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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1969
Page
2
The Las Vegas Service League, active since 1946, raises funds for community projects including hospitals libraries and youth programs. Proceeds from the 1970 Auto Rama at the International will establish the Volunteer Bureau of Clark County to connect volunteers with health welfare education recreation and cultural programs.
Public notices call for sealed bids in Las Vegas and Clark County Nevada. The Board of Health invites bids for a Pick Up Truck and other equipment. the Housing Authority seeks bids for a sprinkler irrigation system. Deadlines span Oct 1967 to Nov 1967, with required bonds and licensed contractors.
UPI reports the nation's top temperature for the day excluding Hawaii and Alaska reached 89 degrees at Ovaldo Florida. The prior night’s low fell to 10 degrees in Laramie Wyoming as part of a 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m. Temperatures and precipitation details follow.
The 120 foot Vietnam War memorial tower in Lake Charles serves as home to 9,280 purple martins. Featured as the world’s largest birdhouse, the structure is noted by the Louisiana Tourist Commission.
Israeli jets hit Egyptian Jordanian and Arab guerrilla positions on both eastern and western fronts. Egypt said its planes fought two dogfights near Suez Canal and shot one down. In Beirut rockets damaged PLO HQ and wounded ten, with blame exchanged between the PLO and Israel.
In Seoul President Park Chung Hee faces a national referendum on constitutional revision that would allow a third four year term in 1971. Park, citing Korea's stability, predicts approval and has pledged to resign if the amendments fail.
Swedish Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson will meet U S Secretary of State William Rogers in New York on October 20 to discuss relations between the two nations. Nilsson arrived in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly and the Rogers meeting is the key item of his trip amid strained ties after Nilsson announced $40 million in aid and loans for North Vietnam.
In Gabon sources say Biafra's Gen Ojukwu agreed to negotiate with Federal Nigeria under the condition that the existing truce be respected during talks. The stance was conveyed in a letter to Gabon President Bongo.
Three American scientists won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries on virus replication and genetics. Max Delbrück of Caltech, Alfred Hershey of Cold Spring Harbor, and Salvador Luria of MIT shared the award worth 75 000 dollars for work laying the foundation for virology and studies of diseases like rabies measles and the common cold.
The Country Doctor Museum near Bailey North Carolina houses medical antiques from 18th and 19th century practitioners.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk reported 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops occupy seven Cambodian border provinces. He urged leftist deputies to return to the nation and unite against enemies, and Cambodia may renew diplomatic ties with Thailand if frontier terms are agreed. The news agency cited six Cambodian deaths from a October 6 bombing and another from machine gun fire.
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