Lompoc Smoking Habits Draw City Controversy
City readers weigh smoking trends as a new cigarette tax yields unclear data. Finance official Marvin Loney cites 1968 69 projections of 2 833 333 packs for a 25 200 population, while residents share varied habits, from strict non smoking to partial quitting. A teen survey shows few admit smoking, with health costs and social pressure cited as reasons to abstain. A follow up reports on smokers who wont quit and a physician viewpoint.
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Wilma Jack
Marvin Loney
Lompoc
Laney
Norma Stillman
Miguelito Canyon Road
al Walker
Huntington Place
Annabelle Grove
Wilma Thomas
W. Walnut
Campus disorders erupt as NYU Bronx library bombed
Four fire bombs struck the Sage Engineering Library on the Bronx campus of New York University causing minor damage. Across New York, Colgate University black students barricaded Merrill House evicting a housekeeper and Colgate SDS supported the action amid threats of a return until a moral commitment is made. At Cornell University armed black students said they would keep their weapons until protections against reprisals are guaranteed as faculty revolt followed their earlier occupation.
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United Press International
Bronx
New York University
Colgate University
Cornell University
Sage Engineering
New York City
Colgate
Association For Black Collegians
ABC
Merrill House
Malcolm X
Hamilton N.Y
Students For the Democratic Society Sds
Cornell
Ithaca
N.Y
Thomas R. Jones
Afro-American Society
AAS
Jones
Navy pilot presumed lost after Arguello crash
A Navy jet crashed about eight miles off Point Arguello in rough seas at 6 40 last night. Officials say no life signs despite a search, and Lt JG Leon A Linkey 26 of Attack Squadron 212 at Lemoore is presumed dead. He graduated in 1965 from San Francisco State College and lived with his wife on Lemoore Station.
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Point Arguello
JG Leon A. Linkey
Lemoore
San Francisco State College
Lemoore Station
California
Pacific Missile Range
Navy
2055Th
Vandenberg
Coast Guard
Morro Bay
Skyhawk
Lemoore Naval Air Station
Fresno
Point Mugu Air Station
General Wheeler defends spy flights and Pueblo mission
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairing the Joint Chiefs, defended the Pueblo seizure and EC121 surveillance as vital to protecting American lives. He outlined the incidents off North Korea and the Pacific with debris recovery, limited evidence on cause, and ongoing search efforts by Coast Guard and Navy units as authorities weigh legality and survival odds.
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UPI
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pueblo
Wheeler
Congressional
White House
Otis G. Pike
Dn.y
U.S
North Korea
United States
Two youths injured in Lompoc motorcycle crash
Michael Patnesky age 17 of Mission Hills suffered a broken collarbone and Ronald Bock 15 of Lompoc received cuts when they fell from a motorcycle in a collision with a car at Maple Avenue and B Street at 4 45 PM. Patnesky was treated at Lompoc Hospital then at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Bock was treated and released. Driver William Bryan 57 of 526 N F Street escaped injury. The motorcycle had moderate damage. Bryan's car had minor damage.
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Michael Patnesky
Mitad
Mission Hills
Ronald Bock
S. Second St
Lompoc
Patnesky
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Bock
William Bryan
N. F St
Maple Avenue
B Street
Bryan
De Gaulle Appeals on Radio as Referendum Looms
President Charles de Gaulle, 78, launches an eleventh hour campaign to defend his reform referendum. Polls show likely defeat and he warns that rejection could force his resignation and risk chaos and communism. The plan would abolish the national senate and shift power to regional executives with him naming a successor.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
Senate
Plans Formed to Intensify Lompoc Dam Petition Drive
The Fact Committee for the Lompoc Dam formed plans to boost petition circulation led by the Lompoc Jaycees. They aim for 10,000 signatures while early rolls show over 90 percent resident support and a possible May 27 County Water Agency decision.
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Lompoc Narrows Dam
Lompoc Dam
Lompoc
Lilley
County Water Agency
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Fact Committee
Lompoc Hospital District backs $2500 ads to lure doctors
Directors approve a nationwide advertising push costing 2500 dollars to attract medical practitioners to Lompoc Valley. About 300 dollars has already been spent in the New England Journal of Medicine and responses are being pursued. A new cardiac care facility has 24 hour monitoring and was approved at about 9000 dollars.
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Lompoc
New England Journal of Medicine
Lompoc Valley
Saboteurs Blow Belfast Water Main
Saboteurs described by police as real professionals blew up a 54 inch water main in Belfast early today. Britain ordered 500 troops to guard key installations while the Northern Ireland government mobilized Protestant vigilantes to restore order amid Catholic protests.
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Donal P. O’higgins
Belfast
UPI
Britain
Northern Ireland
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