Lompoc City Workers Push for 15 Percent Pay Increase
City employees association approves a resolution seeking a 15 percent across the board raise for all city workers. About 115 of 142 members attend in City Hall, signaling demands for the entire city workforce. Officials plan to present the proposal to City Administrator Gene Wahlers, with formal demands due Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lompoc City
Council
William S. Barrett
Public Works
Barrett
Griffenhagen - Kroeger
Navy forms Western Pacific convoy to shield spy flights
A sea and air convoy including the battleship New Jersey formed in the Western Pacific to protect reconnaissance missions over the Sea of Japan. Navy carriers and destroyers were diverted from prior positions as President Nixon pledged protection after the North Korean attack.
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Washington
UPI
New Jersey
Western Pacific
Nixon
Sea of
Japan
Defense Department
North Korea
Pentagon
Long Beach
Calif
Pacific
U.S
Pyongyang
Panmunjom
Navy
DA moves against oil drillers and supporters
Santa Barbara district attorney David Milner moved to prosecute shore based suppliers to offshore oil drillers for aiding public nuisance. An Oxnard harbor craft suspension followed an oil slick likely from a leaking offshore well. Channel Islands Harbor officials placed booms to protect vessels.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
Dist. Atty
David Milner
Oxnard
Minner
Channel Islands Harbor
Ventura County
Crown silver fund needs greenbacks for festival crown
Women's Division and Chamber of Commerce urge Lompoc residents to donate money and silver for a permanent crown for the 17 year festival coronation. Donations of money checks and both damaged and undamaged silver are needed to cover casting by Robert Houghtaling. Plated silver accepted for the raffle sale to boost funds. Bring gifts to the Chamber of Commerce office or contact Mrs. Harold Muns at 67976. Deadline April 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Lompoc Valley
Robert Houghtaling
Cypress
Women’s Division
Harold Muns
Play props sought for church benefit in Methodist Church
Glimpses Susan Totten seeks three empty gin bottles one empty bourbon bottle and one empty scotch bottle as play props for a morning performance at the Methodist Church. The event benefits Prophet teen-age coffeehouse and Friends of Mr and Mrs Ted Kenney, former residents learning of a six pound five ounce baby girl born to a couple in El Centro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Totten
Methodist Church
Prophet
Ted Kenney
el Centro
Egypt claims huge Israeli losses in canal gun duel
Egyptian military communique says Israeli artillerymen resumed firing after a UN cease fire halted a near three hour battle. Cairo reports heavy losses to Israeli reinforcements and tanks near the Suez Canal while Israel denies casualties. The exchange marks the twelfth straight day of cross canal fire. separate notes in Cairo reference King Hussein plans and Nasser’s stance.
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United Press International
Egypt
Israel
Suez Canal
United Nations
Fayed
Kabbrit
Bitter Lake
Cairo
Jerusalem
Port Said
Qantara
Great Bitter Lakes
Abdel Moneim E) Rifai
Hussein
Middle East
Washington
Rifai
Akhbar Elyoun
U.N. Security Council
Gaml Abdel Nasser
Explosives Kill Il GIs in DMZ Battle Near Saigon
North Vietnamese troops using suicide explosive devices attacked a U.S. outpost near the DMZ, killing 11 Americans and wounding 23 in a three hour engagement. U.S. tanks later overwhelmed a Communist base camp northwest of Saigon, with 82 guerrillas killed and American losses including four tanks and seven GIs. The siege ended after dive bombers and artillery strikes. 13 enemy dead were left behind.
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Saigui
U.S
Border Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Saigon
United States
Tornadoes sweep South killing man and injuring wife
A tornado destroyed a Laverne Alabama home killing a man and critically injuring his wife. Two nearby neighbors were hurt and thirty people total were injured, seven seriously, as a big twister hit a trailer park near Douglas Georgia.
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United Press International
South
Laverne
Mississippi River
Quad Cities
Illinois
Iowa
New England
Greenville
Maine
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Weather Bureau
New York
Ohio
Temporary halt to student protests on four campuses
Across Harvard and Stanford four campuses paused protests as Harvard voters suspended a week long six day strike while a separate mock vote backed no confidence in the administration over the ROTC conflicts. Police restrained demonstrators during the April 10 sit in. Stanford ended a nine day occupation with students cleaning up and leaving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Harvard
Stanford University
Students For A Democratic Society
Afro-American Society
Harvard Corp
Applied Electronics Laboratory
Dubcek Ousted as Czechoslovak Leader Amid Soviet Power Move
Soviet backed leadership reduced the presidium and replaced Alexander Dubcek with Gustav Husak as Czechoslovakia's Communist leader after a briefing of reformers who reportedly deserted him. Husak denounced Dubcek on television as guiding the nation toward catastrophe. Workers and students signaled no immediate protests.
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Prague
UPI
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Dubcek
Gustav Husak
Kremlin
Antonin Novotny
Husak
Weather and Czech news briefs with April tides and unrest
Clear weather today and Sunday with patchy morning clouds. Warmer readings in the 60s to 70s, coastal and inland. Tonight’s low in the 40s. NW wind 12 to 25 mph. April 20 tides at 1:02 am 2.9 ft and 11:26 pm 5.0 ft. lows 6:26 am 0.0 ft and 4:50 pm 2.4 ft. April 21 high at 2:56 pm 2.7 ft. lows 7:20 am 0.2 ft and 4:38 pm 2.7 ft. Police patrolled streets in twos and threes to deter disorder. Charles University student leaders met with Dubcek supporters for three hours and formed committees to study the situation, adopting a wait and see stance. Husak called anti-Soviet demonstrations after the March 28 hockey win counter-revolutionary and warned of potential arrests. Resolutions from Communist groups blamed Dubcek for economic losses and urged measures to end unrest and enable constructive work.
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Charles University
Dubcek
Labor Movement
Husak
U.S.S.R
Iam
Central Committee
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