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This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV U niversity Libraries. A dditional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or w ith any questions regarding access at special.collections@ unlv.edu. ? pfc ? ? ? BY SAWYER i 1 4 Capital Bureau \ CARSON CITY - Gov. Grant J Sawyer today asked the Nevada [ State Legislature to create a su-f per-structure of four new de- | partments in an effort to par- 1 tially reorganize the * ‘maze” of more than 100 agencies, boards -aod commissions for which he is I responsible* The governor asked for more than $200,000 to implement the plan during the next two years. Arguing that *‘big government is onerous at best; at its worst it is chaotie,” Sawyer pointed out that -?if dhaos is not the precise description for Nevada state gov­ernment today, it soon will be unless action is taken now.” HE THEN proposed: 7 —A department of administra­tion designed to combine the functions of the budget office, personnel, planning, purchasing, and buildings and grounds. This department would be run by a director of administration. —A department of health, educa­tion arid welfare which would in­clude health, education, children’s home, welfare, and alcoholism cies along with two newly [posed divisions — m e n t a 3 1th and youth services. 'HE MENTAL health division proposed to coordinate the ac­tivities of existing mental care arnd mental health services of the department of health, the Nevada State hospital, community men­tal health services and the al-f i i \ a l Review -Journal NEVADA'S LARGEST AND ” MOST ^COnMtoPiL ErTrcE NEWSPAPER School Plans Revealed VOL. 55, NO. 22 PHONE 334-4650 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, TUESD AY, JAN UA RY 22, 1963 TH IR TY PAGES INITIAL HOTEL INVESTORS GETTING MONEY 1660-ACRE GRAB HENDERSON *— The City Council Monday night annexed 1,660 acres of Paradise Valley land in a surprise move in its feud with Sanitation District No. 1, | 35 Cents On Dollar Distributed By COLIN M dCItyLAY R-J City Editor The area, Which included the Paradise Valley Country Club, is also legally a part of the sani­tation district. The annexation" has the immediate effect of low­ering property taxes in Hender­son by 36 cents per $100 assessed valuation. Checks totaling $1.8 million have been serif out to nearly 3,000 per­sons Who invested money in preferred stock in the original ill-fated Stardust hotel venture. ACTION BY the council came in the midst of a hearing now in progress in district court, with the sanitation district attempting f/v uffinn on fnt* in' ATTORNEY WILL PRESS FIGHT TO PRACTICE A Negro leader, rebuffed by the State Supreme Court which denied three preliminary mo­tions in his suit to practice law in Nevada, said today he will continue to fight. Charles L. Kellar, Las Vegas leader of the NAACP, said, The payment from Paul McDer­mott, trustee k bankruptcy for the Stardust estate* represents about 35 cents on the dollar in­vestment to hotel promoter Tony Cornero, who died before the spa was completed. Officials of the bankruptcy court said that it appeared likely that investors would get an ad­ditional 25 to 50 cents bn the dollar in five years. EVIDENCE OF EARLY MAN — A stone scraper, believed to be 11,000 to 12,000 years old, was unearthed at Tule Springs Monday by scientists who soy it is the most exciting discovery of the current exploration period. REVIEW -JOURNAL PHOTO NLV RetiHei DIGGING DISCOVERY By JIM LEA VY R J Capita! Bureau CARSON C IT Y — Gov. Grant Sawyer, speaking before a joint session of the 52nd Legislature to­day, urged legislation in o score of major problem areas, asked approval for a plan to reorganize state government, and submit­ted a budget of more thcrh $200 million in fed­eral and state funds for the operation of Neva­da's government. In his fourth speech before the Nevada Legislature; the governor asked that the “myriad” of agen­cies in state government be re­organized under a few major de­partments. The plan would cut in half the number of lines of communication between the gov­ernor and the more than lOO agen­cies, boards and commissions in government. THE RECORD budget calls for a general fund appropriation of $96 million for the operation of state government. The remainder of the money will come from the federal government and highway use taxes. About $49 million, more than half /the general fund appropria­tion, is earmarked for schools and more than 12 million is asked for the University of Nevada. In his comments on education, the governor listed three alterna­tives for lawmakers concerning the formula under which the state aids education. He said they may leave the formula as it is, in­crease the formula and impose additional state taxes to provide for the needed revenues, or, by