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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1968
Page
1
Readable lines show Arizona State trailing Arizona 7 and Utah State leading San Diego State 30 to 19 in a compact score roundup. The fragment notes football results with limited context and no further details on dates or venues.
Fort Lauderdale reports 67 year old widow Mary MacMahon found dead in her bedroom with nearly 2 million dollars in cash, jewelry, and bonds tucked away. Police described drawers and cardboard boxes concealing the fortune. only siblings in Ohio and Pennsylvania listed as relatives.
Holiday traffic deaths rose past 500 with estimates of about 680 to die during the Thanksgiving period ending Sunday. United Press International tallied 510 deaths on midnight Saturday across U.S. highways, led by Texas with 40, California 39, and Ohio 32.
Gaetan Paris, Canada's longest living heart transplant recipient, died yesterday apparently of a heart attack. An electrical engineer who received his new heart on June 29 was taken to the institute of cardiology by police ambulance around 4 p.m.
An armed man forced his way into the cockpit of an Eastern Air Lines Boeing 720 on a Miami to Dallas flight and diverted to Havana. The 45 aboard were held briefly as the plane burned fuel then landed in Havana after about 65 minutes. State Department arranged hotel stays for 38 passengers and crew pending a return flight.
Officers Craig and Miller called for aid as a combative subject was taken into custody amid a growing crowd near Westend Avenue. Two locals nicknamed Mike and Ripper aided responders to secure the prisoner and end the disturbance.
Patricia McGuiness 28 of Canoga Park died as the fifth victim of a highway crash on Interstate 15 north of San Bernardino. Gaye Spiegelman 36 and three of her children perished at the scene when their station wagon collided with a pickup driven by Raymond P. Smith. Spiegelman was known as The Topless Mother of Eight in San Francisco night spots.
Partly cloudy with southwesterly winds 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. High 55, low 35. Noontime humidity 21 percent. Sunrise 6 23, sunset 4 26. Yesterday's high 57, low 33.
The GOP task force on crime problems unveiled a sweeping set of measures for the 91st Congress aimed at curbing crime lords and aiding ex convicts. Proposals include tax incentives for rehab programs, industry help to place released convicts in jobs, and surety bonds to encourage hiring ex offenders.
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