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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
2
A first person account describes Hank’s dislike of yes men. The speaker notes freedom to express opinions without fear of job loss or demotion. The article highlights Hank’s tolerant management style and the fondness reflected by his employer. A personal recollection from a time when the speaker was present.
US Navy airman Dan Lee Craig 20, son of Mary B. Roderick of Las Vegas, killed in a Texas auto accident near Beeville about 30 miles from Corpus Christi. He graduated Las Vegas High in 1965 and enlisted in May 1967. Survived by father Charles T. Craig of Bakersfield Calif and grandfather W. F. Grey of Bakersfield. interment in Green Yawn Cemetery. Bakersfield funeral plans reported.
Senate Republican leader Sen Robert Griffin says he can mount a filibuster against President Johnsons Supreme Court picks with 16 or 17 Democrats backing the effort along with 19 or 20 Republicans. He claims 34 votes could defeat cloture if all 99 senators vote.
The United States and the Soviet Union renewed a cultural exchange pact extending into a second decade, expanding programs in dance, sport, science, education, and media while lowering some student and exhibit counts. The agreement coincides with Moscow New York air service and a consular treaty revival.
Police thwarted a bomb at the French National Tourist Office in Rockefeller Center, dismantling a timing explosive hours after Bastille Day. Officials link the plot to a nine‑incident Cuban‑linked campaign in Manhattan with no arrests yet and security stepped up at 26 foreign missions.
About 20 Quakers and 70 Poor People's Campaigners marched through Capitol corridors handing out bread loaves to lawmakers to back a proposal by Rep Norval Sullivan to raise the food stamp program ceiling by 20 million dollars. Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen faced protesters and vowed to implement the Supreme Court ruling, while noting states already curb welfare payments when men share homes. The House Ways and Means Committee weighs potential federal costs up to 10 million dollars if the ruling spreads nationwide.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reports the top temperature of 195 degrees in Gila Bend Arizona and Imperial California excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The 4 degree low occurred at Stampe Pass Washington Kalispell Montana and Evanston Wyoming in the 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m. The bureau released a temperature and precipitation table from San Francisco.
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