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CHICAGO MAY 17, 1964 Section 6 Vegas Sta rtles First--Time Visitors Vi IUYCEKS FROM MIAMI YEAR-ROUND EVERY FRIDAY, 5 P.H 7 DAYS rM NEVADA' ii flncludes ship as your and an metis After a number of Indian raids the mission was abandoned. The city really was born May 15, 1905, when plans to run the railroad thru the settlement were announced. Near the site of the present railroad station, 3,000 persons heard the plans of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, -and Salt Lake railroad now the Union Pacific. A tenf city came to life in the desert and for better or for J89Uh: BIT TO PUERTO RICO AND IS All You've Heard Is True and More So First in a series on a "quickie" trip to Las Vegas. By Alfred Borcover i Assistant Travel Editor LAS VEGAS Unbelievable, just unbelievable! To the first- VIRGIN ISLANDS ARIZONA j(rtoU SO MILES tew llhMn time visitor here this is the reaction to just about everything you encounter or hear about gambling, en worse has prospered.

Spring offers visitors warm yes, Las Vegas also is one jays, generally in the 70s and of thoset places where you'can refreshing nights. Summer get Jnamed mimediately- the fa license bureau stays open 24 hhl an hours. Marriages start at the Also, you can get divorced aft- swimming season runs from er a six-week stay. That's a April thru September'. Fall, like little more expensive.

Prices springvhas warm days and cool start at $300 nights. Winter runs from Nov- Las Vegas got perhaps its ember thro February with oc-biggest tourist boost in the casional rain and snow flur- tion, giving his hotel 1,000 rooms. Still snarled in financial difficulties' is the Landmark, a 29-story mushroom shaped hotel-casino. When completed the casino will be near the top of this tower, giving the players a great view. The largest project sealing completion is the 22-story, 15-million-dollar addition to the Dunes The 510-room structure will double the Dunes capacity.

In addition to! hotel expansion and parking facilities Casino center has undergone a Vk million dollar program which has brought wider, streets, better new, sidewalks. The 12 downtown hotels and casinos stand wall to wall, and their' facades of electrical signs have caused the area to be dubbed "the great white way of the west" The Las Vegas news bureau reports that these signs contain lightbulbs, and 221,000 feet or 40 miles of neon tubing, costing in excess of 5 million do lars to manufacture. The monthly power bill, for 7,827,000 watts, is $53,000. Las Vegas just isn't out to lure individual visitors. In 1959 it opened a 6.5 million dollar convention center, with seating 7-day cruise with 1 day In San Juan, Puerto Rice and 1 day hi St Thomas, Virgin Islands; balance of time, cruising.

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Los Vg Nan Burton Photos! addition to its many attractions, offered spectacular scenery. But Las -Vegas is simply cut out of a former desert wilderness. Mountains are nearby but the land immediately around Las Vegas is semi-arid, flat and uninteresting. Las Vegas, which means the meadows, was known in the 1930s with the opening of the Barcwrar You've got to see La Vegas to believe it. This is Fremont street, the downtown Casino center.

Fremont street in downtown Las Vegas are optimistic, too. Owners on the Strip have seen fit to spend 75 million dollars to provide bigger and better facilities higher, too. With the price of land here steadily climbing up to $2,500 a front foot resorts are building up. Last year 10 hotels completed high-rise additions, adding 5,000 rooms. Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn opened a 10-story building, giving it 650 rooms.

Clark's Stardust hotel also is adding a 10-story building, to give it a total of 1,500 rooms, making it one of the biggest resort hotels in the world. Del Webb of New York Yankee fame, an owner of the Sahara, opened a 24-story addi MIAMI, Fla. 3310I Plar 3, Box B82 a FR J-7501 NEW YOPX N. Y. 10004( 17 Batttry PL 80 8-0460 60603 37 S.

Wabash AM. CE S-756S CHICAGO, III. nes. 4 Altho Las Vegas sounds like an expensive place- to vacation, and sometimes is, it needn't'be. Rooms are priced general from $8 to $18 single and $10 to $20 double occupancy.

