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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1964
Page
5
A Las Vegas columnist riffs on high grapefruit prices and costly hospital X rays. He notes a 28 dollar finger X ray at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, questions watermelons at six cents a pound, and critiques court delays in Gramby Andrew Hanley’s burglary case while jesting about entertainment and sports events downtown.
Dealers resist union willingness to place workers under a hiring hall system led by figures like Tom Hanley and Al Bramlet. They fear unemployment checks while others stay on the job. A puzzling fire safety sign and rising narcotics arrests underscore local tension as safecracking threats loom.
A 12 foot tall mock-up of the Nimbus weather spacecraft is tested by NASA engineers at Point Arguello in preparation for a summer launch. The prototype will support flight engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland as the real Nimbus, successor to Tiros, gains full daily global weather coverage with twice as many cameras.
United Press International reports trouble for President Johnson in Virginia as Sen. Harry F. Byrd criticizes federal spending and deficits. Byrd, Virginia Democratic leader, may withhold endorsement, possibly harming Johnson in the November elections amid a Republican challenge in the state.
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