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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1968
Page
1
Freddie Little, Las Vegas boxing prospect, will challenge Sandro Mazzinghi for the junior middleweight world title in Rome on Oct. 25. The Las Vegas teacher and family man is praised as a model citizen and hopes to bring a world championship home.
The nationwide search for three county jail escapees intensified through the night. Convicted triple-slayer Terry Lynn Conger, Ronald D. Richardson, 25, and John F. Beattie, 37, fled from the jail early Sunday. All are armed, dangerous, and had prior escape records.
Mrs Mary Munerniyn of North Las Vegas was found dead in a kitchen with bullet wounds in back of head and arm. Ex-boyfriend Booker Payton was jailed for homicide hours later. Husband Leroy Munerniyn arrived home as authorities ruled out robbery. Apollo 7 crew gave live telecast from Houston as moon mission prep faced minor issues.
Air West will move part of its maintenance operations to Las Vegas by January, boosting local payroll to about 2 million dollars. The firm plans a new sub maintenance base three times the size of the current structure at the present Air West concourse.
The 90th Congress adjourned after a partisan year ending Johnson's five year tenure. Liberals dropped a bid for free TV time for debates among Humphrey Nixon and Wallace, declaring the measure dead. Johnson may reconvene to ratify a nuclear nonproliferation treaty if needed, else the 91st Congress convenes January 3 with elections to fill all House and Senate seats.
William C. Amic, 20, of Dallas, was in a parked car with friends in the 2000 block of Tonopah when he announced a Russian roulette joke. He discharged a single remaining shell and died from the self-inflicted gunshot, police report.
Three small cab firms Star Nellis and Strip cancel their Teamsters Local 881 contracts and seek new separate agreements amid confusion. The unions shifted from area wide to firm specific terms. Managers warn the proposed contract could crush small firms by restoring pre strike sizes. Negotiations remain murky without access to the Thursday signed deal with Yellow and Whittlesea Blue Cab companies.
Clark County's 65th Vietnam death, reported by the Department of Defense, lists S.Sgt. Charles J. Wallace of North Las Vegas as missing to dead non-hostile. He is identified as father of Jerry J. Wallace. Also named is Pfc Richard C. Griffith, husband of Dianne K. Griffith of Wells, Nevada, killed in action.
Twenty one Clark County men were admitted to Nevada law practice by the state supreme court. The group includes James Barfield John Berlinger James Brown Ted Embry Scotty Gladstone Aubrey Goldberg John Greenman Melvyn Harmon Morgan Harris Larry Johnson William Krajec James Marshall William McGimsey Kent Michaelson Lawrence Robertson Jr David Schreiber Frank Schreck J Leon Simon Tony Terry Richard Vogel and Richard Weisbart. They joined 49 others who passed the bar exam last month and will be sworn in in Carson City October 22 or Las Vegas October 23.
U S District Judge Bruce Thompson pressed Las Vegas NAACP president Charles Kellar and the district on integration efforts after first day of testimony. Principal Helen Anderson testified Kit Carson Elementary has 745 pupils with few white students and limited integration unless the district acts.
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and winds gusting 15 to 20 mph. Today the high reaches 75 and the low 55, after yesterday's 79 and 68. Noontime humidity 29 percent with sunrise at 6 47 and sunset at 6 05.
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