Walkout by Nevada Test Site Electricians in Transport Dispute
About 200 electricians at the Nevada Test Site walked off over transportation delays. The move, described as a walkout rather than a strike, disrupted bus transport from the main gate to the work area. No mediation steps were taken, and union leader Ralph Leigen attended related meetings as other unions amid a year of transport related strikes.
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Edwards Air Force Major Sets Record in X15 Flight
Air Force Maj. Bob Rushworth flew the X15 rocket plane nearly 85 miles high at Edwards Air Force Base to become America s second winged astronaut and the world s second highest flying aircraft pilot. In Stockholm security officials met with Prime Minister Tage Erlander to discuss Col. Stig Wennerstroem s trial for selling Western secrets to the Soviet Union. Berlin propaganda rails at Khrushchev visit as East German Communists push a Kennedy style buildup.
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UPI
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Bob Rushworth
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Stockholm
Tage Erlander
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Soviet Union
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Nikita 5. Khrushchev
East Berlin
Get out the way you got in in Las Vegas satire
A reflective column mocks Las Vegas housing by joking that France faces a mistress shortage and suggests an absurd lend lease of 6 000 French mistresses to fill vacancies here. The piece uses sharp humor to critique economic strain and social norms in both locales.
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Paris
Las Vegas
Las
Nevada Governor Opens Manpower Conference
Governor Sawyer convened a two day meeting at the Hotel Stardust with over 100 Nevada business and industry leaders to plan manpower development. He urged companies to share five year employment projections to create the state's first master plan, citing President Kennedy on manpower as essential to national progress.
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Hotel Stardust
Nevada
Nevada Employment Security Department
High School Site Acquisition In Las Vegas Area
The Clark County Board of School Trustees approved buying a 40 acre senior high site at Arville and Pennwood to create six sites for two new high schools by 1965. They also favor a 20 acre junior high site at Pecos and Carney near North Las Vegas, plus contracts for Lois Craig Elementary and Paradise Elementary additions.
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Lois Craig
Fremont Construction Company
Paradise
United Nations Playgirl Jailed
A 33 year old woman known in the United Nations delegates lounge was convicted in Woman's Court on charges of offering to commit lewd acts. Evelyn Davis, described as an investment advisor, was arrested after allegedly disrobing and quoting $20 to Patrolman Donald Smith at a East Side hotel. She held a correspondents card for the Philippine American monthly and socialized with delegates, with U.N. sources noting she often appeared with several friends. The case marked the first diplomatic overtones prostitution case brought to court since a hush order by U.S. attorneys.
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UPI
United Nations
Evelyn Davis
Woman's Court
Donald Smith
Miss Davis
East Side
Soviet harassment escalates as search for Thresher continues
The Soviet Union sent a fourth vessel in five days into the Thresher search zone as the bathyscaph Trieste remained at 8,400 feet with two men aboard. The Fort Snelling intercepted the Kuprin near the dive position and, after failed radio contact, signaled danger in international code.
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Yard Guards Playgirls in Sex Scandal
Scotland Yard ordered protective measures for several playgirls testifying in the vice trial of Dr. Stephen Ward opening today. Ward faces charges of living off earnings of prostitution and involvement in an abortion amid the Profumo scandal. Joseph Godber was named to replace Keith Joseph as foreign secretary. Profumo had resigned earlier after lying to Parliament.
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House of Commons
Jury Shown Photos Of Sonja Bean Slaying Evidence
In Reno the trial of 18 year old Thomas Lee Bean continued with 14 large color photos depicting the dismembered body of Sonja Askie. Prosector William Baggio highlighted the mutilation from last April 5 in a duplex, showing torso in a hope chest, knives in the back, severed foot and heart on the floor. The jurors viewed the grisly images as the case moved forward.
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UPI
William Baggio
Thomas Lee Bean
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Bean
Kennedy mobbed by crowd of teen girls in Dublin
More than 1,000 screaming teenage girls broke police lines to reach President Kennedy during a sentimental visit to Ireland. Security guards pushed the throng aside as Kennedy paused near Iveagh House after a dinner, smiling despite the surprise ambush by the vocal crowd.
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Kennedy
Congress
Dublin
UPI
Irish External Affairs Department
Sean Lemass
Iveagh House
SUN Sports Editor Appointed Clark County Public Relations Chief
Ross Tucker, long time SUN sports editor, was approved by the Clark County School District board as Publications Coordinator. The 33 year old educator and journalist will assume duties July 23, after nine and a half years with the district including two and a half years as SUN sports editor. Tucker taught in Las Vegas at Rancho and Western High Schools and holds UC Berkeley journalism degree with Nevada Southern graduate work. He is a Navy veteran with Pearl Harbor Public Information Office service and active in Sigma Delta Chi Phi Kappa Tau and local education groups.
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Ross Tucker
Clark County
Board of
SUN Sports
Tucker
Las Vegas
Rancho
Western High Schools
Harvey Dondero
University of California At Berkeley
Nevada Southern
Public
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Sigma Delta Chi
National Journalistic Society
Phi Kappa Tau National Fraternity
Schoolmasters of
National Education Association
GOP Seeks Tougher Penalties for Union Discrimination
Washington Republicans urged stronger Civil Rights provisions by applying stiffer penalties to labor unions that discriminate, arguing the Kennedy era legislation needs tougher enforcement to curb union bias.
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Washington
UPD
Kennedy
Pope Orders Ecumenical Council Meet
Pope Paul VI moved swiftly ordering the ecumenical council to resume on September 29, just weeks after Pope John XXIII set the date. The action followed John’s instructions to prune and combine agenda items, while the new pope urged the council to be his major task. Additionally, Wirtz and Kennedy discussed civil rights legislation and enforcement tools during Senate testimony.
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UPI
Paul VI
Ecumenical Council
John XXIII
Kennedy
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Amleto Giovanni Cardinal
Cicignani
Preparator Commission
Pope John
W. Willard Wirtz
House Judiciary Committee
Wirtz
Afl-Cio
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
House
Congress
Committee On Equal Employment Opportunity
Victory Over Cancer Story Told in Sunday Scene
Gene Williams recounts his personal battle with cancer in a moving tale titled Topic of Cancer. The piece appears in the June 30 issue of Sunday Scene magazine, offering danger, heartbreak, and a survivor’s perspective.
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Gene Williams
Sunday Scene Magazine
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