiy
Steinbeck Reported Seriously Ill in New York
John Steinbeck, Nobel laureate for literature, 66, was reported ill with a heart ailment at his Manhattan apartment. A close source said his health has not been good since spinal surgery last year. He won the Nobel in 1962 for The Winter of Our Discontent and the Pulitzer in 1939 for The Grapes of Wrath.
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New York
UPI
John Steinbeck
Manhattan
Steinbeck
Nixon appoints two White House press aides
President-elect Richard Nixon taps James Keogh Time editor and Martin Anderson Columbia professor as White House special assistants. Keogh will supervise four speech writers as White House managing editor while Anderson handles domestic policy research. Morton signals stay in Congress as cabinet plans proceed.
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Richard M. Nixon
White House
Maryland
Rogers C. B. Morton
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
James Keogh
Time Magazine
Martin Anderson
Columbia University
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