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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1964
Page
5
Hank Greenspun criticizes clumsy courtesy and contrasts Cassius Clay with Malcolm X. He praises Mike O'Callaghan for speaking his mind, questions street planning amid growth, and notes Arizona Highways’ Phoenix feature as a model. He jokes about gimmicky hospital-insurance offers and recalls the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
Lawmen await coroner inquest before evaluating the Tahoe airliner crash. Officials met after the tragedy to review response and plan another evaluation. ministers questioned motive, stating the sawed-off rifle claim against the youth was untrue, while details of the entry wound and search efforts unfolded as weather hampered rescue.
Funeral for 75 year old Arthur Boyd Crow, longtime Las Vegas auto shop owner, will be today at 11 a.m. at Palm Mortuary with Rev. Melvin Pekrul officiating and interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1753 pallbearers and Edna Farndale will provide organ music. Crow died in a Thursday accident at Stewart Street and Las Vegas Boulevard North. He moved from Lake City Minnesota to Los Angeles in 1913, worked in shipyards, opened body fender and radiator shops in Las Vegas, later focusing on radiator work. He sponsored trophy basketball teams in 1948 and raced jalopies in 1949 and 1950. Survivors include his widow Agnes, siblings Hazel and Francis, stepsons Al Ricks, Ted Butcher, William Butcher, and son June Byrd.
The sheriff reports a shotgun duel on Sahara Avenue near Boulder Highway results in two men under arrest on assault with a deadly weapon charges. McCowen and Young exchanged gunfire after tensions over trespassing and property access, with Young reportedly firing after McCowen fired first.
Clark County hospitals face nurse shortages forcing RNS to work overtime and licensed practical nurses to assume many RN duties. Intensive training and recruitment efforts mix with refresher courses and in service instructions to address the staffing crisis.
Teamsters officials say members will stay united with the Operating Engineers until a settlement is reached. Las Vegas Building Trades Council refuses to back the strike proper procedures for calling it. Engineers walked off test site jobs after drilling contractors refused to fund Local 12 welfare funds.
A session of the Contractors' Convention features Cornelius J. Haggerty and Waldo G. Bowman among others with Lt. Gen. W. K. Wilson Jr. and Gov. Grant Sawyer. Thursday includes a talk on the moonshot by NASA official Robert W. Long. Other topics cover highway construction, contractor management, public utilities contracts, and federal programs.
A Harris survey shows voters faced with a write-in ballot in New Hampshire as Lodge and Nixon vie for momentum. Goldwater and Rockefeller lead the field but are not trusted by many Republicans, with Lodge the most popular but unlikely to win without a write-in breakthrough.
Nevada State Board of Economic Development held its first quarterly meeting at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Ernest J. Koop of Esmeralda County was elected chairman and Rober S. Hughes of Washoe County named vice chairman. Speakers included Harley E. Harmon, James Gibson, and Harold Braman. A luncheon followed at the Thunderbird Hotel.
The body of 58 year old James Burns Wilford who died Thursday at Sunrise Hospital will be taken by Palm Mortuary to Grant Oregon for final rites and burial. Born April 3 1906 in Washington Iowa he lived in Grant and owned a drug store.
The Nevada inter tribal Indian conference will be at the University of Nevada on May 12 to inform on Indian affairs and federal state and county activities. About 8 660 Indians live in Nevada on 24 reservations or colonies and others on non federal land.
The Most Rev. Robert J. Dwyer met Southern Nevada pastors to outline new parish boundaries in Las Vegas. St. Francis de Sales will cover west of Decatur Boulevard and the Union Pacific railroad with Rev. Elwood Lavoy as pastor. Our Lady of Las Vegas is bounded west by Decatur, north by the county line, east by Highland Drive and railroad, including area south of West Charleston from Highland to the railroad. St. James' parish will have
An order for the first 150 prefabricated homes for a lake side city about 15 miles from a nuclear rocket development station was announced. George Swink, a California associate, ordered the homes and plans a 20 unit motel and future school, golf course, and commercial structures.
Clark County launches its 1964 Easter Seal campaign with a noon kickoff luncheon in the Goldfield Room at the Thunderbird Hotel. General chairman is Mrs. Doyle Jordan with a large volunteer committee including Mrs. Oran Grayson as vice chair and Mrs. W A Steven and Mrs. James Dunn as coordinators.
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