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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1972
Page
8
Huey P Newton announces a shift to working within the system for Black social and economic gains. He blames Eldridge Cleaver for eroding community support with a pick up the gun now stance.
Gulf Oil Corp agrees to donate 25000 dollars to the University of California Air Pollution Research Center at UC Riverside to resolve a state lawsuit led by Secretary of State Edmund G Brown Jr. over alleged secret campaign contributions to defeat proposition 18.
Hearings begin in Washington before a House committee on President Nixon's compulsory arbitration plan to end the 115 day walkout. In San Francisco talks restart between the ILWU and PMA as Teamster and longshore pickets set a border blockade at Ensenada, diverting ships after facility closures in the Pacific Northwest.
Hundreds of Cambodian soldiers and militiamen fired on each other for an hour in Phnom Penh over a lunar eclipse myth. The violence left at least two soldiers dead and 67 wounded as officials said the action was not an attack on the city. Information Minister Long Boret appealed for calm on national radio.
Geoffrey Hanson, 18, chained with 48 pounds of links and padlocks, leaped from a cruiser into seven feet of water in San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 spectators watched as he surfaced 20 seconds later, matching a Houdini stunt first done in 1907 at the same spot. Deputies helped in 1907. Hanson used his own assistants and wore a life line and floats for safety.
Koa's Roon a brown and black German shepherd claimed best in show at the Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show in the Cow Palace San Francisco defeating 2551 entries across 108 breeds owned by G William Anderson and Mary Roberts of Covina.
Sacramento Assemblyman McAlister D San Jose stood alone with a 100 percent ecology rating from Legislative Birdwatchers Inc for 27 environmental measures last year. The group logged 1,500 hours, noting 10 bills died in committee and praising McAlister for full voting alignment at both committee and floor levels.
County officials announced potential eligibility for up to 200000 in state funds for bikeways in the coming year as they dedicated the county built Goleta Valley bikeway a mile long three feet wide costing over 9000 dollars. Attendees included Supervisor Charles F Catterlin County Park Director George Adams and other county and city officials.
Ranchers and farmers rush to use tax shelter provisions before the March 1 deadline. County supervisors are asked to set Feb 14 hearings for 47 new preserves spanning thousands of acres. The 54 total have been recommended by the Planning Commission. final approval affects this year’s tax benefits and a decade of eligibility.
Richard D. Dicus president announced expansion of The Sheriff’s Relief and Benefit Association board to include five nonvoting advisory members from across Santa Barbara County. The present five directors remain all men, and the group may discuss renaming the organization to Deputy Sheriff’s Assn of Santa Barbara County later this year. Female deputies are eligible to run for election to the regular board.
California state senator Anthony Beilenson says he will reintroduce a measure to permit doctors to prescribe birth control devices for teenage girls without parental consent. He accuses Gov. Reagan of blocking moves to curb teen illegitimacy and abortions, citing rising teen births and high illegitimacy rates since Reagan took office.
In Pasadena, California the Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a Mars image showing debris in a valley bottom suggesting avalanches on the smoother sides of a surface low. Parallel grooves on the slopes may be avalanche tracks, the JPL spokesman said. The Mariner 9 satellite is in its second cycle of photos.
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