City recruits for six posts with seven soon
The Personnel Department plans six vacancies and will add a seventh, with roles including fire chief and community development director. Acting chief Ronald Boggs is among applicants, salary starting around 1133 monthly. The Economic Development Association will hire a director at 12500 annually, funded mainly by the association and city support.
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Dustin Griffith
Economic Development Association
Griffith
John Baker
Ronald Boggs
Gene Wahlers
Wahlers
Clint Sherrod
Lompoc Valley
Chamber of Commerce
Lompoc
Queen Elizabeth II resettles 635 Antilles survivors after Caribbean wreck
The QE2 docked in Bridgetown with 501 survivors from the Antilles disaster. A total of 635 aboard the Antilles are safe. The ship ran aground near Nastique reef, caught fire in the engine room, and burned through the night. Rescue included lifeboats and rafts, with Bequia and Barbadian authorities aiding passengers and crew.
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Bridgetown
Barbados
UPI
French Lines
Antilles
Caribbean
Bequia
Grenadines
Sefron
Paris
Bill Warwick
QE2
Warwick
Nastique
Coast Guard
Princess Margaret
Moneycourts
Queen Elizabeth 2
San Juan
California unemployment steady at seven percent in December
Statewide jobless rate remains 7.0 percent with 619000 Californians unemployed. San Jose area climbs to 7.4 percent from 6.6 percent as aerospace employment declines further. Weather outlook shows a fair sky with highs near 52 to 60 and rising tides through Sunday.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
San Jose
State Human _ Resources Development Department
Nixon officials halt cut of California welfare funds
Federal officials withdrew an order to cut nearly 700 million dollars in AFDC funds for California. Gov. Ronald Reagan said the move was a bureaucratic blunder and pledged California would fix its welfare regulations despite court actions. Reagan and HEW officials blamed delays and court rulings for noncompliance.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon Administration
California
Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
John D. Twiname
Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Twiname
Reagan
Elliott Richardson
Richardson
Federal
Nixon
National Welfare Rights Organization
Nwroro
Four more on shuttle committee
The Lompoc City Council formed a space shuttle committee to attract NASA's $6 billion program to California and Vandenberg AFB. Mayor Arthur Scott and Councilman E C Stevens lead, with four chamber and association appointees to promote sites and coordinate promotion.
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Lompoc Valley
California
Vandenberg
NASA
Jarring presses on in Jerusalem as Egypt protests pace
U N negotiator Gunnar V Jarring enters a second day of talks with Israeli officials in Jerusalem while Egypt and Jordan denounce delays in peace negotiations. Jordan reports heavy fighting between government troops and Palestinian guerrillas in Amman area. Yasser Arafat appeals for Arab leaders to halt massacres against Palestinians. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat says Suez Canal forces remain on 24 hour alert. An Israeli patrol kills three Arab guerrillas in Gaza City. one Israeli soldier is wounded.
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United Press International
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Jerusalem
Egypt
Jordan
Israel
Middle East
Yasser Arafat
Jarring
Golda Meir
Abba Eban
Eban
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Suez Canal
United States
Gaza City
Gaza Strip
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Mustique
French Line
Edmond Lanier
Lanier
Dutch Antilles
Hugo Money-Coutts
The
Mystique Co
Lomita
Alycia
Jose Hernandez
William Ware
Hernandezes
Alyciair
NWRO
Matt Howerton
Adolph Vargas
Howerton
Stevens
Francis H. Beattie
Chamber
Ralph Patey
William Ebbert
C of C
Robert Kranig
George Smith
Arthur Scott
Robert Lilley
John Hannah
Harley Craig
Mammoth
Veterans Memorial Building
United Nations
New York
Thant
Mohammed Hassan el- Zayyat
Muhammad H. el- Farra
West Bank
Jordan River
Golan Heights
Sinai Peninsula
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