City Employee Pay Rise Proposals Highlight Budget Hopes
City workers wage and fringe benefit requests totaling about a half million dollars were presented to the City Commission three days before budget adoption. Proposals include a blanket 5 percent wage increase, longevity pay, enhanced sick leave, and expanded employee insurance with cost estimates around 330000 for next year dependent on new state revenues. Firefighters seek a 12 percent wage hike or a flat 75 dollar monthly increase plus improved sick leave. police seek higher hazard pay and raises in uniform allowances.
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Police Protective Association
International Fire Fighters Local
City Employes Association
Police Association
McCrea Files Candidacy for Sanitation District Director
Charles H. McCrea has filed to run for director of Sanitation District No. 1 with the election set for April 6. A Southwest Gas Corp. officer in Las Vegas since 1956, he serves as general counsel and secretary and cites his public utility experience as key to the post. McCrea is a WWII veteran with law degrees and bar memberships across Nevada California and Ohio.
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Charles H. McCrea
McCrea
Southwest Gas Corp
Las Vegas
School of Law
Western Reserve University
Nevada
California
Ohio
American Bar Association
Clark County Bar Association
Federal Power Bar Association
American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Inc
France
Belgium
Germany
DA Orders Districts To Bare Records In Public Access Dispute
Clark County District Attorney Ted Marshall warned Sanitation Districts Nos. 1 and 2 that blocking public access to records violates Nevada law. He cited a candidate in the April 6 election who was denied the lists of eligible voters and included the statute defining misdemeanor for obstructing inspection of public books and records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Marshall
Clark County
Marshall
Nevada
Ranger Finds Missing Couple Near Lake Mead
An elderly Las Vegas couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Metcalf, missing two days in the Grand Wash area near Lake Mead, were located Monday night by a National Park Service ranger. Ground crews found them at 9 p.m. after they had walked about 14 miles seeking their pickup truck.
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Las Vegas
Grand Wash
Lake Mead
National Park Service
W. F. Metcalf
Olivero
Trial date vacated in murder case involving Tollus Green
Judge William Compton vacated the March 29 trial date for Warren Harris and Vase Valkie, two of four men charged in the August 10 1961 slaying of federal narcotics agent William Tollus Green. Harris seeks habeas relief while Valkie seeks separate trial. A review of the six week November 1963 trial transcript is due, with a new trial date to be set for late April after Master Calendar Judge John Mowbray and the defendants’ counsel meet.
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William Compton
William Tollus Green
Warren Lionnel Harris
Vase Calvin Valkie
Green
Harris
Vallie
Walrie
Compton
John Mowbray
U S Civil Rights Leader King Heads Civic Dinner Address
Dr. Martin Luther King said nationwide faith in federal civil rights enforcement grows while urging continued push for voting and employment equality. He spoke at a Cleveland dinner honoring him before about 25 000 attendees paying ten dollars each.
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Cleveland
Ohio
UPI
Martin Luther King
King
Council Clears Annexation Legal Hurdle and Park Plans
North Las Vegas city council clears a legal issue on a 320 acre annexation linked to a large industrial park following county procedures. The session also approves an enclosed swimming pool at Jack R. Petitti Park and a 41 vote to reclassify Park North subdivision land from R-1 to C-2 for a large shopping center.
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Las Vegas
Jack R. Petttti
John Myers
Myers
Jack R. Petitti Park
William L. Taylor
Park North
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Torginol Industries, Inc
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