El Camino School marks 100 years with student play and ceremony
Students at El Camino School celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of their founding dating to 1876 with a history inspired play written by Roger Ashley Kristi Hess and Scott Duden. The production reflects pioneer struggles epidemics earthquakes and fires that shaped the school long ago.
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el Camino School
Jimmy Learmonth
John Jackson
Kay Smith
el Camino
Jan Harris
Roger Ashley
Kristi Hess
Scott Duden
Mary Brandon
Gary David
Janet Etheridge
Nancy Horn
Scott Kovblecky
Mark Nelson
Panka Patel
Vincent Anciola
Martha Bendimez
Dennis Burger
Pam Cardenas
Andy Galindo
Sarah Kristiansen
Patsy Morales
Margie Ochoa
Debbie Reese
Susie Rodriguez
Freddy Ruelas
Mike Ruffino
Lauis Snooks
Danny Steele
Jeff Steinwand
Larry Steinwand
Allen Asrey
Ashley
Hess
Duden
H Street
Chestnut and
Laurel Avenues
Lompoc
Ms Smith
Lompoc Land Co
Ford unveils farm policy reorg and estate tax hike
President Ford announced a reorganization of federal agricultural policy making and proposed raising the estate tax exemption from 60 000 to 150 000 to ease the burden on family farm owners. He spoke in Illinois during a campaign stop ahead of the March 16 primary against Ronald Reagan.
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Springfield
UPI
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Illinois
Earl L Butz
Lam
Executive Branch
Congress
White House
Jobless rate falls to 7.6 percent in February
The Labor Department reports February unemployment at 7.6 percent, down from 7.8 in January and 1.6 points below the recession peak. Nonagricultural payrolls rise 210,000 while total employment returns to pre-recession levels, with gains concentrated in women and traditional breadwinners.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ford
Julius Shiskin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Congress
Joint Economic Committee
FBI expert testifies on Patty Hearst notes in trial
In San Francisco FBI cryptoanalyst Ronald Furgerson testified that a set of letters found in Patricia Hearst purse and in SLA members’ belongings were coded telephone numbers. He said three cards depicted 15 numbers, mostly San Francisco pay phones near the SLA hideout, with defense objections about relevance and time. The trial continued into its sixth week with ongoing evidence battles and Hearst notes from a terrorism class presented by prosecutors.
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San Francisco
UPI
FBI
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Ronald M. Furgerson
Washington
Miss Hearst
Wendy Yoshimura
SLA
William Harris
Harris
Emily
James L. Browning Jr
Furgerson
Harrises
Oliver J. Carter
Jurgerson
Albert Johnson Johnson
Midnight
Bay Area
Johnson
Browning
Carter
Exxon to Build Offshore Refinery in Santa Barbara Channel
Exxon Oil Co. will construct an offshore refinery in the Santa Barbara Channel after Coastline Commission conditions for an onshore plant in Las Flores Canyon were deemed unacceptable. The offshore plan includes a 28,000-ton tanker with deck separation equipment, no gas processing, reinjected gas, and crude oil pumped to refineries in Los Angeles. Start of production is expected in late 1977 or early 1978.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Exxon Oil Co
Santa Barbara Channel
State Coastline Commission
Las Flores Canyon
Santa Barbara
Exxon
Las Flores
Commission
Interior Department
Man shoots self after wild Santa Maria scene
A man fatally shot himself at the Jackpot Service Station on Santa Maria Way after a disturbance that included a gas pump fire and a bomb threat to the adjacent Animal Clinic. Officials said the man died at Santa Maria Valley Hospital with investigators looking into the incident.
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Santa Maria
Santa Maria Way
Santa Maria Valley Hospital
Jackpot
Rick DiGilio
DiGilio
Benton Eyes Mayoral Run In Lompoc Politics
Charlotte Benton leads in talk of becoming mayor as she confirms candidacy and support from Chuck Ward while council deliberates her possible nomination. The meeting also covers an updated fuel cost adjustment issue with PG and E and related NCPA action. Local weather shifts to warmer, with late-week tide timings listed.
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Charlotte Benton
Lompoc
Chuck Ward
Joe H. Valencia
Lompoe
Benton
Ward
Elinor Lefkowitz
Ingram Park
Air Force
Tucson
Ariz
Valencia
Gene Wahlers
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Northern California Power Agency
Federal Power Commission
Pg&e
NCPA
FPC
Wahlers
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By Vaughn Proctor
PTA
Francis H. Beattie
Robert C Lilley
County Planning Commission
Arthur D. Scott Jr
Robert Hedlund
Alberta Morgan
Phyllis White
Karl Braun
Lompoc Unified
Braun
U.S
Soviet Union
Moscow
Reagan
Bloom
SOS
Clarence Bloom
Save Our Schools Committee
Tom Page
Gail Steiger
Page
Steiger
Patty
Kline Dickinson
Robert 0
Vincent City
FE. C. Stevens
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