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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1963
Page
9
Paul Price notes Hank Greenspun’s $21 000 gin rummy chase and a later politics tied grand jury talk. Ted Marshall the DA calls for a sanitation district probe amid reports of ambitious local figures. The column questions if any real case exists.
Column predicts an early grand jury to examine payoffs involving two senior officials, contractor practices in property sales, and possible departures of officials from their posts. It notes upcoming April 20 appreciation dinner for Senator Howard Cannon at the Flamingo and mentions Pat Egan and Pat Chavez in a golf course incident.
An 18 year old North Las Vegas youth Eldon Lee Woods was jailed or fined after a downtown casino disturbance. He faced 300 dollars for resisting arrest 50 dollars for being in the casino and 2 dollars for disorderly conduct.
Stewart Hopps, a West Coast insurance executive, was found guilty of mail fraud for sending false financial data about International Guarantee and Insurance Co. into Maryland. Chief Judge Roszel Thomsen overruled motions for a new trial and to set aside the verdict, setting sentencing for March 29.
Alfred Sheinwold argues safety plays in bridge can only be used when affordable. The article analyzes a deal where South’s early ruff and lead choices backfire, then shows how an optimal trump lead and careful club play secure the hand. It includes a daily question and the recommended bidding answer from Sheinwold.
In Paris, Ambassador Livingston Merchant reported broad in principle support from Atlantic nations for Kennedy's NATO nuclear fleet plan, with Rome Bonn Brussels London showing aid while Britain Belgium cautious. France under de Gaulle remains hostile, aiming to preserve an independent French nuclear force as talks continue on fleet type and financing.
New York based art student Joseph Alexander Greene 27 was convicted after a two day trial for stealing a Paul Klee painting titled Jungwaldti el valued at 25000 dollars from the University of California Art Gallery in November 1959. He hid the work at home for a year then sold it in Munich for about 3000 dollars to an art dealer. The work later appeared in the Berlin State Museum revealing the theft.
About one of every five U S families will move this year, according to housing authorities for Allied Chemical s Barrett Division. Most will seek bigger, more attractive homes built with durable materials like asphalt shingles and gypsum wallboard.
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