11 Jun 1966
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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1966
Page
1
A columnist critiques government inflation fears and argues taxation as a cure. The piece questions excessive spending, cites Washington tax proposals, echoes concern for the little man, and invokes Plato in warning against tyrannical taxation. (See WHERE, Page 2)
Tropical storm Alma churned offshore then veered into the Carolinas. Gales and heavy rains lashed the East Coast with warnings from Virginia to the Carolinas as Myrtle Beach hosts Sun Fun Festival crowds. Eleven Cuba deaths and three in Florida linked to Alma, with limited beach evacuation.
Beverly Hills police reported Frank Sinatra injured a cut eye when he was punched during a Beverly Hills hotel lounge celebration for Dean Martin s 49th birthday. Wealthy retiree Frederick R. Weisman suffered a fractured skull and remained unconscious in Mt Sinai hospital after the assault. The disturbance happened at 1 52 a m as officers responded to a hotel call and Weisman's condition worsened to coma before transfer.
Mostly sunny skies and gentle winds shift to southwest 10 20 mph in the afternoon. High near 95 degrees and a low around 65. Yesterdays high reached 97 and low 64 with noontime humidity at 18 percent. Sunrise at 5 23 and sunset at 7 57.
Bank of Nevada Charleston Plaza branch was robbed of 1867 dollars yesterday by a lone robber who fled on foot through the East Charleston Boulevard shopping center after threatening to shoot the teller. The holdup lasted under a minute at 5 20 p.m. with no vehicle seen and a vague description.
In Sardis Mississippi a white man in a sand laden truck charged toward about 5000 Mississippi Freedom Marchers led by State Bureau of Investigation Chief Charles Snodgrass as they walked along Highway 51. The driver was stopped by police and later charged with reckless driving. Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality halted the line to protest present danger from vehicles.
Dr Ralph Abernathy leads a long caravan later moved from a peach orchard after workmen erect 200 foot tents before a Negro church in Batesville. A woman and her teen daughter order the marchers off the property and refuse to identify themselves to reporters.
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