Beef Over Pool Game Ends With Shooting
A dispute over a pool game led to a shooting at Gilbert Brothers Liquor. Thomas Taylor, 26, was hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound. Mrs. Bessie Choice, 28, was jailed on charges of assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly grabbing the weapon and firing two shots.
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Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Thomas Taylor
McWilliams
Bessie Choice
W. Wilson St
Gilbert Brothers Liquor
D’’ Street
Bonanza Road
Taylor
Thomas
Mrs. Choice
Chamber Exec Attends Mountain States Meeting in Denver
Ken OConnell, managing director of the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and a Mountain States Association director, will join a three day Denver conference at the Hyatt House. He will serve on a panel about organizations responsibilities in facing the 1980s. Colorado Chamber executives also meet with the Mountain States Association during the event.
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Greater Las Vegas
O'Connell
Colorado Chamber of Commerce
Mountain States Association
Denver Hyatt House
Auto Wreck Kills Local Businessman in Utah
Clifford Larry Frisby, president of Mark Twain Life Insurance Co of Nevada, died in a Lehi Utah crash after allegedly running a stop sign on Frontage Road and being struck by a second car. He lived in Salt Lake City and had just been acquitted of embezzlement in Reno. Co-defendants Eddington and Wright were also acquitted. Nevada Attorney General Harvey Dickerson led the eight week trial.
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Clifford Larry Frisby
Mark Twain Life Insurance Company
Nevada
Lehi
Utah
Salt Lake City
Frisby
U.S. 91
Reno
Mark Twain Insurance Company
Mark Eddington
J. McCarthur Wright
Harvey Dickerson
Obituary of Herschel R Paxton Rancher at 67
Herschel R Paxton 67 of 2675 So Nellis Blvd died yesterday in a local convalescent center. He was a rancher born December 16 1900 in Texas and had lived here seven months. Services pending in Pampa Texas. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Roger Dale Johnson Las Vegas and Mrs Dave McNinch Winnemucca, sister Mrs Kathleen Watson Pampa, three brothers Frank Westminster California John and Guy Paxton San Angelo, six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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Herschel R. Paxton
Nellis Blvd
Mr. Paxton
Texas
Pampa
Tex
Roger Dale Johnson
Las Vegas
Dave McNinch
Winnemucca
Kathleen Watson
Frank
Westminster
Calif
John
Guy Paxton
San Angelo
Alexander P Paterson dies at 71 in Boulder City
Alexander K Paterson 71 of 3726 East Lake Mead Blvd died Saturday in a local hospital. He was a WWI veteran and retired foreman of the Kennecott Copper. Services are set for Wednesday at Woodlawn Cemetery with Boulder City Lodge No. 37 in charge. Survivors include wife Ida, son Thomas Hanson, four daughters, a brother and four sisters plus 19 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Alexander K. Paterson
East Lake Mead Blvd
Kennecott Copper
Paterson
Leadville
Colo
Boulder City Lodge
Woodlawn
Bunker Brothers Chapel
Ida
Thomas Hanson
Pocatello
Idaho
Amaryllis Kellner
Las Vegas
Thelma Purser
Salt Lake City
Veronia Day
Hillsboro
Ore
Kay Bartlett
Twin Falls
David
McGill
Nev
Helen Walters
Margaret Nichols
Craig, Colo
Jessie Wilson
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Maryland Parkway
Boulevard Center
SUN
Maureen Casey
Maureen
Independent Journal of Santa Monica
Sunfoto
Alexander Paterson
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