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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1962
Page
2
A robber, exposed by nerve, hurriedly placed 1400 on a counter after a withdrawal. Hall prompted bystander Halton received the note and recovered the money and slip. The note warned of a bomb in the newspaper block but the claimed device was a transistor radio.
Mrs. Carl Marty of Monroe Wisconsin marked her 100th birthday on Christmas Day. She celebrated quietly watching television as she always does and did so without glasses.
Relatives crowded Cuba waiting points for departures aboard the African Pilot and Red Cross transports. Cuban officials said 12 passenger limits would not cap the total leaving effort, with four ship trips expected to move 3,500 prisoners’ relatives and their possessions. Castro reportedly agreed to additional trips as negotiations with Cuba and United States proceed.
Federal trial reveals Meador, with two companions, escaped from a jail and assaulted guards to reach a hospital. He abducted a Southern California woman and two daughters before abandoning them. He and accomplices then embarked on a 24 hour crime spree including raping two women. Meador was captured in Mesquite by deputy Oscar Abbott. He had earlier terrorized two Tucson housewives at knife point during another September escape. Local lawmen pursue him as he avoids Las Vegas direction.
Former Rhode Island Democrat Senator Theodore Francis Green, 95, remained on the danger list at Jane Brown Hospital after a weeklong admission for a series of shocks complicated by a pulmonary infection.
A newspaper playful farewell column vows to finish a long list of names with rhymed greetings for friends and readers. The writer invites readers to look for further rhymes tomorrow and apologizes for missed names.
United Press International spoke with Factor in Palm Springs California where he spent Christmas and called the pardon wonderful. Factor, born in England and raised in Poland, served nine years for re sale of bonded whisky certificates amid a Chicago 1933 kidnaping link. He denies faking the kidnaping and faces a libel suit over The Stolen Years, a Touhy biography.
California issued 1963 vehicle registration statements for about 7 million owners. Fees are due by January 2 with a penalty-free extension to February 4 for standard registrations. commercial vehicles have separate renewal dates from December 3. New license plates, the first since 1956, will be heavier with a black background and chrome yellow letters.
The hotel faces liens totaling 56 668 dollars for the 1962 fourth quarter, 9 377 dollars for the year in federal unemployment taxes, and 7 974 dollars for the 1962 fourth quarter cabaret and excise taxes. Liens against both corporations stem from the IRS claim that liability follows assets. After asset tallies 325 employees will receive back wages and taxes will be extracted. A prior lien by the Teamsters pension fund, with a mortgage on the real estate, applies to the Raymor Corporation.
During Christmas week 1952 the Yule accidents produced 556 highway deaths, surpassing 1941 figures. Through midholiday the toll ran below other four day periods but final days raised hourly deaths to about 65. Arkansas reached 507 total deaths for the year, a record high. California led states with 59 deaths, Texas 55, Illinois 43, New York 14, Alabama 16, while Alaska New Hampshire and Wyoming reported no deaths.
The health department proposes adding six staff including three sanitarians and three nurses to its payroll of 21. The school immunization program needs bolstering for next year with outside help likely. A new salary schedule will be reviewed by a committee led by Sanitation District chairman Al Clemens, North Las Vegas councilman John Myers, and Health Officer Dr. Harry V. Gibson. Architect J Maher Weller reported on three Phoenix trips to study a proposed $1,000,000 Health Department building at Shadow Lane and Pinto, noting substantial features and cost-saving ideas. The project is planned to start mid 1963 and will include enhanced windows, storage, and modular cooling and heating.
Classified notices show Foster’s Shoes at 119 N. 3rd St with near by parking, and TLTC listing furnished apartments at 449 Desert Inn Rd for adults only no pets. Also a lost gold plated charm bracelet with Mental Times gift inscription and a $300 move‑in offer for a three bedroom home near Oakey and Market Town.
A Las Vegas publisher list appears with legal notices and a summons to defendant Edwin Vincent Kiraoling in a Nevada divorce action. The complaint seeks dissolution of the bonds of matrimony with the plaintiff Barbara Lee Kip esling and names attorney G William Coulthard. The summons requires response within 26 days of service.
The Health Insurance Institute reports that insurers paid an average of 10.7 million dollars daily in health benefits during the first nine months of 1962, up from 9.5 million daily in the same period last year.
Multiple rental listings show one bedroom and furnished apartments in Las Vegas area near the Strip and Hacienda. Cars and misc items, plus a 1962 Maserati for sale and a 1937 English Ford listing. Itemized contact numbers included for each listing.
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