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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1975
Page
3
The California Senate tackles malpractice insurance reform aimed at lowering premiums and curbing legal fees with contended provisions on limits and payment structures. Lawmakers also consider tax changes, gubernatorial concerns over special tax privileges, and a pay raise for legislators as adjournment nears.
Cape Canaveral reports the first of two Viking probes departs to Mars at 4:59 p m EDT on a year long life search. The round trip covers about 505 million miles at a cost of roughly 1 billion dollars to U S taxpayers. NASA officials call the mission the most ambitious unmanned effort yet.
The 21-year-old Samuel Bronfman, son of Edgar Bronfman, head of Seagram, telephoned his Yorktown Heights estate to say he had been kidnapped. FBI and police declined comment while newspapers cite an FBI spokesman confirming the call and threat from three unknown males.
In a CBS 60 Minutes interview First Lady Betty Ford says she is a liberated woman and would not be shocked if daughter Susan, 18, said she was having an affair. She claims premarital relations with the right partner might lower divorce rates and that her children may have tried marijuana.
Firefighters Sunday controlled a 4530 acre hursh and timber fire that burned seven miles in the San Jacinto Mountains south of Lake Hemet. The blaze threatened two communities and caused about 1 million in manpower, equipment, and $700,000 in property damage including a $500,000 helicopter. A 10 year old boy was identified as starting the fire amid 100 degree heat and gusty winds.
Dozens of small temblors continue around Oroville and Fresno after a 6.1 quake. Scientists study faults near Oroville home of the nation’s largest earthen dam and consider reservoir-triggered seismic activity as a factor.
Sacramento reports huge reductions in the state highway program risking as many as 20000 private sector jobs. Transportation chief Sid McCausland says inflation has doubled costs and the state cannot afford more freeway work, with contracts winding down in 18 months. A one cent gasoline tax could save about 5000 private jobs.
California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr calls welfare reform an heroic struggle to avoid liberalizing aid. He cites Reagan era changes as creating loopholes while noting AFDC declines and warns against further tax or highway spending proposals amid fiscal strain.
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