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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1965
Page
4
Judy Holliday renowned for Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday and star of Bells Are Ringing dies after a battle with cancer. She won the 1951 best actress Oscar for Born Yesterday and earned Derwent and Donaldson awards along with the Antoinette Perry recognition for stage work.
Charles Munson, Nevada Health and Welfare Director for eight months, is expected to resign soon according to a top admin spokesman. Gov. Sawyer’s office has not received a resignation, while aides cite normal turnover in government posts. Munson, 49, came to Nevada in 1961 from New Bedford and held several state posts before his current role.
The report details intensified South Viet Nam activity with two Communist bivouac sites neutralized and 11 communists captured near the Da Nang air base. U S forces total about 51 000, a rise from 16 000 a year ago, with distribution among Army Marine Air Force and Navy. Catholics accuse Quat government of religious discrimination and demand a new premier and inclusive anti Communist cabinet after a confrontational palace sit in.
In Seabrook Texas families of astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt celebrate the Gemini 4 recovery. Wives Patricia White and Patricia McDivitt, with watching children, describe relief and pride as capsule contacts the carrier Wasp and crews confirm safe landing after a tense four days.
President Johnson praised astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White after their Gemini 4 mission as he described their feat as a historic contribution. He invited them and their families to visit his Texas ranch for a brief, jet-assisted stop on the way from Houston for briefing. Johnson reflected on space exploration as a path toward peaceful cooperation and national pride.
Moscow reports Gemini-4 landing as astronauts McDevitt and White are recovered in satisfactory health. Soviet reaction mixes praise with remark that Gemini-4 exceeds Voskhod-2 in publicized flight details, while cosmonaut Leonov’s space walk is cited as Russia’s prior claim.
The Supreme Court struck down Connecticut's 1879 birth control ban as unconstitutional invasion of privacy in a 7 to 2 decision. The ruling rejects state policing of marital bedrooms and upholds privacy in marriage. Msgr. John C. Knott praised the decision, noting the church’s moral stance but opposition to state enforcement.
London police fined Harry Sparrow $42 after he swallowed an out of date registration to obstruct an officer. A constable stopped him for the expired plate and Sparrow hid the paper in his mouth.
UPI reports the season’s high of 104 degrees at Blythe California, and a low of 33 degrees at Cut Bank in Montana plus Lewiston and Kalispell in Montana.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that a union may conspire with employers to impose wages hours or working conditions and voids labor’s antitrust exemption. The decision centers on the United Mine Workers of America and the Phillips Brothers Coal Company case from Campbell County Tennessee. Attorneys warn of potential triple damages against unions if the charge is proven.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara argued a House Armed Services Committee bill to raise pay for all service members would cost about 892 million dollars annually and deliver a 10.7 percent average rise, more than the administration proposal which would total 402 million and favor enlisted personnel with under two years of service receiving 27 percent. The committee is led by Rep. L. Mendel Rivers with 34 members.
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision, voided the October 1962 conviction of Texas financier Billie Sol Estes for swindling. The ruling barred TV and radio coverage of trials as a fairness issue, while Estes serves an eight year sentence and faces other federal convictions. Justice Tom C. Clark wrote the majority opinion.
Jordanian border guards repelled an Israeli assault at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge on the River Jordan after about an hour of fighting. Casualties were not known due to darkness. In Beirut an Arab commando group Al Asifa claimed credit for a new sabotage run inside Israel.
President Charles de Gaulle will visit Bonn on June 11 for two days of talks to tell Chancellor Ludwig Erhard that his warmer ties with the Soviet bloc do not imply a deal with Moscow. The plan aims to maintain nonrecognition of East Germany amid broader detente signals.
President Johnson vetoed the flood relief bill while the Senate quickly approved a substitute removing his objections. The measure, with disputed language dropped, went to the House. Johnson argued it intruded on executive powers. Also in Alabama, 50 out of state journalists toured at Gov. Wallace's invitation amid racial demonstrators.
Bank workers Franklin Kjeldgaard and Andreas Kjeldgaard are among the wounded and deceased after a bank shooting. Funeral services were held for Andreas Kjeldgaard 77 and cashier Glen Hendrickson 59, with Lois Ann Hothan 35 laid to rest earlier. Pope Roxbury Kan. is noted as a recent McPherson graduate and football co captain.
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