American ping pong team on tour visits Peking university
The 15 member U S ping pong delegation met Chinese students at Chinghua University in Peking and toured campus while awaiting a scheduled match. They later visited the Great Wall and the factory, with a basketball class stop on the return. The trip follows their arrival Saturday on an unprecedented U S visit to China.
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Peking
UPI
U.S
Shanghai
Revolutionary Committee
Graham Steenhoven
Detroit
Vacation crowds leave litter and arrests along Colorado River
About 30,000 college students and young people traveled from camps along a 200 mile Colorado River stretch. Authorities reported nearly 500 arrests mainly for drunkenness and narcotics, with most crowds peaceful aside from heavy litter. In Death Valley Ballarat and Los Angeles events there were few arrests and some rioting but overall limited violence.
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Parker, Ariz
UPI
Colorado River
California
Arizona
Bullhead City
Colorado
Yuma County
Travis Yancey
Mohave County
Candidates forum set tomorrow for Allan Hancock Board
Three candidates for Allan Hancock College Board Area 4 Edmund Burke Eugene Huseman and Gordon deMarrais will attend a public forum tomorrow night at the Press Club 105 N H St Burke is an engineer for Johns Manville Products Co Huseman an attorney and deMarrais a vocational education coordinator for Lompoc Unified School District Voters will elect one of the candidates on April 20
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Allan Hancock College Board
Area 4
Press Club
N. H St
Edmund Burke
Eugene Huseman
Gordon deMarrais
Burke
Johns Manville Products Co
Huseman
deMarrais
Lompoc Unified
American Association of University Women
Archie Nagle
John Beattie
Florence Burch
Bruce Holloway
David Lemos
Virgil Casey
Glenn Christmas
Lawrence Schriver
Karl Braun
John Wolff
College Board
Lompoc Officer Highlighted in L A Times Page
A Lompoc policeman is profiled on the financial page of the Sunday Los Angeles Times. A cyclist rides with one leg in a plaster cast on a freeway scene. Easter vacation brings Bill Leary trying karate with his son Tim. Weather remains mild with low clouds along the coast tonight. Highs mid 60s to upper 70s, lows in the 40s, light northwest winds. Tides: high 3.7 ft at 11 44 a.m. and 5.3 ft at 10 44 p.m. Low tides minus 0.1 ft at 5 26 a.m. and 1.9 ft at 4 20 p.m.
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Lompoc
Los Angeles Times
Bill Leary
Tim
U S Air Force Drops 72 Ton Blockbusters in Vietnam
UPI reports the U S Air Force used its 72 ton blockbuster bombs for the first time in the Indochina War against Communist troops around Fire Base 6 in the Central Highlands. Two bombs were dropped from C 130 planes, followed by B 52 strikes totaling thousands of tons in the area.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
Laos
U.S
Viet Cong
UPI
Robert E. Sullivan
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Highlands
Sullivan
Hoang Minh Thoa
Border Ranger
Ben Het
San Francisco Schools Reopen After 19-Day Teacher Strike
About 89,000 students resume normal class days as teachers return to classrooms after a 19 day strike for better teaching conditions. Two rival unions ratified an Easter week agreement reached with Mayor Joseph Alioto guiding the talks.
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San Francisco
UPI
Joseph Alioto
Airman raises 30000 to aid Texas nephritis victims
Air Force sergeant Robert L. Jones from Turlock California raised 30000 in 12 hours at Phanrang Air Force Base for Paula Holt 17 and Gary Holt 20 of Austin Texas who suffer acute nephritis. A donor gave 1000 from a reenlistment bonus and another cancelled a car order for 450. Jones arrived home on 14 day leave from Vietnam. He plans to grow the effort to 50000 while the Holts’ machine costs 360 monthly per child.
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Oakland
UPI
Air Force
Texas
Vietnam
Robert L. Jones
Turlock
Calif
Phanrang Air Force Base
Jones
Norma
Robert Jr
Oakland International Airport
Paula Holt
Gary
Austin
Tex
California Legislature Faces Tax Welfare and 18 Year Old Vote Issues
Sacramento lawmakers resume the 1971 session amid unresolved tax and welfare reforms, school finance, reapportionment, and the 18 year old vote. Bills to let 18 year olds vote in state local elections await agreement in both houses. Governor Reagan’s welfare reform proposal and tax and school finance measures remain unacted as reapportionment awaits the 10 year census results with adjournment set for July.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate
Assembly
California
Ronald Reagan
Clair Burgener
R-San Diego
Congress
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Walter Acuna
Death Valley
Inyo County
Ballarat
Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Dodger Stadium
Cecelia Brown
Montana St
Vendeukers Afb
Cecelia
Lompoc Active
Valley Photo Service
Pearl Chase
la Purisima Mission
Theodore R. Owings
Department of the Interior
Daniel Grant
Francis Beattie
Robert Spears
Dr. Chase
H.V. Holt
Holts
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