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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1977
Page
3
Rover the invisible dog wandered along Fremont Street on a leash held by Jack Leib of Long Island New York. Passersby stared in disbelief and one man exclaimed he thought Rover was in Hawaii this time of year.
City commissioners refused an $8,200 payment toward a Nevada League of Cities self-insurance study. They agreed to revisit the issue after the November Clark County meetings, wary the study duplicates ongoing legislative work on local government finances and insurance costs.
District Court jury trial of Mint Hotel executive chef Vernus Lee Eller postponed to Nov 28. Eller 44 of 1537 Sombrero Drive faced rape charges from an Aug 18 incident with a 20 year old dining room worker in an 11th floor storage room. He remains free on his own recognizance.
A Thursday morning blaze at the 58 room Convention Center Lodge on Convention Center Drive near the Strip destroyed one third floor room and blackened seventeen others with heat and smoke. No injuries were reported though a maid, Iona Watley, was hospitalized for observation after a nervous reaction. Cause under investigation, with cigarette smoldering suspected.
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