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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1965
Page
1
Thousands of vacationers faced delays as a taxi strike began at midnight Saturday. Hundreds of hotel workers and casino staff searched for cabs while drivers demanded guaranteed wage minimums and pension provisions. The two year gap since the last strike marked by three days of halted service in 1962 was noted.
Drivers of Bill Mirin's cab company voted to strike if major firms do not sign a new contract with Teamsters Local 8&1 by midnight Saturday. Richard Thomas says negotiations with Yellow, Ace, Checker, Limon, and North Las Vegas Cab Co. stalled after a month of talks, with impasse unresolved as Saturday approached.
A fragmented reminiscence piece touches on old songs and films like Diane Charmaine and Seventh Heaven. It links romance and travel with memories from wartime, a hospital ship arrival, and a meeting at New Haven station, ending with a teaser to see WHERE on Page 2.
A UNC student Suellen Evans was stabbed in the chest near the botanical gardens as a would be rapist attacked her. Police describe a janitor’s sighting of a dark skinned youth fleeing the scene and dormitory rumors swirl among students about the assailant.
The Twins secured a decisive victory as the Dodgers and Angels fell in a midweek slate. Key performances from starting pitchers and late-game runs sealed the win for Minnesota against two West Coast rivals.
In South Vietnam Viet Cong guerrillas damaged a railroad bridge and another span near Hue not far from Da Nang. US pilots were presumed killed in separate clashes. The attack followed raids on government outposts and an Australian barracks in Saigon with casualties on both sides.
Clark County authorities report a recovered airplane windshield near Gold Butte tied to a Tripacer that vanished with pilot Harry Ross and passenger W C Halsey after departing Clearfield Utah on March 2. CAP units and local officials led a six week search with no prior trace found.
Clark County gas stations raise prices by one cent starting Sunday to fund a $108 million street and highway program in the Las Vegas Valley. A $10 million bond issue finances phase one, with revenue expected to reach nearly $1 million first year and about $2 million later, as per a feasibility study for the state.
George Bud Albright director of the Las Vegas Convention Center was elected to the board of directors of the International Association of Auditorium Managers at its 40th annual meeting in Chicago He was named to the association's executive committee and will host the 41st annual convention in Las Vegas in July 1966.
In Austin two University of Texas sorority sisters Susan Rigsby and Shirley Ann Stark were found dead in a grass field. Pathologist Earl F. Rose noted a neck mark suggesting strangulation but cautioned on certainty and said tests in Dallas will take about a week before autopsy results and verdicts are issued.
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