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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
4
A Harris poll shows broad public demand for wage and price controls though labor and business resist. Voters blame government spending for rising living costs, with Nixon facing political risk as inflation concerns grow among independents and higher income families.
Ex Czech official Sejna says Grechko hinted at a plan to seize a ship in the Pacific with Korean help. Kushchev announced a “great success” over Pueblo captured without a shot, with Soviet access to sensitive documents. Sejna fled Prague after power shifts and is writing a book. State Dept. comment awaited.
A freight car carrying 15 tons of West German army artillery shells caught fire and exploded in a Hannover suburb. Police report 11 dead and 20 injured, with authorities citing a possible hot box cause and noting sabotage is unlikely. Maj. Gen. Christian Kleyer commented on the improbability of sabotage.
Aker charged in the death of an elderly woman after a violent attack. Dr. J A Diaz said the suspect appeared berserk and out of his mind when arrested. He was confined in a padded cell and wore a straight jacket amid shouted phrases about escaping the world. Prior actions included a motorcycle ride to a friend’s house near the nursing home.
Rep. James J. Howard said the Army will proceed with a cross country rail shipment of surplus poison gas despite an ongoing National Academy of Sciences review. He cited a Brig. Gen. Hebbeler letter indicating routes are being set with safety in mind and possible avoidance of major cities like Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Judy Garland was found dead in her London home by husband Mark Deans. Scotland Yard said autopsy would confirm cause, while Deans and Garland’s press team voiced happiness in their marriage. Daughter Liza Minnelli rushed from New York upon learning of the tragedy.
Funeral services for pioneer Nevadan George Lawrence Davis 72 a Moapa native and longtime Southern Nevada resident will be held at 2 p m in the Alamo LDS Chapel He died Friday at his Las Vegas Boulevard North home He is survived by his wife Eveleen four children two sons Glen and Lemoine two daughters Laurene and Leila three brothers two sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren Davis came to Las Vegas in 1922 worked for the county road department and as a city mechanic moving to Alamo in 1935 to run a service station and grocery store retiring in 1950 to prospect He was born July 19 1896.
Nationwide tornadoes and brutal winds battered Nebraska communities including Kearney and Aurora with speeds up to 100 mph. Homes unroofed, trailers overturned, and multiple injuries reported as heavy rainfall and hail pelted Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois towns.
Sen. J. William Fulbright said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will launch fresh public hearings on Vietnam with former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford as lead witness. He expects Rogers and Laird to testify, and aims to probe U.S. withdrawal timetables while scrutinizing intelligence on Soviet first strike capabilities and ABM funding.
U S B52 jets dropped up to 500 tons of bombs on jungle near Cambodia before dawn to crush North Vietnamese forces besieging the Green Beret camp at Ben Het. Six Americans were killed in a helicopter crash. Most fronts were quiet with no ground actions reported. Air strikes supported Ben Het as the camp, near the Laos and Cambodia borders, faced daily shelling and lay along supply routes into the Central Highlands.
One man was shot and another beaten with an auto jack handle during a running confrontation near H Street and Lake Mead Boulevard. Arthur Jamerson was booked on a charge of shooting Richard Jackson after Jamerson said Jackson chased him with a jack handle and Jamerson retrieved a gun. Jackson remained in serious condition at SNMH ICU.
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