Wirtz proposes $2 minimum wage for most workers
Labor Secretary Wirtz urged a $2 an hour minimum wage and universal coverage beyond local government payrolls. He said the move would cut poverty and include overtime pay time and a half. White House opposition appeared likely as Shultz neared confirmation.
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Garrison Conspiracy Case Doomed
Justice Department seeks to compel Dr Rhoads to attend Clay Shaw conspiracy trial in DC. Medical panel reports Kennedy autopsy lacked full body X rays. 16 page report lists four doctors from Utah Maryland Johns Hopkins and Case Western Reserve.
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Russians Link Spacecraft In Live Orbital Docking
Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov and Boris Volynov in Soyuz 4 and 5 connected their craft in orbit to form a single crew module for the first time. Live TV interrupted normal programming as the historic docking was broadcast, with Shatalov inviting colleagues to visit.
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Peace Talks Reach Round Table Accord in Hanoi Proposal
After secret talks, Hanoi yields on a solid round table with no center division. Two small opposing desks for secretaries and translators will sit 18 inches from the main table. North Vietnam agrees no name plates or flags on the conference surface. The United States concedes to the new arrangement.
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Yanks Smash Red Ambush Near Pleiku
U S infantrymen repelled a Communist ambush near Pleiku on the Central Highlands. Two U S soldiers were killed and 22 wounded as air and artillery strikes pounded enemy positions overnight and into Thursday. Only six Communist bodies were counted, with a sweep expected to find more.
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Mayor Misplaces Car After License Plate Swap
Mayor Oran K. Grayson left the Riviera Hotel and rode a taxi when his nearly new Cadillac with license CA 123 could not be found. A city hall staffer had switched to 1969 plates without telling him, leaving the mayor to identify his car by sight.
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United Jet Near Miss Over Bay Area Flights
Officials at Lindbergh Field said they had no information on a near miss involving a United jet and three other aircraft possibly from a military base. The incident followed a separate Cessna 182 brushing a PSA 727 near San Francisco Bay with 22 aboard. both planes landed safely with no injuries.
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Nevada DAs seek 35 point plan to speed convictions
Carson City reports the Nevada District Attorneys Association proposed a 35 point program to ease convictions and tighten penalties. Key items include a 10-2 verdict option, harsher firearm during crime penalties, automatic fingerprinting of felons, and probation limits. Juveniles would face adult standards for traffic offenses.
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Solons See Time Gap in Nevada Nuclear Rocket Budget
Senators Allen and Bible oppose rush on Project Rover timetable while backing the $86.5 million fiscal 1970 authorization for nuclear rocket development. They seek a flyable engine before 1977 and warn Nevada will see only part of the funds as testing shifts to other sites, with a press briefing to detail the Aerojet-General and SNEPO allocations.
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Conventions Booked Three Years In Row At LVCC
The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology will meet in Las Vegas for 1970 1971 and 1972 marking a first in Convention Bureau history. The group plans 8 000-person sessions using the rotunda 90 000 square foot hall and 23 center rooms with hotels providing an additional 22 meeting rooms and dining facilities.
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Schultz Advocates Personal Control in Job Training Credits
In a Labor Department journal piece written before his Nixon nomination, Schultzsuggests tax credits enabling up to 5000 dollars for training counseling and wage subsidies. He argues for consumer-directed funding similar to the GI Bill and favors targeted city neighborhood partnerships over centralized schooling.
Injunction Blocked Adult Haircuts at Shoe n Shear Barber
Judge Howard Babcock granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Shoe n Shear barber shop in Las Vegas from cutting adult hair at the Boulev ard Shopping Center. The ruling stems from a lease dispute with Kut and Style owner Maynard Price and landlord Haas and Haynie. Damages and bond issues were reserved for later trial, with age eligibility still unsettled.
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Shoe ’N’ Shear
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Boulevard Shopping Center
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Kut and Style
Checker Cab Pushes Justice Dept Probe Into Union Tactics
Checker Cab Co., led by Eugene Madlay, seeks a Justice Department investigation of Teamsters Union activities and Strip businesses amid a cab market fight in Las Vegas. He says proposed Teamsters Local 881 terms would create a union shop in violation of Nevada right to work laws and Civil Rights amendments.
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Caesars Palace Hotel
Socialite Gwen Cafritz's home robbed at gunpoint
Four masked gunmen invaded the Washington residence of socialite Gwen Cafritz forcing her and five staff to bound and looting cash and jewelry worth between 75 000 and 250 000. The four hour attack followed a prior 1960s robbery at the same tri level house. Police await itemization and consider no known connection to the earlier unsolved case.
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UPI
Gwen Cafritz
White Stone
Court Battle Looms Over Voting Age in Nevada Case
A 19 year old Las Vegas woman seeks to lower Nevada's voting age to 18 in a federal suit against the State of Nevada Secretary of State and county election officials. The motion to dismiss argues lack of federal jurisdiction over state voter qualifications. If denied, trial date will be set.
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Roger D. Foley
Janie Greenspun
Las Vegas Sun
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Attorneys Delay Miner Arraignment
Dennis Lee Miner 21 appeared in justice court for a preliminary hearing but proceedings stalled as defense and state fought over admissibility of tissue evidence from Paula Nikki Nichols 18. The judge upheld objections about chain of custody and reset the hearing for January 27.
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Justice Court
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Nikki) Nichols
Justice of the Peace
Joe Pawlikowski
Local PR Firm Owner Arraigned on Narcotics Charges
Robert P. Johnson Jr., 40, owner of the Johnson Agency Ltd., was arraigned in Justice Court yesterday on two counts of possession of narcotics. Las Vegas police said they found heroin, syringes, and marijuana at his office after a multi day stakeout. A June 3 preliminary hearing was set. Johnson is free on bail with attorney Jerry Kaufman.
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Robert P. Johnson, Jr
Johnson Agency Ltd
Las Vegas
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