Unemployment Rises in December Amid Energy Crisis Impact
UPI reports December unemployment at 4.9 percent, up from 4.7 in November, with 4.4 million people unemployed. Economists forecast higher joblessness in 1974 due to fuel shortages, while part time workers rose by 160,000 to 2.6 million as layoffs and reduced hours spread across auto and airline sectors.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Herbert Stein
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
BLS
PUC orders California electricity use cutbacks
The California Public Utilities Commission ordered a cutback on outdoor advertising lighting and many other uses of electricity. The mandate caps outdoor gatherings at 85 percent of last year, limits heating to 68 degrees and cooling to 78 degrees, and restricts sign lighting and indoor illumination after hours to conserve fuel during limited supply.
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UPI
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Lompoc Record Highlights Local Contests and Courses
The Record notes Terri O Toole wins a 10 speed bicycle in a shoe contest at Vandenberg AFB. Allan Hancock College hosts a short non credit course Creative Communications taught by Barbara Marshall with evening sessions and Jan 5 11 dates planned to improve public communication. Registration details follow.
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H & M Shoes
Terri O'Toole
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Allan Hancock College
Barbara Marshall
Japanese Prints by Yoseido Gallery on Display at Hancock College
Seventeen modern Japanese prints from Yoseido Gallery Tokyo are on display in Allan Hancock College Art Gallery. Artists include Ax Kazumi Amano Kunihiro Amano Reika Iwami Gaku Onogi and Chizuko Yoshida. Gallery hours are 9 to 4 Monday to Friday and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Admission is free.
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Tokyo
Allan Hancock College
Japan
Ax Kazumi Amano
Kunihiro Amano
Reika Iwami
Gaku Onogi
Chizuko Yoshida
Kissinger Dayan Meet in Washington Amid Withdrawal Talks
Moshe Dayan met Secretary of State Kissinger in Washington amid reports Israel would consider a limited unilateral pullback from the Suez Canal zone to advance a broader Arab Israel peace framework. Dayan planned talks at the Pentagon with James R. Schlesinger on military aid and equipment.
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UPI
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Energy crisis to last 10 to 15 years says Simon
Energy director William E. Simon warned of a 10 to 15 year energy drought despite lifting the Arab oil embargo. He urged faster adoption of new oil sources and solar and geothermal power, predicting gradual price rises for gasoline and noting unemployment could climb toward 6 to 8 percent amid the crisis. Major league baseball pledged a 25 percent reduction in energy use this season.
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UPI
William E. Simon
United States
Simon
Midwest
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Major League Baseball
Building Moratorium Sought in Santa Ynez
Santa Ynez residents face a health hazard as the county health department certifies one third of on site sewage systems fail. Community Services District president Tony Hernandez urges the Board of Supervisors to impose a building moratorium to permit a central sewer disposal system.
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Obituary of Bernadetta Wright
Bernadetta Mary Wright, 76, died Thursday in a Santa Barbara Hospital. Rosary Sunday 7 p.m. Starbuck Mortuary Chapel Mass Monday 10 a.m. La Purisima Church Interment Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery Father Andrew McGrath officiating Born 1896 in South Dakota resided Lompoc past two years at 321 West North Ave Space 1 Survived by husband Russell Wright and brother Andy Rowan.
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Russell Wright
Andy Rowan
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