Las Vegas Split Personality Faces Quiet Earnest Life
Nearly 25 000 residents in Las Vegas live a steady backyard existence away from gambling and government aid. The city’s dual nature shows as some celebrate the strip while others pursue ordinary, frugal life in a town of 55 000. Residents say subsistence depends on viewpoint and compromise.
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Martin and Lewis
Fred Waring
Inside the Las Vegas Penitentiary and the Gambling Boom
Reporter Joseph Porcello tours the Nevada State Penitentiary near Las Vegas and describes its operations from dining to cell blocks. The piece shifts to Las Vegas growth, economy, and social issues, noting crime, housing, and the city’s dependence on gambling while weighing the long-term prospects of reform.
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FBI
Las Vegas
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Nevada Tax Commission
McDermott
Charles H. Russell
Death Ride Russian Roulette In Cars
An article warns of dangerous driving across Meadowbrook and Genesee in DeWitt toward Fayetteville. It describes high speed reckless behavior near Nottingham High School and along streets past St Mary's Cemetery and the Pig Stand, urging caution and noting risks to pedestrians and drivers.
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Nottingham High School
Meadowbrook
Nottingham
Genesee Street
Indianapolis
St Mary's Cemetery
de Witt
Jamesville Road
Howard Johnson
High‘bridge Road
Fayetteville
Your Horoscope for May 30 Birthdays
Daily forecast by zodiac sign with advice on mood, actions, and temper. Aries through Aquarius receive brief guidance on focus, decision making, patience, and balance. The page blends optimistic counsel with practical steps tailored to each sign.
Mayor appoints feather measurer in Brockton
Brockton residents were surprised when the mayor announced the appointment of a measurer of feather. The mayor said he acts under Massachusetts law requiring annual appointments of certified measurers who assess leather purchased by local shoe factories.
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Brockton
Mass
Stamina
Ty Jocal
Fumes May Cause Warmer Winters
Dr. Harry Wexler of the U S Weather Bureau cites carbon dioxide from factories engines and furnaces as a possible major cause of century long warming in the Northern Hemisphere. He notes infrared trapping and aims to study via the 1957 1958 international geophysical year with 40 nations. Arctic ice loss and a new northern sea route are linked while no Antarctic warming is evident.
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Wiliam Gilbert
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Hemisphere
Harry Wexler
U. S. Weather Bureau
Wexler
Arctic
Siberia
Blackjack (Wood) Has New Use
Norman Oklahoma farmers mocked the blackjack oak until University of Oklahoma chemist Dr Arthur Shead dissected the wood molecule by molecule. He bought poor land near Norman covered with blackjack trees, burned the wood and used ashes as fertilizer, noting potatoes grew well despite drought.
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Okla
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
Arthur ©. Shead
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