Santa Ana winds leave over $1 million in damage and four deaths
Strong Santa Anas battered Southern California causing 55 structural fires 52 brush fires and 131 utility line breaks as winds up to 95 mph raged. Two youths died from wind related incidents two others missing presumed drowned and a five year old girl burned severely by a lamp sparked by downed lines.
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Santa Anas
la Mesa
Mark Lindberg
Angelo Gus Revels
Torrance
el Mirage Dry Lake
Santa
Velda White
San Dimas
Los Angeles
Sino Soviet talks bogged down by propaganda in Peking
Moscow sources say Sino-Soviet negotiations in Beijing stalled by Chinese intransigence and hostile propaganda amid 11 sessions. Kuznetsov to return for a second round with a revised border peace formula seen as shifting from rhetoric to business.
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Moscow
UPI
Peking
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Soviet Union
Kvznetsov
Supreme Soviet
China
Damansky Island
Humphrey Credits Salt Lake Speech For 1968 Campaign
Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey says his Sept 20 1968 Salt Lake City speech helped his presidential bid and that South Vietnamese officials were deterred from Paris peace talks by his pledge to halt bombing if elected. He disputes Lyndon B Johnson's claim that the speech cost him the White House. He calls it a crucial turning point in the campaign.
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Philip G. Reed Jr
Minneapolis
Minn
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Salt Lake City
Paris
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
Humphrey
White House
Johnson
WCCO
Richard M. Nixon
Egypt accuses Israel of stealing five gunboats
Egypt charges Israel with stealing five gunboats from France and warns nations trading with Israel that it ignores sovereignty and legality. The boats, moving toward Israel, were seen off Crete and Rhodes amid poor visibility. arrival in Israel expected late Wednesday or Thursday.
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United Press International
Egypt
Israel
France
Crete
Rhodes
Paris
le Figaro
Georges Pompidou
Nixon signs broad tax bill amid inflation concerns
President Nixon signed the expansive tax bill saying it will reduce federal revenue by about 3 billion and plans to seek revenue increases or spending cuts to curb inflation. He praised tax fairness gains, noted a 9.1 billion tax cut, and said effects begin with the first paycheck of the new year.
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Michael L. Posner
Washington
UPI
Nixon
Federal Treasury
Congress
House - Senate
White House
Speed-up plan for farm preserve gains county support
County counsel and department heads back a proposal to speed farm preserve processing by using assessor maps and deed descriptions instead of metes and bounds. The plan, urged by Supervisors Tunnell and Beatty, awaits advisory committee report, with about 60 applications due before the March lien date.
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North County
Curtis Tunnell
Francis H. Beattie
County Agricultural Preserve Advisory Committee
George P. Rading
George P. Rading and Public Works
Norman Caldwell
Advisory Committee
Caldwell
Snow and Ice Storm Batterd Large U S Regions
A broad winter storm battered the Midwest, South, and plains with new snow and ice. Tornadoes and severe storms threatened parts of Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama. Northeastern areas faced weather warnings and power outages with rivers at flood risk.
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Midwest
Plains
United Press International
New
mid-Atlantic
New Mexico
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New England
Vermont
Gardner
Mass
Civil Air Patrol
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Great Lakes
Idaho
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Wyoming
North Dakota
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Colorado
Arkansas
Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Huntsville
Increased subscriptions rise at Lompoc Record
The Lompoc Record will raise monthly subscriptions by 25 cents to $2.25 starting January 1 due to higher newsprint and supply costs. Street sales stay at 10 cents. Carrier deliveries begin collecting the new rate late in January. Publisher J Donald Adam announced the first rise in over two years.
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Lompoc Record
J. Donald Adam
Adam
Record
Boys
Train and pickup collide on East Locust Avenue
William Crowe a 44 year old of 501 East Willow Avenue escaped injury when his pickup struck a Southern Pacific freight train on East Locust Avenue near the 400 block shortly after 6 30 p m. Crowe's front end suffered moderate damage while the train sustained none engineer Thomas Lavelle 58 of San Luis Obispo was uninjured. The engine made contact with the truck and moved about 240 feet north before stopping.
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William Crowe
E. Willow Ave
Southern Pacific
Locust Avenue
East Locust Avenue
Crowe
Thomas Lavelle
San Luis Obispo
Agnew Attends Marcos Inauguration Under Tight Security
Vice President Spiro Agnew attended Ferdinand Marcos’s Manila inauguration under heavy Secret Service protection. He dismissed anti American protests outside the U S Embassy as not representative of Philippine sentiment and met with South Korea’s Chung Il Kwon before visiting a U S cemetery and attending a state dinner at Malacanang Palace. Marcos urged a dialogue of peace and a united Asia while promising a new decade of leadership.
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Agnew
Chung Nl Kown
South Korea
U.S
Makari Town
Asia
Marcos
New Year Truce Sees Eight Viet Cong Shellings
Allied reports eight shellings in the first 15 hours of the Viet Cong cease fire. One American and ten government troops wounded, with seven salvos hitting installations and a 10 round mortar barrage killing one near Saigon. Fighting otherwise light.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPS
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