Amendments May Reduce Defense Fund In Carter Plan
President Carter intends to send Congress amendments reducing next year's defense budget by about 1 billion dollars by canceling five B1 bombers and reallocating funds to speed cruise missile deployment by 1980 or sooner. The changes aim to leave 442 million in R&D for electronic jamming and continued missile work while preparing jumbo jets to launch drones.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Congress
Administration
U.S
Pentagon
Office of Management and Budget
Senate
House
Defense
Harold Brown
Brown
Air Force
Navy
Troubled teens blossom at Casa Floral facility
Casa Floral in Lompoc operates as a Day Care Treatment Center School run by Santa Barbara County Probation and Schools. Opened in 1974 and housed at La Mesa Elementary, it serves 14 students aged 13 to 17 on probation, focusing on self motivation and individualized goals to return youths to public high schools.
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Casa Floral
Lompoc
County Probation Department
Santa Barbara
la Mesa
Vandenberg Village
Ed Lupo
Robert Forslund
Larry Coy
Forslund
Casa
Lupo
Allan Hancock College
May
Two Soviet hijackers surrender after Helsinki standoff
In Helsinki Finland two weary Soviet hijackers aged 19 and 22 surrendered peacefully after hostages escaped and police surrounded the Aeroflot jet. Authorities said the pair would be returned to the Soviet Union. A police official denied reports that one hijacker slit his wrists.
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Helsinki
Finland
UPI
Soviet Union
Alexander Zyirnyak
Ginnadiy Selusjko
Ilia Sanomat
Selusjko
Carter Announces Compromise on Minimum Wage Increase
Labor and administration reach a compromise to raise the minimum wage by 35 cents to $2.65 per hour. Congressional leaders confirm the plan, to be announced later today by Rep. Carl Perkins. The President says long negotiations have ended with an agreement.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Carl Perkins
D-Ky
Weather outlook with sun in afternoons through Wednesday
Low cloudiness night and morning hours with mostly sunny afternoons through Wednesday. Highs 68 to 72 at beaches and 76 to 84 inland. Lows tonight 57 to 63. Wednesday tides include high tides of 3.6 feet at 10 11 a.m. and 5.7 feet at 9 02 p.m. and low tides of 0.0 feet at 3 47 a.m. and 2.2 feet at 2 49 p.m.
Spectator Jack Lundy Run Over At State Rodeo Finals
Jack Lundy, a spectator at the Paso Robles state rodeo finals, was run over by two horses and said rodeos are rough spectator sport. Kathy Jakubiak and Chris Holland chased a small lizard from a Lompoc Plaza store.
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Jack Lundy
Paso Robles
Kathy Jakubiak
Chris Holland
Lompoc Plaza
Water commission and council plan joint session on state water
Lompoc officials meet at City Hall for a joint briefing on state project water. City Attorney Alan Davidson to review the document. They will study entitlement needs with a Sept. 20 county deadline and examine costs for state water and a Salsipuedes Creek reclamation project.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Water Commission
Walnut Ave
Alan Davidson
Salsipuedes Creek
J. Dene DeBolt
Salsipuedes
Planning commission acts on occupation permits in Lompoc
The Lompoc Planning Commission reissued two home occupation permits, canceled a third, and deferred a fourth. Ralph Jenson gets a tool sharpening home business at 1313 W Nectarine Ave after removing a patio cover that violated side yard setback rules. George M. Honore Jr. receives a home ammunitions loading permit at 1101 N Gardenia St. Margaret Munoz loses her private nursing agency permit at 313 North St for nonresponse and a noncompliant carport without a gate. The commission named a subcommittee to study the sign ordinance with Jacoby and Whitaker, while ARC membership on the architectural review board remains unsettled.
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Lompoc
Ralph Jenson
Nectarine Ave
George M. Honore Jr
N. Gardenia St
Margaret Munoz
North St
Community Development Department
Jack Lam
John Peto
Jean Jacoby
Howard Whitaker
Architectural Review Board
Jacoby
ARC
Planning Commission
Carter Backing Neutron Bomb Faces Congressional Debate
President Carter endorses production of a neutron bomb that uses atomic radiation to kill without destroying property. The move prompts a congressional clash over funding hidden in the 1978 public works bill with potential spending up to 650 million dollars. Critics warn of a deadly radioactive cloud while supporters call it a credible deterrent for Europe.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Congress
Washington Post
White House
Jody Powell
Congressional
Thomas O'Neill
Brown urges full space shuttle funding and space programs
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. urged Congress to provide 142 million for the space shuttle program and endorsed 20.7 million for the Jupiter Orbiter Probe and 5 million for space solar power satellite research. He cited job creation in California and the national interest of space exploration.
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Sacramento
UPS
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Senate
House
Brown
NASA
Sai
Jupiter
Liddys Parole Set For September Seven
The USS Parole Commission grants early release to G Gordon Liddy. Parole conditioned on payment or disposal of a $40000 fine by September seven. Carter commuted his 20 year sentence to eight years on April twelve making him eligible for parole July nine. Liddy, 46, has been in custody since January 30 1973 and has been in and out of jails since then. A recent hearing at Allenwood Pa had no quorum for a decision.
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Washington
UPI
USS
G. Gordon Liddy
Carter
Liddy
U.S
Allenwood
Senate backs Clinch River reactor despite Carter opposition
The Senate approved amendments to continue the Oak Ridge plutonium breeding project with 75 million dollars in new funding. An amendment to curb plutonium diversion received support, while a 33 million funding plan for fiscal 1978 failed 49-38, amid opposition from 22 Democrats.
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Baker
Senate
Richard Stone
Dfla
Clinch River
Sen
Dale Bumpers
Dark
Brawl After Drive-In Dispute Ends at Lompoc Police Dock
Police continue probe into a fight between two motorists from a Lompoc Drive-In dispute. Mitchell allegedly approached with a baseball bat. a tire iron and a table knife were found as evidence. Three youths fled behind a desk. no arrests reported.
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Lompoc Drive-in
Lompoc Police Department
John Frederick Smith
Hayward
Warren Dennis Mitchell
Lato
Mission Hills
Mitchell
Domingos
Police Department
Smith
Weatherby
Records Department
Floresta Park
D Street
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