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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1969
Page
6
Clark County and Lincoln County officials agreed on a 400000 recreation project to build a 10 mile road to Echo Canyon Dam. Clark will supply labor to meet a 250000 federal grant requirement while state funds and local dollars fill remaining costs.
Services planned for Roy August Johnson 62 of Cima California at Bunker Brothers Chapel with burial at Greenhills Memorial Park. He died in a local hospital, survived by his wife Beth two sons a daughter two brothers and three grandchildren. Also: Tena Anna Scott 72 of Las Vegas formerly Webster South Carolina dies. service 1 p.m. at Bunker Brothers Chapel and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. She is survived by a husband John L Scott a son two daughters ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
The Clark County Classroom Teachers Association opened a campaign to raise funds for 18 month old Bobby Ranney who was struck by a car on May 13. Bobby’s father James Ranney teaches at Roy Martin Junior High and cannot afford district insurance. Fundraisers will be collected through CCCTA senators and a neighbor already gathered over $200 from Riviera Mobile Home Park residents.
Jay Miller, head of the Caliente Training Schools for Girls since August 1968, will remain in his post after initially resigning on May 13. He protested a $46,000 cut in the $736,000 1969 71 budget but, after talks with Governor Paul Laxalt, expressed confidence that rehabilitation program needs could be met by an emergency loan or a grant from Nevada's interim finance committee.
An advertisement urges using FASTEETH to prevent slipping and looseness of dentures. It claims the alkaline powder keeps plates secure and odor in check, helping comfort and eating. The ad recommends seeing a dentist and keeping FASTEETH at all drug counters.
Las Vegas police sought two armed men after they raided the Beer Barrel Bar at 2541 North 25th St. They took more than 800 dollars from patrons and cash from the register, while one robber with a shotgun struck some victims. The other guarded the front door and a barmaid refused to open the safe.
Three people accuse d of trying to bilk the Frontier Hotel of sixty two thousand dollars in a rigged twenty one game were given a new trial date by District Judge Thomas O'Donnell for September twenty ninth. Douglas R. Anderson Beverly Dean Hanson and Fred Fabian Padilla are among ten charged in the March eleven incident after Howard Hughes security and sheriff s deputies raided the trio following a closed circuit TV watch. An undercover agent acting as a dealer testified as the state s star witness at an earlier hearing.
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