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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1964
Page
1
The article notes Venturi defeats Heat to capture the U S Open Golf title. It appears in the sports pages with coverage spanning pages 9 through 13 and includes a broader newspaper context of the June Las Vegas edition.
In St Augustine Florida a clash broke out between whites and integrationists on the beach. Gov Farris Bryant ordered demonstrations halted after dark as tensions rose in the tense city. Police reported violence and a disorderly scene near the shore as authorities moved to restore order.
Senate approved the sweeping voting rights bill 73 to 27 on Friday. House leaders aim to move quickly to accept Senate changes and seek a July enactment. The measure grants federal power to end discrimination in voting schools employment federal aid programs and public facilities.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, injured in a fatal plane crash near Southampton, Massachusetts, is expected to make a full recovery. Doctors said he arrived in Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in North Amherst in serious condition with back injuries and shock, but his status has improved since the initial emergency treatment. Senator Bayh and his wife survived with minor injuries.
Federal agents searched the aircraft and luggage after threats were exchanged during a quarrel on a Pan American flight. About 10 people remained aboard as plans to fly Lynda Bard to Les were kept tight and information withheld from Pan Am PRIMENEET at the airport.
The forecast calls for variable high cloudiness and southwest winds from 15 to 25 mph. Today's expected high is 1 with a low of 70 and a relative humidity around 16 percent. Sunrise is at 4:45 and sunset at 0.
A twin engine Civil Air Transport flight crashed after takeoff from Taichung Formosa. Three aboard were reported dead including 21 Americans among 53 on board and witnesses said an engine exploded in flight. The accident occurred about 100 miles south of Taipei during a tour of the Pescadores Islands with delegates from the Asian Film Festival.
In Copenhagen Premier Jens One Krag compared a speech by Visiting Soviet leader Nikita S Khrushchev to a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. The remark highlighted Cold War rhetoric during a diplomatic exchange.
Phoenix youth Ceris J Preck 3 pleaded guilty to leading a flamboyant lion hunting scam in which accomplices released captive lions and dogs to simulate a successful hunt near Mt Carmel Utah. The government described it as Arizona s most flagrant hunting fraud.
A federal court fined Prock 300 for illegal transport of mountain lions and banned him from Arizona work for three years. He faced probation and faced attempts to relocate to British Honduras to guide jaguars. The case involved wildlife officials and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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