Griffith Dupas Title Bout Set For Friday July 13
Emile Griffith agrees to defend the world welterweight title against Ralph Dupas in Las Vegas at the Convention Center on Friday July 13. The bout follows the March 24 New York card where Benny Kid Paret was fatally injured. The fight, announced by Mel Greb of Silver State Sports Club, will be a 15-round nontelevised championship. Deskin of the Nevada State Athletic Commission attended the Thunderbird Hotel press conference.
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Ralph Dupas
New York
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Las Vegas Convention Center
Silver State Sports Club
Mel Greb
Las Vegas
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Thunderbird Hotel
Jim Deskin
Nevada State Athletic Commission
New York City
Griffith
York
Paret
Gene Fallmer
Dupas
Charley Scott
Frankie Ramirez
Joe Brown
Houston
Texas
Randy Sandy
Denny Moyer
Griffith Dupas to Clash in July Title Bout
Native of the Virgin Islands living in New York meets Dupas the top challenger from New Orleans for the 147 pound crown. Griffith, 24, previously held the welterweight title and is guaranteed 40000 with 45 percent of gate. Dupas, 26, gets 10000. Tickets range 5 10 15 20 for a 7500 seat convention center showing a potential gate up to 162000.
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New York
Dupas
New Orleans
Griffith
Greb
Praise for County Officials Over Good Shepherd School Permit
In a rare show of praise for officials, County Commissioners Art Olsen and Bob Baskin are commended for granting a use permit for the Order of the Good Shepherd to open a girls boarding school in Paradise Valley. The decision overrides a Planning Board denial, seen as a community benefit from the sisterhood’s work, including participation in a national youth conference.
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Paradise Valley
County Planning Board
Good Shepherd
Art Olsen
Bob Baskin
Helena
Montana
Estes Investigator Murdered lands probe over million dollar dedication
The district attorney studies whether the county may accept dedication of more than 1 million dollars in property for a Commercial Center development east of Sherwood Park on 36 acres. Jerome Mack of Commercial Center Inc leads plans to create a large business complex with an 18 acre parking area and perimeter buildings. The county has held the offer pending legal opinion though commissioners favor the proposal.
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Jerome Mack
Commercial Center, Inc
San Francisco
Sherwood Park
Mack
District Attorney's Office
Autopsy Hints Murder In Estes Investigator Marshall Case
Pathologist said exhumed body of Henry H. Marshall shows nine or ten bullet wounds and a back wound, suggesting murder rather than death by own action. Marshall, first Federal investigator in the Estes inquiry, was found dead at his Franklin area ranch. autopsy aimed to support a Grand Jury probe into the case and Estes connections.
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UPI
Henry H. Marshall
Billie Sol Estes
Marshall
Joseph Jackimczyk
Estes
Franklin
Fear for Life Casts Shadow on Kaylor Murder Case
A court stenographer Mrs Lucile Fischer who took notes for a 1958 grand jury investigating the Kaylor murder says she has received death threats and fears finishing a transcription. An office break in near the County Courthouse is being investigated alongside the threats. Kaylor, a North Las Vegas businessman, was shot on election day in 1957, the day Earl Hartke won the mayor's seat. The case remains unsolved and on file.
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Lucile Fischer
SUN
Union Sues LV Firm Over Taft Hartley Jurisdictional Fight
Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 525 sues Reynolds Electric and Engineering Co for breach of contract at the AEC Nevada Test Site seeking injunctive relief and 500000 in damages under the Taft Hartley Act. The union alleges work claimed belongs to Reynolds and has been allocated to other unions including Operating Engineers Iron Workers and Laborers.
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Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local No. 525
Reynolds Electric and Engineering Co
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Test Site
Emmy Awards Salute E. Marshall Booth in TV's 14th ceremony
Hollywood reports Booth and E. G. Marshall, two veteran actors, swept the 14th annual television Emmys. Julie Harris and Peter Falk won best acting honors for single performances. Victoria Regina earned best single program, and The Defenders tied as outstanding drama. Reginald Rose won writing for drama.
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Shirley Broadway
New York
Julie Harris
Peter Falk
Miss Booth
Hazel
Queen Victoria
Victoria Regina
Falk
Dick Powell
Reginald Rose
Rare Motion Used Here In Narco Case
A Las Vegas attorney invoked a rare common law motion dating to 1200 at a narcotics case hearing in District Court. Judge William Compton allowed the motion to be heard seeking records of a search warrant and arrest witnesses. Defendant Bernard Phillip Marback was arrested at his apartment on April 16.
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Las Vegas
William Compton
Nevada
Ed Weinstein
Bernard Phillip Marback
N.Y
Marback
So. Ist
Land grab protest grows over Clark County BLM action
The Sun reports Senator Alan Bible pressed the Bureau of Land Management to review its May decision rejecting about 850 small tract applications in Clark County. Applicants plan a mass meeting at City Hall or the Convention Hall this weekend to challenge the ruling and demand a land claim hearing.
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Clark County
Bureau of Land Management
VU. 8
Alan Bible
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City Hall
Convention Hall
Howard Green
Green
Desert la
George Albright
Convention Center
Thhey
Bible
BLM
Te Blm
Firemen Injured In Explosion At South Main Alley
Battalion Chief George Contner and driver Ken Harrington were treated at Sunrise Hospital after inhaling fumes from a ruptured 50 gallon drum of aqua ammonia behind B and K Copy at 1506 South Main Street. About 15 firemen were on scene during the incident.
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South Main Street
Battallion
George Contner
Ken Harrington
Sunrise Hospital
Contner
The
SUN
South Main
Ruling reshapes city tests amid police exam failure
The Board of Civil Service Trustees issued a new ruling affecting city wide and promotional tests after a report on fire department morale. A records supervisor test for the police department was voided and a fresh examination scheduled since all nine applicants failed to pass.
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Board of Civil Service Trustees
Oklahoma City Democratic runoff tests Gary bid for two terms
Oklahoma voters returned to the polls in a Democratic runoff that pits former Gov Raymond Gary against W P Atkinson as the party narrows its field. Precinct checks show lighter turnout than May 1 while the winner faces Henry Bellmon in November, who would become the first Republican governor in 55 years. Tokyo note follows.
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