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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1965
Page
7
Dist. Judge Richard Waters Jr. ruled that firemen are not required on diesel freight trains in Nevada. The Full Crew Train Law, aimed at preserving firemen, does not apply if duties can be performed by another crew member or are no longer needed. About 42 two year firemen face layoff as railroads adjust.
Dist. Judge John Mowbray presided over a staged murder mock trial at the Dunes Hotel for the National Medicolegal Symposium. Dr. Russell Fisher testified as the medical examiner while Chicago lawyers Charles M Rush and Phillip H Corboy led opposing sides. Over 800 professionals attended as the drill highlighted the role of medico legal testimony in court. Two more vignettes are planned with Dist. Judge David Zenoff and Dr. Jurgens H Bauer.
Moscow brands Chinese students provocation and staged rallies at the U S embassy and hospital after a March 4 demonstration against U S action in Vietnam. The Soviet note via Tass demands Chinese adherence to Soviet law and rejects Beijing’s protest, while maintaining peaceful coexistence with the West.
A wrongful death action totaling 390000 dollars was filed against Sheriff Ralph Lamb and Deputy Roscoe Bowers over the February 24 1964 fatal shooting of Las Vegas youth Donald Dean Holmes. Relatives allege Bowers fired intentionally during a chase on Miller and Concord Streets. the deputy says Holmes fled while carrying a pistol and was cleared at an inquest.
The district approved a $90,000 deal for nine acres at Osage and Lena in College Park for a new elementary school site to be built next year. The buyer is listed as the estate of Clarence Holmes and six Holmes children, with the law firm Mendoza Foley and Garner handling the purchase.
Funeral services for Anna Brasno age 77 of Bannock Way South River New Jersey are pending. She was born September 5 1887 in Czechoslovakia and died here Thursday. She is survived by a son Richard Brasno of Las Vegas. Burial will be at St Marys Cemetery East Brunswick New Jersey. Bunker Brothers Mortuary handles local arrangements. Funeral services for Hazel Marie Ragland Landestoy age 50 of S Th Street Brea California are pending. Born March 5 1915 in Indiana she died here Thursday and had lived here six years. She is survived by two sisters Dorothy Ann Hanson Nevada Virginia W Adams Fullerton California and a brother John Henry Cobb California. Palm Mortuary handles local arrangements.
FBI agent James Michael Burke testified that troopers were justified in using tear gas to disperse a civil rights march in Selma. Judge Johnson presided over an injunction hearing as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 2,500 supporters had attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery.
North Las Vegas City Manager Clay Lynch announced a March 29 public hearing on the coming fiscal year budget after a Nevada Tax Commission two week extension. He said the city faces a 25 cent school district bonded debt increase and a $113 000 deficiency, with $2.25 million in property tax to be collected regardless of the budget, aiming to return as much as possible to residents.
The Del Webb Construction Co. won the $4.84 million contract to build Ed Von Tobel, William F. E. Orr, and James Cashman junior high schools. Helgeson Construction Co. challenged the bid with a lower offer for the Von Tobel project, but the Clark County School Board overruled the protest and awarded all three schools based on overall cost.
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