Tennessee teacher reports torture by Dixie police
Eric Weinberger a 30 year old white teacher testified at a panel that Brownsville police tortured him with high voltage shocks and wrist clamps while aiding evicted Negro sharecroppers. He described beatings in jail with deputies present and threats in several Southern states as civil rights work continued.
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Washington
UPI
Brownsville
Tenn
Eric Weinberger
Nor
Conn
Tip Hunter
Mrg
Eleanor Roosevelt
Norman Thomas
Weinberger
Thomas
Socialist Party
Congress of Racial
SAC Tests Reservists at McCarran Field This Weekend
Strategic Air Command will test the 9626th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron at McCarran Field in a weekend drill. A SAC B 47 jet bomber will simulate a nuclear mission, land at the field, and recovery operations will be scored by a team of Air Force officers.
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Strategic Air Command
9626Th Air Force Reserve
McCarran Field
SAC
United States
Air Force
Riddle of the Dunes and Chamber of Commerce luncheon notes
A reminiscence recounts a Las Vegas Chamber luncheon at Nellis Air Base with Ben Jaffe’s Tropicana Golf Course ties, clashes with Uncle Sam income questions, and Major Robert White’s absence. The narrator pitches TV ads to Art Marshall and Herb Russo, while Gen Boyd Hubbard discusses multi‑million dollar base investments and Tony Malik probes the deal.
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Riddle
Ben
Las Vegas
Reno
Chamber
Nellis
Chamber of Commerce
Robert White
Air Force
Art Marshall
Herb Russo
Sara
Jack la Lanne
Boyd Hubbard
Major White
Tony
Harry Houser
Mark Your Tools New York Garden Tips
UPI advises marking garden tool handles with a distinctive color and contrasting initials to remind borrowers tools are on loan. For wooden handles a hard wearing enamel finish is recommended.
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New York
UPI
obituary for Earl Albert Mason WWII veteran
Rosary will be recited tomorrow evening for Earl Albert Mason 51 at Palm Chapel and a funeral mass planned at St Ann's Catholic Church Monday at 9 a.m. Officiating Father Joseph Baldus. Burial in Palm Mausoleum. Mason died yesterday at Sunrise Hospital born June 10 1910 in Greeley Colorado. He lived nine years at 2630 Sherwood. Survived by wife Catherine parents Herbert and Mrs Mason Cald well Idaho a brother Herbert Mason Los Angeles and sister Mrs Neva Murche Olympia Washington.
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Earl Albert Mason
Palm Chapel
St. Ann's Catholic Church
Joseph Baldus
Palm Mausoleum
Mr. Mason
Sunrise Hospital
Greeley
Colo
Sherwood
Catherine
Herbert Mason
Caldwell
Idaho
Los Angeles
Neva Murche
Olympia
Wash
Cremation Rites Planned for Mary Wesbberry in California
Mary Wesbberry aged 84 died May 18 at El Jen Medical Hospital. Born November 22 1877 in New Orleans she had lived in Las Vegas since 1933. Survived by son Frank Irvine of Hermosa Beach. Palm Mortuary handling arrangements in San Bernardino California.
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Mary Wesbberry
San Bernardino
Calif
Westberry
el Jen Medical Hospital
New Orleans
Las Vegas
Frank Irvine
Hermosa Beach
Palm Mortuary
Death of Deva lin Lloyd Luttig Infant Dies in Las Vegas
Funeral services for three week old Deva lin Lloyd Luttig are set for today at Palm Chapel at 2 pm. The infant born April 28, 1962 in Las Vegas died Wednesday. Survived by parents Duane and wife, great grandmothers Lyda Gnakau in Los Angeles and Julia Sharp and Mary Calonge in Ashton Idaho, paternal grandmother Carl Luttig of Las Vegas, maternal grandparents Alden and wife in Las Vegas.
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Devalin Lloyd Luttig
Palm Chapel
Luttig
Las Vegas
Duane Luttig
Lyda Gnakau
Los Angeles
Julia Sharp
Mary Calonge
Ashton
Idaho
Carl Luttig
Alden Sharp
Services for Ellis Aubrey Parker Observed at Bun ker Brothers
Funeral services for 53 year old Ellis Aubrey Parker held at Bun ker Brothers Chapel with Bishop Jack Purser officiating. Burial planned Monday at Wootlawn Cemetery. Parker died Monday at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. born September 2, 1908 in Oklahoma. He lived at 704 So Sixth St and worked as a waiter at the Horseshoe. Survived by mother Lucille Virden of Las Vegas. three sisters Opal Parker Mary Virden of Las Vegas and Goldie Mallory of Abilene Texas. two brothers Thomas Virden Seattle and James Virden Salina Kansas.
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Ellis Aubrey Parker
Bunker Brothers
Jack Purser
Wootlawn
Parker
San Francisco Memorial Hospital
Oklahoma
Sixth St
Lucille Virden
Las Vegas
Opal Parker
Mary Virden
Goldie Mallory
Abilene
Texas
Thomas Virden
Seattle
James Virden
Salina
Kansas
Funeral rites set for Ida Hawley in North Las Vegas
Funeral services for Ida Ida Elva Hawley 55 will be held Monday at 10 am at Bunker's Brothers Chapel with Bishop Paul Judd presiding Burial will follow at Mountain View Gardens of Memory She died Thursday at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital born March 25 1907 in Clarksville Arkansas has lived in North Las Vegas 20 years at 1922 Yale Street survived by son William Burton Hermosa Beach California two daughters Daisy Carson Boulder City Barbara Jones Las Vegas two brothers Stanton Winn Prescott Arizona John Winn Aurora Colorado three sisters Dolly Allison Mounds Oklahoma Dee Terry Prescott and Minnie Vance Las Vegas and eight grandchildren
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Ida Ida Elva Hawley
Bunker’ Brothers
Paul Judd
Mountain View Gardens
Hawley
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Clarksville
Ark
Yale St
North
Las Vegas
William Burton
Hermosa Beach
Calif
Daisy Carson
Boulder City
Barbara Jones
Stanton Winn
Prescott
Arizona
John Winn
Aurora
Colo
Dolly Allison
Mounds
Okla
Dee Terry
Minnie Vance
Stanford charters TE Vega as floating classroom at Monterey
Hopkins Marine Station acquires the 135-foot sailing schooner TE Vega under a long-term charter to serve as a floating classroom. NSF grants will finance conversion and outfitting for marine research. Three faculty members, twelve students and fifteen crew will operate on three one-week annual research cruises.
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Monterey
UPT
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University
National Science Foundndation
Stanford
German Judge in Weges To Study Procedures
Freiburg traffic judge Wolf Middendorff visits Las Vegas observing American courts. He notes Germany’s higher fatality and injury rates per 10 000 cars versus the U S and discusses licensing tests drunk driving handling and the lack of juries in German felony trials. He will lecture at USC before returning home to tackle highway carnage.
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Weges
West Germany
Wolf Middendorff
Freiburg
Baden
Bundesrepublic
Germany
Las Vegas
America
West
Middendorf
SUN
Black Forest
Middendorff
Boston
Los Angeles
University of Southern California
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N. 3Rd St
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Devalin Luttig
Ellis Parker
Ida Elva Hawley
Donald Dexter
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Duncan McCoy
Oran Grayson
Fletcher
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Marty Kutzen
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Eighth Judicial District
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