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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1962
Page
5
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce reports 51 116 employed in southern Nevada in 1961 with total wages of 263 410 642 a rise of over 20 million from 1960. Service industries lead with 20 212 workers earning 108 392 312 and hotels pay 9 587 workers 45 733 323.
The Nevada State Association of Life Underwriters holds its first annual sales congress in Las Vegas on Friday and Reno on Saturday. Registration starts 11 am at Stardust. delegates hear welcoming addresses and four lectures by city and state leaders, with topics on principal problems, professional image, and market growth. The same speakers repeat sessions Saturday at the Holiday Hotel in Reno.
The second annual High School Student Officers Workshop will be held tomorrow at 8 45 am in the Archie Grant Halls on the Nevada Southern campus. It aids current and incoming officers to ready themselves for office duties. Launch follows for all participants at the Sahara Hotel with reports and sessions in the morning. After lunch separate meetings will be held for each office in Rooms 112 129 and 240 for presidents and vice presidents secretaries and treasurers.
About 1,800 African lead and zinc mine workers walked out at Broken Hill in sympathy with a minister’s strike in the Rhodesian copper belt. The Chamber of Mines called the action illegal.
Judie Berke paintings shown at the Press Club and Gertrude Beck works in the Cactus Room at the Desert Inn. Both exhibitions are sponsored by the Las Vegas Art League.
Frank J. Freiburg a 50 year old former felon was arrested for failing to register as an ex felon in Truth Or Consequences New Mexico He was also booked on auto theft after officers stopped him noting a California registration Oregon plates and the registration under another name He received 10 days in jail for violating the Las Vegas ex felon ordinance.
Four students from Southern Nevada earned winter quarter honors at the College of Southern Utah in Cedar City. Leon V. Jones of Las Vegas led with a 4.0 A average. Also on the honor roll were Robert J. Hollinger of Panaca Ferral Knight of Mesquite and Sharlon Mills of Logandale.
John C Fremont Junior High School Instrumental Music Department presents a 7 30 p m spring concert at Las Vegas High School auditorium with Walter L Ford directing. Crestwood Fifth Street and Mayfair students join in a multi piece program featuring Baroque Classical works and Frank Erickson’s Toccata for Band. Soloists include Stanley Knoles Richarrd Solis and Yvette Weinstein conducts.
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