Lompoc Counciles Wait on Revenue Sharing Uses
The Lompoc City Council agreed to wait until the 1973-74 budget sessions to decide how to spend about 357000 in revenue sharing funds on maintenance and capital projects. They will keep current property tax rates, citing a five year program and possible future reductions, while considering PG E rate impact and computer program expansions.
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Lompoc
Gene Wahlers
Wahlers
E.C. Stevens
Stevens
Sol Lefkowitz
Pg&e
Emil Scolari
City General Fund
Marvin Loney
Loney
IBM
Kissinger Opens New Round of Vietnam Peace Talks in France
In Sainte Gemme France Dr Henry Kissinger and Hanoi negotiators launched a fresh push to end the Vietnam War with two five hour sessions. Kissinger conferred by cable with President Nixon at the summer White House in Key Biscayne Florida. Officials suggested a cease fire could begin by December 12 or 15 with prisoner releases before Christmas.
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Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
Choisy le Roi
Nixon
Kissinger
Paris
Peter Townsend
Queen Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Townsend
Britain
Pierre-Etienne Guyot
Key Biscayne, Fla
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Heavy assault drives Rangers from Highlands base camp
A South Vietnamese Ranger battalion about 500 men abandoned its Ly Thai Loi base camp six miles southwest of Pleiku under heavy Communist fire. Reports said 13 Rangers were wounded and 14 were missing as search and rescue continued. A U.S. Air Force F4 Phantom en route to Da Nang reportedly crashed last week for unknown reasons.
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Saigon
UPI
Central Highlands
Ly Thai Loi
Pleiku
US. Command
Thailand
da Nang
South Vietnam
Rumsfeld Named U S Ambassador to NATO
President Nixon designates Donald Rumsfeld as the new U S ambassador to NATO succeeding retiring David M Kennedy. Rumsfeld, 40, formerly counselor to the President and head of the Cost of Living Council, will assume the Brussels post after Senate approval, as Kennedy exits after four years in Treasury and NATO roles.
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Rumsfeld
NATO
Key Biscayne, Fla
David M. Kennedy
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
U. S
NATO Council
Europe
Ziegler
Kennedy
Treasury
Nixon
Two Dead and Four Hurt In Weekend Valley Crashes
Two Buellton youths, Ross Dennison 17 and Jim Dennison 14, died when their car skidded on wet pavement and was struck broadside by a bakery truck driven by Grant Voyen 29 of Solvang. Voyen injured. car wreck occurred on Highway 24 near Solvang amid early morning fog.
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Lompoc
Santa Ynez
Buellton
Ross Dennison
Jim
Grant Voyen
Solvang
Dennison
Voyen
Santa Ynez Valley Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Fifth Street
Highway 1
Jalama Road
Michael Silverman
San Rafael
Claudia Heron
Santa Cruz
Douglas Hastings
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Brenda Jones
Calle Portes
Mission Hills
Hearings Open On Congress Reform In Washington
Sen. Charles Mathias and Sen. Adlai Stevenson III spearhead informal hearings on congressional reform. Fifteen witnesses, including Lucy Benson and Clarence Mitchell, plan to testify over three days on seniority secrecy and Congress budget powers. Archer's pee wee football team devoured 16 pizzas after a final game Saturday.
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Washington
UPI
Sen
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
R-Md
Mathias
Congress
Adlai E. Stevenson III
D-Ill
Lucy Wilson Benson
League of Women Voters
Russell Hemenway
National Committee For An Effective
Clarence Mitchell
Archer's
Sign plan pulled from agenda for North H Street project
Lompoc Valley Chamber officials backed off a presentation for a North H Street directional sign project, seeking more plan alternatives before the City Council meeting. Div of Highways had prepared a 42 foot sign spanning lanes to aid traffic, drawing opposition from a city planner who favored a smaller ground level sign further north.
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Lompoc Valley
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Hastings
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Constellation Road
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Brussels
Senate
CHP
Lompoc- Casmalia
Vandenberg Village
Jones
Lompoc-Casmalia
Santa Lucia Canyon Road
George Gann
el Centro
Gann
NAACP
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