North Las Vegas 1967 Ends Brighter After Turbulence
A year of legal fights and political strife in North Las Vegas began with disputes over the North Las Vegas Air Terminal and ended with Howard Hughes buying the facility. indictments, court battles, and arrests framed the year, while business gains and community ties grew as annexation plans and airport investments pointed toward future economic improvement.
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North Las Vegas
North Las Vegas Air Terminal
Howard Hughes
Rancho High School
North
Ralph Englestead
Nellis
Justice of the Peace
Herman Fisher
Hughes
City of Las Vegas
United States
Rivers Calls Prisoner Exchange Precondition to Bomb Halt
Rep. L Mendel Rivers urges a prisoner exchange or inspection of U S prisoners held by Hanoi as a minimum pre requisite to any halt of bombing North Vietnam He backs peace talks but seeks immediate concrete gains through IC RC mediated access to prisoners and a prisoner exchange plan strong support from a hawkish House Armed Services Committee chair.
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Washington
UPI
L. Mendel Rivers
U. S
Hanoi
North Vietnam
South Carolina
Democrat
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Johnson
Bizarre crimes top county headlines of 1967
Sensational murders and bizarre killings dominated the year. Notable cases include the Overton bank robbery slaying of three, the Orbit Inn Motel blast, the DeWeert Las Vegas police murder, the disappearance and later discovery of cabdriver Glenn Christiernssen, and the raid on the Sahara Hotel extortion plot. The year also saw the Bank of Nevada robbery slayings, the Wheeler undercover agent killing, the Shumate kidnapping plot link, and the Rose Mapel Arbill arson murder. Several suspects faced trials or extradition.
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Larrie Schmidt
SUN
Overton
Orbit Inn
Las Vegas
Paul DeWeert
Glenn Christiernssen
Marvin Shumate
Curtis Wheeler
Rose Mapel Arbill
FBI
Richard Paris
Hollywood
California
Paris
Christie
Dist
George Franklin
Anager
Verton
Bank of Nevada
Barry Staley
Vera Walkington
Betty Heitzmann
Sheriff's
Perry Lynn Conger, Jr
Warm Springs
Conger
Morrow
Paul “Pappy” DeWeert
The
Las
Dogwood Ave
Kenneth D. Hicks
San Diego
Hicks
McCarran Field
Christiernssen
25Th St
Shumate
Sunrise Mountain
Louis Crockett
Romance Nixed in Suburban County Divorce Leads
Contra Costa County records show 3,035 divorce or annulment filings in 1967, while 2,614 marriage licenses were issued as Wal ter Paasch notes suburban life patterns in Martinez California.
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Martinez
Calif
UPI
Contra Costa
Walter Paasch
San Francisco Bay
Paasch
Georgia nickname history noted by lawmakers
The Georgia legislature has never designated an official nickname for the state, though it has been called the Empire State of the South, the Cracker State, the Goober State, the Peach State, the Buzzard State and Yankeeland of the South.
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Georgia
South
Spider Kill Gives Pupils Friday Off
In Mattoon Illinois 1300 students at Mattoon High School received a day off after exterminators killed several hundred brown recluse spiders found in the school. A biology teacher spotted one in a desk drawer prompting the closure through at least Monday while specialists removed the infestation.
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Spider Kill
Mattoon, Ill
UPI
Mattoon High School
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Robert J. McNutt
Telvik Turegun
Dist. Atty
David Branch
Council
John Mowbray
James Chaney
Cal Lombardi
Chaney
Wendell Waite
John Sexton
Civic Center
Sexton
John P
Dorothy Ames
Ames
Eugene Owens
Taxpayer Group
Owen
Owens
Webster St
Alice ‘Willie’ Moore
Sahara
del Webb
Lonnie J. Nall
Jack Wesley Keeney
Riviera Board
Ross Miller
Fremont
Ed Levinson
Riviera
Ed Torres
Paul Weyerman
Cornelius Hurley
Joseph Rosenberg
Rancho Circle
Slyvester Arbill
Justice Court
Dunes Hotel & Country Club Presents
RCA Victor
Sean Kenny
Earl Green & His Orchestra
Ron Lewis
Billy Petch
Jose Luis Vinas
Jean Leccia
Frederic Apcar
DUNES
Vive Les
Sultan's Table
Emerald Green
Fipic
Las Vegas Sun
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