At some of the hotels you can have a buffet dinner for $2.50. For a short trip to Las Vegas, the best thing to do is fly. Trans World Airlines has three flights a day from Chicago's O'Hare International airport, morning, afternoon, and evening. United Air Lines has two daily flights. Now, pack your bags.

Next week: Las Vegas by night. Hoover. Boulder dam to tourists. It was then tfie gateway to Hoover dam and -the Lake Mead national recreational area and still is. The dam about a 30-minute drive southeast of Las Vegas.

In addition to Hoover dam and Lake Mead the Las Vegas area offers Mount Charleston and Valley of the Fire state park. Another fine feature of Las Vegas is its weather. It has an average mean temperature hear 70 degrees and residents boast about the area's 99 out of 100 days of sunshine and low humidity averaging 20 per cent gee to believe. Gambling in Las Vegas, the "fun and entertainment capital of the world" is everywhere and in abundance. Step off your jet at modern McCarran field, walk a hundred yards or so into the new 5 million dollar terminal building, and you run into the first slot machines.

Walk into your hotel or motel and you have no difficulty finding the craps, 21, roulette tables. It's harder to find the registration desk! Unbelievable but true. Entertainment also is abun 1770s for its meadows and springs and was a camping ground along the Old Spanish trail between Santa Fe and the missions in California. First Americans came here in 1855, when William Bringhurst of Great Salt lake arrived with 30 young men detailed by Brig-ham Young to "go to Las Vegas, build a fort there to protect immigrants and the United States mail from the Indians." You'll laugh at the poems and gags you'll be entertained by the epigrams and philosophy found in "A Line Type or Two" every weekday exclusively in the Chicago Tribune. Be sure to read it.

capacity lor 8,500. Last year the city drew 132 conventions. The popularity of Vegas would be understandable if it were tucked in the mountains or perched on the ocean, or in -BAHAMAS- -BAHAMAS- -BAHAMAS- iirmrMMiwiiii 4. dant, lavish, and for the visitor who's not busy losing his bank roll, reasonable. Millions of dollars are spent by the resorts for entertainment A big name star gets as high as $50,000 a One of the lavish Parisian shows operates on a a week budget This entertainment is available, to the vacationer for as little as a drink or a dinner.

The vacationer's Las Vegas is a resort city or gambling town that never sleeps. If your money and endurance permit, you can gamble around the clock. You can be entertained and amused by music, dancing, comedy from early evening until the pre-dawn hours. You can depending on the season and your desires golf, ski, swim, playiennis, fish, go boat- wff EiffBum the Mmhmmms i ing or riding, or water skiing in or near Las Vegas. The desert community of Las Vegas has grown from a tent town to a booming city of 000 in 60 years.

Just 10 years ago the population of surround. ing Clark county was 65,000. And from now through the fall, our hotels lower the cost of doing nothing by about one-third. The clip-clop of the surrey sets the pace of Nassau's life. You can browse through shops filled with duty-free bargains, lazily tan yourself on coral-pink beaches, and refresh yourself in clear blue waters.

Then dine leisurely under a tropic moon, on the terrace of a fashionable hotel. And to make you even more relaxed, our hotels charge you about one third less for your accommodations from now right through to Dec. 15: When you decide to quicken the pace, there's skindiving and sailing, golf and tennis. At sunset, Nassau's sprightly dusk-to-dawn night life will delight you when you take a tour of our rousing native night Why not "go foreign" this summer to Nassau and tjie Bahamas. There's no red tape no passport, no visa.

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Why does this city grow? Could be that millions each year find Las Vegas and environs a good place for a fun and exciting short or long vacation. And thousands must agree that Las Vegas is a good place to live and raise a family. Like other cities Las Vegas schools are suffering from growing pains. School enrollment jumped from 42149 in 1962 to 50,021 in 1963. Resort, hotel, and casino operators along the famous Strip Las Vegas boulevard and in Casino center two blocks along -CRUISES- EXPEDITION VSMV' UUJ'VV'WVH9'VW ii Remote Tropical Islands Uiuiar Mm Mr tonal Suparvhio of Cap'ri Mik.

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