Beautification plaques pose theft challenge in Lompoc
The Lompoc Beautification Commission faces how to display two new expensive handcarved plaques without theft. Ideas range from insurance to anchoring on poles or display in winners’ yards, with commissioners weighing practicality amid past vandalism and turnover.
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Stan Tulledo
Lompoc
Mike Kaufman
Community Development Office
Dave Schwark
Julia Sand
Beautification Commission
Kaufman
Jim Magnuson
Magnuson
West Hickory Avenue
Brown to Open 1500 State Jobs in New Federal Program
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. uses an executive order to tap 15 million dollars of federal funds under the 1973 Employment and Training Act to create about 1500 state public service jobs. He aims to hire 500 of them by January 30 and notes possible creation of 12,500 more positions with additional federal funds. The plan targets California’s 9 percent unemployment amid a high jobless rate.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Ronald Reagan
Brown
Reagan
Labor Department
Labor
Peter Brennan
Treasury Department
Price Cuts Planned Amid Auto Industry Slump
Chrysler announces a Sunday start to a large scale rebate program amid sagging sales and a backlog of unsold cars, signaling the first major price cuts in the auto industry. Reuters notes December sales were the worst since 1959 with overall 1974 results.
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United Press International
Chrysler Corp
Ford
Chrysler
Wall Street Journal
Europe
U.S
Zurich
London
Alan Greenspan
Council of Economic Advisers
Treasury
William Simon
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Ford Navy say Enterprise won't help battered South Viet Nam
President Ford intends to obey the 1973 law banning U S military action in Indochina while monitoring the South Vietnamese fighting. Pentagon and White House officials denied the Enterprise task force is heading to South Vietnam, saying it is southwest toward the Straits of Malacca, not toward Vietnam. Meanwhile Communist forces surged into Phuoc Long Province, seizing Phuoc Long city after a five day siege, with 130 mm artillery battering defenses and forcing Saigon troops to retreat.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
South Vietnam
White House
Congress
United States
Indochina
Pentagon
Enterprise
Philippines
William Beecher
Straits of Malacca
Indian Ocean
Far East
Subic Bay
Saigon
Pichuoc Binh
Phuoc Long
Lockout at Johns Manville enters fifth week amid stalemate
Johns Manville Products Co and Local 146 ICWU remain apart as lockout continues. Sheriff deputies arrested four pickets on misdemeanor charges and were released pending district attorney action. Company reports vandalism at two nearby facilities and notes no mediation scheduled.
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Vaughn Proctor
Johns-Manville Products Co
International Chemical Workers Union
J-M
Miguelito Canyon Road
Tom McCall
McCall
Highway 1
Lompoc
Carlson
School board hopefuls to attend candidate workshop
Seven candidates for three school board seats will attend a 3 hour workshop in the Central Administration Building led by Superintendent Wegner and district staff. The event precedes a March 4 election featuring incumbents Beattie and Nagle not seeking re election and includes invited candidates Grbac Berg Helman Morgan Rodgers and Zink.
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Gail Steiger
Glen Wegner
Joe Carlin
Joseph C. Grbac
Barbara Berg
Jack F. Helman
Alberta Morgan
Edward W. Rodgers
Charles L. Zink
Karl Braun
John Beattie
Archie Nagle
Steiger
Richard K. Jacoby
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Navy
Middle East
Nessen
C.A. Carlson
Chuck
Penny Slothower
Don Slothower
Iowa City
Iowa
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