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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1976
Page
1
Lompoc reports 7 387 residents eligible to vote in the March 2 city council election, a gain of 477 since December 1. Registration closed February 1, with primary deadline May 9 and last day to register for the primary June 8. Ballots tallied March 2 at City Hall.
The Supreme Court refused to hear challenges to Petaluma California zoning limits that cap new housing construction at 500 units yearly. The rule excludes four unit blocks and aimed to keep the town’s small town character amid rapid growth, despite homebuilders arguing it violates due process and blocks housing.
In Manchester New Hampshire four Democrats Birch Bayh Jimmy Carter Fred Harris and Morris Udall remain active in the final hours of the 1976 first presidential primary campaign with Sargent Shriver in nearby Massachusetts for the March 2 forum. President Ford stays in Washington while Ronald Reagan campaigns Illinois before returning for returns.
New Hampshire voters face 18 Democratic candidates including write-ins for Humphrey Jackson Connally and Wallace. Major contenders Carter Bayh Udall Harris and Shriver compete amid campaigns by McCormack and Viguerie with broad media exposure and scattered unknowns.
Patricia Hearst again invoked the 5th Amendment refusing to answer questions about a missing year in her underground life. U.S. District Judge Oliver Carter warned of contempt if she continued to refuse.
President Ford urged governors to back a five year 30 billion extension of federal revenue sharing and warned of escalation in centralized programs if Congress lets the program lapse He outlined a Community Services Act to expand social services and a $10 billion health block grant merging Medicaid and 15 programs He promised education block grants and stated federal dollars would be made available to states without retreat from national concerns.
The court will decide if current Social Security rules giving widows more benefits than widowers violate equal protection, after HEW appealed a Brooklyn case that would cost $400 million annually. Justices also left intact a Republican delegate system and agreed to review wiretap notice standards and NBC fair coverage.
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