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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1964
Page
3
The Mississippi diocese announces that Catholic elementary schools will admit qualified first graders regardless of race starting September 1964. Bishop R C Gerow signs the policy, leaving implementation to pastors in consult with church officials, with no fixed plans on numbers or registrants.
In a letter dated August 7 Goldwater reframed his extremism line saying wholehearted devotion to liberty is unassailable and half-hearted devotion to justice indefensible. The exchange follows Nixon and GOP leaders seeking to unite the party after a bitter convention fight and ahead of the campaign start.
Pope Paul VI signed his first encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, a 54 page Latin document on the church's role and renewal. He told crowds the church remains the indispensable link to dialogue with God and hopes the letter will be better appreciated.
In Dallas two racially charged shootings occurred early yesterday. Billy Wayne Wallace 18 was killed in a lakefront incident and four Negro youths were held for questioning. Earlier near downtown two white men, 23, were wounded by attacking Negroes fleeing into the night.
Rep Carl Vinson veteran Democratic leader from Georgia urged the Southern states not to vote for Barry Goldwater. He warned the South would face a civil rights enforcement and economic tensions under a Goldwater presidency, arguing it is wiser to favor Lyndon Johnson's administration.
San Antonio police report Congressional Medal of Honor winner William Harrell, 42, a war hero who lost both hands on Iwo Jima, shot his old Marine buddy Edward Zumwalt and his wife, then killed himself with a 30 caliber carbine. Dr. Ruben Santos, medical examiner, said four shots were fired. Harrell's family found the bodies after returning from New York's World's Fair.
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