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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1964
Page
2
A playful Las Vegas themed column highlights Bank of Las Vegas staff families with examples from the main and Paradise Valley branches and notes on local celebrities and ads. The spoof ends by praising a bank with strong service and a distinct personality.
The Maddox, under attack at 3 08 p m local time, fought back with five inch guns as three PT boats fired torpedoes and 37 mm guns. Four F8 fighters from USS Ticonderoga strafed the attackers. no casualties were reported aboard the Maddox. President Johnson and top advisers were briefed at the White House.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. emerges as a favored potential running mate for Johnson as Kennedy signals support. Johnson excludes cabinet members from VP consideration while urging Kennedy to remain active in the campaign. Roosevelt, allied with Johnson on the anti poverty drive, has built rapport in the Southern Appalachia region and with the Kennedys in Virginia and Cape Cod.
In Champagne France heavy rain halts rescue drilling for 17 hours as 14 miners remain entombed after a Monday cave in in a chalk mine 200 feet underground. Two drilling rigs probe escape tunnels while American engineer John Freeman coordinates operations. nine survivors are reportedly in good condition and connected to surface via tubes and microphones.
A light twin engine plane forced to land on U S 93 near Temple Bar Arizona arrived at McCarran Field yesterday undamaged. The Brazilian pilot heading to Las Vegas from Wichita was helped by Vegas Air motive at daybreak with fuel to return the craft to the air safely.
Rival teen gangs labeled Mods and Rockers clashed in Hastings drawing in Scotland Yard squads to aid local police. In nearby Brighton similar disturbances occurred as seventeen youths were arrested, four remanded for threatening behavior and several teenagers injured amid a chaotic Sunday scene.
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