Council moves on new fire station with bond plan
The City Council approved hiring Kruger Benson Ziemen of Santa Barbara to design a $300000 fire station contingent on voter approval of a June 3 bond issue. A $500000 bond was suggested, with the site at I Street and Maple Avenue and a 13500 to 15000 square foot facility.
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Kruger-Benson- Ziemen
Santa Barbara
Brooks Speight
I Street
Maple Avenue
Speight
Richard K. Jacoby
Jacoby
Civic Center
Heavy rains soak Valley amid prolonged flood cycle
Heavy rains drenched the Lompoc area raising season totals to 16.26 inches as more rain fell this morning. In Cachuma Dam region the total rose to 27.06 inches with gates open for a 25th straight day since January 25. Officials expect continued spill possibly through July 1. No injuries were reported though the wet cycle slows restoration of lands flooded January 24 and 25.
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Lompoc
Cachuma Dam
Andy Johnson
Bureau of Reclamation
Cachuma
City Hall employee questions SG City Council pay raise
Glimpses report an employee wondering if the Student Government City Council voted a pay raise yesterday afternoon. Ed Diaz plans a trip to South America as official National Junior Chamber of Commerce ambassador but finds the trip set two weeks after his upcoming marriage. Chance of showers today and partly cloudy tonight with clearing Thursday. Cooler tonight with highs in the 50s and lows around 40s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph, weakening Thursday. Feb 20 tides: highs 5.0 ft at 12 08 am and 4.1 ft at 12 14 pm. lows 0.8 ft at 6 20 am and 0.9 ft at 6 14 pm.
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Ed Diaz
South America
East Germany disrupts West Berlin road traffic again
East Germany again halted traffic on West Berlin’s main highway toward the west for about two hours, delaying trucks and delaying outbound traffic by 15 minutes amid threats to halt German official road trips. The East German Foreign Ministry denounced the U S air flight of President Heinrich Luebke as a provocation and warned of consequences. Moscow meanwhile cited a tense international situation with Vietnam and the Middle East.
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Joseph B. Fleming
Berlin
UPI
East Germany
West Berlin
Heinrich Luebke
Foreign Ministry
East German Democratic Republic
Bonn
U.S
Moscow
Kirill Moskalenko
Russia
Vietnam
Middle East
Pope Paul VI Opens Lent With Ashes Ceremony
At St. Peter's Basilica Pope Paul VI began Lent in a solemn ash Wednesday rite. He marked Cardinal Paolo Marella, Roman bishops, priests, and monks with ashes and reminded the crowd that man is dust and to dust he shall return. A 500 member Slovak pilgrimage from Kosice also received the rite.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
St. Peters
Paolo Marella
St. Peter’s
Paul
Marella
Kosice
Slovakia
Israeli Parliament Discusses Retaliation After Zurich Plane Raid
Security Council session in Jerusalem briefed by a cabinet member on swift action after the El Al Boeing 707 was attacked near Zurich. Reports say attackers took off from Damascus, and Israel may strike Damascus International Airport amid cross border clashes with Jordan.
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United Press International
Security Council
Levi Eshkol
Jerusalem
el al
Zurich
Damascus
Golan Heights
United States
Britain
United National
Thant
Israel
Moshe Carmel
Amman
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Jordan
Jordan Valley
Marvin Bacaner
University of Minnesota
Bacaner
Gideon Raphael
Israeli Foreign Ministry
Raphael
Lompoc presses for faster feasibility study on dam project
City and County agencies push for immediate completion and submission of the $300000 federal feasibility report on the lower Santa Ynez River dam and reservoir project. Officials seek early congressional approval and funding for the $67 million plan to store 425000 acre feet of water and provide flood control and recreation.
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Lompoc
Santa Ynez
Secretary of the Interior
Walter Hickel
George Murphy
Alan Cranston
Charles Teague
City of
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
Sacramento
County Water Agency
Santa Ynez River
Virgil Phelps
City and Water Board
Narrows
Cachuma
Gene Wahlers
William Price
Pixies
Missing Gambler Flight DC3 Sought After 35 Feared Lost
Ground searchers battled rain and heavy snow for a DC3 airliner missing with 35 aboard after taking off from Hawthorne Nevada. Leads placed the plane near Mt Tom and Mt Montgomery on the California Nevada border as crews and passengers on a casino excursion flight originated in Long Beach and Burbank.
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Hawthorne
Nev
UPI
Col
Clarence Brown
Air Sea Rescue Service
Hamilton Air Force Base
Calif
Circle L Ranch
Dyer
Col. Brown
Mt. Tom
Mt. Montgomery
California-Nevada
Mineral County Airlines
Hawthorne Nevada Airlines
Southern California
Hawthorne Casino
Long Beach
Burbank
Fred Hall
San Fernando Valley
Ray Hamer
Pat Nannes
Hall
Tonopah
Nixon outlines new steps to fight poverty and fund OEO
President Nixon told Congress the battle against poverty will have priority and outlined initial moves to improve federal aid. He urged continued OEO funding, proposed delegating Head Start to HEW, moving Job Corps to the Labor Department, and transferring health centers and the foster grandparents program, while keeping OEO as an incubator for new programs.
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Arnold B. Sawislak
Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Labor Department
Comprehensive Health Centers
Department of Hew
White House
Labor Departments
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Ralphael
Barzilai
Wilma Thomas
Carolyn Towers
Lompoc High School
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