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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1965
Page
1
The piece argues against doomsday forecasts for Las Vegas, noting a leveling off in construction but asserting the city remains stable with ample housing, shopping, media, and hotels. It reflects optimism about continued activity and defends the market as not headed for a bust or ghost town.
Cloudy with scattered thunderstorms and strong gusty winds in the storm vicinity. Forecast high near 102 and low around 80 with midday humidity about 36 percent. Sunrise at 5 46 and sunset at 7 48.
Two armed desperadoes fled San Francisco after robbing two banks and firing at customers. An all out local manhunt followed as Reno reports the pair headed toward Las Vegas late Thursday. Police investigated a shoot-out at Indian Springs but no injuries were reported.
President Johnson briefed governors in Washington on plans to raise U S military strength in Viet Nam to 125 000. Most governors supported the move at the Minneapolis conference with two Republican dissenters among the attendees. Meanwhile Las Vegas police hunted armed bank robbers Domingo Rivera and Manuel Berreo described as driving a black 1961 Thunderbird after two Bank of America robberies in the San Francisco Bay area.
In Americus Georgia a 21 year old white youth Andy Whatley died from a bullet wound at a street corner during a civil rights demonstration. Two Negro youths Charlie Lee Hopkins and Eddie James Lamar were charged with murder and jailed without bond. Governor Carl Sanders dispatched state troopers to restore order and warned both sides to stop violence.
Two gunmen robbed a downtown Goteborg bank of 4600 kronor five minutes before closing. One fired in the air. a 40 year old customer was shot in the leg as the robbers fled by swimming underwater across the Saeve Canal wearing frogmen masks. Rune Johansson witnessed the gunmen remove disguise before entering the water.
Quintuplets were born to 33 year old Karin Olsen of Orda Sweden after fertility hormone treatment. Four babies died within hours and the surviving quintuplet was given little chance of survival. A prior case saw seven stillborn babies and a Seattle area or Auckland case thrived.
About 4000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division touched down near Cam Ranh Bay and Saigon as U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launched major offensives. General Maxwell D. Taylor attended, with his son among arrivals. Air strikes and ground assaults targeted Viet Cong positions, while two AF reconnaissance planes were shot down near Hanoi and Ba Ria saw heavy bomber support. Estimated Viet Cong deaths in the Mekong Delta sweep neared two hundred.
UPI reports Mariner 4 pictures shown at the White House reveal Mars densely cratered like the Moon with some craters possibly two to five billion years old. President Johnson called the images awe inspiring and noted their significance as mankind’s first close up look at another planet.
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