Kennedy ends Western tour with praise of projects
President Kennedy wrapped up a high speed tour of Western resource projects in Los Angeles after flights from Fresno with Gov. Edmund G. Brown. He praised visits to Pierre South Dakota Pueblo Colorado and the $500 million San Luis project near Los Banos California and signaled similar non political journeys before the fall elections.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Kennedy
Fresno
Calif
Edmund G. Brown
Pierre
8.D
Pueblo
Colo
San Luis
Los Banos
California
Richard M. Nixon
Brown
Boat Sinks Drowns 18 Children Off Florida Picnic
A 16-foot fishing boat with 19 aboard sank off Quincy Florida near Lake Tarquin during a church picnic. Eighteen children aged 6 to 12 drowned. 11-year-old Jerome Maples survived after a fisherman pushed a cane pole to reach him. Only adult aboard was 25-year-old Joseph Boyle, the operator. Witnesses blamed panic as the boat sank in the stern filling with water.
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UPD
Jerome Maples
Joseph Boyle
Jessie
Lake Tarquin
Joe Ross
Liberty County
Ross
Bouie
Former Henderson officer shoots self after confrontation
Charles Burns, 30, former Henderson police officer and part time for mica craftsman, shot himself in the head at Barbara Hafert’s apartment after forcing entry and threatening her. Hafert and her maid fled for help. police found Burns dead in the bedroom at 1450 Comstock Dr. on the Bonanza Road address. Burns had joined the police department in 1954 and lived at his Bonanza address since last Feb.
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Charles Burns
Moulin Rouge Hotel
West
Bonanza
Comstock Dr
Barbara Hafert
Miss Hafert
B. Handson
Burns
L. Handson
Bonanza Road
Alfred T. Nelson
Dennison M. Courtney
J.C. Cherry
Siesta Hour Proposal Sparks Local Debate
In a past column publisher Hank urged a daytime nap for southern Nevadans during peak heat, suggesting a two hour siesta followed by evening work. The current note says no column will appear as the idea is supported, while Hank campaigns elsewhere.
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Hank
Sherri Learns Deformity Was Certain
Mrs Sherri Finkbine underwent a legal abortion in a Swedish hospital after doctors said the unborn child would have been deformed. The 30 year old Phoenix, Arizona mother and her husband fought a month long legal battle to obtain the procedure.
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Sherri
Stockholm
UPI
Sherri Finkbine
Caroline Hospital
Finkbine
Hank Greenspun for Governor Headquarters Open
Pick up Hank Greenspun for Governor campaign items at 226 Las Vegas Boulevard North. Buttons badges souvenirs lawn signs bumper stickers in colors available. Enjoy a cup of coffee while you visit.
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Hank
Las Vegas Boulevard North
Khrushchev Demands West Pull Out of Berlin
Premier Khrushchev urged the United States Britain and France to withdraw all troops from Berlin during a Red Square address. He withdrew a prior offer to station NATO forces in Berlin and ruled out NATO participation under UN auspices while signaling a potential separate peace with East Germany.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Russia
U. S
NATO
Red Square
East Germany
Khrushchev
United Nations
Soviet Union
Tule Springs hosts major prehistory dig near Las Vegas
A National Science Foundation led team begins excavations at Tule Springs about Oct 1 seeking remains from 30 000 to 40 000 years ago. The project, headquartered at the Thunderbird Hotel, is praised by US Senator Howard Cannon as a landmark study.
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Western Hemisphere
America
Tule Springs
Las Vegas
National Science Foundation
Fossil Lake
New World
Thunderbird Hotel
Howard Cannon
Nevada State Museum
Southwest Museum of Los Angeles
Richard Shutter
Flanks Test In Blue Ash Crash
Obie UPD Helen Davison failed her driver license test yesterday in Blue Ash. Five people were injured when she lost control at the driveway and struck a parked car, then crashed through the wall of the state drivers license examination center and halted inside the building.
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Cincinnati
Helen Davison
Blue Ash
Kennedy urges tougher laws to curb illegal gambling
Attorney General Robert Kennedy urged state prosecutors to bolster enforcement with updated statutes to curb organized crime and illegal gambling. He highlighted three new federal laws and pressed for his anti crime package including pinball shipments bans and limited wiretapping to investigate serious crimes. He warned that travel and communication have outpaced restraining laws and called for coordinated federal state and local action despite doubts about fully defeating organized crime.
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Philadelphia
APL
Robert Fr. Kennedy
National Association of District Attorneys
Nedy
Walter Lippman
Kennedy
Australian girl wins international beauty title
In Long Beach, Miss Tania Verstak of Sydney Australia, 21, was crowned Miss International Beauty of 1963 from 52 entrants after a final round. Runners up included Miss Argentina and Miss Panama with Carol Joyner of Kansas among the top five.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
Tania Verstak
Lovely
Sydney
Australia
Miss Verstak
Argentina
Panama
States
Carol Joyner
Kansas
Weather Update Partly Cloudy With Showers and Winds
Partly cloudy today with thundershowers in the vicinity. Southwest winds 15 to 30 mph. High 164 and low 75. Yesterday’s high reached 104 with a low of 75. Noontime relative humidity 11 percent. Sunrise at 6 01, sunset at 7 25.
West Berlin riots erupt after youth shot at wall
Angry West Berliners stoned a Soviet bus and chanted for Americans to go home near Checkpoint Charlie after the fatal shooting of an 18 year old trying to scale the Berlin Wall. Police arrested about a dozen demonstrators as U.S. and Soviet vehicles were targeted amid tense protests.
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Berlin
West
West Berlin
U.S
Legal Counsel For Lawmakers Told to Hush
Nevada Legislative Commission ordered Legislative Counsel Jeff Springmeyer to temper remarks at meetings. He has long been barred from public comments outside commission gatherings, with Sen. Mahlon Brown noting public criticisms risk politicizing the commission and its staff.
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Carson City
UPI
Jeff Springmeyer
Nevada Legislative Commission
Springmeyer
Mahlon Brown
Clark
Nevada
Legislative Commission
Brown
Charlies Springer
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