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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1969
Page
9
A Las Vegas column argues the gun permit system allows unqualified guards to carry firearms. A guard shot a teenager after a dispute at the Teenbeat Club, highlighting risks from lax licensing and urging mandatory training and stricter standards for security personnel.
Controversial Episcopal bishop Rt Rev James A Pike will give a free lecture at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Donald C Moyer Student Union ballroom, University of Nevada. Pike is a noted author and former dean and bishop with a varied career in law, religion, and civil rights.
County Assessor James A. Bilbray released figures showing 42 property owners pay $119.2 million of the county’s assessment rolls totaling over $940 million. Major taxpayers include Nevada Power Company, Central Telephone, Southwest Gas, Union Pacific Railroad, hotels and casinos, banks and savings institutions, with many others on both county and Las Vegas rolls. Partial or half-year data noted.
UNLV will honor more than 100 students at the third annual Honors Convocation held at 1 p.m. in the Social Sciences Auditorium. Dr. Roman J. Zorn, UNLV president, will speak. Scholarships, organizational honors, and special awards including Rebel of the Year and A Rex Johnson Award will be presented. Classes will release students to attend.
Deputies arrested three local youths after a narcotics raid on their shared apartment at 2386 Dauphine Way. Officers seized 1,000 Mexican benze drine tablets, 40 seconal capsules, and three ounces of marijuana valued at 50 dollars. Edward Miretti 23, AWOL Marine. Robert Hartwick 27. Allen Walker 24 were booked for possession of dangerous drugs and marijuana.
Terry Coil 28 began a four year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend Marianne Ramon Carmier. The Las Vegas woman was beaten to death and found in a hotel room in March. Judge Thomas O'Donnel reduced the original murder charge to manslaughter.
United Press International reports Nixon plans legislation to make bribery of local police a federal crime, targeting both corrupt officials and those who pay them. The measure would prosecute corruptors and the corrupted in large scale illegal gambling cases.
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