California senator calls for rapid transit to curb air pollution
Sen James Mills new Senate Transportation Committee chair argues mass transit and intercity rapid transit are needed to reduce car use and air pollution in California. He backs Nixon era federal funds and warns without planning, eastern cities could claim the money. He supports highways but favors alternatives for urban congestion.
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Dennis J. Opatrny
Sacramento
UPI
Senate Transportation Committee
California
James R. Mills
San Diego
Mills
Randolph Collier
D-Yreka
Alan Short
Stockton
Congress
Germany
Santa Barbara to host strategy session on environmental rights
National figures meet in Santa Barbara on January 28 to craft a plan against environmental blight one year after the oil blowout. Dr. Roderick Nash presents a concise Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights as a rallying document. Stewart Udall confirms participation in the event.
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Santa Barbara
Roderick Nash
University of California
Udall
Bay of Pigs
Paul Ehrlich
Stanford University
Earth
Peters to divorce Hughes ends 13 year marriage
Former actress Jean Peters announces divorce from billionaire recluse Howard Hughes after 13 years of marriage. Peters had grown distant from Hughes and plans to return to acting while Hughes remains reclusive in Beverly Hills.
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Myram
Las Vegas
UPI
Jean Peters
Howard Hughes
Ohio
Hughes
Beverly Hills
Miss Peters
Hughes Nevada Operations
Upper Midwest warms as Northeast remains cold
The Upper Midwest saw a brief warm-up with nighttime temps above freezing in places including Chicago after a period of cold. Meanwhile the Northeast faced continued cold conditions. Pacific Coast saw rain and high winds as a broader warming trend began in the Upper Midwest.
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Ly United Press International
Upper Midwest
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Typhoid Outbreak Strikes Pacific and Orient Liner Oronsay
A 28,000 ton liner Oronsay with 1,500 aboard lies anchored 400 yards offshore under quarantine as typhoid cases rise. Two passengers and 32 crew hospitalized while medical teams hunt the food handler suspected carrier. Dr G Mott warns the ship could be a floating bomb if allowed to depart.
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Vancouver
B.C
UPI
Oronsay
George M. Turner
San Francisco
G. A. Mott
Sorce Top Carrier of the Year at Lompoc Record Banquet
Robert J. Sorce a 14 year old son of Mr and Mrs Robert F Sorce of 310 W North Ave was named the Lompoc Record Carrier of the Year at the annual banquet in the Grange Hall. He signed up 114 new subscribers kept accounts on time and maintained a 2.3 GPA with a 27 subscriber route increase. Two runners up Jay Johnson and Richard Reece also received trophies.
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Kenneth L. Adam
Lompoc Record Publications
Robert Sorce
Grange Hall
Richard Reece
Jay Johnson
Robert J. Sorce
Robert F. Sorce
W. North Ave
Lompoc Record
Young Sorce
Sorce
Gary Martinich
Gary Nightingale
Mark Arneson
John McNabb
David Biccigrossi
Rulon Jenson
Gary Wood
Richard Selle
Michael Moser
904
W. Apple
Jack Harrington
California
Boys’ Foundation
Mrs. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Union denounces welfare fraud probe in AFDC review
Social Workers Union brands Reagan administration fraud probe as political and unfounded. The report claims 15.7 percent of AFDC recipients in California misreport income or hide employed earners, totaling about 59.1 million dollars. Union argues the two volume study lacks substantiation and targets needy families.
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Carl Ingram
Sacramento
UPI
Social Workers Union
Reagan Administration
Coleman Blease
Ronald Reagan
Blease
AFDC
California
Reagan plans major health agency overhaul in California
Governor Ronald Reagan outlines a plan to consolidate health related agencies into a single Department of Health and to create a Consumer Affairs Department. The proposal aims to centralize consumer complaints and replace several licensee members on twelve boards with public members to improve protection for buyers.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Little Hoover Commission
Department of Health
Reagan
Consumer Affairs Department
Lompoc Community Events Highlight January Activities
Community calendar lists weekly programs at City Hall and library, a Reno tour due March 17 18 19 20 plus the Chumash Indians talk by Gaylord Jones at the Lompoc Public Library. Also notes openings for the Lompoc Rebekah Lodge installation and Slo-Pokes motocross at Santa Maria Speedway.
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Lompoc
Sierra Club
Lompoc Public Library
Gaylord Jones
Santa Maria Valley
Jones
Lompoc Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Harold Edman
Noble Grand
Daisy Olinger
Ida May Grieve
Arroyo Grande
Lompoc Slo-Pokes Motorcycle Club
Santa Maria Speedway
Soviet surgical glue could replace needles in operations
Moscow reports a new surgical glue from Lvov factory to be available this year at 88 cents per operation. The glue claims to stitch delicate tissues such as kidneys and to close wounds in heart lungs and other organs with elastic bonds that dissolve later. In Sweden a 60 year old man who loved newspapers died buried under bundles on Thursday.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Beesia
Lvov Medical
Hornet to be mothballed by June 30
The Navy will retire the carrier Hornet, a key recovery ship on the early moon missions, by June 30. The vessel will depart Long Beach for Bremerton Naval Shipyard in Washington in early spring for mothball status and refit tasks.
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Long Beach
UPS
Navy
United States
Bremerton Naval Shipyard
Washington
Sweeping changes urged to reshape California Legislature
Assembly Speaker Robert Monagan proposed broad amendments to the State Constitution to keep the Legislature in continuous session for two years, apply the Brown Act to lawmakers, and set uniform effective dates for laws. He urged placing the amendment on November ballots and pushing speedy enactment.
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Assembly
California
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