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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1963
Page
1
A reader describes the frustrating yet exciting process of buying a house. Tips arise from navigating model homes and sales lobbies, as weekends are spent touring show rooms and staring at maps while the search for a family nest intensifies.
Army backed rebels toppled Togo, assassinated President Sylvanus Olympio aged 60, and dumped his body on the U S embassy steps in Accra. Reports say he sought refuge in the building after being shot as he tried to enter. U S officials cautious about embassy details.
A weekend burglary at a Strip fur salon netted 97 high value furs valued at about 250000 dollars. The theft occurred between 9 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, with a sable coat among key pieces. An office floor hole and broken alarm wiring marked the scene as investigators catalog the missing mink sable chinchilla coats and stoles.
President Kennedy is set to tell Congress in the State of the Union that defense and the U S space program will get more funding this year. The address to a joint session will emphasize landing an astronaut on the moon by 1970, with the president aware of growing public interest.
A Delta Air Lines DC7 crashed into an unoccupied Air Force C123 at Memphis Municipal Airport while preparing to take off. The pilot Capt. Alan Burnell Olson, 42, of New Orleans, died. Three crew members injured in 12 degree pre dawn accident.
Soviet Tass reported Mahmoud Vardan possibly the world’s oldest man died yesterday in the Syrian city of Iraz. Damascus newspapers alleged he was 163 years old, a claim not independently verified.
Doctors struggle to save Jeri Davenport 39 after she shot herself in the lower stomach in an apparent suicide attempt. Deputies said she was transported to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in critical condition with the bullet lodged in her abdomen.
In Honolulu the body of 20 year old sailor Leon Abbott from the USS Ticonderoga was seen washing in and out of an underwater cave where he was trapped Saturday. Heavy surf hindered rescue efforts as rescuers tried trapping hooks and an Army helicopter attempted to reach him. Abbott initially remained able to talk and breathe before conditions prevented extraction.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev departed his Polish retreat for the East German Communist Party Congress in Berlin. Polish Party chief Gomulka also left Lask by a different route, with speculation they might meet at the Polish German border to join the congress. The three leaders had met recently to discuss Sino Soviet policy tensions.
Clear today with gentle winds and a high near 36. Overnight low around 10 to 15. Yesterday reached 31 with a low not stated. Noontime humidity at 9 percent. Sunrise at 6 51 and sunset at 4 49.
A Pan American DC6B ferried 103 Cuban-born U.S. citizens and other refugees to Miami International Airport in a freedom airlift the first since the Bay of Pigs return. Passengers ranged from a one-year-old to an 84-year-old, expressing joy at leaving Cuba and Fidel Castro’s regime.
James H. Meredith begins his final exams amid reports he will not return to the University of Mississippi even with good grades. The 29 year old Air Force veteran faces serious academic difficulty and spends much time studying on campus as protests persist.
An impoverished Mikrohorio village in central Greece was buried by a torrent of rocks and mud. One dead, 12 missing, three injured, and most villagers evacuated to Karpenissi as army units assisted. The modern cement church largely withstood the disaster, aiding many survivors.
A sweeping Arctic blast kept most of the western two thirds of the nation in subzero weather. Texas saw a hard freeze in the Rio Grande valley damaging crops while Lubbock hit 16 below and Dalhart 18 below. Cold extended toward California with more sub freezing temps forecast. Florida had a prior severe freeze affecting winter produce prices.
A renewed Arctic spell swept most of Europe with record cold while Spain and North Africa faced floods. Britain faced a national power emergency as Finland reported minus 27 degrees at Muonio and West Germany recorded minus 18.
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