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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1962
Page
5
A feature titled In Person and in Song opens Friday August 3 highlighting a local cancer awareness drive with a concert and health screening event. Public figures and community groups participate to encourage screenings and fundraising.
Las Vegas publisher remains GOP nominee while critics push to revoke the Las Vegas Young Republican club charter. State leaders warn against using party positions to back primary candidates as campaigns gear up for Labor Day events across Winnemucca Falcon Elko and Sparks. Greenspun assails Gov Sawyer Grayson over increased federal intervention in Nevada while tax policy debate continues at local meetings and rallies.
Greenspun warns against political hacks and federal overreach and pledges to tell Washington to solve Nevada problems locally. He predicts cross support from factions after the September primary and vows Republican victory in November. He continues a busy pre primary speaking tour with stops in Carson City Yerington Fallon and Tonopah before Las Vegas.
Koontz estimates 3,621 of 5,572 registered nonpartisans would vote in the primary. He cautions eligibility limits could shrink that number further since these voters may only participate in nonpartisan races.
A California woman, Paulette Powell, was hit while crossing Las Vegas Boulevard South near Bonneville. Police ticketed Powell for jaywalking after determining she was not injured. the other driver, Ruby Sue Ornstein of Los Angeles, struck her and stopped.
The first in a series of extended jazz workshops opened Sunday night at the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas with Eddie Shu and his Quartet. Promoters promise extended workshops and a Sept. 8 engagement for Carl Fontana, backed by Jack Puglash and the Las Vegas American Federation of Musicians chapter.
The Century, the Nellis AP's newspaper edited by A2C James S. Kosmo, was judged the top base newspaper in Tactical Air Command. Among 12 TAC papers, it excels in coverage and support of Air Force information objectives and command management tools.
Authorities identified Lawrence Crawford as the man arrested on a concealed weapons charge and named him the prime suspect in a Colorado murder. He is being returned to Adama County for first degree murder charges in the death of Sally Princes Christopher, whose body was found in a car luggage compartment.
Senate debate opens on Kennedy tax reform as Gore blocks amendments to the House bill. Kerr accuses Gore of delaying tactics while demanding changes to a $1 billion annual business tax credit aimed at spur ring investment in new plants and machinery. Willems protests committee action during the ongoing tax measure discussion.
Formosan authorities report the 23rd death in a cholera outbreak that began six weeks ago and has infected 347 people.
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