Mexico Tightens Crackdown on Secret Airstrips
Mexico launches a multiagency offensive targeting hundreds of clandestine airfields used by contraband planes. Authorities say more than 1,000 landing spots exist across Baja California, the north, central and western regions, with narcotics and smuggling profits driving the operation.
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Civil Aeronautics, Treasury, Interior
Navy
California
Mexico
British Honduras
Guatemala
United States
Chinese Rainstorm Eases South China Drought
UPI reports from New China that timely rain from May 31 to June 6 fell in South China, alleviating a drought that began last autumn.
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Tokyo
UPI
Communist New China News Agency
South
China
Atumn
Water Service Protests Set For June 19
The Public Service Commission of Nevada has received a request from C W Eads doing business as Eads Water Service for authority to transport water for road construction and maintenance across Nevada especially in the southern part of the state. Protests should be written to the Commission before June 19, 1963.
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The
Public Service Commission of Nevada
C. W. Eads
Eads Water Service
State of
Nevada
Southern Nevadans In Service aboard USS Hooper
Richard P. Morton seaman USN son of Mrs. June A. Ogden of Las Vegas serves aboard destroyer escort USS Hooper. The ship operates with the Seventh Fleet Hunter Killer Group in the South China Sea to seek and destroy submarines. Hooper, a Pacific Fleet unit, normally sails from San Diego.
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Hooper
Richard P. Morton
USN
June A. Ogden
Bannockway
Las Vegas
Seventh Fleet
South China Sea
Far East
San Diego
Calif
Hollywood Today highlights and Hollywood gossip trends
Kim Novak to die of syphilis in Of Human Bondage and Mildred in a Somerset Maugham role are noted. Danny Thomas’ daughter Marlo will test Broadway while Danny thrives at Emmy Awards. Various stars pledge future projects, health rumors, and contract talks in a breezy, era tone.
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Alliance
Hollywood
Kim Novak
Mildred
Somerset Maugham
Marlon Brando
Stanley Shapiro
Danny Thomas
Marlo
New York
Broadway
Danny
Mr. Thomas
Danny the
Helen O'Connell
Helen
Las Vegas
Linda Christian
Anthony Newley
Joan Collins
Jinda
Rome
Edmund Purdom
Debra Paget
Charles
Peter
Doctor Strangelove
No Mead Accidents Over Memorial Day Weekend
Lake Mead National Recreation Area reports heavy use over Memorial Day with no serious accidents or injuries. Four day counts show 3,424 boats, 7,042 fishermen, 7,948 skiers, and 33,796 swimmers at Boulder Basin plus 826 wilderness campers and 8,346 picnickers. Lake Mohave figures unavailable.
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Char Richey
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Boulder Basin
Boulder Beach
Las Vegas
Lake Mohave
Lake Mead
Better Business Bureau Set Wednesday Meeting
The Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Nevada will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday in the Conference Room of the Southern Nevada Telephone Company at 3 30 p m. A financial report will be given by a member of the financial committee.
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Better Business Bureau of Southern Nevada, Inc
Southern Nevada Telephone Company
William S. Boyd
Financial Committee
Frank H. Rogers
William E. First
R. N. Beatty
Dick Chappell
Nevada Increases Min Wage for Women and Minors
Governor Grant Sawyer announced Nevada raises the minimum wage to 1.125 dollars per hour for women over 18, effective July 1, affecting about 38,600 workers. Under 18s receive one dollar per hour, with weekly and daily limits and overtime rules preserved.
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Carson City
Grant Sawyer
Sawyer
State of
Nevada
Nine Crewmen Rescued After Trawler Sinks in Fog
In Wick Scotland nine crewmen from the Brighter Hope II were rescued after the fishing boat sank following a collision with the Lucerne in dense fog. The incident occurred off Scotland’s coast and involved two vessels, the Brighter Hope II and the Lucerne, with no reported fatalities.
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Wick
Scotland
UPS
One Killed and 700 Injured in Hamburg Coffee Plant Blast
In Hamburg police reported one man killed one man missing and about 700 injured after explosions at a plant producing caffeine free coffee. Investigators sought cause and assessed damage to the facility and surrounding area.
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Hamburg
Germany
UPI
Sino-Russ Meeting On Science Starts
A Soviet delegation departed by plane to Peking to attend the sixth session of the Soviet Chinese Commission for Scientific and Technical Cooperation, according to Tass news agency.
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Moscow
UPS
Peking
Commission For Scientific and Technical Cooperation
Tass
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