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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1969
Page
2
A columnist criticizes school finances and budgeting in a public school system. He questions administration costs and multi million dollar bond issues while noting the school budget gets a large share of tax revenue. He calls for budgeting scrutiny and competitive bidding in purchases like books.
The Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas canceled at the last minute a scheduled talk before the First Circuit Judicial Conference. UPI reports regional weather across Texas and Midwest with record lows in Virginia and Tennessee. Tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm watches were issued for several states. Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower sails to Europe for a vacation and contemplates making the Gettysburg farm her permanent home. Rep Wright Patman accuses Treasury Secretary Kennedy of stock holdings and a delayed sale totaling about 1.2 million dollars plus 30 855 shares from Continental Illinois National Bank after Kennedy took office.
The government said it was satisfied with the outflow of hot money and no drastic steps were needed to speed it up. Spokesman Guenter Diehl announced after an emergency economics cabinet meeting that the decision not to revalue the mark would stand.
President Nixon invited West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to an official Washington visit July 29-23. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Kiesinger accepted the invitation. This will be their third round of discussions.
The Waite Elephants by Westinghouse Wives Club hosts a rummage sale in the new Harve Perry Shopping Center at 1100 East Schora. It runs Friday and Saturday May 15th and 17th from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Come look for something for everyone.
Charles Evers leads incumbent May or R K Allen in a statewide municipal election tally for Fayette Mississippi with about 560 votes counted. Evers seeks to become the first black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since Reconstruction. A separate report from Flint Michigan notes a tanker truck crash killed Donald Plamondon 22, from severe burns.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Otto F. Otepka for a 36000 dollar Subversive Activities Control Board post by 10 to 3. Kennedy Hart and Tydings dissented setting up a Senate floor clash in two to three weeks. Otepka, ex State Department security officer, was demoted for sharing confidential information with a congressional committee.
Three Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas Stafford John Young and Eugene Cernan passed final medicals in Cape Kennedy and were declared fit for a planned eight day lunar mission They will fly a dress rehearsal to within 50 000 feet of the Moon May 22 and study Sea of Tranquility maps ahead of Apollo 11 landing in July
Viet Cong negotiator Tran Buu Kiem denounced U S actions on the first anniversary of Paris talks saying Washington is escalating the Vietnam war to unprecedented levels. The group shelled 159 targets in South Vietnam, the most since Tet 1968, while urging talks on the NLF peace package backed by North Vietnam.
William J. Miller, superintendent of the Nevada Girls Training Center in Caliente since September, resigns effective Sept. 1 amid legislature driven budget cuts. He cites a loss of the program and insufficient tools to run treatment services for 75 inmates. Miller praises Gov. Paul Laxalt and notes a $46,000 reduction in the legislature’s closing hours.
A semi official Egyptian report says Egyptian gunners wiped out 20 Israeli soldiers with one shell at the Suez Canal. The blast hit an ammunition truck carrying Israelis on the east canal bank. Jordanian officials also reported new fighting along Israel's opposite flank with heavy artillery across the South Jordan Valley cease fire line near the Dead Sea.
The Boulder City Council elected James B. French to a second term in an uncontested race a week ago. He previously served as the first mayor of Henderson when the community was founded in the early 1950s. The council, in its first meeting since the election, also elected a freshman member.
President S I Hayakawa testified to a Senate panel that campus revolutionaries see themselves as an intellectual aristocracy and use Negro students as cannon fodder. He argued appeasement would fail and warned whites fund revolts, coercing black allies into a subordinate role.
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