City budget study begins deadline for council May 20
City officials press ahead with department head interviews to finish a preliminary budget by May 20. Four departments have presented budgets. interviews continue through April 25. The 1969 70 budget may be lower than last year 4 077 187 due to library project completion and flood tax losses offset by sales tax gains.
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E.C. Stevens
Marvin Loney
Loney
Finance Department
Gene Wahlers
Civic Center
Civic Cater
Artificial heart replaced with living donor heart
Dr Denton A Cooley performed a landmark procedure at St Luke's Hospital replacing an artificial dacron heart in Haskell Earp with a human donor heart from a 40 year old Massachusetts woman. The donor died of brain damage after an emergency flight to Houston. The operation followed Cooleys earlier synthetic heart implant the prior Friday.
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Darrell Mack Houston
UPI
Denton A Cooley
Illinois
Lawrence
Mass
Cooley
Haskell Earp
Skokie
Ill
Harp
St. Luke’s Hospital
Karp
Houston
St. Luke’s
Massachusetts
Boston
Barksdale Air Force Base
Shreveport
Strategic Air Command
Court limits deviations in one man one vote rulings
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that states must keep congressional districts near equal population with little leeway. Missouri and New York plans were rejected, forcing new redistricting. The decision affirms equal representation and warns against any nonarbitrary cutoff points for variances.
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Charlotte G. Moulton
Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Court of Missouri
New York State
Missouri
William J. Brennan
House of Representatives
New York
Rogers vetoes immediate Vietnam troop pull-out
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the United States would not pursue an immediate unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam though he left room for later actions. He favored possible partial allied withdrawals this year and did not rule out U S troop reductions without communist withdrawals.
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Stewart Hensley Washington
UPI
William P. Rogers
United States
Vietnam
Rogers
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Paris
Congress
Nixon
Johnson
Manila
Eckhoff Named Santa Barbara County Public Defender
The County Board of Supervisors approved Robert G. Eckhoff for Santa Barbara County’s first public defender. Eckhoff, 40, is district attorney of Butte County, chosen from 38 candidates. Starting salary is 1619 monthly, effective May 16, with department functioning possibly by June 1 as deputies are added.
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County Board of Supervisors
Robert G. Eckhoff
Butte County
Santa Barbara County
Raymond D Johnson
Eckhoff
Butte County District Attorney’s Office
San Bernardino
Johnson
Weather Outlook Clear Through Tuesday With Mild Temperatures
The forecast calls for clear conditions through Tuesday with high temperatures in the mid to upper 60s today and the 70s by Tuesday. Tonight's low will dip into the 30s to 40s with light winds. April 8 tides show high tides of 5.1 feet at 1:08 am and 3.1 feet at 5:38 pm and low tides of minus 0.2 feet at 9:26 am and 3.0 feet at 7:44 pm.
Burglars Hit Lompoc Schools In Weekend Break-Ins
Lompoc police investigated a safe burglary at Lompoc Junior High School over the weekend yielding 115 dollars in cash and two athletic stop watches. A separate entry at Lompoc High School’s industrial arts building likely Friday night left little missing. Sunday’s cafeteria burglary at the high school reported a small cash loss and several milk cartons.
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Lompoc
Lompoc Junior High School
Lompoc High School
Robert Lakey
Cefeteria
Nixon urged by Speaker to push legislative agenda
Speaker John W McCormack pressed President Nixon to speed up his legislative proposals. He said Nixon’s delay makes it hard for Democratic leaders to chart plans for the 91st Congress while noting his predecessor Lyndon B Johnson’s stronger early performance.
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Walington
UPI
John W McCormack
Nixon
McCormack
Lyndon B Johnson
Massachusetts
Capitol Hill
Congress
Johnson
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Edward M. Kennedy
George S McGovern
Lompoc School Board Faces Grim Finances and Deficit
Lompoc Unified trustees will review a report showing rising per student costs from 1960 to 1968 while assessed valuation grows slowly. The district faces a 1969 70 deficit of 762000 and has raised taxes and cut programs, with planned early renewal of district insurance to save about 10000.
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Lompoc Unified School
P.L
Virginia
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Mark Drew
Burton Mesa Blvd
Arden
Bruce Benedetti
Gary Hazard
Gardenia
Grandfather Hazard
Griffen-Agen-Kroeger
Employes Association
Wahlers
Lompoc Narrows Dam
Fact Committee
Lompoc Jaycees
Ralph Patey
Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce
Michelle Haney
Bill Cockshott
Jaycees
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