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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1968
Page
1
Helldorado Week begins in Las Vegas with a carnival at Cashman Field the Helldorado Ball and a beauty pageant. The 34th annual event by the Las Vegas Elks Lodge features parades rodeo barbecue and square dancing. Vic Isaacson predicts record turnout as local businesses back the celebration.
Mane Greenspun reflects on motherhood through a personal essay about daughters growing into women. He honors mothers as tolerant loving figures who balance family needs with pride and sacrifice, noting their fortitude, selflessness and pivotal role in the home.
Allied troops clash with Communist diehards defending Saigon strongholds in brutal street fighting. U S commanders report a small North Vietnamese Viet Cong force in two pockets ready to fight to the last cartridge as the battle enters its second week. Violent exchanges rage across a 30 block area near the Y bridge and Phu Tho racetrack.
Three people were seriously injured in a four car crash on East Bonanza between Main and 1st Streets. Debra Roe 18 and her mother Betty 48 were treated at Southern Memorial Hospital with head injuries and cuts. Staff Sgt. William Fleck of Nellis Air Force Base was injured. his condition was unclear. Fleck allegedly traveled east on Bonanza and collided head on with a car driven by Samuel J. Marcvero Jr. The Marcvero family escaped injury. Fleck faced potential reckless driving charges.
Variable cloudiness with rain showers over the mountain region. Today's high 85 and low 60. Yesterday's high 37 and low 58. Noontime humidity 16 percent. Sunrise at 5 37 and sunset at 7 37.
Fractured truce between President Charles de Gaulle and rioting students calms Paris on the eve of Washington Hanoi talks on Vietnam. Tear gas was employed by police to quell demonstrations that brought some of the worst street fighting since World War II.
Paris reports say U S and North Vietnam cleared minor obstacles toward preliminary Vietnam War talks with a calm mood despite street clashes. Police sealed Seine bridges as student protests flared near the Sorbonne after Pompidou announced a reopening plan.
Dr Ralph E Adams 37 of Lake Bluff Tl was hired as executive director of Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital at 29500 annual salary. He succeeds Jack Staggs who resigned after eight and a half years and takes over June 1 from acting administrator Dr Sam Crucilla. Harry Reid said the board is pleased and Crucilla will remain as Adams top assistant. Adams comes from Presbyterian St Lukes in Chicago a 1000 bed hospital.
Las Vegas attorney Morton Galane named chairman of the Rockefeller for President Committee in Nevada. He previously led the Southern Nevada drive for Nixon's 1960 bid and served as special counsel to Gov. Paul Laxalt since January 1967. Galane is a George Washington University graduate and has resided in Southern Nevada 14 years.
A caravan of poor people traveled through Virginia Georgia Ohio and New York toward Washington where the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr will lead a vanguard in a Mother s Day welfare march The Freedom Bus section about 599 people will reach Washington for the welfare protest against denying payments to mothers of illegitimate children The group plans to construct plywood and canvas shanties just south of the reflecting pool near the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial.
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