Former Ambassador New Visiting Prof For Summer Session
The former American ambassador to Somalia and Haiti becomes Visiting Associate Professor at UNLV for summer. Dr. Raymond L. Thurston will teach comparative political systems July 25 to August 29, with registration July 24. He has 31 years in the State Department and extensive overseas postings.
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Somali Republic
Haiti
University of Nevada
Las Vegas
Raymond L. Thurston
State Department
A. E. Lapitan
Department of Political Scence
UNLV
Thurston
The
Air University
Maxwell Air Fort Base
Ala
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
State
Canada
Italy
India
Soviet Union
Nevada Professor's Book Honored by California Author Body
Dr. Ralph J. Roske of the University of Nevada Las Vegas earns the California Commonwealth Club’s Californiana Silver Medal for Everyman's Eden. The 1948 history traces California from indigenous settlements through missions, ranchos, gold rush, Civil War, agriculture, and railroads.
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College of Social Sciences
University of Nevada
Las Vegas
California
Ralph J. Roske
Californiana
Commonwealth Club of California
Hilton Hotel
San Francisco
Roske
Everyman
MacMillan and Co
Coast Guard Auxiliary Sets Weekend Safety Patrols
The Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 90 in Boulder City and Flotilla 91 in Las Vegas plan three safety patrol boats on Memorial Day and two each for Saturday and Sunday. The volunteer group promotes water safety, rescue readiness, and public education on motor boat operation with courtesy examinations and decals for compliant boats.
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United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
Flotilla 90
Boulder City
Coast Guard
Flotilla 91
Las Vegas
Bar ing to Seek Aid for Elderly and Social Security Increase
Congressman Walter S. Bar ing pledged to seek more aid for elderly citizens and back the proposed Social Security boost in the House. He criticized wasteful foreign aid and the Vietnam War as draining domestic funds and vowed to prioritize domestic issues after the war ends. He cited evidence of U.S. aid reaching enemy communist countries.
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Walter S. Baring
Baring
Raring
U.S
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Charles H Emery Named Clark County Health Planner
Charles H Emery former Western Division Manager for a Birmingham firm is appointed Comprehensive Health Planner for the Clark County District Health Department. A four person staff will study health services manpower and facilities with Emery’s $15 080 salary funded 50 percent by federal money and the rest in kind.
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Charles H. Emery
Birmingham, Ala
Clark County
Kemery
Emery
Gill Blonsley
Health Board
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Bookie Gets Prison Term in Vegas Case
Las Vegas bookmaker Keith Richards aged 55 drew three months in federal prison after a two year sentence was suspended to that term for conspiring to evade bookmaking excise taxes. The Rendezvous Race Book on the Strip since 1960 was tied to Richards and Al Mengarelli, who faces a separate appeal after pleading nolo contendere to the conspiracy charges.
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Las Vegas
Keith Richards
U. S
Bruce Thompson
Richards
al Mengarelli
Mengarelli
Nolo Contendre
Cannon Warns On Ground Water Drop In Las Vegas
In a telegram to the President Senator Howard W. Cannon warned Las Vegas area wells dropped six feet in April and could exceed the 19 foot drop observed May 1968 to May 1989. He urged immediate resumption of Southern Nevada water project and restoration of $11.5 million cut.
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Washington
Nevada
Howard W. Cannon
Las Vegas
Tasegas Area
Mary Of The Woods College Graduates 116 Coeds
Miss Donnetta Webb daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Webb of 2013 Walnut Street Terre Haute Indiana was among 116 graduates from Mary of the Woods College in Terre Haute Ind recently.
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Charles Webb
Walnut St
Mary-Of-The-Woods College
Terre Haute
Ind
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University of Illinois
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Woolco
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