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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1962
Page
2
A SUN offer promotes Learn A Language with seven foreign languages including Spanish Russian German Italian Japanese and Hebrew. Customers can obtain language records and a language learning manual for seven coupons plus one dollar or seven coupons plus $1.25. Pickup is at the SUN Circulation Department 900 S Main St.
Roger Foley appointed by the President to a federal judgeship across the Ninth Circuit area. His Las Vegas family and attorney relatives react as Foley thanks President Kennedy and Senators Bible and Cannon. Foley’s resignation as attorney general prompts Governor Sawyer to name a replacement, likely his chief deputy John Porter.
The United Nations and the Philippine government signed an agreement for a $1.7 million project to upgrade telecommunications in the Philippines. UN will provide $1 million and the Philippines $700,000.
A report across locations notes a man injured in a Baja California vacation crash. Franklin Texas prepares to hear witnesses in a Billie Sol Estes case. Henry Marshall buried after exhumation and autopsy. Algeria’s OAS bombed schools amid a scorched earth warning. In Vietnam, US helicopters support a sweep near Saigon. In Seattle labor leaders clash over a 35 hour week while Laos sees rebel pressure on Saravane. California’s Nike Zeus antimissile test completes successfully.
Three pilots were killed when one F86F crashed and two others collided during air to air gunnery practice near Luke Air Force Base Arizona. Officials said two student pilots from Thailand were in the F86Fs and a rescue team reported both men dead after sighting one parachute.
Navy lieutenant commander John H Carpenter, returning to Cape Canaveral after a post mission briefing, overshot the planned landing during Project Mercury. Spokesman John A Powers cited a human error as he switched from manual to fly by wire control causing rapid fuel use. Carpenter floated in a life raft for 40 minutes before a Navy patrol plane spotted him.
Short classified ad offering 75 percent savings on U H A U free estimates and travel services with contact details. Includes personals lines about watch repair jewelry design and remounting old jewels to look like new.
The Nevada gambling tax since 1945 totals 66,686,236 over 16 years, about 30 million less than New York’s recent year. Nevada’s tax rate is 3.6 percent of total legalized gambling taxes, with estimates of 5 billion wagered in 1960 in Nevada and 1.37 billion bet taxed in New York for 1961. Other state revenues include Ohio, Maryland, Rhode Island, Michigan, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Delaware, Colorado, Arizona, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, Maine, Nebraska, South Dakota, and New Mexico sized by tax receipts.
Radically concise note on repair shop offering 24 hour service for cooling equipment. Mentions fixed price or contact channels BEAT THE HEAT DU 4-1414 or MI 2-5165. Describes cleaning, oiling, adjusting and re pairing of coolers in stalled condition.
The Sun pledges relentless scrutiny of public officials and land policy. It cites Ed Reid led successful reversals by exposing BLM rulings and vows further investigations into indictments, civil actions, and alleged land grabs to defend the public’s right to public lands.
A mob surged toward the American Consulate but was restrained by a cordon of 30 policemen in front of the building. Students then marched to the border crossing as American officials urged Mexican authorities to disperse them over saline irrigation water blamed for crop damage in Mexicali Valley.
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