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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1971
Page
2
Gov Ronald Reagan's plan to shift the affluent poor from relief to work encounters early resistance in the state legislature. Senator Howard W Way questions optimism about passage as liberal and conservative voices clash over the proposal.
Retired Col Edmund Castle testified before Senate investigators that he ordered doors removed at a massage parlor on Long Binh base to stop a proposed 400-girl brothel run by a Vietnamese "dragon lady" Madame Phoung. He blamed former Brig. Gen Earl Cole for allowing shady club operations and illicit gambling at the Vietnam post during 1968.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, aged 51, wed Margaret Sinclair, 22, in Vancouver in a surprise ceremony. The couple departed for a skiing honeymoon, linking to the Sinclair family prominent in business politics.
Lists members including California News paper Publishers Association United Press International and others. Notes Audit Bureau of Circulations membership and camnariation rate 2.25 dollars per month for delivery or mail. Mentions daily publication except Sundays and Christmas Day.
The Lompoc Grange hosts a rummage sale March 5 6 to aid the American Field Service International Scholarship Fund. Jaycees offer day labor for $1 per hour March 6 with proceeds aiding drug abuse programs. Various clubs announce gymkana March 7 dinner March 8 narcotics program March 9 a St Marys luncheon March 13 bake book and crafts events March 27 and a Barbership show April 3. Chamber and economic groups note upcoming meetings March 15 17 and a flower festival March 8 with volunteer sponsorship details.
Soledad State Prison reports the eighth guard killed in 14 months after correctional officer Robert J. McCathey died of stab wounds. Hugo A. Pinell, 26, is charged with knifing a guard last January and previously attacked guards at other prisons.
Reno doctor Dr. Wesley Hall, president elect of the AMA, cites continued AMA study support for marijuana reducing sex drive in men and women and causing birth defects when used by women late in pregnancy. He warns of potential long term, cumulative health effects and cites mental defects in a fraction of babies.
Police associations in North America denounce Attorney General John Mitchell as leading a witch hunt to obtain grand jury indictments of six California policemen in three civil rights cases. The ICPA claims police officers face attacks on their duties and calls for an investigation into such attacks. In Los Angeles, a federal grand jury indicted four officers over a supposed mistaken shooting of two Mexican nationals after a raid where language barriers hindered communications.
On the San Jose State College campus ecologists protesting Standard Oil recruiters sparked a melee. Two campus police were injured, 13 students were booked on charges from disturbing the peace to assault and battery as city officers restored order.
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