From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 11, 1970:

• Lehr’s Wholesale Meats and Frozen Foods Co. had just completed an extensive $50,000 remodeling project. Both the sales office at Sixth and Mississippi and the slaughterhouse at 11th and Haskell had been completely remodeled and all new equipment had been installed.
• The temperature on the previous day had fallen more than 20 degrees in two hours. After a tornado watch and a record-tying high of 66, winter weather had moved in, and by noon today, Lawrence residents were scraping ice and light snow from their windshields.
• Field reports from Vietnam indicated that no Americans had been killed on the battlefields on the previous day. It was only the ninth time in 1970 that U.S. forces had gone through an entire day without suffering a fatality in combat.
• President Nixon announced that he was nominating the 46-year-old Rep. George Bush of Texas to head up the American delegation at the United Nations.