Lompoc Council Delays Budget Actions Amid Public Hearings
Citizens spoke on proposed utility and trash rate increases at the Lompoc City Council meeting. The council postponed decisions to next Tuesday and prepared for a budget focused session while defending electric rates as lower than nearby towns. The article notes other items and a separate armed robbery attempt nearby with a knife recovered.
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Lompoc
Art Scott
Gene Wahlers
Ed Rodgers
E. Locust
Brooks Speight
Department of Safety
Pete Shoemaker
Parks and Recreation Commission
Stanley Mendes
Lompoc City Auditorium
Nixon hints at wage-price board to combat inflation
President Nixon suggested he might back a wage-price control board if it could curb inflation while signaling a broader move to involve the White House in major labor contract talks. He urged restraint on government blue collar wage hikes and kept an open mind on an incomes policy. A fire at Coors Pepsi facility in Santa Maria destroyed beer stock and cans, with 15 tons of aluminum cans also lost. no injuries reported.
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Nixon
Treasury
John B. Connally
Congress
GOP
Jacob K. Javits
R-N. Y
Javits
Elizabeth J. Canfield
S. M St
White House
Connally
RN. Y
Coors Beer Distributing Company
Pepsi Cola
S. Blosser Road
Santa Maria
Los Alamos
Sisquoc
City of
District allocates 12 million dollar education budget
Lompoc School Board approved the district 1971 72 budget valued at about 12 million dollars. State aid calculations and teacher raises remain unresolved as the process proceeds.
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Lompoc Education Association
Allan Hancock College
Guadalupe
Strike loosens grip as railroads move toward full operation
Ten railroads pushed toward full operation while effects linger nationwide. California growers faced 35 million dollars in lost sales and 10 million in related industries as harvests shifted. The San Joaquin Valley melon crop eyed losses of about 10 million from a 20 million crop while Union Pacific reported about 34 million in lost revenue. Norfolk and Western planned normal operations after moving 7,000 loaded cars.
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United Transportation Union
Lee Hubbard
Council of California Growers
California
San Joaquin Valley
Union Pacific
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Astronaut wants longer stay to gaze at the moon
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott Alfred Worden and James Irwin circled the moon on the sixth day Scott said he wished for weeks to study the lunar labyrinth The crew woke to 2001 A Space Odyssey music and Scott noted there is a lot to be seen and done on the moon while NASA prepared for the next mission March 17 and due to a future geologist visit at Houston mission control praised the crew's work
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Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Apollo
Ground Control At
Houston
Leon T. Silver
California Institute of Technology
Mission Control
Silver
Park drinking ban withdrawn at City Council meeting
City Council sponsor Sol Lefkowitz withdrew an ordinance to ban intoxicating liquor in parks and urged stricter enforcement of existing laws. Mayor Art Scott and citizens debated vandalism, teen drinking, and park safety with calls for community feedback and targeted patrols.
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Sol Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz
Art Scott
Pete Shoemaker
Ryan Park
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