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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1963
Page
1
Carey Eres outlines a columnist critique of Las Vegas growth under the mayor. The piece cites slides claiming booster effects on churches and highway paving while questioning impact on traffic and daily life. The author notes long walks, mixed views on Strip hotels, and upcoming Industrial Day judging in Henderson.
Barbara Coughlan, state welfare director for 13 years, said she would seek a personnel hearing to learn why she was fired. CY Ryan reports from Carson City on the dismissal.
Bodies recovered after a damaged boat found, Larry Haws 47 of Lakeside California identified. Missing occupants N D Simpson 52 Las Vegas and Leo Huber 61 Santee California, continued search by Lake Mead Park Service with two amphibious planes from the 303rd Air Rescue Squadron. Debris along the shoreline noted as crews scoured the lake for hours.
Orrie Sehurr, 60, was beaten to death at a rundown farm near Lock Haven. Anna Marie Yost, 67, and Ida Belle Holmes, 69, were held without bail after authorities described the scene as a Tobacco Road murder. Autopsy showed a crushed skull and multiple fractures.
Walter Raul, once an officer of the Nazi secret service and accused of murdering 90 000 Jews in the Soviet Union, left Chile for home in the German colony. The Chilean Supreme Court overruled an appeals court and refused extradition, by six to one, citing a statute of limitations. A dissenting magistrate warned on modern jurisprudence.
Reno Police and FBI agents rounded up James B. Ing 42 of Reno in a kidnapping and torture plot tied to a Little Rock murder. Ing is held on $50,000 bail as accomplices remain at large. stretch back to April 11 gunfight that killed Patrolman Jerrell Vaughn and April 22 hospital abduction linked to extortion attempts near Lake Maumelle.
PORTSMOUTH N H UPD Vice Adm Hyman G Rickover famed father of the atomic submarine will appear Monday before a court of inquiry investigating the Thresher tragedy. The Navy says he will testify in an open hearing briefly and most of his testimony will be in closed sessions due to classified information. Rickover has led the Navy's nuclear submarine program since its start in 1946.
Averell Harriman reported Khrushchev is vigorous and strong as leader and shows willingness to ease Laos tension. He said their 3.5 hour meeting covered almost all topics of U S Soviet concern and clarified U S intentions in Laos.
In a labor cost controversy at the Nevada Test Site ReeCo offers a bargain while government demands labor cost cuts clash with union resistance to contested pay and benefits. The dispute centers on wage scales and the site's prime support coalition.
John Clark of Reynolds Electrical and Engineering presents a five point solution to end clashes over union contract terms at Nevada Test and Space Site. The plan seeks to balance AEC concerns about labor practices with the unions’ need for stable crash program staffing on weapons testing projects.
Authorities called the full resources of the FBI to solve the slaying of Baltimore postman William L. Moore on a civil rights march. A state investigator was sent to FBI laboratories in Washington with a bullet and a rifle believed tied to a man held in connection with the shooting.
Washington Street crossing from Main to A is opened only during morning and evening rush hours 6 to 9 30 am and 3 to 6 30 pm with temporary gates red lights and warnings. Dick Sauer city engineer says use will continue until Union Pacific installs safeguards within 90 days and an overpass is planned later.
Mostly clear with gentle winds. High 77 and low 45. Yesterday’s high 72 and low 40. Noontime humidity 2 percent. Sunrise at 4:52 and sunset at 6:25.
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