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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1962
Page
1
A personal memo notes Hank Greenspun’s absence from the office and teases a Japan trip with the governor. It mentions Jack McCloskey recovering from Reno surgery, his Nevada Press convention visit with Walter Cox, plus random notes on Sig Stein’s fan mail, Donal O Callaghan’s juvenile probation work, and a dog bite incident prompting school action and dog quarantine.
France and Algerian rebels clinched a peace accord ending 74 years of conflict and creating an independent Algerian republic this year. President de Gaulle urged a nationwide referendum while European extremists in Algeria resisted the cease fire amid bombings and street clashes in Algiers and Oran. The OAS established an underground government and vowed to annihilate the rebel movement.
The note honors George and Dorothy Redman on their recent wedding anniversary. George runs the band at the Silver Slipper and helped open the Last Frontier Village, becoming a local fixture. The writer also regrets a hasty resignation from the city recreation department and praises the departed employee’s devotion and hours of work.
A 1962 letter to Las Vegas Distributing Co discusses Iowa Jaycees planning a party at the Dunes or Filamingo hotels on June 19 starting at midnight. The note asks about 1 000 cans of beer and cooling options including pool cooling and dive for beer with own ice.
Las Vegas would feel major disruption from a planned flight engineers strike against Trans World Airlines. Ray Culley, TWA district sales manager, warned that the walkout could cancel service into McCarran Field. The union threatened strikes at 5 am EST Wednesday, affecting nine daily TWA flights and 63 total operations in and out of Las Vegas.
Clark County deputies said a decomposed body found near Nelson's Landing east of here is in Arizona, not Nevada. Det. Capt. William O'Reilly confirmed it as Arizona's case, with Mohave authorities taking over as Sheriff deputies redeployed.
Funeral services for George Jolly Nevada state labor commissioner who died after a heart attack will be held at Walton Funeral Home Reno at 2 30 p m tomorrow. Jolly 54 died at Washoe Medical Center He served as state labor commissioner for three years and was a native of Owensboro Kentucky who had lived in Reno 30 years.
Bi lingual or better talents drive expertise in business sectors needing interpreters. The SUN Learn A Language records are seen as very important. People seek knowledge and believe broader language skills improve their prospects, leading to earning more than one coin.
The Navy suspended issuance of new officer fitness reports that would rate officers on social and diplomatic contacts abroad. Pending review by Navy Secretary Fred Korth, personnel officials said language on husband-wife teams would be adjusted to align with the intent of the new sections.
Exeter New Hampshire Republican Governor Wesley Powell 46 suffered a mild coronary thrombosis while visiting friends and was admitted to Exeter Hospital. Powell chairs both the National Governors conference and the New England Governors conference and drew national attention in 1960 over remarks about John F Kennedy.
A plane carrying nine skydivers crashed into the desert at Thunderbird Field but all aboard escaped alive with one minor injury. Deputies named the nine passengers including co pilot Jack Birchall Neil Glasier Floyd Burns Colleen Burns Shannon Fortune and Jerry Hocking. Airport manager Bernard Smith reported the incident saying he heard the crash and saw the plane on the left wing before it ground to a stop.
Doctors battled three hours to remove two rifle bullet halves from 17 year old Robert A. Bowers after he was shot by Richard L. Pushard 25 of 4241 Russell Road as the teens tried to take five used tires from Pushard's property in Henderson. Bowers survived the operation and is reported out of surgery.
The State Gaming Control Board in Las Vegas will resume its meeting to evaluate 15 percent Las Vegas Club stake bids by three employees and other license applications. The panel also weighs reopening the Neva Club in Reno and a request by a former Las employee, with recommendations due to the Nevada Gaming Commission.
Reports from Geneva say Russia pulled its atomic scientists out of Communist China. Delegates at the disarmament conference noted Moscow's unease over China's imminent atom bomb and its potential to constrain Khrushchev's diplomacy.
Havana reports Cuba will start food rationing for the first time in its history affecting over six million people. Under Premier Fidel Castro the system limits purchases of rice beans and other staples to curb black market activity amid claims of Yankee Imperialist blockade. Residents scramble for scarce supplies as government controls distribution and prices.
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