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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1962
Page
1
The Seventh annual SUN Youth Forum panel discussions focus on juvenile conduct in schools. Topics include smoking drinking birth control abortion and teen marriage with calls for a Student Court and stricter regulation of birth control devices. The panel notes 59 percent of today’s teenagers drink and worries over junior high school drinking. Continued on page
FBI agents nabbed Allen Ray Lisenburg in Las Vegas after he arrived by charter to Alamo Airways heavy with dynamite and a stash from a day’s bank robbery. He carried $20,000 in cash and a $9,890 cashier’s check from Security First National Bank Long Beach along with six sticks of dynamite and blasting caps. An earlier alert from Fullerton FBI office helped guide the capture.
Rodney F. Phillpott a 27 year old Pasadena California man died four hours after his foreign sports car rammed the rear of a trailer truck on Interstate 15 a mile north of Jean Nevada Highway Patrol said he died at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. The truck driver Richard Z Bennege of El Monte California was not injured.
Police reported numerous explosions heard yesterday in the West Charleston area, traced to a house demolition near the 1800 block. Residents described 70 to 80 heavy blasts as the area remains sparsely built, with authorities noting the loudness due to few buildings nearby.
Paris UPI says U S sources report Washington offered Britain free Skybolt designs prototype equipment and research material worth over 400 million dollars if London pursues independent production. Britain would face about 2.6 billion more to finish development and build 1000 missiles. Alternatives to Skybolt, including submarine options, were mentioned.
Police and coroner reported nine bodies accounted for after a Hollywood crash, including five men and four women. Four men and one woman were aboard the plane, all killed, while ground fatalities included a 16 year old girl, two factory workers, and another woman. A seven member family escaped their burning home struck by wreckage.
Las Vegas detectives arrested two armed robbery suspects tied to Houston cases. The men identified as James Bond, 29, and James Faulkner, 24, were picked up in a downtown hotel after witnesses linked them to an $8,000 Houston market holdup on Thursday.
NASA officials hailed Mariner 2 after it skimmed Venus 42 minutes of electronic soundings during a 108 day voyage. The 447 pound craft sent tones as it passed Earth’s nearest neighbor, promising months of analysis to determine if Venus is dead or possibly alive.
Washington reports four elite fully equipped combat units of the Russian army remain in Cuba along with thousands of Soviet troops and technicians. The battalions, numbering about 1500 to 2000 men each, were part of a Moscow backed package including missiles, aimed at defending missiles and deterring a Castro takeover.
A church blast injures two people including a child in a nearby house and heavily damages the church and four surrounding homes. FBI special agent Ray Faist offers full cooperation with local police and access to facilities. A large crowd of Black residents gathers. police move them away with dogs as two wagons fill with bystanders.
Syrians move about half their army to the tense border with Israel and heavy military traffic appears across the frontier. Sources say Syria recruited the country’s surgeons but no clear sign of an attack. Israeli leaders claim the move aims to divert attention from internal problems. The rest of the army is deployed elsewhere in the country.
Partly cloudy conditions with a chance of showers and southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. High around 60 and a low near 30. Yesterday also reached 60 with a 32 low. Noontime humidity at 19 percent, sunrise 6:45, sunset 4:27.
A Communist Pravda and Investia report allege Russ Savant and two others were caught receiving information from a Russian scientist described as a handsome liar with loose morals. The pieces hint at a Langlo-American espionage ring linked to the Greville Wynne case and promise further disclosures.
Ti Juana police cracked down on vice with over 100 arrests and 21 bars closed on mayor Hdefonso Velasquez orders. A police spokesman said 70 of the arrestees were women charged with prostitution and warned that more arrests and closures were expected.
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