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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1965
Page
2
A rambling column riffs on ZIP code use, civil rights, and local quirks from Las Vegas to Boston. It highlights public service ads, a U S information agency film claim, a large regional bank advert, and upcoming conferences, mixing humor with civic themes and regional pride. The piece closes noting Bank of Las Vegas branches serving Southern Nevada.
Gemini 5 crew Cooper and Conrad press toward new American spaceflight records from their eight day mission. They surpass the 97 hour 59 minute Gemini 4 mark as they approach the Russian time benchmark and prepare for a possible Sunday return.
Florence Arizona police report guard Jesus Cordova 40 shot his two daughters Dodie eight and Josie six and son Phil nine in a desert wash after driving them from their home. His wife Emily had been in Mexico for months amid marital problems.
Classified fragment listing Foster's Shoes and Trudy Jewelers along with partial contact details, lost item LAS GLasses, job ad for Bank of Liveps, and real estate listings for Fontainebleau Estates and furnished apartments. Contains multiple business names and contact numbers without cohesive single story.
Thomas Nazzie Plas, 43, of Kansas City, to enter a plea in U.S. Court Sept 7 on an FBI complaint accusing him of transporting three women from Kansas City to Las Vegas on April 29, 1965 for prostitution. He was arrested a week after and is jailed in Clark County after bail was lowered from 5000 to 3000. attorney is Charles Kellar.
Trustees and town boards in Overton and Mesquite discuss immediate EMS improvements for 5 000 residents and a future 15 bed hospital. A 15 member committee from the two towns and surrounding area was to draft recommendations for the trustees to review next week.
A labor dispute pits the carpenters union Local 1780 against the major contractors in Nevada. The contractors seek damages of 25000 per day if the strike lasts and threaten to cancel trust agreements on health and welfare pensions and apprenticeships. The union awaits a response to its rejection notice and a possible counteroffer. Meanwhile a three week return to work under the old contract is underway at Herbert Gerson Park for the Las Vegas Housing Authority.
In Haynesville Alabama last week civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels was shot by a gunman. Eyewitnesses claim the shooting was planned with police knowledge. ESCRU urged President Johnson to push laws ending what they call a license to murder by southern police.
President Johnson defends U S Viet Nam policy before reporters warning Hanoi leaders of unified American support. He rebuts a House Republican White Paper accusing Democrats of costly mistakes and calls for responsible action in steel talks UN delegation reshuffle and a manned space lab planned for 1968.
Soviet made ground to air missiles apparently shot down a U S Navy F4 Phantom near Thanh Hoa. Saigon officials reported 59 Americans killed in action last week, a weekly record, with 76 wounded and four missing. Marines routed a Viet Cong force at Van Tuong as Viet Cong deaths exceeded V N armed forces losses.
The piece surveys critics who attack English noun plural forms, possessives, verbs, and pronouns as overly complex. It notes frustrations with Latin and Norman French influence, praises positional language benefits, and mocks proposals to reform English grammar despite the author’s ironic salute to linguistic pundits.
Six men applied to the Nevada State Gaming Commission to buy the E Capitan casino and lodge in Hawthorne for 2.5 million. The group would acquire the club from Lindsay and Gordon Smith and Woodrow W. Loftin. Roy Babick of Las Vegas would serve as casino manager with a 50 000 investment for two percent equity.
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