Lompoc Council Hits Deadline Delays on Wastewater Bond
The City Council balked at rushing a wastewater plant expansion bond for the November ballot. City Administrator Gene Wahlers outlined needed actions including hiring two consulting firms to analyze bonding methods and costs totaling about 20000 dollars. The council adjourned to review material before Aug 25 as August travel plans threaten the timetable.
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Gene Wahlers
Art Scott
Scott
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
Federal Correction Institution
Lompoc Council Seeks Downtown Study Funds After HUD Policy Change
The Lompoc City Council learned an HUD funded downtown study was invalid due to new federal policy standards. Redevelopment Agency members elected Mayor George Cotsenmeyer and Art Scott as leaders and planned a special session in September to map new guidelines for downtown redevelopment and valuation.
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Scott
Santa Maria
George Cotsenmeyer
Pro-Tem
Sol Lefkowitz
Bob Moretti
Rick Gregory
Cotton Bowl
Egypt and Libya Readying Union to Form New State
Tripoli Radio reports progress toward an Arab merger of Egypt and Libya to face Israel. Talks in Benghazi between Presidents Sadat and Khadafy aim to lay foundations for a union with a new state capable of confronting the Israeli threat. Talks to resume today after progress noted.
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Israel
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Muammar Khadafy
Tripoli
Fighting erupts in East Belfast amid sectarian clashes
In East Belfast mobs of Protestants and Catholics clashed after two Protestant workers were shot at the Sirocco Engineering Plant. British troops moved in as barricades formed and rioters blocked a Catholic enclave. IRA gunfire also targeted troops in Belfast and Londonderry as tensions rose.
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IRA
Londonderry
Oeee
la Siaine
Ardoyne
Sirocco Engineering
Two arrested in largest cocaine haul in county history
A task force arrested Patrick John O'Neill and Peter Edmund Silverbrand after a six month narcotics investigation. About seven ounces of cocaine with a street value over 100000 were seized. Bail was set at 25000 for O'Neill and 15000 for Silverbrand.
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Lompoc
Los Angeles
Keith Bobb
Lompoc Valley Bowl
Seventh Street
Ocean Avenue
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport
City Park
Highway 246
Highway 1
Bank of America
Federal Correctional Institution
Nelson withdraws as McGovern running mate candidate
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin pulls out of consideration for vice president, narrowing the list to five plus a possible extra name. A key aide says McGovern may wait for the Democratic National Committee to decide, as party officials plan a formal successor announcement to Senator Tom Eagleton.
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UPI
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
George S. McGovern
McGovern
Democratic National Committee
Jean Westwood
National Committee
Thomas F. Ton
Missouri
Eagleton
Trustees Approve 13.2 Million Budget For 1972 73
The school board adopted a 13.2 million dollar fiscal budget with a 3 percent raise for teachers and staff, maintains a 3.77 tax rate per 100 assessed valuation, and sets a 175 day minimum school year. It also approved the fall calendar opening September 5, closing June 8, and lease agreements with Vandenberg Air Force Base. The district notes a 1016 dollar government legal settlement over price fixing with American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.
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James R. Mills
San Diego
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Moretti
California
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Vaughn Proctor
American Radiator
Standard Sanitary Corp
Vandenberg Air Force Base
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