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Newspaper

Las Vegas Sun

Location

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1963

Page

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Nevada Test Site pickets resume after five day strike

Pickets from the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525 and AEC contractors left the gates of the Nevada Test Site at 2 14 p m yesterday. Officials from Reynolds Electrical and Engineering and federal labor experts had expected an end to the crippling five day strike after a weekend. Pickets reappeared when workers encountered them at the gates, despite news reports of an end to the strike. Business Manager Dave McGinty called the initial end report a misunderstanding and said he had notified unions and the Building Trades Council. Continued on Page 2.

Nevada Test Site Atomic Energy Commission Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co., Inc Dave McGinty the Sun Building Trades Council

Berlin mob attacks cars on second anniversary of the wall

West Berlin demonstrators roar through Moritz Platz and Checkpoint Charlie in a protest against the Berlin wall. An American police car and a Communist diplomatic car were pounded and kicked with slight damage. police restrained the crowd amid chants to tear down the wall.

Berlin UPI Berlin Wall Moritz Platz Checkpoint Charlie East Germany

Chicago South Side Explosion Protest Over Mobile Classrooms

Demonstrators clash with police across the South Side as integrationists attack mobile classroom plans. Three officers hospitalized, at least 47 arrests, with about 160 people seized in two weeks of protests at 73rd and Lowe Streets. CORE leader Rev Elton B. Cox threatens a broader boycotts.

Chicago UPS South Side 73Rd Lowe Elton B. Cox The Congress of Racial Equality CORE

Kefauver Hearings Target Las Vegas Gambling Ring

Sen Estes Kefauver and Atty Gen Bobby Kennedy press the nation's gambling crime issue in Las Vegas. Delegates and mob ties are scrutinized as subpenas issue to key gaming figures while some flee, others testify at the Federal Building during the organized crime hearings. Bill Moore details Nevada licensing and controls, outlining the state's method of regulating the industry.

Bobby Kennedy Sen Estes Kefauver

Lawyer powerless to act on rights ruling

Atty. Gen. Harvey Dickerson said the governor lacks authority to direct state regulatory boards to withhold or revoke licenses of businesses that practice racial discrimination. The statement addresses state power and civil rights enforcement in Carson City.

Carson City UPI Harvey Dickerson Dickerson Grant Sawyer Nevada

Slaying Of Little Augie Pisano Examined In Detail

Sources say the Valachi interview laid out how Vito Genovese moved to control Cosa Nostra causing Pisano to be targeted after a 1957 dispute over the underworld. Two gunmen failed to isolate Pisano, tribes of plots followed as Genovese sought to prevent Pisano from revealing information.

Valachi Pisano New York City Vito Genovese Atlanta Cosa Nostra Genovese New York Frank Costello

Buddhist Priest Douses Robes Fires Self in Hue

A 17 year old Buddhist monk Thich Thanh Tue killed himself by setting his saffron robes ablaze outside Phuc Duyyen pagoda near Hue about 400 miles north of Saigon. The act is the third self immolation by Buddhist clerics since June amid protests against government persecution.

Saigon South Viet Nam UPI Hue Ngo Dinh Diem Nguyen Ngoc Tho The Buddhist Association Thich Thanh Tue Phuc Duyyen

$600000 Deal for Control of Silver Palace

New York and Las Vegas investors apply to the State Gaming Commission to purchase the Silver Palace Club in downtown Las Vegas for $600,000. They would form Fortune Operating Co. to acquire the club while Myon Lewis remains a corporate officer with no investment. The license decision is not expected until next month.

Carson City UPD New York Las Vegas State Gaming Commission Silver Palace Club Myon Lewis Fortune Operating Co., Inc Tthe Club Melvin Axler Mac Robbins

Bandits Used Brick House As Center of Operations

Scotland Yard detectives found an abandoned brick cottage in Buckinghamshire used as a base and counting house for a royal mail train robbery worth 7 million dollars. They saw empty mail bags but no robbers. Six men linked by informers were seen at nearby London homes. An old World War III airstrip nearby suggested a possible flight to flee with loot. Interpol involvement reported from Nice.

London UPL Scotland Yard Buckinghamshire Nice French Riviera Interpol International Police Organization

Ex-Dictator Perez Jimenez Faces Extradition to Venezuela

A U.S. federal appeals judge refused to stay Perez Jimenez's extradition to Venezuela to face embezzlement charges totaling $13.5 million. Secretary of State Rusk signed the order after U.S. courts indicated probable cause for trial. Venezuelan officials and a doctor accompanied by a nurse waited in a Miami hotel for the decision.

Jacksonville Fla UPI Marcos Perez Jimnez Warren L. Jones Deci Sion National Treasury Secretary of State Dean Rusk Perez Jiminez Miami

Weather forecast: sunny to mostly clear with afternoon clouds

The forecast calls for clear to mostly clear skies today with some afternoon cloudiness. Winds will be light to gentle, 13 to 18 mph, and the high reaches 108 while the low dips to 78. Yesterday also reached 108 with a 78 low. Noontime humidity is around 9 percent. sunrise at 5 58 and sunset at 7 32.

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