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Cherina Kleven Papers
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The Cherina Kleven Papers (approximately 1988-2014) document the career of Cherina Kleven who was the first Asian-American appointed as Assistant Fire Chief for Las Vegas Fire & Rescue. The materials primarily include physical and digitized photographs of Kleven in her capacity as Assistant Fire Chief, magazine and newspaper articles featuring Kleven, and event programs. Also included are campaign fliers from 2010 when Kleven ran for office to represent Assembly District 15 in the Nevada Legislature as well as two commemorative books celebrating the history of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue.
Archival Collection
Series 3. Legislative Materials, 1953-1973
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The Legislative material documents Flora Dungan's election campaigns and some of the issues she addressed as Assemblyman from Clark County during the 1963 Session, the 1964 Special Session, the 1967 Session, and the 1968 Special Session. The major issues covered in the papers include legislative reapportionment and Nevada State Prison reform, in which Dungan played a key role. With Dr. Clare Woodbury, she filed a lawsuit that led to a special session of the legislature in 1965. Although Dungan was not in office at this time, her files contain much material related to apportionment, including copies of court filings and her handwritten worksheets for various apportionment ratios, based on Legislative Counsel Bureau reports. The prison reform material includes the controversy that erupted in the Assembly when she announced her intention to visit the state prison and the subsequent attempt to remove her from her committee assignment. There was extensive press coverage of this controversy, reflected in the many newspaper clippings that document her efforts at prison reform.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Flora Dungan Papers
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Archival Component
Other RKO films, 1940 to 1956
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The other RKO films sub-series (approximately 1940-1955) contains material related to the development, production, and post-production of RKO films produced while Howard R. Hughes, Jr. owned the company. The films primarily included are Where Danger Lives (1950) and His Kind of Woman (1951); additional film-related records include Double Dynamite (1951), The French Line (1953), Hansel and Gretel (1954), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Las Vegas Story (1952), Macao (1952), Montana Belle (1952), Son of Sinbad (1955), and Underwater! (1955). Records include advertising and publicity, censorship, production and direction, and story development, as well as film soundtracks. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, correspondence, editing notes, contracts, agreements, screenplays, and continuities.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
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Archival Component
Copley Press, inc.
Bio taken from Wiki: "Copley Press was a privately held newspaper business, founded in Illinois, but later based in La Jolla, California. Its flagship paper was The San Diego Union-Tribune."
Corporate Body
Transcript of interview with Chic Hecht by Julie Sefman, April 2, 1976
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Chic Hecht Julie Sefman on April 2, 1976. In this brief interview, Hecht talks about his time in the state senate working to bolster the budget with sales tax and gaming tax, starting a community college and health programs. He also talks about Pop Squires, a newspaper man and advocate for building Hoover Dam, who had a home on the site of Chic Hecht's clothing store on Fremont Street. Hecht also describes his time in the military and his involvement with the Military Intelligence Association.
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Las Vegas Paiute Colony improvement and relocation proposal records
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Archival Collection
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Resolution of the Adult Members of the Las Vegas Indian Colony granting utility companies access to the community to construct electrical infrastructure. Report from Realty Officer Ned Mitchell regarding a community relocation meeting, with attendees documented. Data sheet about the Las Vegas Paiute Colony. Letter from Area Director F. M. Haverland to the Bureau of Indian Affairs commissioner regarding increased lot sizes. A newspaper clipping is attached, "U.S. Aid to Be Sought For Indian Colony Here."
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