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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1970
Page
1
United States and Canadian victims tally reaches 108 after Air Canada DC8 en route from Montreal to Los Angeles disintegrates during landing. Eyewitnesses describe flames, falling parts, engine separation, and the jet crashing in a farm field as a frightened witness reports the plane dropping away from the runway.
Twenty three Southern California residents were aboard the Air Canada DC 8 that crashed near Toronto, killing all 100 aboard. By 10 pm last night nineteen local victims were identified including Mrs. C Sultan and F T Moore from Los Angeles, plus victims from Palos Verdes Corona Del Mar North Hollywood Gardena and Flying Tiger Airlines executive R Herrman.
A humorous note on turning 65 describes becoming a senior citizen and the social security milestone. It notes the fear of retirement, the need to visit the Social Security office, and the surprising facts about benefits and earnings thresholds. About 3,000 others share the same day, and over a million join the 65ers yearly.
Police hunted for the arsonist or arsonists who planted fire bombs at five city locations since Friday with no injuries reported. A Brooklyn man, Gerard Christopher Malloy, held on 100000 dollars bail for tossing a bomb into a parked Army truck at Fort Hamilton. Damage roughly 100 dollars. Sixty cocktails found under patrol cars.
Promoters of the Atlanta International Pop Festival announced a four hour extension to 4 a.m. as more than 500000 people swarmed the soybean field venue. Security crews moved in after hippies wandered off site, and ticket booths were torn down with the event declared free to all to prevent violence.
Louis Harris reports a 1970 survey of 1,375 whites showing a majority have little to no contact with blacks in work, shopping, or social life. Only small shares interact at work or socially, while 88 percent have no black friends and 1-9 percent report any neighbor contact. The findings underscore persistent racial separation in the United States.
Variable cloudiness through tomorrow with a chance of thunder showers mainly along the mountains. Today's high 105 and low 80. yesterday's high 107 and low 81. Sunrise 5 30 a.m. and sunset 3 01 p.m. Noontime humidity at 25 percent.
Two young men were hacked to death with an ax or hatchet in their sleeping bags on the campus beach of the University of California at Santa Barbara. A third youth remained in critical condition at a Goleta hospital.
Clark County Deputy Steve Scholl shot an intruder, Ronald Richard Reed, 25, after finding him in his living room at about 5 30 am. Reed fled to a bedroom and was wounded. he is in serious condition at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.
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