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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1968
Page
2
A speaker urges immediate cessation of U S involvement in Vietnam, arguing the war must end now. If President Johnson cannot secure peace, he should resign for humanity's sake, to spare more young American and Vietnamese lives. The writer says the dead cannot be recalled and the madness shocks mankind.
City commissioners meet at 1 30 p m to open bids on the West Charleston Boulevard reconstruction project from Upland Boulevard to Highland. An addendum on manhole work caused a second delay. A bid decision and a licensure dispute over Escorts Inc and an escort bureau license are on the agenda as is an appeal by the Shoe Shine Co of Los Angeles against denying coin operated machines on city streets. Mayor Grayson is absent. Philip M Mirabelli acts as mayor pro tem.
In the Eighth Judicial District Court Clark County Nevada case A58171 IRMA MARIE BARDEN seeks probate of Audrey Irma Lee deceased and appointment as Administratrix With Will Annexed hearing set for October 2 1968 at 10 00 AM at Las Vegas Court House all interested persons must appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate and the petitioner appointed.
Washington Senator Alan Bible introduced legislation to protect federal highway construction funds from a $6 billion spending cut. He argued the administration’s actions turned the highway fund into a fickle resource and used the reduction order to justify further withholdings.
A Las Vegas water main break caused flooding around Strong and Keelan Streets after bulldozers working on caliche allegedly loosened the line. City officials blamed the water district for improper depth. the district disputed the claim, citing tough caliche and bulldozing, with repairs expected soon.
Tex Gates Sr aged 62, longtime Las Vegas resident and horse owner, died of a heart attack yesterday. He owned several horse corrals including ones at the Last Frontier on the Strip Mt. Charleston and Twin Lakes, and the Islander Bar at 7100 Las Vegas Blvd South. A stagecoach driver in films and former feed and grain business owner, he resided in a trailer behind his building. Funeral arrangements are pending at Bunker Brothers Mortuary.
Shelton Martin, 28, of New Orleans was placed on three years probation after a District Court sentenced him to ten years for taking $200 from a Western Union office. The judge suspended the sentence and placed Martin on probation, citing his financial need to get home.
A routine traffic stop yesterday led to the arrest of James Hoover 22 of Long Beach California and Duane F Washbeck of Colorado Springs Colorado on charges of grand theft auto possession of dangerous drugs and possession of marijuana Deputies booked them at the county jail.
New York City teachers strike lingers as Ocean Hill Brownsville administrator Rhody A McCoy rejects taking back 100 unwanted teachers. Superintendent Bernard E Donovan says the stance is grave and he will consider next steps while the union leader had approved earlier.
Four incumbent Democrats Edward Boland Torbert MacDonald Philip Philbin and Harold Donohue won renomination in Massachusetts. Boland defeated Charles Ryan while MacDonald a Harvard roommate of JFK outpaced John Elder Philbin the Armed Services member beat three rivals and Donohue sided with a dovish view defeating Worcester Mayor Casdin. Edmund Dinis led in a three way race for the 10th District. On the Republican side Laurence Curtis led Malcolm Peabody Jr. in the 3rd District but Peabody conceded. Abbott won the GOP nomination in the 7th District.
John Jarboe, 28, won the Democratic congressional runoff, carrying both counties in the First District, and will meet incumbent Page Belcher in November. In London, diplomats said the Soviet Union warned Romania and Yugoslavia to stop criticizing the Czechoslovak invasion or face serious consequences, with no disclosed actions planned.
Los Angeles guardians petition filed by Barbara Ann Rooney's parents for guardianship of their four grandchildren Kelly 8 Kerry 7 Kyle 6 and Kimmie 5 after the death of Barbara Ann Rooney on January 36 1966. Milos Milo sevice 25 a Yugoslav actor killed himself following the incident. The children have lived with Don Thomason and his wife of Inglewood California since.
A gunman wearing a turquoise turtle neck sweater robbed an Orange Julius drink stand on the Strip of more than $180 last night at about 7 45 p.m. Deputies reported no arrests by SUN presstime.
Gov Paul Laxalt will chair a highway safety conference in Las Vegas on Oct 17. He cited a 29 percent rise in traffic injuries in the first eight months of 1968 and an increase in deaths from 130 to 155. The event aims to explain the National Highway Safety Act of 1966 and outline steps to improve highway safety.
Justice of the Peace Joe Pawlikowski ruled on whether a wife can be ordered to testify against her husband and moved to test the statute's constitutionality in District Court. The case involves Charles Sagmoen, 31, accused of beating to death 2 year old Illya Lyn Stenson, child of his wife Victoria Sagmoen. Assistant District Attorney Ray Jeffers argued privileges do not apply in child abuse cases.
Mikhail A. Leshko, Soviet deputy premier and planning expert, arrives in Prague for a surprise visit and meets with liberal leaders of Czechoslovakia. Parliament swears in 94 judges for rehabilitation courts, enacting a reform to shield victims of Stalinist trials and ease tensions after the Soviet invasion. Soviet and CTK sources note retreat of troops to forestry lines to protect currency shipments and crossings.
In Lisbon Premier Antonio Salazar, ruler for 36 years, received last rites as he battles a brain stroke. A bulletin reports some improvement. doctors performed a tracheotomy and moved him from an oxygen tent to an iron lung, amid ongoing tests.
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