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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1962
Page
2
Delegates gather for the 23rd annual meeting with sessions on aerial application air taxi operations and flight training at the Flamingo venue. The Air Conference Taxi Awards will be presented at Thursday's banquet with Robert LaFevre of Freedom School as guest speaker.
A column reflects on building code infractions and a courageous inspector who was fired after exposing official misconduct. It laments crowd misbehavior at a concert during the Star Spangled Banner and questions parent supervision. It notes a boxing match hype at the convention center and critiques an eastern boxing commission proposing penalties for knockouts. It calls for stronger anti smog action like Reno.
Mrs. Kelly reports her son, a California physician, bought the mine and opened the shaft. Deputies recall an earlier salt claim to float stock. Four men were seen emerging from the shaft as the party arrived amid warnings of bad gas.
Three youths aged 13 15 and 16 escaped Spring Mountain youth camp Saturday and were later brought to Henderson Police Station by the mother of one boy. The pickup they drove was found abandoned in a ditch and the boys were spotted in North Las Vegas before the vehicle reappeared in the Black Mountains behind Henderson. The mother returned with all three teens and they were returned to the camp by juvenile officers.
Odessa Junior College student Mack Herring faces a murder trial after a previous insanity ruling. Prosecutors seek a premeditated murder verdict while defense contends temporary insanity. Witnesses were subpoenaed as the case resumes, with Herring recounting the killing at a stock pond near Notrees.
Kent Stuart executive vice president of the Sacramento Real Estate Board and general manager of the Sacramento Multiple Listing Bureau since 1956 will be guest speaker at the Las Vegas and Nevada State Realtors Association annual installation dinner in the Palomino Room of the Hotel Hacienda at 7 p.m. Leo English, president of the Las Vegas Realtors Board, is in charge of arrangements.
Henderson City Council plans to decide on the rendering plant permit after the planning commission rejected it. Public works chief George Perkins notes Jack Brown withdrew the use permit request, signaling likely council alignment with the prior decision.
In Yokohama a Norwegian captain and a Japanese pilot were remanded on criminal negligence charges after a tanker collision in a crowded waterway that killed 41 people. Capt Peter Pedersen, 61, of the Tharald Brovig, and Toraichiro Uvematsu, 75, piloted the two vessels involved. The Japanese tanker captain, named in the indictment, died in the incident.
The article advises parents to start psychologically letting go as children move away for marriage or careers. It encourages mothers to build a new life, resume dropped interests, and pursue new directions, framing the transition as exciting and a return to self after years of devoted parenting.
The Las Vegas Gun Inc editors and publishers are listed including H M Greenspun as editor and publisher and a full staff roster with vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, and department heads. The paper is published mornings including Sundays from 900 South Main Street Las Vegas Nevada and is entered as second class matter. It lists affiliations with United Press International Nevada State Press Association and other associations. Subscriptions are shown at 20 per month.
A Fort Worth Texas advertises Old Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance offering $1,000 burial coverage for ages 40 to 90. No medical exam required and no agent visits. provides free information. Send name, address and year of birth to Central Security Life Insurance Co. Dept. D-421.
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