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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1964
Page
2
A dense classified page fragment shows multiple ad blocks for jewelry, furniture, houses and apartments, autos, and services. Names like Trudy Jewelers and Mr. Gillis appear with contact numbers and loan terms, including layaway offers, down payments, and weekly payments.
Federal prosecutors press a slavery case against tobacco farmer Robert Moultrie Cook for pistol whipping and holding Max Roy McKenzie in servitude at a Neora farm. McKenzie testified of terms forcing him to work to stay out of jail as Cook faced two-count indictment and denied bondage charges.
South Vietnamese forces of about 5,000 rangers swept into the Do Xa base in Quang Ngai Province on U S helicopters and overran an arms factory. Officials in Washington expressed cautious optimism as government troops struck Red guerrilla strongholds in the northern highlands and Mekong Delta.
In Imperial Beach California a search for 4 year old Bebe Chaney ended with her body found in a small ice box outside her trailer home after more than 200 searchers toured the area. The girl, mute and with deaf-mute parents, suffocated in the box.
U.S. officials doubt feasibility of hidden nuclear weapons by Israel or the United Arab Republic within years. British reports claimed contaminated warheads using radioactive material, but U.S. intelligence says such devices would lack fissionable explosive potential and unlikely to be developed with Soviet or French aid.
At Columbia University 15 male students form a discussion club named the Sexual Freedom Forum to press for looser campus and societal sex restrictions. The group registered with the university, aims to relax rules on sexuality for adults, and sparks internal debate among students and administrators.
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