The Sun v. McCarran

Ever since Publisher Hank Greenspun, 42, bought the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 8,500) in 1950, the. paper has been scowling at Nevada's Democratic Senator Pat McCarran and old Pat has been glaring right back. Two months ago their feud turned up in court. The Sun sued McCarran and 51 others, including the owners of Las Vegas' leading gambling houses, for $1,000,000. The charge: McCarran had persuaded the local gamblers to yank $8,000 a month in advertising from the paper after the Sun printed attacks against him. The gamblers denied the charge. Last week, in the first round of the court battle, Nevada Federal Judge Roger Foley turned in a decision for the Sun.

He refused to dismiss the case, instead issued a temporary injunction to force nine gambling houses to put their regular ads back. Said Judge Foley: "The conspirators . . . cut off [the Sun's] bloodstream of existence . . . The abrupt cancellation of the advertising could very well [bring about] discontinuance of ... the newspaper." Judge Foley did not rule on whether McCarran had anything to do with the conspiracy. That will be decided when the Sun's main action goes to trial.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.