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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1964
Page
2
A parody filled column from the Bank of Las Vegas magazine relays lighthearted drive-in teller antics at Paradise Valley and other banking vignettes. It quips on customer pranks, curbside service, and a spoof safety lesson about coin theft and safe deposits, ending with a sales plug for “The Best.”
Picket lines at Merritt Island Moon port and Patrick Air Force Base halt or slow work on the Apollo program. About 23,500 of 4,500 construction workers refused to cross as union leaders urge a return to work despite claims the walkout isn’t council sanctioned.
An old Las Vegas Sun classified snippet advertises Foster's Shoes at 119 No. 3rd St and a business opportunities box seeking a public relations minded man age 23 to 35 with writing experience. Also notes a two room office listing at 819 Roosevelt with kitchen and contact numbers.
Urzi, 26, posted bail of 3500 then was arrested again by deputies on grand larceny inquiry after a vehicle linked to a Crestwood Drug Store burglary was found. The car lacked a registration, was registered to V Kist, and Urzi claimed borrowing it. Immigration authorities were asked to send Miss Hewitt back to England.
A Daily Mirror cartoon depicts Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Johnson laboring to push a Gaulle stone toward a NATO agreement summit, satirizing Francoise de Gaulle and the alliance's efforts.
Deputies report a 15 000 theft at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn Road residence. A safe entry attempt occurred between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Officers found jewelry and guns taken, while shoes and a blue headed dress valued at 500 were also stolen. The Clarks were away. maid Edna Mae Williams discovered the break-in.
A 16 year old boy hid in a hearse parked in a backyard in Beach California for a week. Juvenile officers questioned him after locating him with the help of a local surveillance family. He was returned to his father following police statements.
Yale freshman Clayton Day raised dimes to fund a trip to Reno to visit his 16-year-old girlfriend Megan Waldo. He plans to leave New Haven for Arlington today and fly to Reno in time for Christmas.
UPI reports Judge Bruce Thompson reaffirmed a five year sentence for Michael V. Cramer ex marine 29 who threatened to kill President Johnson Cramer was ordered to the Federal Medical Center Springfield Missouri for psychiatric treatment with time there to count against the sentence He mailed the threat from New Jersey to FBI director J Edgar Hoover asserting Johnson would be killed in August at Atlantic City and that the secret service could not prevent it.
Bilbray explains the reduction applies to home and personal property while land values stay fixed. Revaluation and new construction will absorb the loss, with an expected net revenue increase of about 10 million over last year’s 542 million. Homeowners gain a tax break amid broader county revaluation efforts.
Nevada grand jury convenes with potential hot items including alleged pressure to quash a narcotics probe involving a prominent local family. Rumors of official interference color a climate of political maneuvering while cattlemen suffer losses from new highway routes and open range grazing.
A reader asks about the spelling change from Vir ginia Nevada to Virginia City Nevada. They cite a grandmother's diploma from 1873 and a great-grandfather’s naturalization papers, seeking the historical date or criteria for the shift in place name usage and spelling.
In Mesa Arizona the man known as the one who killed Santa Claus staged a 1930 pre Christmas parade prank. He dressed a window dummy as Santa and parachuted it from a barnstormer operated plane failing to open the chute. Parents and children watched in shock as the dummy fell.
Ed Mann production manager at KLAS-TV remained in fair condition at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage Monday night two hours post his 6 p.m. telecast. Mann, an award winning weathercaster, has worked at KLAS-TV for five years.
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