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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1964
Page
2
The column notes transistor radios as a postal issue causing startled mail carriers when devices play during transit. Post Office crews try to stop radios before batteries die. otherwise recipients get a bundle of news sports and music.
A collage of quirky notes and ads from a Las Vegas page: from Hank Greenspun mix and PR push to a Bug Mart rescue of a toddler, drawings at the Casino office, and a goat inheritance tale. Also jokes on pronunciation, bank slogans, and a high school football kickoff across Clark County.
D J Garden Apts advertises luxuriously furnished one bedroom units perfectly quiet for day sleepers. No children no pets and a monthly rent of 140 dollars. Located at 449 Desert Inn Rd.
Free herb tobm an Pa P Stores in a perfectly located shopping center can be divided to suit ten ants. Southeast corner of lith and Charleston builder Ph 384-3992 CL. Personals.
Local classified page includes Lost and Found items a kitten wearing a bell a Pekinese named The Chew in Gold Ridge area and various ads for rental housing mobile homes and apartments plus help wanted listings for auto mechanics body and tender repair workers and miscellaneous sales and notices. Community letters warn about speeding and a humorous note on historical figures while urging careful driving.
Delegates split over civil rights and a vice presidential running mate as the credentials group seeks a seat compromise. Mississippi and Alabama tensions loom while subcommittees fail to produce a solution by nightfall. Keynoter John Pastore attacks Goldwater and urges Democrats to push the Kennedy Johnson record to voters.
Gov. Grant Sawyer commended the Democratic Party platform as worthy for all Democrats and clear in its positions. He praised the civil rights plank as eminently satisfactory and noted Western interest planks are broad but necessary, while acknowledging limits on sectional specifics.
Police investigated a burglary at City Hall three weeks ago that netted $1,602. Lie detector tests have yielded several suspects. Officials say the earlier break in was likely an inside job while the recent theft was the work of outside pros.
Supporters of 47 year old McCarthy hail Johnsons late disclosure of his VP pick as aiding McCarthys chances. They insist big city bosses could unite behind McCarthy within 48 hours, influencing President Johnson. Sources say Johnson will reveal his choice on TV from the White House during a brief three minute broadcast tomorrow after nomination.
Ann Strickland 39 and her two children Elizabeth 8 Charles 2 and Mabel Holt 41 all of California escaped serious injuries when a truck rear ended their car, sending it rolling in the desert near Jean on Interstate 15. Clarence R. Johnson 28 of Tacoma Washington was cited for reckless driving. The accident occurred shortly after 5 a.m. two miles north of the Jean turnoff.
The platform pledges extensive economic and welfare programs and condemns extremism while remembering Kennedy. It aims to attract Southern and Northern voters, with civil rights language shaped after consultation with Southern figures and approved to avert a floor clash. Kennedy’s assassination is cited as a call to honor his memory by pursuing broader national aims.
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