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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1964
Page
4
President Johnson lit 8000 red lights on the national Christmas tree atop a 72 foot spruce on the ellipse opposite the White House. He proclaimed that humanity now holds the capacities to end war eradicate poverty and share abundance and to overcome human diseases. The annual lighting has been a White House ceremony for around four decades.
Notices include an application for the public waters of Nevada by Historica Foundation Center of America Reno for one second foot from an underground source in Sec 6 7 2S Range 6 East M D B 8 for commercial and domestic use yearly Jan 1 to Dec 1 with first publication Nov 7 1964 and last Dec 19 1964. Also listed are sale notices in Clark County Nevada for the estate of Harold Aaron Lee December 27 1964 at 11 AM and three months notice for the estate of Myron Horna with creditors deadline and a dissolution suit in progress.
A pre dawn blaze at Maples Convalescent Home near Fountaintown Indiana killed twenty residents and left fourteen escapees. Eighteen bodies were recovered from the ruins and two victims died later in hospital. A heating system overheated, investigators said, trapping elderly patients in their beds as staff evacuated survivors led by nurse Myrtle Donahue.
West German police say an Oklahoma airman Spect. 5 Claude D. Swain 28 of Healdton may have defected to East Germany with an unidentified woman. CID investigators examine security gaps while U S Army notes Swain had no secret clearance.
A 24 man West German delegation led by Chief Prosecutor Dr. Hans Grossman returned from Poland to confront fresh on the spot evidence at the Auschwitz war crimes trial. Judge Walter Hotz will issue a formal report on the three days of evidence gathered amid gas chambers and ovens.
Los Angeles attorney and 1960 Nixon campaign manager Robert Finch said he had been approached about possibly replacing Dean Burch as chairman of the Republican National Committee. He denied being a candidate and noted conversations involved people from both sides, with no immediate change expected. Burch said after meeting Goldwater he had enough votes to stay in office when the committee meets in Chicago January 22-23.
Former President Eisenhower said he would not enter the dispute over National GOP Chairman Dean Burch. He aims to help the GOP reunite but will not take part in the leadership fight. A telephoned death threat delayed his San Bernardino arrival, later he proceeded to Palm Desert for his winter home.
The Soviet Mars probe Zond-2 with plasma engine control claims to catch up to the American Mariner-4 launched two days earlier. Zond-2, launched Nov 23, reports a 3,356,250 mile Earth distance at 2 PM while Mariner-4 sits about 3,456,000 miles away. It remains uncertain if Zond-2 will pass before reaching Mars next summer after a 30 million mile voyage.
In Washington Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize winner urged President Johnson to include Negro leadership in the anti poverty program. He called his meeting with Johnson very fruitful and friendly and said Negroes must have leadership roles in the campaign.
Washington based executives from AT&T General Motors IBM United States Steel and other major firms gathered with President Johnson at the White House to say they see no looming downturn and expect steady growth. The group voiced high hopes for a coordinated effort between government and business to reduce tomorrow’s uncertainties while noting a $100 billion budget size would not surprise markets.
In Los Angeles the University of California regents refused to transfer disciplinary authority over student activity despite Berkeley free speech turmoil. About 500 protesters gathered outside the UCLA meeting as the regents backed their policy, rejecting faculty control of student discipline while upholding free speech rights.
Burke John F Kennedy and his Marshall resign as head of the Civil Rights Division. John Doar to replace him as assistant attorney general. Warren Dear to succeed as first assistant, cited compelling personal reasons and prior service in civil rights work. The President cited an understanding with the late President in accepting the resignation. Dear previously received the President's Award for distinguished federal civilian service in June.
U S embassy sources report terrorists lobbed a live mortar shell into the yard of the Wurtsmith School at Clark Air Base as 759 American children attended classes. The weapon did not explode and a 100 yard blast radius was cited.
Communist China said it shot down an American made RFI reconnaissance plane of the Nationalist Chinese air force over eastern mainland. Peking reported an air unit of the liberation navy forces downed the aircraft. Britain defers payments on 173.2 million dollars in interest and capital due to the United States and Canada as part of efforts to restore economic health amid balance of payments strain and a weak pound.
Space construction returns to normal as a carpenters union local ends a one day picket that blocked Moonport and Air Force building. Workers restart duties at dawn as crews resume site activity and progress begins again.
The L. S. Weather Bureau recorded the lowest temperature excluding Alaska and Hawaii as 30 below at Hibbing Minnesota. The high reached 85 at Me. Callen Texas.
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