Resignations Leave Las Vegas Fire Department Undermanned
Four Las Vegas firefighters resigned in the past four weeks and 24 have left since Jan 1 1961. City Manager V Lowell Fletcher cites a department shortage and plans to recruit from Utah and Arizona while discussing a potential 40 hour week amid resignations. The Firefighter's Union claims city hall is not in step with needs.
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Las Vegas
Mercury
Fire Department
Lowell Fletcher
Firefighter's Association
Fletcher
Utah
Arizona
Fireman Appeals Salary Rule Case In Las Vegas
Las Vegas fireman Toby Lamaraglia files a complaint through attorney Lester Berksen with the civil service board contending he has the right to appeal his status. Board chair Don Ashworth says the panel will consider the brief at its March 27 meeting to decide grounds for an appeal. City Attorney Sidney Whitmore calls it an administrative issue not appealable. Lamaraglia was promoted to engineer two days before the August 18 1960 civil service rules took effect. new rules require a one year probation for such promotions, replacing prior rules.
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Las Vegas
Civil Service Board
Toby Lamaraglia
Lester Berksen
Don Ashworth
Lamaraglia
Sidney Whitmore
Gullo Pleads Innocent To Prowl Charge
Maurice J. Gullo 31 appeared before Judge Walter J. Richards on a prowling vagrancy charge and was released on 1500 bail pending a narcotics case trial. He and two others Larry Howard Wilson 26 and Tony Gene Lillo 29 were arrested near Paradise Road and San Francisco Avenue. Trial set for May 8. Christine E. Kloepfel and Pauline Van Dam were also involved in the armed robbery case.
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Walter J. Richards
Maurice J. Gullo
Gullo
Lar
Howard Wilson
Tony Gene Lillo
Paradise Rd
San Francisco Ave
Christine E. Kloepfel
Pauline van Dam
Three More Miles Open on Barstow Freeway
A three mile Barstow Freeway segment opened linking Buena Park to Calico Road near Yermo on US Highway 91 about 125 miles total. California Division of Highways official V Kane announced the multi lane project cost 1.3 million dollars with Gibbons and Reed of Salt Lake City as contractors. Wait Whitnack served as Resident Engineer for the job.
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Barstow
Co. V. Kane
California Division of Highways
San Bernardino
Santa Ana
Buena Park
Calico Road
Daggett-Yermo Road
USMC
Yermo
Gibbons and Reed Company
Salt Lake City
Utah
Wait Whitnack
Division of Highways
April A Tests Planned for Anywhere
Washington reports planned U S atomic tests for April will occur in space above the atmosphere as well as in air and underwater. Defense officials say no super bombs and most detonations would be lower range with possible hydrogen device use. Tests target weapons effects at Johnston Island Christmas Island and the Nevada proving ground.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Defense Department
Earth
Pentagon
Pacific
Johnston
Christmas Islands
Nevada Proving Ground
Beating Victim At Hacienda Hotel Left In Coma
Deputies monitor Donna Mae Kiefel 31 as sheriff detectives press for leads in the Hacienda Hotel assault. The Chicago mother was found nude beside her bed by her husband and a chambermaid at about 7 am Thursday. She remains in a coma after possible champagne bottle beating and purse rifling.
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Sheriff's
Chicago
Hacienda Hotel
Donna Mae Kiefel
Bill O'Reilly
Carl
Prostitution Charges Dropped for Local Woman
The district attorney reported no charges filed against 22-year-old Alice Hellen Mataitis after an early Monday arrest for prostitution. She was released due to insufficient evidence and no charges were pursued.
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Alice Hellen Mataitis
Fairfield
Dep. Dist
Bill Barker
Sands Hotel Named National Headquarters for Legion Convention
The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas is chosen as the National Headquarters Hotel for the upcoming American Legion convention in October. National Commander Charlies L Bacon announced from Washington that the facility offers excellent accommodations and facilities. Bacon, visiting Las Vegas for inspections earlier, praised the city’s hotel and convention setup and predicted a landmark convention. He is from Kansas City, Missouri.
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Sands Hotel
National American Legion
Washington, D.C
Charlies L Bacon
The
American Legion
Bacon
Las Vegas
Kansas City
Washington
A Department
Congress Hails Test Resumption Decision
Washington lawmakers from both parties praised President Kennedy for resuming atmospheric nuclear testing if the Soviet Union rejects a ban. Speaker McCormack called it courageous and sound in the national interest while Senate leaders Mansfield and Dirksen praised the move as a step toward a binding agreement with regulation and inspection.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Russia
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Soviet Union
Everett M. Dirksen
International Set Assembles For Mussolini Rites
In Predappio Italy the international set gathered on the eve of Romano Mussolini's wedding to Maria Scicoione sister of Sophia Loren. Mussolini built a hillside church in 1934 for the ceremony as police imposed crowd controls. A motor van delivering 6000 carnations struck a motorcycle. the rider was hospitalized with serious injuries.
