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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1964
Page
2
A bank ad claims easy auto loans and friendly loan departments across seven branches. It highlights a shopper who buys new cars yearly and features model year jokes, selling a 1965 model sight unseen while touting 1985 model banking.
The Teamsters picketed wholesale and retail food plants amid a broadening strike affecting Safeway, Van's, Food Gram, and Stater Bros. Pickets halted movement of perishable goods after an initial allowance of over $100,000 in perishables. San Fernando Valley actions began at midnight September 15 with protests denying a lockout, while San Diego remained unaffected.
Las Vegas column recounts social friction with the hotel scene and courtesy at the top. It comments on advertising in the John Birch Society supplement and Goldwater stamps, notes Governor Sawyer’s campaign role, and mentions Sam Melchionne’s Sahara opening and Don the Beachcomber’s invites. The piece ends with a light jab about a reader and Ruthe Deskin.
An anonymous call to West Berlin city council prompted evacuation of the building. Mayor Willy Brandt and a few staff stayed behind. Police searched 370 rooms for over an hour and found no bomb.
Amid legal fights over integration Maddox reopened the Pickrick style cafe with a highway ad and faced a civil rights protest. A group from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference confronted Maddox as he barred demonstrators, shoving them aside at the doorway.
Thieves looted a store and the First National Bank at East Charleston and Fifteenth Street, netting about $40,000 in luxury furs and $6,024 in receipts. Two men seized a metal box from a teller after closing time, fled in a stolen car, then disappeared as a city-wide alert failed to locate them.
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