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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1976
Page
6
Debbie Gobbs testifies that John Davies cried he did not want to join the Sundowners before dying of alcohol overdose during a club initiation in Reno. Davies family sues Sundowners members for wrongful death and negligence.
Princeton University physics student John A. Phillips, 21, says anyone with a physics background can produce a fission bomb using available information. His model would be about one third as powerful as Hiroshima's device, illustrating that terrorists could replicate such a design.
In Rome the liberal Com Nuovi Tempi quotes Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez saying Chile is under a dictatorship of the Nazi type. He argues the 1973 military takeover curbed parliamentary life and brought intolerable conditions across Latin America.
After the overthrow of Thailand’s civilian government, the military junta seized over a million subversive books and documents and arrested more than 3,000 people, mostly youths, in three days. Raids targeted bookstores and seized items included portraits of Mao and Marx.
Los Angeles osteopath Dr. Joseph Emory and family members face murder charges tied to infant deaths at two unlicensed clinics. The trial is set for December 10, with Emory, his wife Harriett, son Alan, and aide Jose Vargas facing multiple counts plus conspiracy and child endangering allegations. The clinics served mainly Mexican‑American women in Highland Park and Lakeview Terrace.
Dr. Adrianis Kalmijn of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution explains sharks use highly sensitive electrical antennae in their noses to sense the weak electric fields of prey. The discovery, shared at Science Day, shows sharks track hidden fish by electrical means.
Land promoter Ned Warren faces 20 counts of grand theft in Maricopa County after a grand jury indictment replacing a prior complaint filed by the county attorney. He is to be arraigned in Superior Court on October 15 and remains free on a $50,000 bond. The charges stem from misrepresenting land in Yavapai County sold to a Japanese company and later to U.S. servicemen overseas. The Arizona Supreme Court scheduled a Tuesday hearing on the county attorney's protest of a judge reducing Warren's bond from $77,000 to $50,000.
UPI reports President Ford billed the government 153 145 for his Yellowstone National Park appearance on August 29 and reimbursed citizens for his own expenses after calling it political. Columnists Jack Cloherty and Bob Wens note the trip involved at least 125 officials from Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe to clerks, sent to Yellowstone.
The Metro police substation at 6208 Hargrove opened Sept 5 and serves western Las Vegas with 55 officers and three secretaries. It operates seven days a week from 8 am to midnight and aims to speed up reporting of crimes while strengthening local ties. The project, fostered by Sheriff Ralph Lamb and city commissioner Ron Lurie, emphasizes the walk and talk approach to build trust with residents and businesses.
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