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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1966
Page
1
FBI data for cities over 100000 show Las Vegas crime fell nine percent in the period. Western states led nationwide gains with a nine percent rise in reported felonies.
The annual crime report lists murder and manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft. Gov Grant Sawyer criticized local crime reporting as FBI national figures show Las Vegas and Southern Nevada ranked first in several years. Local murders rose from 12 to 9 in 1965? The text notes a drop in four major fields locally while national totals increased.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reports increases in all U S geographic regions in crime. Compared figures show 128 robberies up from 1d, 132 aggravated assaults up from 162, 781 burglaries up from 770, 871 larcenies up from 971, and 482 auto thefts up from 559. Western states record the largest rise while the South posts the smallest gain at about one percent.
A memoir fragment recalls Eddie Clippinger and Roxies the notorious Las Vegas house of prostitution. The piece notes past blackouts in Henderson and a SUN photo from a Roxies raid showing scantily clad women with the SUN, captioned Everyone in Las Vegas reads the SUN.
U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops press a mop up drive through a valley 330 miles northeast of Saigon. They report about 1 100 North Vietnamese killed in a weekend battle considered among the war’s fiercest. Brig. Gen. Jonas Platt hailed the win on the anniversary of Marine landings, saying American fighters are as capable as past eras.
Sunny with gentle winds and variable high clouds. Today’s high 79 and low 40. Yesterday’s high 79 and low 38. Noontime humidity 21 percent. Sunrise at 6 02 and sunset at 5 42.
The article promotes Patch of Blue at the Guild Theatre noting its social significance and strong performances by Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Hartman. It urges broad audience view and mentions the film's message about race relations and restraint.
Taxicab drivers yesterday demanded a single mass meeting and vote on a contract proposal from Yellow and Checker cab companies but were unsuccessful. The dispute involves union plans and driver approval procedures as negotiations continue.
Defense Secretary McNamara estimates Red China could hit targets 500 to 700 miles from its borders within two or three years and warns it would take about a decade before a nuclear attack could reach the continental United States. He notes China is expanding its nuclear arsenal while its people face famine.
Astronaut Virgil Gus Grissom arrives in Las Vegas to meet students and receive honors. He will address high school assemblies at Valley Bishop Gorman Las Vegas Clark Western Rancho and speak at a Boys Club Founders Dinner with Sen. Howard Cannon. Chamber luncheon at Riviera Hotel is expected to sell out.
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld core provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that ban literacy tests in six Southern states and authorize federal agents to register Black voters. Chief Justice authored the main opinion.
Supreme Court justice Earl Warren led a ruling allowing broader participation by non white Americans in government funded pools. Justices Black and others supported the decision but criticized procedures aiding Southern states to seek reconsideration. The test case involved South Carolina with Alabama Mississippi Georgia Louisiana and Virginia. Federal registrars were deployed across these states.
A Las Vegas teenager died Sunday night after a two car crash on Lake Mead Boulevard near Mount Hood Street. Five others were seriously injured. It followed another fatal accident minutes earlier at Tropicana and Spencer where Leon Oscar Beaver was killed in a head on motorcycle collision.
The Senate approved a voice vote on a modest amend to President Johnson’s $6 billion tax plan allowing taxpayers to forget or forgive $5 or less in tax bills or payroll withholdings. If enacted the change could cost the Treasury about $12 million annually and follows debates over funding for the Viet Nam War and inflation control.
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