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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1964
Page
1
A local newspaper criticizes the city for delaying traffic signs in school zones. After a SUN survey found mixed sign designs and placements, the city corrected the issue, moving signs to the required 20 feet from crosswalks and highlighting prior unmarked crossings.
In a Chicago address Barry Goldwater argued the Supreme Court failed to exercise restraint in school prayer and reapportionment cases and called the court least faithful to constitutional limits. He warned of a powerful executive and urged belief that polls misjudge his campaign despite trailing President Johnson.
A bomb threat at the end of the first fall week led to a full school lockdown and evacuation. Superintendent Leland Newcomer said make up classes would be on the next available Saturday. Fire Chief C D Williams ordered closure and officers searched all buildings. no device found. Police maintained street closures until 1 pm. Juvenile Sgt. Bill Regland noted heightened weekend patrols and linked the scare to a recent white versus Negro student confrontation that left two injured and under police questioning.
A 4.7 million federal tax lien was filed yesterday in Clark County by the Internal Revenue Service against Nelson Blume Julius Silverman and Meyer Schwartz. The lien covers excise wagering taxes from October 18 1956 to April 30 1958 and originated in Baltimore Maryland with a duplicate filing in Washington DC listing street addresses. A Las Vegas contact said he had never heard of the men.
On day two of the strike at Jackass Flats the TWA awaits word on sanctions from the Las Vegas Building and Construction Trades Council and the Central Labor Council. An AEC spokesman clarifies that the Ching Panel is not an AEC agency but operates as the Atomic Energy Labor Management Relations Panel established by President Eisenhower and exists separately.
A man calling himself The King wearing a toy crown shot and killed Walter Patrick Matthys, 21, a rookie officer in Baltimore. Police seized the suspect after a scuffle, noting the assailant claimed the name King Cleaver Duprey James III and refused to discuss his motive.
Clear weather with gentle winds and a forecast high near 87. Today’s low and yesterday’s high were 66. Noontime humidity at 13 percent. Sunrise at 6 21 and sunset at 6 53.
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