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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1976
Page
12
Harley E. Harmon, President and Chairman of the Board of Nevada State Bank, was named a member of the Government Relations Council of the American Bankers Association. Harmon took office on the final day of the ABA convention in Washington.
West Las Vegas ministers form an organization to protect churches from arson. Bob Bailey spearheads the effort and will coordinate with Bishop E N Webb, noting three fires in the past week may threaten insurance coverage for area churches.
In San Sebastian and Madrid violent demonstrations flare as Basque nationalists clash with police and right wing groups. Shots are reported, shops and cinemas close, and police rescue officers amid ongoing retaliatory violence after the slaying of Juan Maria de Araluco.
About 1,000 off-duty New York police marched from Madison Square Garden to a midtown station to protest the arrests of four officers. They were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and blocking traffic and released after talks led by PBA president Douglas Weaving. The demonstration aimed to pressure for a restored deferred pay increase and a new work schedule. Some officers claimed a sergeant beat a colleague outside the Garden. officials denied injuries.
The American Cancer Society not hosting a celebrity baseball game. It organizes a Jog-A-Lug fundraiser Saturday Oct 23. Joggers run from the ACS office at Flamingo and Maryland Parkway to the House of Barbeque on Sahara Avenue. Sponsorship costs 25 dollars per jogger T shirt provided.
Juan Manuel Bustillos-Vargas and Eva Bustillos-Vargas were arrested at 623 N Eastern Ave on three counts each of selling counterfeit green cards. Federal agents detained them though state court charges will follow for the state violation. James Walsh of INS Las Vegas led the joint probe with the Bureau of State Narcotics and Investigations.
August travelers at McCarran International Airport reached nearly 749000, about a 20 percent rise from August 1975. Year to date traffic advanced about 19 percent, boosted by One-Stop Inclusive Tour Charter activity, with Las Vegas handling 53 percent of OTC traffic in the first nine months and an average of six OTC arrivals per day. Air cargo climbed to just under 2 percent for August, with a 10 percent year-over-year increase through August 1976.
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