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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1962
Page
5
The body of Betty Jesse Edyth Burd of 2011 Alturas is being sent by Sunset Funeral Home for burial in Landisburg cemetery. She died Friday at age 77 and is survived by son Jonn Patterson of Lancaster and four sisters among others in Pennsylvania.
The body of Robert Canon Lane who died of a heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel Sunday is being sent to Oklahoma City for funeral services. Sunset Funeral Home handles local arrangements. He leaves wife Mary Jane Lane mother Mrs. Clara Lane and children Suzanne Lane and Bobby Lane Jr.
Funeral services for Mavis Louise Montgomery 42 of 734 Ninth St Boulder City are set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Episcopal Church in Boulder City officiated by Father Hogbein. Arrangements are by Bunker Brothers Funeral Home. She died Sunday at Boulder City Hospital after living in the Las Vegas Valley two years. Born in Paducah Kentucky she is survived by husband Walter M Montgomery son Terry Gordon Montgomery two brothers Karl Terry and O O Terry Kansas City Kansas and her father W O Terry also of Kansas City.
Virginia Chrisinger widow of MSet Richard Chrisinger formerly stationed at Nellis AFB died Friday in a California hospital. Services by the Eastern Star set for Thursday at the Chapel of the Dawn in Portland Oregon. Survived by son Marvin and daughter Naomi of Victorville California. Parents Roy and Mrs. Stites of Waldport Oregon, plus two sisters and two brothers.
George E. Walsh, 27, of Las Vegas, was convicted yesterday of attempting to rob a Food Fair Market in Philadelphia on October 28, 1960. He held two policemen and others captive in a rear storeroom before fleeing with the store manager as a hostage. The manager was released shortly after. Walsh was arrested about 30 minutes later when he returned to his Nevada-plate car nearby.
Robert S. DeLangie chapter chairman will conduct the regular monthly Red Cross board meeting tonight at 8 in the east wing conference room of the Red Cross headquarters at 212 Mesquite Ave. The nominating committee report will present a slate of nominees for officers and board members to be elected at April's board meeting.
Judge Zenoff praised O Callaghan and urged commissioners to continue trimming county budgets. Henderson and North Las Vegas officials will review their budgets, led by Commissioner Art Olsen. The groups plan another meeting after further reductions are proposed.
Two Siamese twins joined at the chest and abdomen died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. The babies were born Saturday to Myra Quigg, 23, wife of a 30 year old laborer.
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski arrived in Warsaw after a three week Rome trip tied to preparations for the upcoming Ecumenical Council. He traveled home yesterday and is expected to meet with church and state leaders on council matters.
Edward M Kennedy prepared a news conference to declare his candidacy for a Senate seat sought by John W McCormack’s nephew. The briefing will shape a tense political moment as the party charts its 1960s battle lines.
Castro denounced what he called the imperialistic U S blockade of Cuba during a televised address attended by most of the cabinet and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez editor of Hoy. He linked rationing booklets to housing control with tenants needing last month’s rent receipt.
District Judge William Compton will preside the City of Hope Las Vegas chapter monthly meeting at 8 30 p m in the Camellia Room Thunderbird Hotel agenda includes Guilds and 500 Clubs Robert Adler regional director will report after a special board meeting at Clark County Courthouse a bingo session and surprise appearance of a major hotel star are planned after the business portion
JFK's mother in law enters hospital for a checkup while Mrs Kennedy is at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston awaiting a bulletin. Tests show no malignancy. Joseph P Kennedy recuperates in Palm Beach after a stroke. The family summer home at Hyannis Port had sent her to Boston for care. Cardinal Cushing also receives treatment at the same hospital.
Bruce Trent was absent from the meeting as Commissioner Ed Fountain left the city for the week. Trent said his resignation is not yet accepted and declined to comment. The commission may delay until next week to decide. Gordon Hunsacker is named as a candidate for recreation director. Several others also applied for the post.
The Clark County Liquor Licensing Board approved the retail liquor license for Railroad Pass Casino under new management led by Sam L. Presley and Jerry W. Trigg. Abernathy and Walton, longtime Las Vegas residents, join as stock holders and partial beneficiaries. The board also acted on multiple license changes and transfers across Las Vegas and surrounding areas.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit arrive in Karachi for a two day state visit to Pakistan. Local officials greet the Thai royals as they begin discussions with Pakistani leaders on bilateral ties and regional issues.
Federal Judge John Ross in Carson City postponed the trial of former Las Vegas lawyer Ralph Morgali in a tax nonpayment case. Morgali, disbarred by the Nevada Supreme Court, is accused of $13,589 in taxes and did not appear for trial after federal agents could not locate him. The case has been pending since 1958.
Governor Edmund G. Brown said he will not intervene in the scheduled execution of Henry Adolph Busch. Busch, 30, was convicted in Los Angeles of the first degree murder of his foster mother's sister Margaret Briggs and the second degree murders of Elmyra Miller and Shirley Payne.
NMA asks the board to reimburse 3200 dollars for convention costs. The repayment will come from registration fees when the convention is held. Albright said the Fair Board will review complimentary letters from groups that recently held conventions plus other routine matters.
German born former wife Ingeborg Loeffler Barker, 38, Fresno, confessed to shooting city administrator Barker after a dispute over taking their three children to Europe. The confrontation occurred in his office after a lunch meeting and he died from a chest wound. The couple, married in 1949 in Bavaria, had three children aged 11 to 13 who lived with their mother.
Clark County Civil Air Patrol units join Hawthorne and Ely teams in a search for a missing plane from Twin Falls Idaho to Las Vegas. Rex Wirthimn of Jerome Idaho piloted the Cessna 180 as four planes start at 7 am to scan 15 miles each side of the Las Vegas Ely line under Col. Henry C. North with help from Utah and Idaho CAP crews.
Loring recounts a daylight robbery at the market with a 25 caliber pistol. The assailant claimed a buddy in a car and forced him to stay still. Store manager John Moore notes this was the fourth daylight robbery in three years and the second in four months.
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