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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1968
Page
2
A reader criticizes the delay in forming a city county state complex to consolidate public buildings. He argues against buying an existing structure and urges action, warning the county commission to stop wasting funds or risk loss of taxpayer eggs and new management.
A Senate subcommittee approved 9.6 million dollars for Nellis Air Force Base construction to expand dormitories hospital facilities and facilities upgrades. The panel also backed 921000 for Fallon Naval Air Station with Nevada totals rising to 10.5 million.
Secretary of State Rusk refused to stop bombing North Vietnam unless Hanoi provides a promise of restraint from a responsible authoritative source. He warned that halting the bombing unilaterally could spur broader Southeast Asia peace talks and rejected claims of a White House policy shift.
U.S. Senator J William Fulbright leading in Arkansas renomination with 52.4 percent as 62 percent of precincts reported. Segregationist Jim Johnson trailed at 31.8 percent, Fulbright predicts no runoff and aims to avoid a second primary.
The Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County Nevada. Jean Elizabeth S Frert sues Benny Raymond Sibert for dissolution of marriage. Plaintiff’s attorney Charles E Catt 120 South Third Street Las Vegas Nevada 89101. Defendant ordered to respond within 20 days after service or risk default. Clerk Loretta Bowman. Deputy Clerk Awn Barrett.
NAACP official William Patton visited Las Vegas to urge greater Clark County voter registration for the November election. He cited 2,000 to 4,000 new registrants so far and set a local goal of 5,000 additional voters, while noting a national target had been raised to 10 million. Patton outlined youth, employment, and education projects funded by the NAACP and said the group will not endorse candidates, though he criticized George Wallace and praised Nixon, McCarthy, Rockefeller, and Humphrey for civil rights records.
Mrs. Allen H. Brunk, 49, of Houston, received the world’s first woman to woman heart transplant. Doctors announced she was in very satisfactory condition and the borrowed heart appeared to aid an enlarged liver. The operation and recovery were reported from St. Luke's Hospital in Houston.
Soviet and Czechoslovak leaders met for a second straight day in a movie house to debate liberal reforms with a third day of talks anticipated. Tass and CTK reported frank and cordial talks as Warsaw Pact maneuvers continued nearby and Tito and Ceaușescu delayed travel plans.
Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr announced on Baghdad Radio that Premier Abdel Razzaq al Naif and Defense Minister Abden Rahman al Daoud were removed for allegedly plotting to bring reactionary elements into the government. Daoud, linked to the July 18 coup, was abroad in Jordan when the decree was issued.
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 with 77 passengers and six crew diverted to McCarran Airport after a tire blew on takeoff from Las Vegas. The pilot dumped fuel and landed safely with fire crews on standby. The Chicago flight was aborted for tire replacement.
The Senate approved a measure by 43 to 29 to block foreign aid to Communist nations until North Korea returns the 82 crew members of the USS Pueblo. The chamber also passed a bill exempting the Post Office Department from federal manpower reductions and sent it to the House for action.
UPI reports customs officials seized heroin valued at over seven million dollars in a weekend crackdown on smugglers using airliners from Europe. A 12 pound cache was found hidden in a wash room aboard a plane at Dulles near Washington and went unclaimed to San Francisco, after 54 pounds were seized earlier in New York.
In Palmyra New York UP I reports nearly 10 090 attendees filled the open air show under clear skies. Temperatures hovered in the low 60s at the scene 25 miles southeast of Rochester as trumpets heralded the 31st year of the outdoor biblical pageant with more than 450 colorfully costumed performers depicting scenes from the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Performances run nightly through Saturday.
A sudden cloudburst flooded Henderson streets forcing closures on Water Street and Boulder Highway intersection and flooding Gibson Road. The storm caused power outages and water damage but no injuries, with Paradise Valley streets also flooded by runoff. Las Vegas recorded only traces of rain.
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