Dust Storm Halts Freeway Traffic In Las Vegas
A cold front and 54 mph gusts turned Las Vegas into a dust bowl halting travel and causing numerous auto collisions. Police and sheriff units reported more than 15 crashes, with a seven-car pileup on Highland Avenue. No serious injuries except a hotel construction worker taken to Sunrise Hospital for a possible broken leg.
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Las Vegas
Highway Patrol
Highland Avenue
Las Vegas Sun
International Hotel
Sunrise Hospital
Donald Thompson
SNMH Faces Push to Convert to Nonprofit Status
Las Vegas SNMH trustees debate moving to nonprofit status as consultant Leon C. Pullen argues for term limits and renewals while Dr. Ralph Adams projects 1975 hospital capacity at 104 to 114 million dollars in Las Vegas Valley. Assembly members question comparisons to other states and cite unanswered questions after a costly 200-page report.
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Pullen Represents
Hospital Board of Trustees
Ralph Adams
Las Vegas Valley
School Bus Driver’s Tree Stolen Sparks Kids Warning
Irvin Reeves, a school bus driver in 2010 Stanley, found the six and a half foot Christmas tree he bought for his six children had been stolen. He suspects local kids, not adults, dragged it over an eight foot wall and left tracks in the sand. Reeves urged parents to question their children and return the tree, offering help for Christmas if needed.
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Irvin Reeves
The
SUN
Reeves
Stanley
Former Clerk Plans Moonlighting Defense in Fraud Case
McMahon, 34, ex Clark County data processing chief, faces fraud and extortion charges. He contends the county job was merely moonlighting as he sought to justify an $8 000 payment from Philco Ford Corp for data processing tied to a 1967 Las Vegas convention. Witness Raymond Gramlich testified A A and not Clark County would handle the contract.
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M. B
Bud) McMahon
Clark County
Justice Court
Raymond Gramlich
Philco Ford Corp
Philadelphia
McMahon
Lee West
Addressing & Advertising Services
A&a) Inc
Philco
Las Vegas
Gramlich
A&a
Dave Henry
Earl Gripentrog
IBM
Apollo 8 December launch window set with risk of delay
The article notes a higher leakage rate from a Saturn rocket during a dress rehearsal as liquid oxygen and hydrogen were drained, kerosene remaining in the first stage. With Earth and Moon positions, only seven days this month suit Apollo 8 for launch starting December 21 at 7:51 a.m. EST and ending December 27 at 6:20 p.m. If missed, the next opportunity would be January 18.
Flu Outbreak Closes Hollins College Amid Hong Kong Flu
Influenza strikes schools and industries nationwide with the Hong Kong flu. The NCDR approves about five million vaccine doses as six firms accelerate production. Hollins College near Roanoke shutdown after about 20 percent of students fall ill. exams canceled.
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Atlanta
UPS
National Communicable Disease Center
NCDR
Division of Biologic Standards
The
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
Hollins College
Roanoke
William R. Emerson
Cabinet mirrors Nixon background in modest origins
The 12 men chosen for Nixon's future cabinet share similar upbringings and paths to power. Most grew up in small towns, served in World War II, and are middle aged. Many have long ties to Nixon and are pragmatic, analytical, and wary of big‑money or Ivy League prestige.
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Washington
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Horatio Alger
Robert H. Finch
George P Schultz
Princeton
William P. Rogers
Cornell
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
John A. Volpe
Transportation Department
Wentworth Institute
Boston
George W. Romney
Michigan
Housing and Urban Development
University of Utah
George Washington University
Kennedy
A Rockefeller
Volpe
Con
Hickel
Kansas
Romney
American Motors
Alabama
Winton M. Blount
Whittier
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Shakopee
Minn
New York
Clifford M. Hardin
Knightstown
Ind
Purdue
University of Nebraska
Rogers
Norfolk
N.Y
Laird
Marshfield
Wis
Randolph
Utah
Finch
Korea
Congress
Quonset Point, R.I., Naval Station
Mitchell
Miami Beach
Stans
Schultz
Eisenhower
Nixon Names Large Cabinet for First Term
President elect Nixon unveils a full slate of 11 cabinet picks led by Welfare Secretary Robert Finch and Interior Secretary Walter Hickel. The list includes George Romney Shultz Volpe Stans Hardin Blount and others with Robert Mayo named director of the Budget Bureau in a historic simultaneous cabinet reveal.
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Robert H. Finch
California
Nixon
George P. Shultz
Graduate Business School
The
University of Chicago
Labor Department
Maurice Stans
New York
Robert Mayo
Budget Bureau
Treasury Department
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co
Chicago
Prell Joins Hughes Hotels From St Louis
Pioneer hotelman Milton Prell of St Louis Missouri and his Los Angeles wife Debbie have a daughter Sheila who is married and attends Loyola Law School. Hughes Hotels announce Prell’s association praising his Las Vegas hotel operations and contributions to the area.
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Prell
St. Louis
Debbie
Los Angeles
Sheila
Loyola Law School
Hughes Hotels
Maheu
Las Vegas
Hughes
Milton
Hughes Family
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