Oregon Gains National Attention for Laws and Soccer Triumphs
Malcolm Epley reflects on Oregon’s favorable image driven by anti litter measures and aerosol phase out, and praises the state’s natural beauty. He notes Oregon’s rise in sports with the Portland Timbers advancing to semifinals, bringing pride and a new day for local athletics.
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Fort Bidwell
Oregon
Regan
Portland
Itoo
California
Oregonians
Portland Timbers
Portland Oregonian
Timbers
Council to consider slip rental hike in Long Beach Marina
Long Beach City Council will weigh a proposed 26 percent rise in slip rental fees to 2.15 per foot for 30 to 44 foot boats and 2.30 per foot for 45 to 80 foot boats. The plan also raises launching ramp, shore mooring, guest mooring, and yearly berths rates to cover a $290,000 deficit in a $1.7 million marina budget.
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Long Beach
Mansell
Nas
Long Beach Marina
Marine Department
Short cut for school brings big smiles and nerves
Amy Shaw, ready for school, endures her first real haircut at a local beauty salon. Photographer Tom Shaw captures her mix of apprehension and delight from entering the shop to admiring her new pixie cut in the mirror.
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Amy Shaw
Independent
Press-Telegram
Tom Shaw
Amy
Dad
Inmate Puts $13 Million Claim Into Default
Stephen Michael Cohen a 26 year old inmate at Orange County jail filed a civil rights complaint seeking 13 million dollars as damages after a deputy clerk entered default judgment in his favor. An amended complaint and notice timing sparked a county inquiry and the default was wiped from the record. Cohen faces release next March 15 and others hoped the fortune would vanish.
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Stephen Michael Cohen
Orange County
Cohen
Terry Dixon
Dixon
Patrick Magers
Roger Agajanian
Placentia
Mansell OKs restructuring of city engineering offices
City Manager John R. Mansell approved a plan by City Engineer Tom Marchese creating six divisions: administrative services, engineering construction services, environmental engineering, special projects, traffic and transportation engineering. Key appointments include Norm Hathaway as director of engineering construction services and George Johnson as chief of environmental engineering.
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John R. Mansell
Tom Marchese
Norm Hathaway
George Johnson
Robert Mathews
Salem Spitz
UCLA
Fred Clark
Tricounty flood campaign plans $700 million Santa Ana project
The Three Counties Water Districts push a flood control program for Orange Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a $700 million budget. Orange County will bill $70 million. construction hoped to start in 1983 and finish by 1989 as Congress may include funding in the 1976 omnibus bill.
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Orange
Riverside
San Bernardino
Neil Cline
Orange County
Santa Ana River
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cline
Congress
Computer program to teach computers to talk in English
Dr. Alfred M. Bork of UC Irvine develops an instructional software project funded by the National Science Foundation. The program aims to enable computers to teach students in plain English and will be presented at a Marseille conference next week. The effort involves UCI faculty and students across physics chemistry mathematics art biology and medicine with participation from Riverside Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara campuses.
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Alfred M. Bork
UC Irvine
National Science Foundation
Bork
Marseilles
France
UCI
University of California
Riverside
Santa Cruz
Santa Barbara
Douglas unit gets Space Shuttle job
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. of Huntington Beach is selected to produce solid rocket booster structures for NASA. The contract, about 14.8 million dollars, will be fixed price and covers development, building and delivery for booster tests of the first six orbitals of the Space Shuttle. Rockwell is the prime contractor for the program.
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McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co
Huntington Beach
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Boeing
Seattle
Martin Marietta
Denver
Ling- Temeo-Vought
Dallas
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics
Rockwell
Space Division
Downey
Public meeting on smog impacts in North Long Beach
The West Long Beach Democratic Club will hold a public meeting to discuss health effects from smog and industrial air pollution in North Long Beach. The session begins at 7 30 p m Wednesday at the Bret Harte Public Library 1595 W Willow Ave.
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North Long Beach
West Long
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MAC
William Talley
Ing
Golden Avenue
Marine Stadium
Marine Stadium West
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Moted
USC
Dick Major
Sel Woolard
Major
Douglas
L.B. Smog
Living Free
Dana Branch
Atlantic Ave
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Naples Plaza
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