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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1962
Page
1
A columnist warns readers to scrutinize a proposed city water company. They allege ties between proponents and a Strip hotel controlling sanitation, warning of a syndicate-like influence and urging public scrutiny to ensure benefits go to people, not a few private parties.
A column laments changing social status from debt free living to credit card culture. It contrasts older pride in paying cash with today’s emphasis on borrowing. It notes advertisers touting all access cards as status symbols and suggests real prestige lies in possessing a credit card.
Short notes on scraps suggest a small point could escalate. readers are told this story continues on page 2 for fuller details.
An explosion in Berlin damaged both East and West Berlin, creating a four foot hole in the wall and shattering about 200 windows. Police said unknown assailants attempted a larger breach but failed, as the charge was not placed deep enough. Dozens of windows were broken, a car damaged, and an emergency signal box affected. Police reported no East German casualties.
Sharon R. Douglas aged 24 of Highland Park California died from injuries after a one car rollover on November 26 on State Route 85 west of here. Passenger in the car was Joseph Rovira aged 26 of Highland Park who was killed instantly when the car blew a rear tire and swerved off the road. Nevada highway death toll reaches 151.
A light Piper Comanche 250 crashed in a field near Randlett in southern Oklahoma killing both men aboard. Victims were Henry Alvin Hill 49 of Altus the apparent pilot and George Harvey Ellis 47 also of Altus. The plane belonged to Hill Flying Service of Altus. The craft was traveling east when it nosed straight down and slid about 150 feet after impact.
Variable cloudiness and light winds. High near 60 and a low of 37. Yesterday's high 59 and low 37. Noontime relative humidity around 49 percent. Sunrise at 6 34 and sunset at 4 25.
Vincent Pelzer, 45, Wyckoff New Jersey, was fined 10 dollars plus 2.50 costs after attempting to shake President Kennedy’s hand at the Army-Navy football game. He told the magistrate he was sorry for causing a disturbance and said his goal was to reach the President. Pelzer faced charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct and intoxication and paid 12.50 before leaving.
Premier Khrushchev condemned a Soviet abstract art show as too abstract and unclear, calling works indistinguishable from tail of an ass. Tass reported his blunt remarks as a warning to artists against deviation from Communist standards.
China says it has withdrawn troops along the eastern Indian frontier under a cease-fire plan, but an Indian official cautions that verification will take days. Home Minister Lal Bahadur Singh notes moves will be known in days and insists India will negotiate only after all territories captured since September are evacuated. Foreign ministry adds no firm information yet.
Aviation executives and dealers began arriving by private plane at Alamo Airways for the 23rd annual convention of the National Aviation Trades Assn. about 500 delegates will stay at the Flamingo Hotel with James T. Pyle as keynote speaker.
Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan returned from Cuba and the United States. Tass said Kosygin and Cuban Ambassador Carlos Olivares Sanches met him at the airport. Pravda and Izvestia cited meetings with President Kennedy and U.S. officials as advancing mutual understanding and progress on Cuba and cold war issues.
In a public window appearance at St. Peter's Square, Pope John XXIII reassured about his health, saying the good health that threatened to leave him is returning. The 81st birthday pope looked pale as 30,000 worshipers cheered Viva I Papa and horns rang out in Roman gusto. He had been bedridden since Tuesday with anemia and gastric troubles believed to be a bleeding ulcer.
A 21 year old mother Barbara Orma and two men Richard W. Knott 20 and John M. Powell 19 were jailed in Stanton California on charges of conducting sex and liquor parties involving six teen girls. They face counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors sex perversion and statutory. Two girls 16 and 17 held at Orange county Juvenile hall while others 13 to 15 faced possession charges and were released to parents. The mother’s two young children were also taken to Juvenile hall.
Sheriffs deputies hunted the abandoned Frenchman's Mine on Sunrise Mountain after four men were seen leaving the shaft acting suspiciously. Sgt. Walter Butts and the posse continued the night search following a report from Mrs. Alicia Kelly of North Las Vegas.
Jose Niehouse a 23 year old Cincinnati member of the Cincinnati Sport and Parachute Club was killed when his parachute opened only partially on his seventh jump yesterday at Rising Sun Airport. His reserve chute failed and about 25 witnesses saw the fatal fall.
Herring will face Dist. Judge Owen M Lord in Beaumont for the March 1961 killing of Elizabeth Jean Williams 17 a classmate at Odessa High. The trial moved from Kermit due to publicity with a special panel of 200 prospective jurors ordered to report.
A 000 member Typographical Union voted to authorize a strike against nine New York metropolitan area dailies. The ITU Local 6 contract with the papers expires at 12:01 am next Saturday. News outlets include the New York Times Mirror Daily News World Telegram Sun Herald Tribune Journal American Post Long Island Press and The Island Press.
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