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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1963
Page
1
A clipped reminiscence on Las Vegas features Hank Greenspun recalling early pioneers. The writer frames the city’s growth through a veteran’s memory and a fresh staff voice, signaling movement toward the future while honoring long-established roots.
Citizens recall the City Library on Carson and discuss a shift toward the future. A Las Vegas focus grows as a symbol of research and progress with daily visits surpassing seven hundred, signaling local optimism and a new era.
Opposition leaders pressed Prime Minister Tage Erlander to cancel Nikita Khrushchev’s planned Stockholm visit in protest of Sweden’s worst spy scandal. The plea followed Col Stig Wennerstroem's guilty plea to selling defense secrets to the Soviets since 1948 and demanded signaling protest by canceling the visit.
In Denver, Luis J. Monge reportedly stabbed and bludgeoned his wife Leonarda Monge 43 and children Teresa 11 months Vincent 4 and Alan 6 to death while they slept. He admitted the killings after his son Alan awoke and spoke to him, then he hid plans to kill himself but called police. The victims included four of his ten children with ages up to 18.
An orderly hymn-singing crowd of 1,500 demonstrators marched through an all-white housing tract in Torrance California as part of a drive for total integration in Southern California. The marchists and supporters arrived by motorcade from Los Angeles amid many no parking signs.
Peking radio reports Soviet Union demanded recall of five Chinese from Moscow over a letter denouncing Kremlin policy. The move widens a growing ideological quarrel ahead of the July 5 Moscow talks. Soviet Foreign Ministry denies knowledge of the incident.
In St. Peter’s Square Pope Paul VI will be crowned amid floodlights and torches as 400000 spectators fill the area and millions more watch on TV. The ceremony, beginning at 6 p.m. and lasting about three hours, features a papal Mass and the Latin coronation rite performed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani.
Police identify Becky and Beth Lee, ages 4 and 2, as the two girls abandoned in a North Las Vegas grocery store parking lot amid a mother’s claim she wanted to join the WACs to escape her kids. Diana Lee, 25, remains at large with sightings possible toward Los Angeles or San Francisco. The mother allegedly sought helpers over two weeks, but the plan proceeded alone and the children are now in state care.
The Navy bathyscaph Trieste, on its fourth dive, found a crater about 40 feet deep and 200 feet wide a mile and a half down in the North Atlantic near the Thresher wreck area. Officials caution the feature may be natural and noted debris including a yellow slipper and a photographed air tank nearby.
President Kennedy arrives at Gatwick for weekend talks with Prime Minister Macmillan following a triumphant three day tour of Ireland. He detours to Kathleen Kennedy's grave in the English Midlands and receives honors in Galway and Limerick before flying to Lincolnshire.
Mr and Mrs Haskill Corvert of Cayuga Parkway faced a wild chase ending in a crash as a young man was found in their home just as Mrs Corvert prepared to retire for the night. The incident unfolded near Henderson yesterday with the couple startled by an intruder.
Today's forecast shows gentle winds with a high near 95 and a low around 60. Yesterday recorded a high of 92 and a low of 66. Noon relative humidity was 7 percent, sunrise at 5 27 and sunset at 8 02.
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