Mills may lose chair to illness and scandal
Speaker Carl Albert said Rep. Wilbur Mills likely will remain chairman of the Ways and Means Committee despite rumors he may resign due to exhaustion and a reported relationship with a stripper. Mills, 65, hospitalized for a complete examination, awaits doctors’ guidance as his wife Polly visits and Annabel Battistella plans a bedside visit.
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Bethesda Naval Hospital
Mills
Polly
Wilbur
Annabel Battistella
Fourth body sought in SLO light-plane crash
Searchers scoured a hillside south of San Luis Obispo for the fourth victim of a collision between a Cessna 172 and a Piper Cherokee in heavy rain. The Piper pilot was a 27 year old Salinas man. authorities would withhold names until all four victims were identified.
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San Luis Obispo
Calif
UPI
Here
Seattle
Salinas
U.S. Highway 101
Haldeman denies planning with Nixon in 1973
Haldeman testified under cross examination that he did not plot with President Nixon in 1973. The Watergate figure said discussions about preemptive disclosures or discrediting John Dean’s testimony were not plans to cover up. The trial centers on conflicting accounts of a March 21 1973 meeting.
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Washington
UPI
H.R. Haldeman
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
Watergate Committee
Haldeman
Nixon
Richard Ben- Veniste
White House
John W. Dean III
Ben-Veniste
Dean
Senate Committee
Paul Barnum
Tom McCall
McCall
Barnum
Inmate killed as guard fire halts escape at FCI
An inmate, Donald R. Satterfield 27, was shot and died after scaling fences during an escape attempt at the Federal Correctional Institution. A second prisoner escaped but was captured near the FCI sewer plant about 10 a.m. today after tower guards fired in the pursuit.
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Federal Correctional Institution
FCI
Donald R. Satterfield
Vallejo
Satterfield
Frank Kenton
Jonson
Kenton
FBI
Major storm batters Lompoc and county flooding roads
A late night storm drenched Lompoc and surrounding areas with high winds and heavy rain, flooding H Street and the Santa Ynez River drainage. No serious injuries were reported as authorities opened roads, noted minimal property damage, and logged several minor collisions.
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Lompoc
H Street
North
Central Avenues
Santa Ynez River
Rucker
Santa Maria
Young
Lompoc City Hall
Barry Gustafson
Santa Barbara County
Lefkowitz
James Stubbner
Santa Ynez
Myra Manfrina
Burpee Farms
Floradale Avenue
Gustafson
Miguelito Canyon Road
Cachuma Lake
Bradbury Dam
Stubbner
Highway 101
Nojoqui Grade
Highway 166
Olive Avenue
East Lemon Avenue
Carpinteria
Carpinteria Memorial Hall
City delays water and garbage rate hikes for one month
Lompoc City Council unanimously voted to pause proposed rate increases. Staff will study halving an 80 percent water rate boost and trim garbage collection costs from $2.50 to $3.50, with hearings moved to January 7.
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Art Scott
City Water Commission
Gene Wahlers
Gerbece
Scott
Lompoc
E.C. Stevens
City Water Board
Jack Myers
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Albert
Slo
Lee Heri
Piper
Frank Hinkley
Hinkley
Charleston
W. Va
United Mine Workers
UMW
Washington Post
Arnold Miller
Johns-Manville Products Co
Chemical
Jay Ratcliff
Darrell Brandon
West Walnut Avenue
College Avenue
Dan Duffy
Lompocans
Stevens
Myers
Brown and Caldwell Co
American Insurance Association
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