Glendale Freeway Contract Set to Be Largest Interstate 15 Bid
The Interstate 15 project near Glendale, 6.6 miles of divided highway, will cost about 3.5 million dollars with bids opened March 29. It includes three interchanges, a railroad overpass, cattle underpass, Muddy River channel work, and a 400 day completion window.
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Glendale
W.O. Wright
Highway Department
Moapa
Logandale
Overton
Wright
H. A. Squires
Nevada Paving Company of
Reno
Crystal
Mormon
G. B. Brockway
Killer Suspects Face Hearing On Wednesday
Richard Allen Black, 38, arrived with four other defendants to a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Myron Leavitt. Black is charged with murder in the Aug 10 death of informant William Tollus Green, 32, found in his car in West Las Vegas. Co defendants include Milton Duke Beasley 25 Warren Lonnel Harris 33 Randolph Spencer Patterson 46 and Vase Calvin Vallerie 29. All except Beasley were returned here from federal institutions for trial.
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Richard Allen Black
United States
Justice of Peace
Myron Leavitt
Black
William Tollus Green
Las Vegas
Milton (Duke) Beasley
Triggerman
Warren Lonnel Harris
Kiwanis Convention Set for Las Vegas September
Five thousand Kiwanis members from the California Nevada Hawaii District will attend a four day convention in Las Vegas September 23 to 26. George Bud Albright of Las Vegas will be general chairman with Virgil Earl as co chair. Co hosts include the Henderson Kiwanis Club and Las Vegas Uptown Kiwanis Club.
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Las Vegas
California-Nevada-Hawaii
George
Bud) Albright
Albright
Virgil Earl
San Diego
Calif
Henderson Kiwanis Club
Uptown Kiwanis Club
Elizabeth Taylor denies nude Cleopat ra scene
Rome dispatch reports actress Elizabeth Taylor and husband Eddie Fisher denying nude bathing scene in Cleopatra. Taylor says she wore a bathing suit and calls nude rumors baseless while Fisher confirms his presence and oversight of the filming.
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Rome
UPT
Elizabeth Taylor
Eddie Fisher
Miss Taylor
Fisher
Liz
Are
Thieves Loot Las Vegas Homes Reported
Police reported multiple home burglaries in Las Vegas over the past 438 hours. Victims include Bert Wakefield who lost a $500 painting a $200 Indian hand carved stand and $25 glassware. Virgil Grant who lost $535 cash. Patricia Pool $125 in change. Esther Stackhouse $350 cash and a $273 toolbox. James Cloud a $600 adding machine. Robert Feldman a $180 radio.
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Bert C. Wakefield
E. Norman Ave
India
Wakefield
Virgil Grant
Starlite Cleaners
Las Vegas Blvd. South
Grant
Patricia Pool
Lorna Pl
Esther Stackhouse
Idle Ave
James Cloud
Roseland Nursery
Charleston Blvd
Robert Feldman
Baltimore Ave
Hamburg Flood Toll Reaches 301 With Three More Victims
Hamburg Germany reports the discovery of three additional flood deaths, raising the city’s total toll from last month’s disaster to 301. Rescue teams continue work across affected districts as authorities tally casualties.
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Hamburg
Germany
Reno Bans Female Impersonation Shows After Jewel Box Revue
Reno city council grants final approval to an ordinance banning shows featuring performers imitating the opposite sex with exceptions for humorous or unrealistic skits. The Jewel Box Revue at Riverside Hotel sparked the measure. A recall election may follow mid April if petitions qualify.
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Reno
UPI
John Marshall
Riverside Hotel
Land Truck Line seeks Las Vegas Mesquite route approval
Louis R. Land Truck Line asked the Public Service Commission for authority to haul general commodities between Las Vegas and Mesquite via North Las Vegas on the outward trip and return via Overton and North Las Vegas.
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Carson City
UPI
Louis R. Land Truck Line
Public Service Commission
Las Vegas
Mesquite
Overton
Recall petitions filed for Reno mayor and two councilmen
The Reno recall committee delivered a petition to the city clerk seeking recall elections for Mayor Bud Baker and councilmen George Carr and John Marshall.
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Reno
UPD
Bud Baker
George Carr
John Marshall
Nevada savings rates draw concern from state official
State Savings Associations Commissioner John Bell says rising interest rates paid by Nevada savings and loan associations are a concern but not an immediate danger. He notes comments by Federal Home Loan Bank board chairman Joseph McMurray about high rates and suggests some lenders may be taking on dubious risk to sustain interest payments.
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Carson City
UPI
John Bell
Savings and
Nevada
Bell
Joseph McMurray
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Senna
Nevada bids planned for 66 miles of I 15 work
Carson City reports the state highway department will open bids March 29 on 66 miles of Interstate 15 work in Southern Nevada along State Route 12. The project is expected to cost 3.5 million dollars.
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Carson City
UPI
State Highway Department
Nevada
Glendale
Eden Undergoes Operation At Lahey Clinic
The Lahey Clinic announced Anthony Eden had a benign intrathoracic lesion removed. Dr. Herbert D. Adams performed the operation. Eden’s condition was described as good. The former British prime minister previously had a tail bladder operation in 1957 and bile duct surgery in 1953.
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Anthony Eden
Herbert D. Adams
Eden
Ways and Means OKs Kennedy Tax Measure
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 240 page bill embodying most of President Kennedy's tax program by an 18 to 6 vote. It would provide 1.8 billion in tax concessions to modernize industry, impose withholding on dividends and most interest, tighten rules on entertainment and foreign earnings, and faces floor action next week. Democratic leaders expect passage with limited changes, while Republicans were defeated on a bid to substitute a GOP plan. The measure keeps a provision for tax cuts up to 8 percent for machinery and tools.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means Committee
Poland says no ties with West Germany over Oder-Neisse frontier
The Tass news agency quoted Polish Premier Josef Czyankiweicz stating no diplomatic relations with West Germany are possible until Berlin recognizes the Oder Neisse frontier. The report appeared in London via UPI.
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London
UPI
Tass
Josef Czyankiweicz
West Germany
Oder- Neisse
Litvak Injured After Fall on Film Set in Paris
American director Anatole Litvak, 59, was reported in improved condition after a fall from a 10 foot platform on the Paris film set with Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins. A spokesman said the accident occurred Saturday night at the location.
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Paris
UPI
Anatole Litvak
Sophia Loren
Anthony Perkins
American Hospital
Litvak
LV Hijackers Loot Large Liquor Truck
Police reported two men hijacked a two ton white truck outside Market Town early yesterday morning and fled with about $5,000 in liquor. The truck bore the markings Old Charter Ancient Age and license CT 6355, and the driver was propping open a delivery door at the time.
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Las Vegas Distributing Co
Market Town
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