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SIGNS HINT 'SALE'Landmark Tower May Finally Have OwnerLBJ: Viet Key ro All-Out War-or PeaceCHICAGO (DPI) — President Johnson varned Tuesday night that if the United dates failed to halt current Communist iggression in Viet Nam a much larger ^sian war. producing casualties per-laps in the millions, surely would re-ult.The President, in an address before a emoeratic fund-raising rally, fought ack against critrcs of his Viet Nam poli-y. He warned that The road ahead is oing to he difficult. He pledged. We hall not pull out ”The chief executive reported that as of uesday morning 1.705 Americans had ied in Viet Nam this year.But I tell you that, if we fail in frus-afing this aggression, the war that ould surely come in Asia would produce asualfies in the hundreds of thousands— erhaps in the millions.; Halt Hopi a golden shaft of flame and white noke. soared through the clouds, and be-ime a pinpoint of light in the sky.Almost immediately it was apparentBy JIM BARROWSSUN Staff WriterThere may be a buyer for Landmark Tower.Attorneys for Appliance Buyers Credit Corp. (ABCC) of Chicago are due In Las Vegas today in the wake ofjvo weeklt; of measuring and surveying at. the nearly$5 million, nearly-finished hotel.The surveying and Inspections at the31-story shaft haven’t gone unnoticed since the first of May, but businessmenaround Cenvention Center have seen that before.Attorney Howard Babcock, who represents ABCC here, said a law representative from the Midwest was due here tomorrow Babcock declined to elabora*e on the reason for the trip.Rated as Nevada's tallest building, it rises 297 feet, six inches above ground. The Mint Hotel, ground to signrop, is 2W feet high.Work started on a ]4b-room hotel In November. 1961. Suits and counter-suits have left its unpaned windows a constant headache for Convention Center officials worried about its effect on the critical eyes of thousands of convention-goers.ABCC loaned $450,000 to contractorFrank Caracciok) in March, 1962. for a 14-story casino-hotel. Another $300,000 was loaned in the next three months, when the total loan was hiked to $3 million.The bu lding. inspired by the Space Needle at the Seattle World's Fair, grew upward at the corner of Convention Center Drive and Paradise Road. ABCC cut off further loans in December, 1961 Work stopped.Architect Gerald Moffirt had his plans (See LANDMARK, Page 6)
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Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Wed, May 18, 1966
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