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person that has a stake in Ne­ vada, I want to help in any way I can, I want to be a part of doing good for people, to help them live

a better life.

Davis acknowledged he has contributed financially to the na­ tional organization, which has been a loud advocate of the poor.

He said he would march with the demonstrators if they wanted him, put after a huddle with welfare rights leaders he decided

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Reminding the corps of press­ men who engulged him when he arrived at the hotel,” I’ve been in this state since 1944, Davis pledged his support/^ “the right

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Davis was also scheduled

appear at an N.A.A.C.P. voter registration rally 8 p.m. Tuesday in the C.V.T. Gilbert School at 2101W. Cartier Ave. Other spea­

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the state welfare office here for the second time in eight days and

confronted district office man­ ager Vince Fallon.

After hearing his response to six demands presented last week, including reinstatement of termi nated clients and dismissal of

state administrator George Mil­ ler, leaders announced a march

on the Strip March 5 and 6.

Dr. George Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, said “we

will bring in national leaders, students, blacks and whites” to participate in the march.

“If we don’t succeed, we will contmue to disrupt the gambling and prostitution industries that

make people rich in Nevada,” he said. “We’re going to keep com­ ing back until those people are

he had arranged with local lea­ ders earlier to supply welfare manuals.

Responding to other demands, Fallon read a press release from state officials promising service to local people “ going through

proper channels” but refusing to H bow down” to demands of per-

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Ruby Duncan, chairman of the local welfare rights group, told the chanting, cheering crowd “Mr. Fallon is an inadequate

leader. Both of them (him and Miller) ought to be dumped. They are both dogs.

Another national organizer, Bruce Thompson, said “this is the battleground for every welfare

recipient in the country .

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want a revolution, let them keep doing what they’re doing and they’ll have their revolution,” he said.

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