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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1968
Page
2
The piece quotes Louis Saldina’s plea for forgiveness before his death and reflects on a town’s response to his distress. It notes his final wish to be understood by friends and laments the possible failure to recognize his need while honoring his poignant last message.
The body of Deputy Sheriff Eulogio Salazar was found on a remote mountain road after pistol whipping and a staged auto accident attempt. Cristobal Tujerina and Felix Martinez were charged with his murder in connection to the June 5 Rio Arriba courthouse raid led by Reies Tijerina activists seeking land grant rights. Salazar had been a key witness to the raid and shooting of District Attorney Alfonso Sanchez.
Johnny Roselli aged 62 has pleaded innocent to immigration charges in federal court with trial scheduled for April 2. Prosecutors claim he is actually Filippo Sacco, an Italian-born man, and he faces one alien registration count plus five counts of failure to report his address. Roselli previously linked to a 1943 extortion plot.
Anne Markie, 19, hid three weeks in a chest aboard the Corinthic with husband Terrance Markie, a New Zealand case of stowaway. They paid 82 dollars and were fined after London dock authorities uncovered the hiding space.
President Johnson weighs hot pursuit into Cambodia against the risk of widening the Southeast Asia war. Prince Sihanouk shows no active opposition while North Vietnam and Laos forces complicate the regional balance as U.S. air support to Laotian authorities continues along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Commissioner Mirabelli urged harsher penalties for slot machine cheaters including a ten day sentence and a $250 fine. The city commission approved a draft ordinance pending state attorney general guidance on court jurisdiction with Witmore drafting details.
Prison inmates at the Sierra County jail in Las Vegas New Mexico set the jail on fire after boilers failed to heat the third floor cells. The action aimed to protest the cold conditions and lack of heat.
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy joins the New Hampshire presidential primary race on March 12, signaling a clash with President Johnson. The 50 year old Democrat from Minnesota urges voters to freely express their choice on Vietnam and vows to press his campaign vigorously.
City commissioners, on a recommendation from Jim Corey and Wes Howery, voted to reduce the family care home business license from 50 to 20 dollars annually. The fee hike had been part of a plan to ease the city’s finances, and critics led by Dr. Joseph George argued the increase was too harsh given average incomes around 2,000 dollars per year. Applications for three child care facilities were approved: Marilen A. Bushell, Selma R. Rosenberg, and Darlene Wiedrich.
City commissioners approved eleven more gaming devices for area venues. Four Queens Inc requested one more crap game and two 1 games for the Four Queens Hotel and Casino at 201 Fremont. E.C.&H. Inc sought five more penny slots for the Las Vegas Club at 18 Fremont. Horseshoe Club Operating Co added two more 21 games for the Horseshoe Club at 128 Fremont. Nevada Acceptance Corp asked for an additional slot at Twin Lakes Liquor Store, 1032 Tonopah Highway.
A military Aircraft Command DC7 with 34 aboard limped toward Honolulu with Coast Guard escort after developing external engine trouble on a flight from Samoa. The four engine propeller aircraft was owned by Airlift International in Miami and chartered to MAC.
BRISBANE AUSTRALIA One of the Braham quintuplets born four days earlier dies at Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital. The report notes the event as part of a broader record about passenger fatality rates per mile flown.
Gallup finds 55 percent of union members approve Johnson’s presidency versus 46 percent nationally. Vietnam policy support is 47 percent among unions, 39 percent nationally, with 43 percent saying U.S. troop deployment to Vietnam was a mistake among unions, 45 percent nationally.
North Vietnam indicated for the first time it would open peace negotiations if the United States ends bombing and other war actions, according to Bernard Redmont in Paris citing a high Hanoi diplomat. Separately, U.S. airlines posted a 1967 safety record with 4.23 fatalities per 10 million passenger miles, down from 0.07 in 1966.
Tokyo reports a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement saying Beijing will closely watch for U S troops entering Cambodia to pursue Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. It asserts China will not stay idle and cites Sihanouk's Dec. 26 pledge to seek direct aid while resisting incursions.
A report on Calcutta shows about 15 percent of residents live in shops while 50 percent share rooms used by three families and 17 percent have no home at all. The figures highlight severe urban housing shortages and crowded living conditions in the Indian city.
The Atomic Energy Commission develops a life detector named Gulliver to be shipped aboard a spacecraft to Mars to determine if living organisms exist there. The device aims to assess Martian biology through remote analysis.
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