Ghetto split over Las Vegas Westside in 1950s crash
Editor notes chronicling how West Las Vegas became a segregated ghetto. Officials admitted slum costs in the late 1950s while fixes were patchwork measures. discrimination and racist attitudes kept poverty and blight in place despite police, tax, and housing efforts.
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Las Vegas Valley
Bob Palm Sun
Winter City
Las Vegas
Westside
UNLV
American Red Cross
Las Vegas Sun Staff and Contact Details
The Las Vegas Sun lists editors and staff including H M Greenspun as editor and publisher and AL KOLBER as managing editor with names for city editor night editor and other department heads. It also notes address 121 S Highland Ave Las Vegas Nevada and affiliations with press associations and circulation details.
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Las Vegas
SUN
H.M. Greenspun
Las Vegas Sun, Inc
Highland Ave
Nevada
Greenspun
David Greenspun
Ruthe Deskin
Barbara Greenspun
Vieher
Burt Buy
AL Kolber
Bob Banks
Chris Chrystal
Dave Hopkins
Bill Guthrie
Dell Wade
Versiellen
Les Ritchie
AL Smith
Douglas Ritchie
Ward Griffith Co
Chicago
Detroit
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
United Press International
Nevada State Press Association
American Newspaper Publishers Association
California Newspaper Publishers Association
The
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Las Vegas Slips East On Fickle Urban Tide
Las Vegas planning officials will explain a shift in growth from West and Northwest to East Las Vegas at the city commission meeting. Don Saylor notes a rise in residential development, mainly single family homes, and discusses the 1959 master general plan and 1970s revisions. The commission may back a Maryland Parkway 13th Street freeway interchange, with state and federal approvals required. Also on the agenda: lease talks for the speedrome, a moratorium study on downtown businesses, and a committee review.
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Tricia White
Saylor
Maryland Parkway
13Th Street
Las Vegas
Three Die In Light Plane Crash From Las Vegas
A rented light plane crashed in stormy mountains north of Desert Hot Springs while flying from Las Vegas to Bermuda Dunes. Victims were pilot Michael Candoto and two men connected to Rialto and Banning, all died on impact from massive head injuries.
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Riverside
Taggart Spinks
Rialto
Raiser Steel Co
Truigi Rig Chac Het Eier
Bermuda Dunes
Las Vegas
Desert Hot Springs
Civil Air Patrol
Palm Springs
Pat Choate
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D Street
Bonanza Road
E Street
Savings and Loans Association
Ments
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United States
Aladin
Barneys Wy
Tae
Sisser
Dorrie
Sahara Avenue
Calvary Bible College
B.I.G
Holiday Casino
Commission
Nevada Highway Department
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Las Vegas Boulevard
Eastern Avenue
City Hall
Las Vegas Sports Enterprises
Salt Lake Highway
Nellis Boulevard
Imperium
Caesars Palace
Jackie Gleason
ANP
Joseph Brooks
Paim Chapel
St Francis de Sales
Paim Valley View Memoral Park
Erma McGinnis
Michele Silvagni
Palm Caape
St Annes
Palm Valley Yew Memorial Park
Ellen Eccles Dorris
Cecil Magnin
Larry Scatena
Harold Botterud Clyde Hubert
Palm Mortuary
N. Main
Henderson
S. Boulder
East
Sahara
Kennedy Legal Clinic
Family Lawyers of
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College Park
East Karen
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