Commission Approves LV Budget Revisions
City Commission approved $286,698 in revisions to the current fiscal year budget. Changes move funds within six categories without changing total spending. The largest transfer is $199,372 to other expenditures, with increases for parks and recreation $17,022 and general administration $70,304, and reductions in public safety $119,922 health and sanitation $1,218 and streets and public works $165,558.
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W. L. Fletcher
Finance Department
Decatur
Fremont
Washington
Vegas Dr
Commission
Public Hearing Set for Sahara and Fremont Freeway Sites
The state highway department schedules a public hearing at 1 30 p m July 18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center to discuss the Sahara and Fremont freeway proposals. Maps and engineers will explain the plans from July 16 17 and on hearing day.
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State Highway Department
Sahara
Fremont
Las Vegas Convention Center
W. O. Wright
Anthony Dalton Obituary Private Funeral Services Held
Private funeral services for Anthony Dalton age 47 of 2439 Spring Mountain Road were held today at 3 p.m. at Sunset Funeral Chapel with cremation to follow in Phoenix. Dalton died June 18 at his home, born February 24, 1916, and was a sales manager for House of Hollywood Cosmetics. He lived in Las Vegas for one year and is survived by his wife Melba Dalton of North Hollywood, California.
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Anthony Dalton
Spring Mountain Road
Sunset Funeral Chapel
Glenn Tudor
First Christian Church
Phoenix
Dalton
Las Vegas
House of Hollywood Cosmetics
Melba Dalton
North Hollywood
Calif
Flower Drum Song Returns to T Bird
Flower Drum Song returns to the Thunderbird Hotel tonight with Nat Brandwynne as musical director and Glenn Holse handling scenery. Brandwynne, a 35-year veteran, will conduct classic Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers such as You Are Beautiful and I Enjoy Being a Girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Soo
Romi Yamanda
Monte Proser
Thunderbird Hotel
Juanita Hall
Madam Liang
T-Bird
Nat Brandwynne
Brandwynne
Glenn Holse
Proser
Holse
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Grant Avenue
Generator Theft Reported From Union Electric Site
The theft of a $300 portable generator from Union Electric Company was reported to police. The gas operated unit was in use at a construction site at 1400 Carver St. and went missing on Tuesday, a company spokesman said.
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Union Electric Company
Carver St
Kicked Tourist Sues Flamingo Hotel Over Congo Dance Incident
Benjamin Satz a 56 year old Long Beach furniture dealer filed a $253000 injury suit against the Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas claiming a chorus girl kicked him during a Congo dance in 1959 causing phlebitis weight loss and other harm. The case will be heard by a seven woman five man superior court jury with no trial date set. The hotel contends Satz assumed risk by joining the line while Satz says the chorus girl urged him on despite his age.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Long Beach
Calif
Flamingo
Las Vegas
Benjamin Satz
Satz
Nevada Briefs Mercury Plan Threatens Industry
Washington reports the GSA plans to dispose of 50 000 excess Mercury flasks from the AEC, a move senators Bible and Cannon warn could collapse the U S mercury industry. The flasks equal over two years of production and a year of consumption, risking mine closures if released to the market. Nevada, accounting for 24 percent of output, urges perspective on crater exploration and nuclear effects research.
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Washington
UPI
General Services Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Sens
Alan Bible
Howard Cannon
Nevada
Nevada crater depths studied after 1951 nukes at NTS
Senators Alan Bible and Howard Cannon reported that Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, will run a Defense Department sponsored program to determine exact crater depths from two 1951 Nevada Test Site detonations in the Buster Jangle series. The work aims to map subsurface impacts of the tests.
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Washington
UPI
Nevada Test
Sandia Laboratory
Albuquerque
Sens
Alan Bible
Howard Cannon
Defense Department
Nevada Desert
Nevada Firemen Convene in Yerington For 28th Annual Meeting
Registration opened for the 28th annual Nevada State Firemen’s Association convention in Yerington. About 250 delegates and guests are expected for a three day event hosted by the Yerington Fire Department with meetings today and Saturday morning. Anaconda Company operation tour at Weed Heights is on today’s schedule along with fire fighting demonstrations and officer elections. A. E. Millar of Anaconda will be guest speaker as Jim Newell presides over sessions and the banquet.
