State to hire 49 inspectors to bolster California safety
Sacramento UPI reports Roy Bell acting chief of the Division of Industrial Safety announced plans to hire 49 field inspectors and 19 clerical staff to boost safety programs. The move, costed at 500000 for the current fiscal year, follows criticism of a fragmented division and prior leadership upheavals tied to the Sylmar Tunnel explosion hearings.
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Sacramento
UPI
State Division of Industrial Safety
California
Roy Bell
Assembly
Bell
Assembly Select Committee On Industrial Safety
Jack Hatton
Mrs Nixon Tours Chinese Commune On Farm Visit
Mrs Nixon visits Evergreen Peoples Commune near Peking touring a 6000 acre farm. She observes acupuncture on a paralyzed patient, greets students, tours a classroom and music class, and browses a glass factory while exchanging souvenirs and invitations to visit the United States. She notes her California pig-raising prize past and enjoys a snow walk.
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Peking
API
Pat Nixon
Mrs. Nixon
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Nixon
California
Tricia Cox
Julie Eisenhower
Sacramento Senate approves teacher delays amid budget shifts
United Press International reports the Senate approved delaying teacher and principal evaluations from March 4 to September 1 while reviewing dozens of bills. Measures move to Assembly Finance for crippled children's services funding and parole budget augmentations, with multiple SB and AB proposals on planning, policing, and gender designation awaiting floor action.
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Senate
Stull
R-Leucadia
Assembly
R-Exeter
California senators feud over Ms. title definition
California's all male Senate stalls a bill allowing women to call themselves Ms. when registering to vote. Sen. Mervyn Dymally says the designation should cover widows and divorced or never married older women, while Sen. H Richardson questions enforcement and marital status implications. The measure would also require men to use Mr. on voter rolls.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
Dymally
National Organization For Women
Pioneer F spacecraft to be guided by self repairing computer
The Pioneer F will launch from Cape Kennedy on a 22 month voyage to Jupiter guided by a STAR self test and repair computer that detects errors and can roll back and fix itself. A thermonuclear generator provides pollution free power and enables eventual escape into interstellar space.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Jupiter
Earth
Raymond L. Heacock
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Outer Planets
Engineering
Cape Kennedy
Solar
Heacock
Institute For the Advancement of Engineering
Man shoots at officer after crash twin planes
Roger Dale Weasel 29 tried to kill himself after wife said she would divorce him. He crashed two small planes near Gastonia North Carolina, was shot at by off duty Detective Cartrett who fired twice and hit nothing. Weasel was charged with armed robbery and FBI joined air piracy probe. no injuries reported.
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Gastonia
N.C
UPI
Roger Dale Weasel
L. W. Cartrett
Weasel
Hands
Cartrett
Gaston County
FBI
Jim Auten
Wakefield busing bill defeated by Assembly panel
The Assembly Education Committee rejected Floyd Wakefield’s bill aimed at banning race based pupil assignment and repealing new integration guidelines. Supporters argued for school choice. opponents called the measure bigoted and a bid to end desegregation.
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Assembly
California
Wakefield
South Gate
Criminal Justice
Zberg
Sacramento
Murphy
Santa Cruz
Foran
San Francisco
Greene
Los Angeles
UPI
Floyd Wakefield
Education Committee
William Bagley
Virna Canson
The
NAACP
Bomb attack at Aldershot kills six at Britain’s largest base
A 50 pound IRA bomb exploded outside the officers mess of the 16th Parachute Brigade at Aldershot killing Father Gerard Weston and five others including four waitresses and a gardener. Seventeen others were injured. Scotland Yard led a nationwide manhunt with raids on IRA members and supporters in England and Ireland amid threats of renewed violence. An IRA Dublin statement claimed responsibility.
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London
UPI
Gerard Weston
England
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Geoffrey Howlett
Weston
Aldershot
Britain
Scotland Yard
16Th Parachute Brigade
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Hatton
Legislative Committee
Assembly Democratic
Jack Fenton
Montebello
Sylmar Tunnel
Fenton
Division of Industrial Safety
Oakland
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
America
United Press International
Richardson
Aarcadia
Rarcadia
Deukmejian
Long Beach
State
Sen
H. Richardson
Rrcadia
Mrs
Lompoc
Act. of Congress
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Lawrence C. Grossman
J. Donald Adam
Gaylen Jackson
Tim Conner
Pete Lunny
Wesley A. Hultman
Ray McCuen
Betty Laurent
Scott Ostler
Trudy Schoenfeldt
Steve LaRue
Stat
Vaughn Proctor
Dan Duffy
California News
Inter-American Press Association
National Newspaper Association and
California Press Association
Member
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Dick Caldwell
Lompoc Theatre
H” Street
Worth
Richard Harris
John Huston
Peter O'Toole
Michael Parks
George C. Scott
20Th Century-Fox
Bibie
Santa Maria
PH WA
Eppertree
Donovan RD
Ulster
Dublin
Hugh Davies Lompoc
Marshall N. Hardeman
Calle Cinco, M.H
Carmen Baby
Peppertree Theatre
Lon
Benjamin Brown
Sportsman’s Lounge
Sportsman’s
Aquarius
Cold Turkey
Lompoc Valley Bowl
East Ocean Avenue
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