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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1975
Page
3
The Commerce Department reports June increases in retail inventories by 175 million and wholesale by 85 million, ending four months of liquidation and supporting claims the recession is ending. Backlog pressures persist as manufacturers reduce stock by 900 million while overall inventories fall 640 million from January.
Senate Republican Leader George Deukmejian expects Gov. Brown to win Senate confirmation of five Agricultural Labor Relations Board appointees despite criticism from the California Farm Bureau Federation and initial cool reception from Teamsters. Allan Grant urged the Rules Committee to reject the nominations and said regulations favor unions.
The FBI doubts former Teamsters boss James Hoffa engineered his own disappearance. An FBI spokesman said July 30 theory of avoiding a grand jury subpoena lacks support. Don Vestal argues Hoffa staged a kidnapping with union leaders’ knowledge and may still be alive. Teamsters meeting in Boston expelled reporters as Frank Fitzsimmons’ supporters backed his reelection.
Randolph Hearst says he met Walter and Micki Scott and family members in Las Vegas and San Francisco about Patricia Hearst. He denies any money negotiations and recalls a late night discussion at the Scotts apartment and subsequent drinks at a hotel bar before returning to his hotel.
Indications grow that Secretary Kissinger will resume shuttle diplomacy with plans to visit Cairo and other capitals next week. A Geneva peace conference remains a distant option as Rabin signals that decisions are due and a new interim agreement may be within reach.
NASA scrubs the Viking Mars mission after a power drain forces a second delay. Engineers replace the defective orbiter with a sister craft, delaying launch to August 24 with a follow on ten days later. The change raises costs and shifts bicentennial timing.
President Ford plans to decide by Friday whether to appeal a court ruling upholding a $2 tariff on imported oil. He met with Frank Zarb to discuss energy policy and is expected to take the case to the Supreme Court to assert authority for import fees.
William A. Kerr president of Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp testified at a Department of Consumer Affairs hearing that a tin plate and soda ash shortage along with inflation driven demand caused a nationwide shortage of home canning lids. He projected 1.6 billion lids nationwide this year, with Kerr's firm distributing about 1 billion and aiming for a 60 percent production rise by September.
An eight to three vote by the Revenue and Taxation Committee sends SB204 to the floor. The plan would raise the excise tax on wine and liquor, generating about 19 million the first year and 38 million annually to fund rehabilitation and alcoholism programs.
In Raleigh North Carolina UPI. Joan Little 21 faces a second degree murder charge for the killing of jailer Clarence Alligood amid a defense claim of self defense. Lawyers pressed closing arguments as jurors weigh self defense versus escape motive.
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