County workers to vote on Social Security withdrawal
Santa Barbara County Employees Assn plans a member questionnaire on leaving U S Social Security due to tax rises. Meanwhile, the group seeks cost of living based raises for about 1,100 workers, citing 5 to 6 percent annual increases. Petitions signed by 630 members will be presented. County Official Ray mond Johnson calls unemployment insurance plan unproven. He notes layoffs but says they are rare.
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Santa Barbara
Stringer
Flower industry report in Carpinteria Valley delayed
First District Supervisor Frank J. Frost will lead an environmental impact study on the growing flower industry in the Greater Carpinteria Valley. He says the project is complex and will take time, with part of the report farmed out to Harwood White. The county will report progress by July 2 after a 90 day continuance requested by Carpinteria City Council.
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Frank J. Frost
Frost
Planning Commission
Harwood White
Montecito
County Environmental Quality Advisory Agency
Arch 5
Scandal at Equity Funding Life Insurance Breaks Wide
A telephone tip sparked a probe into Equity Funding Life Insurance Co. with claims of fake death benefits and bogus assets. The Los Angeles firm later declared bankruptcy and a subsidiary faced state intervention as officials moved to take control.
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UPI
Equity Funding Life Insurance Co
Life Insurance
Los Angeles
California
Raymond L. Dirks
Delafield, Childs & Co
Ronald H
Secrist
Dirks
Equity Funding
Stanley Goldblum
Fred Levin
London smallpox zone declared after fatal outbreak
A 29 year old woman in London died from smallpox contracted from a hospital worker, the first fatality of a WHO declared smallpox zone in London. Her 34 year old husband remained seriously ill at Dartford Kent isolation hospital as details noted. The technician involved worked on a WHO program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but did not contract the disease. No new U S restrictions were planned for travelers from Britain.
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Savino
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Sue Zgliczynski
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UPI
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WHO
Long Beach
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Kent
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Communicable Disease Center
Atlanta
Britain
Mitchell protection linked to McCord early Watergate work
James W. McCord Jr testified that Martha Mitchell relied on him for protection after a death threat and that he escorted her daughter to school. He said becoming Nixon reelection campaign security chief in late 1971 was an early duty, approved by John Dean via John Caulfield.
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UPI
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Watergate
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Nixon
John Caulfield
John Dean
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Dean
Democratic Party
U. S
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Cage
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Planners agenda set for Lompoc Planning Commission meeting
Lompoc Planning Commission will discuss four home use permits for Roy Learned at 330 South D St for an office and hot drink machine sales, Anne Comfort at 423 B North I St for bookkeeping, John Terrones at 406 South L St for telephone solicitation for the blind, William Laubly at 216 South St for planning consultant office, and a zone change request by Albert Cowell from R-2 to R-3 on North F Street between Maple and College. Continuance requested on William Ward pre zoning at Central Ave and A Street.
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Lompoc
South St
Albert Cowell
Lompoc trustees weigh high school band parade plan
Trustees review efforts to enter a combined Cabrillo Lompoc High School band unit in the Pasadena Rose Parade on Jan 1 1974 and publicize Lompoc's centennial. They also consider hiring an architect for a preliminary cost study on a school lunch program and start a budget calendar with January cost compilations and August county filing.
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Lompoc
Santa Ynez River District to discuss water and enviro rules
SYRWCOD directors meet Tuesday in Santa Ynez to review Amending the Livestream Agreement, entitlements for Cachuma surplus water, and diversions upstream from Cachuma. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the district office 3622 Sagunto St Santa Ynez. A UK industrial court orders severance pay for Eunice Weaver after manager Hadley fires her for chatting.
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Santa Ynez River
Jobless rate hits 5.0 percent as March unemployment drops
UPI reports March jobless rate at 5.0 percent, down from February 5.1 percent and a two year low, with unemployment at 83.9 million and nonfarm payrolls up 700,000, signaling continued economic expansion. Unit labor costs rise slower in the United States than in Japan Canada and Western Europe, improving competitiveness and likely easing the trade deficit.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
U.S
Japananada
Europe
America
Resolution seeks environmental review for new oil wells
A county resolution to require full environmental review before issuing oil drilling permits for sites outside established fields cites Cat Canyon Orcutt Casmalia South Cuyama Russell Ranch Lompoc and Santa Maria. Supervisor James M. Slater will present the measure to the Board to ensure review of Mobil Oil's five proposed Santa Rosa Island wells despite county counsel's view that permits can be issued ministerially without such scrutiny.
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Board of Supervisors
Cat Canyon
Orcutt
Casmalia
South Cuyama
Russell Ranch
Lompoc
Santa Maria
James M. Slater
Mobil Oil
Santa Rosa Island
Slater
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