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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
9
Las Vegas columnist recalls the Griffith versus Fernandez bout with claimed fouls and disputed rulings, noting contract details and referee interpretations. The piece veers into local figures and a satirical aside about a Disney matinee confusion and a casual remark about Lolita.
Nearly 100 friends and federal workers attended a Boulder City Women’s Club dinner to honor Joanna D. O’Neill and Walter F. Sutherland as they retire after 60 years of combined National Park Service service. Main talk by Charles A. Richey. program led by James W. Packard.
A Cuban government trade delegation led by Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, president of the Agrarian Reform Institute, arrived in Moscow for economic talks with Soviet officials.
Nevada officials named the Mule Deer the Official Centennial Animal after student ballots. The Centennial Commissioners weigh possible influence from a red suited, white bearded man reportedly popular with children. A Reno photograph captured Gray Reid’s Santa with the Fehr children and the Mule Deer at Chet and Link Piazza’s Sportsman store.
Colorado Springs reports social worker Nona Stoddard, 39, shot and captured 22 year old Pvt. Fred H. McKee, an AWOL paratrooper from Willits, California, after finding him reading a book at a summer cabin. McKee, who had resisted arrest for months, was taken to Fort Carson for frostbite treatment and identification confirmed by fingerprint. He was to be returned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Nevada schoolchildren voted to designate the Mule Deer as the Official Centennial Animal with 26 490 votes. Desert Bighorn Sheep 15 500 and Antelope 7 878 followed. A total of 49 958 ballots were received with minimal errors and a single child marking all three animals.
An old ad copy promises firmer dentures with FABSEETH to prevent slipping while eating laughing or talking. It claims alkaline non acidic formula causes no taste or souring and reduces denture odor. Available at drug counters everywhere.
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