Statement disavows picketing group at NSU campus
The editor clarifies that the AFT 1818 picketing faction on the Nevada Southern University campus is a minority, fewer than 20 percent, and not representative of the faculty. The Senate handles educational policy and benefits peacefully, and AAUP members roughly double the AFT 1818 membership.
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AFT
Nevada Southern University
Senate
The
American Association of University Professors
NSU Belongs To Us We Must Keep It That Way
A Nevada Southern University campus letter urges community involvement in selecting a new president after Dr. Donald C. Moyer steps down. The author questions autonomy, warns against abrupt interim appointments, and demands consultative procedures with faculty and community input.
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NSU
Nevada Southern University
University
Humphrey
Donald C. Moyer
Board of Regents
Thank You Note on School Newspaper Press Visit
A reader thanks First Good Shepherd Lutheran School for explaining newspaper production and the metal press process. The message expresses appreciation for the information provided.
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Good Shepherd Lutheran School
Teachers Want Work Year Round and Vocational Focus
A reader argues for a full year school calendar and expanded hands on training including vocational, hospital, welfare, and factory exposure. The letter urges reclaiming robust education, critiques political extremism, and cites King’s assassination and ongoing social unrest as catalysts for reform.
Call for Respect for Paperboys Time and Effort
A reader argues adults should credit newspaper carriers for early delivery routines. The letter details carriers’ mornings, weather hardships, and the duties of folding, packing, collecting payments, and maintaining equipment. It urges gratitude and criticizes late delivery complaints while extolling the carrier’s responsibility and impact on youth.
Count On SUN To Right Wrongs
A community letter thanks a local figure for bringing a drug seminar to Las Vegas and urges teen focused programming. The writer proposes teen driven radio and TV shows, sponsor support, and school involvement to inform and aid youth and parents. Rita Powers offers assistance.
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Las Vegas
Tevision
Mother's Hand No Longer Rocks Cradle
A reader condemns ads urging women to learn pistol practice for self defense. She questions the erosion of traditional motherhood and gentleness, contrasts words with bullets, and argues women should defend rights without violence. She laments modern emancipation and warns of warlike women harming families.
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Baal
Drug Seminar A Success in Las Vegas
The Las Vegas drug conference held on April 23 drew the largest crowd ever for the city and for a Food and Drug Administration program. The event drew thousands of students parents and senior citizens who heard FDA officials address drug problems in society and noted the large orderly afternoon audience.
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Las Vegas
Food and Drug Administration
the Sun
The
Neighborhood Gas Station Overcharges for Repairs
A Las Vegas reader urges lawmakers to ban neighborhood stations from doing major auto repairs after a transmission overhaul scare. The critic recalls a quick fix by a shop foreman that led to no charge and calls for state and local action to shut down such businesses.
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Las Vegas
Boulder Highway
Drug Abuse Program Sparks Mixed Reactions In Henderson
A reader letter condemns a local drug prevention effort describing it as a fiasco after a station wagon trip with teens. The writer urges repeating the program only with volunteer supervision or at individual schools and suggests printing the SUN speaker’s words.
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Sun Speaker
A. May
Randy
Henderson
Where We Stand at the Las Vegas Sun Editorial Page
Readers weigh in on public issues in a column that prints letters under the Where We Stand banner. The page invites submissions up to 150 words and reserves the right to edit or shorten. Names may be withheld upon request but must be signed and explicitly nonpublished.
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The
Las Vegas Sun
Is Immigration Quota A Communist Strategy
A reader letter questions immigration quotas as a political tactic while praising or criticizing broader social policies. The writer expresses disappointment with the atmosphere and notes youth attire and personal experiences, ending with an endorsement of the paper's ideas and principles.
Must Show High Court Its Errors
A 1965 public letter argues the Supreme Court erred on obscenity and free expression, urging stronger state action against obscenity and pedlars of smut while criticizing judicial restraint. It also calls for immigration quota reform and scrutiny of government promotion of birth control, urging mass public opinion as safety.
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Supreme Court
Inflation and Surtax Attack on American Economy
The piece claims government driven inflation harms the public and accuses officials of Communist influence. It argues the proposed 10 percent surtax on incomes worsens inflation and would destroy the economy under the guise of stopping it.
Greenspun critique of Las Vegas budget spending
A reader cites April 4 1968 column urging fiscal restraint at Las Vegas City Hall and argues North Las Vegas relies heavily on federal funds. The writer notes 87.5 percent of a 20 million dollar budget would come from federal sources and claims North Las Vegas uses more federal money than the rest of Clark County combined. The appeal asks for consideration of federal taxpayers as well.
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Las Vegas
Hank
Clark County
Henk
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