Hospital seeks geologic and structural review for new convalescent hospital
Lompoc Hospital District grapples with state approval delays for a 74 bed convalescent hospital. Administrator Kenneth D. Wicks says the board must hire a geologic engineer to study earth strata and a structural engineer to finalize the Hickory Avenue expansion. A new application to the Channel Counties Health Planning Council is being prepared as voters previously approved a $1.5 million bond.
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Lompoc
Kenneth D. Wicks
Hickory Avenue
Wicks
Channel Counties
Commission denies pre zoning for mobile home parks in Lompoc
Lompoc Planning Commission rejected two pre zoning requests for mobile home parks and approved more restrictive planned development zoning. The action allows applications for Planned Development Residential and Planned Development Commercial at Central Avenue and A Street, involving about 150 acres for annexation. Public hearings are set for March 12 before City Council review.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
al Autry
Central Avenue
Laurel Ave
Culberson Construction Co
Verle F. Brower
Employees oppose McNamara pay raise amid board delay
Fresh opposition to the 4000 dollar raise for Mental Health Services director Norbert McNamara arose as the Board of Supervisors postponed a decision to March 5. Local 535 representative Margaret Noel and 42 department employees urged investigation of the raise citing erroneous information and requested review by the County Employees Assn.
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Board of Supervisors
Norbert McNamara
Margaret Noel
Social Workers Union
Mental Health Department
Noel
the County Employees Assn. Has
Grand Jury
James Slater
Charles Catterlin
County Tax Action Assn
Isla Vista Municipal Advisory Council
Stormfront Aims At California Coast Brings Rain And Snow
A strong Pacific storm headed for the California coast forecast vigorous showers tonight and Wednesday with heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada elevations. The East Coast also sees cold, showery weather as rain falls from New Jersey to South Carolina and snow in parts of Virginia. Thundershowers touch the Carolinas while the Midwest and Rockies enjoy cold to sunny conditions with brief sun along the Great Lakes.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
Sierra Nevada
East Coast
New Jersey
South Carolina
Virginia
Carolinas
Midwest
Rockies
Great Lakes
Airlines face pilot strike over new work rules
American Airlines imposed rules requiring pilots to fly at least 75 hours a month, with substitutions only before. the change could trigger a walkout by 3,318 pilots. Negotiations continued as the cooling-off period ended, while Allied Pilots Association president Nicholas J. O Connell said members authorized a strike.
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San Diego
UPI
American Airlines
Nicholas J. O’connell
The
Allied Pilots Association
North Viet Boycott Cripples Paris Peace Conference
The 13 nation Vietnam peace conference faced crisis as North Vietnam boycotted the planning session and halted prisoner of war releases in Saigon. President Nixon ordered Secretary Rogers to priority POW inquiries, raising doubt about the conference’s future. McCloskey warned the matter requires urgent clarification from Hanoi.
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Paris
Nixon
Governors denounce Nixon cuts at midwinter meeting
Democratic governors criticized Nixon administration cutbacks as harming the poor elderly jobless and sick during the National Governors Conference opening. Arkansas Gov Dale Bumpers said budget pressures and shifting funding priorities create endless impoundments and uncertainty in state budgets.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
National Governors Conference
Senate
Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
Bumpers
Nixon orders probe of POW holdup at Paris talks
President Nixon directs Rogers to formally inquire why North Vietnam delays releasing American prisoners. Ziegler says the prisoners’ release is an unconditional cease fire obligation and will be raised at the 13 nation conference in Paris as a top priority. Also notes weather and tidal information.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
U.S
International Foreign Ministers Conference
Paris
William P. Rogers
South Vietnam
DRV
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Washington
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Indochina
Ziegler
Fighting Intensifies Across Indo China After Cease-Fire
Reports from Saigon Laos and Phnom Penh describe ongoing clashes a month after the cease-fire with UPI noting Viet Cong cease-fire violations in South Vietnam and a 24 hour surge of fighting. U S forces conducted raids in Cambodia and threaten Laos if Pathet Lao ignore the cease-fire. Cambodian Khmer Rouge overrun two government outposts on Highway 2 as Cambodian troops suffer losses.
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UPI
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Cambodia
Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
Viet Cong
Washington
Pathet Lao
Central Highlands
Mekong Delta
Buon Trinh
Khmer Rouge
Highway 2
Am Rong
Tonleap
Damnak
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William Ward
Ruth B. McFaddin
McNamara
Pilots’ Union
Fort Worth
N. Viets
N.viet
Garry Gann
Rueben Sandoval
Cypress Avenue
Drv-Prg
Joint Military Commission
JMC
Indo-China
Phnom Penh
U.S. State Department
Cai Lay
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