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    THE ANGELBREAD FOUNDATION THE SANDS HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA DUDLEY 7 1 0 0 hospital took care of 3000 poopla ?╟÷ 32 percent of whom acre Jewish, 22 percent of iAmmi were Catholic, 48 percent of whom mm Lutheran, Baptist, Mormon, Protestant, episcopalian and Methodist* Bose do lima is the- only .accredited hospital in Southern Nevada because of Its high standards for .surgical work and nursing care* It needed wore heda and wore facilities and its Chief of Staff, a Jew, Dr. Rubin Lockitch, asked his friends at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Producer Jack Barretter and publicist 41 Freeman to help raise money for the hadly needed expansion. Plans were made for a star-studded show with Frank Sinatra, hut were discarded when Eatratter pointed out that the most the hospital could get would he $10-15,000 which would be a drop i?? the bucket compared to the. $200,000 they needed for 20 more rooms. About that time, Freemen entered the hospital for a 5-day stay In an es^gen tent to clear up a lung infection he had suf- fered in eee&at in Italy.