Lompoc seeks diverse industry to ease unemployment
In a series on local jobs, editor Bob Cox reports Lompoc's high unemployment hinges on Vandenberg AFB and limited industry. LVEDA leader Charles Carmichael outlines plans to lure small manufacturing firms, with environmental safeguards, rural ambience, and cheap land as selling points. He notes progress through brokers, circulars, and a growing catalog of contracts.
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Bob Cox
Lompoc
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Johns-Manville
Vandenberg
Lompoc Valley
Los Angeles
Carmichael
LVEDA
Tri County Development Association
Village branch library bids to be opened Aug 14
Bids for construction of the Vandenberg Village branch of the Lom poc Public Library will be opened on Aug. 14 and actual building should start by month end. Saladino announced at the Lompoc Library Board meeting citing Beattie for the date.
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Village
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc
Saladino
Santa Barbara
Francis H. Beattie
Paul Thompson
Paul Price
Lawrence Grossman
Grace Bell
Ford offers compromise to restore arms aid to Turkey
President Ford announced a bipartisan compromise to allow a partial release of 70 million dollars in arms aid to Turkey, aiming to resume military sales and hasten Cyprus and base negotiations. The plan follows a formal House committee review and deadlines tied to Turkish base talks.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
Turkey
Greece
Oae
Cyprus
Thomas Morgan
D-Pa
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
U.S
Lompoc trustees weigh fundamental school day camp plan
Lompoc Unified trustees discuss a proposed fundamental school and an environmental day camp. They defer the fundamental-school survey to the superintendent and approve Policy 9036 emergency powers amid audience debate, with costs to be offset by state or federal aid.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc Unified
Joseph E. Toomey
Richard K. Jacoby
Gail Steiger
Barbara Berg
Karl Braun
Jack Helman
Toomey
Pasadena
Ed Rodgers
Ray Oakes
Braun
Jacoby
Dave Hagenson
Erica Hedlund
Rodgers
Alberta Morgan
Alice Milligan
Berg
House OKs Elk Hills oil field development
The House approved private development of the Elk Hills reserve in California and two nearby fields, transferring control from the Navy to the Interior Department. The plan could yield up to 300000 barrels of oil daily within six months, aiding national self sufficiency goals.
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House Okays
Elk Hills
Washington
UPI
Navy
Big Elk Hills
Calif
Elk Hills Reserve
Navy Department
Department of the Interior
Ford
Teapot Dome
Warren G. Harding
Albert B. Fall
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al Autry
Beirut
Ernest R. Morgan
Morgan
Petersburg
Col
Hisham AlShaar
Lebanon
Colby
CIA
William Colby
FBI
Johnson
New York Times
United States
Bella Abzug
Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Laurel Square
Donovan Marley
Edmund Burke
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts
Allan Hancock College
G. Allan Hancock
Oakes
Senate
Buena Vista
Caspar
Wyo
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