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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1969
Page
1
Snow-beleaguered New Yorkers directed their ire at Mayor John V. Lindsay as they faced heavy snowfall and travel disruptions. Residents criticized city leadership while Lindsay insisted he bore no responsibility for the blizzard conditions and related hardships.
Two highly decorated Vietnam veterans Capt. William D. Fuchlow and Capt. Robert Earl Jobe were listed missing after the F111A disappeared during a night training mission from Nellis AFB Nevada. Eleven crashes have occurred in the program with weather hindering search efforts.
A congressional flood inspection group heard that federal loans for flood damaged properties face opposition from local banks. Oliver Duvall of the Farmers Home Administration told lawmakers banks see FHA loans as high risk. Rep. James Wright urged the FHA to prioritize small landowners and uphold Congressional accountability as the tour moved to Los Angeles amid ongoing flood risks.
UPI reports Saigon warns service members to avoid streets during Tet period after a year that saw a major Communist offensive. Leaves canceled for South Vietnamese troops, armed travel advised, and patrols tightened around Tan Son Nhut. Turbulence accompanies holiday shopping as B52 strikes and helicopter losses mark rising hostilities.
After heavy rainfall broke a century-old record, Los Angeles faced ongoing damage from unstable soil. A hillside near the Pomona Freeway slid Wednesday afternoon, sending 50,000 cubic yards of earth and mud onto the roadway, threatening motorists and nearby homes.
Victor Rodriguez told a Mexicana Airlines pilot to fly him to Cuba while drunk. A Mexico City judge ordered him held without bail on airline hijacking charges after officers boarded in Minatitlan. He claimed it was a stupid joke.
A Lompoc woman, Betty Jo O H inley, 24, suffered scalp lacerations and abrasions when her car was struck by a Southern Pacific diesel engine at the North A Street crossing. She was treated at Lompoc Hospital and listed in good condition. Engineer H P Echols was not injured. Authorities noted automatic gates and signals at the crossing and said no charges were filed pending investigation.
Civil service and postal workers will receive a roughly nine to ten percent pay rise effective July 1, aimed at aligning federal wages with private industry. The raise, part of two-year trend, costs about $3 billion and lifts civilian and military payroll to about $49 billion annually. Higher ups receive additional increases amid a broader pay hikes approved by Congress.
National Guardsmen with rifles posted outside University of Wisconsin buildings to prevent disruptions by student strikers. Negro students at Duke University seized the Administration Building threatening to burn records, renaming Durham to Malcolm X Liberation School. A sit-in continued at the University of Chicago Administration Building into its third week.
East Germany denounces West German presidential elections in West Berlin as provocations to peace. Neues Deutschland calls for decisive resistance and warns that the status quo must be defended. West Berlin fears Soviet bloc maneuvers and possible Communist harassment of traffic to the west.
President Nixon urged strong local government rather than federal aid to solve urban issues. He spoke after Walter E. Washington was sworn in as Washington D C mayor and met with his Cabinet on inflation policy.
FAA acting administrator David D. Thomas says skyjacking thrives on publicity from news reports that inspire more would be hijackers. He notes most hijackers are mentally disordered and jailed in Cuba until political ties are determined. Three hijackers returned to the U S for 20 year prisons. The FAA tests weapon detection devices on passengers. President Nixon plans a DC model city push and meets with the National Science Board after birthday events at Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s home. Nixon and Rockefeller meet after Lincoln Memorial wreath ceremony marking Lincoln Day traditions.
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