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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1964
Page
2
The Bank of Las Vegas mails a quirky note about a restaurant mishap and a casino prize draw. Carl Jensen reports a waiter served his steak with the thumb, joking about wanting not to drop it again while mentioning a Sony TV prize won by F F Gardner from the Star Dust security team. The piece ties the winners to the bank’s casino branch launch across from the Fl Morocco motel. August memories of a bustling casino event close the note.
Congress resumes after the Democratic National Convention with Medicare for the aged tied to Social Security taxes and a push to delay the one man one vote reapportionment ruling. The Senate backs a foreign aid amendment while a $1 billion Appalachian regional program faces House opposition. A Senate approved $455 million area redevelopment extender may falter in the House.
A compact note records a brief data fragment titled Too late to classify with unclear text about a girls or bike reference. The readable portion lacks coherent details, making precise event or entity identification impossible from the fragment.
Column defends Sen. Howard Cannon in Nevada politics, argues anti Cannon motives in other candidates, praises federal project benefits linked to Cannon Bible via White House access, and urges voting for Cannon for economic stability. Mentions Alan Bible, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Baker, Nellis AFB, and the Nevada economy.
The unrest continued into Sunday morning with 44 officers injured and 287 arrests. A sniper fired six shots from a Negro tenement roof as looters smashed stores in the Jungle district. Property losses topped $1 million. curfew extended and Sunday services canceled.
Allan J. Tremper, Fort Wayne Allen County library board member, campaigns to remove the Cleveland Indians name from local libraries in the city named for Indian fighter Gen. Anthony Wayne. He says he bears no ill will toward Indians but calls them savages and claims they had little to do with books.
Milonoy Corp. announced licensing Mitsui & Co to sell its Ferro-Tic tool steel in Japan and select other markets. Terms were not disclosed.
The Federal Power Commission reports U S utilities excluding Hawaii and Alaska generated 7.6 percent more electric energy in the first half of 1964 than in the same period of 1963.
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