Water Commission urges joint session over Lompoc rates
Lompoc Water Commission demands joint meeting with the City Council after criticizing the council for ignoring a commission water rate study. The panel seeks a complete operations report for 1970-71, a review of department functions, and a delay of the rate increase pending talks.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Water Commission
Commission
Virgil Phelps Phelps
Gene Wahlers
Ken Dawson
Emil Scholari
Water Department
Ed Rodgers
Rodgers
Scolari
Phelps
Thomas Stetson
State Water Resources Board
Stetson
Lompoc Plain
United States Geodetic Survey
State Water Resources Control Board
Lompoc Hospital Faces $140000 Potential Loss Over Audit
Lompoc Hospital District could lose more than $140 000 if a new federal audit of Medi-Care Medi-Cal and Blue Cross transactions is upheld. Administrator Kenneth Wicks said the ruling would be appealed and a hearing held. A contingency fund was created to cover the claim. The board also deferred choosing a site for a proposed long term care nursing home.
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Lompoc
Medi-Care
Medi-Cal
Kenneth Wicks
Blue Cross
Wicks
Roberts arraigned in Santa Barbara on grand theft charge
Marvin Roberts 35 of Flag is Up Farms Santa Ynez Valley was arraigned in Santa Barbara Municipal Court on a felony grand theft by embezzlement charge. He posted 50 000 bail and was released. Investigators say he sold 36 horses for about 300 000 while only reporting 260 000.
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Marvin Roberts
Flag Is Up Farms
Santa Ynez Valley
Roberts
Santa Barbara
District Attorney's Office
San Francisco
New Zealand
Harcourt
Buellton
Solvang
Subpoenas Issued in Hughes Autobiography Case
Federal and New York County grand juries issued subpoenas for author Clifford Irving to testify about the Howard Hughes Autobiography case. Irving changed counsel as the investigation, including a U.S. Postal Service probe into $650,000 in checks sent to a Zurich bank, advances.
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New York
UPI
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Irving
Martin S. Ackerman
Maury Nessen
Nickerson
McGraw-Hill Book Co
H. R. Hughes
Switzerland
Zurich
Second top Reagan official resigns under pressure
SACRAMENTO UPI Gov Ronald Reagan accepts the resignation of Jack F Hatton chief of the Division of Industrial Safety the second major Reagan official to leave this week Hatton 64 quit amid charges the division was pro employer and lax in enforcing safety rules Reagan moved to realign management in the department and named Roy J Bell to take over Hatton duties temporarily The layoffs follow earlier resignation of Kerry Mulligan head of the Water Resources Control Board and mounting pressure from lawmakers over industrial safety policy with calls to remove Hern and White as well.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Jack F. Hatton
Division of Industrial Safety
Reagan Administration
Hatton
Reagan
Assembly
Bob Moretti
D-Van Nuys
Sylmar Tunnel
Department of Industrial Relations
Kerry Mulligan
State Water Resources Control Board
Mulligan
Honolulu
Roy J. Bell
Division of
Bell
Hughes Aircraft Co
Jack R. Fenton
Dontebello
Select Committee On Industrial Safety
Fenton
Moretti
William C. Hern
Vincent L White
Hern
Lockheed California
Heart Fund kicks off campaign in Lompoc event
The 1972 Lompoc Heart Fund campaign began at a Lion's Inn luncheon led by Don Martin, with Had Burger hosting and remarks from Dr. Barry Coughlin and Frank Lavarato. Organizers aim to exceed $5,000 in February, with envelopes distributed locally and fund containers in businesses.
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Don Martin
Lompoc Heart Fund
Had Burger
R. B. Heinatz
Lion’s Inn
Heart Fund
Bank of America
Burger
Barry Coughlin
Santa Barbara County Heart Fund
Frank Lavarato
Coughlin
Association
Saigon forces on alert amid intensified Vietnam air war
South Vietnamese defense forces around Saigon were placed on standby as Communist attacks increased in the Saigon area. UPI reports U.S. B52 raids in the Central Highlands and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, with a North Vietnamese radar site possibly knocked out by a Wild Weasel escort aircraft. Weather outlook remains cloudy with possible heavy rain and tidal info added.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
Pleiku
Central Highlands
Highlands
Stewart Kellerman
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
E Command
Demilitarized Zone
Strikers clash with border pickets over dock shutdown
Longshoremen and Teamsters form cross border picket line at San Ysidro to halt cargo rerouted from California docks. ILWU says Teamster drivers will not haul cargo past the line as Ensenada handles diverted ships and Vancouver BC joins protest.
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United Press International
Teamsters
U.S
Pacific Coast
San Ysidro
San Diego
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Teamster
Ensenada
California
ILWU
Vancouver
B.C
Harry Bridges
Frank Fitzsimmons
Washington
17 Bridges
Northwest
James D. Hodgson
Congress
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Milner
Kramer
Lowenstein
Nessen
Kaimin
Ments. Ackerman
Grand Juries
U. S. Postal Service
Hughes
Lompoc, Calif
Lavarato
Heart
Lompoc District Hospital
United Fund
Whittier
la Miranda
City of Hope
Nixon
Hodgson
Smajor
Oakland
San Jose
Calif
Boston
Philadelphia
Rockford
Depertone
Rsonnel
City Hall
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