Lompoc OKs backbone storm drain project to ease floods
City Council approves final design and engineering for a 482000 backbone storm sewer along F Street to Olive with flooding relief at Cypress A Ocean E and Chestnut College. Funding to come from flood control funds and gas tax with no bond issue, and design to begin immediately.
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Ray McCuen
Lompoc
Sol Lefkowitz
George Cotsenmeyer
Peter
Paul
Lefkowitz
Barry Gustafson
City
F Street
Chestnut Avenue
Chestnut
E Street
Cypress Avenue
Cypress
Olive
Gustafson
Ocean
College Avenues
Art Scott
Nixon predicts programs will stretch dollars at stores
President Nixon says inflation relief programs especially in food will push dollars further by mid year. He defends Phase III wage and price controls, budget cuts, and dollar devaluation in a radio address previewing the State of the Union. He notes food prices will rise before supplies respond but will ease in the second half of the year.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
State of the Union
Congress
Rolling quake shakes Southern California near Point Mugu
A magnitude 5.5 rolling earthquake struck Point Mugu and Oxnard early today, breaking windows and injuring two in Oxnard. Bricks loosened, a roof collapsed in one building, and power outages occurred in Port Hueneme as police closed streets and traffic was reduced to one lane. The tremor followed the 1971 San Fernando quake in the region.
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Point Mugu
Calif
San Fernando Valley
Oxnard
Here
Pacific Coast
Enes
Ventura
Port Hueneme
Bill Lewis
Israelis Down Libyan Airliner Over Sinai Killing Many
Israeli interceptors shot down a Libyan Boeing 727 over the Sinai Peninsula after it refused to land. The crash east of the Suez Canal left at least 70 dead and 13 survivors, with evacuees taken to Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv.
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Tel Aviv
UPI
Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal
Tel Hashomer Hospital
Bahrein
Alexandria
Sinai
Israel Air Force
Israel
Canal
IFD
Israeli Defense Force
Federal aid authorized for Santa Barbara County
Governor Reagan signed a contract allocating about 10 million dollars of federal aid for flood relief in Santa Barbara County and neighboring regions. The agreement, with the U S Office of Emergency Preparedness, enables long term low interest loans, disaster employment, and unemployment payments to victims of the heavy rains and floods January 12 to 18.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness
Robert C. Stevens
Emergency Preparedness Office
Nixon
Sigurd I. Hansen
State Department of Human Resources Development
Wahlers outlines Lompoc sewer plan amid FCI funding worries
City administrator Gene Wahlers says the priority is a $9.3 million expansion of the wastewater plant to a regional facility serving Lompoc Mission Hills and Vandenberg Village. He notes a risk FCI backing and state antipollution rules pressuring timely funding and project completion.
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Ray McCuen
Gene Wahlers
Lompoc
FCI
Federal Correction Institution
Misson Hills
Vandenberg Village
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Wahlers
Santa Ynez
Ryan Memorial Park
Rogers Says Nixon Admin Will Seek Congress Support On Vietnam Rebuild
Secretary of State William P. Rogers told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Nixon administration would consult with Congress in advance and seek its support before any rebuilding program in Vietnam. He warned no commitments would be made without congressional backing and noted planning must justify launching any action. He hoped cease fires in Vietnam and Laos would momentum toward peace in Cambodia, while admitting hostilities have risen there after Lon Nol’s Jan 28 unilateral end to offensive operations.
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UPI
William P. Rogers
Nixon
North Vietnam
Congress
Ogers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rogers
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Lon Nol
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Heart Association
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Heart Fund
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Solano
San Francisco
Economic Development Association
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al Autry
Cal Poly
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