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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1969
Page
6
The Wood stock Music and Art Fair in White Lake New York ended in tragedy after a heavy rain and chaotic conditions. Two people died and many were injured including drug victims. Raymond R Mizsak seventeen of Trenton New Jersey was killed when a tractor ran over his sleeping bag in a muddy field.
The hurricane Camille unleashed 150 mph winds along the Mississippi coast with extensive flooding and power outages across Harrison County. Coast Guard helicopters battled 60 mile per hour winds to rescue 30 men from an offshore oil rig near New Orleans while shelters housed thousands in New Orleans and Dauphin Island faced isolation and outages.
Mrs. Joseph Kopechne urged the other young women at the Chappaquiddick cookout to share their accounts of that night. She and her husband question delays in reporting the incident and warn the case has become a political issue.
Los Angeles police sought a former mental patient as a suspect in the shooting of William Lennon father of the Lennon sisters. A warrant was issued for Chet W. H. Young described as six feet two inches tall and 200 pounds amid reports of long harassment and a prior hospital stay.
A nine month old, Scott Allen Jolley, died after stepping on a live open wire in the Jolley family's yard at 321 Of Lantern Rd. He was dead on arrival at Southern Nevada Hospital at 8:40 p.m. His mother, who found him, received an electrical jolt when she tried to lift him.
More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in front of President Nixon’s San Clemente estate to protest the Vietnam War shouting peace slogans and taunts. Counter-pickets observed as Nixon flew to Palm Desert for a golf outing with Walter Annenberg, joined by his daughters Tricia and Julie and son in law David Eisenhower.
Pravda charged China seeks a secret anti-Soviet deal with the United States amid border clashes. Peking Radio countered that the USSR chases allies, while Western papers pushed anti-Maoist rhetoric. Komsomolskaya Pravda emphasized Beijing’s expansionism and military weakness.
U S helicopter gun ships and Navy patrol boats fought two battles near Saigon with no U S casualties. About 35 North Vietnamese were reported killed near Phu Cuong as helis used spotlights to engage about 70 enemy troops. Earlier, boats defeated 50 attackers along the Saigon River, killing at least eight. An American was killed and two wounded near Phu Khuong in a separate jungle sweep. Another ambush along Highway 1 wounded 21 Americans northeast of Saigon.
Las Vegas police seek Downey California man in an $800 theft at the Domino Motel, 1621 S Main St. Investigators say a tall heavy man registered as R. F. Gatsko and demanded his room payment be refunded before leaving the office as the cash vanished about 1 30 a m.
A 32 year old Las Vegas woman was assaulted in her living room at 2 am when an intruder entered through an unlocked door. She woke to a stocky man who choked and scratched her, then struck her with a blunt instrument and rendered her unconscious.
Winnie Ruth Judd, 64, the so called trunk murderess, will be picked up today for extradition to the Phoenix mental hospital after escaping in 1962 and living in a San Francisco suburb. She previously fought extradition with attorney Melvin Belli but Gov. Ronald Reagan ordered her surrender.
A derailed Erie-Lackawanna freight train near Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania spilled acrylonitrile. Officials moved the gas into a tank truck after considering burying it. No immediate danger reported as rain kept the liquid from boiling. water supply at French Creek nearby.
Las Vegas police report seven burglaries over two days yielding about $1,000 in cash and goods. A $200 portable TV was stolen from Thomas Bunch of 208 Madison Ave. A Greenwich tourist wallet with $175 was taken from under a hotel guest’s pillow. A tape deck and tapes worth $300 were stolen from Sarah Creighton’s car in a Casino Center hotel lot. Another tape recorder was stolen from Barry Thompson’s car at Third Street and Ogden Avenue.
A Harris poll shows Nixon ahead 9 points over Humphrey, with Kennedy trailing but strongest among youth and the poor. Muskie leads the East and suburbs, while Humphrey performs well among Democrats and older voters. Kennedy excites the young and labor voters, Muskie attracts college-educated independents, and Nixon maintains a nationwide edge though softening with youth and the affluent.
In Belfast and other Northern Ireland cities Vigilantes supported by 1,050 British troops patrolled Catholic and Protestant districts to enforce a fragile calm after nearly a week of sectarian clashes. While some looting and stone throwing continued, gunfire was absent and Premier Chichester-Clark vowed to keep troops deployed as long as needed.
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