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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1963
Page
1
William Zantzinger, a 24 year old Maryland tobacco farmer, was sentenced to six months in prison for fatally caning a Negro barmaid. The sentence starts September 15 to finish gathering his tobacco crop. He paid $500 fine for manslaughter plus $100 for assault on a waitress and $25 for assault on a bellhop.
In Moab Utah two workers Don Blake Hanna and Paul McKinney were brought to the surface after 18 hours trapped 2712 feet underground in a potash mine blast. Oxygen masks guarded against carbon monoxide as rescuers freed more men and searched for others. The mine spans 80 acres in southeastern Utah.
Brian, a Las Vegas High senior, spent nine weeks in Europe and the Middle East on a youth exchange style trip. He visited Israel from Galilee to Elath, toured Parliament, Kibbutzim, farms, and settlements, and aided farming work while learning about government and society.
Mining officials considered sending a volunteer down into the 300 plus foot compartment where Louis Bova has been trapped since a cave‑in 16 days ago near Sheppton Pennsylvania. Officials drilled a 124 inch hole and lowered a microphone with no life signs found. A volunteer guide has not been chosen and dramatic plans include leaving food beside a blinking shaft light to lure or aid a possibly weakened survivor.
Mostly clear today with gentle winds and a high near 100 and a low around 70. Yesterday peaked at 101 with a 72 low. Noontime humidity around 11 percent as sunrise was 6 10 and sunset at 7 1.
Congress overwhelmingly approves emergency legislation to avert a nationwide rail strike for at least six months. President Kennedy signs the bill into law at the White House about six hours before a planned crippling walkout. Major U.S. rail systems begin pulling down notices of work rules changes.
Los Angeles, UPI. Actor Harvey Allen testified that his wife Joan O'Brien was intimate with him for three months before marriage, spent little time with her children and took lots of pills. He testifies for two ex husbands seeking custody of her children as she fights divorce after four months of marriage.
World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York was released yesterday from Veterans Hospital in Nashville Tennessee after treatment for bed sores. He had been placed on the seriously ill list on August 16 and returned to his Pall Mall Tennessee home. This marked his fifth hospital confinement in 12 months.
The March on Washington drew more than 200,000 demonstrators in an orderly, festive rally. Leaders demanded ten civil rights goals from equal job access to total desegregation now. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a keynote address on the Lincoln Memorial grounds after the march from the Washington Monument.
UPI reports in Los Angeles that a pre trial hearing occurred as Dist. Judge Jesse W. Curtis set October 7 for a motion to dismiss the indictment. Defendants include Marshall Caifano known as John Marshall aged 52, Allen Smiley aka Aaron Smehoff aged 56 of Beverly Hills, and Charles del Monico aka Charles James Tourine of Miami Beach.
Choice openings listed for men and women include a 850 hurdles event on Thursday at 6 30 and a 700 hurdles event for women on Wednesday at 9 00 plus junior categories. Organized by the league schedule with emphasis on event times and divisions.
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