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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1968
Page
1
A wire service style Clark County saga outlines multiple arrests of labor leader Tom Hanley from April 30 to May 27, including charges of kidnapping robbery and conspiracy. It notes he surrendered by choice after a phone call to the sheriff and cites delays and questions from officials about timing and arrest procedures.
A low-flying F105 jet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado caused extensive damage when its sonic boom shattered over 300 windows in the gym, dining hall, and dormitories. Fifteen people were cut by flying glass, including Lt. Col. John Pennycamp Jr., hospitalized with a neck injury.
United Press International reports the Memorial Holiday toll rose toward 300 with early estimates from the National Safety Council predicting 6 to 7 25 deaths in the four day period. By 7 p m EDT at least 215 fatalities were recorded nationwide led by California with 24 and Pennsylvania 18. In New Kensington Pa six teens fresh from high school died in a car crash and a Kansas City Kan man and two children drowned in Jacksonville Fla in the worst incidents of the period.
The University of Nevada Board of Regents voiced concern that the bond market is terrible especially for college bonds. They noted a broker letter about $700 000 in Nevada Southern University bonds and approved various items including a military training program change, a new president search expense, a WWII bomber purchase for experiments, a law library site near the Reno ROTC building with a $750 000 structure, and a $49 600 feasibility study for a two year medical school.
An eight year old North Las Vegas girl on Tonopah Street was struck by a teenage hit run driver and critically hurt. Therese Marie Myers, 18, suffered multiple fractures, possible skull fracture and head lacerations. she was taken to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Roger Karh, 18, of Brooks Street, drove away but was brought back to the scene. Karli had a revoked license and owned by his employer’s company. Ricky Dowdy, 15, with Karli, urged him to return. Karli was jailed on felony hit run driving and revoked license charges.
President Charles de Gaulle ordered major army deployments around Paris and reshuffled his cabinet to prevent civil war as nationwide strikes spread. Three brigades with tanks and heavy guns moved into camps within a 30 mile radius of the capital, signaling readiness to act if violence erupts.
Patrick Gerald O'Neill won eight thousand dollars at downtown gaming tables then boasted about his luck in a pub. He flashed a fistful of hundred dollar bills to a neighboring patron, who grabbed 28 bills and fled. O'Neill, drinking, could not pursue, later learned the man denied knowing him.
Pravda denounces Charles de Gaulle for accusing left wing forces and warns of a “wild anti Communist witches orgy” amid France’s near revolt. The article says the French president targets a Communist influence without acknowledging workers’ strikes.
The son of a Las Vegas minister was killed in action in Vietnam. U S Army Private William M Levendis aged 21 was the minister Rev John T Levendis of the Church of Truths son He had served six months in the Army and is survived by his mother Mrs Mary Levendis Vienna Virginia and two brothers George Washington DC and Peter Vienna.
Sunny conditions with gentle winds yield a today high of 192 and low of 68. Yesterday reached a high of 100 and low of 46. Noontime humidity at 15 percent. Saeittoe at 5 25 and sunset at 7 52.
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