Newspaper clipping, LV Citizens Join Hands for Israel Peace Day, Las Vegas Sun, June 10, 1967

LV C i t i z e n s J o i n H a n d s f o r Israel Peace Day All Nevadans who "want to show they stand shoulder to shoulder with this tiny free nation and support the embattled people of the State of Israel to show they do not stand alone" will rally together Monday at 8 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Sands Hotel. A Southern Nevada committee, joining others across the free world to raise $1 billion to support Israel in her quest for a just peace, announced the event last night as Oran Gragson, mayor of the City of Las Vegas, proclaimed Monday as "Israel Peace Day." Heading the arrangements committee are J. Kell Houssels Jr., A1 Benedict, Jack Entratter and H. M. Greenspun, chairman. The event will be open to everyone. A galaxy of the nation's brightest enter-tainment stars will join leading govern-ment officials and local citizens on the platform. Volunteers will include Nevada's Gov. Paul Laxalt, Lt. Gov. Ed Fike, Sen. Alan Bible, Sen. Howard Cannon, Rep. Walter Baring, Mayor Gragson, Pearl Bailey, Rouvaun, Danny Kaye, George Burns, Shecky Greene, Lainie Kazan, Liberace, Red Skelton, Louis Prima, Bob Fletcher, Billy Eckstine, Don Cornell, Juliet Prowse, Elaine Dunn, and Jim Backus. The American Federation of Musicians, Local 369, Jack C. Foy, president, will provide music. Speaker of the evening will be the Rev. Dr. Carl Herman Voss who has just re-turned from the beleaguered country. The Las Vegas meeting is one of sev-eral hundred taking place in every ma-jor city in the world. The committee said the purpose of the meetings is to "make it clear that never again shall any free people be faced with the threat of geno-cide." It was stressed that the events of the past few days are "not the end of the war for survival but only the first round." The "test," said the committee, will come when the great powers sit at the peace table to determine whether the territorial integrity of Israel will be se-cured for all time." Reports out of Israel indicate that the entire population between the age of 18 and 50 is fighting on four battle fronts against seven Arab countries which have sworn to murder every man, woman and child. With such a vast percentage of its citi-zenry on the fighting line, the economy is at a complete standstill. Many cities and villages are and have been without food or medical supplies, without doctors, nurses, teachers, oj any- (See PEACE, Page 6) 4S EGYPT HAILS NASSER TANK CLASHES SHATTER TRUCE tfr # -fr L a ^ V e g a s m g " Q " P J FINAL SOUTHERN NEVADA'S ONLY HOME-OWNED DAILY NEWSPAPER ^ S m A f \ P l l ^ r ^ ^ ^ h A L ^ H VOL, 17 NO, 342 PHONE CIRCULATION 382=3078, NEWS 385-3111 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1967 10 CENTS THIRTY-TWO PASES United Press International President Gamal Abdel Nasser said he was quitting in the face of the hu-miliating Israeli victory in the Mideast War, but Egypt's National Assembly rejected the resignation yesterday. Wild pro-Nasser demonstrations swept Egypt and bitter fighting was reported in Syria despite cease-fire agreements. The Soviet Union and six of its Com-munist allies in Europe issued an ul- ? ? 3 * H j?I? 'Peace Day' For Israel On Monday (Continued from Page I) one to care for the farms, stores, and other institutions which enable a coun-try to live. The tiny state's supporters are con-vinced that President Nasser of Egypt planned to annihilate Israel and her democratic institutions of culture and learning, and then hand over the entire Middle East to the USSR, leaving Nasser as the USSR's dummy leader of the en-tire Arab world. Mayor Gragson in his proclamation de-clared, in part, "All freedom-loving peo-ple the world over recognize that the actions of the State of Israel this past week have been aimed only at the survi-val of its people and its pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." The committee urged "all people who have a spark of freedom in their soul and who want to show they stand shoul-der to shoulder with this tiny free nation to rally to support the embattled people of Israel, to show the people that they do not stand alone." Gragson called Israel "the biggest single bastion against Communist in the Middle East." For Israel to have been "defeated and annihilated" would have meant "the death of another flame of freedom in this darkened world." "In the course of its pursuit for peace and dignity our Jewish brethren in the State of Israel have risen as a free peo-ple ready to fight and die to protect these fruits of life," Gragson said. "All freedom-loving people the world over recognize that the actions of the State of Israel this past week have been aimed only at the survival of its people and its pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." The mayor said the tiny free state had to "press every man possible, every food ration available, everything needed to fight and to protect itself against an enemy fifty times its size who had threatened its annihilation." Thus, Mayor Gragson concluded, "To all the good people of Las Vegas who cherish freedom, the right to speak, to work and pray in peace, I, Oran Grag-son, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas, do hereby proclaim Monday, June 12, as Israel Peace Day."