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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1962
Page
5
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At Hot Springs Virginia the Business Council opened with a forecast of a small first quarter dip in 1963. Frederick Kappel of American Telephone and Telegraph led the session with a prediction that economic activity would peak by year end 1962 and slip in early 1963. Government and corporate economists expect only a minor decline and call for a broad tax cut next year.
Los Angeles officials and UCLA researcher Pau Bullock testified before a state Assembly Subcommittee that minority students are often encouraged to leave schools by sympathetic officials. The study calls these students kick-outs, not dropouts, and criticizes the Board of Education for not addressing underlying factors behind high dropout rates. One student recounted a vice principal transferring him due to personal bias. Bullock argues transfers shift responsibility and push students to exit when legal age is reached.
A brief note urges readers to support cancer efforts by donating and attending fundraising events. The message emphasizes giving financial support and participating in activities to combat cancer.
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, is back in her Manhattan apartment to finish recovering from a lung infection. She was discharged from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital after treatment and will continue care at home with only family visitors allowed.
Eight year old Lola Lucas of St Louis opened the National Muscular Dystrophy fund drive by kissing Health Secretary Celebrezze in his office. Lola was named MD poster girl for the second year running and rolled her wheelchair to Celebrezze to formally launch the campaign.
A Bristol youths group minibus carrying teenagers and parents crashed with a truck on the Bristol Gloucester Road near the River Severn in heavy fog. Eleven of twelve aboard were killed and several others injured as cars and another bus crashed amid the wreckage. Civil Defense workers aided the injured while police and ambulance teams responded to what was described as Britain s worst highway accident.
Milwaukee event marks the first biennial convention of the American Lutheran Church since its 1940 merger. More than 2,000 delegates attend a Holy Communion service as Rev Dr Kenneth Priebe is named executive assistant to the president. Debates over federal funds for church agencies arise in committee but no decision yet.
President Charles de Gaulle warned in a live address that he will resign if the referendum on a constitutional change fails or yields only a weak majority. He seeks a national vote on replacing a 50 000 notables college with nationwide election of successors and faces strong opposition from other parties. The parliamentary crisis followed Pompidou’s ouster and new elections were scheduled for November.
President Kennedy announced in a White House communique that the United States is willing to help Libya’s development by appropriate means. Crown Prince Hasan Al-Rida Al-Sanusi said results of the talks will soon be evident, but informed sources indicated no commitments were sought or granted on specific projects.
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