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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1973
Page
10
The Record Frames Its News and Editorial Balance
The Record states its aim to present facts in news columns while keeping opinions confined to editorial pages. This distinction guides readers on what is reporting versus commentary.
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the Record
Santa Barbara County Taxes Face Possible 82 Cent Rise
The county auditor warns a repeat of this year's tax relief is unlikely citing delayed state reimbursements higher operating costs and Environmental Control Office expenses. He urges the Board of Supervisors to slow spending to preserve savings and avoid a levy increase next year.
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Santa Barbara County
County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
County Environmental Control Office
Metroliner Glove Cold Ride Reflects on Energy Woes
Martin F. Nolan adapts Marquis Childs notes on a Metroliner parlor car where a cold cabin prompts reflections on rail travel, energy shortages, and American transportation, highlighting doubts about modernization and a skeptical view of the republic’s future amid an energy crisis.
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Marquis Childs
Martin F. Nolan
United Feature Syndicate
Rail swindle, rails revival, and the Boston to Washington plan
The piece argues railroads once benefited the nation while robbers held the era of the highway boom. It notes two million yearly air delays and praises a new 1.5 billion taxpayer bond program for Northeast and Midwest railroads. Congress backs fast rail Boston to Washington with accountability urged for lawmakers and quasi public players.
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Howard Hughes
LaGuardia
Automakers
Detroit
Congress
Northeast
Midwest
U.S
House of Representatives
Boston
Washington
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Rainfall in Lompoc and local housing plans
On December 26, 1941 rain gauges recorded .40 inches in Lompoc raising the season total to 3.88 inches. A state housing agency sub committee urged immediate housing for civilian workers and Army personnel and designated the area as a defense housing district. Law offices opened in Lompoc by Smith Haines and Stevens with Santa Barbara operations to run locally.
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St. Nick
Lompoc
Army
State Housing Agency
Smith, Haines and Stevens
Attorneys At Law
Santa Barbara
California Roster 1973-74 prompts gaze at state regulatory web
The column reviews the California Roster 1973-74, noting 155 pages of offices, staff, boards, and commissions. It highlights odd bodies such as the Cemetery Board and the Bureau of Home Furnishings, and jokes about governance rules. The editor mentions local New Year plans and Lompoc’s centennial gala as 1974 begins.
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Edmund G. Brown, Jr
California
California Council of Product Design and Marketing
Onder
Behavioral Science Examiners
Dry Cleaners
Guide Dogs For the Blind
Structural Pest Control Board
Bureau of Home Furnishings
Howard Winslow
Sacramento
Vandenberg Air Force Base
the Missilier
Veterans Memorial Building
Lompoc
Common Ground Reflections On Time And New Year 1974
The writer muses on exile, memory, and the passing of eras as family photos and mementos reveal how the present slips away. Susan travels to Mexico after a stint in Washington, while the narrator reflects on longing, loss, and the lure of future horizons in a brisk, era‑flecked voice.
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Susan
Lompoc
Washington State
Jean
Mexico
Sue
San Juan Island
Daily Californian
Berkeley
Europe
Rhyme Time Happy New Year Resolution Poem
A poem noting the New Year resolution as a noble old time ideal. It urges a revival of the improvement movement to mend our ways, credited to Eugene McAllister.
Elected representatives listed for California and federal offices
The text lists U S Senator Alan Cranston and John Tunney in Washington D C and Congressmen Teague and Ketchum in Longworth, plus State Senator Lagomarsino and Assemblyman W Don MacGillvray in Sacramento. It provides their office addresses and party affiliations.
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U.S
Alan Cranston
Senate
Washington D.C
John Tunney
Washington, D.C
W. Don MacGillvray
State
Sacramento
Calif
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Robert Lagomarsino
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