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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1975
Page
2
A 40 member group evaluates police relations and public safety issues. They favor more walking beat officers to improve trust, oppose marijuana legalization, urge enforcement over leniency, and doubt scalping laws in Las Vegas. They support the death penalty for murder and treason, oppose lowering the drinking age, and reject returning to prohibition.
A sharp cold wave drove snow and subfreezing temperatures from the Great Lakes to New England and the South. Erie's coasts saw 9 to 14 inches, Mt. Washington logged 23 below zero with 118 mph winds, and Tennessee Valley Authority noted a power peak of 19.6 million kilowatts as many areas hit record or near record lows.
Sedalia mayor dismisses Police Chief William Miller amid criticism of drug enforcement. Interim chief Gary Dey named as replacement. Miller appeals to the police personnel board. Council seeks federal grand jury inquiry into heroin traffic.
Los Angeles officials conclude the pantry search at the Ambassador Hotel found no spent bullets or fragments indicating a second gun. Five criminologists examined door jambs while witnesses and trial records point to a single weapon used in the 1968 Kennedy assassination.
Forecast shows variable cloudiness through the weekend with gentle winds. Today's high around 60 degrees and a low near 30 to 35. Humidity forecast around 49 percent, with a 22 percent low. Sunrise at 6 47 a m and sunset at 4 29. A year ago today the high was 58 and the low 36.
The Nation table shows readings ending at 4 A.M. Pacific Time compiled by the National Weather Service in San Francisco. It lists regional temperatures and precipitation amounts across multiple stations, reflecting recent weather conditions and trends for the period.
Syria's Maj. Gen. Hikmat Chehabi met Lebanon's leaders Pierre Gemayel Camille Chamoun and Suleiman Franjieh in Beirut to seek a long term peace amid ongoing clashes near Beirut and Tripoli. The conflict has killed about 700 since December 8 and more than 5,500 since April, with 32 bodies found at Phoenicia Hotel ruins.
Lynette Fromme, 27, a follower of Charles Manson and would be assassin of President Ford, will likely remain in a maximum security jail through Christmas and be sent to federal prison later. A sheriff's spokesman said she has been a normal prisoner with no major difficulties. She was sentenced to life with parole possible after 15 years, shouted and threw an apple at the prosecutor, and declined to testify in her own defense.
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