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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1962
Page
1
A columnist critiques Governor Sawyer and his staff for heavy spending and media exposure at taxpayers expense. He questions fiscal competence and calls for exposing irregularities in state fund handling in coming months, warning of lax top leadership affecting all agencies.
National president Bob Conger and executive vice president Max Nalley arrive in Las Vegas to prep for the 42nd Jaycee national convention. They meet with Las Vegas host committee chair Bob O Brien as candidates stream in and events begin ahead of next week’s gathering.
Nevada Attorney General Roger Foley says he will sue to invalidate annexation moves around Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. He claims overlapping efforts are illegal except for a Las Vegas expansion along the Tonopah Highway. Foley plans quo warranto actions to force defendants to prove legality before the Nevada Supreme Court.
World briefs report vice president and director Taylor Gay died yesterday from a gunshot fired by his secretary’s brother James Mullooly who was to be arraigned on homicide charges. Mullooly claimed the killing was necessary after a dispute over his sister Mary, Gay’s girlfriend.
Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney filed a bankruptcy petition in Federal Court listing debts of 484,914.12 and assets of 500 Rooney, who began acting as a child, reported earnings totaling about 12 million over his career and indicated back taxes and other claims in the filing.
UPI reports in Columbia South Carolina that Olin Johnston won the Democratic primary for a fourth term, defeating Gov. Fritz Hollings. Johnston led statewide with 86,589 votes to Hollings 44,158 as he faces Republican W. D. Workman Jr. in November.
Billie Sol Estes must face Robertson County Grand Jury in Franklin Texas to explain any ties to Henry H Marshall agriculture official who died violently a year earlier. Marshall was shot five times and carbon monoxide was found in his blood after a June 3 1961 death.
Las Vegas faces a five day old soft drink strike with heat enveloping the city. Supermarkets report depleted bottle stock but ample canned beverages. Picketing at four plants remains uneventful with few misunderstandings as drivers are informed they are crossing lines for a few bottles.
Washington UPI reports Nevada Attorney General Roger D. Foley faces a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as the second U.S. district judge for Nevada. Sen. James Eastland announced the date as June 19, with hearings chaired by committee head Fastland.
Gov Grant Sawyer may name Charles Springer Reno Democratic State Chairman to replace Attorney General Roger Foley who is destined to become Nevada’s second federal judge. Foley’s nomination by President Kennedy awaits Senate confirmation expected routine with Senators Alan Bible and Howard Cannon backing. Confirmation anticipated before July 1 and oath soon after.
Sawyer to name Foley successor with Springer seeking interim post. Springer, senior partner at Springer Mc Kissick and Hug, told the SUN he wants the job temporarily until the November election and may not return to private practice. Term begins January 1963 with pay rising to 17500.
North Las Vegas city employees will receive a seven percent pay hike starting July 1 after a city council vote. City Manager Clay Lynch also got a raise from 13000 to 14500 dollars annually. Lynch cited confidence in workers and rapid city growth as reasons for higher pay. planning director George Churchill corroborated population growth estimates.
San Francisco reports three bank robbers escaped Alcatraz by digging a four inch wall with spoons during a foggy night. A fourth prisoner was questioned by the FBI and may have joined the escape. Authorities searched Angel Island and the San Francisco area as a Coast Guard helicopter sighting led to a false raft alert.
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