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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1976
Page
2
The piece highlights Danny Loyd of North Las Vegas who twice risked his life to pull a baby from a house fire earning a fire department commendation. It also mentions other potential honorees like Clyde Dawson and Mabel Hoggard and closes with media tastes and Santa at Boulevard Mall.
In Miami Beach the Fontainebleau joins seven area hotels on strike by Local 355 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union. The resort began hiring non union maids waiters and bellmen as guests endure cold weather and ongoing labor action. Union seeks a three year contract with double digit wage hikes and improved benefits while some hotels reach settlements.
The California Supreme Court ruled that couples living together without marriage may enforce express or implied property or earnings sharing agreements after they separate. The decision involved actor Lee Marvin and his former partner Michelle Marvin, who claimed she gave up her singing career to be a homemaker and sought half the assets including over $1 million in film rights. The ruling sends the case back to Los Angeles Superior Court for trial.
Forecast calls for mostly sunny conditions with gentle winds in Las Vegas. Today’s high near 60 and low near 30 with humidity around 33 percent and an air quality index of 58. Sunset at 4 34 and sunrise at 6 51.
The Nation presents a 24 hour period ending at 4 am Pacific time with a table prepared by the National Weather Service in San Francisco detailing temperatures and rainfall across the region.
An official investigation found no charges should be filed over Puerto Rico’s mini Watergate bugging scandal. The study says the state telephone company taped random conversations as part of a quality control program, not political surveillance, though some tapes extended beyond the initial 12 seconds.
A Christmas snowstorm swept the Northeast causing slick roads as travelers returned home. One to three inches fell in most areas, with heavy dumping in parts of Pennsylvania New York Minnesota and Wisconsin. Ski resorts in Wisconsin and upper Michigan benefited from low snow elsewhere, per a Milwaukee Sentinel survey.
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