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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1965
Page
7
Moscow reports say the Luna-S unmanned craft may attempt a soft landing to beat U.S. Ranger photography and heat the Surveyor program. Official silence fuels speculation about bold lunar plans as Luna-S nears the moon after an 88,200 mile voyage.
About 9 000 Negro high school students, nearly 90 percent of enrollment at Wheatley Washington Worthing Yatesa Kashmere Gardens high schools, skipped classes to protest slow desegregation. NAACP organized the walkout as they planned a march on the school board while the district remains under a court approved plan.
Pittsburgh David J McDonald seeks a ruling from the United Steelworkers International Executive Board on May 19 claiming 6000 votes were disallowed in the February 9 election that Abel won by 10 142 votes The case could prompt a Labor Department review if internal avenues fail and may extend contract talks with the steel industry where a 11 5 cent and hour package is in effect McDonald’s attorney expects more voting irregularities to surface amid a leadership dispute that has hampered negotiations.
In a landmark Old Bailey decision a aviation ministry rockets expert Frank Clifton received 21 years for spying for Russia. In a second trial army sergeant was sentenced to 10 years for passing information to Middle Eastern embassies. Sgt Peter Sidney Allen, 33, admitted taking 182 dollars this year for defense documents.
Former President Harry S. Truman watches the unveiling of a statue gifted to the Truman Memorial Library by the Order of Ahepa. Greek ambassador Alexander A. Matsas praises the Truman Doctrine and UPI notes Truman’s 1947 request for aid to Greece and Turkey as a check on Communism.
Six year old Siamese twins Santina and Giuseppina Foglia were separated in a three hour 4 minute surgery at Regina Margherita hospital Turin. A 15 surgeon team led by Prof Luigi Solerio conducted the operation and reported the girls in satisfactory condition with separate hospital beds and smiling nurses. The join occurred at the lower spine with a 20 inch incision and the team noted the lower diaphragm and abdominal nerves were preserved. an earlier operation had created independent intestinal systems.
The U S Court of Appeals declines to delay six Mississippi towns elections in Sunflower County to boost Negro voter registration. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sought postponement pending fuller registration. the panel ruled elections proceed as scheduled in Drew Doddsville Sunflower Ruleville Moorhead and Inverness.
In Wilmington California the Coast Guard schedules a Thursday hearing into the apparent accidental drowning of Eileen Jeffers Yager, wife of Superior Judge Thomas Yager. The couple honeymooned aboard a rented cabin cruiser when she disappeared from the bridge. the husband was below deck and radio failures hindered rescue efforts as police term it an unfortunate accident.
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