Judge Orders Lock Up for Vegas Murder Jury
A North Las Vegas man Horace G Tucker 65 stands trial for murder in the Oct 7 1963 fatal shooting of Omar Jack Evans. A seven member jury plus two alternates were ordered locked up by Dist Judge John Mowbray to keep them from outside influence as the trial proceeds. The judge set long hours to expedite the case and denied a venue change requested by defense counsel.
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Dist
John Mowbray
Atty
Harry Claiborne
Horace G. Tucker
Omar Jack Evans
Fendant
Glider St
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Evans
Mowbray
Claiborne
John Manzonio
March Led by King Faces Confrontation in Selma
In Selma Alabama a march of 2500 participants including whites and Negroes challenged state troopers after a Federal Court order was defied. Violence erupted later in the tense scene though the initial march ended peacefully.
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Selma
Ala
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
Parole Reform Debate Sparks Crime and Justice Tensions
The piece argues against early release for convicts citing public safety and parole failures. It contrasts penal reform theories with funding needs for prisons and questions Gov Sawyer’s parole bill as a money issue rather than rehabilitation. The article also notes a violent assault on three ministers by five white men after a march.
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Sawyer
State Parole Board
Weather Summary with Temperatures and Winds
Partly cloudy morning gives way to southwest winds 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Today's forecasted high 70 and low 40, yesterday's high 69 and low 37. Noon humidity at 24 percent with sunrise at 5 59 and sunset at 5 44.
Vegas NAACP Leader To Join Selma Marchers
Rev. Marion Bennett of the Southern Nevada NAACP flies to Selma Alabama to join marchers for three or four days. He aims to give moral support amid reported violence and expects to travel with other NAACP leaders from Atlanta after departing early morning. Bennett recalls past sit ins in Atlanta aiding civil rights progress and notes Alabama’s tougher climate for organizing.
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Southern Nevada
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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Martin Luther) King
Las Vegas
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Atlanta
NAACP
Alabama
Rev. Bennett
Morris Brown College
Gammon Theological Seminary
Dr. King
Georgia
Mississippi
Vegas
Major Medicolegal Symposium Opens in Las Vegas
Forty one experts meet Thursday to Saturday at the Dunes Hotel for a national symposium on professional relations between medicine and law. Co sponsors are the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association with topics on legal roles for doctors and recent landmark decisions. Speakers include Justice Charles E. Whittaker and Governor Grant Sawyer.
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Las Vegas
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
U.S. Supreme Court
Charles E. Whittaker
Grant Sawyer
Justice Whittaker
Marine Killed In Commie Ambush
Viet Cong guerrillas ambushed a South Vietnamese battalion 295 miles northwest of Saigon killing a U S Marine Corps officer advisor and wounding another The ambush near Kanack left 28 government troops either killed or injured as a convoy of Vietnamese Marines and trucks traveled between Bong Son and Hoai An A U S military spokesman said the wounded Marine was evacuated to Nha Trang with a bullet wound in the right cheek.
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UPI
U.S. Marine Corps
Kannack
U.S
Bong Son
Hoai An
U. S
U.S. Army
Nha Trang
Las Vegas suit could reshape city business license rule
Las Vegas attorney Robert Santa Cruz challenges the citys transfer fee in a case before Dist. Judge David Zenoff. The dispute questions the 10 transfer fee attached to relocations, potentially affecting revenue and license costs for businesses citywide. Santa Cruz has paid the 40 annual fee but objects to the 10 transfer charge. Several others have protested or paid under protest, awaiting the outcome.
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Las Vegas
Dist
David Zenoff
City Commission
Robert Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Jean Dutton
National Demonstrations Protest Bama Brutality
Thousands of Americans marched in Detroit Chicago and elsewhere protesting racial violence in Alabama and demanding federal intervention to end alleged police brutality and secure voting rights for Negroes. Michigan Governor Romney and Detroit Mayor Cavanagh joined about 10 000 in Detroit. In Chicago crowds clogged State Street and Madison Street as marchers lay down in the world busiest corner.
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Alabama
Michigan
George Romney
Detroit
Jerome Cavanagh
Woodward Avenue
Chicago
Loop
State
Madison Streets
Nevada Reapportionment Battle Erupts in Legislature
Three top Assembly leaders balk at delaying reapportionment beyond the session to pursue court action. Vernon Bunker James Gibson and Ray Kinsley defend continuing a plan that would take effect if the Federal Court requires remapping both houses. Bunker accuses the Senate of breaking its bargain.
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UPI
Vernon Bunker
Las Vegas
James Gibson
D-Henderson
Ray
Kinsley
D-Lovelock
Nevada
Bunker
Senate
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