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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1963
Page
1
Four hours after Gov J Millard Tawes ordered about 450 guardsmen into the community for a second time in less than a month an official defused an initial integrationist protest that aimed to defy a ban on demonstrations Mrs Gilord Richardson Cambridge integrationists said the leaders would press ahead with the protest continue on page 2
About 90 youths were evacuated after a mob described as hillbillies stormed a camp 13 miles from the South Carolina border. The gymnasium was burned and gasoline poured on a lake used for nude swimming before a fire and assault on a newsman and a counselor. State Police reported residents from a staunch bible belt area carried out the raid late last night.
A column argues against belief in Chance as sheer accident. It traces a couple Jacqueline Mitchell and James Lucero toward marriage and notes how random events led to meeting, highlighting questions about personality and fate. The Sun’s City Editor Dave Bradley is named as a potential founding father of a family by chance.
Senator Barry Goldwater charged that President Kennedy aims to co exist with international Communism wherever it thrives, including the Western hemisphere. Democrats called the remarks inflammatory as Goldwater cited Gus Hall urging defeat of Republicans and supporting movements within the Democratic orbit. Senator Paul Douglas replied that liberals oppose Communism as much as Goldwater.
Soviet and Chinese negotiators held six hours of ideological talks in Moscow and Beijing with no details released. The talks followed an escalating press dispute and reportedly moved beyond agenda setting toward core disputes such as peaceful co existence.
A dozen rescuers searched a flooded passage in an abandoned coal mine for three missing boys Daniel O Kain 14 Billy Burke 15 and Robert Abbott 4. Police in Columbus Ohio investigated a freight train possibility. Their bicycles were found outside shaft No 2 of the Pittsburgh Terminal Corp mine last worked in 1938.
London officials will not disclose the identity of a Soviet intelligence official who defected to the West more than 18 months ago. The agent is believed to have carried valuable espionage information. The government denied an American magazine report of a major spy scandal.
Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett told the Senate Commerce Committee that President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy foment racial demonstrations he calls seeds of hate. He claimed the Negro civil rights struggle is a world communist plot and displayed a photo he said shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a subversive training site in Tennessee. King declined immediate comment.
San Francisco activist Mark Morris says a nuclear test protest at Mercury will involve a vigil at the Main Gate of the Nevada site. Demonstrators including several women will display a deformed doll labeled Miss ALC of 1983 and offer to help workers find other jobs away from the test site.
Mostly clear skies today with southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. The high reaches 104 and the low 76 with yesterday’s high 105 and low 76. Noon relative humidity at 5 percent. sunrise at 5 34 and sunset at 7 59.
Benny Goffstein a 34 year old Nevada casino executive is named general manager of the New Pioneer Club at First and Fremont Street. President Tommy Callahan announces the appointment and talks of an option to buy a club share with state gaming approval awaited. He previously led the Riviera Hotel until February 1 and has long held roles in Las Vegas casinos since 1945.
Kennedy fact-finders completed plans for their railroad dispute investigation and prepared to question union and management officials next week. Labor Secretary Wirtz, chairman of the six member committee, said representatives of both sides would be questioned as the inquiry moves forward.
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