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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1964
Page
2
In a deadly Akron incident during a violent storm, Officer O'Neil and Mrs. Shidler were among victims as a mud hole near the canal collapsed. Rescuers struggled to reach a third person before water released from the ground. A second car hit a tree to avoid the hole. The Ohio Canal threat led to closing the West Bowery Street bridge and evacuating nearby offices.
Classified notices show homes for sale with heated pool and large trees in Charleston Heights, multiple rental listings, lost jacket near Boulder City Las Vegas area, store sale of white mink portraits, and party planning sales with contact numbers. Housing, stores, and miscellaneous items dominate the brief notices.
Wagner vows police reform and minority recruitment after Harlem Brooklyn riot violence. Federal agents rush in as looting hits Bedford Styvesant and surrounding areas with multiple shootings and calls for civilian police oversight.
Hank Greenspun recalls a San Francisco Republican gathering where he says 12 rowdy families appeared to seize control from 820 decent families. He warns of a climate of censorship and violence, likening it to historic totalitarian cures and calling out zealotry and misrule among delegates and the nominee.
Three Negro ministerial students sue Maddox restaurant claiming the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act requires service. The case questions interstate commerce as to whether a restaurant is regulated by the act. Rolleston seeks $11 million and contests enforcement at his motel. The Justice Department intervenes as Maddox vows to resist desegregation.
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