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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1962
Page
1
Students at SUN's seventh annual Youth Forum push tougher laws for chronic offenders. Debates cover speed limits with a proposed 35 mph minimum, stricter driving tests, mandatory driver education for offenders, and the value of reform schools like Spring Mountain Youth Camp.
Cloudy conditions with gentle winds and scattered showers. High near 55 degrees and a low around 40. Yesterday’s high 56 and low 39. Noontime humidity about 49 percent. Sunrise at 6 45 AM and sunset at 4 27 PM.
Police hold a Strip hotel maid for investigation after the death of 29 year old laborer Galeway Coleman. Lou ise Lucas 25 told officers she stabbed Coleman during a family fight after he slapped her. He was found lying in front of 904 McWilliams Street and died at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.
Academy Award winning character actor Thomas Mitchell died yesterday at age 70 in Beverly Hills after a lengthy illness. A veteran of many films, TV shows, and Broadway plays, he is best remembered for his mayor of the town role in a TV series and as Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone With the Wind.
Postmaster General J Edward Day urged the public to send final Christmas mail soon to ensure pre holiday delivery. Air mail may be required for distant destinations and local mail could face delays due to record loads. The last 1962 Christmas stamps go on sale nationwide, with over 800 million sold and 200 million more expected to sell.
Hollywood actor Charles Laughton will be laid to rest in private funeral services at the Church of the Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park. British playwright Christopher Isherwood will read selections from Shakespeare and the Bible at the afternoon service. Laughton died Saturday night at 63 after a battle with spinal cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. He was survived by wife Elsa Lanchester and brother Frank Laughton. the couple married in England in 1929 and became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1950.
President Kennedy warned that a single error could cause a global crisis after the Cuban confrontation. He described the sixties as a dangerous era shaped by Soviet and Chinese pressure and warned Americans misunderstand the Communist view of the United States.
Rain on slick streets caused several minor crashes during the morning rush in Las Vegas. The trace shower lifted the year total to 1.21 inches, well under the 3.90 inch normal average. A pre-dawn 40 minute power outage darkened a large county section due to equipment failure, not the rain.
New Delhi reports India began studying secret peace proposals from six nonaligned nations that met in Colombo to mediate the Sino Indian border dispute. The proposals arrived in a sealed envelope with a letter from Sri Lankan Premier Sirimavo Bandaranaike and were handed to Prime Minister Nehru by Ambassador Peiris.
US Attorney John Bonner said yesterday that Alien Ray Lisenbury a 27 year old described as a human bomb indicated at a preliminary hearing he would plead guilty here. He was arrested Friday night at Alamo Airlines after stepping from a chartered plane with loot including 20000 cash and a 9890 cashier's check. FBI described the case as dangerously wired with dynamite blasting caps and six sticks of dynamite in the attache case.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will speak at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association annual meeting in Las Vegas January 14 to 17. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman also will address. more than 8,000 delegates from over 1,000 cooperatives are expected to attend. Other speakers include Harold Johnson David ah see Catherine May Kenneth Holum John Baker Norman Clapp and Clyde T. Ellis.
A federal jury found the Communist Party of the United States guilty of failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union. Judge Holtzoff imposed the maximum $120,000 fine, with the amount held in abeyance pending appeal. The party plans to appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as its leaders face further trials.
Sheriff Ralph Lamb commended Sgt. Walter Butt and Clark County Posse for a dramatic early rescue of nine people stranded in a swamp east of Sunrise Mountain. Butt improvised a suspension bridge with a lasso to reach the group as teenagers and parents had attempted to assist. The incident followed by a second such search in the area within a year.
A brush fire above Rose Bow s stadium near Altadena California burned about 550 acres of watershed land. Firefighters aided by favorable winds and weather fought to prevent damage to homes as flames rose and smoke spread across the Los Angeles basin. Ten Forest Service hot shot crew members sustained minor injuries during peak activity.
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