Lompoc candidates at public forum align on key issues
Eight candidates voiced positions on water, growth, taxes, and city services at a Presbyterian Church forum. They urged Salsipuedes dam expansion, Cachuma pipeline, economic development, youth programs, and greater citizen input while debating city hall staffing and school closures.
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Robert C. Vincent
Lompoc
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Feather River
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Hancock College
Miguelito School
Floyd Southern
ED Rodgers
Vandenberg
Alberta Morgan
Miguelito
la Mesa
John Peto
Youth Conservation Corps
Cost-of-living rise held to 0.4 percent in January
Washington reports the January CPI up 0.4 percent with food and fuel declines offset by higher medical care postal rates and household services. Prices were 6.8 percent higher than a year earlier as non food items rose only 0.2 percent.
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Ford campaigns in New Hampshire attack Congress and court
President Ford and Betty Ford toured Dover High School and campaign sites in snowy New Hampshire urging a win in the upcoming primary. He assailed Congress for Angola and the Supreme Court on school prayer while labeling Reagan's policies backdoor socialism.
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UPI
Ford
New Hampshire
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Supreme Court
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Angola
High Court
Betty Ford
Reagan
Dover High School
Henry Cabot Lodge
Walter Peterson
Ford revokes old order on Japanese relocation
Washington reports President Ford signed a proclamation terminating Executive Order 9066 exactly 34 years after Roosevelt issued the order. Ford called the action a national mistake while noting loyalty of Japanese-Americans and the danger of renewed invocation. The ceremony drew leading Japanese-Americans and various public figures amid historic debate over internment.
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Nixon and Wife Fly to China for Anniversary Visit
Former President Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon depart Los Angeles for a second China trip aboard Air China Boeing 707. The journey marks the four year anniversary of Nixon’s first Peking visit that helped establish relations between the US and the PRC.
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UPI
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China
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Oceanside
San Clemente
Pat
Marriott
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Tokyo
Anchorage
Japan
Chen Chu
Hearst admits roommate urged contacting parents during fugitive days
In San Francisco Patricia Hearst testifies under cross examination that Wendy Yoshimura urged she contact her parents but Hearst feared the Harrises would kill them both. Prosecutor Browning questioned her escape attempts while she and the Symbionese Liberation Army were split. Hearst also disclosed personal disputes and a late 17 year old relationship as context to her actions.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Wendy Yoshimura
Miss Hearst
William
Emily Harris
James L. Browning Jr
Symbionese Liberation Army
Browning
Miss Yoshimura
Harrises
Wendy
Susan Gill
San Mateo County
Federal
Steven Weed
Lompoc Approves New 60-Unit Apartment Near Walnut and Third
Building permits near for a 60 unit, 1.3 million dollar apartment project at Walnut Avenue and Third Street by Wacot Co. of Oxnard. The plan adds to several developments including eight new homes, a 121 unit project by the Santa Ynez River, and a 125 unit apartment near Miguelito Channel with mid summer construction. City building official Bill Cruse expects permits next week and notes recreational features like a putting green and horseshoe pits.
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Lompoc
Bill Cruse
Wacot Co
Oxnard
Cruse
Santa Ynez River
Miguelito Channel
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