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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1969
Page
2
The article argues that a bill aiming to outlaw liquor in Nevada could revive Prohibition era limits and threaten individual rights. Assemblyman Richard Bryan criticizes past votes and warns that curbing reading and eating choices sets a dangerous precedent, risking tourism revenue and state funds.
Four U S Army airmen shot down over the Vietnam Cambodia border on Feb 12 were released by Cambodians and flown to Saigon after Nixon sent a friendship letter to Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The crew led by Maj Quentin Hurlik reported no physical abuse and described a 30 minute firefight with Viet Cong before landing in a rice paddy.
Washington Senator James Eastland chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee questions whether Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by one man. He cites James Earl Ray’s statements of a possible conspiracy with a blond Latin man and asks how Ray knew locations and timing. He seeks to assemble facts to answer his doubts.
Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip filed suit in District Court to recover a $6,700 win by Russell Gary Gutting Jr. The casino alleges he was a trespasser and had no right to gamble after being barred for unknown reasons.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board recommended denial of a license to Thomas Elardi citing disregard of gaming law. It cited his delay in stopping a closed establishment, restarting a shuttered keno game, and a falsified work permit obtained at age twenty.
In New York Los Angeles Chicago and Nashville Glen Campbell’s By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins album of the year Bobby Russell Little Green Apples named song of the year Jose Feliciano named best new artist 1968 Paul Simon The Graduate score named best motion picture or TV score In Washington Frank W Boykin former Alabama congressman dies at 4 congestive heart failure hospital says funeral in Mobile Alabama pending date
Communist forces bombarded at least 42 bases and towns, wounding 39 civilians and 20 soldiers as U S. B52 raids hit Red positions around Saigon. Renewed shelling follows a perceived lull and targeted Demilitarized Zone clashes.
The White House signaled President Nixon may announce Friday his decision on whether to build an antiballistic missile system the Sentinel. A noon news conference would follow talks with congressional leaders as opposition grows in the Senate.
More than 100 Army engineers spread through the Upper Midwest in Operation Foresight to prepare for a severe flood season. Col. Richard J. Hesse says agencies will identify hazards, upgrade dikes and levees, and conduct aerial surveys as snowmelt promises record potential floods across Minnesota Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
The Las Vegas Valley pollution issues will be discussed at tonight's Men's Garden Club meeting at Lorenzi Park led by county deputy air pollution control officer John Farnsworth and club president Jim Sells.
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