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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1966
Page
1
UPI reports President Johnson’s peace initiative triggered a worldwide diplomatic ripple. In two weeks U.S. envoys visited over twenty capitals to explain the position, and many nations began peace soundings with North Viet Nam or intermediaries.
A Las Vegas reader argues that honesty alone does not guarantee competence among Clark County public officials, including the Fair and Recreation Board and Bud Albright. He questions the Convention Center's performance given high bonded debt and insufficient booked conventions, urging replacement of underperforming leadership to boost the regional economy.
Yellow Cab of Las Vegas rejects Governor Sawyer's bid to arbitrate the taxi dispute. General Manager Pat Carver calls arbitration inappropriate after a weekend of violence downtown and on the Strip. Police, deputies and patrols were deployed at night and early morning amid clashes between union and non union drivers. A Teamster alleges officers were charged in the dispute.
The FBI disrupted a gambling and bookmaking network using fake telephone credit cards and electronic gear to speed gambling information across nine cities. Calls totaling over 6500 were charged to non existent companies and traced to suspected gamblers and bookmakers in Miami New York Jersey City Baltimore Huntington Baton Rouge New Orleans.
Variable high cloudiness and gentle winds mark the day. The forecast calls for a high around 60 and a low near 40 with noon humidity near 49 percent. Sunrise is 6 52 and sunset 4 44.
New Yorkers enter a tense second weekend of a massive transit strike as work stoppages threaten traffic chaos. Mayor Lindsay forges a plea for steady negotiations while both sides remain discordant at the transit talks headquarters with the end of the dispute still uncertain.
Otto Preminger clashed with Hollywood agent Irving Lazar at the 21 Club over film rights to In Cold Blood. Blood drew from Preminger as Lazar allegedly connected with a water goblet, amid speculation on competing rights with director Richard Brooks.
More than 7,000 American troops with Australian and New Zealand support moved against Viet Cong positions near Saigon. Helicopters and heavy air and artillery fire accompanied the assault as 1st Infantry Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade forces engaged north and south of the forest amid fierce clashes.
Roving Ambassador Harriman called Communist China s accusation that the United States resumed bombing raids in North Vietnam dastardly and typical of Communist tactics. He voiced faith in a U S government statement denying any bombings and said talks with Japanese leaders were useful to both nations.
The Sun begins a 20 episode serialization of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s A Thousand Days next Sunday. Schlesinger, former special assistant to President Kennedy, drew first hand from White House contacts with Kennedy, aides, and foreign diplomats for this chronicle of the Kennedy era.
Harold Gorman of First National Bank of Nevada presents a 1966 Las Vegas forecast from a 10 page annual report. He links area growth to state expansion and national economic upturns, noting 36 200 hotel and gaming jobs in 1965, 28 900 in retail and wholesale, and 28 300 federal positions. The AEC at the Nevada Test Site will spend 178.5 million on operations maintenance and construction next year with a potential 67 million level cited.
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