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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1968
Page
1
A veteran speaker argues the Korea conflict failed to honor the dead as promises call for decisive action. He cites World War II graves, cites Vietnam and Cuba era tensions, criticizes leaders, and denounces policy he views as appeasement. He notes the USS Pueblo incident and ship seizures near Wonsan.
Howard Hughes unveiled a $150 million expansion plan for the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to create a self contained resort city with 4000 rooms. He said the project aims for careful design and wide recognition, noting that the Sands name already carries strong appeal and will be retained. The start date was not disclosed.
Las Vegas hosts the World Masters Marathon on Saturday with Reno’s Skip Houk and Chris Miller touted as the top challengers. Fred Grace, 70, of Los Angeles also competes, in the 26-mile event starting at Nevada Southern University and finishing near East Charleston Woolco, expected to draw 30,000 spectators.
Variable high cloudiness with south easterly winds 15 to 19 mph. Today's high 58 and low 38. Yesterday reached 60/34. Noontime humidity 31 percent. Sunrise at 6 46, sunset at 5 01.
A U S military spokesman says American air power in South Korea has been beefed up as nuclear carrier Enterprise may be within 1 percent of miles from Wonsan. Additional aircraft remain in Korea ready for any eventuality as the Enterprise task force, 75,700 tons, is said to be somewhere in the Sea of Japan within 80 to 100 miles of Wonsan.
U.S. Deputy Marshals raided a local wholesale drug supplier and seized over 50 cartons of weight reducing pills labeled as Thyrodig Anterior Pituitary. The pills allegedly misbranded to aid weight loss, manufactured by Western Research Laboratories Inc. of Denver and Leo Linden Laboratories Inc. of Culver City. A carton was relabeled by Associated Researchers Inc. of Las Vegas under a seizure order filed in U.S. District Court.
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