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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1971
Page
1
Teacher representatives handed the school board a salary package proposing a 14 percent raise and other benefits totaling over 2 million dollars. The plan would lift starting pay for a BA from 6918 to 7875 and top pay for a masters 11 years to 15645. A negotiating meeting was scheduled with Supt. Glenn Wegner as chief board negotiator.
Premier Chou En Lai told a visiting American table tennis team that their trip opens a new page in Sino American relations. He said more Americans will visit, including correspondents in batches, and noted the large American group as the largest ever to meet him since 1949.
Incumbent Edmund Burke and challengers Eugene Huseman and Gordon deMarrais faced questions from news media at a public forum organized by the Press Club. Burke touted a 1965 bond, new facilities, and a low 59 cent tax rate. Huseman pressed vocational emphasis and local campus expansion. DeMarrais urged more local outreach, satellite programs, and job placement efforts for Lompoc students. Voters head to the polls April 20 to decide the three Lom Unified seats.
Soviet space sources said a spectacular series of manned launches will occur in coming days to inaugurate a second decade of cosmic exploration. At least two ships and two or more cosmonauts are planned for an orbital station with unmanned probes, aiming for a 1970s program of space laboratories.
U S Senator Alan Cranston pledged to move the California Space Shuttle Task Force from dead center. Mayor Art Scott said Cranston reaffirmed support for shuttle launch and recovery facilities in California and will consult with Robert Volk to explain why no task force committee has been appointed.
Two men escape from the Federal Correctional Institution after twisting a detention sash. Ronald Miller, 21, 5 ft 10 in, 135 pounds with brown hair and eyes, and Larry Horvath, 23, 6 ft, 145 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, are both Caucasian. They reportedly left through the southwest fence at 9:35 p.m. yesterday.
South Vietnamese troops lifted a 15 day Communist siege of Fire Base 6 after a 16 hour battle that left 96 Communists dead. Two American advisers were reported missing and a third fate unknown as allied airlifted supplies and 1,200 reinforcements reached the base near Laos and Cambodia. Despite a heavy aerial offensive, Communist forces reportedly withdrew to regroup, with government sources citing 2,700 enemy deaths overall and substantial U.S. losses.
Lompoc retail sales rose more than 350000 in the final quarter of 1970 from the prior quarter, totaling 9377000 in taxable transactions. Five categories posted gains including apparel and general merchandise while declines appeared in food service and auto sectors. Statewide 1969 fourth quarter activity fell 2.2 percent. Weather: showery morning, clearing, then fair with highs in 60s to 70s and NW winds near the coast Thursday.
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