MOL site tour reveals vast scale of canceled space project
Newsmen toured the South Vandenberg MOL complex as DoD canceled the project seen as a potential first West Coast manned space mission. Officials cited costs near 3 billion dollars with 1.3 billion spent. local spending at Sudden Ranch and launch facilities topped 30 million. Contractors like McDonnell Douglas and Aerospace Corp face ripple effects as jobs nationwide total feared up to 10,000, with hundreds to thousands at Huntington Beach and other sites.
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E.C. Stevens
South
Vandenberg
Department of Defense
Sudden Ranch
Civic Center
Los Angeles
South Vandenberg
Hungtington Beach
Manned Orbiting Lab
McDonnell Douglas Company
Huntington Beach
Santa Monica
Missouri
Florida
Aerospace Corp
Aerojet General
United Aircraft
General Electric
Martin Marietta
General Motors
Lompoc Fire Dept Seeks 2500 for 4th of July Display
The Lompoc Fire Department is raising 2500 to fund the annual July 5 fireworks at Huyck Stadium Lompoc High School. Donations can be mailed to 115 S. G St or dropped in coins in cannisters at local stores and restaurants. This marks the seventh straight year of sponsorship by the department. Volunteers transport the fireworks in a borrowed moving van and firefighters operate the display as licensed pyrotechnic operators.
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Lompoc
Huyck Stadium
Lompoc High School
S. G St
Nixon wins support to continue surtax with poor exemption eyed
President Nixon gains bipartisan backing from House leaders to extend the 10 percent income tax surcharge for one year. A plan would exempt about five million low income people from the tax rolls and include a 5 percent rate for 1970.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
House
White House
Congressional
Hale Boggs
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Boggs
Ways and Means
Ronald Ziegler
Ziegler
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Paul W. McCracken
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Sweden Communists oppose Soviet Czech invasion stance at Red summit
Sweden's Communist Party condemned the Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia and refused to back the summit's basic document citing discrepancies in assessing the international situation. Lars Werner urged independent party decisions, rejecting anti Chinese lines, while Gus Hall endorsed the Soviet position.
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Moscow
UPI
Sweden
Communist Party Today
Czechoslovakia
Gustav Husak
Lars Werner
Werner
Gus Hall
Miners Halt Work to Mourn John L. Lewis
UMW officials declared a joint mourning period for John L. Lewis prompting a nationwide stoppage of coal mining starting at 12:01 a.m. on June 13 and lasting until after his funeral, with services to be held in churches and union halls.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Canada
United Mine Worker
John L. Lewis
UMW
W. A
Tony
Boyle
Lewis
Flag Day observance at Lompoc Lodge No 2274
Lompoc Lodge No 2274 BPO Elks will hold Flag Day ceremonies Friday June 13 at 6 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Building. Rev. Kenneth R. Boyd of First Presbyterian Church is the principal speaker with a Vandenberg Air Force Base airmen honor guard. Exalted ruler Keith Wright invites the public, with Keith McPeek chairing.
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Lompoc
B.P.O. Ellis
Veterans Memorial Building
Kenneth R. Boyd
First Presbyterian Church
Vandenberg Air Force Base
The
Elks
Congress
Keith Wright
Poeta
Keith McPeek
Suspected freeway sniper killed in Hollywood Freeway shooting
A suspected freeway sniper was shot to death after wounding an officer who tried to question him on the Hollywood Freeway near Belmont Avenue. Police identified the victim as 29 year old Donald Lee Oughton of Los Angeles. Officers said a motorist reported gunfire from across the freeway as they arrived at the scene.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Donald Lee Oughton
Hollywood
Belmont Avenue
H.R. Hagen
Henry Dublin
Planners debate tower cable placement in Lompoc Valley
County Planning Commission continues public hearing on the proposed four legged 50 foot microwave relay tower for Lompoc Valley Cable TV serving 35 000 sets. Officials note the tower improves service to Vandenberg Air Force Base and surrounding areas while seeking aesthetic alternatives for nearby residents.
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Vandenberg Village
Lompoc Valley
County Planning Commission
M.V. Duncan
Lompoc
General Company
Constellation Rd
Duncan
Charles Trimble
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Santa Ynez Valley
Trimble and Company Council
Terrill Cox
Lompoe Valley
Cox
TV Peak
Santa Barbara
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Alpha Steel Corp
Dan Duffy
MOL
CBS
AL Rossiter JR
Cape Kennedy
Space Agency
Earth
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin
Samuel C. Phillips
Armstrong
Aldrin
Goldstone
Calif
Moon
Lunar
Phillips
Husak
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