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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1965
Page
2
Liuzzo speaks of his wife Viola Liuzzo who traveled to Selma to support voting rights. He describes her kindness, grief, and anger at the violence that killed her after a late-night call confirming her death in a hospital.
In Moscow the Soviet Union accused the United States of employing poison gases in Vietnam and demanded an end to such acts. The U.S. embassy rejected the note as unacceptable and returned it to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. An American spokesman cited Secretary Rusk’s claim that the U.S. does not use gases prohibited by the Geneva conventions.
Police raided two sites in the Las Vegas area uncovering suspects tied to stolen property. Joe Belk 25 and William Malcolm 33, plus Jack Reeves 38, faced questioning after a Washington street theft raid. Reeves denied employment with Mack Yarborough Motors. In a second raid at 2600 Perliter, Jack Jameson 23, Robert Spina 23, and Sally Jameson 26 were detained with varying charges, Spina later linked to a Rancho Market heist and held on $10,000 bail.
The county plans a $5.00 tax rate with 65 cents for school debt service totaling $3,987,027 toward $59 million in bonds. After debt and other levies, cities and other subdivisions receive $1.56 of the rate for 1965 66.
Dist. Judge George E. Marshall, 68, is scheduled for gall stone surgery Saturday morning at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. He was admitted Tuesday night after severe abdominal pains and was later sent home early by bailiff Dick Stanley.
In Rome Georgia a Tennessee bank robbery suspect corralled by 25 police cars on a dead end street surrendered and released a hostage physician unharmed. James Paul Davis 37 fled with 8700 dollars from a Chattanooga branch and kidnapped Dr Robert Z Demos. The incident ended peacefully.
A jury of eight women and four men deliberated for under an hour before convicting Gaylen Daniel Kinder, 27, and Robert Chester Glover, 37, of first degree burglary for the Aug. 8, 1964, break in at Square Dance Corral, 2511 Nellis Blvd. in District Court.
Gov. George Wallace condemns the Liuzzo killing as outrageous and cowardly while vows justice. Mrs Liuzzo, 39, is flown home to Detroit as National Guardsmen are partially deactivated and federal action proceeds. A complex FBI led investigation follows as witnesses describe the shooting near Selma to Montgomery.
The city commission approved two bids totaling nearly 12 000 to relocate a ball diamond and upgrade Cragin Park as part of a 16 000 to 20 000 project. Acme Electric Co. will be paid 9 840 to move flood lights that once glare toward Carl Hyde’s home, the sole bid. Las Vegas Fertilizer and Landscaping Co. receives 2 021 to revamp the sprinkler system amid park controversy from nearby property owners.
The Nevada legislature voted to replace Clark County Sanitation Districts 1 and 2 boards with county commissioners. The measure, speedy as bids for a new sanitation building approach, passed the Assembly and became an emergency bill in the Senate. Critics cited publicity trips and land deals.
President Johnson meets with FBI director Hoover and Attorney General Katzenbach after the Alabama killing of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo. He vows to fight the Ku Klux Klan and supports new criminal legislation, urging Klansmen to abandon the hooded society and return to a decent society.
The city council backs the present police force of 336, refusing to add 18 officers. Mayor vows no jeopardy to police or fire protection and seeks full utilization of current staff. Budget move trims 5,500 from the commission and adds it to municipal court to raise the municipal judge’s salary.
The author argues nuclear catastrophe looms with two hegemons the United States and the Soviet Union capable of destroying humanity. He warns against empowering a third nation like Red China and stresses limited defense options. The piece notes alliances and bases aim to secure U S security amid the looming threat. (Continued Tomorrow)
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