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I agree.t/2/69 from Al freeman/ Sands / Las Vegas for release upon receipt FOR REVIEW JOURNAL 707 YEARS OF SERVICE Forty-four employees of the Sands, now under the Hughes Resort Hotel banner, who have been with the resort fifteen years or more, are shown as they received diamond service pins and desk sets from executive vice president Joseph A. Aspero, of Worcester, Massachusettts, in his first official act as new director of the Sands* Aspero (second from right) praised the record of the long-time employees and called it one of the finest accomplishments in longetivity of serdjv^ce of any corporation he has been with, and the best record of any hotel in Las Vegas history. The total included 31 employees with 15 years of service, 13 with 16 or more, for a total of 707 continuous years which have helped make the Sands one of the most heavily-trafficked resorts in the world. When Howard Hughes bought the hotel, he stated that "we obtained the results of a survey which indicated that the Sands Hotel was a name known over an amazingly wide portion of the earth, and it possessed an extremely high ?want-to-seef value.11