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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1977
Page
2
This column catalogs brief local items and rumors about public figures, business news, bowling feats, and everyday quirks. Highlights include Bob Goodman’s new grandparent status, potential state jobs for former officials, a Diamond store opening in February, and Nevada insurance commissioner Dick Rottman’s drive against dropped policies.
Forecast calls for fair mild nights and mostly sunny days with light to moderate winds. Highs around 104 to 109 in the day, lows near mid 70s, with yesterday peaking at 108 and dipping to 74. Air quality index 39, considered fair. Sunrise at 6 17, sunset at 7 00.
Soviet customs police seized copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm ahead of the First International Book Fair. Publishers said the confiscations, part of a broader censorship push, involved American paperbacks and several other titles deemed objectionable.
State Department officials said Vietnam will return the remains of two Americans missing in action on Sept. 30. The men’s names were handed to U.S. officials in Paris in June and Vietnam said it would take 60 to 90 days to prepare, a delay deemed administrative. An American team will fly to Hanoi to receive, identify, and notify families before releasing names.
A dozen masked robbers ambushed a police escorted postal convoy near Sligo railway station and escaped with about $60,000 in cash and more than 300 mail sacks. Police said the heist occurred as the convoy moved from the station.
Cathy McCormick organized a large horse adoption trip through the Bureau of Land Management in Reno bringing 120 wild horses to midwestern adopters. The effort faced delays, lost applications, and transportation costs, with horses priced at about 92 dollars each and ownership remaining with the government. Despite setbacks, she plans to return next year to help more horses.
United Press International reports the Labor Day holiday traffic deaths totaled 469, below last year’s 526. Including 44 drownings and 12 plane crash deaths, total accidental deaths reached 525 from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. California led traffic deaths with 64, then Texas 33, Wisconsin 29, Ohio 26, New York 24, Illinois 21 and Colorado 20.
A Business International survey of 57 global cities shows Tokyo and Osaka as the most expensive, with New York at 19th. European cities in Stockholm Oslo and Zurich are pricey, while Buenos Aires remains cheapest. The report notes Tokyo shoppers pay far more for a basket of goods than Madrid, and dining costs vary widely from Stockholm to Lisbon.
The nuclear submarine USS Henry Clay test fired a Poseidon missile while submerged about 30 miles off the Florida east coast. It marked the first Poseidon test for the Henry Clay and the 66th Poseidon flight since 1968, with 46 launches from submerged submarines.
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