Surrendered meekly after long chase ends Western manhunt
Two ex convicts accused of bank robbery and kidnapping nine people including California official Carl Bowles and Hale Champion were captured after a five day chase across three western states. They yielded on a Nevada California border plateau near dawn with $4368 on hand and multiple firearms discarded. They were arraigned in Sacramento federal court on kidnapping charges. bail set at $250000 each.
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California
Nevada Line
Sacramento
Hale Champion
Oregon
FBI
Nevada
Carl Bowles
Wilfred Gray
Las Vegas on Look Magazine in 1939 Controversy Recalls City Image
Las Vegas history is recalled as Sam Boyd cites Charles Lillard's Desert Challenge describing a LOOK magazine feature that portrayed the city as wicked and corrupt. The piece alleged officials and pastors engaged in scandal, prompting a Chamber of Commerce demand for restitution and a public dispute over the town’s image.
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Roh Kaltenborn
Chamber of Commerce
Las Vegas
Sam Boyd
The
Mint
Nevada
Charles Lillard
Desert Challenge
Johnson says Vietnam troop goal to rise beyond 75,000
President Johnson said UPI that U.S. forces in Vietnam will have to be increased above the announced 75 000 goal due to war tempo. He also rejected claims that Gen Maxwell D Taylor's Saigon posting stemmed from policy disputes and praised Henry Cabot Lodge as the best man available in the United States.
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Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
Gen
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. S
Saigon
Henry Cabot Lodge
The
United
ILBJ
Was Death Plane Sabotaged
Vancouver authorities seized all flight insurance and other records tied to a Canadian Pacific DC6B airliner that exploded and crashed killing 52. Sabotage by bomb was among the possible causes under RCMP investigation.
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UPI
Solon May Push Probe Into NTS Labor Disputes
Nevada Senator Howard W. Cannon warned he may seek a congressional investigation of labor grievances at the Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. In a telegram to Atomic Energy Commission chair Glenn Seaborg, he said unrest could disrupt future operations and urged disclosure of dispute status and any anti bargaining conditions. He cited layoffs and poor manpower planning as grave concerns and hoped disputes could be settled at the bargaining table.
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Washington, D. C
Nevada
Howard W. Cannon
Nevada Test Site
Cannon
Glenn Seaborg
Atomic Exergy Commission
AFC
Las Vegas
Senate Space Committee
Seaborg
AEC
Walkouts Idle Over 3 000 Men in Southern Nevada
More than 3000 union members remained idle in Southern Nevada as 8 painters from Local 159 voted to strike the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America Southern Nevada Chapter. A late Friday breakthrough ended a related Sheet Metal Workers Local 38 dispute with a four year contract giving 1.99 dollars per hour plus a 0.25 raise now and 0.15 every six months, with fringe benefits optional under a package deal.
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Southern Nevada
Local
Ed Rondthaler
M Group
Lee Abbott
Heavy Toll For U S in Viet Fights
Marines recaptured a government naval base near Chu Lai but let a trapped battalion of 300 to 400 Viet Cong escape. Casualties were heavy on both sides with three Marines and two Navy men killed, plus 19 paratroopers killed and 42 wounded near Saigon. An Army enlisted man was killed on a helicopter mission south of Saigon.
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Saigon
UPS
Chu Lai
da Nang
Deputies Wait In Ambush After Kidnapper Escape
Clark County deputies held a long vigil through the night awaiting orders to move against kidnapers Wilfred Gray and Carl Cletis Rowles. The two men, with three hostages including an infant, had stolen a Nye County deputy’s patrol vehicle north of Tonopah. A multi-agency pursuit stretched five hours as Nevada Highway Patrol and FBI joined the effort while deputies monitored radio traffic from Tonopah and Hawthorne.
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California
Wilfred Gray
Carl Cletis Rowles
Dale Champion
Nye County
Parking tickets may be invalid for holiday missed meters
City Atty. Sidney Whitmore ruled that overtime parking tickets issued last Monday for missed meter feeds are not legally valid and will be dismissed. Inner downtown meters from Main to Third and Carson to Ogden, however, require 24 hour feeding and will not be dismissed.
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Sidney Whitmore
Main
Third Street
Carson
Ogden
Whitmore
Jean Dutton
License and Revenue
Kidnap Case Narrows as Suspect Sought
In Kansas City a 9 year old girl Denise Clinton was kidnapped from a motel where she slept during a robbery. Police Chief Clarence Kelley led searches by foot, horseback and air. Robert Lee Hays, 32, is wanted for questioning on a unlawful flight warrant.
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Denise Clinton
Robert Lee Hays
Hays
Kansas City
Clarence Kelley
Circumstances of Arrest Told in Murder Trial
Roy Osborn 37 faces murder charges for the March 1964 killings of Mrs. Inez Malloy and her daughter Mrs. Norma Widdick. Trial testimony from Las Vegas officers detailed his arrest and the late discovery of the victims near Blue Diamond Road. Police further linked the case to a downtown casino parking lot scene with evidence found in a parking attendant’s car.
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Roy Warren Osborn
Here
Dist
Clarence Sundean
Ken Campbell
Las Vegas
Weather forecast with scattered clouds in the afternoon
Mostly clear conditions with some afternoon clouds. Southwest winds 13 to 23 mph after noon. Today's high near 195 and low 76 with yesterday's high 105 and low 78. Noontime humidity around 12 percent. Sunrise at 5 32 and sunset at 00.
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Sacramento, Calif
Carl Cletis Bowles
Wilfred M. Gray
Sheriff's
Thomas MacBride
Riatiaf
Poe Sica
Roe ST
Dsay
Hank Greenspun
Smirch
LOOK
Mr. Lillard
Look Magazine
S. Sloan
Baptist Church
Union Pacific
Sloan
Las Ven
Ent Kaltenborn
of Commerce
Secretary of the
C. of
Washington
Vancouver, C
Dian Pacific
Royal Canadian Mounted Po
Meer
Solon
NTS
Clark
Tonopah
Hawthorne
Nevada Highway Patrol
Federal Bureau of Investiga
Lloyd Bell
Sever
Title Springs
Dr. Popenoe
Moiner
Fditorial
Eee
Ann Landers
Henderson
Ralph Pearl
Sylvia Porter
Slim
Kansas City, Mo
Missouri River
Ernest Russell Clinton
Independence, Mo
Denise
Bowlers
PRA
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