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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1972
Page
2
Local residents have two days left to buy light bulbs in the Lompoc Lions Club fund raiser supporting the Lompoc Valley Youth Activities Fund. Ron Jones is handling sales. call RE 6 1441 or RE 6 7256 to get bulbs before the December 9 deadline.
A major winter storm blankets the nation with snow from Oregon and California to the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. Freezing rain and fog disrupt travel while dense fog limits visibility on the western Gulf Coast. Temperatures plunge below 20 below zero in the northern Plains with a hard freeze forecast reaching into northern California.
In Sacramento state Agriculture Director Christensen said the Newcastle disease epidemic in Southern California poultry farms should be eliminated by January and the quarantine lifted by February at latest. He spoke at the state Board of Agriculture meeting.
The heaviest fighting in a month raged along South Vietnam while bad weather limited U S air strikes on North Vietnam. U S and Saigon reported 83 Communist attacks in 24 hours, with 70 by shellfire only. B52 missions were few in the DMZ, but 14 waves hit Quang Tri Province to disrupt supplies and aid counterattacks. Marine forces near Quang Tri City reported 1 400 rounds of shelling with seven enemy killed and two own dead. Thieu prepared to address Parliament on ceasefire talks after meeting U S envoy Bunker. he insists on removing North Vietnamese troops from the country as a condition. In Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnamese infantry clashed with about 100 North Vietnamese two miles northeast of Hoai An.
A federal grand jury enlarged the Weatherman indictment to 15 members over a Cleveland police home bombing and planned attacks in California and Ohio. The single count charges conspiracies to bomb police and military sites in several cities, updating a July 1970 indictment that added four new defendants and dropped two.
Pentagon officials report 3.8 percent of U S Army personnel in Europe tested positive for drug use in October, up from under one percent a year earlier, while Vietnam sees a drop to 1.5 percent. Maj. Gen. John K Singlaub notes progress in Vietnam, as Europe faces growing abuse ahead.
The 21 sailors accused of rioting aboard the carrier Kitty Hawk will not appear before the House armed services subcommittee. Defense attorney Milton J. Silverman said it would be inappropriate prompting some to consider invoking the Fifth Amendment. The panel, in its third day of closed hearings on racial trouble Oct 12–13, toured the carrier but offered little beyond praise for the ship's cook.
Final post election expense reports show opponents of Prop 20 spent about $1.1 million while supporters reported about $216,000. Major anti campaign contributors included Texaco Standard Oil Occidental Petroleum Mobil Gulf Oil and others totaling $138,860 plus industry funds. Prop 20 backers led by Sierra Club and California Coastal Alliance spent $117,017 and $63,335 respectively with final totals likely over $250,000.
In Dublin Fianna Fail spokesmen say separation of church and state would end 35 years of Catholic Church special status under the 1937 constitution. Voter turnout was about half of 1.8 million eligible voters and initial results were awaited.
Five men and a woman armed with rifles and a hand grenade hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines jet in Addis Ababa. Security agents shot them dead in flight, the highest death toll in aerial hijacking history. A hijacker released a grenade. a passenger tossed it back causing an explosion injuring at least eight people.
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