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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1970
Page
7
Cris Vincent named Elks Exalted Ruler and Carol Wadsworth crowned Miss Rodeo America at a community pageant. The event highlighted local leadership and rodeo culture with attendees from nearby clubs and sponsors.
Sanford Waterman is named executive vice president of Caesars Palace effective June 1, announced by William S. Weinberger. Waterman, a Sands Hotel executive and former Sands owner, will leave the Sands at month end after long Nevada hotel casino work and prior ownership at Cal Neva Lodge.
Obituaries note deaths of Gerald Aitken 40 in Croswell Michigan an insurance agent. James Potter 15 in Bakersfield California a Valley High student. Warren Doremus a Las Vegas hotel engineer. Clevia Joyce Grigg 63 of Las Vegas born in Blanchard Town. services scheduled at Bunker Brothers Chapel in Las Vegas and Greenlawn in Bakersfield. Surviving relatives are listed for several. Burial set for Paradise Memorial Gardens and Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Funeral services are set for Levearn Hardison a 25 year old former boxer shot in a Friday night altercation near H Street and Owens Avenue He died at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital Born November 1 1944 in Forrest City Arkansas he lived in Las Vegas 23 years Surviving family includes parents eight brothers a sister two aunts and several nephews and nieces all of Las Vegas Rev W Wilson will officiate with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens
Las Vegas resident Helen R Thompson announces her candidacy for the University of Nevada Board of Regents citing extensive support for UNLV and its programs. The Memphis, Tennessee native has funded a professorship in remedial reading and urges public service over political advancement.
A special board meeting at City Hall will address amendments to the liquor ordinance affecting large markets and drugstores, plus final preliminary plans for an $8 million municipal complex. The session includes a proposed annexation near Decatur and Sahara and discusses exemptions and distance rules for licenses.
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