County board weighs election date on Exxon plant referendum
Francis Beattie says county counsel should keep date 7 on documents for a possible summer special election on the Exxon oil plant zoning. The board may skip May 27 to save about 40000 and push a later vote after UC Santa Barbara students depart, with petitions showing strong turnout and ongoing debate among supervisors Slater Frost Beattie Fletcher and Kallman over the path to certify and proceed.
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Dick Praul
County Reporter Board of Supervisors
Francis H. Beattie
Exxon Corp
UC Santa Barbara
Beattie
James M. Slater
Slater
Las Flores Canyon
Frank Frost
Exxon
Frost
pro-Exxon Board
Robert Kallman
Kallman
Francis Beattie
Rome
Arrell Fletcher
Ford compromise seen on tax relief
President Ford signaled a willingness to compromise with Democrats on tax relief size if amendments like abolishing the oil depletion allowance are removed. Senate debates a 29.2 billion tax cut while House and Senate measures are reconciled, with Easter recess looming and the risk of delaying rebates up to 200 dollars for many taxpayers.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Mike Mansfield
House
Elford A. Cederberg
R-Mich
Cederberg
U S House Study on Nine Gallon Gas Tax Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee reviews a plan by Chairman Ullman to tax gasoline heavily for weekly use over nine gallons. The proposal would raise the federal gas tax by 37 cents through 1980 with credits to adults and extra penalties for low fuel efficiency cars.
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Washington
UPI
House
Ways and Means
al Ullman
U.S
Dam safety meeting to plan evacuations for Bradbury Dam
Lompoc and other area agencies will send representatives to a Santa Barbara County meeting on March 25 to discuss a downstream evacuation contingency if Bradbury Dam were to fail. Officials say no evident weakness at Cachuma Lake dam and note state policy requires evacuation plans downstream from dams.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Santa Ynez River
Bradbury Dam
Howard Reshoft
Cachuma Lake
Bob Partie
Cachuma
Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
Partie
County
Santa Barbara
Sheriff's Department
Good Friday Holiday Question Faces Local Schools
Deputy county counsel Don Vickers said Good Friday may remain a school holiday with pay for classified staff unless the school board changes policy. He noted a California Appeals Court ruling found time off with pay for state employees unconstitutional. It was unclear if the ruling applies to local government.
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Don Vickers
Vickers
California
Inflation retreat touted by Simon at Senate hearing
Treasury Secretary William Simon told a Senate Budget Committee hearing that inflation is retreating faster than expected and should average about 7 percent this year. He warned unemployment may be higher than the administration forecast and projected a 1980-style drop in inflation and a hefty 1976 deficit. The Senate backed a resolution urging faster money supply growth to fight recession, while James Lynn urged trimming a jobs bill to avoid higher interest rates.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
William Simon
Simon
Senate
Ford
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Congress
James Lynn
Office of Management and Budget
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Thieu Surrenders Central Highlands to Viet Cong
President Thieu agreed to hand the Central Highlands provinces Kontum Pleiku and Dalat to the Viet Cong in return for safe passage for about 250 000 residents. The move follows a three day evacuation order as fighting escalates with North Vietnamese support. UPI reported the evacuation route from Pleiku to Cheo Reo and Tuy Hoa amidst widespread destruction and for US and missionary evacuations.
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Saigon
VPI
Nguyen van Thieu
Vietnam
Central Highlands
Viet Cong
Pleiku
Thieu
Kontum
Dalat
Vermont
Indochina
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
United States
Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
Darlac
Cheo Reo
Tuy Hoa
Phan Rang
UPI
U.S
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Isla Vista
Fletcher
Robert Griffin
Griffin
Uilman Energy Plan
Ullman
Altman
White House
Lompoc District Hospital
Lompoc Hospital
Bob Gordon
Medical Laboratory
Jeannette Lombardi
South Vietnam
da Nang
Hue
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Lompoc High School
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