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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1971
Page
1
Washington UPI Postmaster General Winton Blount announced a new postal plan promising next day delivery of zip coded airmail within 600 miles and second day delivery to most major U.S. cities. The program starts April 22 with a 11 cent airmail stamp and 8 cent first class stamp effective May 16.
Planning Commission last night recommended approval for auto wrecking yards in the commercial industrial zone with a use permit. Roy Velasquez sought an amendment to allow material storage yards in the C M zone and continued operation of his North Second Street wrecking yard. Council now must act. a bid to table the issue was rejected, then abstained from the main vote.
Lompoc commissioners voted to urge City Council to consider a master plan for replacing the city's aging water mains and to approve $1.76 million in capital outlay over the next decade. The plan includes replacing steel mains in the coming year and studying a systematic, multi year replacement program while projecting city growth to 30,000. The budget for 1971-72 totals $589,505, excluding bond retirement and funds for a water rate study and related projects.
About 6,000 South Vietnamese troops lift siege of Fire Base 6 with six infantry and three parachute battalions landing within a mile of the outpost near Laos and Cambodia. U S air forces drop Daisy Cutter bombs while B52 strikes pound nearby targets as fighters attack a Laos antiaircraft site.
The Nixon administration calls the three year can industry contract settlement inflationary and urges restraint in summer talks with steel firms. The White House report points to higher freight costs and meat prices, plus a 48 percent rise in New York taxi fares as examples of artificial barriers to competition.
Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem report Israel will pull back along the Suez Canal to allow international traffic under a strict safeguards framework. The plan, aligning with Moshe Dayan's proposal, includes a permanent cease fire and bans on Egyptian and Russian troop crossings, and may be sent to Washington next week.
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