Tropicana license goes to permanent status for Briggs
Nevada Gaming Control Board recommended a permanent license for Mitai Briggs, heiress from San Francisco, who invested over 6 million in the Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip after operating on a probationary permit. The board also required Joe Agosto to pursue licensing, withdrew Doumani brothers’ shareholder applications, and noted Anthony Torcasio’s option to acquire five percent of Briggs’s stock. Final action set for June 18.
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Carson City
UPI
Mitai Briggs
San Francisco
Tropicana Hotel
Las Vegas “Strip
Nevada Gaming Control Board
Briggs
Overlook
Agosto
Edward M
Fred M. Dournant
Doumani Brothers
Edward Doumani
State Gaming Commission
Anthony Torcasio
Gaming Commission
Pulmonary Dept Chief to Speak at Breathing Partners Meeting
Dean Schmaltz head of Sunrise Medical Center Pulmonary Department will speak at 7 p.m. on June 16 at Breathing Partners monthly meeting sponsored by the Nevada Lung Association. The event at Christ Church Episcopal Maryland Parkway and St Louis Avenue is open to the public. Western Film Collectors to show three early westerns June 11 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Frontier Savings Community Room 2135 S Decatur Blvd. Summer hours for Lorenzi Park Specialized Recreation Center start Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A Lake Mead yacht cruise on the same day launches the centers summer session at 3333 W Washington Ave.
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Dean Schmaltz
Sunrise Medical Center
Breathing Partners
The
Nevada Lung Association
Christ Church Episcopal, Maryland Parkway
St. Louis Avenue
Frontier Savings Community Room
S. Decatur Blvd
Lorenzi Park
Lake Mead
Washington Ave
Wildlife biologist Hruska appointed in Las Vegas bureau
Hruska joins the Las Vegas office of the Bureau of Land Management as wildlife biologist after earning a 1971 wildlife management degree from the University of Idaho. He previously served in Wyoming before his transfer to Nevada. Women's Film Night at Clark County Library features an evening of films at 7 p.m. Wednesday, co presented by the library and the Nevada Women's Conference, tracing portrayals of women and their reactions to the world.
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Car
Hruska
Las Vegas
Bureau of Land Management
University of Idaho
BLM
Wyoming
Clark County
E. Flamingo Road
Nevada Women’s Conference
Shenker Wins Approval to Buy Half of Rendezvous Hotel
Nevada Gaming Control Board approves Arthur Shenker Jr to purchase half interest in the Rendezvous Hotel and Casino Las Vegas from Phillip Stearns. Shenker pledges independent control and reveals he will borrow funds from his father Morris Shenker. Conditions require sale of Air Investors Group and Carriage House interests and scrutiny of associates. Northw est Passage note: SS Manhattan first commercial ship to navigate the route Sept 14 1969.
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Carson City
UPI
Nevada Gaming Control Board
Arthur Shenker, Jr
Morris Shenker
Rendezvous
Las Vegas
Shenker
Phillip Stearns
Dunes
Gaming Board
Air Investors Group
Carriage House Company
Ed LaForte
William Capri
Carriage House Co
Capri
Nevada
LaForte
Northwest Passage
Manhattan
Canada
Boy Merle Chance Identified After Forest Find
Los Angeles authorities confirm the decomposed body found in Angeles National Forest is eight year old Merle Hondo Chance who vanished from his west side home on April 6. Police and volunteers conducted extensive searches with no trace until the May 26 discovery three miles north of Monte Cristo ranger station. The cause of death remains unknown and no suspects are named.
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Los Angeles
Angeles National Forest
Merle ‘‘Hondo
Chance
West Side
Monte Cristo
Octuplets born in Athens raise hopes and losses
In Athens Greece a 31 year old mother Mrs Katerina Zerbini delivered octuplets after fertility drug treatment. Two girls and two boys died soon after birth while the remaining four babies survived in incubators at Hygeia Hospital weighing about one pound five ounces to one pound twelve ounces each. All four of the mother’s 1975 quadruplets died shortly after birth.
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Athens
Greece
UPI
Hygeia Hospital
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Trop
Philip Hannifin
Tropicana
Shannon Bybee
Las Vegas News ‘Roundup
Roy Rogers
Buster Crabbe
Tim Holt
Wildlife Post
Craig Rd
Soday
5Th St
EL Cortez
HOTEL
Fremont
Dad
Sahara Avenue
Las Vegas Blvd
Decatur Blvd
Vegas
Union Plaza
Thored
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