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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1964
Page
1
Inquest questions focus on whether the gun was drawn or fired as the proceedings seek answers about a fatal incident. The report notes turmoil and key testimony anticipated, with details to follow in later pages.
Nevada officials reported no federal wire tapping in the state ahead of the Baker inquiry while Las Vegas gamblers and hotelmen claimed their phones were bugged by federal agents. Edward Levinson testified his calls were monitored, though Cannon’s office noted many complaints from Las Vegas businessmen and hotels, Levinson excluded.
Authorities began recovering the frozen bodies of 85 people killed in Paradise Airlines crash on a Sierra Nevada ridge near Minden Nevada. Weather hindered the effort as new snow fell and officials from the CAB and FBI prepared to assess the wreckage and identify victims.
Deputy Roscoe L. Bowers testifies about the events before and after the shooting of Donald Holmes. He says Holmes carried a sawed-off rifle, kept it hidden at times, and moved toward him in a zigzag run as he fired a warning shot and then the fatal shot.
The article muses on naming a Las Vegas wind to rival legends like the Washoe Zephyr of Virginia City. It notes Reno now shares the Washoe Zephyr, recalls Shakespeare and Milton, and recalls Sirocco and Simoom as compelling wind names from other regions.
A United Press International reporter tours distressed Appalachian towns to illustrate unemployment and hardship as the Johnson war on poverty begins. The three part SUN series starts today on Page 17.
Federal mediator R F Hagis from Los Angeles did not meet with leaders of Local 12 during the Nevada Test Site walkout. He said he spoke to people in California and returned for other work without arranging further talks.
Louis D. Gordon longtime mining executive secretary of the Nevada Mining Association died yesterday at a Reno hospital at age 78. Born June 23 1885 in Austin he led mining ventures from Round Mountain to Inyo County California and beyond guiding Nevada Porphyry Gold Mines Inc and aiding the Mackay School of Mines and U S Bureau of Mines building on campus. Funeral arrangements are pending.
In Los Angeles the prosecution pressed Joseph Clyde Amsler on whether he and two co defendants invented the publicity stunt tale around Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnap claims. Amsler denied fabricating the mystery figure West and the alleged financier while highlighting co defendant Barry Worthington Keenan as the alleged mastermind.
At the 45th annual Associated General Contractors convention in the Convention Center, officials urged immediate study of national transportation needs and post 1972 highway expansion. AFL-CIO leader M. J. Haggerty warned after 1964 total construction could reach 88 billion dollars, stressing employment growth and the need to curb force account labor and preserve free enterprise in construction. Volpe praised interstate progress and called for long range planning amid ongoing road-building efforts.
The Nevada Equal Rights Commission filed an affidavit to disqualify Ormsby District Judge Frank Gregory from hearing Lindsay Smiths suit against the agency. The filing by commission member James Hulse of Reno accuses the judge of bias and improper conduct.
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