Indictments Hit Alessio Family in Prison Bribery Case
Federal grand jury charges San Diego businessman John Alessio 61 his brothers Angelo 55 and Tony 53 and son Dominic 35 with offering bribes for sexual favors and prison absences at FCI Lompoc and Terminal Island. Another indictment names Dominic and Anthony Santiago and others for bribery and gratuity. Arrangements made for surrender in San Diego with arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Warden Kenton says some defendants released after hearings.
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Harry J. Crompe
San Diego
John Alessio
Federal Correctional Institution
Lompoc
Intorney General’s Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alessio
Los Angeles
Dominic
Angelo
Tony
Anthony Santiago
FCI
Daniel Morgan
U.S
Caliente
Mexico
McNeil Island Penitentiary
Washington
Lompoc Fci
Santiago
Morgan
Roy Goddard
Arole
Curtis Phillips
Terminal Island
Frank Kenton
Goddard
Lompoc OKs water rate plan with higher bills next year
Lompoc City Council kept current water rates but cut free water and raised the water connection fee to boost about $100,000 in revenue. A single family homeowner will pay $3.25 for 200 cubic feet, with 35 cents per extra 100 cubic feet up to 500, while free water drops to 200 cubic feet for apartments.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc City
Lefkowitz
The
Water Commission
Commission
Virgil Phelps
Fred Bock
Joe Mixsell
Gene Wahlers
Nixon reshuffles key Justice Department and USIA posts
President Nixon announced a second term reshuffle naming Joseph T. Sneed as deputy attorney general and James Keogh to head the USIA. Sneed, a Duke Law School dean, will succeed Ralph E. Erickson. Keogh succeeds Frank Shakespeare. NIH chief Dr. Kert Marston will be replaced within months. Brown III remains EEOC chair. Kissinger meets Tho in Paris with talks on cease fire and peace treaty. no agreement expected before Christmas. negotiations may continue with Thieu urged by N Vietnamese press.
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Frank Shakespeare
Kert Q. Marston
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Ronald L. Ziegler
Marston
William H. Brown III
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Sneed
Durham
N.C
Cornell
Stanford Universities
Paris
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Kissinger
Washington
Nixon
U.S
Orly
White House
Kissing
Saigon
le Figaro
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Maurice Schumann
Nhan Dan
Hanoi Radio
United States
Thieu
Stewart Hensley
County Administrator Says Overtime Must Be Cut
County Administrative Officer Raymond D. Johnson plans to meet with department heads to tighten control on overtime after five months of heavy spending. He questions the current authority for overtime and proposed limits, noting $80,000 for cash overtime nearly exhausted with half a year left. He favors allowances only under emergencies and says a report with recommendations will go to the Board of Supervisors next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Praul
Raymond D. Johnson
Johnson
Board of Supervisors
Sheriff's Relief and Benefit Assn
County Employees’ Assn
Sheriff's Department
Welfare Department
Isla Vista
Apollo 17 Discoveries Highlight Orange Lunar Crater
Apollo 17 astronauts Cernan and Schmitt report a deep orange stained crater likely from late lunar volcanism. They also collected rocks from Taurus-Littrow, observing three extinct volcanoes from orbit as Evans monitored from the America. The crew planned another seven hour moon excursion before splashdown next week.
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Space Center
Houston
UPI
Apollo
Moon
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H
Jack”’ Schmitt
Cernan
Schmitt
Mission Control
Robert Parker
Ronald E. Evans
America
Challenger
Evans
Pacific
Taurus-Littrow Valley
School Board rejects LEA proposals over staffing concept
The Lompoc School Board with four members present took no action on the LEA's personnel unit concept proposal. President Marge Thomas and Trustee Archie Nagle opposed the plan, urging administration to handle further steps. LEA President Manship complained of confusion as Superintendent Wegner declined to proceed.
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Vaughn Proctor
School Board
Lompoc Education Association
Karl Braun
Archie Nagle
John Beattie
Glen Wegner
LEA
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Sol Lefkowitz
William Ratcliff
Joan Johnson
Phil Macias
University of Texas
Duke Law School
Ziegler
Keogh Was
Platte, Neb
Omaha World Herald
Brown
Shakespeare
Board
Marge Thomas
David Manship
Kay Wergedal
Key
Manship
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