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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1964
Page
2
Bank of Las Vegas launches Sunrise branch at 2595 East Fremont with early opening at 4 am and breakfast. Customers receive travel gift or alarm track offers, a free family portrait, balloons for kids, and entry into a grand prize trip to Mexico City. Grand opening runs next Saturday to October 2nd, Paul Woods leads Sunrise branch.
A listing describes retail spaces in a well situated shopping center at 1430 F Charleston. It notes the builder and provides contact phone 384 3992 for inquiries about division options suitable for multiple tenants.
Census Bureau reports last week show a small seasonal decline in retail sales, concentrated in durable goods, leaving overall sales 7 percent below the level of the previous year. The figures reflect a modest weakening in consumer demand during the period.
A Japanese student plans a two month U S visit via Las Vegas and Cleveland. He seeks a Las Vegas family to host him and a friend for a month while they tour the country. They depart Japan in April or May and have limited funds due to a government ceiling on funds to take abroad. Names and addresses will be provided if interested.
A section of hotel roof sheet metal blew onto high tension wires causing a short circuit to flash to a transformer and ignite a fire. Fire crews answered after 2 15 p m and contained the blaze in about an hour. no injuries were reported and traffic moved normally despite a citywide power outage.
The article details a 1964 school boycott across districts with about 100000 or more absentees on opening day. White parent groups criticized busing plans for integrating schools while Negro leaders had earlier boycotts citing too little action. Frederick M. Reuss Jr. questioned board figures as inflated.
Four people died when a small plane exploded after a full fuel load and extra wing tanks caused a fire scattering debris across rugged terrain. Officials tentatively identified one victim as Bird by matching the tail numbers to FAA records in California. A blue and white Navion with similar registration was linked, and a car believed to belong to Bird remained at Long Beach Airport.
The Stardust transaction sees Kopf at 2.5 percent and Mandotte at 1 percent, McGinty at 6.1 percent, with Rothkopf Kaye and McGinty as other sellers. Only the casino operations of both hotels are involved in the ownership transfers.
The United States charged that Communist border guards endangered American soldiers and West Berliners when they fired on a refugee at the Berlin Wall. Five U.S. MPs helped the wounded man reach the American sector amid a gunbattle, the most serious incident since the wall’s construction.
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