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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1976
Page
1
Chinese officials report great losses to life and property after two major quakes in Hopeh and adjacent provinces. Tangshan, a city of about one million, is described as almost flattened as emergency relief units from across the country mobilize.
A strong quake rocked the Checheno Ingushskaya area in the southern Soviet Union late Wednesday, sending residents into streets with little damage reported and no injuries initially. The tremor occurred at 11:17 p.m. Moscow time, about 800 miles southeast of Moscow in Transcaucasia.
A federal appeals court granted a brief stay on higher natural gas rates set by the Federal Power Commission. The stay follows a suit by Energy Action Committee, Consumer Federation, Minnesota, UAW, U.S. Conference of Mayors and others seeking delay and a rehearing.
United Press International reports wildcat coalfield strikes expanding to mines in Pennsylvania and Colorado idling more than 65,000 miners across six states. The 100 day rubber workers walkout continues with little progress in talks chaired by Labor Secretary W. J. Usery.
The House passed a bill by 210 to 179 to let California issue extra welfare cash rather than food stamps and to require pass‑through of federal cost‑of‑living increases. California lawmakers already approved related measures.
NASA and NOAA coordinated the launch of NOAA-5 from Vandenberg AFB aboard a Delta rocket. The weather satellite will orbit about 942 miles high on a polar path to image cloud cover, sea ice, and ocean surfaces for hurricane monitoring and fisheries support. RCA built the satellite and McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. the rocket.
In Beirut heavy fighting broke out despite a Syria PLO truce. Christian forces shelled Nabaa while Palestinians and leftists fought door to door in Ain Rummaneh. At least 17 killed in Ain Rummaneh as Red Cross efforts to evacuate Tal Zaatar were halted for a 6th time.
Mickey Cohen, longtime racketeer and survivor of several gangland shootings, died of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center. The Los Angeles figure, 67, faced paralysis from head injuries sustained at a federal prison in Atlanta. He had abdominal surgery last October for cancerous ulcers and was recently treated for jaundice and exhaustion before passing away.
In a daylight arrest at Menlo Park, James Schoenfeld, 24, became the second suspect captured in the two week old bus kidnaping of 26 children and their driver. His brother Richard had been arraigned earlier in Chowchilla. Bail set at 1 million.
Viking 1 used artificial sunlight to incubate a Martian soil sample in a CO2 rich chamber as researchers seek signs of life. Biologists warn that results may take weeks or months and a negative finding would not rule out life.
A 16 year old bicyclist David Saxe of 1001 W Lime Ave was seriously injured in a crash with a car driven by Ruth Glover 39 of 1209 W Lime Ave. Saxe unconscious with head injury transported to Lompoc Hospital and later to Marian Hospital Santa Maria. A passenger Mabell Stokes 48 of Winston-Salem NC was treated for minor injuries.
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