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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1962
Page
12
State Department reports about five shiploads of Communist technicians believed to have quietly entered Cuba over the past three weeks. The arrivals are thought to be rotation replacements for bloc advisers who have completed Cuban tours.
In Bonn Chancellor Adenauer awards General Lauris Norstad the Grand Cross of the Federal Order of Merit as he retires as NATO supreme commander. Adenauer praises him as a guardian of peace while signaling concern over shifts in US European defense planning.
Cairo report says King Saud cut off allowances for his four brothers after they freed their slaves and concubines to modernize. Al Akhbar quotes Saud calling the move mad and anti Islam and weighing stripping them of titles.
Funeral services for Donald E Shaw 42 of 718 Lillis North Las Vegas will be held today at 10 am at Palm Chapel with graveside military rites at Woodlawn Cemetery conducted by Frank Hehar and Post Eight American Legion. Shaw died Wednesday in a local hospital and leaves wife Josephine two daughters Melvin Bell and Tanya Shaw one brother Kenneth Shaw and two grandchildren. Palm Mortuary to handle final rites. Survived by wife Julia two sons one daughter and two sisters in Denver.
The body of Mary E. Guy 81 of 3660 East Fremont S&S will be sent to Tuscola by Palm Mortuary for final rites and burial. She died Wednesday and had lived with her son Willis Guy of Las Vegas. Surviving relatives listed.
The body of William Seiwald, 51, of Denver area, was found yesterday in a strip hole. Officials reported the death as accidental with no foul play suspected pending autopsy results.
Rosary services for Mary E Cahoon 64 of 604 Stanford S will be held tonight at 8 at Bunker Brothers Chapel Funeral Mass is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 at Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic Church Burial will follow at Memory Gardens Cahoon died Wednesday at a local hospital She was born in Faribault Minnesota and had lived in Las Vegas four years She is survived by husband Harry Cahoon daughter Mrs Margaret Randolph Burbank California and son George Cahoon Las Vegas
Funeral services for Mrs Essie Lee Coulson 58 of Indian Springs will be held tomorrow at Bunker Brothers Chapel at 2 p m Burial will follow at her birthplace De Ridder She died yesterday at Boulder City Hospital and had lived in southern Nevada eleven years Surviving are husband William D Coulson Indian Springs two brothers Oscar Cedars Port Arthur Texas and Edgar Cedars De Ridder Louisiana
Los Angeles authorities review the death as a possible suicide after Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood home. The death by own action team reports note she was distressed and may have contemplated death, with coroner Theodore Curphey preparing a possible ruling and inquest.
A federal grand jury probe into an alleged May 17 clash at International Teamsters HQ stalled as eight union officers and employees invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify. Judge George L. Hart Jr allowed the refusals, keeping the investigation into possible perjury and obstruction of justice unresolved.
Nine Negro parents in Jackson petitioned for immediate integration of city public schools. Medgar Evers of the NAACP warned they will sue if needed and said residents may attempt to register Negro students at white schools next month if authorities do not respond.
UPI reports conflicting claims about a U S Air Force F 101 jet shot down over Laos near the Plain of Jars. A neutralist official cited anti aircraft fire but said no conclusive fate of the pilot. Meanwhile Americans held by Communist forces near Laos could be released.
Democratic candidate David H Kopelman campaigns in Clark County backing President Kennedy and civil rights, opposing incumbent Walter Baring in the primary. Kopelman, 28, a Boston University Law graduate who studied at the University of Nevada, vows to be heard in Washington, proposes abolition of the death penalty and a $170 minimum wage, and plans to promote homestead property sales to Nevadans. He continues a northern and western Nevada tour before returning to face Baring.
Nick Dondolis also known as Rosario Bellavia received an indefinite sentence of one to five years from District Judge William Compton after a 3 1/2 day trial. He interrupted the prosecutor and claimed police beat him including a knocked out tooth, then said he would appeal.
Lawrence R Baggett of Lynwood and Eugene V Kendall of Downey faced a misdemeanor charge for using washers in Fremont Hotel slot machines. They pleaded not guilty in Municipal Court. Judge Walter Richards set trial for November 7 and bail at $500 each. The offense carries up to $500 fine and six months in jail.
Earl E. Cox 38 of North Sacramento California was given a five year prison term for transporting two women from Sacramento to Winnemucca to engage in prostitution. A federal jury convicted Cox after companion Wilbur Glisan testified. Glisan pleaded guilty and received a three year sentence.
Sherri Finkbine and her husband await the Swedish State Medical Board decision on a legal abortion for her thalidomide linked pregnancy. The board weighs grounds of potential serious defect to the mother and the couple face financial and public opinion pressures before a possible early ruling tomorrow.
The Nellis Air Force Base rement office announces ten more airmen re-enlisting for four or more years with the Air Force. The group includes Robert W Morris and Gary L Honts among others, with assignments to the 4520th, 739A, and related squadrons.
Nevada briefs cover a lighter fire year in the Tollyabe National Forest with 65 fires burning 106 acres, the Mt Charleston blaze at 90 acres near Las Vegas, bids for a US 40 Lovelock to Brady's Hot Springs road segment, a $2.5 million project. Also noted are $13.91 million for Nevada highway construction, city hall relocation plans in Reno, and a preliminary assault case set for McKinney in Carson City Municipal Court.
The Nevada state board of examiners decided yesterday on a matter reported by United Press International. Details and implications were not fully disclosed in the snippet.
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