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A Nevada audit reveals details about university finances and tuition billing at the University of Nevada. The Las Vegas Sun has a full report on the audit findings and the feud between President Dr. Charles Armstrong and Assemblyman Chet Christensen. Tuition for Speaker of the Assembly residents is alleged to have been charged as fees, with other entrance requirements scrutinized.
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Sun
Las Vegas Sun
Charles Armstrong
Chet Christensen
Sparks
Nevada
Frank Garside a Nevada newspaper pioneer remembered
The obituary profiles Frank Garside who lived 78 years with 58 in Nevada. A journeyman printer in 1905 he built 12 Nevada newspapers including the Las Vegas Review-Journal purchased in 1926. He valued truth and knowledge over wealth and mentored in mining towns.
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Frank
Tonopah
Nevada
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Clark County
Nellis Airman jailed after hit and run deaths at base gate
Airman Second Class Steve A. Sparks, 19, was jailed on felony hit and run and possible involuntary manslaughter charges after two separate early morning accidents near the Nellis Air Force Base main gate. Passenger John G. Pantoja, 22, died when dragged under Sparks car. Airman Francis J. Pianalto, 20, injured. Investigators noted the two crashes occurred about 12:40 am on Highway 91, 500 feet apart.
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Steve A. Sparks
Sparks
John G. Pantoja
Pantoja
Bloy
Ariz
Spark
Francis J. Pianalto
Investi
Kennedy appeals to Ole Miss rioters to end integration clash
President Kennedy urged rioting University of Mississippi students to obey the law and close the Meredith integration case quietly. Tear gas was used by US marshals as tensions escalated on campus while Kennedy framed the moment as a test of patriotism and integrity.
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Kennedy
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Harhway
U. S
Mississippi National Guard
Lyceum
British Newsman Dies in Rioting at Ole Miss
UPI reports a bloody campus riot at the University of Mississippi with students clashing with U.S. marshals last night. Five jeeploads of troops rolled onto the Oxford campus shortly before midnight.
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Oxford, Miss
Battle Geared Gls Ready To Invade Campus
About 1,700 battle-equipped soldiers backed by Marine helicopters stood at the Mississippi border awaiting orders to move onto the University of Mississippi campus. A second infantry group of about 1,000 men was en route to Millington Naval Air Station from Fort Benning. The force includes 1,400 military policemen from Fort Bragg and Fort Dix, flown in on C-130 transports. Brig. Gen. Charles Billingslea commands the force with a 200-strong headquarters. Arrival overwhelmed Navy facilities as about 1,000 troops occupied a gym.
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Memphis
N. J
Charles Billingslea
Chicago
Endowment to Honor Frank Garside at Nevada Southern
The NS Endowment will honor Frank F. Garside a longtime Nevada editor and former Las Vegas postmaster with a journalism shelf at Nevada Southern funded by widow Mary Garside. Garside died after two years of ill health at Sunrise Hospital Saturday night private funeral services will be held with Christian Science rites cremation at Mountain View Cremation San Bernardino.
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Frank F. Garside
Nevada
Las Vegas
Nevada Southern
Mary Garside
Garside
Sunrise Hospital
Hhis
Mountain View
San Bernardino
Calif
Palm Funeral Home
Schirra Orbit Mission Nears Launch at Cape Canaveral
Reliable sources say the Pentagon ordered speed in pickup as Air Force and Navy units scrambled for the honor of retrieving Schirra after an extra hour at sea. Preparations for the six orbit Sigma 7 flight continued at Cape Canaveral with Schirra moved into hangar S for a three day preflight stay.
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Air Force
Navy
Scot
Carpenter
Atlantic Ocean
Schirra
Cape Canaveral
Moonshining Cops Running Nation's Stills
Nashville Tennessee UPI reports federal agents say moonshine operations in the southwest have been taken from "country boys" by law officers and businessmen. Grand jury indictments are said to involve police chiefs patrolmen sheriffs state revenue agents and businesspeople.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Southwest
Country Boys
Robert Miller
U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
Southeast
Kennedy Home hold talks on Cuba and Berlin crisis
Kennedy and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home met at the White House for a two hour lunch conference. They stressed the seriousness of developments in Cuba and agreed on blocking Communist expansion. They also endorsed a firm Western stand on Berlin and Congo issues.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Lord Home
Cuba
Caribbean
Berlin
White House
Congo
Nikita Hopes Kennedy Will Visit Russia
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev voiced an informal hope that President Kennedy might visit Russia, telling Interior Secretary Stewart Udall during Udall's visit. No date was given and the remark was not a formal invitation.
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Nikita
Kennedy
Russia
Washington
Khrushchev
Stewart Udall
Soviet Union
Tule Springs Dig Begins Today Near Las Vegas
Archaeologists launch what may be the era’s most important Western Hemisphere dig at Tule Springs north west of Las Vegas. Dr Richard Shutler Jr says a four month project aims to find human bones and tools proving habitation 30 000 years ago costing about 300000 dollars with a 42000 dollar Nevada Sciences Foundation grant.
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Western Hemisphere
Tule Springs
Las Vegas
Richard Shutler Jr
Nevada State Museum
Tule
the Sun
Shutler
Thunderbird
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