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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1962
Page
8
A reader asks about a widow raising her sister's infant and potential remarriage, another seeks guidance after a breakup, and a teen considers replying to her father. Ann Landers advises on courtship timing, patience, and open communication while addressing family feelings and support.
First Western Savings & Loan Association, based at 118 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, jumped 113 places to 246th among the 300 largest US savings and loan associations as of June 30, 1962, from 359th a year earlier. Its total savings reached 56,859,631 dollars, up from 33,210,000 a year prior, with three regional offices in Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Paradise Valley.
Rangoon observers report a government edict banning movies about witches ghosts and spirits has unsettled Burma's film industry. Intellectuals warn the move may erase folklore and cultural education while the junta seeks a modern space age outlook.
A radio broadcast from Amman reports Saudi Arabia's King Saud issued an anti-graft law. It empowers the ministers' council to examine income and possessions of all employees.
All 2900 residents of Alberca participate in Sidney Pink and Warner Bros production Valley of the Swords set in Moorish Spain. The town provides residents and livestock including horses pigs donkeys cows and goats for the film.
A new chemical 8-hydroxyquinoline sulphate reportedly helps garden plants withstand drought. Connecticut researchers Stoddard and Miller found strawberry roots treated with the chemical wilt more slowly, lose less water, and survive longer than controls. Other tests with tobacco and nasturtiums showed similar effects, suggesting stomatal closure reduces transpiration.
Washington police detain a woman at a southwestern grocery store on suspicion of shoplifting. Officers found frankfurters two pounds, two cold cut packages, vaseline blouses denture adhesive cream deodorant spray head ache tablets shave cream thread cologne and other items totaling 36.95 with groceries also purchased. She was charged with grand larceny noted in the FBI enforcement bulletin.
Nevada residents in the Armed Forces are featured with Pvt. Joseph Dworniczak Jr. earning paratrooper wings at Fort Benning after basic at Fort Ord and missile work for General Dynamics. Pvt. James H. Smith completes eight weeks of military police training at Fort Gordon. Midshipman George H. Petitjean trains aboard USS Noa at Mayport. James M. Lowry earns chief warrant officer at Ent Air Force Base.
Captain Gordon K. Hancock of Belfield NC arrives in Misawa Japan to serve with a Pacific Air Forces unit. He is an F-100 pilot, son of John Hancock, and a Graceland College alum. He and his wife Florence Kemp Hancock of Las Vegas have one child.
Val D. Smith of Overton is named to the Dean's Honor Roll for the 1962 summer session at Southwestern State College. The honor requires a high scholastic rating in all enrolled courses.
New General Jay T. Robbins age 42 of Coolidge Texas was promoted to Brigadier General and appointed director of flight safety for the US Air Force. He will assume the Pentagon level assignment at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino California.
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