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Predappio
Italy
UPI
Benito Musselini
Mussolini
Romano
Maria Scicoione
Fiim
Sophia Loren
Brice
Musso Mni
St. Anthony's
Small Pig Missing in Henderson
A six weeks old brown and white pig owned by Burdette Reber of 223 Pacific Street was reported missing to police Wednesday night. Reber suspects schoolchildren may have removed the pig from the premises.
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Lenderson
Burdette Reber
Pacific Street
Reber
Convict ordered to undergo psychiatric exam in Nevada case
William Collins Jr. was ordered by Federal Dist. Judge John Ross to a psychiatric examination to determine fitness for trial on three charges including assault on a federal officer in court. The deadline for the report is March 7. Collins, 32, had been deemed mentally incompetent last year and sent to a Missouri mental hospital. He is charged with assault, interstate transportation of a stolen car, and escaping from a federal officer.
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Carson City
UPI
William Collins Jr
Federal Dist
John Ross
Collins
Ments
Missouri
Summit Plea from Khrushchev Threatens Geneva Talks
London dispatch reports diplomats fear Khrushchev’s insistence on an immediate summit could jeopardize the Geneva disarmament conference set to open March 14. He wrote to five leaders urging top-level talks as Kennedy and MacMillan propose postponement and officials await Moscow’s stance.
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London
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
Khrushchev
Eader
Charles i Gaulle
Joan Defenbaker
Tage Erlanger
Khrukhchev
Kennnedy
Harold MacMillan
Kennedy
MacMillan
Russia
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Moscow
Washington
Kkhrushchev
City moves to seize Fifth Ave Coach Lines amid strike
New York City officials moved to take over Fifth Ave Coach Lines after a Transport Workers Union strike left 1.5 million riders stranded. Mayor Wagner said city attorneys would begin acquiring the privately owned line, while company president Harry Weinberg vowed to fight in court.
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New York
UPI
Fifth Ave
Robert F. Wagner
Board of Estimate
Transport Workers Union of America
Wagner
Harry Weinberg
Weinberg
Tremendous Jump in LV Construction in 1962
February permits reached 4.501 million dollars, up from 3.182 million last year. Las Vegas building in the first two months of 1962 totaled 9.000 million dollars, about 2 million more than the same period in 1961.
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Bill Adams
City Building and Safety
Las Vegas
Funeral services for Anna P. Strom in Bellingham
Funeral services for Anna P Strom 77 of 5018 10th St are set for next week in Bellingham Washington. She died at Las Vegas Hospital yesterday born February 17 1685 in Sweden. Survivors include son Ted in Hawaii daughter Greta Strom of Las Vegas two brothers Eric and Lars Nilsson of Sweden two sisters Mrs Mary Rutquist of Bellingham and Mrs Lena Erikson of Sweden. Body to be shipped to Jones Funeral Home in Bellingham for services with Palm Mortuary handling local arrangements.
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Anna P. Strom
10Th St
Bellingham
Wash
Strom
Las Vegas Hospital
Sweden
Ted
Hawaii
Greta Strom
Las Vegas
Eric
Lars Nilsson
Mary Rutquist
Lena Erikson
Jones Funeral Home
Palm Mortuary
Nehru Cabinet Members Win Seated in Election
New Delhi reports the election commission confirmed all cabinet ministers of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru won parliamentary seats. Congress maintains a working majority with 338 of 494 seats but shows a decline from 375. Minister B V Keskar and three deputy ministers were defeated.
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New Delhi
UPI
Indian Election Commission
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Congress Party
Congress
B. V. Keskar
Thieves Steal Doors and Air Conditioner at Club Hotel
Thieves took two shower doors and a spare air conditioning unit from Club Hotel Inc at 226 S. 2nd St yesterday. Carlyle Michelman said the property valued at 240.80 dollars. In a separate theft Judith L. Purser of 215 Clark St reported a stolen purse from her car containing 60 dollars cash and 48.50 dollars in valuables.
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Club Hotel, Inc
S. 2Nd St
Carlyle Michelman
Judith L. Purser
Clark St
Space Stamps Sell Out in Las Vegas Post Office
Space stamps honoring Lt. Col. John H. Glenn sold out in three days at the Las Vegas post office with 50,000 stamps moved. The sale marked the greatest one day special stamp sale in post office history nationwide.
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John H. Glenn
Las Vegas
Robert Lias
Post Office Department
Huntsville scientist Parrish enters Alabama governor race
Preston T. Parrish a Huntsville scientist with a PhD in science qualified for the Alabama governor race. He resigned as life science and systems advisor at the Marshal Space Flight Center to pursue the campaign. His work at the center focused on human reactions in aerospace voyages.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Preston T. Parrish
Huntsville
Alabama
Farrish
Marshal Space Flight Center
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