Goleta Valley referendum seeks county wide election over ranch
Conservationists claim the El Capitan Ranch rezoning would enable up to fifteen thousand three hundred fifty homes on a 3638 acre foothill site six miles from existing towns. County officials confirm enough valid voter signatures and anticipate an affidavit of sufficiency. If approved, the board must repeal the rezoning or call a county wide vote.
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Board of Supervisors
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Lewis
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Huntington Harbor
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Humble Oil and Refining Co
City of
Carpinteria
General Groves, Manhattan Project leader, dies at 73
Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, who directed the World War II atomic bomb program, died Monday night at Walter Reed at age 73. He commanded the Manhattan Project from 1942 and helped build Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Los Alamos, witnessing the Trinity test in 1945.
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Oak Ridge
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Groves
Japan
Nixon explores federal state partnerships with Appalachian governors
President Nixon flies to Louisville to meet 13 Appalachian state governors and discuss expanding federal state partnerships for regional economic development. White House sources hint at creating more regional commissions, with block grants and a revenue sharing plan to funnel federal funds to states.
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Cincinnati
Deep South
New York
Appalachian Regional Commission
White House
Lockheed Wins SAMSO Space Experiments Launch Contract
SAMSO awards Lockheed Aircraft Corp a 9.23 million dollar contract to launch a Space Experiments Support Program mission from Vandenberg AFB late 1971. The plan includes a 250 pound flexible solar array tested in zero gravity, deployed via STEM mechanisms into a 400 nautical mile orbit aboard THOR Agena hardware.
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Air Force Systems Command
Space and Missile Systems Organization
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Lockheed Aircraft Corp
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Space and Missile Test Center
Samtec
Vandenberg Afb
Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory
Office of Naval Research
SESP
Department of Defense Research and Development
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Social Worker Groups Attack Reagan Welfare Rule Repeal
In Sacramento two social worker groups condemn Gov. Reagan for abolishing state welfare caseload and staffing rules. The move aims to save up to 75 million dollars yearly, with counties receiving about 37 million, while officials pledge no immediate layoffs and stress improved delivery.
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UPS
Ronald Reagan
California Council of the National Association of Social Workers
Social Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Reagan
The
Supervisors Association
State Department of Social Welfare
California hunt for suspected killer and kidnapper
Police and sheriff units statewide chase Herschelle Andrew Gay a 26 year old Los Angeles parking lot attendant charged with murder attempted murder and kidnapping. The case involves a slain unidentified man wounded hitchhiker John Dilday and Eve Hindin who remains missing after a ride from Albuquerque toward Big Sur near Hearst Castle San Simeon follow the suspect spotted near Monterey and a small foreign car.
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UPI
California
San Luis Obispo County
Herschelle Andrew Gay
Los Angeles
John Dilday
Arkansas
Eve Hindin
Lowellton
N.Y
Jerry Dooley
Dilday
Albuquerque
N.M
Big Sur
Here
Santa Barbara
Pacific Coast
Hearst Castle
San Simeon
Minagh Couple Returns After Long U S Trailer Trip
Chuck Minagh and wife Eleanor are back in town after a lengthy trailer journey around the United States. They shared a morning meal with Newsmen and met Councilman E C Stevens and Dustin Griffith, assistant to the city administrator.
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Eleanor
U S
E.C. Stevens
Dustin Griffith
Utility tax bill withdrawn in Sacramento halting losses
Lompoc officials learned Assembly Bill 908, which would tax municipally owned utilities, was withdrawn from the session. City Administrator Gene Wahlers said the measure would have cost Lompoc about 67000 dollars in revenue. He noted a companion Senate bill may also be dropped. Wahlers planned further state reviews on River Park financing and HUD district applications. Mayor Art Scott was in Washington for meetings with officials and returned Friday.
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Sacramento
Assembly
Gene Wahlers
William T. Bagley
Assembly Ways and Means Committee
Wahlers
Senate
River Park
State Parks Department
San Francisco
Brutality Suit Dismissed Against Isla Vista Officials
A federal court cleared Santa Barbara County officials of claims of a campaign of terror in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara. Judge Jesse W. Curtis dismissed the injunction request as vague and found officers did only what was reasonably necessary. He also declined to erase arrest records for demonstrators.
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UPI
Santa Barbara
Isla Vista
U.S. District Court
Jesse W. Curtis
University of California
Curtis
Strike in Britain Halts Major Ports Amid Walkout
More than half of Britain's 47,000 longshoremen defied union orders and stayed off work despite a tentative pact to avert a national ports shutdown. An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 did not show up or walked out, with London docks largely idle and similar stoppages in Liverpool Tilbury and Glasgow. Government data showed June worsen Britain's foreign trade prospects.
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UPI
Britain
Liverpool
Tilbury
Glasgow
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