Council weighs vacating block of Hickory Avenue
Lompoc City Council plans to adopt an intention to vacate one block of Hickory Avenue in front of the hospital between C and D streets. The move follows a Planning Commission recommendation to return the street to the hospital for expansion. A public hearing would follow the February meeting before a final decision.
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Lompoc
Hickory Avenue
Planning Commission
Zimmerman Trucking Company
Female officers to get uniform allowance in county
County supervisors approved a memorandum guaranteeing female correctional officers the same $4.50 bi weekly uniform allowance as male deputies. The move brings women employees into parity with men, with the amount added to every two week paycheck. The agreement also includes a plan to reduce county firemen hours from 72 to 67 per week pending funds and positions, with a July 1972 more detailed budget update.
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Sheriff's Department
Board of Supervisors
Assa
Zack L. Stringer
Employees’ Association
Wilbur S. Wagstaff
Bennett
Bomb blasts destroy shops in Belfast and Londonderry
Bomb explosions in Londonderry demolished two downtown shops and sparked a blaze injuring one person and sending four to hospital for shock. In Belfast a truck bomb caused 63 injuries as police condemned the attack and noted no warning was given.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Londonderry
Closing Stock Quotations and Averages From The Record
The Record lists closing prices for Alcan American Can AT&T Anaconda Bethlehem Continental Oil Chrysler Dupont Eastman Kodak Ford General Dynamics General Electric General Motors ITT Johns Manville Lear Siegler Litton Lockheed McDonnell Douglas Penn Central Phillips Petroleum Purex RCA Rapid American Safeway Sears So Cal Edison Southern Pacific Sperry Rand Standard Oil Calif Standard Oil New Jersey Torb(o?) Dow Jones Averages show Industrials 892.23 up 2.93 Transports 244.51 up 1.37 Utilities 118.26 up .64. Volume 15,190,000.
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Rohrbaugh and Co
Constellation Road
Lompoc
APECO
At&t
Bethelehem
Chrysler
Dupont
Lewy
D. W. G. Corp Ie Eastman Kodak
Ford Motor
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Motors
General Telephone
Harv
Imperial Corp
International Paper
It&t
Johns-Manville
Lear Siegler
Litton Indus
Lockheed . A
McDonnell Douglas
Penn-Central
Phillips Pet
Oxy
Purex
RCA
Oo Ae
Rapid American
Rapid Amer
Dart
Safeway
Pee
Ampco-Pitt
Sears Roebuck
Cal Edison
So. Pacific
Sperry Rand
Stand
Calif
N.J
MOE
Torboo
Romitoo i. Oes
Mires Mirror
TransAmerica
Travgiate
Gt Rise Ie
Union Oups
Supervisors open 1972 session with prayer and flag salute
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors began the 1972 meeting with a prayer and a flag salute. New chairman Curtis Tunnell of Santa Maria announced a plan to open weekly Monday sessions in this manner. Assistant County Clerk Howard Menzel delivered the invocation, seeking divine guidance for county officials amid the new action age. Veterans recalled last such opening possibly in 1953, noting it had not been a common practice.
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Board of Supervisors
Curtis Tunnell
Santa Maria
Howard Menzel
Santa Barbara Episcopal Church
New Taxpayers Group Names Chester Knutile as Executive Secretary
Chester Chet Knutile, ex federal auditor and CPA, becomes executive secretary of the County Taxpayers Assn succeeding Richard Temple. He will be retained as a consultant. Knutile’s background includes Navy and VA auditing, AEC budget leadership in Grand Junction Colorado, and tax committee work in San Francisco Canoga Park. He is a Golden Gate College graduate, married with two children. He has written on budget procedures and auditing.
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Chester
Chet) Knutile
County Taxpayers’ Assn
Richard Temple
Santa Barbara
Temple
Knutile
Association
U.S. Navy
Veterans Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Grand
Golden Gate College
San Francisco
Petersen named to county Civil Service Commission
Arden Petersen a Solvang banker and director of the Solvang Municipal Improvement District was named by the Board of Supervisors to fill a vacancy on the County Civil Service Commission. The hearing on the dismissal of Sheriff’s Captain Joel Honey is planned for mid February or later. The board also approved flood control debris barrier funding of 1.4 million dollars and referred a Carpinteria coastal conference invitation to staff. It approved 59000 for Supplemental aid to Lompoc, and tentative maps for two Goleta Valley residential developments totaling 38 lots.
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Arden Petersen
Solvang
Carpinteria Valley
Montecito
Britt Johnson
Carpinteria
Lompoc
Goleta Valley
Meeker Development Co
Midtown Development Co
Teacher wins long fight to regain job at state college
Albert F. Monroe, once chairman of the English department at San Francisco State College, wins the right to his old job after a 21 year battle that reached the State Supreme Court. He may return to teaching but questions if he can afford it, having spent years with the ACLU in Los Angeles. The loyalty oath he refused to sign led to his firing in 1950.
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Los Angeles
UPI
State Supreme Court
Albert F. Monroe
Monroe
San Francisco State College
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
California
Addicts win concessions on methadone rules changes
County supervisors reversed a proposed $5 weekly fee for the methadone program and moved to a based on ability to pay schedule with a $30 max. They approved 90 day reevaluation of group therapy attendance and allowed emergency exemptions while requiring rap sheets for participants for prior and current involvement. Richard Perkins urged resumption of treatment for 12 addicts withdrawn over payment issues.
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Board of Supervisors
Marvin Levine
Norbert McNamara
Levine
McNamara
David Bearman
Richard Perkins
California legislator expenses corrected for 1971 session
Final state controller figures show average legislator earned about 28 500 in salary and expenses during the record length 1971 session. Total lawmakers 3 4 million up from 2 5 million in 1970. Assembly minority leader Robert T Monagan top at 31 155. Charles Conrad 31 122 misreported. Sen Albert Rodda the lowest at 26 445.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Assembly
Robert T Monagan
Tracy
Conrad
Albert Rodda
Central Coast Laryngectomee Club January Meeting
The Central Coast Laryngeectomee Club invites laryngectomees their families tracheostomists and interested persons to meet Sunday January 9 at the Housing Authority Center Santa Maria The program includes free group speech therapy at 1 45 p m with business and program at 2 30 p m and refreshments The center address is 200 W Williams St Santa Maria.
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Central Coast
Housing Authority Center
Santa Maria
W. Williams St
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Hugh Lompoc
Davies RE
New Taxpayers Group
Petersen
Carlos Bee
Hayward
Mike Cullen
Long Beach
John T Knox
Richmond
Senate
Alfred Alquist
San Jose
Ralph C. Dills
Gardena
Mervin Dymally
James E. Whetmore
la Habra
Daily Record
Lompoc Savings
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