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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1962
Page
1
Freddie Schwartz publicity chairman for the Clark County Victory over Polio Drive announced the two day effort reached 101000 county residents who received Sabin oral vaccine. The campaign will be repeated next Sunday with doses for those missed yesterday. He said 30000 was the target.
Schwartz notes Clark County will become the third area in the nation to adopt the new 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday operating window, expanding access for residents and local businesses.
A Las Vegas Council of Parent Teacher Associations memo urges members to curb juvenile exposure to pornographic material. They discuss tackling morals after a deadly accident and plan to influence local press to censor photos, promising “acceptable” images once publicity flacks comply.
Three North Las Vegas youths were killed when a car left a curving Boulder Beach to Vegas Wash road at 1 am and plunged into a 50-foot gully. Officers found the wreck at dawn. Patricia Kelly 15 Rose Ann McCarran 16 and Marty Jones 17 were identified among the victims while three others were injured and hospitalized with varying injuries.
Workers at Area 12 in the Nevada Test Site plan a boycott next Monday over cafeteria food quality provided by Reynolds Hjectre and Engineering Co. This marks a second recent protest of site food amid a polio immunization drive and high turnout.
A United Airlines DC4 with 20 passengers from Los Angeles circled McCarre Field for nearly an hour with a failed nose landing gear. After dumping fuel over nearby mountains, the crew regained control and landed safely at 10:05 a.m. Emergency crews also responded to a reported plane explosion near Apex on Nellis AFB.
A reader admonishes Look magazine for its Par Rightists story and fears their aim to abolish social security. He voices concern about long years of work and the dream of collecting benefits, criticizing the sweeping "down with everything" stance.
Raymond Ornsbee a 21 year old New Mexico State University graduate student died after a second parachute jump failed to open during a weekly sky diving demonstration at Las Cruces Municipal Airport. He fell 3000 feet landing near a runway about 50 feet from it. A crowd of 150 to 500 watched. Sheriff's officers reported neither parachute opened.
In San Francisco Michael Hallinan was seriously injured after two men jumped from a car and one stabbed him in the abdomen. In Chico a high altitude balloon burst during a test flight after traveling about 530 miles on the first of two unmanned journeys.
Nationally known columnist and educator Max Lerner spoke to the second general session of the 17th annual convention of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development at the Las Vegas Convention Center. He urged teachers to foster a collective worldwide thinking in the minds of young people across the globe.
Former city manager George Ullom was stopped on Boulder Highway on his way to a birthday party and nearly cited for a driving violation. Sheriff Ralph Lamb transported Ullom to the party after a confusing sequence of events that overwhelmed the sheriff’s switchboard with calls from officials including State Sen. B Mahlon Brown. No charges were issued.
Donna Mae Klipfel a 31 year old Chicago visitor awoke from a three day coma after a savage beating in a Strip hotel room. Deputies said she remembered nothing about the attacker and could not identify the assailant. She had been found nude beside the bed and had been unconscious since Thursday.
Ramon Grande 31 fled Castro era Cuba with wife Maida and large business ties seeking economic security in Las Vegas. He joins about 200,000 Cuban refugees now arriving weekly across the United States and hopes for opportunity despite uncertainty.
A chartered British airliner carrying 110 aboard crashed on takeoff into a swamp near Douala in the French Cameroon Republic. A spokesman said it was unknown if any survivors remained as rescue teams faced difficult access and planned dawn assessments after the storm impacted the crash site.
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