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Newspaper

Las Vegas Sun

Location

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Date

Jun 11, 1963

Page

16

Nellisman Project Chief For Testing New Plane

The Air Force named Col. Robert C. Allen as test project officer for the F4C fighter bomber. He flew the aircraft at Lambert Field on May 27 and the service plans hundreds of F4Cs across fourteen wings by 1967 to modernize TAC. The two place jet can reach speeds over 1600 mph and altitudes near 190000 feet with varied armament and missions.

Allen Nellis Tactical Air Command Lambert Field St. Louis U.S. Navy McDonnell Aircraft Corporation of Missouri Alien Tac Air Arsenal United States U.S. Air Force McDonnell Aircraft Corp Tactical Air Command Air Arsenal Air Force

DeLuca Importing drivers win safe driving pins

Six employes of the DeLuca Importing Company received safe driving award pins for a year without a chargeable accident. The banquet at Ranch House honored the drivers and their wives, hosted by Robert Keyser, president of DeLuca and Coors Brewing Co. Recipients were William Miller, Ray Woolsey, Ernest Barnum, Paul Davis, Donald Cook, and Lloyd Gericke. Woolsey and Barnum won for the third straight year, Davis for two years.

DeLuca Importing Company Robert Keyser

Governor Backs Freedom Pavilion Drive For NY Fair

Governor Grant Sawyer endorses a statewide fund drive to build a Freedom Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Col. Lewis Escott announces the governor joined the board of trustees, supporting exhibits representing captive Central Eastern European nations behind the Iron Curtain, with a broad national fundraising effort led by the Foundation for Freedom.

Grant Sawyer Col Lewis M. Escott First Foundation For Freedom Col. Escott Foundation Rockefeller Plaza N.Y.C Col Escott United States Foundations Board of Trustees William A. Egan Alaska Paul Fanin Arizona John A Love Colorado John N Dempsey Connecticut Fbert N. Carvel Delaware Richard Hughes New Jersey Jack M. Campbell New Mexico Terry Sanford North Carolina William L. Guy North Dakota Mark 0 Hatfield Oregon Archie Gubbrud South Dakota Philip H. Hoff Vermont Albert D. Rosellini Washington William W. Barron West Virginia Walter N. Tobriner Board of Commissioners District of Columbia John M. Bailey Democratic National Committee U. S William E. Miler Republican National Committee Gracie Mansion Robert F. Wagner Freedom Pavilion George M. Dimitrov Assembly of Captive Nations Msgr John Balkanas Conference of Rexhep Krasniqi Free Albania Committee William Momchiloff American Bulgarian League Viasta Vres Czechoslovak National Council of America Paul Saar

Brown endorses stronger civil rights effort

Gov. Edmund G. Brown urges California Democrats to lead a permanent civil rights task force and craft a concrete plan to hasten full equality. He asks the state party executive committee to mobilize local support for incumbents, organize action against prejudice, and back new civil rights legislation.

Sacramento UPS Edmund G. Brown Brown California Eugene L. Wyman Roger Kent America

Nuclear blasts tested for mining at Nevada site

The Atomic Energy Commission and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory study using nuclear explosives to fracture granite for mining. A 4.5 kiloton Hardhat detonation created a 63 foot radius cavity under 950 feet underground, with a chimney of rubble rising 280 feet. A block cave mining test from a tunnel will assess removal of fractured material and volume. About 20,000 tons fractured. ore not valuable, study aims to gauge feasibility for ore extraction.

Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Lawrence Radiation Laboratory University of California AEC

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