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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1975
Page
5
A group of 14 motorists owe the city 2923 dollars for 355 unpaid tickets. Final notices go out Thursday. five days to pay before the boot immobilizes their vehicles. Removal requires full payment plus a 25 dollar fee. The program aims to boost prompt payments.
Three Las Vegas physicians warn in the New England Journal of Medicine that 19 liter water dispenser bottles can cause injuries and death. They treated six people in the past year including a 10 year old girl who bled to death after a bottle broke during a run. The bottles weigh about 50 pounds when full and create sharp fragments if shattered.
SNMH administrator George Riesz criticized former Mayor Oran Gragson for implying only the county hospital would gain if the District Board of Health becomes the regional Health Systems Agency. Gragson's private-hospital group seeks HSA designation as federal funds and county medical planning shift.
Riesz argues police protection and medical facility decisions may get special treatment due to there being a single county commissioner, Thalia Dondero, on the Board of Health. He notes if the county benefits, the community benefits. The HSA will replace the local CHR in the health district as the rural hospital program and Hill Burton fund distributor, with HEW to pick the local HSA in spring 1976.
Metropolitan Police officials call a county staff analysis of the $21.8 million police budget unfair and inaccurate. The county report claimed spending above necessity and not a hold the line budget, prompting a counter by Asst. Sheriff Barton Jacka noting under staffing delays and capital postponements. The police defense argues the county analysis relied on quarterly data and misses full financial status.
Oscar B Goodman of Temple Beth Sholom designates Friday night as Birth day Sabbath for temple youngsters under 13 celebrating in December. Rabbi Shnairson conducts with Cantor Kohn and Martha Olson at organ. Sisterhood hosts Oneg Shabbat in Entratter Social Hall after services at 8:30 p.m.
Metro police investigate a Tuesday break-in at the home of Charles Fant of Fant's Steak House on Gowan Road near Tonopah Highway. Over 25 items including appliances and jewelry were stolen between 3 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. A rock shattered a kitchen window. a large console TV was left overturned on the patio. Total loss estimated well over $5,000.
Thomas C. O'Such, 37, was sentenced to the maximum 15 years in the Nevada State Prison by Judge Howard Babcock in Clark County District Court for the June 23 1974 Market Basket robbery on N Boulder Highway. Police said the armed trio locked customers in a freezer and threatened the manager. The $6000 theft remains unsolved.
A Texas man Arch McColl of Midland is restrained from selling $10 000 stock certificates in an oil well in Lubbock County. The District Attorney alleges illegal broker-dealer activity and unregistered securities despite a claimed $4 million return. Judge Charles Thompson signed the order as a hearing on a preliminary injunction is set for December 30.
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