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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1962
Page
8
A crane lagged on the main runway at Shrewsbury Air Force Base causing flight delays of about an hour. The bird was captured and sent to Chester Zoo for care.
The day’s TV grid lists programs from 10:55 AM to 2:30 PM including NBC News Day News, Loretta Young Show, Making Room for Daddy, Queen for a Day, Wagon Train, Naked City, and Jack Kogan Show with multiple sports and drama titles.
A dense listing outlines hourly and half hourly radio programming across AP News and KORK stations. It names hosts Jake Meadweather Wynn Stewart Embert Mishier Chuck Hull Galen Drake Don Adama Bill Stern and others, with segments on sports stock reports weather and world news, plus show timetables throughout the day.
Radio briefs outline a four hour daily schedule featuring a family parade of hits News on the hour and half hour with sports updates on every quarter hour and weather at 45 minutes past.
Edward Gilbert known as Edward Heaton, a former E L Bruce Co president, hid in a Las Vegas hotel with a Danish beauty before fleeing to Brazil on June 14 with $2,000,000 of his firm’s funds. A dining room captain and a secretary knew his identity. Gilbert visited a Carson City lawyer amid rumors of divorce from Rhoda Gilbert.
Washington UPI reports the government will seize and destroy cutrate pirate editions of books printed in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Customs Commissioner Philip Nichol Jr. said agents will act against sales that violate U S Copyright Law to deter college students and others from buying these editions.
Radio and TV station KVEG Corral lists a full day schedule with Afternoon Melodies CBS News and News Analysis blocks, Evening Melodies, Ralph Pearl Show, Dance Orchestra, World News Tonight, and a series of shows including The Happy Pappy McDaniel Show The Bat Henderson Show The Big Ben Boulder Show The Gentleman Jim Pierce Show and The Dnele Bob Scott Show Also listed are John Schinker Local News Analysis slots at 7 20 a m 12 30 p m and 4 40 p m on weekdays
Sizzling weather continued in Las Vegas for the eighth straight day as temperatures reached 108 degrees, the hottest since last year’s 110. No relief seen with more hot dry winds forecast. the Weather Bureau at McCarran Field predicted a high of 108 and a 73 degree low.
World briefs note a continance request in the Estes trial on charges he stole 827 577 from six farmers in fertilizer tank mortgage deals. Also, tax writers agree on legislation to cut federal travel taxes by 195 million yearly and postpone a 4 billion annual tax cut. Dutch New Guinea reports say Dutch forces advance to isolate Indonesian paratroopers near Merauke.
Sheriff's juvenile authorities took six children into custody from two families after a baby girl was reportedly offered for adoption due to heat in their Overton home. The children were found living in abandoned cars in the desert near Warm Springs and are in good health, awaiting welfare foster placements while investigations into child neglect continue. The two fathers work as construction workers in Las Vegas and had been evicted from Overton rentals.
Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt told the city parliament that western allied troops would be sent to the east west Berlin border in strength if new incidents occur. He said West Berlin police would keep returning fire against Communist police and against refugees fleeing east.
At 1017 Cartier Rd a collision between two cars injured Maria Corral 11 and Mrs Amundsen the other driver. Maria was taken to Nellis Air Force Base hospital in shock with possible internal injuries. Amundsen and three of her children were taken to North Las Vegas Medical Center for observation and later released. Corral cited for too many front-seat passengers. Both cars reported traveling 20 to 25 mph and the incident remains under investigation.
In Salisbury Southern Rhodesia the high court ruled that Africans may use the city’s suburban swimming pools. The decision came in the case of James Chamboko, a houseboy denied pool access by the Mabelreign town management board.
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