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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1963
Page
1
In Las Vegas the city mourns two beloved citizens Florence Walsh and Maje Sweeney. Florence, wife of Jack Walsh, and Maje, longtime Pioneer Title Insurance executive, died unexpectedly at 65. Friends recall their kindness and integrity as funeral services proceed, with Wade caution that life ends for all men.
Gov George Wallace ordered state troopers to block school integration in Tuskegee and moved them toward Birmingham for a new confrontation. He aims to trigger federal intervention to shift blame onto federal armed forces and bring federal troops or marshals to the scene.
Las Vegas furniture store owner Sid Sheppard on a safari in Portuguese East Africa says U S Air Force personnel were held at Beira air field in Mozambique by Portuguese authorities. He names Col McCusland and Major Khron among those aboard the plane, held overnight under Col G L Conde, with guards and restricted food. Return to Las Vegas planned around September 20.
A two hour riot at the Reidsville state prison near Reidsville Georgia sparked by an abortive escape left more than 2,000 inmates fighting guards. State troopers used tear gas and billy clubs to subdue rioters injuring ten guards and eighteen prisoners. Governor Sanders mobilized National Guard units as a precaution.
62 year old gambling figure Joseph Harris known as Doc Stacher, facing income tax evasion charges, was in Las Vegas over the weekend evading agents in a game of tag as the Sun reports learned yesterday.
Britain bars further assignment of bachelors to military attache posts behind the Iron Curtain to reduce risk of Communist blackmail. The policy targets single men first, with married personnel still affected later, amid heightened security over secret weapons and embassy work.
In Venice Italy ex Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia regains consciousness after a 36 hour coma following an apparent barbiturate overdose. She is reported out of danger and grateful to be well says she is happy.
CALEXICO Calif UPI The district attorney yesterday decided against any inquest or further investigation into the trick shot death of 15 year old Marilyn Ploof and said the shooting was purely accidental Milo Ploof 39 a former policeman shot his daughter at a fiesta when aiming at a balloon attached to her head He said the shot came from his left gun as part of a stunt to burst the balloons simultaneously
Charlayne Hunter, the first Black student admitted to the University of Georgia, secretly married Walter Stovall, son of a Douglas mill executive. The couple, living in Greenwich Village, expect a December baby and have ties to New York journalism and Atlanta publications.
Washington police report a thief stole the wardrobe of exotic dancers at the Gayety Burlesk, valued by manager Sam Goldburg at $3,000 but estimated at $475 by authorities. Performers improvised using homemade G strings and fringes as the show must go on.
The forecast notes mostly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers and gentle winds turning gusty near cells. Today's high reaches 98 and low 70. yesterday's high was 101. Noontime humidity near 17 percent with sunrise at 6 14 and sunset at 7 04.
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