Brown backs plan to build California peripheral canal
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. announces a fragile compromise endorsing a $3.5 billion package of water projects including a 43 mile canal to divert North state water to the South and protect delta ecology. Support from conservationists labor growers and agencies hinges on federal laws by 1981 and ongoing agreement.
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Sacramento
UPS
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Smiling Brown
Brown
Associated Press
San Francisco
Sacramento-Stockton
Ways and Means Committee Cuts Carter Oil Gas Tax Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to sharply reduce President Carter's proposed oil and natural gas tax aimed at energy savings. The panel watered down both the energy saved and the revenue raised, despite the administration's estimate of 3.3 million barrels of oil a day in savings by 1985.
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Washington
UPI
House
Ways and Means Committee
Carter
U.S
Watergate era ends as Haldeman and Mitchell go to prison
In five days John Mitchell and Haldeman will be jailed, ending a five year Watergate era. More than 50 men faced charges, 54 convicted or pled guilty, many aides to Nixon involved, and sweeping campaign finance reforms followed. The scandal cost taxpayers millions and reshaped campaign finance rules.
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Washington
UPI
John Newton Mitchell
Harry Robbins Haldeman
Watergate
Democratic
Haldeman
Mitchell
Richard Nixon
John Ehrlichman
John Dean
Charles Colson
White House
Dwight Chapin
Ehrlichmann
Egil Krogh
Richard Kleindienst
Senate
Robert Marcian
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Treasury
John Connally
Robert Vesco
Special Prosecution Force
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
U.S. Treasury
Andrus backs SB oil pipeline plan to move offshore crude onshore
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus urged pipelines to carry oil from offshore platforms to refineries to prevent spills and tanker collisions. He met with a joint industry group, toured Coal Oil Point and Union Oil Platform A, and noted safety as the main hurdle to broad approval for the project. A July report on earthquake risk is awaited.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
Cecil Andrus
Joint Industry
Andrus
Union Oil Co
Man ARRESTED During Pizza Parlor Burglary
Police arrested Terrence Darwin Tanner 24 of 1536 W Cherry Ave after closing time at the Pizza Factory 627 North H St as he left with an armload of alcohol. Bail set at 5000. He faced burglary charges and arraignment today. Four bottles beer champagne and wine seized as evidence.
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North H St
Terrence Darwin Tanner
W. Cherry Ave
Tanner
Lompoc
Pipeline study pursues Santa Barbara Channel crude option
The Joint Industry Government Oil Pipeline Working Group continued analysis of routing Santa Barbara Channel crude to Ventura refineries. ARCO proposed converting a 20 inch Ventura to Cuyama gas line for Taft Valley transport, while Chevron projected a Ventura to Los Angeles route costing 67 to 112 million. A land pipeline is favored over tanker transport, with further input planned before Andrus’ Ventura session.
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Dick Praul
Cecil Andrus
Santa Barbara Channel
Albert F. Reynolds
Ventura
San Joaquin Valley
Los Angeles
Atlantic Richfield Company
ARCO
Cuyama
San Francisco
Chevron U.S.A. Inc
Chevron
Southern Pacific
Santa Barbara County
Annual Portuguese Fiesta in Lompoc This Weekend
The Portuguese Festival in Lompoc features a Saturday dance at the Veterans Memorial Building from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with Silver Notes, a Sunday Parade of Queens to La Purisima Church for a coronation mass at 10 a.m., and a top sirloin lunch at Miguelito Park from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets cost $2 for dance, $3 adults $2 children for lunch. Kathleen Domingos is queen, with maids Karen George and Patty Grossini, Little Queen Anne Grossi. An auction of foodstuffs from city merchants follows. Tony Bettencourt presides.
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Kathleen Domingos
Lompoc
Karen George
Patty Grossini
Anne Grossi
Parade of Queens
Veterans
la Purisima Catholic Church
Miguelito Park
Tony Bettencourt
The
Portuguese Association
Lompoc examines state water commitment by city panel
Lompoc five member Water Commission will study how much of the county's annual 57 700 acre feet of state project water should reach the Lompoc area if county voters approve importation The council must decide by September 20 on amounts and financing details ahead of a council vote and possible city commitment.
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Lompoc
Water Commission
Alan Davidson
Davidson
Commission
Computer glitches delay Space Shuttle manned test flight
Edwards Air Force Base reports a 24 hour delay in the first piggyback test of the Space Shuttle orbiter due to computer problems. The launch was reset from 8 am PDT to 9 15 am and canceled for the day with plans to resume Saturday morning.
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Edwards Afb, Calif
UPI
County employees reject board salary offer in vote
North county employees at a Lompoc meeting rejected the Board of Supervisors 52 to 13 pay offer. Santa Barbara area staff had previously refused seven percent. Ray Johnson says the group seeks 9.4 percent now or seven and one half percent plus four and a half in January. Both sides will return to bargaining talks.
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North County
Board of Supervisors
County Employes Association
Lompoc
Santa Barbara
Ray Johnson
Johnson
Lompoc teachers union to start contract talks Monday
Negotiations between Lompoc Unified School District and the Lompoc Education Association begin at 9 a.m. at the district office with plans to meet every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The LEA seeks assignment of negotiable items under Rodda Act while defending paid and unpaid leave terms and nondiscrimination rules.
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Sue Edelman
Lompoc Unified
Lompoc Education Association
LEA
Lompoc Federation of Teachers
LFT
Winton
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American River Canyon
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Bureau of Reclamation
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