Milestones: Sep. 3, 1965

Died. Wilbur Clark, 56, Las Vegas innkeeper and sometime craps dealer who parlayed tips and gambling earnings into the Green Shack, pioneer Las Vegas gambling house of 1938, and became a full-fledged Nevada nabob in 1950 when he opened his gaudy, $4 million Desert Inn which, increasingly, he ran as a front for a group of sometime Cleveland gamblers; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif.

Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in...

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