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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1970
Page
4
At the Test Site a spokesman for the AEC says one underground nuclear test has been postponed and others will probably follow as negotiations stall over pumping stations and heavy duty pipe between the city and the lake shore.
The Pollution Board approves a closed hearing and renews a five year timetable while noting that notices of violation have been served since the policy began. George Roth of General Research in Nevada reports inspecting the plant in April with no fault found in the pollution controls. Unemployment in Las Vegas rises to 5.2 percent in May as strike actions by Operating Engineers and allied unions disrupt cement, road paving, and grading work.
Dr Ravenholt warns population growth triples pollution pressure and reduces living standards unless restraints are applied. He cites Las Vegas air inversions and basins as pollution challenges and urges more research into fusion energy to cut smoke while cautioning about authoritarian risks from rapid growth.
The House approved a bipartisan measure to create a new youth conservation corps open to all races and both sexes. The program would place about 3,000 teens in 90 day camps nationwide, supervised by the Interior and Agriculture Departments, funding of 3.5 million dollars annually for three years. Critics called the plan a babysitting scheme with no job training. The bill moves to the Senate for compromise on age limits.
A new purse snatching trend on wheels targets Las Vegas pedestrians, with Rose C. Wathen of Pasadena the latest victim. A robber leaning from a westbound car grabbed her purse on Convention Center Drive near the Villa Roma, taking two diamond rings worth about 2750 and 68 in cash. Riders on motorcycles are also used in similar hits. Advice urges carrying less cash and jewelry, keeping the purse tight, and screaming if attacked.
The article recounts an amendment to end the war being pushed in the Senate with six senators buying TV time and raising about a half million dollars. It notes potential early moves to defeat it, the aim to delay the Church Cooper amendment, and calls for Tonkin repeal as a challenge to antiwar positions. Senator Fulbright warns the action surrenders legislative power to the President.
In New York the liberal Democratic primary pits former UN ambassador and labor secretary Goldberg against Samuels for the governorship as heavy spending and inroads by Ottinger reshape the Senate race. Powell seeks Harlem seat renomination amid a five-way field. Ottinger’s $1 million TV push dominates the Senate contest, while Sorensen departs as the early favorite.
Washington UPI states three Army officers including Brig. Gen. George H. Young Jr Col Nels A Parsons Jr and Maj. Robert W McKnight were cleared of charges of covering up details of the 1968 My Lai massacre. Eleven others face ongoing charges while two earlier defendants had charges dropped.
Vera Costello sues International Leisure Hosts Inc. owners of the Flamingo Hotel for $50,000 in damages plus medical expenses after a fall in the entryway to room 535A. She claims the hotel failed to keep the entry safe.
A flatbed truck collided with a Davenport school bus four miles south of town killing six children from two families. Driver Wayne Anderson, 28, was injured. Floyd Poppe, 36, and Willis Poppe were hospitalized or treated after the crash near the N W farm intersection south of Davenport. The bus carried remedial reading students from Davenport High School bound for class.
Two stocking masked gunmen robbed the Fashion Barber Shop at Fashion Square, 3041 Las Vegas Blvd. S., around 3:30 p.m. They emptied the till of $207.75 and fled after showing a shotgun shell to the staff. Shop owner Jimmy Threet is Barber's Union secretary. thieves described as two men mid to late 20s, one blond, one dark, with facial scar and longer than average hair.
A fan letter notes Perry Como’s Las Vegas debut at the International Hotel drawing buzz among locals and visitors. It praises his relaxed singing on stage, highlights Prisoner of Love and Father of Girls, and credits the Joe Guercio orchestra and Doodletown Pipers while applauding an all star audience including Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
President Robert M. Levingston declared in a nationwide address that he alone has total and exclusive responsibility for executive acts, rejecting shared power with the military commanders who pledged to co govern. He pledged a return to constitutional democracy though elections will come slowly and emphasized economic development and Latin American unity.
Harry W. Polk, Henderson land developer and former councilman, was found guilty by a United States District Court jury on two counts of tax evasion for falsified 1963 and 1964 returns. A third count accusing him of falsifying Henderson Land and Development Co. corporate returns was dismissed before the jury verdict.
David William Brown, 25, freed on own recognizance in San Jose after burglary charges, is recaptured in Barstow, California. He fled Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital Monday night while shackled, slipping from a window in his underwear, and was found driving a suspected stolen car.
Clark County Commissioners meet to push legal steps for a recount after the Census Bureau reported 270,046 residents, a figure 80 000 to 90 000 below agencies’ estimates. Commissioner Bill Briare, Darwin Lamb, and James Bartley say they were not counted.
A U S grand jury indicted Kenneth Earl Fothengell 22 for impersonating a double amputee Navy veteran to obtain free room drinks and entertainment at the Frontier Hotel. He was jailed at Clark County. In a second indictment William Date Hudson 48 of Spartanburg S C is charged with passing and possessing counterfeit money after a Fremont Hotel arrest and discovery of 41 counterfeit bills in his possession.
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