24 Dec 1975
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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1975
Page
1
World observers mark Christmas as the birth of Jesus Christ with services and family gatherings while debates, weather impacts, a Las Angeles cross law challenge, a Bethlehem scene show security guards with submachine guns, and a Cincinnati family receiving gifts after theft.
Beir ut report notes three days of rocket and mortar battles east of Beirut raise fears the fighting could spread to the capital and erupt again during the Christmas period. At least 29 people die on Tuesday in a third day of clashes across Lebanon, with the fiercest fighting around Zahle, 25 miles east of Beirut where rightists leftists and army troops clash near the Syrian border.
Variable cloudiness dominates with extreme north regions receiving rain chances through Christmas. Mostly fair conditions elsewhere but high clouds and local coastal low clouds persist. Inland valleys see night and morning fog with slightly warmer days inland. temperature notes include Ukiah 62 36 62 and Fort Bragg 55.
Fragmentary weather data lists December temperatures and rainfall. Entries show highs and lows with dates, noting today’s noon and low figures, and rainfall totals contrasting with last year’s figures.
Supervisors heard Max Forseter of Philo appeal for a day release work furlough plan for county jail inmates to work at their jobs and stay in jail at night. He cited Sonoma and Humboldt as successes and said Mendocino is an island without it. Captain Moe noted jail population blocks immediate action, though sheriff supports the idea and plans to move to the Rehabilitation Center in February. Tim O Brien backs the concept. The board also moved to transfer Brooktrails Resort Improvement District powers to the Brooktrails Community Services District, naming Ruth Wessel and others as directors, while also approving a measure to cut the Community Development Commission from 15 to 9 members amid housing concerns.
Richard Welch 46, head of CIA operations in Greece, was shot to death in a 30 second ambush outside the U S Embassy in Athens after leaving a Christmas party. Police called the killing a very professional job and linked it to threats from an organization calling itself Union of Officers Struggling for the National Ideal. An American official said Welch was chief of all CIA activities in Greece and had been named in recent publications as a possible target.
California moves to open most personnel files with Jan first enforcement. Employers urged not to purge files before the start, while lawyers warn of confusion over access scope and what constitutes releasable material.
Filimon Galvez-Diaz and Nestor Galvez-Diaz, Mexican nationals aged 26 and 20, were convicted by a Superior Court jury of single counts of kidnaping for extortion. The victim Gregorio Rodriguez Huerta, 18, also a Mexican, was abducted Aug 18 from a ranch south of Hopland and taken to Monrovia. The Little Lindbergh law could yield life imprisonment.
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