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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1971
Page
2
Gov Ronald Reagan and lawmakers reached a welfare reform compromise after 11 days of bargaining aiming to save about 150 million in state federal and local funds. A $300-350 million tax increase remains likely and final ratification was sought today with October implementation.
Twine needed for Idaho hay was moved off Portland docks using non union labor while the five week long West Coast longshoremen's strike keeps other cargo and ships tied up. A court order allowed unloading though Gov McCall urged movement. 150 ships remain idle across Washington Oregon and California.
In Colma California a three month gravediggers strike has left over 400 bodies waiting in mortuaries. Some burials have been moved temporarily to Oakland or Marin County and later reinterred. Florists and tombstone makers report business declines while families face delayed funerals and neglected graveyards in the city of cemeteries south of San Francisco.
Local groups announce a series of August events including Women of the Moose dinners on August 6 and 8 at the Moose Home 921 West Laurel with child care pricing, a Thrift Shop outdoor sale August 7 at 512 North H Street, and a children’s party August 8. Knights of Columbus picnic August 8 at Waller Park Area 4. A Vandenberg Base tour is planned August 9 with Chamber information. Community meeting August 11 at City Hall Auditorium. Pioneer Days August 12 13 14 with a Lions Inn breakfast and judging by the Historical Society plus a store display contest and honors for Lompoc High graduates.
This column will appear each week in the Lompoc Record. Items to be placed in the column must be called into the Chamber office before 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
Space Center Houston reports scientists will process Hadley Rille rocks starting Monday with astronauts David Scott and James Irwin assisting. They brought back 4.5 billion year old crust material near Spur Crater and drilled an eight foot core.
The Apollo 15 astronauts plan to televise a lunar eclipse from their craft after the $115,000 camera mounted on the moon buggy failed. Chief Flight Director Gerald Griffin announced the failure as the crew, returning home, prepared to photograph the eclipse from space. The event, lasting 2:46 p.m. to 5:06 p.m. EDT, will be visible only from outside the United States.
Humid tropical air sent showers and thunderstorms across the Gulf States while cool high pressure kept the north dry from Minnesota to Maine. In Texas, Corpus Christi and Robstown residents fled floodwaters, sheltering at a livestock barn and Memorial Coliseum after days of heavy rain inundated neighborhoods and stalled traffic. Police used military trucks and city buses to evacuate, a building roof collapse was reported, and waters rose over I 37 underpasses.
In Soda Springs California divers and 40 searchers including 20 state prisoners scoured lake and stream areas four days after Dana Cooper vanished from a camp for mentally retarded children. No sign found though footprints led nowhere and a reported sighting proved false.
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