Casino Employes Union Letter Sets Out Claims and Goals
A letter to the editor from W. E. Carter alleging misquoting by the Las Vegas Review Journal and urging a new casino employees union. He claims AFC & GE misuses funds and urges support for unionizing casino workers under an international charter with Teamsters backing. He asserts high level security clearances and past work at major Las Vegas clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas Review Journal
Central Labor Council
United States
AFC & GE
NLRB
Tom Hanley
State Capitol
Hanley
W. E. Carter
Teamsters 63
Robert Feldman
Earl Brookner
George Rudiak
Jay Brewer
the Fermont
Teamsters
Reader letter questions gun registration and Communist threat
A reader criticizes an April 28 editorial on firearms and Communist fears. He argues rifles aid defense, cites Viet Nam, and disputes registration logic. He questions editorial bias, cites Hoover, and notes a pointed editor’s disclaimer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hank
Viet Nam
J. Edgar Hoover
Birchers
Minutemen
U.S
Las Vegas Sun Masthead and Publishing Team Listed
A historical masthead shows Las Vegas Sun Inc with H M Greenspun editor and publisher and a full slate of staff including Ruthe Deskin and Bryn Armstrong. It lists executive and managing editors, city and sports editors, and various department heads along with officers and circulation and advertising staff. Subscription and carrier rates are noted for daily and Sunday editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders
Las Vegas Sun Inc
South
Commerce Street
Las Vegas
Nevada
Ruthe Deskin
Bryn Armstrong
Vince Anselmo
Richard Calhoun
Bruce Banke
Gerry Appleby
Jack Davenport
Otto Martin
William Sher Woods
Burt Bay
Dee Coakley
MM. Greenspun
Ray Germain
Robert Belz
Barbara Greenspun
Act of Congress
Ward-Griffith Co
Chicago
Detroit
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
United Press International
Cition
American Newspaper Publishers Association
California Newspaper Publishers Association
The
Audit Bureau of Circulation
One Man's Views On Red Menace Letter Debate
A reader urges skepticism of right wing anti-communist groups and advises reading Communist publications to learn their aims. The letter lists six alleged goals of communism and argues that Birch Society claims are refuted, urging citizens to wake up to the true threat and noting Soviet influence in the UN has not produced major showdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NASA
AEC
The
Sands
Desert Inn
Dunes, Riviera
California Club
Nevada Club
the Sun
Charles Reeser
John Birch Society
Dan Smoot
Manion Forum
Worker
Peoples World
South
U.N
Reeser
Birch Society
People’s World
Russia
FBI
Walter Reuther
Birch
United Nations
Soviet Union
Dear John Letter on Women in Work and Home Roles
A reader argues women should stay home and serve as secondary to men, insisting on traditional gender rules. The writer taunts John for printing the letter and claims to rule the roost despite occasional compromises at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiddo
Boulder City JC of Commerce names key man of year
Roger Selk was named key man of the year by the Boulder City Junior Chamber of Commerce in a local honors note. Five years ago Bob Chisholm and Cynthia Woodruff were named student speakers at Las Vegas High School commencement at Butcher Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Selk
Boulder City
Where We Stand Letters Policy at The Las Vegas Sun
The Las Vegas Sun invites signed letters to the editor under the Where We Stand heading. Typewritten, double spaced, unsigned letters will not be published. Authors may request withholding of their name. Brief letters have higher republication chances.
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The
Las Vegas Sun
Maybe She's Innocent Maybe She's Innocent
A Las Vegas Sun reader defends a woman driver against gender bias in a complaint about a column. The letter questions assumptions about ownership of a truck and urges thoughtful public discourse on free speech and civic responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas Sun
Greenspun
Las Vegas
Dissent on FM music tastes in local radio letters
A reader objects to Marjorie Appys May 1 SUN letter favoring classical music. The writer praises soft relaxing KORK-FM style programming and dislikes Mozart and Beethoven, arguing many listeners prefer old, beautiful standards and that Appy overlooked them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Appy
SUN
Kork-Fm
May 8 historical hits include VE Day and De Soto voyage
On May 8 historical notes recall the VE Day end of World War II in Europe in 1945 and Hernando De Soto’s 1541 Mississippi River discovery. It also marks George Selden’s 1879 automobile patent filing and Truman’s 1884 birth, with Nixon’s 1958 Lima protest noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
Truman
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi River
George Selden
Rochester
N. Y
Europe
Nixon
South America
Lima
Peru
Nevada Southern Little Theatre: a going concern in Las Vegas
The Las Vegas community notes the Nevada Southern Little Theatre has produced plays since 1959 from Antigone to Waiting for Godot. The writer urges Walter Jenkins to include the theatre in his column and praises its quality, performers, and direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallery Theatre
Walter Jenkin
the Sun
Jenkins
Nellis
Nevada Southern
New York
Mr. Jenkins
Nevada
Las Vegas
Nevada Southern Little Theatre
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Casino Union Story
Casino
Union
H. M. Greenspun
Continental
1. D. Workman
John
Sal
Vegas
Yesteryears
Saturn
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Olympus
Interlandi
America
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