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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1965
Page
14
Sen Howard Cannon introduced a bill for a $600 additional tax deduction for parents of college students and is weighing a broader package of loans scholarships and job opportunities. He said the move would help many families meet rising higher education costs and assist students beyond high school.
Judge John Mowbray set April 6 for a special election to fill all five Sanitation District 1 board seats after voiding the November 3 election. Five candidates will seek two two-year terms and three four-year terms with candidacy declarations due by January 29 and certification by February 15. The judgment voids the prior board and names incumbents removed.
The Bureau of Reclamation approved a 356500 weather research contract with the University of Nevada Desert Research Institute announced by Senator Alan Bible. The study aims to develop techniques to increase mountain snowpacks in Nevada using funds from a 1 million weather modification appropriation, largely for boosting precipitation in the Colorado River Basin.
Alan Bible announced the Office of Emergency Planning will send experts to assess flood damage in Western Nevada. Washoe Ormsby Douglas and Lyon counties were declared disaster areas by Gov Grant Sawyer. The damaged counties total 4.4 million dollars and federal aid is sought at over 400 thousand dollars.
Under Clark County Fair sponsorship Las Vegas will be the United States entry in the San Remo Festival in Italy January 2023. A city funded float will be shown with Nevada service members stationed in Europe riding it. The design for the float is by R C Ham Associates. Over 50 million viewers on Eurovision will see the parade.
Las Vegas chapter of the City of Hope will install Alfried Coskey as president at a dinner January 17 at the Showboat Hotel. He succeeds Lila Zone, with Harry Levy conducting the installation and Earl Hartke, 1963 City of Hope president, serving as master of ceremonies.
Operators of small businesses in Las Vegas will discuss their problems with W Wayne Walrath of the Small Business Administration Wednesday in the conference room at City Hall Fourth and Stewart Streets. Appointments may be made by calling the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. Interviews will begin at 10 a.m. Questions on small business loans will be answered by Walrath.
Funeral services for Harry Boardman a longtime Ship boxman who died Tuesday at 62 will be held at Palm Mortuary at 3 p m Rabbi Arron Gold of Temple Beth Sholom will officiate Boardman lived at 2405 S 15th St was born in Newark N J Sept 15 1902 and had worked for the Stardust Hotel since 1958 after Desert Inn Palm Mausoleum entombment. He is survived by his widow Betty Las Vegas and two brothers and a sister in Cleveland.
The county purchasing agent and district attorney’s office review late bids for construction of an airlines maintenance building at McCarran Field and a new juvenile center at 34th Street and Bonanza. The late bids opened after 3 p.m. prompt a legal question referred to Deputy District Attorney John Porter. The apparent low bids are from J. A. Tiberti Construction Co. and Robert Gordon Construction Co. Gordon’s bid arrived after the 3 p.m. deadline. The aircraft building bid also faces doubt as the lowest bid reportedly exceeds the $160,000 cap, needing airport counsel approval for a higher amount.
Obituaries list funeral plans for Jesse Norman Cooper 40 of North Las Vegas and Drella Mae Keyes 74 of Jacksonville Illinois with services pending or planned. Marie Dolly Lightford 33 North Las Vegas dies, service today. John Bailey Ammons Sr 58 Henderson to have 1 p m service at Palm Mortuary. Edward R Krepcik 50 Las Vegas to have services later in Gothenburg Nebraska. Burial and cemetery details given for Wapella Illinois and Diamond Iron Jacksonville Illinois. Surviving relatives and employers named. movements from Oklahoma Kentucky California to Nevada noted. Burial at Long Point Cemetery Wapella IL and Diamond Iron Cemetery Jacksonville IL.
A former Las Vegas baker's helper Ross W. LeBaron Jr., 22, was arrested at a Mexican port of entry with $33,000 in money orders three Bank of America instruments each for 11,000, $800 in cash, two federal badges and 12 birth certificates. He faces robbery and firearm charges. Local officials noted the total exceeds two bank robbery sums but will not detain him for further questioning in California. LeBaron said the money came from cousins to buy a ranch and later claimed he planned to buy gold coins.
UPI reports the 1963 call for candy ingredients shows U S manufacturers used 1.3 billion pounds of sugar from 283000 acres of beets and cane 797 million pounds of corn from 465000 acres 330 million pounds of cocoa from 160000 acres 154 million pounds of shelled peanuts from 44000 acres 46 million pounds of fluid milk from 176000 cows 63 million eggs from 285000 hens 40 million pounds of desiccated coconut 29 million pounds of almonds and 17 million pounds of fruit products.
A Henderson woman, Lena Jones, 51, of 284 Major Street, was found dead shortly after 6 a.m. by her child. Police said she hanged herself in a utility room, apparently despondent after her husband’s death some time ago.
A swan in Royal Albert dock was found frozen to a ship deck. Dockers thawed the bird out and it flew away.
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