Liquor store clerks face stiff penalties for selling to minors
The article explains ABC enforcement against underage alcohol sales, detailing fines up to 2000 dollars, license suspensions, and revocation. It notes 65 to 500 dollar first offenses, 20 percent of daily gross for suspensions, and the high cost of licenses, with store practices by Jansson's and Bel Air Liquors to prevent sales to underage customers.
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Lompoc Valley
Bob Cox
ABC
Jansson’s Liquors
Ron Hooker
Bel Air Liquors
Village library bids again over estimate
The Lompoc Library Board faces funding gaps after the Ebbert Co. bid 42 386 for the Vandenberg Village library exceeds the 36 000 estimate. Fred H Clyde Inc bid 54 130. Trustees consider routes to cover 7 368 shortfall and may readvertise or reject bids.
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Vandenberg Village
Lompoc
Paul Thompson
Thompson
County Board of Supervisors
Public Works Department
County Counsel’s Office
State workers win Senate hurdle on limited collective bargaining
A state employe only collective bargaining bill passed the Governmental Organization Committee on a 6-2 vote as Gov. Brown negotiates to link it to a teachers rights measure. The measure AB1781 would let 200 000 civil service state college and UC workers form a bargaining unit and create a Public Employment Relations Board. The broader comprehensive bill for all public workers stalled as negotiations continue and a finance committee review looms.
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Sacramento
UPS
Senate
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Assembly
Brown
Ray Fisher
Edwin L. Z’berg
Civil Service
State College
University of California
Public Employment Relations Board
Finance Committee
Z’berg
Agreement Reached on Sinai Peace Accord Points
Israel and Egypt reportedly agree on key terms of a military disengagement deal in Sinai aiming for Sept. 1 signing. Kissinger to shuttle to finalize details. U S involvement expected to operate electronic spy equipment at Mitla and Gidi passes.
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United Press International
Israel
Egypt
Middle East
Tel Aviv
Sinai Desert
Henry Kissinger
Mitla
Gidi
Sinai
Mystery of Dead Birds Sparks Lompoc Concern
Residents in northeast Lompoc report dozens of dead sparrows over about a week. Birds drop from trees, convulse, then die. Veterinarian Dr Wes Marshall says symptoms suggest poisoning, but no autopsies have been performed. Health Department aware and investigating.
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North Orchid
Bob Cox
Lompoc
Janet Heathman
Wes Marshall
County Health Department
Heathman
Jury acclaims Joan Little not guilty in murder trial
A racially mixed Raleigh jury acquitted Joan Little, 21, of murdering jailer Clarence Alligood, 62, with an ice pick during an alleged sexual assault in her cell. The defense said Little stabbed him 11 times to stop forced acts in a solitary cellblock.
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Raleigh, N.C
UPI
Joan Little
Miss Little
Clarence Alligood
Alligood
Mark Nielson
Jerry Paul
Karen Galloway
Washington, D.C
Elsie
U.S. balance of payments posts second quarter surplus
Commerce Department reports a 1.23 billion dollar balance of payments surplus for Q2, the first six month surplus since records began in 1960, aided by higher exports and reduced travel and investment by Americans abroad. The gain follows a 2.95 billion dollar Q1 surplus, the largest on record for the first quarter.
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Washington
UPS
United States
Commerce Department
U.S
Commerce
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