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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1964
Page
7
James Meredith was assured a promised fellowship at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria after a two month delay. Nigerian Education Ministry official D Ugwu said the circumstances surrounding the delay had been clarified.
Police said they arrested the man who masterminded the Communis propaganda kidnapping of Lt. Col. Michael Smolen and four other gang members in Faracas Venezuela. They did not reveal his name and a police spokesman called it closing the case.
Two Ecumenical Cornet bishops proposed social security programs to shield priests from poverty in old age. Bishops Ernesto Cirripio of Tampico Mexico and Marcello Gonzales of Astorastorga Spain outlined the idea at Vatican City, urging reforms within the church system.
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI plans a trip to India for the Eucharistic Congress in Bombay next month despite objections from close aides. The trip would mark a major international papal visit with potential broad implications for Catholic outreach in Asia.
Authoritative sources say the 17 member High National Council has drawn up a provisional constitution for South Viet Nam but has not decided who should head the new government. The council plans to unveil the charter once a chief of state is chosen.
Nevada gamblers won 70.9 million during the spring tourist period, a 16 percent rise from 1963, with Clark County totaling 39.7 million and Esmeralda County posting a 64 percent gain. The state tax take reached 3.4 million, up 478237 from last year, as 12 counties posted increases and five showed declines.
Isbell struck the lower Florida Keys with 125 mph winds and flooding tides driving fishermen and Native residents to higher ground in the Everglades region. The storm battered coastal settlements and prompted emergency measures across the swamp country.
UPI reports U.S. production hit a record annual rate of 627.5 billion dollars in the July to September quarter, up 8.9 billion from a year earlier though below the gains of prior quarters. The Commerce Department released the figures, detailing broad gains across farms and factories.
A wealthy Illinois real estate man Thomas Roxworthy 62 of Barrington is held in Cook County jail in the fatal stabbing of his wife Deborah Roxworthy 38. Detectives identified him after a prior assault charge in August and a recent flight from Barrington to Nevada amid marital difficulties. Deborah Roxworthy was treated and released from Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.
Rabbi Aaron S. Gold of Temple Beth Sholom returns to deliver his first sermon after a four week hospitalization. He was hospitalized in Los Angeles prior to Yom Kippur and will speak at 7:00 PM at the temple on Oakes Boulevard.
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