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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1977
Page
5
The piece explains the upcoming clock change to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday and recounts daylight saving time history in the United States from 1918 to its reestablishment in 1974, including wartime usage, policy shifts, and safety concerns.
Western Airlines will inaugurate service to Fort Lauderdale via Miami beginning Sunday, offering direct DC-10 flights six days a week between Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale with connections to and from Las Vegas. Flight 722 departs LAX at 11 p.m. daily except Friday and arrives Ft. Lauderdale at 8:35 p.m. daily except Saturday. Flight 731 leaves Fort Lauderdale at 7:50 a.m. daily except Saturday and arrives in LAX at 12:05 p.m. EST. Connections from 731 extend to Las Vegas Honolulu San Francisco Portland Sacramento Salt Lake City Seattle Tacoma Vancouver.
A 10.4 million hospital expansion contract was signed with Del E. Webb Construction Co. Clark County Commission Chairman Thalia Dondero authorized signing after short term financing was arranged. The county secured a 10.5 million First National Bank loan at 5 percent, to be repaid when bonds are sold. Voters previously opposed hospital bonds, but the 1977 legislature allowed bonding without voter approval. Attorney George Franklin's bid to block bonds failed in district court.
Cesar Galindo of Las Vegas is named to a two year term on the three member State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, replacing Gary White who died in an automobile accident. Born in Mexico, he became a US citizen in 1958 and has lived in Las Vegas since 1968. He has 21 years in the shoe business, owns one store and manages four others with his wife and five children.
Clark County School District trustees will interview 11 applicants for the vacant District B seat. Interviews open to the public under the Open Meeting Law run Tuesday and Wednesday at the district education center on Flamingo Road. Five candidates per day will be examined as the board seeks to appoint a new member by November 17 to serve until the 1978 general election.
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