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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1963
Page
1
The SUN explains its duty to readers amid city growth and a strike in New York. It highlights staff training, knowledge across disciplines, and the need to stay moving with the town to serve public interests.
Bryn Armstrong, 46, Las Vegas High School alum and veteran Nevada newspaperman, named executive editor of the Las Vegas Sun by Publisher Hank Greenspun. He reported to work after six years as assistant managing editor of the Reno Evening Gazette, with a decorated record including state awards for political reporting and feature writing.
A band of peasants calling themselves Evangelical Christians forced entry to the U S Embassy in Moscow seeking asylum. U S officials said they must be turned over to the Soviets who would likely shoot or imprison them. The group from Chernogorsk in Siberia included six men, 12 women and 114 children.
United Nations sources say Dr. Ralph Bunche is sent to the Congo to investigate the UN command's surprise capture of Jadotville defying Thant's orders. Thant had warned Tshombe of a two week pause after Elisabethville, but Leopoldville ordered the attack, prompting the mission.
In Ap Bac a 200 man Viet Cong battalion with support held off vastly larger South Vietnamese forces and U S advisers in a day long fight. Government troops backed by planes artillery and armor battled the guerrillas and were routed in a turning point clash.
The U S Weather Bureau reported the nation’s coldest temperature outside Hawaii and Alaska as 2 degrees at Lovelock Nevada. In contrast Brownsville Texas reached 76 degrees. Across the country temperatures ranged from 3 below zero to 18 in Alaska and from 64 to 80 in Hawaii.
A record 32,504 marriage licenses were issued in the year, 3,312 more than 1961. County Clerk Helen Scott Reed reported 3,190 licenses sold in December, a new record for a month, and 684 licenses issued during the New Year holiday period from Friday noon to Monday midnight.
Hollywood reports a double memorial for Dick Powell and Jack Carson who died within hours of each other from cancer. June Allyson attends Powell's vigil as services proceed at All Saints Church Beverly Hills and Forest Lawn cremation follows. Carson, 52, died at his En el home after keeping his illness secret with services scheduled at Wee Kirk of the Heather Forest Lawn.
More than 500 friends filled the Elks hall for the service honoring Cashman as Austin Bowler led the ceremony with Harley Harmon and others. Robert E. Jones delivered a tribute praising Cashman’s 46 years of Elks work and his dedication to Las Vegas welfare, noting his lifetime of achievement and lack of scandal.
Telstar the tiny satellite, after a five week silence, woke up yesterday and scientists scheduled more live trans Atlantic telecasts between the United States and Europe. Bell Labs engineers injected a corrective signal to restore its transmitter, enabling possible home viewing and news program rebroadcasts.
Mostly cloudy today with a chance of light showers and gentle winds to 18 mph. High 58, low 35. Yesterday's high 50, low 43. Noontime humidity 83 percent. Sunrise 6 52, sunset 4 38.
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