New Taxicab Law Committee Forms Under Gov Laxalt
Gov Laxalt and PSC Chairman Reese Taylor chair a blue ribbon taxicab panel to draft a state law regulating cabs. The 10 member body aims to organize sub committees, decide regulatory approach, and determine funding and driver allocation rules for statewide or regional oversight.
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Paul Laxalt
Public Service Commission
Reese Taylor
PSC
Taylor
Carson City
Las Vegas
Commission
Gene Milligan
Burglar Strips Strip Hotel While Couple Slept
A quiet burglar took $2,000 in jewelry from a Strip hotel room after a Sunday morning entry. The Los Angeles couple, Mr and Mrs Frank Lecker, reported the loss. deputies found no sign of forced entry and listed four pieces stolen.
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Los Angeles
Frank Lecker
Clark County Sheriff's Deputies
Las Vegas Sun Masthead and Rates Display
The Las Vegas Sun masthead lists staff roles including Green Spun and Germain with editors and managers. Subscriptions are sold for daily 10 cents and Sunday 20 cents with carrier and mail options priced from 3 to 30 dollars per year.
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Las Vegas Sun, Inc
Commerce St
Las Vegas
Nevada
Greenspun
Ray Germain
Ruthe Deskin
Barbara Greenspun
Treasur
Fisher
BR Rong
Vice A Elmo
Istant
JIWS
Tom Dis
Gerry Appleby
Douglas Ritchie
John Cavanes
T Office
Ing
Chicago
Detroit
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
United Press International
Nevada State Press Association
American News Oper Publishers Association
California Mewspaper Publishers Association
The
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Retiring CD Official Feted At Dinners
Capt Vernon Munsell North Las Vegas deputy civil defense director retired last month was guest of honor at two testimonial dinners. He was honored at the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Silver Nugget and Friday at a College Park Bowl dinner. Gifts included a lemon tree from the Chamber for his Sunrise Mountain estate. Speakers praised his civic work with Boys Club Boy Scouts and the Las Vegas Jeep Club. Mayor Pro-tem Jack Petitti commended him for a job well done.
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Vernon Munsell
North Las Vegas
Civil Defense
Munsell
Marine Corps
North
College Park Bowl
Capt. Munsell
Chamber of Commerce
Sunrise Mountain
Boys Club
Boy Scouts of America
Las Vegas
Jeep Club
Jack Petitti
Reno Opens First Casino Since 1966
The Silver Spur, Reno's first major casino since 1966, opens downtown with a tape cutting ceremony using Audie Murphy’s silver spur. Executives Cavendish Stepro Hamilton Parker Keeling unveil a $25,000 limit kenp game, 21 tables, roulette, craps, 150 slots including Big Bertha, and Western decor.
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Reno
Audie Murphy
Billy the Kid
Fred Cavendish
Cavendish
Silver Spur
Charles Stepro
Bill Hamilton
Reggie Parker
Keno
Clyde Keeling
Stepro
Hamilton
Parker
Funeral Services Tuesday For J Harold Brinley
Funeral services for J Harold Brinley killed in a light plane crash near Las Vegas will be held Tuesday July 2 at 10 a.m. in the Las Vegas Fifth and Sixth Ward Chapel. Brinley was a longtime Las Vegas educator church leader and community volunteer born February 11 1899 in Greenwich Utah. He taught in Lincoln County before moving to Las Vegas in 1927 and serving as teacher principal and administrator in the Las Vegas and Clark County school districts. He retired in 1966 after 40 years in Nevada schools and held several church offices including Patriarch for Moapa Las Vegas and Las Vegas East Stakes. The J Brinley Junior High will open this September and contributions may be made to the LDS genealogy library fund. Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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J. Harold Brinley
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Fifth and Sixth Ward
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Brinley
LDS Church
Greenwich
Utah
University of Utah
Nevada
Lincoln County
Vera Lee
Clark County
Moapa
YMCA
NSEA
J. Brinley
LDS Genealogy Library Book Fund
Woodlawn
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George Arnold
Milton Prell
Aladdin Hotel
America
Maryvonne Huet
Phil Richards
Doug Bremser
Judy Ross
Ginny Jones
Eleanor Sheridan
Helen Herr
Chic
Hecht
Keith Ashworth
Zel Lowman
George Franklin
Oran Grayson
Pat Carver
Yellow Cab Co
William Morris
Union Cab Co
Richard Thomas
Teamsters Union
William Campbell
Nevada Resort Hotel Association
LasVegas@SUN
H. M. Greenspun
Continental
United States
Ruby
L. V. Blvd
Betty - Slayton Palm Chapel
Palm Mausoleum
Amanda Lewis
Alamo L.D.S
Proche
Alldridge First Baptist Church of
Boulder City
Boulder City Cemetery
AL E. Cahlan Church of Religious Science
A. M
Barcley Johnson
Dexter McCabe
Henderson Masonic Lodge
Mary Keenan
Henderson Palm Chapel
St. Peters
A.m
Franklin Dewey, JR
Harold Brinley
Albert E. Ashman
Rayco
Rayco Tires
Roducts
E. CO
DEA
Johnson Brothers
Rayco Conoco Auto Service Center
Sahara & Maryland Parkway
Rayco Autoservice
Ae Mence
Renta Center
Highland Dr
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