Lompoc Councilman Seeks Study Over Water Ad
Lompoc City Councilman Richard Jacoby urged the city attorney to study a KNEZ radio commercial about water purity. He said the spot implied dangerous chemicals exist in Lompoc water and asked for possible discontinuance or modification. The city notes daily testing shows water remains within health standards.
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Lompoc
Richard Jacoby
Jacoby
KNEZ
Lompoc Valley
Charlotte Benton
Lompoc approves major license reform and city plans
Lompoc City Council adopts a revised business license ordinance on second reading by 4-1, shifting to an annual gross receipts tax with minimum 30 and maximum 300. The change aims for equity across sizes and takes effect July 1.
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Lompoc
Art Scott
Agnew arrives for Malaya visit
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew landed in Kuala Lumpur on a goodwill tour stop guarded by 5,000 police amid leftist threats. Militants called him obnoxious and unwelcome while security kept protests limited. He stayed at the Merlin Hotel with Mrs. Agnew during a brief visit.
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Max B. Vanzi
Kuala Lumpur
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Malaysia
Communist Labor Party of Malaya
Agnew
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thailand
Afghanistan
Merlin Hotel
Two Suspects Named in Yablonski Slayings in Pa
State police say two persons are involved in the murders of UMW official Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter at their colonial style home in Clarksville. Two more spent bullets were found, one on the master bedroom floor and another in a mattress. a .38 caliber bullet matched others, a rifle bullet hint was inconclusive. Both weapons were found in the Yablonski bedroom and were owned by the victims.
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Clarksville, Pa
UPI
United Mine Worker
UMW
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Joseph C. Snyder
Snyder
Yablonskis
Pennsylvania State Police Ballistics Laboratory
Harrisburg
Yablonski
Assessments Cuts Hit All-Time High County Board of Equalization Action
The 1969 hearings cut market value by 5 896 460 and assessed value by 1 474 110 for county properties after 169 protests. Of these, 128 were granted, 36 denied, and five withdrawn. North county ranchers, farmers in Lompoc Valley and Los Alamos benefited, with some seeking agriculture preserves for further relief next year. Oil firms and Vandenberg AFB contractors were among the 36 denied appeals.
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County Board of Equalization
North County
William Cook
Lompoc Valley
Los Alamos
Cook
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Tide Lands
Vandenberg
U.S
Laird signals continued cuts to military spending next year
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird stated the United States will trim military expenditures further in fiscal 1971 to align with domestic needs. He warned that if SALT talks fail or the Soviet threat grows, the U S could pursue a follow on B52 bomber and an Undersea Long Range Missile System.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
United States
Nixon
Congress
Pentagon
Walkout Leaves 100 Base Electrical Workers Idle
Base electrical workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base walk out in a dispute over Davis Bacon Act provisions. Union officials say the stoppage is unauthorized and aim to reinstate workers. Air Force officials report the crew is off work, with sick leave cited as the reason. The dispute centers on core drilling conducted by unskilled labor, prompting the action.
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United Electrical Workers
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Air Force
Lompoc Agencies Weigh Surplus Boys Club Property
The fate of the Ocean Avenue Boys Club hinges on federal surplus property decisions. Lompoc City and Lompoc Unified School District eye the 2.5 acre site for a public park or continuation school, with deadlines of February 6 and January 23 respectively.
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Ocean Avenue
Lompoc
Lompoc Unified
Gene Wahlers
General Services Administration
U.S. Army Reserve Center
General Services
Timmer
Wahlers
Meanve
Boys Club
District disposes thousands of surplus books in dump site
Art Timmer assistant superintendent says the district dumped thousands of surplus K through 8 textbooks at the city refuse site south of Lompoc after state adoption of new texts. He cites storage costs and failed donation efforts as reasons and notes statewide action.
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Art Timmer
Timmer
Lompoc
State Department of Instruction
Kennedy backs in testimony on Kopechne death
Ed ward Kennedy told his two closest friends he would report Mary Jo Kopechne’s death to police but failed to do so in a state of shock. Gargan and Markham testified for over two hours at a secret inquest into the July 18 drowning on Chappaquiddick Island.
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Philip Balboni
Edgartown
Mass
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Joseph F. Gargan
Kennedy
Paul F. Markham
U.S
Massachusetts
Gargan
Markham
Miss Kopechne
Chappaquiddick Island
Pretty Secretary
Withnesses
Donald R. Mills
Kopechne
John N. Farrar
White parents resist Mississippi desegregation order
Angry white parents in Forrest County Mississippi shouted hell no we won t go and refused to transfer children to a previously all black school. The incident marked the first open defiance as Mississippi officials push ahead with the Supreme Court desegregation mandate affecting 30 districts outside Hattiesburg.
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William L. Vaughn Jackson
Miss
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
Mississippi
Forrest County
Hattiesburg
Entertainers linked in Mafia confabs
Transcripts released in an extortion conspiracy trial recount boastful remarks by reputed Mafia figures claiming pipelines to police and political figures in New Jersey. Entertainers named include Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop alongside figures such as Dominick Capello Hugh J. Addonizio Dominick Spina and John Kenny.
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John Needham
Newark
N.J
UPT
New Jersey
Frank Sinatra
Louis Prima
Sammy Davis Jr
Joey Bishop
U.S. District Court
Robert Shaw
Angel “Gyp”’ DeCerlo
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Museum Associates
Carnegie Library
Planning Commission
Malaya
North H Street
Rudy Carrera
Future Dark As Property Said
Surplus
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Brooks Speight
Timmers
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