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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1963
Page
3
Dr Sterling M McMurrin will speak at the Clark County Association for Mental Health luncheon today on Changing Patterns of Education. The event is part of the association's fifth annual one day visit.
A one day event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. in the Virginia City Room at Hotel Thunderbird. Speakers include Dr. Edwin Schneidman Dr. Lewis Yablonsky and Dr. Lester A. Kirkendal with workshops on suicide prevention narcotics and drug addiction and changing attitudes about sex.
Reverend W H Higginbotham announces Dr. Ralph K McPherson will be guest and officiating at Calvary Church of the Four Square Gospel dedication service at 2929 Cedar Ave. McPherson to speak at 11 am and 2 30 pm. Olin C Duncan to speak at 7 30 pm. Dedication marks first of three buildings on four and a half acre site.
The First Baptist Church at 9th and Bridger expands its choir program with a new Chapel Choir for 9th through 12th grade students. Rehearsals start this Sunday at 5 p.m. and performances run Sundays in June and through the summer. James Chesser will direct and Mrs. Robert Smith will accompany.
The National Rifle Association course on hunter safety and marksmanship has been organized with Zack Abercrombie as instructor. All Woodmen members interested should contact the Woodmen of the World office at Sill Las Vegas Bivd, So.
WAL vice-president D P Renda told the Civil Aeronautics Board that additional west to Hawaii service is needed. He urged final action on the reopened Transpacific case and proposed non-stop Phoenix to Hawaii and other western routes. Western would use 600 mph Boeing 720B jets and offer fares about 20 percent lower than Pan Am and United.
A Nevada educators group toured the U S Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs on May 9th to receive briefings on academics airmanship and admission for future cadet applicants. The visit included tours and discussions with Nevada cadets and officials from northern eastern and southern Nevada school systems.
A display of 30 Row etchings from Miserere et Guerre is on view at the Nevada Southern University gallery in Grant Hol until May 29. At Nellis AFB Falcon Service Club the final showing today of Artists and Craftsman's Guild works runs 1 to 5 p.m. The Mesquite Club five-artist reception, moved from tomorrow, is now scheduled for May 26.
Changes issued by the Bishop of Reno take effect June 1. Rev. George Wolfe from Elko joins Manogue High School and administers St. Joseph the Worker in Empire Gallery. Revs. Arthur Woeten and James McNally move from Manogue to Little Flower and St Christopher's respectively. Rev. John McVeigh moves to Our Lady of Las Vegas Parish. Theodore Van Skee moves to Wells St Thomas Aquinas. Rev. William Gannon to Tonopah. Rev. Stuart Campbell to Battle Mountain. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas Collins named Vicar Forane of the Archbishop Mittey Deanery in Clark County.
Journalism students at the University of Nevada will be honored Sunday at the Department of Journalism Awards Breakfast. Certificates and checks go to top performers in news photo, news story, sports story, feature, ad, radio news, and editorial. Sigma Delta Chi honors the top 1963 graduate. Petrini Cup also awarded. Patricia White and Charles Thomas preside. awards include a $500 Zel lerbach scholarship. The event ends with initiation into Kappa Tau Alpha at 9 a.m. in the Jet Travis Student Union Dining Commons.
Police report thieves gained entry by breaking a window screen and a bedroom window. Clothing valued at 725 dollars disappeared from Charles Julian's home on Alta Drive. Frederick Hardy of Jackson Street reported a thief entered his hotel room while asleep and took a watch and 200 dollars.
A Bible Lesson on Mortals and Immortals will be read this Sunday at First Church of Christ Scientist in Las Vegas Nevada. Readings from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy include Either here or hereafter suffering or science must destroy all illusions about life and mind and regenerate material sense and self.
LV residents Russell Spillman Edward Young Mrs Elaine Walbrook and Mitchell Bell travel to Denver Colorado for the National Tuberculosis Association 59th annual meeting May 12 to 15 at the Hilton Hotel where 2000 medical scientists and health workers seek eradication of tuberculosis and control of breathing diseases. The American Thoracic Society and National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers also meet alongside the NTA event. General Carlos P Romulo opens May 12 with a lecture on World Health and Peace.
The First Baptist Church invites worship with an anthem by the Chancel Choir and a guest soloist Margaret Heitmann at the Sunday service. Rev. James F. Christian will preach on Enthusiastic Christianity at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday School at 9:30. Nursery is provided. An evening service at 7:30 features the youth and Dale Lowe and Harry Gibbs with I Chose Christ. A piano solo and men's quartet will perform. Coffee fellowship follows in the Fellowship Hall.
Wing executive Lt. Col. Herman J. O'Brien, after five years at Nellis AFB, has been assigned to Headquarters Tactical Air Command. He says he is reluctant to leave Las Vegas but believes the move will enhance his ability to serve in the future.
DMV Direct Louis P. Spitz announced that testing will begin for additional drivers license examiners at the Las Vegas branch on Sahara Avenue. The office will extend hours from 5 to 9 p m Tuesday through Friday and 9 a m to 5 p m Saturday, starting July 1, under authority from the 52nd Nevada Legislature.
A Nottingham pub owner said he locked up 20 East Midlands Gas Board employees at a farewell party because they were so quiet upstairs he forgot they were there. They were later released.
Army Specialist Five James S. Bard age 31, assigned to MAAG Vietnam as an intelligence specialist on May 6. His children Anne tte and Theodore live at 2240 Bassler St., North Las Vegas, Nevada. Bard entered the Army in 1959.
Airman Third Class Rudolf F. Martinez of Arleta California is reassigned to Elmendorf AFB Alaska after completing a United States Air Force technical training course for electricians. He trained in installation troubleshooting and repair of wiring systems and electrical equipment. His wife Diane Wertz is from Arleta and his parents Leonard and Martinez live in Las Vegas Nevada.
Fort Hood Texas reports Private First Class Ralph W. Nitson age 20 son of Mr and Mrs Jess G Nitson of Las Vegas Nevada assigned to the 1st Armored Division as a mechanic in Headquarters and Company A of the 123d Maintenance Battalion Nitson was last stationed at Fort Sill Oklahoma.
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