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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1968
Page
1
A Las Vegas sanitation strike concluded last night after Teamsters Local 631 won a 25 cent hourly pay increase. The contract was ratified 56 to 1, ending days of refuse piling from the downtown area to the Strip as residents hauled trash to dumps.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller arrives in Las Vegas from Salt Lake City after private talks with Governor Laxalt. Nevada GOP leaders and SUN publisher Greenspun join him as he pursues delegates for the Miami convention. Rockefeller aims to secure the GOP nomination with 12 Nevada delegates at stake. The state party appoints Mrs. Orville R. Wilson as state vice chairwoman to organize support.
New York presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller arrives at McCarran Airport at 4 35 p m and spends the next four hours here. He meets press questions at the airport and holds sessions with staff and GOP delegates at International Country Club and the Convention Center Gold Room before departing for New York.
Hanley 52, a Las Vegas union leader, was brought to Justice Court and formally charged with murder in the January 1966 shotgun slaying of Ralph Alsup head of the Las Vegas Plumbers and Pipefitters Union. His attorney Al Dreyer stood with him as he was called from a group of 13 prisoners before Judge Joe Pawlikowski. Hanley surrendered Monday at the county jail.
Today sunny with southwest winds 10 to 20 mph and a high near 100 degrees. Overnight low around 70. Yesterday reached 106. Noon humidity 11 percent. Sunrise 5 26, sunset 7 51.
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