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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1964
Page
3
An informant possibly paid up to 25000 led FBI agents to a farm pond dam where the bodies of three missing civil rights workers were found buried under 23 feet of red clay. Officials and sources noted arrests were expected while authorities kept comment tight.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 4.4 billion public works bill, larger than the House version. It earmarked 1.223 billion for Army Engineers rivers harbors and flood control, 320.8 million for the Reclamation Bureau, and added 45.5 million for a West Coast intertie plan. these figures exceed the House totals and align with budget requests.
Amman based Finance Ministry said Jordan received 11.44 million dollars from the United States since the start of the current fiscal year. An additional 199 million dollars in US aid is expected in the coming months, according to a ministry spokesman.
Lt. Gen. John Throckmorton was promoted to three stars Sunday to become deputy commander of U S forces in South Vietnam, receiving the insignia from Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and Gen. William C. Westmoreland. Westmoreland himself was promoted to full general the previous Saturday.
A federal judge in Jacksonville ordered 17 St. Augustine eateries and motels to serve Black patrons by Saturday and warned segregationists against intimidation. Judge Bryant Simpson said civil rights law must be obeyed and barred threats from Halstead Manucy and the Ancient City Hunting Club. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived to address a rally amid ongoing segregation tensions.
Pierre Salinger was sworn in to fill the late Senator Clair Engle's California term. The oath was given by Senator Carl Hayden at 2:32 p.m. EDT amid GOP challenge from Everett Dirksen, with the seating referred to the Rules Committee for study after a failed effort to block it.
United Press International weather chart lists temperatures across cities including Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Bismarck Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland with observed highs and lows for the 24 hour period ending at 4 am as compiled by the U S Weather Bureau in San Francisco.
The nation’s top non territory high reached 11 degrees at Hennessey Oklahoma while the coldest noted was 36 degrees at Redmond Oregon, based on UPI dispatches.
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