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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1963
Page
1
A columnist riffs on residents and out of state license plates drawing tax and traffic concerns. He targets military transfers and long term non residents. The piece then pivots to a lighter note about shopping centers lacking child care and a mother’s wish for a nursery to ease shopping errands.
After six days entombed, three miners received first food via a second drill shaft. Surface experts advanced a precise hole and broke into a 24 foot chamber dropping a phone message and supplies. Miners David Fellin 58 Henry Throne 24 and Louis Bova 42 were in adjacent chambers awaiting rescue.
Two of six crewmen aboard two $2.5 million aircraft died in a collision near a Corn Belt community during a training flight from Schilling Air Force Base, Salina Kansas. A third crewman was missing while three parachuted to safety as wreckage spread over five miles. Clouds hid the crash from ground observers. Earl Olson reported hearing a crash and seeing one burning plane descend on a hayfield.
The note praises Labertha Warden Johnson and urges city action to repaint Sahara Avenue crosswalk lines. It mentions Joe Gordon joining in support of the Good Shepherd Home for Girls and Lions club members backing the effort.
Two maimed East German soldiers, Franz Pfeiffer and Siegfried Merten, were saved after stepping on land mines in the death strip near the East West Germany border. An Englishman and two West Germans crawled through the field to pull them under the barbed wire to the Western zone. An East German officer promised no punishment if they returned to the West German post at Wanfried and provided a photo of one soldier’s wife and child. The men, both missing a foot, were hospitalized in Eschwege.
In northwest Alabama a 40 year old moonshiner Troy Thornton surrendered to highway patrol officers completing a multiday manhunt. Thornton was wanted for killing Franklin County Sheriff James Howater and Littleville Chief Neil Pace during a dry county crackdown. He was taken to Russellville jail as authorities searched the woods with a large posse and armed officers.
Five infant children, left alone in a small wooden shanty while their mothers picked cotton, burned to death in Barnwell South Carolina. Authorities said the fire likely started from a kerosene stove with a pot of peas simmering nearby.
A 16 year old Salt Lake City youth, Paul Parmalee, died after a wooden ladder broke during a descent into an abandoned shaft at the Flagstaff mine near Park City. Rescuers took about five hours to reach the body. two companions were uninjured.
Overnight speculation linked Joseph Valachi to a secret move from Fort Monmouth. The Army briefly closed Monmouth Airport at Belmar for 10 minutes as two planes took off, one a Grumman Mohawk. the other’s identity was unknown.
Reports say workers at a farm set the premises ablaze and assaulted Communist cadres enforcing a confiscation. Communist reinforcements fired on the rebels with machine guns, about 1,000 fleeing to the hills while others were arrested. In Taipei, Central News Agency noted May Canton newspapers signaling a counter attack but observers say the Nationalists appear subdued about extending actions to the mainland.
Partly cloudy conditions with afternoon thunderstorms near mountains. Highs around 105 and lows near 78. Noontime humidity 22 percent. Sunrise at 5 62, sunset at 6 26.
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