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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1970
Page
3
A Nevada official chairs a NARUC committee drafting model legislation to regulate cable television operations. The group aims to finish in Washington on February 24 and discuss whether states should regulate rates or merely survey for discrimination amid industry resistance to public utility status.
Nevada assemblyman Joseph Dini urged a moratorium on licensing new corporations to buy into casinos. He proposed a model where corporations own property and operate hotels, leasing gaming on a percentage basis to licensees, with thorough screening to deter manipulation and protect investors. The move aims to curb corporate gambling criticism and federal intervention risk.
Dr Edward Teller renowned nuclear scientist will address the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce annual installation dinner. The event is set for Friday evening February 13 at the Space Center, Hotel Sahara.
Las Vegas project led by Robert Brooks and Royal Executive Inns of America to build an eight story luxury motor hotel near Convention Center Drive. The plan includes a casino soon after opening, with a July 1 target date and a 240-unit facility offering lounges, 24 hour dining, conference space, color TV, direct-dial phones, and valet service.
Assemblyman Frank Young announced Elmer Casey has been appointed District Manager for the 1970 census in Southern Nevada serving Clark Nye Esmeralda and Lincoln Counties. The role covers recruiting training and directing census personnel with office in the old Post Office Building on Stewart Street. Casey brings a 30year management career including work with Babcock Wilcox on Hoover Dam. The 1971 reapportionment will use the 1970 census with the first redrawn Legislature meeting in 1973.
Nevada Senators Alan Bible and Howard Cannon lauded the Senate 72 to 1 passage of the Crime Control bill. Cannon called the bill a tool to fight organized crime and praised LEA funding as a one two punch for local state and federal action. Bible warned that stronger laws are needed to curb sophisticated crime and noted the bill builds on the 1967 1968 Omnibus anti crime efforts.
Clark County Board of County Commissioners approved bids for equipment enabling chemical analysis by the sheriff departments. The infra red spectrophotometer will cost 4200 dollars and the ultra violet spectrophotometer 3600 dollars.
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