Trustees study year round school plan offset by defense needs
School trustees agreed to study Howard Shaw’s year round education proposal to replace the nine month schedule. The plan groups students into four rotating 58 day sessions with three active groups and one on vacation to meet a 180 day requirement. It would cost more initially but save in the long run and reduce summer job impact, with potential gains in capacity and efficiency.
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Howard Shaw
Shaw
Glen Wegner
Arthur Timmer
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Air Force backs Lom Project at County Water Agency meeting
At Vandenberg, Maj Gen William Garland reaffirmed Air Force support for the reformulated Lom Lompoc Project noting prepaid water terms under Bureau of Reclamation plans and costs still under other options. Taxpayers Against the Lompoc Dam urged rejection as unfeasible while the agency referred letters to the water consultant for review and asked Lompoc to provide financial analysis.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
County Water Agency
Lompoc
Water Agency
Francis H. Beattie
Robert M. Edmonston
William C. Garland
Bureau of Reclamation
Garland
Air Force
Bureau
Arnold Robinson
David Powell
of Bookman and Edmonston
Lompoc Opposed Dam Project Cites Costs and Safety
Mrs. Robinson argues desalination storage is impractical and a dam on an earthquake fault risks safety. Powell notes federal agency gaze toward county direction as environmental groups oppose the plan. She criticizes the project for financial burden on a 25 000 person city and floods concerns.
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Powell
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sheriff substation inspection led by Sheriff John Carpenter today
Kate Fuller wins unusual bet from dad during Cabrillo band concert as local event unfolds.
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Sheriff
John Carpenter
Kate Fuller
Dad
Weather outlook with mild temperatures and tides
Fair through Thursday with daily highs in the mid 60s to low 70s and nightly lows in the 30s. Light winds expected. Tides show highs of 6.3 feet at 9 38 a.m. and 5.2 feet at 10 26 p.m. Low tides at 3 32 a.m. and 4 14 p.m. reach 0.6 and minus 1.1 feet respectively.
Controversial court reforms proposed by LA judges panel
A seven member panel of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges urged sweeping reforms to speed up trials. The plan calls for 39 changes including ending jury trials in civil cases and shrinking juries in felonies. It proposes eliminating preliminary felony hearings, liberalizing marijuana and bookmaking laws, moving certain offenses from court dockets, reclassifying misdemeanors as infractions, and requiring attorney certification for serious felony cases. Presiding Judge Charles A. Loring says the proposals reflect the views of 139 judges.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Superior Court
Charles A. Loring
Los Angelesounty Superior Court
Nixon seeks laws to ban hazardous products and curb deceptive practices
President Nixon asked Congress for federal standards to test products and ban those deemed hazardous, plus power to halt deceptive advertising and sales. He urged a small claims arbitration plan and a federal consumer advocacy function while opposing broad class action suits.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
Congress
Capitol Hill
Benjamin S. Rosenthal
D-N.y
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
White House
Consumer Affairs Office
Virginia H. Knauer
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Consumer Product Safety Agency
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Saigon bases hit as Laos raid widens conflict
Rockets struck the Quang Tri base while Laotian operations inflicted heavy losses on U.S. forces. U.S. command tallies show 29 helicopters lost, 40 Americans killed, 26 wounded, 15 missing since February 8 inside Laos. Air strikes destroyed 800 tons of ammunition and four Ho Chi Minh Trail fuel pipelines.
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Saigon
UPS
Quang Tri
Laos
U.S
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
UPI
Joseph Galloway
Vientiane
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Escapee Captured After 13 Hour California Kidnap Flight
Jimmy Dee Harvey, 24, an escapee from San Quentin, abducted a police officer's wife and children and another woman in Novato, then flew south across roughly half California. The victims were released unharmed. Harvey was returned to Marin County on charges of kidnaping and auto theft.
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Fullerton
Calif
Harvey
California
Marin County
Cheryl Jean Smith
Anaheim
Bakersfield
Army kept files on domestic political activities, ex agents say
Two former Army intelligence officers testified before the Senate subcommittee claiming the military maintained files on citizens political activities. They cited infiltrations and surveillance of Judy Collins, Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Fonda, Julian Bond and thousands of others during the 1960s, including the Poor People’s Campaign, conventions, and various protests and groups.
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Washington
API
Army
Judy Collins
Arnold E. True
Martin Luther King Jr
Jane Fonda
Georgia
Julian Bond
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Cabrillo High School
Agency
Robinson
Lompoc District Hospital
Heart-O-Rama
Heart Association
Lompoc Hospital
Mike Dowd
Barry Coughlin
Ruth Miller
Colorado
Zap
S. C
Christopher H. Pyle
Ralph M. Stein
New York City
Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee
Pyle
Columbia University
Stein
Counterintelligence Analysis Branch
CIAB
Gus Hall
True
Hugh B. Hester
Pete Seeger
Arlo Guthrie
Phil Ochs
Joan Baez
Urban League
Whitney Young Jr
Washington, D.C
Julius Hobson Jr
Ralph David Abernathy
Jesse Jackson
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