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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1962
Page
1
The article discusses public duties of a newspaper publisher and warns about dangers from glue sniffing and gun sales. It quotes Hank Greenspun urging stricter gambling laws and reflects on historical examples of corruption and crime in cities like Chicago and Phenix City, urging vigilance.
The son of a Henderson resident was killed in a one car crash about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas in Mohave County Arizona on Saturday night.
A New York Airways Boeing 107 air taxi with 28 aboard made an emergency landing in the East River when an engine failed high above the city. The craft floated to a Brooklyn Navy Yard pier, where a Coast Guard tow boat carried it to a dock. Passengers were moved to a bus and continued to Wall Street heliport.
Deputies report The Day Dream Ranch on Warm Springs Road was burglarized after daylight yesterday morning. More than $200 was stolen after entry was forced, the cash register broken, and its contents removed.
A parade of eleven TAC jet fighters and ballistic missiles will be towed along Paradise Valley Road to form part of the Air Force Association Convention display at the Convention Center September 18 to 23. The missiles include Minuteman Titan and Thor Able, arranged for viewing in front of the center. An additional display of unusual aircraft will be parked at McCarran Field.
Las Vegas fire officials report a nine year old tried to start a kerosene fire at 4607 Dover. A neighbor, Ernie Halloway, extinguished the flames before firefighters arrived. A second fire damaged a corral and a pickup collision occurred at 1701 Bonnie Street behind Park Circle. cause undetermined.
Hank Greenspun for Governor Headquarters invites visitors to pick up buttons badges souvenirs signs and bumper stickers at 226 Las Vegas Boulevard North with coffee available.
The Communist newspaper Neues warns the U S Britain and France to present complaints to Maj Gen Helmut Poppe the newly appointed Berlin commandant The paper argues four power status is invalid and western rights border control remain, while West Berliners show renewed protest potential as refugees face killings.
The United States sent the 447 pound Mariner 2 toward Venus aboard an Atlas Agena rocket to investigate the planet’s cloud cover and assess the possibility of life. liftoff occurred at 2 53 am EDT after delays, beginning a 180 million mile journey to Earth’s neighbor.
In Sacramento the 1952 Democratic Central Committee fractures after a resolution denouncing members of the John Birch Society and the Communist Party surfaces. Assembly Speaker Jesse M Unruh of Los Angeles backs the measure urging legal steps to strip party membership from members of totalitarian organizations. A bloc of leading Democrats fights the move as tensions rise.
United Nations Secretary General Thant toured the Kremlin on his first full day in Moscow amid persistent talk Khrushchev will attend the U.N. General Assembly opening September 18. Thant plans talks with Khrushchev at his Black Sea retreat in Yalta, with possible implications for Thant’s own tenure beyond 1963.
Paris reports police fear an assassination attempt by the Secret Army Organization during Charles De Gaulle’s September five day trip to Germany. Sources cite elaborate planning, anonymous tracts, and OAS members possibly hiding as major risks ahead of the open itinerary.
Typhoon Thelma struck six hours of destruction across central Japan before moving toward the Sea of Japan and weakening to a tropical storm. In Stockholm, Israeli Premier Ben Gurion warned Washington and Moscow are unlikely to take dangerous actions.
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