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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
1
A Las Vegas writer recounts a father's plea over a missing daughter suspected of narcotic use. He contrasts families touched by addiction with others showing marijuana stubs, urging help beyond police action as addicts spiral from jail to hospital to gutter.
Thousands of shoppers filled the Maryland Parkway complex as 77 acres opened with a 28 store lineup plus the Broadway Department Store and Sears. Governor Laxalt spoke with Haas and Haynie Investment Corp. backing the project, designed by Robert R. Weber and Associates. A $4,000 check was presented to the Service League of Las Vegas after the ribbon cutting.
Robert Moon Mullen resigned as Clark County chief probation officer amid medical advice after a stroke. The 37 year old official, in office since 1965, said his left side failed while at home and he was hospitalized at Sunrise Hospital for a full physical. Judge William Compton will meet with the probation committee regarding the vacancy.
Nevada Public Service Commission hearings on cable TV grants feature Community Cable TV led by Hank Greenspun and Jack Kent Cooke, and Reynolds' Southwestern Investment plus Nevada Cablevision proposals. The commission denied Central Telephone’s bid to block other applicants while allowing its own entry and protests. Reynolds outlined his 17 Nevada communications holdings as hearings proceed.
U S forces and allies claim heavy Viet Cong and North Vietnamese casualties across DMZ sectors near Con Thien Khe Sanh and the Cambodian border. A C123 airliner crash near Khe Sanh yielded 49 aboard with no survivors seen. In Las Vegas metro growth shows a 123.5 percent rise since 1960 with Las Vegas city population up 124 percent to 144,267.
In Morgan City Louisiana a midnight blaze at the Belle Isle salt mine destroyed the entrance and elevator system. A Cargill spokesman said a U S Bureau of Mines rescue team lowered weighted lines to the 1192 foot level where the miners were believed trapped and alive.
A rooming house fire in a rundown Houston neighborhood killed eight people with arson suspected in a second nearby blaze at a hob o hangout. Landlord smoking in bed was blamed for the first fire while gasoline and arson were suspected in the other. One survivor saved a neighbor and another man perished in the vacant-house blaze.
Michael Hastings 19, a Rancho High School graduate, died March 1 in Quang Tri Province Vietnam while attached to a Marine unit. He served two years in the Navy hospital corps and is survived by his parents, wife, two brothers and two sisters.
Variable cloudiness and southwest winds 19 to 20 mph. Today’s high 65 and low 49, yesterday’s 65 and 53. Noontime humidity 38 percent. Sunrise at 6:95 and sunset at 5:41.
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