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Local newspaper notes Las Vegas district coverage and regional notices while highlighting community events and upcoming public meetings in Southern Nevada.
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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1963
Page
8
Local newspaper notes Las Vegas district coverage and regional notices while highlighting community events and upcoming public meetings in Southern Nevada.
The Sun is a Las Vegas morning paper with staff listings and publication details. It notes editors and managers including Ruth& Deskin, Bryn Armstrong, Joe McClain, Noel Greenwood, Alan Laythorpe, Tamara Andreeva, C. D. James, and others. The note lists offices, postal registration, and associations such as United Press International and the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
The piece links August 6 1945 Hiroshima and August 9 Nagasaki to a larger warning about August as a month of world events. It recalls the 1953 hydrogen bomb claim and a 1963 test ban treaty while shifting to a City Hall meeting in which budget, urban renewal committee appointments, and parking survey funding drew tense debate and last minute delays.
In a sharp opinion column Ruark questions the nuclear test ban pact. He cites Khrushchev's hard bargaining, distrusts Western diplomacy, warns of hidden motives, and predicts political fallout while welcoming the pause in testing. He mocks Pollyanna rhetoric and warns of possible ulterior moves by Russia or China.
Almanac notes include Herbert Hoover born 1874 on this day and historic milestones such as Missouri's 1821 statehood, the 1943 Quebec WWII conference, the 1961 Norway plane crash involving London schoolboys, and a Holmes maxim about trust and money.
The author argues progress requires funding for schooling and public services, proposing a $100 per new building tax dedicated to education. He envisions a pay as you go system and links Nevada's centennial to a silver Trade dollar idea to fund education, suggesting mint profits support the state educational fund.
Governor Scranton denies any move to block Goldwater and says he would welcome Goldwater to Pennsylvania for campaigning or fundraising. He cites strong Goldwater support among Pennsylvania GOP leaders, with Oct 14 fundraising dinner at Hershey featuring Goldwater as principal speaker.
Gov George C Wallace says he would go to a school and read the Bible himself if federal courts rule against Bible study in Alabama public schools. In New York Sam Miller, seeking an around the world air travel record, jokes that the feat is crazy and that his partners oppose it.
Panama City reports Clarence Earl Gideon’s two year prison crusade led to freedom and a landmark Supreme Court ruling mandating public defenders in Florida. Moscow’s Khrushchev, after the nuclear test ban, stresses continued vigilance against a new war and the need to press onward.
Comedian Dick Gregory denounces Chicago's temporary schools as de facto segregation likening the move to bringing Birmingham to the North. He criticizes the city's education policy and urges equal treatment across districts.
The obituary or tribute notes Oliver La Farge an anthropologist author and defender of Indian tribal culture. It quotes his view that Native Americans were already in the land and prospering when Europeans arrived rather than seeking freedom or being enslaved.
Major General George H. Cloud, United Nations Command chief negotiator, vows that North Korea’s murderers will be relentlessly hunted down night and day at Panmunjom in response to aggression.
George Wallace vows to personally enforce a state board of education resolution that makes Bible reading mandatory in public schools. He warns that if courts rule against Bible readings, he will visit affected schools and read the Bible himself.
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