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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1968
Page
5
State lawmakers pore over how to control taxis as hearings weigh options to delegate to counties or create a quasi municipal body. Proposals include a code with county opt in or size based control while a water district style regulator faces legal questions and potential court challenges.
Friends say Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra are dissolving their marriage after a brief reunion in Florida and a Mexico flight on Sinatra’s jet. Divorce terms were not disclosed. Farrow has lately worked on film projects in London and Hollywood while Sinatra pursued his film work in Florida.
Allied forces with tanks crossed into the DMZ pushing north toward the border. The battle left more than 300 North Vietnamese dead, with 215 killed inside the buffer zone and at least 90 south of it. U S air and artillery supported actions near Pleiku and Da Nang, while South Vietnamese losses included four killed and 50 wounded.
Patrick Morris of 1800 S Eighth Place is free on $2000 bail on six counts of obtaining money under false pretenses. He allegedly posed as Howard Hughes and sold worthless desert land near Searchlight for homestead claims to victims from Las Vegas and Southern California. He claimed funds would pump water from Lake Mead and used fake forms. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management found no such program. Preliminary hearing set for Sept. 26. potential penalties range from one to ten years per count and fines up to $5000 per count.
The plan would set monthly police salaries for a 40 hour week with overtime, aiming to prevent budgeting chaos. City officials disagree on figures, longevity pay, and which personnel are covered, while PPA argues broad raises would deter future disputes and reflect nationwide underpayment in law enforcement.
CAPE KENNEDY APS The United States fired two new long range missiles in a dual demonstration of nuclear firepower Minuteman 3 and Poseidon scored flawless maiden flights 10 hours apart with Lt Col Ward Millar calling it a good day for the country Both rockets are set to carry multi bomb warheads capable of releasing up to 10 hydrogen bombs on distant targets.
Warrants from Arizona California and Nevada charge Barbara Simmons 38 also known as Darlene Schwartz Wright with parole violation felony grand theft and forgery. She is held in Elko County jail on 1000 bail.
Westinghouse halves 58 of 154 workers and Pan Am trims 15 of 652 as NRDS organizers urge contractors to reassess staffing. NERVA project manager Esselman says efforts will place affected personnel at other Westinghouse plants, while testing at NRDS remains unaffected.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California a single Atlas Burner 2 rocket carried twelve satellites into orbit setting a record for a single launch. The mission supported the Space Experiments Support Program and included ESSA 7 weather satellites and eleven smaller payloads across multiple orbits.
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