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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1968
Page
1
United States sources report President Johnson hopes to announce a complete bombing cessation in North Vietnam. A key snag remains over a formula detail as Hanoi demands assurances before full peace negotiations. The breakthrough could still collapse if the disputed point cannot be resolved.
At 7 15 a.m. the Sahara Invitational Golf Tournament opened at Paradise Valley County Club. The $122 222 22 purse drew 165 top professionals for a $20 000 first prize, as winds and course conditions shaped the three day event.
At the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York Johnson hosted the first campaign gathering with Hubert H. Humphrey and Richard M. Nixon. The trio appeared in white ties at the Waldorf Astoria before about 2,500 guests.
A Clark County Justice Court clerk her boyfriend and a California fugitive were arrested for narcotics possession after police broke up a major LSD factory. Diane Ellingham, 21, was booked at the city jail after authorities alleged the operation ran from her apartment at 108 North Jones Boulevard.
Wells Cargo Inc received a $1,143,408 city contract from the Las Vegas City Commission for street widening and curb and gutter work along West Charleston Boulevard between Upland Boulevard and Highland Drive. An $8,150 award to A.A.A. Waterworks covered fire hydrants and related installations on the same boulevard. The contracts complete the fourth unit of the West Charleston reconstruction project.
Police arrested 24 year old Robert Joslyn and 26 year old Gilbert Dart of Los Angeles after a tip from California narcotics agents. Dart is a California fugitive sought for narcotics violations. Ellingham, a clerk in Judge Pawlikowski's court, had worked at the building and was taken into custody with the two suspects through a warrant arranged to avoid tipping her off.
Police say four Las Vegas teenagers were arrested in a motel room on the Strip after confessing to at least ten and possibly twelve burglaries. Loot from the break-ins was seized in the room. Two of the suspects are 16 and 17 years old.
Two juvenile females aged 15 were booked on multiple burglary counts at Juvenile Hall after a 6 pm arrest. Detectives work to match confiscated goods with items reported stolen.
Clark County schools must operate under an adopted workable integration plan by April 10 1969 per a noon order from U S District Judge Bruce Thompson. The action arose from a suit by Charles Kellar NAACP Las Vegas president alleging de facto segregation in six West Las Vegas elementary schools. The judge also dismissed a second count freeing $59.5 million in school construction bonds.
Reno judge says Clark County schools show de facto segregation and urges faster action under the 1954 law. He notes unresolved federal court questions about local school powers while stressing end to segregation. In another item police report, four teens confessed to four burglaries over the past four days in the south and west areas. $400 cash, radios, watches, jewelry and several handguns were recovered from a single shared room. the oldest suspect also faces narcotic sale warrants.
Sunny today with gentle winds and a high near 78 degrees. Overnight low around 50 degrees with noontime humidity at 19 percent. Sunrise is 6 49 and sunset at 6 03.
Apollo 7 nears midway through its 11 day mission with 75 percent of its tests completed and a predicted surge toward the moon. Astronauts Walter Schirra Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham report issues with high calorie space food as the craft passes over Hurricane Gladys near Cuba and performs rocket bursts to test thrust.
Gen Curtis LeMay arrived in Saigon on a fact finding mission for the Wallace Wallace third party ticket. He avoided news conferences and refused questions, prompting an assault on CBS cameraman Willis Brown as LeMay met Gen Creighton Abrams and Samuel Berger at the U.S. military headquarters.
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