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VegasNewsEventsUnitid Pres* ln!ernttior:«la: IV' FOUND INSANE ,A Las Vegas District Court jury ■ yesterday found accused murderer Jerome Kuk insane.The verdict took only seven minutes alter the jurors heard testimony from a California psychiatrist that Kuk’s mental condition was deteriorating.Judge George Marshall ordered Kuk returned to the state mental hospital in Sparks.The former rookie policeman was charged with the fatal shooting of Boulder City iron worker Steven Bowman.wei11Uiiaafteal£tlr5Suy~=LABOR DISPUTE A labor dispute has developedbetween a contractor and mem-►bers of Local 88 of the Las Vegas Sheet Metal Workers Union.The union says It wants pay from the minute Its men enter the' gates to the atomic energy test site at Mercury, Nevada— not when they arrive at the actual work site, which they claim In 15 minutes from the main c gate.Both officials of the Reynolds Electric and Engineering Company and union leaders have agreed to submit the matter to ^a joint adjustment board for arbitration.The work Is slated for the AEC’s top secret project 51” The project site gained national prominence some,three years ago when an Air Force spokesman said a plane operatingchigher and faster” than any- )tiling then known, operates from nearby Groom Lake. 1Today, AEC spokesmen said they would not elaborate on work being done there now,
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Tue, Nov 17, 1959
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