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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1968
Page
6
The Labor Department said February unemployment rose to 3.7 percent with about 3.2 million jobless, up 200,000 from January. Employment gained 550,000 to 74.1 million as teens and women led the increases, and the work week rose to 40.7 hours while average hourly earnings hit $2.76.
The lowest temperature reported to the U S Weather Bureau outside Alaska and Hawaii dropped to 19 degrees below zero at International Falls Minnesota. The day’s high reached 90 degrees in Immokalee Florida. A 24 hour table from the Weather Bureau San Francisco shows the period ending at 4 a m.
Escaped convict Jerry Reece Peacock a top FBI fugitive was ordered held without bail in Los Angeles on a murder charge. He allegedly killed former roommate James Burdette whose body was found February 8 in a Hollywood apartment. Peacock had escaped Soledad prison 17 months earlier while serving a five year to life sentence for a 1961 armored car robbery.
Allan Pinkerton uncovered a counterfeit gang in Chicago in 1850 and earned status as the city's first detective. His vigilance helped establish a precedent for private policing and investigative work in the region.
Pvt. Ray Roy Jones 21 of Pontiac Michigan returned to U S Army authorities in Germany after deserting to protest the Vietnam War and racial discrimination in Sweden. He flew into Frankfurt from Stockholm with his German wife and infant son saying he wants to go back to America. He faces a potential ten year prison term for absence without leave.
A London survey of 100 director vacancies shows about half the directors were fired. Forty one left voluntarily and nine were replaced by mutual agreement.
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