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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1968
Page
1
Heavy winds from Owasco Lake collapse a Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Big Top in Auburn New York trapping about 1400 spectators and performers. About 80 injured sheriff notes none killed as workers freed trapped patrons under rain and electrical storm.
A 32 year old former inmate freed two months ago was charged with murder in the shooting of a Sparks mother. The case was reported by UPI from Reno.
A reflection on the death of Al Cahlan and a long friendship with the Las Vegas editor. The piece recalls shared battles, respect, and an unwritten alliance for the town, noting Cahlan’s influence and their enduring professional rivalry. A separate police report details the Reno killing of Mrs. Mars Thomas, linked to Summer, and Summer’s criminal history.
The Police Protective Association gains backing from Las Vegas firefighters for a November referendum on pay raises. Local 1285 votes on a plan to secure about 7 000 signatures and seeks a $144 monthly raise with equal wages for police and firemen.
Senator Alan Bible a Democrat from Nevada filed officially in Carson City for his third full Senate term. He is 58 and has served 14 years in the Senate and currently has no primary opposition. Bible spoke in Reno urging federal and state wildlife management authority and argued wildlife ownership differs from land ownership to prevent resource chaos before the Western Association of State and Fish and Game Commissioners.
A Ringsly System tractor hauling a 234000 pound 119 foot long girder became trapped on an 11 percent grade near Paradise Valley Country Club. Officials fear damage to the new Sunset Road which is not yet accepted. The heavy load rolled backward as dolly wheels crapped acting as a brake. The delay affects a Davis Dam construction project.
John Hamilton Morris a 48 year old convicted bank robber was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on five counts of air craft piracy. The case stems from an Independence Day incident over the desert between Albuquerque and Las Vegas when Morris being transported from Leavenworth Prison to San Francisco for appeal allegedly threatened a bomb on a Trans World Airlines jet and forced a course change to Hermosillo Mexico. The stewardess reported the threat and two U. S. marshals guarding Morris did not know of it. The pilot landed in Las Vegas after circling the desert as federal agents and the sheriff’s department took custody.
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