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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1969
Page
3
Five finalists presented for the proposed $8 million Las Vegas City Hall Public Safety Complex at Squires Park. DMJM pitched computer aided design and a multi‑consultant team while Belcher urged a functional plan and nationwide site tours.
The Northern Nevada Central Trades and Labor Council endorses abolishing the red line that limits gambling to central downtown, arguing removal will create jobs boost city revenue and spur redevelopment. The group plans no action until after the renovation report next month.
The Las Vegas Sun publishes daily and Sunday editions from 121 S Highland Ave Las Vegas Nevada with staff including H M Greenspun as president and Barbara Greenspun as treasurer. Subscription rates are listed as 3.50 per month 10 cents per daily copy 25 cents for Sunday and annual options from 42.00 to 210.00 with advance payment required.
Funeral services for Ken Overlin former World Middleweight Boxing Champion will be held at 11 a.m. in the Ross Burke and Knobel Mortuary Chapel. A private burial will follow at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery. Overlin was found dead July 24 at age 59 from natural causes after winning the title in 1940 and losing it in 1941 to Billy Soose.
Obituaries note services for Jesse Crow Dennis 63 of Las Vegas with burial in Palm Mausoleum and noting a Texas birth in 1906 and 19 years residency here. Survived by India Dennis and several siblings. Also listed are Mrs. Parks and Roland Newcomb Rice with details of birth dates, residences, and survivors. multiple officiants and funeral homes named.
A memorial service will be held at 10 30 a m tomorrow in Memory Gardens for Ruth Virginia Jean Tisdale 48 of 7514 South Rogers Street who died Saturday in a local hospital Rev Don Shumake will officiate She was born May 3 1921 in San Francisco California and lived here 19 years Surviving are her daughter Virginia of California and five grandchildren
Barbara Ann Parks aged 29 of 1216 Wyatt Street died Saturday in a local hospital. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Church of God in Christ.
Washoe County Sheriff's Office said a sonic boom likely caused windows to shatter at a warehouse near Reno late Monday night at a shopping center near the northern city limits. Deputies found no ground explosion traces.
Blake B. Speers, 20, ordered held to answer murder charges Monday in a Reno Justice Court. He was arrested July 15 after his father Blake R. Speers, 51, and mother Andrea Speers, 46, were found slain at their Reno home. The DA charged only the father’s death to allow recharging after possible legal technicalities. Police said the victims were stabbed repeatedly with no weapon recovered. Mrs. Speers’s call for help at 11:45 p.m. July 14 triggered the investigation, the call later cut off.
The Nevada Highway Department awarded the contract for five I-80 overpasses in Reno to W. F. Maxwell Construction Co. of Fontana California. The firm submitted the low bid of 767 093 dollars, below the state's estimate of 892 531 dollars.
Two Southern California men Lawrence Rogovin and John McKenna were freed after a preliminary hearing when a state chemist had supposedly been notified to destroy marijuana evidence. The notice was a mistaken alert for another case. The district attorney's office planned to proceed with three to four days of further hearings.
A 19 year old Las Vegas youth, Louis Kimble of 1633 K Street, pleads innocent in district court to murder of 25 year old John McCraney at a service station on 750 West Owens. Trial date set for Sept. 15 before District Judge Clarence Sundean. Public Defender Earl White represents Kimble.
Clark County Health Department receives 25441 public health grant under the Migrant Health Act to boost health services for about 400 migratory farm workers and their families in the Moapa Valley area.
London reports the British Commonwealth now includes 28 independent countries with a combined population around 800 million and a land area exceeding 10.5 million square miles.
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