Cannon urges bold ideas for national water plan
UPI reports Senator Howard Cannon testifying before the Senate Interior Committee on a proposed national water commission. He emphasized new ideas and private agency input to conserve and purify water, noting water’s nationwide impact and Nevada’s tight supply hindering growth.
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Washington
UPI
Howard Cannon
Senate Interior Committee
National Water Commission
Nevada
Saints and Sinners Cancel Meeting Over Convention
Saints and Sinners will not meet until June 2 due to the national convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. Local president Al Kirschner said he will attend the convention and work to bring the 1967 gathering to Las Vegas.
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Atlantic City
al Kirschner
Las Vegas
Sun columnist not communist as report mislabeling spreads
A Sunday piece misidentified Sun staffer Jim Barrows as a reporter and Communist in coverage of the Helldorado Float Queen contest judges. Jim Barrows is a columnist and reporter, author of City in the Sun, and a Maine Republican.
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Jim Barrows
Jim
Maine
Becker seeks JP post after city welfare director role
Al Becker 36, an attorney and former chief counsel for the International Association of Firefighters Local 1285 AFL CIO, filed for the justice of the peace post. The legislature last session approved a bill allowing two justices of the peace in townships with populations over 100000.
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al Becker
City Child Welfare Division
Justice of the Peace
Becker
International Association of Firefighters
Aflcio
Justices of the Peace
Willis B. Jones Jr. Named Allstate Sales Agent in Las Vegas
Willis B. Jones Jr. is appointed sales agent for Allstate Insurance Companies by Las Vegas District Manager Richard Brinton. He comes from Young & Rue-Mayflower and completed training at Allstate Pacific Coast headquarters in Menlo Park. Jones will handle Life Health Automobile Homeowners and Commercial policies and also represent the Allstate Motor Club and Allstate Safety Crusade in the Sacramento area. He studied at Eastern Washington College in Cheney.
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Willis B. Jones Jr
Allstate Insurance
Las Vegas
Richard Brinton
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Young & Rue
Mayflower
Allstate
Pacific Coast
Menlo Park
Allstate Motor Club
Allstate Safety Crusade
Sacramento
Eastern Washington College
Cheney
Washington
Las Vegas Woman Injured In Spectacular US 93 Crash
Judy Wilson, 18, of 3065 Las Vegas Boulevard South, was in fair condition at Boulder City Hospital after a one car crash on US 93 near Henderson. Her husband Leland, 29, and Darrell Reed, 22, were treated and released. The northbound car veered into the median, dropped into a six foot culvert, became airborne about 76 feet, then stopped.
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Boulder City Hospital
U.S. 93
Henderson
Judy Wilson
Las Vegas Boulevard
Leland
Darrell Reed
Highway Patrol
Wilson
Governor Sawyer seeks approval of Colorado River Basin Project
Governor Grant Sawyer urged a House subcommittee to approve the Colorado River Basin Project while opposing parts of the bill. He asked that Nevada receive its $300,000 annual payment so long as revenues come from the Boulder Canyon Project, as presented by Pat Head of the Colorado River Commission.
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UPI
Grant Sawyer
House
Subcommittee On Irrigation and Reclamation
Sawyer
Pat Head
Colorado River Commission
Nevada
Boulder Canyon
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