Sky Room casinos rise above ground in Las Vegas
The column notes a shift in Nevada gaming rules as Las Vegas considers moving gambling above ground with 13 floor Sky Room venues while opponents fear easy access for losers. It also highlights hotel eateries, local personalities Pearl Fluger and Fern, plus various odds and ends from Las Vegas life.
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Mapes
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Clark County
Our
City Commission
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Pearl
Fluger
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A. C
Mario & Eldon
Main
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Advances in counterfeiting fight despite tech boosts
Secret Service chief James J. Rowley said counterfeit quality has improved due to photographic reproduction and printing advances, yet government agents seized about 4 million dollars in phony money in the year ending July 1. He noted 44,009 government checks were stolen with over 3,400 forgers arrested.
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Bureau of Engraving
Strachey Former War Minister Dies At 61
John Strachey Labour MP and former war minister under Attlee died yesterday at age 61 in London. A noted defense writer and former minister for food, he hailed from a literary family with ties to the Spectator and Lytton Strachey. He was hospitalized after a slipped disc operation when a heart attack occurred.
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UPI
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Clement Attlee
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Eton
Oxford
The
Spectator
Lytton Strachey
Dundee West
King Edward Hospital
Vinson Sets Longest Service Record in House for Georgia Democrat
Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia extends his tenure in Congress to nearly 59 years, surpassing Sam Rayburn’s mark. The 79 year old Democrat, head of the Armed Services Committee since 1940s, entered in 1914 and will reach age 80 in November during his 25th term. He shaped naval policy and defense aviation, while balancing southern moderates and Kennedy era civil rights debates.
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House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Milledgeville
Armed Services Committee
Calvin Coolidge
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Defense
Robert McNamara
McNamara
Carl
Kennedy
Georgia
Rabies Case Confirmed In San Diego Tijuana Area
San Diego public health officials report a new rabies case in a dog, the 137th in the San Diego Tijuana region since last Sept. 4. The dog was picked up on U S 101 near the 27th Street overpass by officer John Vallance, who contracted saliva and must receive Pasteur anti rabies shots.
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San Diego
UPI
Pittsburgh Press raises Sunday edition price
The Pittsburgh Press announced a price increase for Sunday editions from 10 to 25 cents effective July 21 citing substantial rises in production and distribution costs. The daily edition remains at seven cents. The paper's Sunday circulation exceeds 800,000, with about 450,000 for the evening edition.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Thettsbergh Press
Ihe
Scripps-Howard
Cherokees Receive Supplemental Land Payment
In Muskogee Oklahoma UPI reports that all living Cherokees on the 1907 tribal rolls have received shares of a 12 million dollar supplemental land payment for 1880 land purchases. Payments have gone to 12,392 Cherokees with heirs of about 30,000 deceased members also entitled. Courts ruled the government paid unfairly for the land and ordered the extra payment.
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Muskogee, Okla
UPI
Final Rites for Los Angeles Insurance Executive Stebbins
Services were held yesterday for Arthur W. Stebbins 72 an insurance executive who wrote policies for entertainment figures and projects from Jimmy Durante to Cleopatra He died Friday at his home after a lengthy illness in Los Angeles California UPI reported
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Los Angeles
Calif
UPI
Arthur W. Stebbins
Jimmy Durante
Cab Careens In Traffic Downing Four In San Francisco
A runaway cab in downtown San Francisco injures four pedestrians, shatters a department store window, and crosses Market Street twice before stopping on a sidewalk. The driver, Ralph Charkins of Menlo Park, was described as intoxicated and confused.
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Market
Powell and
Eddy Streets
Ralph Charkins
Menlo Park
Calif
Eddy Street
Market Street
Market and
Market St
Emporium Department
Charkins
Uncles San Looses Ties on Gold City
UPI reports in Laporte California that a gold rush town changed hands Sunday as the U S government formally relinquished title to the long occupied lots. Ownership until now rested mainly on squatters rights and tax receipts with the present owners taking title.
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Laporte
Calif
British General Halted by Reds at West Berlin Border
Brig. R. H. Walker chief engineer of the Rhine Army's First Corps and his wife were held up by East German border guards for almost an hour at Friedrichstrasse while attempting to return to West Berlin after a tour of East Berlin. An unidentified refugee fleeing to the West was shot, and an East German guard crawled through barbed wire entanglements to reach West Berlin in full combat dress.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
R. H. Walker
Friedrichstrasse
East Berlin
Texas Editor Wins Award For Courage
W. Penn Jones editor of the Weekly Midlothian Mirror received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Courage in Journalism award at the International Conference of Newspaper Editors in Pere Marquette State Park Illinois. Howard R. Long praised Jones for civic responsibility and leadership through his columns after protesting a John Birch speech at a Midlothian high school assembly. The award honors Elijah P. Lovejoy who died defending his press before the Civil War.
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UPI
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Midlothian Tex
Mirror
Pere Marquette State Park
Here
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Texan
John Birch Society
Midlothian
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Alton, Tr
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