Lompoc Welcomes New Superintendent Clarence Bloom
Dr. Clarence Bloom, replacing retiring Glendon Wegner, begins leading the Lompoc Unified School District. He outlines cautious changes, notes Duarte’s middle school model, discusses budget and wage negotiations, and stresses parent involvement and stable leadership as key to reforms.
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Vaughn Proctor
Clarence Bloom
Bloom
Glendon F. Wegner
Lompoc
Wegner
Duarte
Lompoc Unified
Alice Milligan
Mel Wilde
Joe Carlin
Clarence H. Bloom
White House sees no summer gasoline shortage
Press Secretary Ron Nessen said there will be no gasoline shortages this summer while warning of serious natural gas shortages this winter in New Jersey Ohio and North Carolina. Ford seeks to remove price controls to fix gas supply and reduce reliance on OPEC as nuclear energy grows.
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Washington
UPI
Midwest
White House
Ron Nessen
Ford
Nessen
Texas
New Jersey
Ohio
North Carolina
Titan missile repaint offer eyed amid corrosion fears
Lompoc city considers a $2,200 proposal from Green's Industrial Painting to sand blast prime and repaint the aging Titan missile at Ingram Park. Air Force engineers warn of metal corrosion including a partly eaten aluminum support and rivet shedding, delaying decision.
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Steve LA Rue
Los Angeles
Air Force
Ingram Park
Lompoc
Earle Sweetland
Lompoc Valley
Sweetland
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Gene Wahlers
Wahlers
Elinor Lefkowitz
E.C. Stevens
Art Scott
Scott
Lefkowitz
Rod Hamer M
Kenneth Kelley
Community Ambulance Service
U S May Use First Strike If Crisis Emerges
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger signals the United States could employ first use of nuclear weapons in a crisis with the Soviet Union though the probability is very low. He notes defenses seek more selective options and the President would decide.
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Washington
UPI
James Schlesinger
United States
Soviet Union
Schlesinger
U.S
Defense Department
Pentagon
Midwest
Mayor Beame seeks remedies for New York strikes
New York Mayor Abe Beame convened an emergency Board of Estimate meeting to address wildcat strikes by sanitation workers highway crews and the threat of police action. The city won a court restraining order blocking the sanitation union and prepared for an injunction hearing set for July 8.
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County Area Cities Planning Council
Dolores Gabaldon
North D St
Lawrence Grossman
Suzanne Schwark
Library Board of Trustees
Theo Clayton
City Commission On Aging
Tom Green
John Silva
George Barnes
City Personnel Appeals Board
New York
UPI
Abe Beame
Board of Estimate
Beame
Albany
Sanitation Union
Manhattan Supreme Court
Thomas J. Hughes
Hughes
City Hall
Brooklyn Bridge
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
Ken McFeeley
McFeeley
John DeLury
Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association
DeLury
Delay called for in joint space mission
Sen. William Proxmire urged postponing the Apollo Soyuz link up until two cosmonauts in the Salyut lab return to Earth. CIA deputy director Carl Duckett warned Russia may be unable to handle dual missions, while Russian and NASA officials argued the Salyut program would not interfere. The joint flight is set for July 17 with a July 15 launch, marking a rare two nation space collaboration.
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CIA
Carl Duckett
Science and Technology
Proxmire
Appropriations
Duckett
Bushuyev
Russia
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
America
Glynn Lunney
Bushneyev
Apollo
Death and Sabotage Roil Three Indian States Under Emergency
New Delhi reports violent deaths sabotage and mass antigovernment protests in Gujarat Bihar and Tamil Nadu after Indira Gandhi declares emergency. Opposition sources say about 6500 people jailed nationwide. police fire on demonstrators in Patna and other towns with deaths and injuries. Protesters damage infrastructure in Bihar and daily marches in Gujarat amid a Congress defeat in state elections.
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New Delhi
UPI
Indira Gandhi
Gujarat
Bihar
Tamil Nadu
Patna
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Huyck Stadium
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South G Street
Ed Casarez
Percy Holmes
Ryan Park
Konstantin Bushuyev
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