Man Offers Service From Disability To Help Kids
Vaughn Proctor profiles Don Wagner who, despite heart problems and major surgeries, volunteers four days weekly at Martha Negus Orthopedic Center and evenings at Miguelito School. He uses woodworking skills learned after disability to aid handicapped students, earning personal purpose by giving back to society.
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Vaughn Proctor
Don Wagner
Wagner
South Seventh Street
Martha Negus Orthopedic Center
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Miguelito School
Martha Negus
Martha Negus School
Lompoc High School
Michael Pardo
ITT lobbyist denounces memo as forged hoax
ITT lobbyist Dita Beard disavows a memo attributed to her linking ITT antitrust settlement to a 1972 Republican convention funding plan. She calls Jack Anderson's published memo a forgery and says the assertions about attorney general Mitchell are false. Beard’s sworn statement was released with plans for a Senate visit to Denver hospital.
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Washington
UPI
Dita D. Beard
Justice Department
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Senate
Hugh Scott
Beard
ITT
San Diego
Calif
Senate Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst
John N. Mitchell
David Fleming
Denver
Colo
Scott
Bill Merriam
Jack Anderson
Mr. Anderson
Mitchell
City Council weighs PD zoning changes and service station permits
Lompoc plans two council actions recommended by the Planning Commission. An ordinance would restructure Planned Development requirements and rezone 25 acres near North Avenue and O Street to PD for a cluster home development. A second ordinance would require use permits for service stations in commercial zones.
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Lompoc
Planning Commission
North Avenue
O Street
California Supreme Court Rebuffs Death Penalty Reconsideration
California high court refuses to revisit its February ruling striking down capital punishment. In a 6 to 1 vote the decision stands, with 107 death row inmates now eligible for sentence modification to life with or without parole.
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State Supreme Court
San Francisco
UPI
California
Evelle J. Younger
US Supreme Court
Liberty and Property
Shuttle and MOL similarities cited by California advocate
In Washington after a week of hearings on the space shuttle, James A. Cook states a coincidence between shuttle booster design and the dormant Manned Orbital Laboratory site at Vandenberg AFB. He notes California congressmen backing the shuttle but says appropriations hearings will shape support and site decisions. He discusses Senator Cranston and Representative Teague and the potential politics of NASA’s timing.
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California
James A. Cook
Manned Orbital Laboratory
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Cook
Manned Orbital Lab
Pentagon
Charles Teague
13Th
Cranston
Senate
NASA
Congress urged to act on busing plan amid opposition
Senate leaders Mansfield and Scott pressed for quick congressional action on President Nixon's plan to halt court ordered school busing. A NAACP spokesman warned of a lawsuit if such a law passes, while lawmakers weighed the political dynamics and White House reactions. In California, a welfare reform probe accused Reagan officials of blocking full implementation, with officials denying illegality and inviting Attorney General Younger to investigate.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Congress
Nixon
NAACP
Michael J. Harrington
Dmass
Neal Smith
Supreme Court
James E. Allen
D-Ala
George C. Wallace
White House
Allen
Sacramento
Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Special Assembly
Robert B. Carleson
Evelle Younger
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Lompoc Record Patio
Ken Adam Park
al O. Autry
Area Planning Council
Younger
Shuttle
Steve LaRue
Mansfield, Scott
Ronald L. Ziegler
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