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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1966
Page
1
A guest column presents 12 rules attributed to an English archdeacon on child guidance. The list urges indulgence and avoidance of responsibility, warning that overpampering and erratic discipline lead to delinquency and future trouble with authorities.
Nevada gaming officials return from Washington to attend the Gaming Commission meeting in Carson City as the skimming investigation begins in Las Vegas on August 9. The probe targets unreported winnings in Las Vegas casinos with subpoenas anticipated for Desert Inn staff and others.
UPI reports Charles Whitman apparently visited the Dallas 50 story building four days before his Texas University tower massacre. Police say he may have been in Austin with two companions in the tower ten days earlier.
U S helicopters drop in more than 19 000 troops to confront three NVA regiments in la Drang valley near the Cambodian border amid nine clashes over two days. The 32nd 33rd and 66th regiments are named in prisoner interrogations as the attackers. Reports cite up to 8 000 Communist fighters and a Marine operation near the northwest corner concludes with over 1 800 enemy killed.
In Sacramento Odell Jackson a 30 year old garbage truck driver who had held a mother and three children captive was killed in a close range shoot-out with police. Patrolmen Erwin Courtright and Wayne Bechtel were injured as officers returned fire and stormed the home. Jackson died at Sacramento County Hospital and the two officers were hospitalized.
Mostly clear with a 107 high and 75 low reported, noontime humidity 25 percent. A 1-year-old gave a scrawled message naming Dorothy Debs and listing a suspect who broke in with a gun, keeping his mother inside through the night as an emergency drama unfolds.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin said Moscow would display restraint in Vietnam to avoid a third world war while pushing to expel U S forces from South Vietnam as quickly as possible. He suggested disarmament steps like a nuclear test ban and a treaty to curb weapons spread, warning the war could affect Soviet U S relations. The remark drew applause from the Supreme Soviet.
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