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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1968
Page
1
Lt Gov Ed Fike, candidate for the U S Senate, delivers the keynote at the 1968 Clark County Republican Convention at the Convention Center. The piece also argues Rockefeller’s withdrawal and outlines party fracture amid a Nixon Johnson presidential race.
President Johnson announced Westmoreland will leave Vietnam in July to become Army Chief of Staff. He will be replaced in Vietnam by Creighton Abrams, with Farle Wheeler remaining as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs past his term. The move follows Tet era criticism of Westmoreland and his search and destroy strategy.
In Las Vegas a fire chief is ousted by a commission amid a morale problem. The report notes Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and her husband Robert Bird welcomed a son born late Thursday at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas.
U S helicopters sank 30 sampans suspected of arming Viet Cong along a Mekong Delta canal network near An Long, 12 miles northwest and about 10 miles from Cambodia. The air assault followed an Army spotter plane alert. B52s also bombed the Iron Triangle near Saigon, targeting Viet Cong jungle strongholds.
Las Vegas city officials ousted Fire Chief D Williams and named Asst. Chief Jerald Miller as new chief. Mayor Grayson cited morale issues while City Manager Trelease said the change serves the department and community. Williams remains as assistant chief of the 300 member department after the vote.
President Johnson approved the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders report saying it was good and would influence action. He urged every American to read it and try to implement its recommendations, noting money from Congress was needed to do more.
Mysterious sleep illness strikes Upchurch elementary in Raeford North Carolina as first grade students repeatedly fall asleep. Psychiatrists and psychologists arrived to study the case while the class was relocated to another room after March 11 according to officials.
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty announced he will not seek the Democratic nomination for the U S Senate. The decision ends months of conjecture about a third bid for the seat he failed to win in two prior attempts.
Patrick Hayes, 27, of Jacksonville, was booked at the city jail on a charge of an ex felon in possession of a firearm after officers found him at West Hill Lanes. He claimed 138 outstanding warrants for bad checks in New York and said he was wanted in Arizona, Georgia, California, and Florida for various offenses.
Las Vegas loses its 43rd son in Viet Nam as Army announces Pfc. Thomas R. Pope, son of Mrs. Patricia A. Pope of 525 St. Louis St., was killed in action. Family unavailable for further details.
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