Congressional Travel Season Underway Worldwide Trips
Congress launches its semi annual travel season with members and staff heading abroad at government expense to destinations from Peking to the South Pacific. McGovern goes to Hanoi and Javits to South America, while eleven House women travel to China.
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Washington
UPS
Congress
Uncle Sam
Congressional
Peking
Forbidden City
Palm
South Pacific
George S. McGovern
Hanoi
House
China
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
South America
South Seas
Panama
Venezuela
Javits
Capitol Hill
Local Crime Round Up Across Las Vegas This Weekend
Police report a weekend surge in thefts burglaries and armed robberies across Las Vegas. Hotel room burglars targeted major spas on the Strip and downtown, with passkeys used to loot empty rooms. Gas stations and stores saw multiple armed holdups while residential burglaries spiked as homeowners reported stolen gifts and appliances.
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Las Vegas
John B Schroer Services Held For 69 Year Old Man
Rosary will be at 8 p.m. Monday and funeral at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis de Sales for John B. Schroer of 2900 Valley View South who died December 27 after a long illness. He was a production engineer who helped establish Dupont Remington Arms plant in Missouri during World War III and worked with the War Manpower Commission, General Motors, and Pratt Whitney to speed war material production. He later worked with AEC programs in Los Alamos and at the Nevada Test Site before self employment in Las Vegas. Survived by widow Trudi and daughters Sue Melancon and Joan Williams, plus siblings and three grandchildren. Memorials to the American Cancer Society. Local office: 4220 S Maryland Parkway.
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Palm Mortuary
John B. Schroer
Valley View South
St. Francis de Sales Church
Palm
Schroer
Dupont
Remington Arms
Missouri
War Manpower Commission
General Motors
Pratt Whitney
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Los Alamos
N.M
Mary I Garside 88 Dies Las Vegas Newspaper Heiress
Private funeral set for Mary I. Garside of Las Vegas 88 died December 27. She helped run 13 Nevada newspapers with husband Frank F. Garside including Tonopah Times Bonanza and Las Vegas Review Journal. Survived by sisters Beth Lewman Faith Maris daughter and son Sherwin Garside five grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Interment in Palm Mausoleum family crypt. Donations to Garside Memorial Library UNLV Dickinson Library.
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Mary I. Garside
Las Vegas
Garside
Russiaville
Ind
Omer
Cora Sherwin Maris
Maris
Nevada
Manhattan
Mary
Frank F. Garside
Manhattan Mail
Garsides
Tonopah
Beth Lewman
Paradise
Calif
Raymond R. Germain
Sherwin Garside
Palm Mausoleum
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dickinson
Laser death ray race between U S and Soviet laser arms race
Jane's Weapons Systems 1976 reports the United States and the Soviet Union are locked in a costly super scientific struggle to develop a practical laser weapon. Dr Malcolm Currie notes Soviet investment yet US fabrication techniques may keep an edge. Space deployment and anti ballistic roles are discussed alongside limits of atmospheric transmission.
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London
UPS
United States
Soviet Union
Jane’s
Ronald Pretty
Pretty
U.S. Department of Defense
Observer
NATO
Malcolm Currie
U.S. Defense Research and Engineering
Currie
Jones
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Leo J. Ryan
D-Calif
Congressional Branch
Executive Branch
Ryan
House International Relations Committee
Middle East
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Europe
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Brazil
Peru
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Armed Services
Foreign Relations
State Department
Metro Police
U-Save
Fremont
20Th Streets
Mobil
Flamingo
Sand Hill Road
Bon Vivant
Hilton Hotel
Paradise Road
Highland
Bonanza
John B. Schroer Services
Nevada Test Site
Kansas City, Mo
Mr. Schroer
Trudi
Sue Melancon
Joan Williams
Blue Springs
Esther Schroer
Antoinette Ryan
Kansas City
Karl
Frank
John Schroer
American Cancer Society
Society
S. Maryland Parkway
U.S
Soviets
Ray
Greenspun
Las Vegas Sun, Inc
S. Highland Ave
Douglas Ritchie
Ward Griffith Co
Chicago
Detroit
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
United Press International
Continental United States
Defense
Jane's
Vontinental
Ards Hotel and
Holiday Casino
B.I.G
the Sands and
Flamingo Hotels
Hyman Pensler
Palm Chapel
Palm Valley View Memorial Park
Margaret Carrig
Carl H. Smith
Michael Laux
Henry Ratcliff
Palm Memorial Park
Arthur Woods
Judy Craney
Henderson
AL Rupp
Samuel Needy
Maria L. Bies
Anita M. Hill
William Worthington
Anna Eckstrom
Simon Meyer
Mary Garside
Frank Herrera
North Main Street
South
Boulder Hwy
South Eastern Ave
Paradise Valley
San Francisco Bay
Corbina
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