Drug addict believes police harass him in Lompoc
The article profiles a Lompoc narcotic addict who feels police surveillance a constant, while Chief James Smith explains that enforcement targets crime and supplies. He supports counseling and a buddy system, urging hospital treatment for addicts and noting limited local medical resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry J. Crompe
Lompoc
Mpoc
James Smith
Ieee
Smith
Chief Smith
County General Hospital
Alcoholics Anonymous
Superior Court
William Rosenthal
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Synanon
Rosenthal
Kidnapped American hostages in Uruguay urge freedom
A typed letter from Claude L. Fly, 65, a Fort Collins soil expert held by Tupamaros in Montevideo for four months, appeals for release to resume his work and be with family. The note, delivered to UPI, describes his confinement, cites the government's stance, and references the separate kidnapping of Brazilian consul Aloysio Dias Gomide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montevideo
API
Claude L. Fly
United Press International
Fry
Fort Collins
Colo
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Fly
Aloysio Dias Gomide
UPI
National Liberation Movement
Tupamaros
Dias Gomide
Dan Mitrione
Richmond
Ind
Meeting aimed at stopping London blackout relief talks
London sources report government and top labor leaders meeting to end a four day electricity workers slowdown that caused rolling blackouts across the country. Vic Feather led talks with the government and union chiefs, offering a peace plan if wage talks resume and a possible rise from 10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Vic Feather
Trades Union Congress
TUC
Central Labor Organization
Electricity Workers’ Union
Robert Carr
Feather
Carr
Central Electricity Council
Water groups debate Santa Ynez River fixed release plan
The Bureau of Reclamation outlined a fixed release concept for Santa Ynez River releases from Cachuma Dam to South Coast water agencies and Santa Ynez Valley and Lompoc entities. E F Sullivan pledged comments by March 1. Extra water estimates reach up to 1600 acre feet in some periods, with South Coast agencies seeking maximum diversion and Valley and Lompoc aiming to secure entitlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ynez River
Cachuma Dam
Bureau of Reclamation
South Coast Water Agencies
Santa Ynez Valley
Lompoc
Cachuma
South Coast
Rail strike halts Bay Area rail service and trains nationwide
Pickets halted California operations as a four union national strike began. In the Bay Area 12,000 commuters lose SP service on the San Francisco Peninsula with 22 trains halted each direction. Freight and perishable goods movement are at risk as unions representing engineers ticket clerks and maintenance walk out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
UPI
California
Bay Area
Southern Pacific Co
San Jose
San Francisco Peninsula
el Paso
Antonio
Western Pacific
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Portland
Ore
New Orleans
St. Louis
Oakland
Ogden
Pacific Fruit Express
Imperial Valley
Arizona
Rio Grande River Valley
Porterville
Calif
Eastwest
Omaha
Neb
Los Angeles
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Illinois
San Francisco Bay Area
San Diego
Washington
Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks
BRAC
United Transportation Union
UTU
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Big City
White House
Congress
Nixon
U.S
John H. Pratt
New York City
Ford
Atlanta
General Motors
Chrysler
Delaware
Knoxville
Ten
Maintenance of Way
Gulf Coast
James D. Hodgson
Hodgson
Fund raising project aids ecology in Lompoc
A Lompoc Ward fund raiser begun in 1968 to collect and sell old newspapers for a new chapel has grown into a major ecology effort yielding 12 tons of paper in one day. A three-man crew with a baler now handles expanding loads, with plans for a second baler and extra workers as activity continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mangino
Lompoc
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mangino
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints
Southern Pacific
Lompoc Ward
Can-Nel Enterprises
San Diego
al Perry
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Edward Heath
E. F. Sullivan
San Joaquin
Coast
Sacramento
Lathrop
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