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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1963
Page
1
A reader letters page rants about retrials and the death penalty, noting Rammsberger and Folker cases, then questions taxation on defense funds. The letter also highlights elderly Social Security shortages, county hospital costs, and transportation expenses, urging a car pool project and civic action.
Two bombs exploded at the main West Berlin elevated railway station during the evening rush hour, causing window damage but no injuries. Sabotage also targeted a Communist watch tower on the border. no other transport systems were disrupted.
Judge John Sexton set a show cause hearing to cite the district attorney for contempt over refusing to turn over records to seven defense attorneys in the murder trial of four men charged with killing a narcotics agent. Dist. A Edward Marshall was ordered to permit attorneys to inspect the records within a week.
U.S. disarmament chief William C. Foster told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that gains from large scale nuclear testing by the U.S. and USSR are shrinking. He heads the ACDA and said the need for large tests has diminished in recent years.
Pope John XXIII tripped on the seventh step during a mass audience at the Vatican but escaped injury. Aides rushed to his side, helped him to his feet, and the pontiff resumed without mention of the fall in his address.
In Denver James R. Hoffa charged the labor movement faces its greatest crisis due to the AFL CIO leadership's ineffectiveness, what he called assaults by Congress news media and a Kennedy administration conspiracy. He spoke to cheering delegates at a Teamsters event.
NY publishers refuse further settlements as a 1 day old blackout persists. ITU Local 6 union chief Elmer Brown warns the parent organization could end the strike within days. A 320 man photoengravers union joins the walkout, lengthening the disruption.
A builder testified that Billie Sol Estes tried to recruit him in a fertilizer tank deal and assured acceptance of an unsigned mortgage. Estes, 38, faces 16 counts of mail fraud transporting fraudulent documents across state lines and conspiracy in U S District Court. His wife Patsy attended the proceedings.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California a souped up Thor rocket with three Thiokol engines carried a secret satellite toward polar orbit. The Agena upper stage boosted power to 330000 pounds thrust nearly matching an Atlas. Discoverer series payloads have used this configuration since February 1959 with limited public detail and no comment on the latest satellite.
Eugene C Pulliam publisher of major papers will speak at the International Academy of Proctology banquet at the Flamingo Hotel. He argues federal government should withdraw from private business and taxes could be cut benefiting the economy. Estimated 400 physicians expected.
A Nevada Department of Economic Development press release misprinted tourism data for last year showing 18.5 million visitors spending $594,000. Officials corrected the figures to $594 million total, about $33 per visitor, noting the error caused by a misplaced comma and three zeros.
Partly cloudy weather with gentle winds today. High around 6 percent, low near 32. Yesterday’s high 59 and low 32. Noon humidity 34 percent. Sunrise at 3 46, sunset at 5 51.
President Kennedy told Central American leaders and a massive Costa Rican crowd that the United States will build a wall around Cuba not with mortar but with dedicated men to protect freedom and sovereignty. He rejected a hard line on Castro and spoke of hemisphere cooperation to combat poverty and injustice.
District Ranger Fred Ishell welcomed the weekend snowfall that blanketed Sheep Mountain range and boosted underground water supplies. He hoped the late snow could preserve the low snowpack and help mountain residents later in the summer.
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