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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1969
Page
1
Police widen probe into the killings of 11 young women in Michigan and California. A tattooed young man with an alias is sought for questioning as the manhunt spreads across the United States and into Canada where investigators review two more killings.
A memo notes Hank is offered a possible high level government post while reporting a nationwide police hunt for Andrew Manuel alias Richard Diaz. The text links Diaz to John Norman Collins case and a string of murders across Michigan and California, with FBI involvement and a Washtenaw County prosecutor.
Clark County deputies arrest Las Vegas man Clarence Swinney, 44, in the firebombing of a Checker Cab. He faces charges of attempted murder arson and assault with a deadly weapon for the attack on cabbie Elmer Sturr, who survived with burn injuries after the firebombing near Desert Inn Road.
Attorney Harry Reid said a governor's hearing will be held in Las Vegas Thursday to decide if a warrant will return 25 year old Russell Payne to Wyoming for charges of killing his mother. If approved, Reid would pursue habeas corpus then possible appeals to higher courts. Payne has been jailed in Clark County since June 14 after turning himself in following the disappearance of his parents. their bodies were found near Wilson Wyoming.
Country star Spade Cooley wins parole from a life term for murdering his wife Ella Mae in Bakersfield in 1961. California Adult Authority acted unanimously to release him effective February 22, 1970, after serving the sentence in prison.
NASA scientists opened the last and largest Apollo 11 lunar material collection, 39 pounds from the moon brought by Armstrong and Aldrin. They described gray dust with white crystals and dark igneous rock, noting material differed from Earth.
A mixed Sun newspaper clipping shows sections like Ann Landers Classified Crossword Editorial Horoscope Joe Delaney 14 15 Movies 4 Ralph Pearl Society Stock Sports. Content indicates a page index or brief listing rather than a full story.
UPI reports Mariner 7 captured fantastically detailed images of craters and light dark regions of Mars. The photos, taken about 1 a.m. PDT, were stored and played back 16 hours later as the craft neared Mars at 4.4 miles per second, with live pictures promised from 2,000 miles above the surface later.
The Ace-Union Cab Co. made a proposal after seven hours of talks with Gene Barry the federal mediator to settle the five day Las Vegas cab strike. Union workers will vote tonight on ratification with a meeting at the Riviera Hotel set for 10 a.m. between Whittlesea Blue Cab officials and union leaders.
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