IRS probes end of Lompoc Flight Service operation
IRS agents inventory the Lompoc Airport as a tax dispute over 12000 to 14000 dollars withholding taxes leads to the county takeover. Beattie notes potential mismanagement questions while Patricia Riggs awaits resolution and bankruptcy plans emerge. The county owns both Lompoc and Santa Ynez Airports and oversees operations through its Airport Commission.
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Santa Barbara County
Lompoc
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Lompoc Flight Service
Beattie
IAS
Federal Aviation Agency
Santa Maria
Patricia Riggs
Riggs
Flight Service Corporation
Santa Barbara
Santa Ynez
Airport Commission
Board of Supervisors
American Airlines admits illegal Nixon campaign donations
Archibald Cox said American Airlines voluntarily admitted it made illegal cash donations to Nixon's re election campaign. George A Spater said cash contributions totaling 75000 were solicited by Herbert Kalmbach Nixon's personal lawyer. Kalmbach noted others expected 100000. Corporate contributions were barred and some payments came from corporate funds.
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Nixon
Spater
CRP
American
United Airlines
United Air Lines
U. S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Gordon Strachan
White House
H. R. Haldeman
Strachan
Senate
GAO Refer to DOJ Over Nixon Campaign Funds Violations
GAO says there were apparent violations in transferring Nixon campaign funds to a Maryland dinner committee honoring Agnew and in accepting 47000 from corporations. The probe centers on unreported cash and false donor listings, with Wharton charged under Maryland law. Spater calls for tougher campaign finance rules amid pressure to contribute.
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UPI
Justice Department
Nixon
Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
Elliot L. Richardson
Ted Agnew
Agnew
Maryland Committee
Nixon Committee
Hugh W. Sloan Jr
Finance Committee
Senate Watergate Committee
Salute Committee
Sloan
Blagden H. Wharton
Wharton
Maryland National Bank
Lompoc Backbones Storm Drain Plan Aims to End Flooded Intersections
City plans a main storm drain over D Street from Cypress to North Avenue, expanding to six feet diameter at North, with lateral arms on Pine College Chestnut Cypress and North A Street. By early 1975 the system should dry up key East side intersections and reduce ponding.
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Lompoc
D Street
Steve LA Rue
Ocean Ave
E Street
Chestnut Ave
Hapgood
Sol Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz
Pine
College
Chestnut Avenues
H Street
Cypress
North Avenue
Ocean and
Phelps Reelected Lompoc Water Commission Chairman
Virgil Phelps was unanimously reelected chairman of the Lompoc Water Commission. The panel urged top priority for the Cypress Avenue water main project with about $70,000 set aside, and warned of potential soda ash shortages for the treatment plant due to curtailed natural gas allocations to chemical firms.
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Waugh Proctor
City of
Phelps
Fred Bock
Joe Canned
Key
Acres Avenue
Water Department
al Thompson
J Street
Thompson
Dale Batchelor
Batchelor
Girls Walk Lambs on South L Street in Quiet Scene
Two girls stroll with their pet lambs along South L Street while Arthur and Josephine Bland visit her mother in Germany for the first time in twenty years.
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South L Street
Arthur and
Josephine Bland
Germany
Coastal Weather Forecast With Small Craft Advisory
Low clouds along the coast spread inland at night and morning with fair conditions through Saturday. Highs near 60 at the coast and mid to upper 70s inland, with tonight's lows. Small craft advisory for northwest winds 15 to 30 mph. Saturday tides include high of 3.3 feet at 4 37 a m and 5 1 feet at 5 16 p m with a low of 1 5 feet at 10 13 a m.
Farm wholesale prices surge in June as farm goods soar
Wholesale prices rose 2.4 percent in June the steepest monthly gain in over 22 years reflecting record farm product costs led by hay seeds and oilseeds up 23.4 percent grains 19.1 percent and eggs 16.3 percent. Livestock and poultry posted smaller increases while overall prices climbed 47 percent in the past year per BLS.
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Washington
UPI
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ieeper
Labor Department
Statistics Bureau
Nixon
BLS
Netherlands criticizes invasion at European security conference
Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel urged a new European security system allowing nations to change ideology without state interference. He referenced the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia as a warning against freezing Europe into two political blocs. A Helsinki heat wave and failed air conditioning added tension as the first round of talks neared closure.
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UPI
Netherlands
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Max van der Stoel
Prague
Finlandia
Europe
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Francis H. Beattie
William Riggs
American Airlines
Cypress Ave
Pine Ave
College Ave
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Commission
Mixsell
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