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Yerington
UPI
Nevada State Firemen's Association
Yerington Fire Department
Anaconda Company
Weed Heights
A. E. Millar
Anaconda
Jim Newell
Firemen's Association
Nevada retraining program for 50 workers approved
The Department of Labor approves a $14 626 program to retrain 50 unemployed workers in Mineral County Nevada as sewing machine operators. Alan Bible and Howard Cannon note the plan and an eastern garment firm shows interest in locating a Hawthorne plant.
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Washington
UPI
Mineral County
Nevada
Department of Labor, Sons
Alan Bible
Howard Cannon
Eastern Garment Manufacturing Company
Hawthorne
New Home For Training Proposed
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital trustees urged an accelerated nursing home program for indigents after reviewing two private proposals. Twi Lite Nursing Home offered $12.50 daily and Desert Retreat proposed $15. Henderson facility Rose de Lima declined. The move aims to free acute beds at the county hospital, which houses about 20 indigent patients. The board will decide at the July 24 meeting.
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Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Barney Cannon
Rose de Lima Hospital
Henderson
Eighth
Ogden
Desert
Tonopah Highway
Desert Retreat
Jack Staggs
Board of Trustees
Cannon
Henderson Hospital
Catholic Hospital
Circular Wing Delayed Again At Hospital
The 100 bed circular wing at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital faced another delay as the board granted N J Helgeson Construction a 60 day extension without penalty. Owner utilities and material shipments cited as causes. occupancy now targeted for Oct 1 with a $100 daily penalty after deadline.
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Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Hospital Board of Trustee
N. J. Helgeson Construction Company
City Awards Four Business Bid Contracts
The City Commission approved four bids this week. Charlie Tarr's Scooter Sales won $1,146 for auto batteries. Ed Ferris Automotive Service received $9,139.10 for tires and tubes. Clark County Wholesale and Mercantile Co. secured $16,879.10 for fertilizer and $1,943 for grass seed for the 1963-64 fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Tarr
Charleston Blvd
Ed Ferris Automotive Service
N. Main
Clark County Wholesale and Mercantile Co
Joint Boards Probe Area Tuberculosis Increases
State health officials and the Clark County Board of Health met to discuss rising tuberculosis cases in Clark County and facility shortages. Attendees included local and state doctors and board members. An interim Clark County Health Dept health officer was announced as Dr Carl Kaufman serves until September 1.
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Clark County
Clark County Board of
Hurley
Romeo
Carl Kaufman
Las Vegas
Man Treated After Auto Crash Hits Light Pole
Bobby Kenneth Britt, 26, a service station attendant of 728 South First Street, was treated and released at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after his car veered on Las Vegas Blvd and struck a light pole in the 700 block.
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Bobby Kenneth Britt
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Britt
South First Street
Las Vegas Blvd
Bidders Get Extension on Old McCarran Lease Fight
County commissioners granted a 30 day extension to Art Olsen and partners to appeal to the FAA in Washington. The FAA Los Angeles office previously refused Olsen’s bid saying the site was not for airport purposes.
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McCarran
McCarran Field
Federal Aviation Agency
Art Olsen
FAA
Washington, D. C
Los Angeles
Olsen
Atty
George Dickerson
George Crockett
Alamo Airways
Crockett
City Accepts Bids on Equipment for Police and Public Works
City Commission opened bids on ten items and referred nine to public works for study. Gaudin Motor Co. won a $2,760 pickup for the police rehabilitation farm. Other bids covered tractors, mattresses, street signs, a tilt-top trailer, thermo bond paving, oils, an electrical boom vehicle, a panel truck, and municipal golf course landscaping.
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City Commission
Public Works Department
Gaudin Motor Co
Gaudin
Rainbolt Enterprises
Gaudin Ford
Purse Snatchers Spooked by Girl
Maudie Tubiolo of 3215 West Charleston Blvd. fought off two young men who grabbed her as she crossed Carson Ave. at Las Vegas Blvd South on her way to the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. She swung her purse in self defense and kept her job, ending the attempted theft.
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Maudie Tubiolo
West
Charleston Blvd
Southern Nevada Telephone Company
Maudie
Carson Ave
Las Vegas Blvd
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