County budget approved with no tax increase
County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a 1972 73 budget exceeding 70 million dollars, signaling no tax increase beyond the current 3.60 levy. Auditor-Controller Paul Floyd expressed cautious optimism for a possible slight levy reduction despite incomplete final calculations. The vote was 5 to 0 with previous dissent from Charles F. Catterlin and Joe J. Callahan over expense cuts.
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Dick Praul
Board of Supervisors
Paul Floyd
Francis H. Beattie
Lompoc
Floyd
A.T. Eaves Jr
Charles F. Catterlin
Joe J. Callahan
Dget
McGovern seeks running mate to heal party rifts
George S. McGovern tours a Miami Beach breakfast with governors seeking a running mate and a way to ease AFL CIO tensions. He weighs outside options, hints at Wilbur Mills or Leonard Woodcock, and faces mixed sentiment from labor allies and delegates amid a contentious convention.
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McGovern
Final strategy for Viet peace talks surfaces in Paris
Delegations in Paris resumed final strategy sessions at the Vietnam peace talks. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said he hoped the conference would break the deadlock when talks resume Thursday. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators met as American and South Vietnamese teams refined their positions. President Nixon pressed for progress. Schumann, back from Peking, spoke of Mao’s good health and cautioned against forecasts.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
Maurice Schumann
Peking
Nixon
Schumann
Orly Airfield
Chou En-lai
Chi Peng-fei
Mao Tse-tung
Governors urge McGovern to pick Kennedy or Mills
Southern and border state governors urged George S. McGovern to tap Sen. Edward Kennedy or Rep. Wilbur Mills as running mate. The group met at the Doral Hotel in Miami Beach and supported either Kennedy or Mills, while McGovern had not decided.
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Lucey
McGovern
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Mills
Washington
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Miami Beach
UPI
George S. McGovern
Edward M. Kennedy
Rep
Wilbur Mills
Pat Lucey
Wisconsin
Doral Hotel
Kennedy
Lacey
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Stuart L. Udall
Harout Sanasarian
USC Godfather premiere benefit in Santa Maria draws near
Tickets remain few for a USC benefit premiere of The Godfather tonight in Santa Maria. Santa Barbara County Fair Board members host a barbecue for north county civic officials. Weather stays mild with highs 60s coast to 80s inland and clouds or fog along the coast night and morning. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Tides Thursday high 4.5 feet at 1 21 pm and low 0.8 feet at 6 50 am and 2.0 feet at 6 34 pm.
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USC
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara County
Democratic platform at a glance from Miami Beach convention
The platform calls for full employment, equitable tax reform, welfare support, health care, and housing policy reform. It backs desegregation in education, strict yet fair law enforcement, crime as health issue, farm price parity goals, withdrawal from Indochina, Israel security, China and Cuba diplomacy, and universal voter registration with public government operations.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Indochina
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
Israel
China
Cuba
Kennedy rules out vice presidency amid Democratic tension
Sen Edward Kennedy will stay home in Hyannisport watching the Democratic convention as he declines any bid for vice president. His press secretary Dick Drayne says Kennedy is not in touch with Miami and will not attend the unity breakfast unless invited by the nominees.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Jackson
McGovern
Organized Labor
Democratic Party
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Lawrence F. O’brien
Louisiana
Edwin Edwards
Pennsylvania
Hugh Carcella
Philadelphia
Alabama
Earl Goodwin
Selma
Hyannisport
Mass
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
George McGovern
Dick Drayne
Kennedy
Drayne
Edward Kennedy
Miami
Joan
Democratic Unity
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George Meany
Labor
South Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
Oklahoma
Patrick Lucey
Sen
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
Richard G. Kleindienst
FBI
New York
Los Angeles
Detroit
Houston
Justice Department
United States
Mao
House
Ways and Means
Ball Park
Massachusetts
John C. West
Dale Bumpers
Jimmy Carter
Marvin Mandel
David Hall
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Govs
Reubin Askew
Florida
Robert Scott
North Carolina
Askew
Bumpers
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