COPE Initiates Voter Registration Drive at Mercury Site
The AFL-CIO COPE announces a registration drive targeting all union members at the Mercury Atomic Energy Commission Test Site. Marian Giancontieri of Southern Nevada says COPE HQ at 1526 N. Main in the Operating Engineers Hall will operate weekdays 9 to 2 and Saturdays 10 to 5 to assist in registration.
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Marian Giancontieri
Ted Lawson
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Afl-Cio
Mercury Test Site
Afl-Cio Committee On Political Education
Mercury Atomic Energy Commission Test Site
Nevada
N. Main
Bat Mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom Honors Bernkrant Family
Rabbi Aaron Gold and Cantor Joseph Kohn led Shabbat services for Ariana Bernkrant, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Bernkrant, at Temple Beth Sholom. Following, the family hosted an Oneg Shabbat in the temple social hall.
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Aaron, Gold
Joseph Kohn
Ariana Bernkrant
Louis Bernkrant
Ashby
Temple Beth Sholom
Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr to Accept Nevada Honor
Sammy Davis Jr will fly Sunday from Mississippi to Reno to accept the governors trophy for entertainment contributions to Nevada. The Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce will present the award at its 64th annual dinner at Harrah's theater restaurant just before the Eddie Fisher show. Davis plans to join the Meredith march in Mississippi with Marlon Brando and Burt Lancaster.
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Sammy Davis Jr
Mississippi
Reno
Nevada
Greater Reno
Woodbury Elected President As Clark District Trustees Reorganize
Las Vegas leader Clare Woodbury was elected president of the Clark County School District board succeeding Chester T. Sewell of Henderson who attended as Valley View Elementary was renamed in his honor. The board approved a near 39 million dollar budget for 1966 67 and named Helen Cannon as vice president with Eloise Blue as clerk at eighty dollars monthly. Sewell resigned June 9 after 14 years.
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R. Clare Woodbury
Las Vegas
Clark County
Chester T. Sewell
Henderson
Valley View
Woodbury
Helen Cannon
Eloise Blue
Sewell
Dell H. McCall
Chester T. Sewes
McCall
Funeral rites held for Walter Mesplay
Funeral services for Walter Mesplay age 61 of 2125 Franklin Ave are Tuesday at 1 a.m. in Bunker Brothers Chapel. Burial follows at Paradise Memorial Gardens. Mesplay a retired House of Spirits clerk and Las Vegas Lodge 1468 BPOE member died Friday after 14 years in Las Vegas. Survived by widow Ida and siblings Gus in Sun City Florida John Picker ing in Wichita Maud Wisdom in Rialto and Louise Brashear in Arlington.
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Walter Mesplay
Franklin Ave
Bunker Brothers
Fla
John Pickering
F.N. Robison
Wichita
Kan
Louise Brashear
Arlington
Maud Wisdom
Rialto
Calif
Poor Dentists chair blamed for ailments at meet
In Scarborough England UPI reports dental surgeon Paul Bramley told a dental association meeting that the conventional dentist chair leads to flat feet varicose veins and drooped shoulders among practitioners.
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Scarborough
England
UPI
Paul Bramley
Dental Association
Nevadan Dies in War as Viet Nam Death Toll Reaches Ten
The Pentagon announced Captain Connie M. Gravitte of Reno was killed in action, among 14 servicemen who died in Vietnam. Gravitte, a 1610 Radcliff Drive resident, is survived by wife Barbara. Nevada’s ten deaths split evenly between north and Las Vegas residents, with the last Las Vegas fatality on June 7.
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Viet Nam
Nevada
Pentagon
Connie M. Gravitte
Gravitte
Radcliff Drive
Reno
Barbara
Vegas
Robert Garey
Booklet Aims to Lure Medical Staff to Las Vegas
Sunrise Hospital and Annenberg Advertising Co announce a four page two color booklet titled Where Life Is Worth Living. The piece highlights Las Vegas features including entertainment, churches and synagogues, schools, and recreation to persuade out of state hospital personnel to relocate. Sunrise Hospital expanded to 325 beds with a new five story wing completed earlier this month.
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Las Vegas
Sunrise Hospital
Out of State Hospital
Annenberg Advertising Co
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Copers
Gerald Schroder
Valley High School
Marshall C. Darnell
Frank Garside
Jack W. Day
Southern Nevada Vocational - Technical Center
Ronald G. McIntire
McIntire
Edward A. Greer
Vernon H. Burk
Robert K. Gladstone
Rose Warren
Lamar McDaniel
NAACP
McDaniel
West Side
Glen C. Taylor
Henderson Township
Tiberti Construction Company
Western High School
Sheila McCrae
Val Stuarts
Della Reese
Driftwood
Mow
Dack Entratier
Don Ferris
Mr. Skelton
Amfonio Morelli
Hes
Linda Bennett
Steve Lawrence
Sahara Hotel
Oyster House
the Mint
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
Sammy Shore
Home OF the Stars
Elim
Galary
Maynard
Kirby Stone
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