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Meeting Report, Flood control in Las Vegas Valley, March 8, 1950

Date

1950-03-08

Description

Meeting with agencies involved with flood control and those who had experienced flood damage on their property. Conducted by the Clark County Extension Service in Cooperation with Representatives of the U. S. Forest Service, Mr. Warren Murphy, Field Agent of Secretary of Agriculture, Charles F. Brannan, for the Southwest Region, Clark County Commissioners and Property Owners whose land has been damaged in this area.

Text

Hughie E. and Greta Mills oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01303

Abstract

Oral history interview with Hughie and Greta Mills conducted by Claytee D. White on April 07, 2011 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Hughie and Greta Mills discuss living in Charlestown, West Virginia and getting married in 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. Hughie Mills discusses his career as an educator at Columbia University and Greta Mills discusses being a librarian there. They then discuss retiring and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989.

Archival Collection

Southern Nevada Photo Album, image 130

Description

Autographed black-and-white drawing of H. H. George '29. It reads "To R. G. Morrison with best wishes for his future in Banjoland from Harry George Columbia Record Artist"

John Young, Sany Baxter, and Bob Crippen: photographic print

Date

1994-05-07

Description

Dinner and a party to honor astronauts after the first flight of the Shuttle Columbia. Written on the award, "This flag and patch were flown aboard the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' (STS-1) April 12-14, 1981. Presented to State of Nevada ... Astronaunt John Young. Astronaut Robert Crippen". Standing from left to right is John Young, Sany Baxter, Bob Crippen. Stamped on the back of the photograph, "Las Vegas News Bureau."

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