Hickel Office Decor Purchases Questioned by GAO
The GAO found Interior Secretary Hickel's office exceeded legal authority in a 1989 redecorating plan. About 39 400 was spent on design services furniture and repairs with items stored or to be substituted from government stock. The department proposed returning substitutes with full refunds and no extra costs.
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GAO
Hickel
Harold Ickes
Hicke
Seattle
Arthur Morgan Designers Inc
Department of Interior
Interior Department
General Accounting Office
Gross
Morgan
Smoking cuts life expectancy for American men report says
A UC published study notes life expectancy for middle aged American men rose slowly in recent decades due to cigarette smoking. It cites newborn life expectancy doubling in 150 years but shows the 40 year old male’s expected remaining years growing by less than two from 1920 to 1966.
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Berkeley
University of California
Gasoline Leak Triggers Evacuation in Harbor City
About 50 families were evacuated in Palo Del Amo Woods Harbor City after a backhoe sliced an eight inch gas line releasing roughly 30,000 gallons of raw gasoline into a Dominguez Channel tributary. Fire crews formed a dirt cofferdam and sprayed foam to halt the spill before more homes were endangered.
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del Amo Woods
Dick Emery
Palo del Amo Woods
Harbor City
Normandie Avenue
Sepulveda Boulevard
Dominguez Channel
Shell Oil Co
Joe Rinaldo
Los Angeles
Bay Harbor
David Kuschner
Stonebryn Drive
Pasatiempo Drive
California Congress Overrides School Aid Veto Vote Split
California lawmakers backed the school aid veto override while party lines held on the housing and space bills. Twenty one Democratic congressmen supported the overrides as Republicans split, with several switching votes after earlier stances.
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Alphonzo Bell
Los Angeles
Charles Gubser
Kilroy
Paul McCloskey
Portola Valley
Robert Mathias
Visalia
Jerry Pettis
Joma Linda
Charles Teague
Ojai
Burt Talcott
Salinas
Craig Hosmer
Long Beach
Donald Clausen
Crescent City
Barry Goldwater Jr
Burbank
Charles Wiggins
Il Monte
Bob Wilson
San Diego
House
Clausen
H. Allen Smith
Glendale
John Rousselot
San Marino
John Lchmitz
Santa Ana
del Clawson
Compton
California
John V. Tunney
Riverside
U.S. Senate
Calfornia
Ordinary Driver Faces Gasoline Pipeline Disaster
Richard Larry Jr. 28 of Los Alamitos and fellow truck drivers on a drainage ditch project near Sepulveda Blvd Carson witnessed a gasoline leak when a Japanese loader struck an eight inch pipeline. The line released about 29 400 gallons before Shell shut it off and local fire crews sprayed suds to blanketed the pool of fuel. Larry described the scene as an ordinary work day turned dangerous with a driver scalded and rushed to hospital.
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Richard Larry Jr
Howard Avenue
Los Alamitos
Sepulveda Blvd
Carson
Larry
Shell Oil Co
Standard Oil bid clears for Santa Barbara Channel drilling
The Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday approved Standard Oil Co. for exploratory oil drilling on two Outer Continental Shelf leases in the Santa Barbara channel. The Corps bases its permit on navigation and national security impacts while the Interior Department weighs other effects before final approval.
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Army Corps of Egineers
Standard Oil Co
Santa Barbara Channel
Corps
Interior Department
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