State Board of Education Visits Clark County
The State Board of Education and the nine member State Advisory Council for Vocational Technical Education met in Las Vegas to observe Clark County schools and hear Superintendent Leland Newcomer argue for future Las Vegas meetings. Newcomer urged opening a state education office in Las Vegas to reflect the county’s 50 percent of state students and discussed potential legislative pressure.
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State Board of Education
Clark County
Heard County
Leland Newcomer
State Advisory Council For Vocational-Technical Education
Las Vegas
Newcomer
State Department of Education
Nevada
Cash with Sun Las Velo Classified Advertisement
Classified advertisement listing cash offers and local services with limited readable details. Contains sparse items and ambiguous phrases, reflecting an OCR fragment from a historical newspaper page.
Tule Springs Park Map Draws Fire From City Officials
City officials labeled a Tule Springs map released by the Planning Department as misleading. Mayor Oran Grayson said the guide implies future developments are open to the public, noting a non-existent golf course and a pool not yet usable after reconstruction. Only limited park areas are open, with guards guiding Sunday tours and fences blocking remaining zones until planned development.
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Tule Springs
Oran Grayson
W. E. Adams
Work Law Repeal Opposed by Labor Leaders
Nevada AFL-CIO secretary Louis Paley denounces a senator’s stance on the right to work, insisting the core issue is freedom to join a union. Paley cites an unfinished Nevada study on the law’s economic impact and notes prior labor talks. Governor Grant Sawyer comments that Bible’s stand has merit.
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Louis Paley
Reno
Nevada
Afl-Cio
Paley
Grant Sawyer
Bible
One Man Dead and Three Injured in Key North Las Vegas Crash
A fatal two car collision at Cheyenne and Simmons Streets in North Las Vegas left one man dead and three injured. Injured are Wilbert Crockran aged 30 Odessa Watkins 29 and Kenneth Eckhoff 39. They were admitted to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. The deceased was taken to Palm Mortuary and not immediately identified.
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Cheyenne and
Simmons Streets
North
Las
Wilbert Crockran
van Buren St
Odessa Watkins
Jefferson Ave
Kenneth Eckhoff
Mercury
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Palm Mortuary
Fred Fletcher Named Commerce Bank Head
Fred L. Fletcher was elected chairman of the board and will become chief executive officer of the Nevada Bank of Commerce. A Nevada native and former Sierra Pacific Power chairman, Fletcher has led regional energy and civic roles and will resign Sierra Pacific chair to focus on banking.
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Commerce Bank
Fred L. Fletcher
The
Nevada Bank of Commerce
Sierra Pacific Power Company
Nevada
Fletcher
Virginia City
University of Nevada
Midwest
Reno
Presi
Dency
Sierra Pacific
Dorothy Edwards
Reno Chamber of Commerce
Lake Tahoe
U S May Withdraw First Troops From Dominican Mission
United States may pull back initial troops as the OAS force in the Dominican Republic grows. Brazil announced 1,250 troops to deploy, with plans to send up to 3,000 more, while Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica contribute small contingents. U S numbers for the mission remain undecided amid calls for equal regional contributions.
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Bunker
OAS
U. S
Brazil
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Honduras
Santo Domingo
School Board Hears Report on Alphabet Techniques
The Clark County School District Board of Trustees reviewed an Initial Teaching Alphabet at Paul Culley Elementary, a 44-symbol phonetic system to better express English sounds. A J M Allom Elementary group discussed library use, with district program reports continuing as groups report progress. The board also approved bids worth 46000 dollars for equipment and Supt Leland Newcomer presented slides from a trip behind the Tron Curtin.
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Paul Culley
J. M. Allom
Supt
Leland Newcomer
Tron
Curtin
Where I Stand on Bonanza Subsidies and Nevada Monopolies
Florence J. Murphy argues against Bonanza’s subsidies and threats to desert Nevada for Phoenix. She warns Clark County residents that continued state aid and a tax relief package would entrench a privileged monopoly, urging scrutiny of Frontier Airlines as a similar risk.
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Bonanza
Phoenix
Clark County
Solon and Session Foes Confront Reapportionment
Solon and Session opponents Swobe and Bunker criticized actions during the regular session. They alleged Laxalt and Lamb pressured delay and accused them of moving to California to dodge the issue. They described a court fight as the chosen path after California's Senate approved a reapportionment bill and sent it to the lower house.
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Swobe
R-Reno
Bunker
Laxalt
Lamb
California State Senate
Abel S Tied to State Slaying Case Shifts to Mexico
Richard Ham, Sawyer's administrative aide, defended Abel on convention funds. He said Abel did not mishandle funds at the Reno meeting and even paid many convention bills out of his own pocket as the case unfolded.
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Mexico
Richard Ham
Sawyer
Abel
Ham
Reno
Nuclear test at Nevada site marks 12th this year
The United States carried out its 12th weapons related test of the year at the Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Test Site in Mercury. The underground test was described by the AEC as a nuclear low yield device under 20 kilotons.
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Bonanza
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
Mercury
AEC
Economist Blitzes Fed Concept Economics A Go Go
Colorado economist Dr. E W Buzz Sandberg charged during the Southern Nevada conference that the federal concept Economics A Go Go fails to honor individual freedom and oversteps state local governance. He warned the new process threatens wage and price guidelines and the normal government pattern by bypassing state and local authorities.
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Nevada Taxpayers’ Association
Las Vegas
E. W
Buzz” Sandberg
Colorado
Sandberg
Power Outage Hits Strip Area Near Jean
A power pole likely struck by lightning caused a 19 minute blackout Thursday evening between the Tally Ho Hotel on the Strip and Good Springs. Blue Diamond and Spring Mountain also lost power. outage reported at 7:43 p.m. power restored at 7:53 p.m.
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Tally Ho
Good Springs
Power Company
Blue Diamond
Spring Mountain
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