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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1966
Page
1
Buddhist led rebels holding a pagoda fortress near Da Nang threaten negotiations if U S Marines guarantee safety for ambulances and wounded. A government tank fired on rebel positions as the siege entered its fourth day.
A reader argues that federal boards operate as false fronts and questions the NLRB claim over casino employees. He notes Nevada casinos draw out-of-state customers, contrasts with horse racing as local, and cites IRS attitudes toward gambling while urging consistency in federal reach.
Helldorado Week closes its 32nd annual celebration at Cashman Field with more than 23000 in prize money awarded for the closing rodeo. Boots and Beauty Parade on Fremont Street at 1 p.m features Strip house and city business beauty queen entries. Yesterday featured the Youngtimers Parade and village carnival with trophies given to top finishers led by Teresa Ellis and Janice Gates in multiple divisions. Linda Lee Brown and Carolynn Seay will reign tonight as Miss Helldorado Rodeo and Miss Rodeo America.
Maria Judith Remenyi, a 21 year old Miss California from El Cerrito, won the Miss USA crown in Miami Beach. She emigrated from Hungary after 1956 and is a UC Berkeley physics junior and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory assistant.
Communist guerrillas mined a South Vietnamese marine camp near Saigon, killing three soldiers and wounding over two others. U S Army helicopters in a separate valley campaign known as Operation Crazy Horse killed at least 24 Viet Cong as a Look magazine correspondent was killed by mortar shrapnel.
Mostly sunny weather with gentle breezes. Today's high reaches 95 degrees and overnight low 65. Noontime humidity at 9 percent, sunrise at 5 30, sunset at 7 45.
Marilyn Chayra a Tropicana Hotel cocktail waitress with her son Carey and neighbor’s boy Mike Stweir saw a unidentified flying object at about 9 45 p m Friday near Robert C Gibson school playground It flickered bright orange yellow appeared street lamp sized and moved toward the car frightening the group before they fled with two dogs and two other kids following the incident.
A CCCTA spokesman argues Senate Bill 14 would strip local districts of financial control by capping budget spending on certified teacher salaries at 65 percent and limiting per pupil expenditures. Charles Fleming says the measure centralizes control, with Southern Nevada education issues misunderstood outside Clark County.
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