Apollo 15 countdown begins to Cape Kennedy
The countdown started today for Apollo 15 with David R. Scott Alfred Worden and James Irwin set for a 9 34 a m Monday launch. Scott and Irwin plan a 67 hour stay on the moon with Worden to set a six day lunar orbit endurance record.
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Cape Kennedy
Upi
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Scott
Irwin
Worden
The
Space Agency
Moon
Budget study to continue tonight in Lompoc council
The Lompoc City Council plans to extend its 1971-72 preliminary budget review at tonight’s regular meeting in City Hall. Total operating costs are shown at about 2.8 million dollars with 1,976,590 to be raised for the general fund. The session includes a weed abatement cost report, hearings on several ordinances, and amendments to the Environmental Quality Committee and two reviewing boards.
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Lompoc
City Hall
Gene Wahlers
Architectural Review Committee
Subdivision Review Board
Postal and telephone settlements near $5 billion in wages
Tentative contracts total about 5 billion dollars for 1.25 million postal and Bell System workers. The Bell plan covers 4 billion over three years with job security provisions. Postal workers seek a two year 1 billion package with wage boosts and benefits.
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Washington
UPI
Bell Telephone System
Communications Workers of America
Joseph A. Beirne
Beirne
Residents clash over Vandenberg Village plan at county meeting
At a Veterans Memorial Building session, residents charged rights were violated by a proposed five and a half acre condominium by Vandenberg Village Development Co. The meeting, led by Fourth District Supervisor Francis H. Beattie, heard criticism from locals and ecology group PLUS Co. officials, with an Aug 9 follow up, amid debate on committee makeup and development impact.
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Citizens Advisory Committee
Vandenberg
Veterans Memorial Building
Fourth District
Francis H. Beattie
Ecology Group
Beattie
Leslie Mayer
Mission Hills
Beverly Smith
Country Club
Gaylen Jackson
Vandenberg Village Development Co
Jim Murphy
Antares Ave
Burton Mesa Boulevard
Constellation Road
Dion Sutton
Penfield and Smith Engineering Company
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
SAMTEC to get new commander
Brigadier General Jessup D. Lowe will assume command of the Space and Missile Test Center SAMTEC in mid August. He comes from the Arnold Engineering Development Center and has held key posts in missile and space systems. His decorations include the Legion of Merit and Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Jessup D. Lowe
Space and Missile Test Center
Samtec
Air Force Systems Command
Lowe
Arnold Engineering Development Center
Tullahoma
Tenn
Louis L. Wilson
Air Force
West Point
Technical Systems Laboratory
Patrick Afb
Fla
Headquarters
U.S. Air Force
Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
California
Space Systems Division
Military Space Systems
Paris
Pentagon
Space Systems Office
National War College
Air Force Systems Command Headquarters
Space Systems
Air Force Satellite Control Facility
Los Angeles
North Vietnamese rocket strikes end 20 day lull
News from Saigon reports North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces ended a 20 day lull with rocket and mortar attacks along the DMZ. Allied commanders see the push as signaling a new offensive phase, while others attribute it to the dark moon and July weather. Casualties include 102 enemy killed in major clashes across five northern provinces of South Vietnam.
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Saigon
UPI
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
South Vietnam
Board weighs staff size over commission cuts in planning dept
The Board of Supervisors shifted from trimming the nine member planning commission to a study of possible overstaffing in the planning department. Commission chairmen warned costs could rise if staff were reduced, while Beattie and Tunnell urged a departmental review to curb duplication and excess personnel. The board ordered weekly commission meetings to continue and an in-depth study of the 25 member staff.
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Board of Supervisors
Planning Commission
Commission
Robert Lilley
G. Norman Bacon
Bacon
Beattie
Tunnell
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Tye
Endeavour
U.S. Postal Service
United Transportation
Southern Railway
Union Pacific Railroad
UTA
Big City
United Steel Workers Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
CWA
Western Electric
Bell System
IBEW
United Transportation Union
UTU
Selective Service
U.S. Commerce Department
F Street
Jessup Lowe
Quang Tri Province
Khe Sanh
Dong Ha
Fuller
Dick Jacoby
Animal Shelter
Central Avenue
Marguerite Hall
North County
Curtis Tunnell
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