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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1966
Page
9
A noisy Las Vegas column features comic Jacks Leonardo dieting to lose 90 pounds in seven weeks while subsisting on vanilla malts. Various entertainers tease plans, tours, TV, and film projects across the Strip with celebrity mentions and rumored showbiz moves.
The Duquesne Dukes name Bill Melchionn of Villanova and Jim Walker of Providence as unanimous selections to their all opponent basketball team.
Danny Kaye arrived in Saigon with a small troupe for a four week USO tour to entertain American troops. He planned to travel as far north as possible, reaching all four Army Corps areas, with accompanist Sammy Praeger.
Moscow reports Luna 1A launched at 1 47 p m Moscow time to test satellite deployment and near lunar orbit capability following the first lunar landing. Tass notes the mission aims to set up an artificial moon satellite and to hedge against failure with cautious language.
Imperial Wizard Sam H. Bowers Jr of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan surrendered to an FBI agent in Hattiesburg Mississippi. He had evaded a dragnet for days as authorities arrested 13 Klansmen in the January 10 firebombing death of Vernon Dahmer. Dahmer survived initial shots and Molotov attack before perishing at his burning home.
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