Teamster pact ratified with Southern Nevada hotels
More than 250 members of Teamsters Local 881 ratified a new three year contract with Southern Nevada resort hotels. The pact provides a 55 cent across the board raise plus new benefits, with immediate 25 cent wage increase retroactive to April 1 and two 15 cent yearly increases. A 10 cent per hour gardener differential and a paid holiday were included. Negotiations followed a bitter strike against Yellow and Checker Cab.
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Teamsters Local
Southern Nevada
Yellow
Checker
El Cortez Plans Appeal Over NLRB Ruling on Fired Dealers
El Cortez Hotel says it will appeal a National Labor Relations Board ruling finding an unfair labor practice in firing five dealers in June 1964 after they joined Tom Hanley's American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees. The NLRB ordered reinstatement and back pay for William Cox and four others, while Cox faced separate remarks allegations. The hotel contests the examiner's reading of financials and testimony, with the decision awaiting NLRB review or court action.
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el Cortez
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Tom Hanley
American Federation of Casino and Gaming
Maurice S. Bush
Don Dobson
Washington
William Cox
Louis Cantalamessa
Robert Jones
David Conner
David H. Waggoner
Cox
Hanley
Barry Owens Takes Over Hello America Show
Dave Barry will host the Desert in's Hello America program starting tonight replacing Sue Carson and JP Taylor who left the show due to prior commitments. The transition changes comedy duties on the program as Barry Owens steps in.
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Dave Barry
Barry
Sue Carson
Jp Taylor
Five rescued from Lake Mead island tied to delinquency charge
A 40 year old Pittman man Manuel Rodriguez was jailed for contributing to the delinquency of a minor after he and four Las Vegas teenagers were stranded for about 48 hours on Rambhead Island near Echo Bay. The group set out water skiing Saturday and drifted after their boat ran dry, prompting a rescue by National Park Service rangers at about 6 am Sunday. Police say the party was tired and hungry after the ordeal.
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Las Vegas
Lake Mead
Ralph Lamb
Rambhead Island
Echo Bay
National Park Service
Park Service
Warner James
Lamb
Manuel Rodriguez
Pittman
Rodriguez
Overton
Temple Bar
Don Helm
Ramshead Island
Casino Boss Guccione Sentenced Hearing Set for June 2
Former Casino Center pit boss Frank Guccione returns to court for sentencing June 2 after pleading guilty to assault with intent to kill and assault with a deadly weapon. The pleas followed dismissal of an attempted murder charge related to the July 2, 1965 shooting of Harry Palmer.
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Casino Center
Dist
John Sexton
Frank Guccione
Harry Palmer
Guccione
Atty. Louis Wiener, Jr
NSU Students Form Collegiants for Sawyer Committee
NSU students create COLLEGIANS FOR SAWYER to aid Gov. Grant Sawyer in his re election bid. Tom Hribar says the initial 60 leaders will assist with voter registration, phone campaigns, and precinct organizing and a 300 member expansion drive is launched for southern Nevada with a Reno branch to coordinate efforts.
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Collegians
Sawyer
NSU
Grant Sawyer
Tom Hribar
Nevada
Hribar
Collegians For
Reno
University of Nevada
Culinary workers vote on union representation at Holiday Inn
Non union staff at the Holiday Inn on the Strip vote today on union representation by Culinary Workers Local 266 or by no union. Culinary Workers have picketed since March 19 claiming the hotel harms fair standard conditions through area wide bargaining. A 24 hour picket line was kept until a consent election was set by the NLRB.
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Holiday Inn
Culinary Workers Local 266
Inn
National Labor Relations Board
IRS Boss Transferred From Reno To San Francisco
Dalmon Davis district director of Internal Revenue in Reno will move to a staff post in San Francisco within two months. He cites health needs after a recent severe stroke and expects to continue contributing in a reduced role. Davis praised the IRS for 25 years of service and values his new assignment.
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Dalmon Davis
Internal Revenue
Reno
San Francisco
Davis
Internal Revenue Service
Hit and Run Charge For Nellisman
Fred L. Shoshone, 27, was struck on North Main Street near Foremaster Lane and knocked 28 feet. Richard David Gordon, 35, an airman, was arrested on suspicion of felony hit and run and drunk driving after fleeing the scene. Shoshone suffered possible skull fracture and head injuries. his wife, Mrs. Shoshone, was with him.
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Fred L. Shoshone
North Main Street
Foremaster Lane
Richard David Gordon
Las Vegas Blvd
North and
Owens
Gordon
Nellis
Shoshone
Main Street
Ray Gubser to Address FOP Meeting Tonight
Sheriff Captain Ray Gubser Jr will speak to Fraternal Order of Police members at the Knights of Columbus Hall located at 10th and Ogden Streets during tonight's gathering.
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Ray Gubser, Jr
Fraternal Order of Police
Knights of Columbus
10Th and
Ogden Streets
Gunman Robs Enco Station on Tonopah Highway
Police report a robbery at Enco service station 2401 Tonopah Highway where a gunman and three accomplices took 30 dollars from the cash tray. Robbery occurred at 3:30 a.m. with a rear plate obscured by a rag. Attendant Robbie Drake forced to retreat to a restroom.
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Enco
Tonopah Highway
Robbie Drake
Drake
State OKs Ocelot as House Pet
Pauline Marel received a Fish and Game Department permit to keep an ocelot, a small wildcat, as a home pet in Las Vegas. Officials noted the animal is native to Central and South American jungles and can reach the size of a large Siamese cat.
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Pauline Marel
Fish and Game Department
SUN
Nevada
Game Department
Greyline Parley Resuming Negotiations With Teamsters Local 881
Talks between First Greyline Corp of Washington DC and Teamsters Local 881 are to resume Wednesday over a basic sticking point in the new contract working language. About 150 drivers and staff are involved as labor and management pledged no public statements until proposals are exchanged.
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First Greyline Corp
Washington, D.C
Teamsters
First Greyline
Dick Thomas
Amalgamated Transit Workers Union
Greyhound City
San Francisco
Thomas
Methodist Bishop Calls for Support in Path to Reform
Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles urged faith and fellowship to straighten life’s road at a Tropicana Hotel breakfast. He praised church missionaries for social service and discussed preparations for 800 Methodist pastoral appointments across Southern California Nevada and Arizona to be announced next month in Redlands.
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Gerald Kennedy
Los Angeles
Southwest Methodists
Tropicana Hotel
Kennedy
United States
Christ
California
Nevada
Arizona
Redlands
Calif
Donald R. Locher
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Thatcher M. Jordan
Santa Barbara
Richard W. Cain
Frank S. Williams
Pasadena
S. Douglas Walters
Long Beach
Kenneth D. Miller
Whittier
Frank C. Matthews
Riverside
Russell R. Robinson
San Diego
Chilton C. McPheeters
Tucson
Trinity Methodist Church
CCC Sets Forest Planting Record in 1965
Washington reports 232742 acres of national forest land planted or seeded to trees in 1965, surpassing the 1936 CCC record of 223075 acres.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
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