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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1974
Page
8
Washington observers note a sharp rise in 1973 profits across major oil firms fueling a split view. Senators Jackson and Aspin clash on whether earnings signal price exploitation or mere recovery, while executives cite high earnings yet modest returns on investment.
Earl Brian, 32, announced his candidacy for the U S Senate challenging incumbent Alan Cranston. A Reagan administration rising star, he criticized Cranston as an out of step old-line politician amid the 1974 reform push. Brian previously headed Medi Cal and led the Health and Welfare Agency with a $6.6 billion budget before resigning Feb 1 to run.
HEW Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy debated costs and taxes for rival national health plans. Weinberger touted 5.8 billion dollars in new federal funds plus 1 billion in state spending without new taxes, while Kennedy warned of large federal tax increases to finance his plan.
Senator Kennedy said he will not decide to run for president until 1975 and noted his family has reservations. In a CBS Face the Nation interview he said he was not in or out for 1976 and left the question of Chappaquiddick to the American people.
Plymout h rancher Gordon Van Vleck president of the American National Cattlemen s Association warns that beef costs will climb until supplies rebound in July. He cites trucking shutdowns that closed packing houses and limited cattle placements as causing higher prices, though a late 1974 supply increase could ease costs.
United Press International reports snow across the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley with travel advisories in effect for Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and southern New Jersey. One inch fell in Beckley West Virginia Youngstown Ohio Buffalo New York and Muskegon Michigan as cold wave warnings persisted in Wisconsin Minnesota and northeast Iowa with single digit temperatures. gale warnings covered the Great Lakes except western Superior while most of the nation saw clear skies and temperatures from 3 degrees below zero in Alamosa Colorado to 58 in Key West Florida.
Los Angeles report of a diet promoting Vitamin E Plus C tablets with claimed average weight loss of a pound daily without exercise. It markets indulgence in forbidden foods while promising appetite control and fat utilization, with mail order prices and a California tax note.
In Tyrone County near May a 19-year-old Catholic girl and her 19-year-old male companion were wounded when a gunman fired at their parked car. The girl is in critical condition, the man wounded in the hand. Separately in Belfast a hospital ambush by Protestant gunmen left two Catholic victims dead and a woman wounded after gunfire at Grosvenor Road. The toll in Northern Ireland’s four-year conflict reaches 951.
At the 22nd annual California Democratic Council meeting in Sacramento delegates refused to endorse any candidate for governor or statewide office in the June primary. Jerome Waldie led on the first ballot with 452 votes but failed to reach the 60 percent threshold, while Assembly Speaker Moretti and Secretary Brown followed. The convention also passed resolutions urging Nixon impeachment and marijuana decriminalization.
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