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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1969
Page
2
A suburban Washington tale opens with a husband's oil pan repair getting messy. The wife shops as he lies under the car. a neighbor's beer swap leads to a mishap sending the man to hospital. The SUN promotes its beef cooking school at Stardust and ends with Ruthe D. signoff.
Las Vegas Fire Department leads a community program October 5 to 11 to curb unsafe containers storing combustibles. Chief Inspector L. K. McFarland says inspections target schools hospitals and commercial buildings with home checks by request. Non fire resistant containers will bear bright red warning stickers and residents are urged to use fire safe galvanized steel cans with tight lids.
Mercury resident William E. Kelley received the 100-hour Walking Club patch from Fitness For Living magazine. The award supports the magazine’s campaign to boost physical activity nationwide.
In Essen authorities abandoned hope for the three miners still trapped after last Thursday’s collapse at the Emil Fritz mine of Hoesch Co. Five miners were rescued after 81 hours in the same incident.
Sen. Claiborne Peel urged the administration to declare it will add no more germ warfare weapons to the national stockpile. He called the move an appropriate response to Soviet demands for a ban on development production and stockpiling of such arms.
The Treasury Department canceled the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina license to operate in the United States in retaliation for the closing of UPI and AP bureaus in Havana. An all night vigil outside the Russian Embassy protested alleged anti Semitism in the Soviet Union. Polish President Marian Spychalski arrived in Algiers for talks with President Houari Boumedienne.
Parents confront a narcotic nightmare with teens shown to seek quick escapes via LSD and marijuana. Evidence warns of temporary psychosis and possible chromosomal harm, while laws punish possession. The piece urges factual discussion, signs of use, and clear parental choices to guide youths away from drugs.
Sunrise Manor records show an overnight low near 36 degrees and the Las Vegas Valley enjoying pleasant, sunny days with a forecast of 80 to 50 and a slight warming trend below normal. Brisk north winds cooled recent heat, breaking October records, as residents prepare for early-season cold and reactivating winter wardrobes.
The highest temperature yesterday, excluding Hawaii and Alaska, reached 92 degrees at Shreveport. The lowest reading today was 15 degrees at Alamosa, Colorado.
Paris hosts folk festivals balls pageants fairs and street dances to mark two centuries since Napoleon Bonaparte birth The Little Corporal is still ranked first among France military figures Napoleon predicted such praise would come despite critics While in exile on St Helena he wrote that memory rests on facts that words cannot destroy He will endure and be praised.
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