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New additions to Nevada Press Association “Hall of Fame”

Monday, Sept. 25, 2000 | 10:18 a.m.

The inductees include the late Ned Day, a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist who died after collapsing on a beach in Hawaii in 1987 at age 42.

Day earned a reputation as an investigative reporter covering organized crime, the gambling industry and politics. Day began working for the Valley Times in 1976, later joined the Review-Journal staff and served as managing editor of KLAS-TV, Channel 8.

Also inducted was the late Ken Jones, a longtime Las Vegas Sun photographer known for capturing celebrities on film. Jones worked for the Sun from 1954 until his retirement in 1996.

Jones, who died in March at age 86, photographed such dignitaries as President John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt and Elvis Presley. He also was known for his aerial photos of the Las Vegas Strip, and his "Street Talk" photo-columns.

The third inductee, Sue Morrow, spent 29 years beginning in 1962 as city editor of the Nevada Appeal in Carson City.

Among the stories she covered were President Lyndon Johnson's visit to the University of Nevada, Reno, the crash of a Paradise Airlines plane that killed 85 people near Job's Peak and the Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnapping in Lake Tahoe.

Pete Kelley is the forth inductee. He served as a combat correspondent before taking over as the editor of the Nevada Appeal from 1946 to 1953. He also worked as a state correspondent for the Reno Evening Gazette, spent 10 years as a Carson-area wire correspondent, and for many years was the NPA's secretary-manager and chief lobbyist.

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