First Candidates Forum Draws Lompoc Residents
About 100 citizens attended the first 1974 candidate forum at the Lompoc Library. Ten contenders for three City Council seats answered AAUW prepared questions and fielded audience queries. Incumbents Stevens and Lefkowitz and eight challengers participated. Gene Ashlock arrived late.
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Lompoc
American Association of University Women
E. C. Stevens
Sol Lefkowitz
Charlotte Benton
Fred H. Bock
Charles C. Carmichael
Edwin E. Leach
Joseph G. Herron
Carmichael
Smith
Cox
Stevens
Suspected arson probed in two Lompoc blazes
Fire officials investigated two similar arson cases in Lompoc within 43 minutes. A garage at 515 North C St owned by William Perry burned at 3:34 a.m., then a truck at 416 North C St damaged at 4:17 a.m. by a wick in the gas tank using a highway flare.
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Lompoc
William Perry
North C St
Roy Velasquez
North
D St
Tap Yee
Hearst Fiances Refuses Testimony Amid Kidnapping
Steven Weed, fiancé of Patricia Hearst, recuperating from a beating, says he will not testify or identify suspects if Hearst is returned unharmed. Police raise kidnapping suspects to five as investigators pursue leads from Peter Benenson and a composite sketch.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
Patricia Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Patty
Steven A. Weed
Miss Hearst
FBI
Mt. Diablo
Benenson
Violence and sabotage persist after truckers pact
Violence widens across the United States as a dynamite blast hits a culvert on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a driver is shot in Texas amid a seven day independent truckers strike. Washington reports a tentative agreement reached with government officials though militant groups reject terms. Some drivers oppose resuming deliveries while others await a vote.
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United Press International
Pennsylvania
Texas
Independent Truckers
Washington
Robert Blindauer
Mobile
Ala
Pennsylvania Turnpike
California voluntary gas rationing plan tied to license digits
Reagan administration drafts a voluntary California gasoline rationing plan amid an 18 to 20 percent February shortage forecast. Lt. Gov. Reinecke sees a high probability of adoption by month end, with Gov. Reagan reserving final say. The plan, modeled on Hawaii and Oregon systems, would limit purchases on certain days based on license plate digits as officials seek public and industry input before possible implementation.
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Sacramento
UPI
Reagan
California
Wesley Bruer
Ed Reinecke
State Energy Council
Ronald Reagan
Hawaii
Oregon
Verne Orr
The
Energy Council
Bruer
Orr
Four hurt in accidents at H Street and Pine Avenue
Two separate morning crashes at H Street and Pine Avenue injure a Lompoc woman Rita Alvarez 29 and Santa Maria man Richard Barczys 32. Both taken to Lompoc Hospital with back and facial injuries respectively.
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Lompoc
Santa Maria
H Street
Pine Avenue
Lompoc Hospital
Rita Alvarez
North St
Richard Barczys
Barczys
Walnut Avenue
Tammy Lynn Ledford
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital
Marilyn Joyce Ledford
E. North Ave
Walter William Helmuth
Santa Ynez
Michael Louis Murren
W. Loquat Ave
Robert Logan Read
Murren
Energy bill faces new delays in Congress
The revamped emergency energy bill stalls in both chambers amid a Senate filibuster and House roadblock as debate centers on a rollback of crude oil prices. Representative Harley Staggers warns of postponed floor action until after recess. timing narrows to mid February.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Senate
House
Harley O Staggers
D-W.va
Staggers
Congress
Paul Fannin
Rariz
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Bock
Herron
Lefkowitz
Benton
Leach
North County
Lompoc Yellow Cab
Santa Barbara
E. Ocean Ave
North E St
Gilliland Oil and Land Co
Peter Benenson
Richard Berger
J.W. ‘River Rat’’ Edwards
Overland Park, Kan
Independent Drivers of America Ltd
Scott Stevens
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