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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1975
Page
9
In Beirut the leftist Moslem gunmen besieging the last major Christian position pledge to ignore cease fires until Phalangists retreat from the Holiday Inn in downtown Beirut. A Nasirite lieutenant at the Palm Beach Hotel runs the operations room and states the cease-fire is not binding while Phalangists remain.
Forecast shows snow from northern to southern Plains with showers in the southern Plains to eastern coasts. Rain and snow flurries likely from the mid Atlantic to southern New England. Much of the country will be cold with fair conditions in the south.
Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider heads to the Kansas Supreme Court to challenge the State Finance Council as unconstitutional after a Shawnee County district judge ruled against him. The council, created in 1954, handles salary and money matters when the legislature is out of session.
The forecast shows mostly cloudy skies in Northeast Kansas through Saturday with a low tonight in the upper 20s to low 30s and a high Saturday in the 40s. Official readings include Thursday high 40 and low 37, today's morning low 33, trace precipitation, and a record high 67 and low -8 on this date in history.
Former Dallas FBI agent James P. Hosty Jr testified he flushed a threatening letter from Lee Harvey Oswald. He said he was ordered to destroy it by Dallas FBI chief J. Gordon Shanklin and that he had interviewed Marina Oswald twice before the assassination. The letter arrived between November 5 and 8, 1963.
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