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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1969
Page
1
At an outlaw drag strip near Covington Georgia a bullet shaped drag racer lost control at the finish line and plowed into the crowd. Driver Houston Platt of Atlanta survived as 11 people died and about 50 were injured among 5000 spectators.
East Germany closed West Berlin’s main highway to the West for a second day as the Soviet Union warned it may curb flights into three air corridors with West Germany. The Kremlin abstained from guaranteeing safety for U S British and French planes bringing West German assemblymen for next Wednesday’s presidential election. East Germans have barred delegates from land and water routes. Western officials view the warning as a threat to Western flights to East Berlin. East German troops also sealed a checkpoint at Marienborn for two hours as Warsaw Pact forces conducted war games along the highway. The election in West Berlin is disputed under the allied occupation treaty.
President Nixon returned from an eight day European tour urging Western allies to build trust and new understandings with the United States. He appealed to Pope Paul VI in Vatican City to end all wars including Vietnam and to seek a world of peace and freedom.
MOSCOW reports the Kremlin says Chinese forces crossed the Sino Soviet frontier and opened fire on Russian border guards near Damansky Island. Tass says Soviet troops repulsed the intrusion and casualties were admitted by Moscow observers as the first such admission in a border clash. Both sides issued protest notes.
Deward Knoblock a 52 year old miner from Rosemont California survived a premature dynamite blast at a remote Beatty mine. He dragged himself to his vehicle and drove himself to the highway before passing out. Found by a passing motorist near U S 95 North he remained partially deaf and blind from the blast. At Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital he was conscious and talking asking not to bend his leg and thanking God for strong arms. Authorities list his condition as serious with severe injuries to his right leg.
Doctors at Walter Reed said Eisenhower's right lung pneumonia area is markedly diminished and he ate a full meal for the first time in a week. His heart action remained stable and his gastrointestinal function continued to return toward normal, allowing a diet increase.
Increasing cloudiness with southwest early winds of 10 to 14 mph. Today's high near 60 and low around 35, similar to yesterday. Noontime humidity 27 percent, sunrise 6 09, sunset 5 37.
Harris poll shows 57 percent favor the present draft as it works while 38 percent prefer volunteers and 60 percent oppose a lottery for 19 year olds. The survey of 1478 people finds broad criticism of the draft despite support for the status quo.
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