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Transcript of interview with Kerin Scianna Rodgers by Dennis McBride, February 24, 1998

Date
1998-02-24
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Kerin Rodgers owned a retail fashion store and modeling agency with a friend in Santa Monica, California. She came to Las Vegas in 1966 to work at The Broadway department store. She bought a home in the John S. Park Neighborhood in 1974. Popular radio personality; active in local and national politics.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date
1929-07-12
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Las Vegas Paiute Colony land acquisition: correspondence

Date
1970 to 1971
Description

Letter from Rolla E. Chandler, Manager, Nevada Land Office, to Richard Bailey, Inter-Tribal Council Planning Unit and notice of classification of public lands for transfer out of Federal ownership. Letter from Superintendent to Area Director about a resolution/request from the Las Vegas Indian Colony for assistance in securing additional lands through legislation. Letter from Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada attorney Michael Seth Krout to Superintendent of Nevada Indian Agency Jose A. Zuni about Las Vegas Paiute Colony land. Resolution of Las Vegas Council requesting submission of a bill to Congress for holding land in trust. Letter from Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada attorney Michael Seth Krout to the Secretary of the Interior about acquiring additional land for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony.

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Index map showing locations of geologic sections on plate 2 and wells on plates 2 and 3, Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, 1981 (Water-supply paper 2320-A)

Date
1981
Description
'Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. Water-supply paper 2320-a, plate 4.' 'Prepared in cooperation with the Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning.' 'Base from U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000 , Boulder City, Ariz.-Nev., Las Vegas, Nev.-Calif., Mesquite Lake, Nev.-Calif., 1978, Lake Mead, Nev.-Ariz., 1979.' 'Geology from Malmberg (1965); Longwell and others (1965); Bell and Smith (1980); and J. R. Harrill, 1976.' Shows township and range lines. Scale 1:100,000 (W 115°30´--W 115°00´/N 36°30´--N 36°00´). Series: U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper
2320-A. Originally published as plate 4 of Ground-water conditions in Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada. Part I. Hydrogeologic framework / by Russell W. Plume, published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1989 as Water-supply paper 2320-A.

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Maps of flood-prone areas in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1973

Date
1973
Description
'Prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration. 1973.' Sheet 1: Las Vegas NE, Nev.; Sheet 2: Las Vegas SE, Nev.; Sheet 3:Las Vegas SW, Nev.; Sheet 4: Las Vegas NW, Nev. Published by Geological Survey (U.S.). Scale 1:24,000. [1 in. to approx. 2,000 ft.]. Relief shown by contours. Flood information overprinted on U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic quadrangles: [sheet 1] Las Vegas NE quadrangle, [sheet 2] Las Vegas SE quadrangle, [sheet 3] Las Vegas SW quadrangle, [sheet 4] Las Vegas NW quadrangle, 1967. Shows areas subject to flooding by a flood that has 1 in 100 chance on the average of occurring in any one year. "Flood boundaries were estimated from: regional stage-frequency relations." Includes notes.

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San Diego TV news segment on the expanding population of Las Vegas: video

Date
1985 (year approximate) to 1995 (year approximate)
Description
Segment by unknown San Diego newstation on the expanding population, real estate, and economic upturn that Las Vegas is experiencing. Video opens with a Stardust Hotel and Casino craps game, while a voiceover describes Las Vegas as "Lost Vegas" and "Lost Wages" but that tourists and locals live together side-by-side. Reporter explains the population is rapidly growing, and many Californians and San Diegans are moving to the city, as it rebrands from "Sin City" to a reasonable, welcoming place to live. The reporter explains that many casinos were "in the red" and how it was in a economic downturn. However, many new casinos are being expanded or new ones built now that the economy is looking up. Features many shots of the Stardust Hotel interior and exterior. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.

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Speech transcript, March 30, 1983

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Cabat, Erni, 1914-1994

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Goynes, Naomi

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Naomi Jackson

Naomi Goynes was born as Naomi Jackson on October 30, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee to a minister father. Her first job was as a maid, but she had dreams of attending college. When Goynes attended the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, she received her teaching degree in home economics. Goynes met her future husband, Theron Goynes, in Nashville, Arkansas where they both were young teachers in 1956.

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