City employees to ride bicycles in pilot program near City Hall
City Administrator Gene Wahiers will inaugurate an experimental bicycle pool Monday for city workers to replace automobiles on routine city business near City Hall. Bicycles from unclaimed property will be used, aiming to cut operating costs and emissions while boosting productivity and may expand to housing inspections and meter reading.
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Gene Wahiers
Wahlers
Lompoc
Mel Ramos
Thelma Marshall
Dustin Griffith
NASA trims shuttle program amid federal spending cuts
U S space agency slows key shuttle work and cancels or suspends four other projects to meet a 1973 250 billion budget target. Plum Brook station closes with 460 local and 140 Cleveland center jobs cut. HEAO nuclear propulsion and power work halted. communications satellite and experimental aircraft cancelled. Skylab remains on schedule for April 30 1974 launch and joint Soviet American mission slated for July 1975. Viking Mars lander and Mariner missions to Jupiter Saturn unchanged.
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Washington
UPS
U.S. Space Agency
White House
Space Agency
Plum Brook
Sandusky
Ohio
Lewis Research Center
Cleveland
HEAO
NASA
Jupiter
Saturn
Cape Kennedy
Arroyo Grande Man Beaten in Bar Assault
Frank Binder 41 reported a barroom attack at 311 North Second St. in Lompoc when a patron pulled a gun and another struck him with a motorcycle chain. He required hospital treatment for facial lacerations. assailants remained at large as police searched the area.
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Arroyo Grande
Bar
Frank Binder
North Second St
Binder
Redistricting Clash Foreshadows County Board Turmoil
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors faces a heated power play as Daniel G. Grant moves to redraw boundaries to shift Santa Ynez Valley and Hope Ranch from the Third to the Second District just before Slater and Frost take office. Critics call the move rushed and politically motivated.
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Lame Duck
Daniel G. Grant
Hope Ranch
Grant
Charles F. Catterlin
Santa Ynez Valley
Santa Barbara
Hogg property rezoning returns to planner’s agenda
The nine acre site near Highway 246 again faces zoning reconsideration by the County Planning Commission as W R Dildine on behalf of Hogg Brothers appeals to the board of supervisors. The group seeks M-1 light industrial zoning, arguing the design manufacturing option is too restrictive. Planning Commissioner Lilley will open a public hearing, with the Fourth District plan advisory panel’s M-1 recommendation in hand. Supervisor Beattie backs M-1, noting DMG would require master planning and more limits. The commission must report within 40 days. Dildine plans to use part of the site as an equipment storage yard.
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County Planning Commission
W.R. Dildine
Hogg Brothers
Board of Supervisors
Dildine
Robert C. Lilley
Lilley
Fourth District General Plan Advisory Committee
Commission
Francis Beattie
Planning Commission
Pentagon Eyes MIRV for All Minuteman ICBMs
The Defense Department recommends converting all 1,000 Minuteman missiles to carry multiple warheads, not just 550, citing upcoming budget proposals and factory line shutdowns. White House approval would affect START negotiations and potential shifts in missile limits with the Soviets.
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Washington
U.S
Pentagon
Unseasonal Weather Worldwide Warms, Drys Crops and Lands
Unseasonal weather causes health and economic stress from Moscow to South Africa. Europe endures a strange winter with Sweden warm for 200 years and Israel thawing from a two week cold spell. Residents protect plants. youth soccer teams prepare for opening games.
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United Press International
Moscow
South Africa
Europe
Sweden
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Slater
Frank Frost
Frost
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