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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1963
Page
1
A Sun staffer in disguise questions the Sonny Liston Floyd Patterson bout in Las Vegas arguing the event may be more notorious than celebrated. The piece cites Patterson’s past losses, lists various boxing figures, and hints at sensational controversy surrounding the match.
Miami report describes a twin engine air raid on Havana eastern oil refineries including former Esso and Shell facilities. A freelance source claims five 100 pound bombs were dropped from about 150 feet, with no opposition encountered. Identifications remain unconfirmed.
A U S Air Force C-47 crashed on a Sandia mountains mesa near Placitas New Mexico killing all nine aboard. The aircraft departed from Lowry Air Force Base near Denver en route to California via Wright Patterson and March AFB. The crash occurred about six miles north of Placitas around 11 40 a m EST.
Two Cuban gunboats dodged back and forth across the bow of a U S Coast Guard cutter about 30 miles northeast of Havana in the Florida Straits. U S jet fighters were scrambled from Key West with no shots fired and the incident occurred in international waters.
In Dola West Virginia fourteen miners were killed in the Clinchfield Coal Company No 2 blast late Thursday night with eight men still missing. Seventeen survivors reached the surface as rescue teams worked 330 feet underground under grim conditions. Authorities noted methane or coal dust as causes and referenced nearby mining disasters for contrast.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan accused Labour Leader Harold Wilson of steering Britain toward becoming a second class power by abandoning the nuclear deterrent. He spoke at the Scottish Unionist Association conference, signaling a possible early general election campaign ahead of the 1964 deadline.
In Portsmouth a Naval court of inquiry heard Capt. John J. Hinchy test discolored plastic from the USS Thresher found blackened by graphite or carbon not burned in a flame. The Trieste bathyscaphe, en route from the West Coast, may aid in locating the sunken submarine believed to lie on the Atlantic floor. 129 sailors perished when Thresher sank April 10 about 220 miles east of Cape Cod.
A Vietnamese government company of civil guards was surrounded and wiped out by Communist soldiers near Quang Ngai, about 20 miles west of the coast, in a battle reported by military sources. A separate dawn attack on a Vinh Binh militia outpost left five militiamen wounded and two missing with several weapons seized.
Police in Gadsden Alabama questioned and released Floyd L. Simpson s wife and brother as the investigation into the killing of civil rights Crusader William L Moore continued. A friend, Gaddis Killian, turned himself in and was released as investigators said he had nothing to do with the slaying. Moore s body was found near U S 11 about 13 miles northeast of the city while he hiked along the highway en route to Jack.
Soviet jet fighters circled two U S helicopters above Berlin yesterday but made no threats. One chopper crossed into East Berlin while the other patrolled near the anti refugee wall. The MIGs stayed 500 yards away and did not harass. U S officials reported continued flights despite the Soviet response.
Roger Wing a 36 year old former Seattle man is front runner to become Las Vegas personnel chief after the department shake up that led to the resignation of director John Montgomery Wing formerly a partner in a Seattle consulting firm now lives at 2725 Sherwood Salary for the job ranges from 9000 to 15000 dollars per year Wing is among two top candidates for the post.
Partly cloudy today with southerly winds 20 to 30 mph ahead of a high near 62 and a low around 55. Yesterdays high was 60 and low 45 with noon relative humidity about 26 percent. Sunrise is 4 53 and sunset at 6 24.
Washington columnist Jack Anderson charges the Defense Department hid the shooting of a Cuban spy at Guantanamo and the ouster of four Marine officers. He says the spy acted in self defense and the officers were purged without a hearing. Navy acknowledged a Cuban employee’s body found at Guantanamo and an investigation underway.
In Birmingham Alabama the Rev Martin Luther King and ten others were found guilty of contempt of court for violating an injunction against anti segregation demonstrations. Circuit Court Judge William Jenkins sentenced the defendants.
Reno authorities ask Reno police to question confessed killer Thomas Bean about an unsolved double murder near Portland in 1960. Oregon officers doubt connect but will pursue inquiries into the deaths of Larry Payton and Beverly Allan. Bean is jailed in Washoe County awaiting district court action in the Sonja McCaskie decapitation case.
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