Fireless prompts league fund drive rally aids youth leagues
The Lompoc Valley community supports youth football and Little League after an arson fire destroyed over 50,000 in equipment and a concession stand. First Valley Bank launches a Youth Football League Recovery Fund with a 100 donation. donations accepted at the bank. Leo Aragon notes replacement costs threaten mid September season start. boosters offer jackets for all star teams if salvage fails. Fundraising picnics are planned to aid recovery efforts.
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Lompoc Valley
First Valley Bank
Youth Football League
Leo Aragon
Bill
Polly Herzog
Chemical workers win written yearly physicals from Johns Manville
The Chemical Workers Union Local 146 gains a written assurance that Johns Manville will provide annual physical checkups for employees. The settlement replaces a state civil order, with union officials planning to inform members and monitor compliance while the state police presence is sought. Assemblywoman-elect Leslie George noted at Girls State in Sacramento.
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Ly Sue Edelman
Chemical Workers Union Local 146
Johns Mansville
Bill Stutts
International Union
J-M
Santa Barbara Medical Group
Health Department
Occupational Health Branch
DIS
Leslie George
Girls’ State
Sacramento
Man charged with two murders in bus hijacking
Luis Robinson a 26 year old U S Navy enlisted man was charged with murder attempted murder and kidnapping in a bus hijacking at New York Kennedy Airport He killed the bus driver and a woman passenger and wounded four others after hijacking a bus from a Manhattan terminal and diverting it to the airport He later surrendered after a 9 hour spree and a police armored car confrontation.
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New York
UPI
Maxwell Gallant
Luis Robinson
Kings County Hospital
Asst. Dist
Atty
Randall Eng
U.S. Navy
Robinson
New York City
Kennedy Airport
Navy
Queens
Lompoc Commission to tackle water supply decisions
Lompoc Water Commission meets Wednesday to discuss securing state project water by Sept. 20 and to form study committees on current water quality and quantity. City Attorney Davidson urges rapid data gathering as agenda covers pricing, environmental reports, Ken Adam Park supply, a long unused well, and conservation efforts.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc Water Commission
Lompoc
Alan Davidson
Lompoc City Hall
Walnut Ave
Santa Ynez River
Ken Adam Park
Water Department
al Thompson
Dale Batchelor
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
Riot Ends Klan Anti Busing Rally in Ohio
A July Fourth Klan anti busing rally on the Ohio Statehouse steps was disrupted by anti Klan protesters who smashed equipment and fought with Klansmen. Four people were injured and four anti Klan demonstrators were arrested as riot police restored order.
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KKK
Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Ku Klux Klan
Scum of the Land
Dal Reach
Reach
UAW seeks Defense aid for B1 layoff relief
The United Auto Workers urged the Defense Department to provide supplemental unemployment benefits equal to 95 percent of gross pay for workers laid off after Rockwell International B1 bomber production was halted. About 8,000 Rockwell employees face job loss, with 2,000 already laid off.
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Los Angeles
UPI
United Auto Workers Union
Defense Department
Secretary of Defense
Harold Brown
Rockwell International
Theil
Carter
Rockwell
Weather outlook for Wednesday and beach areas
Morning low clouds give way to sun by afternoon with mostly sunny beaches. Temperatures hold steady with highs in the upper 60s at beaches and mid 70s inland. Tidal times show high tides at 2:11 a.m. and 3:49 p.m. and low tides at 9:00 a.m. and 10:03 p.m.
King Carlos swears in Spain’s new democratic cabinet
King Juan Carlos swore in seventeen ministers as Spain formed its first democratic government in 38 years. Foreign Minister Marcelino Oreja and Justice Minister Landelino Lavilla stayed on, while Enrique Fuentes Quintana and Francisco Fernandez Ordonez led a revamped economic team amid a fragile coalition and a struggling economy.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Juan Carlos
Marcelino Oreja
Landelino Lavilla
Adolfo Suarez
Suarez
Enrique Fuentes Quintana
Francisco Fernandez Ordonez
Defense
Manuel Gutierrez Mellado
Suarez’ Democratic Center Union
Social Democrats
Liberals
Christian Democrats
Congress of Deputies
Cortes
Dissident Ginzburg to face 10-year repeat-offender trial
Bearded poet Alexander Ginzburg who served five years for anti-Soviet activity in 1968 now faces a new trial as a repeat offender and up to ten additional years in prison. He was arrested last February and accused of anti-Soviet activity and possession of subversive literature and foreign currency. fellow dissident Valentin Turchin said the KGB questioned him about ties to Alexander Solzhenitsyn and police indicated he would be charged under anti-Soviet slander laws.
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Coalition Against the Klan
State House
Capitol
Annette Beauchamp
Cincinnati
Brenda Hutchison
Columbus
George Preston
Wilford Allison
Youngstown
Reusch
Plains
President Carter
Moscow
UPI
Alexander Ginzburg
Ginzburg
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Valentin Turchin
KGB
Turchin
Amnesty International
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Aragon
Lompoc High School
Huyck Stadium
George Washington
Stutts
State Division of Industrial Safety
House of Detention
UAW
Carlos
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