Hand-sub developer’s downfall stains Lompoc backers
Backers who trusted Dick Robinson trace his collapse after a public pitch and a city-backed plan to build URVs in Lompoc. Neighbors recall lavish spending, unpaid wages, and a string of broken promises as Robinson vanished with prototypes and debt.
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Dick Robinson
Lompoc
Robinson
Underwater Research Inc
Drake
Phil Payne
Demersal Divers Supply
Coach Payne
Arizona
Wisconsin
Underwater Research, Inc
Public Board Eruption As Slater and Sheriff Clash
County Supervisor James M. Slater and Sheriff John W. Carpenter engaged in a heated verbal clash at a Board of Supervisors meeting. They exchanged accusations over the Narcotics Task Force and Slater’s voting record while Lt. George Bregante defended the sheriff and the task force.
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Slater
Dick Praul
James M. Slater
John W. Carpenter
Board of Supervisors
Carpenter
Third District
Goleta Valley
Francis H. Beattie
Frank J. Frost
Santa Barbara
George Bregante
Bregante
Law Enforce
Ment
Sheriff's Department
Mao and Ford Hold Significant Talks in Peking
Chairman Mao Tse tung hosted President Ford at the Forbidden City in a friendl atmosphere and officials described the nearly two hour discussions as significant and earnest. The meeting, longer than Ford’s 1972 Nixon discussions, followed by a White House approved statement noting earnest and significant talks on wide ranging issues.
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Peking
UPI
Mao Tsetung
Ford
Forbidden City
Mao
Richard M. Nixon
White House
China
Washington
Korea
U.S
Taiwan
William Greener
Susan
United States
Mac
George Bush
National Security
Brent T. Scowcroft
Kissinger
Winston Lord
Masked gunmen hijack train in Holland killing hostages
Gunmen believed to be South Moluccan separatists seized a Groningen to Amsterdam passenger train near Beilen, holding about 50 people. They killed two hostages including the engineer, released a child and two women, and demanded a bus to Schiphol for an escape plan to an unspecified destination. Negotiators failed to sway them.
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Holland
Groningen
Netherlands
UPI
Schiphol
Amsterdam
Indonesia
PUC assigns highest priority to residential gas users
California’s Public Utilities Commission adopted an interim end-use system that places residential customers in the top priority category as gas supply tightens. It aims to protect those least able to switch to alternatives and expands mutual aid between Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas to cover top two priority groups.
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San Francisco
UPI
California Public Utilities Commission
California
PUC
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
The
Southern California Gas Co
Brown urges sweeping changes to California highway funding
Sacramento reports the Brown administration urged major reforms to highway finance, proposing abolishing the 60-40 split between Southern and Northern California and ending the special gas tax fund. Secretary Burns urged putting highway revenues into the general fund to give lawmakers maximum flexibility.
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Sacramento
UPI
Brown
California
Business and Transportation
Donald E. Burns
Highway Commission
Senate Transportation Committee
Burns
Randolph Collier
Collier
Stockton
Senate
James R Mills
San Diego
Edmund G Brown Jr
Mills
Christmas trees arrive in Lompoc as council session nears
Season’s first load of Christmas trees arrives in Lompoc on a truck heading up H Street. Deputy District Attorney Haynes Jones delivers a judicial robe to Judge Terrill F. Cox in Solvang for a Lompoc jurist’s visit to the bench there today.
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Lompoc
H Street
Haynes Jones
Judicial Robe
Terrill F. Cox
Solvang
D-Day for Lompoc council block grant decision week
Lompoc City Council plans a 7:30 p.m. meeting at city hall to decide 1976 Community Development Block Grant allocations with a focus on senior citizen center funding and fire station rehabilitation. Officials consider revised budgets and public hearings alongside zoning, liability, and other city matters. Washington talk: Bayh would back energy bill compromise, Bentsen would veto. Carter questions revenue sharing at Democratic Governors Conference with about two dozen governors present.
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Lompoc
City Hall
Lompoc Unified
Council
Commission On Aging
Gene L. Wahlers
Wahlers
Planning Commission
Joint Powers
Area Planning Council
Women’s
Lompoc Valley
Washington
Redistricting clash over Santa Ynez Valley into Fourth District
Santa Ynez Valley including Lake Cachuma failed to win a board vote to place the area entirely in the Fourth District. Supervisor Harrell Fletcher backed a county split plan toward a proposed Los Padres County, but the idea drew questions and lost support.
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Board of Supervisors
Santa Ynez Valley
Lake Cachuma
Harrell Fletcher
Santa Maria
Sibe
Los Padres County
Robert E. Kallman
James M. Slater
South Coast
Fletcher
Britt Johnson
Slater
Kallman
John Wiester
Buellton Area
Beattie
Wiester
Planning Commission
Lompoc
Santa Ynez
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Charles Carmichael
Carmichael
Alan Drake
Judy Coach
la Purisima
Frost
Beilen
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